KCNA -- The Korean nation should firmly establish its Juche character if it is to achieve concord and reunification, breaking through ordeals and difficulties standing in the way of the cause of reunification.
Um, I thought they already had juche.
Rodong Sinmun Friday says this in a signed article. To establish the Juche character in accomplishing the cause of national reunification means that the Korean nation independently settles all the problems arising in the struggle to achieve the reunification of the country in conformity with the desire and interests of the nation, the article notes, and goes on:
In order to preserve the cause of independent reunification and lead it to victory it is imperative for the Korean nation to resolutely reject outside forces' interference in its internal affairs and independently resolve all the problems arising in achieving reunification by its concerted efforts. The Korean nation should firmly establish the Juche character in accomplishing the cause of national reunification so as to meet foreign forces' aggressive and anti-reunification challenge and more dynamically push ahead with national reconciliation, unity and reunification process. Flunkeyism and dependence on foreign forces are fundamentally contrary to the era of reunification after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration. It is impossible to stop outsiders from interfering in and obstructing the cause of reunification and promote reconciliation, unity, cooperation and interchange between the north and the south as long as flunkeyism and dependence on foreign forces remain.
The establishment of the Juche character makes it possible to put an end to flunkeyism and dependence on outsiders. The united struggle of the Korean nation firmly armed with the Juche character is a decisive strength to do away with flunkeyism and the idea of depending on outsiders. Only when the Korean nation establishes the Juche character in the movement for reunification can it strengthen the driving force of reunification in every way, foil flunkeyism, dependence on foreign forces and anti-national pro-American cooperation and continue to step up the advance of the era of independence and reunification with the might of national cooperation. The establishment of the Juche character is the lifeline for the cause of national reunification. The Korean nation should push aside all challenges to reunification by the might of Juche, the might of unity, and push forward the cause of independent reunification.
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I really wonder if these fools are trying to cut off their Chinese masters. Pride goeth before a flunky fall.
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What about White Slag? We need White Slag, too.
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Ah, I haven't had a good dose of juche in a while.
Do they have an auto-generator for this stuff - like the business-speak generators you can find on the web? Just plug in a general topic (e.g. unification, US bellicosity, etc) and a length and push START.
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Sounds more like a subtle slap at Kim Il Jung. There's a significant number of NK military and political leaders who remember the good old days of Kim Il Sung. They think his offspring is, essentially, a heretic to Juche. But they won't attack him directly.
Problem is, Juche requires cult-like devotion to the leader and there's really no one who can be considered a replacement without violating Juche.
Fun stuff.
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Right-o Pappy. How can you inspire a personaity based cult based on a puffy-haired pervert like Kimmy? And you cannot hang onto the dead, like Mao, or Lenin. Years after their departure from this veil of tears, you just have no Juiche left. Like a crab without any meat.
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This KCNA article is actually addressed to the South Koreans, with "flunkeyism" (i.e., kowtowing to the Americans) being today's "heresy du jour".
It's not completely clear whether this is the standard garbage to fill the Rodong Sinmun's pages or if it's in response to a recent relevation in the Southern press of the existence of contingency plans in the South to be exercised if North's current regime were to fall.
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It's possible that it could be addressed to SK. If it is, saying that the only way for reunification to occur is to adopt North Korea's political philosophy is a definite non-starter.
A pathetic performance, marred by lack of any obsequitiousness to Fearless Leader or mention of Army First policy. The grass diet is most likely a contributing factor...
North Korea has accused the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency of taking sides in discussing nuclear activities on the Korea peninsula. A North Korea foreign ministry spokesman told Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei employed a double standard last week when he called North Korea's nuclear development far more serious than revelations South Korean scientists had conducted secret nuclear experiments. The unnamed spokesman said North Korea cannot overlook what he called the 'irresponsible attitude' of Mr. ElBaradei, who he said was ignoring reality and forgetful of his duty. South Korea recently admitted its scientists had conducted a plutonium-based nuclear experiment in 1982 and a uranium enrichment experiment in 2000.
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Good grief! make a couple of milligrams of fissile material and the Norks go nuts. They will milk this cow till it dies. And the SKors came clean on the issue.
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French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into comments by a leading far-right politician who questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers in the Holocaust, judicial sources said yesterday. Justice Minister Dominique Perben called for the inquiry after Bruno Gollnisch, a professor of Japanese at the University of Lyon, questioned how the gas chambers were used in the war time slaughter of Jews and how many Jews were killed. "I want to reiterate that I think the comments made by Mr Gollnisch are absolutely unacceptable and intolerable," Perben said.
Gollnisch, a European deputy who is also the No 2 man in the National Front party of extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, said on Monday he recognised gas chambers had existed. But he said he thought historians still had to decide whether they were actually used to kill Jews. He also called for an open debate about whether the total of Jews killed in the Holocaust was six million as stated.
France's anti-racism laws have made denying the Holocaust a crime, punishable by fines and even prison. Gollnisch would be summoned before a judge soon, the judicial sources said. On Monday, Gollnisch said serious historians no longer accepted all the judgments of the post-war Nuremberg Trials of leading Nazis as being fair. "I don't know if I will lose my chair as professor of Japanese or even be put into prison for saying that, but I stand by it," he said. Gollnisch, who studied law and political science at Kyoto University in Japan, holds a chair for Japanese language and civilisation at the Lyon university named after Jean Moulin — the hero of the French Resistance murdered by the Nazis in 1943. Reuters jh NZP
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Yesterday on Rantburg there was an article on the Guardian's attempt to influence Clark county voters by encouraging their readers to e-mail the voters. A learned professor was asked for his opinion: "Retired Wittenberg University political science professor Richard Flickinger said people should view the letters as an expression of concern from a group of people rather than that group trying to sway the vote."
Yeah, right. He's got a terminal case of bluff and bullshit.
Now another professor is questioning the Holocaust. There must really be something about higher education that makes some people incapable of rational thought.
