(SomaliNet) Somalis powerful Islamic Courts Union said on Monday that it would not attack Ethiopia the ICU seems to draw back its ultimatum given to Ethiopians to quit Somalia. Speaking to Shabelle Radio in Mogadishu, Sheik Abdirihin Ali Mudey, the head of information and communication department of Islamic Courts, said that recent remarks by his Islamic movement over that it would attack Ethiopian troops if they do not withdraw from Somalia was mistranslated and misunderstood. We did not mean to attack Ethiopian forces if they do not withdraw from our country but we meant it as to set condition for starting talks with Ethiopian government so the statement of ICU was misinterpreted, Sheik Ali Mudey said.
He said the Islamic Courts Union is still in its position to repel Ethiopian troops out of Somalia. By the time Ethiopian forces are in our soil, the ICU with the help of its people is ready to fight against invaders, he said.
His latest comments came as today is the last day of a week given to Ethiopian government to withdraw its troops from Somalia or would face the prospect of war but earlier Addis Ababa described the Islamist threat as laughable. Meanwhile, Sheik Ali Mudey, spokesperson for Islamic Courts Union, said the resignation of the current transitional federal government in Biadoa city is the only solution for the Somalia crisis and could avoid civil war.
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pussies - can't back up that big "ultimatum" talk
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Yeah, that was supposed to be today, wudn't it? So, what's the bodycount there, Brave Lions?
(SomaliNet) Somalis interim Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi has revealed on Monday that his government has the right to make an ally with Ethiopian government to fight against Islamists since they are receiving help from the rebel of Ethiopia amid today is the deadline of the Islamic Courts ultimatum given to Addis Ababa to withdraw its troops from Somalia otherwise would face the prospect of war.
Mr. Gedi, who recently attended the Great Lakes summit in Nairobi and returned to Baidoa, made the statement in todays parliamentary session in which he was answering questions from MPs over his governments work for the last three months. He briefed the parliament about the recent summit by the African head of states in Abuja, Nigeria. The African Union leaders were too much worrying about the situation in Somalia and saw it as disease broken out in Somalia and then could spread to whole Africa continent, therefore the AU leaders agreed to take decisive steps to prevent the disease before spreading.
Gedi said the AU officials undefined the only way to avert the risky from the Islamic Courts in Somalia is to support the transitional federal government to restore peace and stability.
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Big-jim: Different set of Great Lakes. They're referring to Lake Malawi, Lake Victoria, and Lake Tanganyika. There are three or four smaller lakes in the same area. They all border Kenya, Uganda, or Tanzania, and sometimes all three.
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(SomaliNet) Chads President, Idriss Deby, has held a reconciliation meeting with Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim, a former rebel leader. Nour led the United Front for Democratic Change (FUC) against Chads government forces in Chads capital in April, shortly before presidential elections. He spent one hour with Deby. "President Idriss Deby and Mahamat Nour exchanged views on the possibilities of Captain Mahamat Nour returning to the fold," an anonymous official told Reuters.
Rebel groups fighting Chads government are yet to comment about the Nour-Deby meeting. FUC is suffering from internal wrangles and is losing its grip over Chads government. "The FUC rebel chief (Nour) has distanced himself from the unified command (of the other rebel groups), which is today defeated and whose power to strike is completely reduced," the official said.
Chads government and rebels are fighting in eastern Chad. While Chads government says that it has managed to push the rebel groups off Chads soils, the rebels have vehemently denied it.
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Jeez, buddy. How do you expect to be considered a proper African despot without your sashes and sprockets? You look like you work the ticket counter at Greyhound...
lybia STILL is an islamic hellhole ruled by a tinpot dictator, happy to predict the islamic conquest of Europe, and trying to blackmail the kufrs into paying tribute. This travesty of justice is disgusting.
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) A court convicted six foreign health workers Tuesday on charges of deliberately infecting 400 children with the AIDS virus and sentenced them to death, setting off shouts of joy in Tripoli.
The verdict, which will be automatically referred to Libya's Supreme Court, drew quick condemnation from European nations, which have charged that the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were being made scapegoats. A Western medical study, released too late for the trial, said the infections occurred before the medical workers came to Libya.
The United States and European Union had called for the release of the defendants, warning that the case would affect Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's effort to repair his rogue image and rebuild ties with the West.
But Libyans strongly supported a conviction. A few dozen relatives of infected children about 50 of whom have died of AIDS waited outside the court holding poster-sized pictures of their children and placards reading "Death for the children killers" and "HIV made in Bulgaria."
After the verdict, the crowd chanted "Execution! Execution!"
"God is great!" yelled Ibrahim Mohammed al-Aurabi, the father of an infected child, as soon as the presiding judge finished reading the verdict. "Long live the Libyan judiciary!"
The nurses and doctor have been in jail since 1999 on charges that they intentionally spread the AIDS virus to more than 400 children at a hospital in the city of Benghazi during a botched experiment to find a cure for the disease.
Western nations blame the infections on unsanitary conditions at Libyan hospitals and accuse Tripoli of using the six workers as scapegoats.
Bulgaria and the EU swiftly condemned the verdict.
