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Um. About all these blank posts... I had a bit of a problem posting acouple of news link articles before. Not sure if that's a Mozilla thing or general thing.
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Just tried to post a news link. Got: Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in C:web
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Unable to connect!
Using Firefox.
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Also posted an article. The preview page did not appear. The article seems to have been accepted.
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Preview working. Thanks Fred.
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Seems I get more ASP object errors in Linux/Firefox than otherwise. Probably microsoft-isms in the web objects.
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When I got:
Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0115'
Unexpected error
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A trappable error (C0000005) occurred in an external object. The script cannot continue running.
As I have a not very stable connection (Satellite)I got worried. "Happy" to see that the problem was on your side :)
The Interior Ministry yesterday confirmed the death of Saud Al-Otaibi, the leader of Al-Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia, and Moroccan Abdul Kareem Al-Majati, the No. 4 on the list of 26 most wanted terrorists, in last week's gunbattle in Al-Rass.
Yeah, their names have been floating about for the past week. Now it's official...
In a statement, an official source at the ministry said 15 terrorists were shot dead in the three-day gunbattle at Al-Rass, 320 km northwest of Riyadh. The toll went up as security agents found one more body in the area during combing operations. The ministry described Otaibi as "head of the gang" as he took over the leadership of the Al-Qaeda cell after the death last year of Abdul Aziz Al-Muqrin, the No. 1 on the wanted list.
I thought al-Oafi took it over? I'm so confused...
Otaibi was responsible for bombings, including the attack on Al-Mohaya housing compound in Riyadh in 2003. "Otaibi was also involved in taking booby-trapped vehicles from Qasim to Riyadh, carrying out attacks on security officers and smuggling weapons into the Kingdom," the official said. Majati came to the Kingdom with his wife and two sons using fake passports, the ministry said. With the support of his son Adam, he kidnapped and killed an expatriate and carried out an attack on patrol police in Al-Ghat. Adam Al-Majati also died in the operation.
The US embassy in Yemen has closed to the public for security reasons after the State Department warned Americans not to travel to this volatile Arabian Peninsula nation, diplomats said.
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"The American warning is more than a week old and the British warning is three days old," the official said, adding there was no specific threat linked to either."
Whew!! I was worried for a minute there. Well in that case, I will renew my visa to Yemen.
A arms cache containing large amounts of weapons and ammunition has been found in the Malgobek region of Ingushetia on the administrative border with Chechnya.
The weapons appear to belong to a large militant group, a source in the Interior Ministry's press center in the North Caucasus told Interfax on Thursday.
The origin of the weapons is currently being established, but there are strong suspicions that they might have been stolen from army depots in Ingushetia during Shamil Basayev's raid on Nazran on June 22, 2003.
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Two local policemen have been killed in the Chechen capital, a source in the Interior Ministry of the North Caucasian republic said.
"At 14:15, Moscow time, on Friday the bodies of two criminal investigation officers of the Chechen Interior Ministry were discovered in a Lada office car on the bank of the Sunzha river in Leninski district of Grozny. They were found having gunshot wounds", the source said.
The policemen were gunned down and their Kalashnikov submachine guns, Makarov pistols and service ICs were stolen, he said.
Over the past 24 hours one explosion and two firings have been registered in Grozny, the source said.
"At 9:30, Moscow time, a self-made bomb was blasted under a UAZ car in the Pervomaiski street, Leninski district. Inside the car were two officers of the Grozny district interior board. Fortunately, nobody has been hit. The car was damaged", the interviewee said.
The bomb was made from a 152-millimeter artillery shell, he said.
Another incident happened at 23:10 in the Slobodskaya street.
"Unidentified persons riding a Lada car fired from submachine weapons at the police post and disappeared. None of the policemen has suffered", the interior officer said.
A similar case happened ten minutes later in the Krasnye Frontoviki street. Militants driving a UAZ car opened fire at the block post of policemen arriving from the Rostov region.
RIA Novosti learnt from the Chechen Interior Ministry that "at 23:35, Moscow time, policemen tried to stop a Lada car, found having three militants inside. The bandits showed armed resistance and attempted a flee".
By reciprocating fire one attacker was killed, another wounded and taken to the hospital. The third attacker has fled.
The bandits were found having a subbarrel grenade-thrower GP-25 with ten rounds, a Kalashnikov, a Makarov pistol, seven hand grenades, over 300 pieces of different-caliber ammunition, two fake police ICs.