A Jewish cemetery in a small German city was discovered vandalized Friday by a woman visiting a grave, police said. Nazi swastikas and other illegal and anti-Jewish symbols were scrawled onto grave stones. There was no immediate indication of suspects, and it was not clear how long the graffiti might have gone undiscovered. Juelich is in the German state of North Rhein-Westphalia.
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3-Way Race: Bush/Cheney vs Kerry/Edwards vs Nader/Camejo
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It would seem that W is going to pull this out, thank God!
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RCP Average 10/12 - 10/15 48.8% 45.4% 1.6% Bush +3.4
Time (865 LV w/leaners) 10/14 - 10/15 48% 47% 3% Bush +1
Newsweek (LV) 10/14 - 10/15 50% 44% 1% Bush +6
ABC/Wash Post (1203 LV)* 10/13 - 10/15 50% 47% 1% Bush +3
Zogby (1211 LV) 10/13 - 10/15 48% 44% 1% Bush +4
TIPP (786 LV) 10/12 - 10/15 48% 45% 2% Bush +3
CBS News (760 LV) 10/9 - 10/11 48% 45% 2% Bush +3
ICR (763 LV) 10/9 - 10/11 48% 43% 2% Bush +5
CNN/USAT/Gallup (793 LV) 10/9 - 10/10 48% 49% 1% Kerry +1
Time (886 LV w/leaners) 10/6 - 10/7 46% 45% 4% Bush +1
GW/Battleground (1250 LV) 10/3 - 10/7 49% 46% 0% Bush +3
AP/Ipsos (944 LV)*** 10/4 - 10/6 46% 50% 2% Kerry +4
Marist (642 LV) 10/4 - 10/5 49% 46% 1% Bush +3
Fox News (1000 LV) 10/3 - 10/4 47% 45% 1% Bush +2
ICR (762 LV)** 10/1 - 10/5 51% 45% 2% Bush +6
ARG (800 LV) 10/2 - 10/4 46% 46% 2% TIE
ABC News/WP (1169 LV) 10/1 - 10/3 51% 46% 1% Bush +5
CBS News/NYT (561 LV) 10/1 - 10/3 47% 47% 1% TIE
Zogby (1036 LV) 10/1 - 10/3 46% 43% 2% Bush +3
Pew Research (801 LV) 10/1 - 10/3 49% 44% 2% Bush +5
CNN/USAT/Gallup (772 LV) 10/1 - 10/3 49% 49% 1% TIE
Newsweek (1013 RV) 9/30 - 10/2 45% 47% 2% Kerry +2
SHU Poll Inst. (1003 LV) 9/27 - 10/2 48% 43% 2% Bush +5
Battleground (1000 LV) 9/27 - 9/30 51% 44% 1% Bush +7
LA Times (1100 LV) 9/25 - 9/28 51% 45% 2% Bush +6
CNN/USAT/Gallup (758 LV) 9/24 - 9/26 52% 44% 3% Bush +8
IBD/TIPP (649 LV) 9/22 - 9/27 45% 45% 2% TIE
ABC News/WP (810 LV) 9/23 - 9/26 51% 45% 1% Bush +6
Pew Research (948 RV) 9/22 - 9/26 48% 40% 2% Bush +8
Time (877 LV) 9/21 - 9/23 48% 42% 5% Bush +6
FOX News (1000 LV) 9/21 - 9/22 46% 42% 1% Bush +4
Battleground (1000 LV) 9/20 - 9/23 50% 45% 0% Bush +5
Marist (630 LV) 9/20 - 9/22 50% 44% 2% Bush +6
CBS News (931 LV) 9/20 - 9/22 51% 42% 2% Bush +9
AP/Ipsos (931 LV) 9/20 - 9/22 52% 45% 1% Bush +7
Pew Research (989 RV) 9/17 - 9/21 45% 42% 3% Bush +3
NBC News/WSJ (787 LV) 9/17 - 9/19 50% 46% 1% Bush +4
Zogby (1066 LV) 9/17 - 9/19 46% 43% 1% Bush +3
IBD/TIPP (650 LV) 9/14 - 9/18 45% 42% 2% Bush +3
ARG (LV) 9/7 - 9/21 47% 46% 1% Bush +1
CBS News (1048 RV) 9/12 - 9/16 50% 41% 3% Bush +9
CNN/USAT/Gallup (767 LV) 9/13 - 9/15 54% 40% 3% Bush +14
Battleground (1000 LV) 9/12 - 9/15 49% 45% 1% Bush +4
Pew Research (725 LV) 9/11 - 9/14 47% 46% 1% Bush +1
Harris (867 LV) 9/9 - 9/13 47% 48% 2% Kerry +1
Newsweek (1003 RV) 9/9 - 9/10 49% 43% 2% Bush +6
IBD/TIPP (674 LV) 9/7 - 9/12 46% 46% 3% TIE
Zogby (1018 LV) 9/8 - 9/9 46% 42% 2% Bush +4
Time (857 LV) 9/7 - 9/9 52% 41% 3% Bush +11
AP/Ipsos (899 LV) 9/7 - 9/9 51% 46% 1% Bush +5
FOX/Opin. Dyn. (1000 LV) 9/7 - 9/8 47% 43% 3% Bush +4
ABC News/Wash Post (LV) 9/6 - 9/8 52% 43% 2% Bush +9
Pew Research (745 LV) 9/8 - 9/10 54% 38% 2% Bush +16
CBS News (909 RV) 9/6 - 9/8 49% 42% 1% Bush +7
CNN/USAT/Gallup (778 LV) 9/3 - 9/5 52% 45% 1% Bush +7
Newsweek (1,008 RV) 9/2 - 9/3 52% 41% 3% Bush +11
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RealClear Politics has another page today that shows the Electorial Votes: Bush 264 - Kerry 237
(270 Electoral Votes Needed to Win). That leaves 37 EV tied or unaccounted for. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/RCP_EC.html
So, don't sell that bear skin just yet, rjb; however, your optimism is appreciated.
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best poll? Watch where they show up to energize voters. Kerry's still trying to get the base in blue states (WI) and Bush is hitting blue states as well(Ore., Wi, PA, NJ)
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Hugh Hewitt had an interesting angle on this that the polling companies do not have the correct model for what is really happening out there.