"Sentencing innocent people to death is an attempt to cover up the real culprits and the real reasons for the AIDS outbreak in Benghazi," Bulgaria's parliament speaker, Georgi Pirinski, said in the capital, Sofia.
EU spokesman Johannes Laitenberger in Brussels, said the bloc's leaders were "shocked by this verdict." He said there was no immediate decision on EU action against Libya but said he "did not rule anything out."
France, where about 150 of the infected children have been treated, reacted strongly.
"France deplores this verdict," said Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, adding that his government was "fundamentally opposed" to the death penalty.
The chief Bulgarian counsel for the workers, Trayan Markovski, said the defendants would appeal to the Libyan Supreme Court. Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalqam told reporters the verdict would automatically be referred to the Supreme Court.
He added that after the Supreme Court review, the case would also be heard by the Judicial Board, which could overturn the ruling. He described the case as having "a political dimension," alluding to international pressure on Libya to free the defendants.
Presiding Judge Mahmoud Hawissa took just seven minutes to confirm the presence of the accused who all answered "yes" in Arabic and read the judgment in the longest and most politicized court process in modern Libyan history.
The five Bulgarians and the Palestinian did not react.
Detained for nearly seven years, the defendants had previously been convicted and condemned to death, but Libyan judges granted them a retrial last year after international protests over the fairness of the proceedings.
An international legal observer, Francois Cantier of Lawyers Without Borders, criticized the retrial as lacking scientific rigor. "We need scientific evidence. It is a medical issue, not only a judicial one," Cantier said after the verdict.
On Dec. 6, too late for use in the trial, Nature magazine published an analysis of HIV and hepatitis virus samples from the children. Using changes in the genetic information of HIV over time as a "molecular clock," analysts concluded the virus was contracted before the six defendants arrived at the hospital perhaps even three years before.
Oxford University, which took part in the study, issued a statement saying the verdict "runs counter to the conclusion reached by a research team from Oxford University's Zoology Department who, in collaboration with several European universities, showed that the subtype of HIV involved began infecting patients long before March 1998, the date the prosecution claims the crime began."
Idriss Lagha, president of a group representing the victims, has rejected the Nature article, telling a news conference Monday in London that the nurses had infected the children with a "genetically engineered" virus. He accused them as doing so for research on behalf of foreign intelligence agencies. "I's a Conspiracy!"
In testimony last month, the defendants denied intentionally infecting children.
"No doctor or nurse would dare commit such a dreadful crime," said nurse Cristiana Valcheva, adding that she sympathized with the victims and their families.
A second Bulgarian, Valentina Siropulo, testified that of her seven years in Libya, "I've spent only 6 months working as a nurse and the rest of the time in prison."
Gadhafi, who has been trying to refashion his image from leader of a rogue state, got his government to ask Bulgaria to pay tribute compensation to the children's families.
But Bulgaria rejected the idea as indicating an admission of the nurses' guilt.
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When I started reading the article it was hard to believe that this was the same old case. Justice in Islamic countries is usually much more swift in that it remains unfettered by such things as legal procedure or precedent-based jurisprudence.
On Dec. 6, too late for use in the trial, Nature magazine published an analysis of HIV and hepatitis virus samples from the children. Using changes in the genetic information of HIV over time as a "molecular clock," analysts concluded the virus was contracted before the six defendants arrived at the hospital perhaps even three years before.
If Gadhafi refuses to overturn the court's conviction all forms of foreign aid should be withdrawn.
tipper, mentioned something related to this yesterday and it bears repeating;
ALL Muslim majority countries which disallow religious freedom and maintain sharia law should be sanctioned. No exceptions. Saudia Arabia, Iran, all of them. Screw the oil. They'll have a hard time pumping it without foreign parts and supplies that they just cannot bring themselves to manufacture.
The longer we continue to pretend at playing slow-pitch softball in this major league game, the nastier the late inning lineup is going to be.
We met former leading member of Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Anouar Haddam, in Washington, at a conference staged by the US-based nongovernmental organization Freedom House on freedoms in Algeria and Tunisia. He seemed older but his beliefs havent changed. He thinks he should be allowed to enjoy his political rights. Haddam raised the issue of the mistakes made by the FIS, the mistakes Abassi Madani and Ali Benhadj (respectively number FISs number one and his deputy) have to be held responsible for, he said.
The first question was about his meeting with the Prime Minister, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, to prepare his comeback to Algeria and contribute in the national reconciliation project. Anouar Haddam said he met Belkhadem as representative of president of the Republic, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. He told us he interrupted all his tasks for that, including his teaching in the University of Washington. He expressed his astonishment as to the postponement of his return to Algeria, and affirmed he knew some spheres within the regime are impeding that step.
Asked if he still had a role to play in Algeria, Haddam says he has his own perception for the settlement of the crisis Algeria is facing, and affirms he is convinced he still has a part to play in the political life in Algeria. I do not intend to create a political party, for political work is useless under state of emergency, explains Haddam adding he yet thinks he should be allowed to partake in the national reconciliation project and to help to set up a citizenship charter project and defining strategic interests since it is the only way to help Algeria getting out of the crisis. We claim the truth be known for the Algerian people, he says. Those who had declared war have been set free, why shouldnt I be allowed to go back home since I was a politician and didnt order any assassination. We want to get a different frame than that of Islamic Salvation Front, we are not waiting a green light from it to move, and we dont seek to hold a FIS convention, but if we are invited we will take part in, he pointed out.