None of the policemen has suffered.
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Russian federal forces killed a wanted associate of Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev near Grozny during an operation Friday as the republic intensified its crackdown on rebels. "Russian federal forces have killed a guerilla who planned terrorist attacks against five heads of Chechen district administrations," the spokesman for the federal forces in the North Caucasus, Major General Ilya Shabalkin, was quoted by Interfax as saying.
Adam Tepsukayev, 27, a native of Argun city, who was on the government's wanted list, traded fire with the federal forces before he was shot dead during the operation, Shabalkin said. Tepsukayev had been operating under Arab mercenary Abu al-Valid since 2002 but after al-Valid's death he became an aide to Basayev and led an armed gang which was blamed for a series of terrorist attacks against civilians and police in Argun, according to officers of the regional headquarters for the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, the Itar-Tass reported.
Tepsukayev participated in an armed attack on the administration building of the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny on Aug. 21 last year, which killed a dozen civilians and police, the officers said. Tepsukayev was also said to have participated in several killings of officers of the Chechen Interior Ministry.
This article starring:
ABU AL VALID
Chechnya
ADAM TEPSUKAIEV
Chechnya
Major General Ilya Shabalkin
SHAMIL BASAIEV
Chechnya
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The Egyptian Supreme Council for Human Rights (ESCHR), a state-backed organisation set up last year, gave credence in its first annual report to widespread allegations of torture by Egyptian police and security forces.
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib claims officials, including Australian representatives, watched him being tortured in Pakistan and Egypt.
Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says no Australian officials reported seeing any abuse but he admits he cannot vouch for what happened when they were not looking.
Mr Habib, who was born in Egypt, was arrested in Pakistan in October 2001 and then transferred to a jail in Egypt before being held in Afghanistan.
It is not known if the ESCHR addressed Mr Habib's claims.
The ESCHR called for an end to the state of emergency, which has been in force since 1981, saying it provided a loophole by which the authorities prevent some Egyptians enjoying their right to personal security.
The report, obtained by Reuters on Sunday, was tougher than expected for a council set up and financed by the government.
But the human rights activists on the council have argued that anything less would damage the council's credibility.
The council was not able to carry out investigations of its own but by repeating allegations made by citizens in an official forum it implied it found many of them credible.
Some parts of the report allege torture in general, without citing sources.
The 358-page report describes in detail the deaths in detention of nine Egyptians during the year and calls them "regrettable violations of the right to life".
It also corroborated reports the authorities detained large numbers of people in north Sinai, and tortured many of them, after bombings in Sinai resorts last October.
Human rights groups say some 2,500 people were arrested and that more than 2,000 of them remain in detention without charge.
The council is chaired by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former United Nations secretary-general and a former Egyptian deputy prime minister.
Hafez Abu Seada, secretary-general of the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) and a member of the council, said members close to the Government had objected to the language in the report but eventually yielded.
"We tried to write a report that is a real reflection of the human rights situation in Egypt," he told Reuters.
The report says that up to thousands of members of Islamist groups have been in jail since the 1990s, even after they complete their sentences.
It added some detained without charge are not released after the maximum period of detention.
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It's a shame that I'm here in Iraq with the Marines right now and not back at Ohio University completing my senior year and joining in blissful ignorance with the enlightened, war-seasoned protesters who participated in the recent "die-in" at College Gate. It would appear that all the action is back home, but why don't we make sure? That's right, this is an open invitation for you to cut your hair, take a shower, get in shape and come on over! If Michael Moore can shave and lose enough weight to fit into a pair of camouflage utilities, then he can come too!
Make sure you all say your goodbyes to your loved ones though, because you won't be seeing them for at least the next nine months. You need to get here quick because I don't want you to miss a thing. You missed last month's discovery of a basement full of suicide vests from the former regime (I'm sure Saddam's henchmen just wore them because they were trendy though). You weren't here for the opening of a brand new school we built either. You might also notice women exercising their new freedom of walking to the market unaccompanied by their husbands.
There is a man here, we just call him al-Zarqawi, but we think he'd be delighted to sit down and give you some advice on how you can further disrespect the victims of Sept. 11 and the 1,600 of America's bravest who have laid down their lives for a safer world. Of course he'll still call you "infidel" but since you already agree that there is no real evil in the world, I see no reason for you to be afraid. Besides, didn't you say that radical Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance?