Two things should swing this W's way.
1) Strong Catholic vote for Bush.
2) Apathetic Union/Black vote for Kerry.
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I have always thought it was Bushs' to lose. The fact that he is showing up in the NJ socialist sh*thole next week tells me this place is in play, despite all of the stolen Bush lawn signs and scratched cars with Bush stickers on them.
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I think a backlash against last-minute moonbat antics will guarantee Bush's win. It's one thing to see a constant barrage of plainly one-sided media claims about Repub cheating, quite another to see the real attempts at intimidation and interference around polling places on election day. A lot of voters will run the gauntlet and decide to defy the moonbat authoritarians and manipulators where they still can, in the privacy of the voting booth.
Prosecutors dropped the charges Friday against six men arrested for protesting the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal by stripping down to their thong underwear and forming a human pyramid during a visit by President Bush.
whew...Justice Has Been Served.
Lancaster County District Attorney Donald R. Totaro said prosecutors would not have been able to prove the defendantsâ actions served "no legitimate purpose" a requirement under the stateâs disorderly conduct law. "The mere presence of unwilling viewers does not determine whether unwelcome views are prohibited from public forums," he said, [and that] pressing charges "would only serve to advance the agenda of six protesters through a very public forum."
"Not to mention that I thought they looked really hot in their undies..."
American Civil Liberties Union attorney Paula Knudsen, who represented one of the defendants, said: "Weâre pleased that the charges have been withdrawn and that the district attorney recognized the importance of the First Amendment values at stake." The men, ages 18 to 32, were arrested along the motorcade route during a July 9 visit by Bush to an elementary school in Amish country, about an hour west of Philadelphia. They were recreating an image from photos taken inside the prison near Baghdad in which Iraqi prisoners were abused by U.S. captors. Knudsen said East Lampeter Township Police violated the defendantsâ constitutional right to free speech. If convicted, the men could have received up to 90 days in jail and a $300 fine.
Marine father now in good condition
NAPERVILLE, IL — When Marine Sgt. Joshua Horton saw his newborn quintuplets for the first time through a home-video, he reached out his hand and touched the TV screen. Although he hasn't been able to touch the babies in real life because he is in a hospital across the country, Horton and his wife, Taunacy, hope to be together the first time doctors allow them to hold their new children. The three girls and two boys born Monday at Edward Hospital in Naperville are still too fragile to be held — but they are progressing well for being 10 weeks premature.
And their 28-year-old father, who arrived in the United States the same day the babies were born after he was injured during combat in Iraq, has been upgraded from critical to good condition at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. Horton, an Aurora police officer, is expected to be released in the next three weeks, hospital officials said. Doctors determined the injuries to the right side of Horton's torso and his right leg were from shrapnel, a jagged piece of hot metal from a handgun or bomb that would have traveled toward him at a very high speed.
The Oswego couple talked on the phone Friday morning for the first time since the babies' birth — "a very emotional and special moment" for them, Taunacy said at a press conference at Edward Hospital. Taunacy was released from the hospital Friday and said she looks forward to spending time with her two other children, Sean, 7, and Shaleigh, 5, whom relatives had been watching in the absence of Taunacy and her husband. The babies, who each weigh less than 2 pounds, will stay in the hospital for at least 10 more weeks. They have not yet been named because Taunacy wants to review her ideas first with her husband. "They are beautiful, and they look just like their older brother and sister, and each has their own personality," Taunacy said. "There's still a long road ahead for these angels — and hurdles along the way — but we are very hopeful, and glad they are doing so well."
Preemies typically stay in the hospital until the date their mother would have been at full-term. The quints will remain in critical but stable condition throughout the first weeks of their lives, as risks for complication decline but remain possible. Each baby has its own primary nurse and they are all constantly monitored by medical staff. Against most odds, none of the babies have had any major complications during their first 72 hours of life. There are only 51 sets of surviving quints in the United States, said Dr. Julie Jensen, Taunacy's obstetrician/gynecologist. "There is a better chance of losing all five than maintaining all five," Jensen said.
The Hortons were aware of the risks involved with having quintuplets but decided against reducing the number of babies. "We had many very tearful meetings. It was a very, very difficult decision for them," Jensen said. "They wanted the best for their babies, but they knew there was a chance of losing all five." The babies were delivered through Caesarean section after Taunacy's uterus had partially abrupted, a condition in which the placenta pulls away from the overstretched uterine wall, causing blood to fill the sacs where the babies were held. If doctors hadn't delivered the babies before Taunacy had a complete abruption, all five babies would have died, Jensen said. Doctors also concerned that Taunacy would lose too much blood. She ended up losing two to three units of blood. Losing one unit is typical, said Donald Taylor, director of maternal fetal medicine at Edward.
The first three babies came out relatively easily, but the placenta started to come out before the other two babies were delivered. That would mean blood flow to the remaining two babies would be lost. Doctors quickly pulled out the last two babies before allowing the placenta to come out, Jensen said. All five babies were delivered in about two minutes. About five hours passed between the time of the placental abruption to the delivery, and about 30 medical staff helped with the process, Jensen said. "(We) were smiling under our masks the whole time" because the babies were delivered so well, Jensen said.
Dr. Bob Covert, director of Edward's neonatal intensive care unit, said Taunacy kept asking, "Are they OK? Are they alive?" after the babies were born. Nurses immediately took pictures of the babies to show Taunacy, and the mother was able to see the babies later that night. All the babies were breathing on their own right away but were immediately put on ventilators, Covert said. The doctors' goal is to get babies off the ventilators because healthy breathing often is a sign that the rest of the body systems are functioning well, Covert said. Three of the quints are now off their ventilators, he said. That the babies have made it 72 hours without having bleeding in their brains — a common problem for premature babies that can lead to cerebral palsey or cognitive problems — is a "major step," Covert said. "They have reached a couple of very important milestones," he said. "I'm very optimistic they'll do very well." If the babies make it to 14 days, their survival rate will increase to more than 90 percent, Jensen said.