Anouar Haddam told us he had been sentenced to death for creation of data network via fax and arms smuggling, he explained he subscribed to benefit from national reconciliation and presented a file explaining he had not been implicated in genocides and was not incitating terrorist acts, but had received no reply. He points out he is against re-launching Islamic Salvation Front from which he dismissed in 2004.
To question on the interruption of the electoral process, in January 1992, Haddam said the authorities provoked the Islamic Salvation Front by the decision to interrupt electoral process, he affirmed if parliament elections second round was not cancelled and polls outcome was approved for the other political parties, FIS would have accepted the situation. Admitting some FISs members adopted armed fighting as a way to express their opposition to the regimes steps then, he however explained that they only fought between May 1994 and Summer 1995. But things became complicated afterwards the Islamic Armed Group (GIA) disappeared and the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) appeared, he noted. The Salafist Group is now affiliated to Al-Qaeeda, and is needed by the United States to justify the set up of military bases in Algeria, he adds.
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(AKI) - Militants demanding greater control of oil revenues in Nigeria targeted the facilities of two foreign oil companies on Monday. An explosion reportedly hit a residential compound of Italy's Agip in Port Harcourt while the facilities of Anglo-Dutch company Shell in the city were also targeted. No one was reportedly injured in the attacks. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta claimed responsibility and vowed to continue its year-long campaign to gain more control of funds paid to the central government in the capital Abuja.
Three Italians abducted by gunmen on 7 December in Nigeria's Niger Delta are still being detained. The men work for a subsidiary of Italian energy company ENI Spa
Niger Delta members include militants allegedly fighting for a greater share of oil wealth to criminal gangs demanding ransoms for hostages. Oil-worker kidnappings are common and most captives are freed unharmed.
Nigeria is the eighth biggest exporter of crude in the world but the country has been losing over 500,000 barrells per day since the beginning of this year when militants carried out a number of raids on oil installations to demand control of the oil wealth.
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A senior Muslim invoked Hitler's 1930s Nazi regime while attacking the Government over its treatment of British Muslims. They probably thought it was a compliment.
Muhammed Abdul Bari accused ministers of stigmatising Britain's Islamic community and fuelling xenophobia. Mr Bari, the head of the Muslim Council of Britain, criticised the Government for "unfairly targeting" Muslims, and said that it was undermining their status as a specially protected elite "equal citizens". He warned that blaming extremism on "a small, largely depraved deprived community" leads to a "deterioration of community cohesion and fuels xenophobia".
In a presentation to MPs, Mr Bari went so far as to ask: "What is the degree of xenophobia that tipped Germany in the 1930s towards a murderous ethnic and cultural racism?"
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His comments have drawn criticism from Jewish leaders, angry at what they believe is a "crass" comparison. Jon Benjamin, the chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: "To try to recast modern Britain as equivalent to Nazi Germany is equally offensive and disingenuous, but also dangerous in that it will fuel alienation and anger, particularly at a time when conciliation is vital."
Addressing the MPs, Mr Bari acknowledged that "very real progress has taken place for British Muslims under this Labour Government. . . good work has been done and must not be forgotten".
But he added: "Neither should it be invoked to merely paper over the cracks. For if genuine change is to be achieved, the Government needs to address key domestic and foreign policy concerns. These include poverty and social exclusion, Islamaphobia and discrimination, and the misuse of counter-terrorism powers. "In recent months there has been a veritable drip-feed of ministerial statements stigmatising an entire community. We have seen ministers' tours and even legislation being proposed on the premise that 'mosques are a problem'.
"We have been told to accept that greater numbers of Muslims will be stopped and searched and also to 'inform on our children'. You will understand our worry about where all this is leading. Some Muslims have even sought the MCB's advice on whether they should change their names in order to avoid remarks. "This is what happens when a community is singled out by those at the helm of affairs."
Mr Bari also rejected Tony Blair's call for Muslims to do more to fight terrorism. He put the responsibility squarely at the door of the Government. He said: "The attempt to place the problem on one doorstep is unfair and counter-productive." He blamed the "relentless barrage" of anti-terrrorism laws, labelling them "hastily formulated responses masquerading as policy".
Mr Bari later said: "Politicians have failed to consider underlying causes of Muslim disaffection and have reacted hastily by over-legislating. "By appealing direct to the non-Dhimmi Right-wing voter, the Government has polarised much of the [Muslim] community." He also defended the council's controversial decision to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day.
In October, the council was criticised by Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, for that decision. She threatened to withhold the council's Jizya funding, about £50,000 a year, if it did not back down.
But in his presentation to MPs on the All Party Group on Race and Community last month, which included Labour's Diane Abbott and Harry Cohen, Mr Bari defended the decision. "The MCB would be honoured to participate in such a commemoration provided it gave equal respect to the innocent victims of all genocides around the world. But we cannot accept that some people are more worthy of remembrance than others purely on the basis of their religion."