I'm warning you though -it's not going to be all fun and games over here. You might have bad dreams for the next several nights after you zip up the body bag over a friend's disfigured face. I know you think that nothing, even a world free of terror for one's children, is worth dying for, but bear with me here. We're going to live in conditions you've never dreamt about. You should get here soon though, because the temperatures are going to be over 130 degrees very soon and we will be carrying full combat loads (we're still going to work though). When it's all over, I promise you can go back to your coffee houses and preach about social justice and peace while you continue to live outside of reality.
If you decide to decline my offer, then at least you should sleep well tonight knowing that men wearing black facemasks and carrying AK-47s yelling "Allahu Akbar" over here are proud of you and are forever indebted to you for advancing their cause of terror. While you ponder this, I'll get back to the real "die-in" over here. I don't mind.
-Marc Fencil, a senior majoring in political science, criminology and Spanish, is currently serving in Iraq. Send him an e-mail at marc.fencil@ohiou.edu
Semper Fi, Marc. I'll sleep well and thankfully knowing you're there killing them before they can kill me.
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Looks like they've shut off his mailbox or it's a hoax.
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I went through the paper from the top and it looks genuine, so the college apears to have shut down the mail box. Too much favorable mail, perhaps.
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Genuine or hoax, the sentiment is real enough. Outstanding!
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Too bad I didn't read the comments first because I sent a nice email to him. Anyone from the area can check up on a Marc Fencil? Can't be to many in the are that are Marines. Is there a local Marine unit?
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Google is your friend!
LCpl Marc Fencil is assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Infantry Regiment. Here's a link to some of his photos and writing. Apparently he's in Public Relations.
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Several soldiers and communist rebels have been killed in fierce fighting in the central and southern Philippines, military officials said yesterday. At least six army soldiers, including a lieutenant, were killed on Friday when they were ambushed by New People's Army (NPA) in the town of Calbiga in Western Samar province, 555 kilometers southeast of Manila, the military said. The soldiers were checking reports of the presence of armed men in a village when attacked by some 35 rebels, said Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan said, commander of the army's 8th Infantry Division based in the province. Palparan admitted that the slain soldiers committed security lapses in going to the area, and were apparently tricked into believing there would a surrender.
In the other incident in northern Mindanao, officials said an undetermined number of rebels were killed in fighting with government soldiers in the town of San Luis in Agusan del Sur province. "Many rebels were either killed or wounded in the fighting. There were no casualties on the government side," the spokesman of the army's 4th Infantry Division, Maj. Alexis Bravo, told Arab News. He said the fighting erupted in the village of Moritula after patrolling troops ran into a group of about 50 rebels on Friday. Troops also recovered three claymore mines left behind by the gunmen, he said. "The NPA continue to use land mines despite its global ban and sad to say that many civilians are killed by these mines than soldiers," he said. Regional military commander Maj. Gen. Samuel Bagasin said he ordered security forces to pursue the rebels. "The operation against the NPA is continuing and we have a strong public support," he said.
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Article: âThe NPA continue to use land mines despite its global ban and sad to say that many civilians are killed by these mines than soldiers,â he said.
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Raj, there is if you buy into the Euroweenie and North American MSM meme on land mines. You are correct there is no ban on them. The Philippines are signatories to an "agreement" forswearing their use, which might be the actual fact. The facts never get in the way of a journalist spinning his bull shit however.
I love reading about dead communists just a bit more than I do reading about dead socialists. This news brings joy to my day. Kill more of them please.
A truck loaded with 40 kilograms of explosives was seized overnight while on its way toward the Syrian border, outgoing state minister Albert Mansur said yesterday. "The truck loaded with explosives was heading to Syria, according to sources of the investigation," Mansur said on LBCI television. Police said security forces had seized a Hyundai truck in the northeastern district of Hermel, a few kilometers from Syria. They said the explosives were hidden under carts of vegetables. The driver, identified as Muwafaq Ibrahim, from the village of Hawsh Hala near the main eastern city of Zahleh, was arrested, they said.
Lebanese security forces raided houses in the border village of Al-Qaa, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, looking for evidence. It was not clear whether the two detained men had any links to four bombings that have rocked Christian suburbs of Beirut over the past three weeks, raising fears of a slide back into Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war. In the latest sign of rising tensions, a hand grenade was lobbed down a street in the Christian mountain village of Duhur Al-Shweir earlier on Friday night, but no one was wounded and no property damaged, security sources said.