However, doctors said that any baby born at this stage is at risk for abnormal development in the future. "It will be a roller coaster ride — highs and lows are normal and happen with every extremely premature baby," Taylor said. "The babies continue to progress with time . . . we still have to worry about them." For now, Taunacy is proud to display the five bracelets around her wrist, each matching a bracelet on one of her five tiny babies — which she refers to as "beautiful" jewelry.
She and her husband have a positive outlook for the future of their family. "We know that, when we decided to have these five babies, that (God) would bless us and lend us strength to get through this, regardless of what might happen," Taunacy said. Monetary donations for the family can be sent to: The Horton Five, c/o Harris Bank, P.O. Box 6201, Carol Stream, IL 60197-6201, or be made in person at any Harris Bank. Anyone with in-kind donations is asked to contact the office of Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn at (312) 814-5220.
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The United States is contemplating tightening economic sanctions on Syria to put pressure on Damascus to pull troops out of Lebanon. US administration officials on Friday said the additional sanctions were also aimed at forcing Syria to crack down on "terrorism". (It's rather difficult for Aljazeera to get a grasp on the definition of Islamic "terrorism", being so deeply intertwined as a Arab media outlet.)
"The application of additional sanctions under the Syrian Accountability Act is an option," a senior official said. "No final decision has been made". In May, President George Bush imposed a series of sanctions on Syria, including a ban on US exports other than food and medicine. He accused Damascus of supporting terrorism, pursuing weapons of mass destruction and failing to stop anti-US guerrillas from entering Iraq. But some US lawmakers said Bush did not go far enough and were pressing him to go a step further. They pointed to a report earlier this month by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, which stated that Syria had failed to meet a Security Council demand to pull its estimated 14,000 to 17,000 troops out of Lebanon. The Bush administration is already pursuing action in the United Nations. On Thursday, the United States and France introduced a draft Security Council resolution intended at putting fresh pressure on Syria over its troops. The draft would ask Annan to report every three months on the issue as a follow-up to a 2 September council resolution that demanded all foreign troops leave Lebanon.
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A top US official said in remarks published yesterday that a Syrian failure to comply with UN demands to pull out its troops from neighboring Lebanon would be a "serious problem."
"Uhhh... How serious?"
"Very serious."
"We are determined to seek the implementation of (UN Security Council) Resolution 1559" which calls for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon, deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs David Satterfield was quoted as saying. "And Syria's failure to implement it (resolution 1559) will be a serious problem," Satterfield was quoted in Lebanese newspapers as telling LBCI satellite television Thursday. "We are now trying to see whether Syria's cooperation is serious. We will not wait forever for Syria and we want to see it act." Resolution 1559, co-sponsored by the United States and France and adopted last month, also called for an end to outside interference in Lebanese internal affairs in a clear reference to Syria's domination of its smaller neighbor. The day after the resolution was adopted, the Lebanese Parliament amended the constitution to extend by three years the term of office of President Emile Lahoud, a Damascus protege.
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Either (a) carpet bomb the bekka valley or (b) send in Marines and Special Forces to secure said valley.
Iran says it will reject any proposal to drop uranium enrichment, a step European Union diplomats are proposing to end a row over whether Iran is seeking atomic weapons. "Any proposal which deprives Iran of its legitimate right to a fuel cycle is not acceptable," Hossein Mousavian, Iran's head of foreign policy on the Supreme National Security Council, told state television on Saturday. The ruling mullahs are treating this E.U. attempt is a total joke. It's time for phase two.)
However, he said he was not responding to a specific offer. "We have not yet received the text of the proposal and have to see what it contains to assess it," he said. Uranium, if enriched to a low level, can be used to fuel nuclear power stations such as the one Iran is building at the southern port of Bushehr. If enriched further it can be used in nuclear warheads but Iran denies accusations by Washington that it has military nuclear ambitions and argues its atomic programme is solely dedicated to meeting booming demand for electricity.
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I guess they didn't like the original "Shock And Awe", and are waiting for the sequel!
A new assessment by a Washington think-tank released on Monday claiming that Pakistan's nuclear-weapons arsenal "now appears large enough to rival that of India" has revived the controversies and debates surrounding India's nuclear policy and its objectives.
In a paper on the world's fissile-material stocks, David Albright and Kimberly Kramer of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) estimate that Pakistan now has between 55 and 90 nuclear weapons compared with 55 and 110 in India. Israel and North Korea, listed among other current de facto weapons states, have between 110 and 190 weapons and between two and nine weapons respectively... Part of a rather rambling article which has some tidbits about the India-Pakistan relationship.
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There's one tiny little difference about the Jew bomb tho..... THEY'RE ARE HAVE FUSION!
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ummm ....huh?
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If Pakistan and India have parity in terms of weapons,then this would force India to alter its nuclear doctrine. They would need to consider having a portion of their weapons in a launch on warning state.
The prospects for a large hole in the middle of the Indian sub continent just increased.
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"Nuclear Dead Heat"
Somebody thought long and hard to come up with that title...
PA Minister for Negotiations Saeb Erekat called for an international investigation into the "massacre" perpetrated by the IDF in the northern Gaza Strip. In an interview with the PA's Voice of Palestine radio station, Erekat urged the Quartet to launch an investigation into the IDF operation and to dispatch international monitors to the Gaza Strip. Erekat claimed that the operation was an excuse for Israel to reoccupy the Gaza Strip.
"Mahmoud! Are they gone yet?"
"Yes, effendi! They are gone!"
"You're sure?"
"Yes, effendi!"
"Okay, then..."
Hamas reacted to the redeployment by announcing that the IDF had been defeated and that it would continue to launch rocket attacks on Israel. The movement said 50 of its men were killed during the operation. "The Israeli army is withdrawing after being defeated and disgraced," said a statement issued by the Izzadin Kassam, the armed wing of Hamas. "The brutal and most violent campaign has completely failed and did not achieve its goals. The Palestinian resistance fighters were able to teach the enemy harsh lessons in resistance and sacrifice."