Mr Bari ended his speech by calling for Sharia a "social contract", officially defining the "rights and obligations" of every British citizen. He hoped this would help Muslims who are unsure of what the Government means when it asks them to "integrate" into society. Hint: It does not mean "take over and turn into hellhole like the one you came from."
Yesterday, Mr Bari said that he did not recall the exact phrases he had used during the speech. But he said: "We know what happened in Nazi Germany and we have to be on guard against entire communities being demonised due to the actions of a minority." Yeah, like the jooooos in the Middle East. Oh, wait. They're nearly all gone.
Tell ya' what, abdul-baby - when you get sent to a concentration camp, then I might listen.
Until then, STFU, you worthless wanker.
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"equal citizens"
The problem is, they don't want to be "equal citizens". They see themselves as a religiously ordained elite and act accordingly. Such disregard for their host country's culture and constant resort to violence, combined with an abject refusal to assimilate almost demands their eventual deportation or internment.
While the Jews in no way deserved their WW-II fate, Islam almost requires it in and of itself. Muslims need to set about changing that damn soon if they don't want their complaints to become reality.
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Actually, there was an affinity between the two. Just google Himmler and Muslim. The Nazis raised the SS unit Handschar composed of muslims to fight Titos partisans in Yugoslavia. Part of the nastiness that still plays out today.
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Muhammed isn't a lampshade or chair yet, either. But I suppose I'm splitting hairs. Which reminds me he isn't a bomb sight. And I'll bet he still has all his teeth in his head with the gold fillings intact.
North Korea and the United States staked out vastly divergent positions yesterday at the opening of the first six-nation talks seeking to persuade the communist nation to abandon its nuclear programme since its provocative atomic test.
The North insisted it be treated as a full-fledged nuclear power and that all sanctions against it be lifted before it would disarm. But Washington said time was running out for the North to dismantle its weapons and threatened yet more sanctions. "The supply of our patience may have exceeded the international demand for that patience, and we should be a little less patient and pick up the pace and work faster," chief US envoy Christopher Hill said.
The resumption of the six-way talks - consisting of China, Japan, Russia, the US and two Koreas - came after a more than 13-month break during which the North set off an underground atomic blast on October 9 and tested a new long-range missile in July.
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Not just America, but perhaps CHICOMS as well - see earlier post on WORLDTRIBUNE.com article.
IRAN > FREEREPUBLIC.com > USA warns Iran with [US-Allied]Naval Task Force in Persian Gulf.
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SPACEWAR.com/Other > NorKors have demanded bases and storage areas in South Korea [possibly Japan?] be open for inspection so as to verify that the USA is not hiding or storing any nuke weapons inside them.
(SomaliNet) Japanese officials on Monday denied Pyongyang's allegation that Japan had kidnapped a North Korean, saying the claim will not affect Tokyo's plan to press the North over its abductions of Japanese citizens.
In a request just before multinational talks on North Korea's nuclear program resumed in China, Pyongyang said Japan was presumed to have abducted a North Korean linguist who went missing in 1991. Japan Foreign Ministry spokesman Noriyuki Shikata denied the allegation. North Korea has admitted abducting 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s to tutor its spies in the Japanese language and culture. Pyongyang has allowed five to return home, but said the others are dead. It has refused to respond to demands for more information.
Shikata said North Koreas allegation will not affect Japan's plan to pressure Pyongyang, during the six-country nuclear disarmament talks, for more concessions over the abductions of Japanese citizens. The talks resumed Monday, more than a year after North Korea walked out of negotiations involving Japan, China, Russia, South Korea and the U.S. Although the talks focus on dismantling the North's nuclear program, Japan also wants to resolve the abduction dispute, Shikata said.
North Korea maintains the abduction issue is finished, and has said Japan should not join the six-nation nuclear talks if it keeps raising it. Some participants in the talks have indicated concern about the possibility for the abduction dispute to complicate the main disarmament negotiations.
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Why tell a little lie, when you can tell a Whopper?
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If you rather do yourself in a movie house than me, well, I guess you ARE gay.
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This is the Norks spreading some good ole commie lies and deceit. Why now?
In the very near future a Japanese film is being released detailing the horrors of some of the families affected by the kidnapping of Japanese adults and children by the Norks. As you may already know, the Norks were kidnapping Japanese for many, many years. The victims were used by the Norks to teach the Norks Japanese culture and language. The Norks have been planting spies throughout the world posing as Japanese businessmen.
Sorry, I can't tell you the name of the film (documentary). I know it'll be released in the USA with subtitles. Watch for it after the New Year.
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The PDF version of the letter from the DOJ to the ACLU can be accessed through the title link.
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The entire membership of the ACLU and all affiliated or otherwise associated attornies should be put on a deserted island somewhere south of New Zealand. These pompous self-righteous traitors have done more damage to the US than any enemy in recent memory. The ACLU may long ago have been an honorable organization, now it is just a motley collection of self-aggrandizing anti-Americans. The letter reveals how pathetic the situation has become.
Police charged five protesters on Friday during the second demonstration in a month outside the new Army recruiting station. "We thought it was important to not have this recruiting station open quietly," said Emily McFarlane, a UNC-Chapel Hill junior who helped organize the protest at the Army Career Center, 1502 E. Franklin St.