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on it's way to Syria? Returning for longer wicks?
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You can by pills for that.
Oh,sorry you said wicks.
IRAQI authorities have said they have arrested a nephew of toppled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein suspected of playing a major part in financing the insurgency. A government statement said Ibrahim Sabawi - son of Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, a half brother of Saddam also being held in custody for allegedly bankrolling rebels - was arrested "recently" close to Baghdad. "Ibrahim Sabawi was part of the circle of those close to the deposed regime. Up until his arrest he was financing the terrorists as was the case for his father Sabawi," the statement said.
No further details were given on the date of the arrest or its circumstances, which comes six weeks after his father was captured close to the border with Syria.
Iraqi officials have said Ibrahim Sabawi was involved in guerrilla activities in the area south of Baghdad known as the "triangle of death" for its frequent attacks. Sabawi senior, who was a presidential advisor to Saddam and an intelligence chief, was number 36 on the US list of 55 most wanted former regime officials in Iraq. The capture of the father resulted from arrests in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and active patrols by Iraqi forces on the Syrian border, particularly in the restive province of Al-Anbar, officials have said.
Accused of being the main financier of the rebellion, Sabwai senior is suspected of dispensing huge amounts of money for Baath party loyalists and being involved directly in a number of attacks.
This article starring:
IBRAHIM SABAWI
Iraqi Insurgency
SABAWI IBRAHIM AL TIKRITI
Iraqi Insurgency
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I'd rather see the pliars and panties graphic. Make this mook suffer
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Da-yum, Fred - that Fat Lady's actually fat.
Where in the world did you find that pic? :-D
(Where in the world did they find that costume?)
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I hope Saddam found out about it seeing him take the perp walk on the 5 o'clock news.
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It's a Don't Ask Don't Tell thing, Barbara
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Did they catch him in Iraq or at CBS headquarters in New York?
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The death toll from an ambush by armed Islamic militants, who had mounted a phoney road block near Larbaa, about 30km south of Algiers, climbed to 14, Algerian security sources said on Saturday.
The body of a young woman was found on the mountainside near the place where militants ambushed four cars and a van late Thursday and opened fire, they said.
On Friday, security sources reported 13 people were killed and one person was injured.
The ambush came a day after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika gave an address to the nation in which he claimed that security had been "largely re-established everywhere across the country".
Bouteflika, who marked one year since his re-election as head of state on Friday, said civil peace was made possible by "sacrifices" by the security forces under the leadership of the army.
About 50 people, including about 15 security force members, have been killed in violence involving armed Islamist groups since the beginning of last month, according to a toll compiled using official figures and media reports.
The Algerian media have blamed the attacks on the radical Islamic Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which remains dangerous despite the arrest in October last year of the group's second-in-command, Amari Saifi.
The GSPC, which is linked to the Al-Qaeda network led by Osama bin Laden, still has between 300 and 500 men, according to Algerian police chief Ali Tounsi.
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The UN and African Union have condemned with "disbelief" a village rampage by militiamen in Sudan's Darfur region.
What's not to believe?
They said 350 militiamen torched all but two buildings in Khor Abeche, 75km (47 miles) from Nyala on Thursday. The organisations named Nasir al-Tijani as the militia leader and demanded action from Sudan's government.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Khartoum says reports speak of 17 people killed in the raid by militiamen riding horses and camels. A joint statement by the UN and African Union said: "We condemn this senseless and premeditated savage attack." It said the militiamen "rampaged through the village killing, burning and destroying everything in their paths and leaving in their wake total destruction with only the mosque and the school spared".
The statement said the raid appeared to be in revenge for villagers allegedly stealing 150 cattle. Mr Tijani had also accused a rival militia of failing to return the bodies of two of his men killed in an earlier raid, it said.
The organisations said the militia leader had previously threatened to destroy the village but the government had not taken steps to prevent it.
Of course not, that was part of the plan ...
The naming of Mr Tijani comes after the UN Security Council voted recently to refer those believed guilty of war crimes in Darfur to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. That decision sparked protests in Khartoum. Sudan says it can bring war criminals to justice.
The attack was the worst since a raid on the village of Hamada in January in which about 100 people died.