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Hamas reacted to the redeployment by announcing that the IDF had been defeated and that it would continue to launch rocket attacks on Israel.
Wrong answer, guys.... ***sigh*** These guys are programmed to jiihad and self destruct, whichever comes first. The leadership and middle management will just have to be eliminated before there is a glimmer of hope for the Paleostinians. The sooner the funding for the fundos can be eliminated, the sooner this idiocy will end.
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good thing they are working on those fuel cells ;-)
Via Dhimmi Watch Please see article for what was done to these boys:
Garang, whose arms were chopped off
Garang Deng Akuei, lost one eye Courtesy CSI
Nyibol Deng was scalped (CSI)
Boys claim abuse, rape, death threat, forcible conversion
ABYEI MOU, Sudan, May 3, 2004 — 56 boy slaves were liberated at the end of April from the cattle camps of Arab nomads in the borderlands between northern and southern Sudan. Their liberation was a joint action undertaken by CSI and the Arab-Dinka Peace Committee based at the borderland market town of Warawar.
The boys had been abducted during government sponsored jihad slave raids against Black African, non-Muslim communities in northern Bahr El Ghazal.
Upon releasing the slaves, the head of the Baggara cattle camps between the Bahr el Arab and Lol Rivers, Shegir Al Agar, claimed that the boys had been very happy with their masters, whom they affectionately called "father."
However, interviews with the boys revealed a clear pattern of physical and psychological abuse. They reported cases of beatings, stabbings, boy rape, racial insults, death threats, and forcible conversion to Islam.
A 12-year-old slave named Piol recalled:
My master (Ibrahim Mohammed) told me not to ask about my mother and father, and ordered me to call him "father." Whenever I displeased him, he beat me. Once he hit me on the head with a cow's horn. Another time, he burned me on the arm. Sometimes he refused to allow me to eat. Ibrahim's son, Khalid, also bullied me. He threw stones at me, and called me "dog," "bastard," and "slave." Ibrahim made me go to Koranic school. The teacher, Mohammed Razik, said that we should forget about the religion of our people and become Muslims. Otherwise, we would be infidels.
CSI encountered two slaves who were not released by their masters. Osman was in the bush looking after cows, and Majok Miir was making tea for cattle camp masters. Shegir Al Agar reported that there were many more slaves in the area.
The Baggara will start moving their cows and slaves back to their home areas north of the Bahr El Arab River later this month when the rainy season begins. They had brought their cattle south of the river last February, during the dry season, in search of water and pasture land.
Slavery is an internationally recognized crime against humanity. In the spring of 2002, a U.S. government-sponsored international Eminent Persons Group charged Sudan's Islamist regime of using slavery as a weapon of war against Southern Sudan.
At the beginning of his mission, U.S. Special Envoy for Peace in Sudan, former Sen. John Danforth, identified the eradication of slavery as a pre-condition for a just and lasting peace.
However, the issue of slavery has not yet been placed on the agenda of the peace talks between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Army. CSI's President, Revd. Hans Stuckelberger, has pledged that "CSI will continue its campaign to eradicate slavery in Sudan until the last slave is free."
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Boy! I sure am glad the MSM is covering this!
Can you imagine what would happen if they and the UN ignored it?
The Arab news translation service MEMRI reports in a breaking-news crawl that Osama bin Laden met with Saddam's Italian attorney in the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad in 1998:
"Saddam's Italian attorney Giovanni de Stafano told a London-based daily that a meeting was held between himself and Osama bin Laden at the Rashid Hotel in Baghdad in 1998. (al-Sharq al-Awsat)"
Big hat tip to Kevin McCullough. I have yet to find an English-language link to al-Sharq, even though it's based in London, nor have I seen this break anywhere else in the English-language media. Needless to say, if this report pans out, it puts a completely new light on our efforts to depose Saddam -- not so much for those of us who understand the strategic necessity of removing Saddam, but for those who can only think tactically.
More to come ...
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Could it be the October Surprise? I'm following this too on my site.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia called the offensive in northern Gaza "part of a series of planned Israeli attacks to bring our people to their knees, but this will never happen."
It's kind of hard to be brought to your knees when you've just had your legs cut out from underneath you.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of thugs. The collective boil on humanity's backside known as Palestine needs to be lanced and cauterized. Preferrably, without anesthesia.
Israel is guilty of severe human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including "wanton destruction" of houses and infrastructure, according to a United Nations report obtained by The Associated Press. The annual human rights report is to be presented to the U.N. General Assembly later this month. The 18-page report was prepared by John Dugard, the U.N. representative for human rights. It charges that while some of Israel's actions in the Palestinian areas can be explained by security concerns, many cannot. This is unthinkable! Israel protecting herself? This can't be? It's SO similar to Warsaw 1943. It's shocking! I am absolutely mystified Jews would actual protect themselves, mind boggling! Fighting back against demented Islamists who relish the thought of self-detonating on every city bus in Israel?
This guy, John Dugard, the U.N. representative for human rights, really needs to study up, first hand, on the deadly effects of an Arab fired Qassam rocket smashing into to some unsuspecting Israeli's living room.
During operations in the Gaza Strip, Israel engaged in "massive and wanton destruction of property," the report said. "Bulldozers have destroyed homes in a purposeless manner and have savagely dug up roads, including electricity, sewage and water lines." The report is dated August 12, well before the current Israeli operation in northern Gaza, the largest in four years of fighting. The report criticizes repeated Israeli operations in the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza-Egypt border. Israel says its operations in Rafah are essential to stop arms smuggling. Many arms smuggling tunnels have been uncovered in the area. Continues in link:
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Memo to John Durgard:
Homes and property can be rebuilt.
Lives cannot be replaced.
Why do you think the Jews go after the property....and the Palestinians go after the Jews?
Yeah, I know, this requires thinking on your part, but try to pull your head outta your ass for just one second......
One Woman Treated for Hysteria in Rocket Attack
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(IsraelNN.com) It is now being reported that at least three mortar shells pounded the southern Gush Katif community of Nâvei Dekalim a short time ago. One woman is being treated for hysteria. There are no physical injuries being reported.