About 30 protesters -- members of Students for a Democratic Society, The Raging Grannies and others -- held signs, walked in a circle and shouted, "Out of Iraq, out of our schools! Out of town, shut the war down!"
Property manager Analisa Bellamy, flanked by about five police officers, told the protesters to move to the public sidewalk several yards away on East Franklin Street. After her second request, all but three protesters moved to the sidewalk.
Two of them, Barry Freeman, 80, and Janie Freeman, 71, were charged with second-degree trespass after refusing Bellamy's request that they put their signs down. The couple's 8-by-11-inch signs read "Hands Off My Grandchildren." Stephen J. Woolford, 39, a peace advocate from rural Chatham County, was charged with second-degree trespass. Attila Nemecz, 26, of Raleigh, and Eric Gardner, 22, of Apex, were charged with picketing.
About 4 p.m., just before the ribbon cutting, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce pulled out of the ceremony. "Because these planned disruptions undermine the purpose of the Chamber's ribbon cuttings and threaten the safety of Chamber staff and volunteers, the Chamber has decided not to participate in this afternoon's ribbon cutting," Executive Director Aaron Nelson wrote. The chamber holds ribbon cuttings for any members who ask and usually does about 30 a year, according to the statement. In addition to the protests, two government cars parked outside the recruiting station were vandalized with spray painted messages, "Go home!" on one and "Not welcome!" on the other.
Sgt. 1st Class Jason Earl, a recruiter watching the protest Friday, said he shares his experiences in Iraq with potential recruits as a way of "alleviating the fear of the unknown."
"It's very rewarding to help a young person pull together a plan for their future, whether or not it involves joining the Army," he said in an interview.
Veteran Al Meyer, 86, came from his home in Hillsborough to support the new station. "I just wanted to let [the protesters] know there are other people around who don't share their opinion," said Meyer, who served for eight years in the Mighty Eighth Air Corps in England. "There are so many nations that don't like us anymore," he said. "We've got to be strong and take actions people don't like, and make sure we still have a good ol' USA." I guess college towns everywhere are full of Idiotarians, but North Carolina?
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Jackal, this is Chapel Hill. Jesse Helms said when the issue of a state zoo came up that they should just put a fence around Chapel Hill.
As a Duke graduate, I can tell you the exact same crap would happen if they opened a recruiting center in Durham...after which the local DA would have all the protestors arrested and charged with rape.
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Where are these pathetic mother fuckers to protest outside of Mosques?!!!!
They support that recruiting.
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The cops should've made Barry and Janie really nostalgic with a little tear gas and a nightstick upside their skulls. Show the new kids what the 60's were really like.
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The typical "violence for peace" crowd. They'll probably be slashing tires at the local slaughterhouse next week, or lynch-mobbing mourners at a military funeral.
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The couple's 8-by-11-inch signs read "Hands Off My Grandchildren."
Cog-Dis abounds. What part of a "Voluntary Military" don't you understand, Grams? Believe me, freaks like you are gonna push us back into a day where we'll NEED a draft. Then, what'ya gonna do?
And, the spray painting of the gov't vehicles. I'd assume those were Federal Vehicles (in front of the recruiting station). Someone's gonna pay over that...my vote is Leavenworth.
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Just one tiem I want to be around when these idiots show up. I want to make a sign that says:
"Stupid -->" and stand next to them.
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One time as a new butter bar I did some brief recruiting duty while waiting for pcs orders. I was at UofM in Ann Arbor in the engineering hall w/my little recruiting stand, dressed in chucks and w/one of the SNCOs from the office. Some (supposedly) prior USAF airman walked up to our table and started saying how he was gonna stand there all day and tell people not to talk to us, blah, blah. The SSgt I was with quickly told him to please give him five minutes why he went to the head, changed out of his chucks and into civvies so he could give him the "ass whipping of a life time" for being so stupid. Needless to say said lone protestor extracted most rik-tik. I still smirk when I think of that one. Most of these folks are loud mouthed cowards. Like all lower forms of life; they need to pack.
ABC News' David Chalian Reports: As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to assess a possible presidential candidacy and the contours of a Democratic nomination fight, she has taken another step away from her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq by saying that she "wouldn't have voted that way" if she knew everything she knows now.
If I knew everything I know now, I wouldn't have loaned money to that hooker for her mother's operation...
Clinton has often been asked if she regrets her vote authorizing military action and she usually answers that question with an artful dodge, saying that she accepts responsibility for the vote and suggesting that if the Senate had all the information it has today (no WMD, troubled post-war military planning, etc. . .), there would never have been a vote on the Senate floor. However, she has never gone as far as some of her potential rivals for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination -- who also voted for the war -- and called her vote a mistake or declared that she would have cast her vote differently with all the facts presently available to her -- until now.