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More than 350 militia fighters mounted on horses and camels rampaged through a village in southern Darfur this week, the African Union and the United Nations said. "We condemn this senseless and premeditated savage attack", which destroyed everything in the rebel-held village of Khor Abeche but the mosque and the school, the organisations said in a joint statement on Friday, vowing to refer the militia commander to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions. The statement for the first time in the troubled region named the commander, identifying him as Nasir al-Tijani Abd al-Qadir of the Misairiya tribe, based in the militia stronghold of Nitega. The Security Council recently has voted to impose a travel ban and an asset freeze on those responsible for atrocities against civilians or cease-fire violations in Darfur and to refer those responsible for war crimes to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Right. Nasir's not allowed to ride his camel to The Hague for his trial...
The Darfur attack appeared to be in retaliation for the alleged theft of 150 head of cattle, which the fighters blamed on Khor Abeche villagers, the AU-UN statement said.
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Tens of thousands of supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have marched in Baghdad to denounce the US presence in Iraq and call for a speedy trial of Saddam Hussein on the second anniversary of his overthrow. Chanting "No, no to the occupiers", tens of thousands of young and old men gathered in the poor Shia district of Sadr City on Saturday to begin a planned peaceful march to al-Firdos Square, the central Baghdad spot where Saddam's statue was torn down two years ago. Crowds of al-Sadr's supporters from across the country were gathered at the square by mid-morning, waving Iraqi flags and calling out: "No America! No Saddam! Yes to Islam!"
There's the key, isn't it?
Sunni Muslims were urged by the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq, an influential Sunni group, to demonstrate to mark the fall of Saddam and to demand US forces leave Iraq. "Many of our brothers, including Sunnis, have welcomed the call and will take part," said Shaikh Abd al-Hadi al-Daraji, a spokesman for al-Sadr. "We hope it's going to be one million people strong." Al-Daraji told Aljazeera that protesters also demanded the release of Iraqi prisoners and an end to foreign intervention in Iraq and other Arab countries. "Iraqis can protect themselves, and those who call on US forces to stay in Iraq contradict themselves," he said.
They were just about to throw Sammy out themselves when we arrived and spoiled everything.
Followers of al-Sadr from the southern Shia cities of Basra, Amara and Nassiriya travelled hundreds of miles to join the protest, showing the appeal the young cleric can command. The demonstration was expected to be the largest since the 30 January election and the first since the new government began to take shape.
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Tens of Thousands? I think someone has to learn how to count again.....
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Interesting, in that Muqtada al-Sadr waited until the political picture has become somewhat "clear" now, before agitating this new 'unrest'! The level of instability he is injecting into the process can only hurt the relatively smooth progress up to now, their fragile government is building. That bullet we saved, we'll come to regret!
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It could have been tens of thousands. In a city the size of Bagdad thats not that big a turn out. Just Tater's tots making noise on command.
If you look at the picture you will see he is pointing to the future entry wound that will cause his demise. The hate filled little Iranian puppet deserves it.
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Keep in mind that most of Sadr's Iraqi supporters live in Baghdad, specifically the Sadr City slum area. He uses all the love money the mullahs give him to keep them loyal (cuz otherwise they'd have to go get real jobs) and they form the backbone of the Mahdi Army.
Just another sign of how bad things are for Sadr if he can't pull off a sizeable demonstration in his own stomping grounds ...
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I, for one, would be simply devastated should Tater come to harm from some vigilante action. If killed, it would be extra super bad - as Dan points out - it will leave tens of tens unemployed! Oh, the humanity! And just think of the ramifications of making him a martyr to stupidity, irrelevance, and Iranian puppetry - it would be an object lesson for Iraqi children! How terrible!
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And just how many seats did Tater's party get in the recent election? Hmmmm. That fact doesn't seem to dawn on MSM when they want a negative story on a day of true celebration in Iraq. Got to find the photo op that plays into the Media Based Lie. Got to wonder if CBS/Al Jazeera, et al hired a mob in this case too?
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Roger Simon weighs in ...
The demonstration by Shiites loyal to reactionary religious thug Muqtada Sadr seems to have been a bust, although you wouldn't know it by most media reports, which trumpet "tens of thousands" of demonstrators in their opening paragraph. That usually means ten to twenty thousand, although the Voice of America writes "thousands." Who knows? In any case, the number isn't much in Baghdad, a city of five million. The Washington Post finally admits the truth in the 14th (!) paragraph of their coverage:
Sadr had stayed out of the limelight since leading failed uprisings last year in the southern city of Najaf and in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. But he has stepped up criticism of the United States in recent weeks, mainly by organizing Saturday's protest, which fell far short of the 1 million people he hoped would assemble.