An Israeli policeman examining a Qassam rocket
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bulldozers that act on their own initiative
If you can build unmanned aerial vehicles, you can certainly build unmanned bulldozers. /me looks forward to seeing packs of autonomous killdozers roaming the countryside.
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Maybe they can be programmed to sniff out and destroy Kassams as well. Then, together with unmanned aerial support, no Israeli soldier will have to even enter scumsites like Gaza.
Veteran jihadis are being employed by private security companies, sources told Daily Times on Thursday. "Almost half of the guards in security companies are jihadis and most of them have fought in Afghanistan," sources said.
"Here's your cap and your boom vest, Mahmoud! Anybody tries to get in, you explode!"
"Hokay, boss!"
A Home Department official said, "We are investigating." He said the security companies would be asked to send a record of their employees and their place of deployment. "The information from companies will be counter checked," he said. "The companies will also be asked to give details of their clients and weapons. We will set up a special cell in the home department to monitor security companies," he said. The official said 120 companies had been given licenses and 86 had companies non-objection certificates. Pakistan Security Services Association's Punjab President Col (r) ZI Farrukh said, "Those who have given up jihad for good should not be discouraged."
"The security companies usually do not employ jihadis, but can make a mistake. A government notice is sufficient to scrutinise the security staff in the companies," he said. "Jihadis are not going back. They are going to stay and get jobs. It is better they work with the companies and are monitored," he said. He said the government should locate jihadis who are not working with security agencies but are working privately. "People have employed private guards. The police don't have their details. The police should have a verification of every guard. There are persons who have weapons and are employed by the companies in and outside Lahore. Government should collect their details as well, " he said. The Punjab government is introducing a new security culture by involving security companies. So the jihadi guards could create problems, sources said.
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Are you now, or have you ever been a Jihadi?
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Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) Chairman Dr Allama Tahirul Qadri on Friday announced his resignation from the National Assembly to protest the passage of the two-offices bill that allows President Pervez Musharraf to continue as army chief beyond December 31. "I hereby resign from my National Assembly seat, NA 127, under the illegal rule of the uniform," Dr Qadri said in his resignation statement, adding that he felt insulted to sit in a house which passed a bill to perpetuate the rule of a dictator.
G'bye. Don't forget your briefcase and Koran.
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Islamic clerics on Friday told President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz that they would consider issuing a decree that suicide attacks on mosques and imambargahs were un-Islamic.
"Yeah. We'll think about it. We'll let you know."
"Unless they ain't authentically Moose-limbs. You know, like us. Then it's okay."
Talking to the Daily Times after a meeting with the president and prime minister at the former's camp office in Rawalpindi, Coordination Secretary of the Ithad-e-Tanzimat-e-Madars-e-DinyaQari Hanif Jalandhry said the clerics were urged by the president and premier to issue a decree that suicide attacks on mosques and imambargahs were un-Islamic. "The mullas made it clear to the president and the prime minister that they would only consider it," he said, because they would have to consult scholars authorised to issue such decrees. He said the consultations would be held soon.
"We'll have to look it up in the Koran. I don't recall no rules against killing people, but we'll check..."
Minister of State for Religious Affairs Dr Amir Liaqat Hussain told a private television channel that the clerics pledged to issue a decree calling suicide attacks on Shia and Sunni mosques un-Islamic. When asked about the state minister's claim, Mr Jalandhry said the clerics had not given any such assurance. He said the president and the prime minister were told that the clerics would help the government eliminate extremism from the country. He said that the president also said stern action would be taken against any writer, printer or publisher responsible for material that encouraged sectarian violence. The president and premier criticised the recent wave of terrorism strongly and said it was inconceivable that a Muslim could kill another Muslim during prayer, a press release said. "We have to forge unity in our ranks, shun discord, develop trust and understanding and stop issuing fatwas (decrees) against each other. We have to prevent extremists from imposing their views on others because Islam encourages tolerance and peace and well-being of all," the press release from the two leaders said.
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In Iraq 5 chruches were bombed today, for the kick off of Ramadan. Any edicts, fatwas or just a couple of words here and there on that little issue?
....Didn't think so...
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And these assholes call it a Religion. Just kill the stupid murdering islamofascists wherever you find 'em. No negotiating, no bargains, no compromising and absolutely no pity.
The Andhra Pradesh government yesterday urged the Naxalites to leave the path of violence and adopt the constitutional path and work for finding solutions to the people's problems within the country's legal framework.
Criminy, that sounds like a blurb for Star Trek: Enterprise.
In his opening remarks at the first ever talks with the People's War and Janashakti Naxalites, Home Minister K. Jana Reddy made an impassioned plea to the Naxalites to join the mainstream and suggest solutions to the problems confronting the people and the state within the confines of the law of the land.
The two sides signed a cease-fire agreement, which will remain in force for the next three months. Though the two sides are adhering to the cease-fire declared in mid-June this year, this is the first time they have formalized the truce. The copy of the four-page speech, delivered by Jana Reddy at the closed-door meeting with the Naxalite leaders, was made available to waiting media persons at Dr. Marri Channa Reddy HR Institute, the venue of the peace parleys, in the evening. Jana Reddy, who is leading an eight-member official delegation at the talks, said that "the government hopes to create a situation where there will be no need for use of arms. Our constitution and law give all freedom to the people to raise their problems and protest in a manner which will not disturb peace." "The revolutionary parties should eschew the path of armed struggle and take the path of the constitution. We want the talks to solve the people's problems. The government has neither ulterior motive nor hidden agenda in pursuing peace process. Its only aim is to usher in lasting peace and rule of law so that the aspirations of people can be fulfilled," he said.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi clashed over Iraq during their first-ever meeting in Tripoli while German business leaders yesterday touted for business in the oil-rich former pariah state.