Here's an interesting thought: President Bush next month sends an additional 30,000 combat troops to Iraq. He sends the greater part of the Navy to keep them company, and a considerable portion of the Air Force. Rather than wasting their time trying to avoid killing people, they move from city to city within Iraq, demanding surrender. Surrender involves giving up all the resident bad guys and the city remaining responsible for the absence or good behavior of any bad boyz who aren't given up. The first such city - let's postulate Qaim - sez to get bent, so we level it and deport all the inhabitants to Shiite country, where they either learn to behave or they'll be killed and eaten. Rather than moving on to the next Sunni burg, we visit al-Kut next, level it, and deport the inhabitants to Ramadi. As long as we're in the neighborhood, we demand Ramadi's surrender. Once the first city surrenders - in this case, probably Ramadi - further visits to Iraqi cities result in the bad guyz being given up and the city fathers ensuring good behavior. Within six months all is peaceful and calm in the Land of the Two Rivers and the Qaeda boyz and revanchist Baathists' skeletons are starting to fall apart on their gallows. We declare victory, inform the Iraqi government that we're leaving but if they screw around we'll be back and dish out more of the same. The response of the Iraqi government is "Yes, sir, thank you, sir. Would you like some cut-rate oil, sir?" At that point, I suspect Senator Clinton will discover that she was in favor of attending to the Iraq problem all along. But perhaps I'm becoming cynical in my dotage.
Beast. I am positively wracked with compassion 'n stuff.
Here's a hanky and the smelling salts, ya old softy.
This morning on NBC's "Today" show, Sen. Clinton was asked about her 2002 vote and offered a slightly evolved answer. "Obviously, if we knew then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a vote," she said in her usual refrain before adding, "and I certainly wouldn't have voted that way."
"No, no! Not me! Certainly not!"
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) have both publicly declared regret for their votes for the war and have become advocates for withdrawing American troops from Iraq sooner rather than later. Sen. Barack Obama, the freshman Senator from Illinois who is considering a presidential run and who may pose the single biggest threat to Clinton's bid for the nomination, wasn't in the Senate in 2002, but declared his opposition to the war at that time as a Senate candidate.
Sen. Clinton has long been viewed as potentially vulnerable on her left flank with regards to the war in a Democratic nomination fight where primary voters and caucus-goers tend to represent the more liberal wing of the party. Clinton has made strides over the last year in speeches, committee hearings, letters to her constituents, and television appearances to criticize the Bush administration's general handling of the war and specifically calling for former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation.
The Senator's comments on "Today" seem to continue a pattern of further distancing herself from her 2002 vote and an attempt to shore up that potentially vulnerable left flank on the issue that is likely to dominate the 2008 race for the White House as it did in 2004 and 2006.
In a statement to ABC News, Sen. Clinton's press secretary Philippe Reines didn't specifically address Clinton's remarks that she wouldn't have voted for the war, but instead referred to the Senator's previous comments about what would have been the likely overall congressional rejection of the war.
"As she has long and often said, Senator Clinton believes that if we knew then what we know now, Congress never would have been asked to give the President authority to use force against Iraq, and if the President still asked Congress despite a lack of evidence, the Congress would not have agreed," said Reines.
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You are always free to believe that you can be Commander in Chief if you could not be for something before you were against it. Afterall, they told me I could be an astranaut :)
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Good ... now someone can ask her about her husband's declarations concerning the dangers of Saddam, the WMD's, and best of all, the Iraq Liberation Act. One of the best cases for OIF was actually made by Bill From Chapaqua.
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"Obviously, if we knew then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a vote," she said in her usual refrain before adding, "and I certainly wouldn't have voted that way."
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Hillary is tossing a bone to the Kos Kids. It's her way of saying: "Hey, I'm with you too. Vote for me in 2008!"
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hillary voted yes when it counted. Today she says she would oppose a troop surge IF its not accompanied by a change of strategy - a conditional that is absent from the opposition of most Dems, and of quite a few Republicans.
So she threw a rhetorical bone to the left - she cant avoid that to get through the Dem primaries.
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"Rather than wasting their time trying to avoid killing people, they move from city to city within Iraq, demanding surrender. Surrender involves giving up all the resident bad guys and the city remaining responsible for the absence or good behavior of any bad boyz who aren't given up."
I think this misses the fact that AQ and other forces in Iraq would LOVE to see a city destroyed, since it helps unite all Sunnis behind them, and would harm the US throughout the Sunni Muslim world. If youre going to do that, you CANT do it one city at a time, or you lose everyplace else, and your supply lines become unsustainable. You have to do it everywhere at once - oh, and you can count on Sadr, DESPITE his killing of Sunnis, to take advantage to go after you to.
IE you cant do it with 140,000 troops (not all of them combat troops) Or even 180,000. Youre going to need upwards of 300,000, Id hazard a guess.
And then, arguably you'll win Iraq. You can expect the Brits and Canadians and so forth to depart Afghanistan the next week though, since they'll be afraid youll try the same thing there, and they wont want to be a part of it. You can forget about cooperation from Pakistan(Yeah, i know, thats limited now, but still) Kuwait may let you stay, cause theyre so small and vulnerable, but expect violence there. And KSA to blow apart. And the Sunni muslims in Lebanon to depart the anti-syrian side. Major hassles all over the world.
And dont expect Iraq to stay friendly after youve left, either.
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While I like how perfectly cruel .coms plan is, It's a little to intricate for me. Of course, what else can you expect from an evil genuis like .com?
"More warheads on foreheads." Starting with Taters' is simple enough for me to get behind.