Talk about burying the lede! Oh, well, we're all propagandists in the end, n'est-ce pas?
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Someone needs to have an "accident" - a fatal one. Maybe we can start the rumor that Sadr is actually a spy for the Mossad, or that he's on the payroll of Prince Abdullah. Either one will guarantee him a short future. He's a piece of fly-covered fecal matter than the Iraqis could live better without.
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10^4 demon-strators/5x10^6 Bagh-daddies =
0.2 percent of the Baghdad population. Pathetic turnout. Not even a turd in the punchbowl, except for the 14+ paragraph magnum opus story by the NY fishwrap. Heh.
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I agree AP - A million Iraqis can protest against terrorism and violence and it doesn't even get a mention in the Times. But let one self-proclaimed Al-Q 'spokesman' fart and its headlines news for weeks.
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I guess from now on, all dead Arab terrorists will have been teenagers playing soccer before they were shot down. You gotta love the Arab news media - all propaganda all the time.
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This is a pretty standard issue tactic. They start kicking a ball around to lull the sentries into boredom, and start moving towards the sentries, who will hopefully have dozed off by now. Unfortunately for them, they were dealing - this once - with alert sentries. If they weren't, the news item would read: Israeli troops killed by Palestinian gunmen. Note that the sentries are in static positions. What are these teenagers doing playing soccer within a short distance of Israeli sentries, if not trying to get the jump on them?
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But Nukey, the toilet paper is FREE blue toilet papaer, so you are sending the dirty paper to palestinians or are you a really cheap and sic bastard? "Loved Isra Paysans,' yes love is a Italian, we agree on that one Bro, but I'm not sendind some hot Italian babe toilet paper, that's silly dude.
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Listen Nukey you got some serious business troubles here. If the paper is FREE where are the procids coming from? Europe? If you run a business like that you will never be an American, or a good Jew. But then being a good Jew means you don't wish harm on others, let alone sending toilet paper to grieving families. More business problems... why are you pimping your dog for Greens? Are you a man or goat, goats eat greens. And why do you want Isreal to have nukes when Iran doesn't have any? I don't understand? Can we stick to agreeing that Paysans are hot and go our seperate ways.
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"I LONE TO YOU my pit bull fred " -
Would that be your wife or daughter ?
Oooh and 'lone' should be spelt 'loan' . Please use this for any problems spelling .
and this for your mental problems "Americans for nuke iszrael"
Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinians, including dozens of armed men, marched Sunday in a funeral procession for the three teenage boys killed by the IDF on Saturday.
Holding the three flag-covered bodies aloft, mourners chanted "God is greatest" and vowed to avenge the boys' deaths. Gunmen fired in the air, while militants from the Hamas group promised to retaliate. "Our patience is limited and we are prepared to defeat them again and again," one Hamas speaker said.
IDF soldiers fired at the three when they were spotted running in a restricted area on the Philadelphi Route toward the Egyptian border.
Palestinian media reports initially claimed they were playing in a soccer match in Rafah when they were gunned down by soldiers. However, a probe conducted by Palestinian security officials revealed they had been involved in weapons smuggling.
Islamic Jihad spokesman Muhammad al-Hindi said the movement would reconsider its commitment to abide by the cease-fire in view of the day's events. Popular Resistance Committee officials voiced similar warnings.
The three killed were identified as Khaled Ghanem and Ashraf Mussa, 15, and Ahmed al-Jazar, 14. The IDF said soldiers manning the Hardon outpost, located on the Philadelphi Route, spotted five Palestinians crawling in a restricted area. Three suddenly started running toward the Egypt border within meters of where the soldiers were deployed. Soldiers shot the three, who were evacuated by Palestinian ambulance crews.
The two others succeeded in fleeing back to Rafah, where they were picked up shortly afterward by Palestinian security officials and later confessed to being involved in weapons smuggling, the army said. Immediately after the incident the IDF lodged a complaint with Palestinian Authority liaison officials and demanded action be taken to prevent anyone from entering the restricted areas.
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Immediately after the incident the IDF lodged a complaint with Palestinian Authority liaison officials and demanded action be taken to prevent anyone from entering the restricted areas.
Somehow, I have the feeling that doing this won't amount to much....