In the latest visit by a Western leader since Libya returned to the international fold last year, Schroeder held two hours of talks with Qaddafi in a traditional Bedouin tent after arriving late Thursday. The two leaders disagreed over Iraq, with Qaddafi blaming the United States for the continuing violence there and called for US troops to withdraw, while Schroeder expressed doubts over the wisdom of a sudden pullout, a German official said. The two men were also at odds over the US role in the Middle East. However, they agreed on the importance of developing relations between Germany and Libya following a deal last month for Libya to pay compensation to 168 mainly German survivors of an attack on a Berlin nightclub.
Libyan Foreign Minister Abdelraham Shalgham told reporters Thursday that Schroeder's trip was "very important for the development of relations with Western states, especially with Germany". Aside from the politics of the visit, Schroeder is accompanied by 25 leaders of German industry who are seeking business in the north African state. The chancellor said at the opening ceremony that the rebuilding of Libya's infrastructure "offered great opportunities" for German industry. Schroeder spent yesterday morning opening an oil drilling well operated by German company Wintershall in the desert hundreds of kilometers south of Tripoli.
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Peace talks between Darfur's rebels and the Sudanese government, which had been scheduled to restart in Nigeria next week, have been moved to the Libyan capital Tripoli, the African Union Chairman said yesterday. President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, who as the AU's current chairman hosted a first round of talks in Abuja in August and September, announced the switch at a briefing on the crisis for Western ambassadors, his office said. "Talks on Darfur earlier slated for Abuja had to be switched to Tripoli to secure the attendance of neighboring countries whose cooperation was crucial to lasting peace," it said in a statement, without elaborating. Although the text did not say when the talks were due to restart, an official in the Nigerian president's office told AFP that they will resume in Tripoli on Oct. 21. The previous round in Abuja was suspended for one month on Sept. 18.
Take your time. They're only Africans. There are lots more where they came from, and they don't feel pain like you do...
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DESPITE his imprisonment, Saddam Hussein is still showing himself capable of macabre surprises. The remains of infants have only now been found in his mass graves, and an elaborate bribery network was exposed last week. Now, a link to terrorism has finally been unearthed. While the world remains fixated on the absence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the other evils of his regime are being systematically exposed - for the few who are still interested in them. But the documents revealing he passed £40 million of oil vouchers to Palestinian terrorists show that, in the war on terror, Saddam was a legitimate target. His was one of the few regimes that gave insurgents the financial oxygen needed to survive.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has used many names, but is still little heard-of. Its most infamous atrocity was the "black September" attacks in 1970, when members hijacked four aircraft bound for New York. It is committed to extinguishing Israel, and its commitment to violence has meant it standing defiantly aside from the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) - whom it believes sold out to the cause by agreeing to the Middle East peace process. Officially listed as a terrorist organisation by British and American governments, it is exactly the kind of organisation which Saddam Hussein was long accused of supporting. But no-one was able to prove it until the documents of his dictatorship started to be unearthed.
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The army refuses to allow over 100 activists, who came to the village of Azawiyah to help in olive harvest, to enter sealed military zone. Israel Defense Forces troops denied the entry of more than 100 Israeli left-wing activists who had come to assist in an olive harvest, into the village of Azawiyeh in the northern West Bank on Saturday morning. The army said it feared a violent confrontation would ensue between the pro-Palestinian groups and settlers living in the nearby settlement of Eli. Security forces have declared the area a sealed military zone and will not allow the activists to enter it. Police have so far arrested three of the people who entered the area. Military sources say they have suggested that the activists help picking olives in areas where there is no threat of clashes with settlers but the activists refused. The rest of the story in the link
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Military sources say they have suggested that the activists help picking olives in areas where there is no threat of clashes with settlers but the activists refused.
The 'Palestinian' Authority had shown an "unacceptable" performance in trying to prosecute those behind the deadly bombing of a U.S. convoy entering Gaza last year, the U.S. State Department said Friday. "We haven't seen them demonstrate either the will, much less the capacity, to investigate the case seriously," department spokesman Richard Boucher said. "We have seen statements from time to time by Palestinian officials that they know who did it. And if that's true, then they should take immediate action to arrest and prosecute whoever did it," Boucher said.
Three American security guards were killed when a roadside bomb exploded on October 15, 2003 as the convoy was entering Gaza, and the United States has since demanded the Palestinian prosecute those responsible. The three guards were contractors from the security firm DynCorp and were protecting the convoy on its way to interview Palestinian candidates for Fulbright scholarships. The Palestinians have arrested suspects in connection with the attack, but the United States has been suspicious of the credibility of those arrests. "At the time that they made those arrests we expressed certain skepticism that they had arrested the people who were really responsible for these crimes, and felt that there was further serious investigation and action that needed to be taken," Boucher said.
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Do we still give any $$ to these guys. Cut off the $$ until we see positive proof of something.
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I don't trust State or USAID on this one. We need to find out if any more tax moolah is going to these enemies. After all, we were giving aid to the Norks in 2000 thru 2002, under GWB administration. I would not trust State as far as I can see.
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A third consignment of relief supplies for Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad has been delivered by trucks travelling across the Sahara desert from ports on Libya's Mediterranean coast. The UN refugee agency UNHCR said the eight-truck convoy bringing tents, blankets, sleeping mats, cooking oil and sugar, arrived in the Chadian town of Abeche earlier this week after a two-week journey from the Libyan capital Tripoli. The aid shipment was sent by the Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Association (GIFCA), a charity linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. This organisation pioneered the trans-Sahara route, which includes over 1,000 km of unmarked desert tracks, by sending two trucks to blaze the trail in June. More on this story in link:
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The Chirac government, The E.U. 'superstate' corp, Kerry's brownshirts, the leftwing media, the U.N. crowd & all those in the 'America-Is-Always-Wrong Club' have fed the the world a Big Lie in that Saddam ended all aspects of Iraq's germ and chemical weapons programmes (wmd) either just after the Gulf War or sometime during the U.N. inspections.
None of these people covering for Saddam & themselves, will ever admit Saddam not only 'trucked' his so-called wmd into Syria 3 months prior to the 2003 Iraqi war, but Saddam was also paid 32 million dollars in U.S. Dollars & Euros for the re-located wmd. Some of the very same foreign officials 'assisting Saddam with the 'U.N.'s 'Oil-for-Food' programme also 'assisted' Saddam in banking his millions.