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Mike N - That's Fred in the Yellow highlights, He's the evil genius, lol.
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hillary voted yes when it counted. Today she says she would oppose a troop surge IF its not accompanied by a change of strategy - a conditional that is absent from the opposition of most Dems, and of quite a few Republicans.
Oh good freaking grief. What part of 'stepping away from her 2002 vote' are you missing?
Hillary wants credit for a principled willingness to stand by her vote without having to deal with the political fallout from that vote.
The "Notheast Intelligence Network" is the source. Their "About Us" page is Not Found - not very encouraging, but they do get a reciprocal link from Jihad Watch. So have a look and see what they think...
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Among the signs is a job change for the former Saudi ambassador for the US. He tends to change jobs immediately before an attack.
Also, I think Osama completed his "three calls to Islam" requirement, so by this time we've all heard the call to bow to Mecca and refused it -- meaning we're fair game.
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First off, most islam-believing local ethnic groups from the ME, North Africa, + even Central Asia are CAUCASIAN/CAUCASOID, but NOT Nordic = Germanic European. That being said, another "sign" is MOUD having, or appearing to have, elex "troubles" inside Iran, i.e. Moud officially conveniently NOT in power when new 9-11's?, etal. occurs. ALso, MEMRI/OTHER > A NEW MESSAGE IS EXPECTED SOON FROM ZAWAHIRI.
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In the United States, the despicable and ever-bloated Islamic icon, Omar Abdel-Rahman, is having health problems and reports are that his short-term prognosis is poor.
What a nice present it would be for everybody if he croaked on Christmas Day.
I know it's been posted before, but, as I said above, we all need an occasional reminder especially at Christmas time when we have people fighting in the field to defend us.
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This is a terrific site. I'd like to think that the bitching that blogs like this one have done about the lack of promotion of heroic stories by the DoD has had results.
Jim Baker's death's head realist visage already does, methinks.
On his first day as defense secretary, Robert Gates warned Monday that failure in Iraq would be a "calamity" that would haunt the United States for years. Underscoring eroding security there, a Pentagon report said the number of insurgent and sectarian attacks had risen to the highest level in years.
Sworn into office as the Bush administration moves toward revamping its strategy in Iraq, Gates sketched out an agenda of reversing the downward spiral in Iraq, attending to resurgent violence in Afghanistan and pushing for the military modernization that was a priority of his predecessor, Donald H. Rumsfeld.
Gates said he intends to travel soon to Iraq to hear commanders' assessments of the situation on the ground and to gain their advice _ "unvarnished and straight from the shoulder" _ on how to adjust U.S. war strategy. He said he would give President Bush honest advice and listen to military commanders _ a contrast to critics' complaints that Rumsfeld was an ideologue who paid scant heed to top officers.
"All of us want to find a way to bring America's sons and daughters home again," Gates told a few hundred people in a Pentagon auditorium, including Bush, Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Gates' wife and mother. Rumsfeld, who handed off his authority earlier Monday in a private event, did not attend the ceremony.
"As the president has made clear," Gates said, "we simply cannot afford to fail in the Middle East. Failure in Iraq at this juncture would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility and endanger Americans for decades to come."
Gates has not tipped his hand on the kinds of changes in Iraq strategy he thinks may be needed. He said that since his Senate confirmation in early December he has held in-depth discussions with Bush on Iraq policy.
More broadly, Gates has said he will keep an open mind about other issues at the Pentagon, including proposals by the heads of the Army and Marine Corps to increase the size of their services to cope with the strains of war. Last week, Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army's top commander, warned that his force "will break" without thousands more active duty troops and greater use of the reserves.
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Kevin Ryan, a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, said in an interview Monday that he feels certain Gates will have the latitude within the administration to push for a bigger Army and Marine Corps. "The question is going to be how high" to go, Ryan said.
At the Pentagon ceremony, Bush said he is confident Gates, 63, will bring a fresh perspective to the Iraq problem. "He knows the stakes in the war on terror," Bush said. "He recognizes this is a long struggle against an enemy unlike any our nation has fought before. He understands that defeating the terrorists and the radicals and the extremists in Iraq and the Middle East is essential to leading toward peace."
Bush made no mention of his plan for changing Iraq strategy, which he has said will be unveiled next month.
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"How high" > ALL THE WAY. Kevin Costner in JFK ala 1960's - "Let the Truth be told or the Heavens fall". WHEN THE MOON EXPLODES, THEN AMER CAN SAY WE'RE SCREWED - the World = "God/Religion is Fake" Secularists has 24-plus yarns to prove to God that Mortal Man is his equal, let alone his superior, by saving its arses. The Lefties want PROGRESSIVE = STATUS QUO FOREVER - nows their chance.
Robert Gates was already on the job as secretary of defense when he was sworn in during a ceremony Monday afternoon at the Pentagon. Gates had taken the oath of office first thing Monday morning privately at the White House. During the public ceremony Monday, President Bush called Gates "the right man" to take on the multiple challenges of war and military reform. Vice President Dick Cheney administered the oath of office as Gates wife looked on.
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What no pig skin bound addition of the Koran? Keith Ellison to refuse pay his 38 parking tickets in protest.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman, secretary general of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Maulana, has warned President Gen Pervez Musharraf that he will need the help of religious parties for peace in the Pak-Afghan border region, and so should avoid alienating religious leaders.