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they geschrey "allahu ackbah" meaning "allah is the greatest" not "god is great' as the meme of the msm touts-- allah was the chief moon god of the other 364 gods that were worshipped in the kaaba--its theo supremacy of one cult's diety not a hosanna to the universal god of nature--sheesh
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this is the reason why. THAT little shitty country one day will be nuked and all is bastard supporters here at home, will be roasted again
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jeuz for iszra I have free blue color toilet paper print I LUV ISZRAEL if you call 505) 827-3600 or
FAX: (505) 827-3634 procids will go to palestinian families
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JEP CREEP.CREEPER OR WHAT THE HELL OF FAGHETTY NAME YOU HAVE, LIKE I SAID BEFORE. PROCIDS OF THE BLUE TOILET PAPER WILL BE SEND TO THE ABUSED AND ROBBED ...THE SHIT YOU ASSHOL JEW SCUM. WILL BE SEND TO YOUR LOVED ISZRA PAYSANS
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HEY FAG CREEP JU JEEP ARE YOU DEAF i gonna tell your ju head again. PROCIDS OF THE BLUE TOILET PAPER WILL BE SEND TO THE ABUSED AND ROBBED PALESTINIANS FAMILIES PLEZ BY MY PAPER I LUV ISZRAEL call 505) 827-3600 or FAX: (505) 827-3634
Ousted Taleban remnants have killed a senior Afghan provincial official several days after kidnapping him, a Taleban spokesman said yesterday. Sarajuddin, chief of Zabul's power and water department, was killed after a group of Taleban seized him two days ago outside the town of Qalat, Zabul's provincial capital, the spokesman said. The murder was confirmed by a local police official. His killing is the third such murder of a local official in less than a week in the restive south, the former bastion of the Taleban. Taleban guerrillas fatally wounded Gen. Geranai, former deputy head of the Army Corps for the south in neighboring Kandahar province on Thursday, a day after killing a security official of adjacent Helmand province.
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Add another reason why Mullah Omar, should not be taken alive! As soon as he is positively identified, he should be 'taken out' whether surrounded by one henchman or a thousand!
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Spring has sprung. I would bet that the "Talaban forces" are half Pakistani nationality. IF they pull this crap back in Pakistan they have a higher risk of becoming Martyrs. Something these low life scum are adverse to.
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Several soldiers and communist rebels have been killed in fierce fighting in the central and southern Philippines, military officials said yesterday. At least six army soldiers, including a lieutenant, were killed on Friday when they were ambushed by New People's Army (NPA) in the town of Calbiga in Western Samar province, 555 kilometers southeast of Manila, the military said. The soldiers were checking reports of the presence of armed men in a village when attacked by some 35 rebels, said Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan said, commander of the army's 8th Infantry Division based in the province. Palparan admitted that the slain soldiers committed security lapses in going to the area, and were apparently tricked into believing there would a surrender.
A truck loaded with 40 kilograms of explosives was seized overnight while on its way toward the Syrian border, outgoing state minister Albert Mansur said yesterday. "The truck loaded with explosives was heading to Syria, according to sources of the investigation," Mansur said on LBCI television. Police said security forces had seized a Hyundai truck in the northeastern district of Hermel, a few kilometers from Syria. They said the explosives were hidden under carts of vegetables. The driver, identified as Muwafaq Ibrahim, from the village of Hawsh Hala near the main eastern city of Zahleh, was arrested, they said. 
IRAQI authorities have said they have arrested a nephew of toppled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein suspected of playing a major part in financing the insurgency. A government statement said 
More than 350 militia fighters mounted on horses and camels rampaged through a village in southern Darfur this week, the African Union and the United Nations said. "We condemn this senseless and premeditated savage attack", which destroyed everything in the rebel-held village of Khor Abeche but the mosque and the school, the organisations said in a joint statement on Friday, vowing to refer the militia commander to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions. The statement for the first time in the troubled region named the commander, identifying him as 
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Ousted Taleban remnants have killed a senior Afghan provincial official several days after kidnapping him, a Taleban spokesman said yesterday. Sarajuddin, chief of Zabul's power and water department, was killed after a group of Taleban seized him two days ago outside the town of Qalat, Zabul's provincial capital, the spokesman said. The murder was confirmed by a local police official. His killing is the third such murder of a local official in less than a week in the restive south, the former bastion of the Taleban. Taleban guerrillas fatally wounded Gen. Geranai, former deputy head of the Army Corps for the south in neighboring Kandahar province on Thursday, a day after killing a security official of adjacent Helmand province.