The Bush bashers will also remain silent on Saddam during the late 1990's having a real sweet crude oil deal with Syria's Assad, in which additional lucrative kickbacks were paid to many of the same players. Well, it's all being reviled now, one investigative report after the other. Saddam should just spill the beans and sing like a bird. Iraq Survey Group head does not rule out Saddam's transfer of WMD
At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Oct. 6, Charles Duelfer, an adviser to the CIA, did not rule out Saddam's transfer of Iraqi missiles and weapons of mass destruction to Syria, reports Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence news service. Duelfer agreed that a large amount of material had been transferred by Iraq to Syria before the March 2003 war. "A lot of materials left Iraq and went to Syria," Duelfer said. "There was certainly a lot of traffic across the border points. We've got a lot of data to support that, including people discussing it. But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materials, I cannot say."
The Iraq Survey Group, headed by Duelfer, said Russia, Syria, Jordan and other arms suppliers were paid from Iraqi oil revenues. A CIA report, authored by the Iraq Survey Group, identified Russia and Syria atop a list of 12 arms suppliers to Iraq until the U.S.-led war against Baghdad started in March 2003. The report listed Russia and Syria above North Korea — regarded as the leading missile proliferator to the Middle East — as leading suppliers to Baghdad. Jordan was the third largest supplier of weapons to Iraq. After Jordan came Belarus, China, India, North Korea, South Korea, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, France, Romania and Turkey. The report said these countries were involved in both "weapons of mass destruction and arms-related procurement."
The report said Saddam diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay for both conventional and nonconventional weapons and components. The report said state-owned companies in Russia and Syria defied U.N. sanctions and supplied weapons and platforms to Baghdad. The report said Syria also served as the leading route for illegal arms supplies from Europe and other countries. Several of Iraq's neighbors were said to have joined in the secret military effort to aid Baghdad. The report — based on interviews with senior Iraqi officials and 40 million pages of documents and classified intelligence — cited Jordan and Turkey as leading suppliers to the Saddam regime.
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...Actually, if Saddam was one-tenth as smart as the thinks he is, he'd get a message to President Bush: you take the death penalty off the table and arrnage for a reasonably comfy exile somewhere, and I name names, places and dates.
Or alternatively, he IS as smart as he thinks he is, and is just waiting to be asked...
Mike
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Mike I was thinking the very same thing.
A plea bargain could be approved by the Iraqi government & U.S. officals {{if}} Saddam names of all the French, Germans, Russians & if there are American & British contacts, names, bank account numbers, everything.
Which of his germ and chem weapons went to Syria & who assisted in moving the wmd.
Any drug deals he was linked with.
His mega-oil deals with Assad.
All al-Qa'ida contacts.
A total sum of what he paid Hamas to blow up Israelis.
Which terrorist groups or individuals he allowed safe haven for from the 1970's onward.
All data on his own nuclear & germ-chemical programmes with the French, Russians or other nations.
All those linked in re-labeling Iraqi crude oil, naming those in the U.N, Opec, etc.
Was Saddam himself playing the oil markets each time his oil supply was 'threatened' with cut-offs to the West by him, and how many millions he profited personally each time the energy market rose and fell.
It's a forgone conclusion some ceo's will not want Saddam speaking the whole truth when it comes to global oil industry and Iraqi exports. It's too bad.
Will the Iraqi general public go for any legal deal sparing Saddam's life in light of the countless mass murders he participated in directly or ordered?
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I've been pointing at these things for months (re: Syria).
Secondly, if we wish, Saddam could "suicide" with a bit of planning if we want him to. And once he is "dead", we can take him anywhere. Under survellance. Get the data. Then he really dies.
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But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materials, I cannot say."
He cannont say. That would mean, in the context of this article that he's not allowed to reveal that, yes, there were weapons of wmd's transferred to Syria, because he's not allowed to say that.
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Mark and Mike, this sounds good. Please arrange ASAP.
OldSpook, after we've pumped Sammy dry and he's off to 'exile', you know what to do. Make sure it's painful.
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Sounds like a Vast Rant-Wing Conspiracy to me.
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Vast Rant-Wing Conspiracy--there they go again.
The WMD stocks did not just vanish into thin air. The facilities that were dismantled and the chem/bio weapons went somewhere. The most likely places are the Bunkers in the Bekaa Valley, the Al Qaeda navy via Syrian ports and into Assad's arsenal.
No, we don't have proof that stands up in a court of law, but we do have the common sense God gave us. We just have to use it.
This isn't about left, right or neo con, this is about survival in a war.
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A total of 70,000 people are estimated to have died in Sudan's western Darfur region, with hundreds still dying every day, a top UN official said on Friday. David Nabarro, who heads the World Health Organization's (WHO) health crisis inaction group, gave the new overall figure, saying malnutrition and disease meant the monthly fatality rate was about 10,000. The previous overall death toll had stood at 50,000. People were dying despite the aid effort and the world continued to underestimate the crisis in Darfur, Nabarro said. The United Nations says the area is the scene of the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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Isn't the UN having a conference in the near future on this? Did they pick the linen yet for the table settings? Emily, didn't you mention something about this recently?
These people in Darfur need protection first, before the aid rolls in.
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They'll hold the conference once the orders for the fois gras and champagne are placed.
Everyone knows that you cannot have a proper summit without the proper application of foi gras, champagne & caviar. Must have the fish eggs.
Place settings are far more important than you might imagine. Just consider what might happen if you place the French ambassador next to the the US ambassador. The Frenchman might surrender to the US before the negotiations have begun. Then how could he surrender to the Sudanese like we are arranging for him to?
Lots of details that must be done right.
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JR, actually, they don't put the french amb next to the german amb anymore for that very reason, sometimes they put the brit or merikan amb in between them just to make sure.
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Guys, guys...you gotta keep it in perspective. At least they're getting the numbers right (/sarcasm off/). What bean counters...people like this should be shot along with the goons doing the genociding.
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