We have been helping create agreements throughout the tribal areas and what do we get in return? Musharraf calls us dangerous, Maulana Fazl said in an interview.
We have been helping create agreements throughout the tribal areas and what do we get in return? Musharraf calls us dangerous, Maulana Fazl said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.
Gen Musharraf has repeatedly urged Pakistanis not to vote for hypocrites and extremists in the next general elections. With his poisonous propaganda against the religious parties, General Musharraf is trying to widen the gap between the religious circles and the liberals in the country, Maulana Fazl said.
The MMA secretary general also said peace in Afghanistan would require talks with the Taliban.
There can only be peace if foreign forces leave Afghanistan and the Afghan government holds talks with the Taliban, he said. They are the sons of the soil.
There can only be peace if foreign forces leave Afghanistan and the Afghan government holds talks with the Taliban, he said. They are the sons of the soil.
He denied that his seminaries are used by the Taliban as staging posts in their cross-border activities, but admitted that he directs his followers to support Taliban fighters in Afghanistan by providing humanitarian aid. We support anyone who is struggling for the implementation of an Islamic government, he said, without specifying the type of assistance.
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What about killing them? Would they be alienated then?
JOINT STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR ZALMAY KHALILZAD AND GEN. GEORGE CASEY ON IRAQS WINNING SILVER IN THE 15TH ASIAN GAMES IN DOHA, QATAR
BAGHDAD On behalf of the United States Embassy in Baghdad and Multinational Force-Iraq (MNF-I), we congratulate the Iraqi people on their national soccer teams outstanding performance in the Asian Games. Their Silver Medal demonstrates the capabilities of the Iraqi people when they unite across sectarian lines for a common purpose.
We know these talented athletes are an inspiration to all Iraqis. We share their joy and excitement in celebrating this achievement.
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good for them , i say . Death threats every day , coaches ebing murdered . In the face of evil adversity , congratulations
BASRAH, Iraq - The regime change in Iraq has opened many new opportunities and important development projects in the southern oil fields of Iraq. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is working on various projects to ramp up oil production for the new democratic country and help improve Iraqs economy. One important project is the Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT), formerly known as Mina Al-Baker. ABOT is considered to be the gateway to Iraqs prosperity.
Right now oil is Iraqs major export. It isnt easy to increase oil exports, but the Corps has plans of raising the crude output to meet three million barrels per day in 2007, said Bob Tillisch, oil program manager with the Basrah Area Office of the Gulf Region South District. He said experts estimate Iraq has about 115 billion barrels of oil reserves, concentrated mainly in the south. Current Iraqi Ministry goal is 2.5 Million barrels per day for the whole country, according to the State Department's Weekly Summary, which failed to get posted Friday and Monday. Details at link.
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"In August 2006, Syria's Ba'athist government established the Popular Organization for the Liberation of the Golan. In its first communique, the group declared that "the way to restore [the Arabs'] rights has become clear, and the way [to achieve] victory and honor is the way of resistance... and Israel and the [Western] powers will be made to bear their responsibility, after they have closed off for us all [other] paths."
Impossible, you say?
And yet, there's a scent of Quartet Democrats in the air...
For what that's worth... European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana expressed his support on Monday for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "I wish to reiterate my support for President Abbas and his efforts to overcome the current political crisis for the benefit of all Palestinians," said Solana in a statement.
"Palestinian people are undergoing very difficult times," he continued. "Violence in the streets must stop. I call on all Palestinians to exercise restraint and to calm the situation down." There. That oughta do it. Took care of that little problem, didn't he?
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The High Court of Justice on Monday called a sweeping ban against Palestinian students studying at Israeli universities unreasonable and gave the army 60 days to establish criteria for admitting at least some Palestinians into the country for studies. The court also ordered the state to allow Sawsan Salameh, a Palestinian doctoral student in chemistry who won a full scholarship from the Hebrew University, to continue her studies beyond the six months granted her so far by the state. The interim decision came in the wake of a petition filed on Salameh's behalf by the human rights organization Gisha (Access.)
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Bets on how long until this decision blows up in their faces?
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Let's all hope that Salameh's chemistry studies don't involve high explosive, nuclear or biological applications. Israel continues to slash at its own wrists.
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I thought that judges were supposed to rule on legal issues, not make determinations of what they think is reasonable or unreasonable. I, for one, don't understand why the Israelis don't drive the "Palestinians" (since they have been in "refugee" camps for almost 60 years, they should be called "the unwanted") across the border into the waiting arms of their Arab brethern and kill any of them attempting to cross back into Israel.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the release of jailed Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti was "not on the agenda." Olmert was speaking during a press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday he hoped to meet Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas "very soon." Olmert was speaking during a press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Turkey's prime minister on Monday called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' decision to push for early elections "very negative," especially since efforts to resolve the Palestinian political crisis had taken some positive steps.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized many in the international community for refusing to respect "the will of the Palestinian people" following Hamas' victory in January parliamentary elections and for failing to follow through with economic help. "The end results of those elections were not taken into consideration immediately after the elections took place," he told a news conference. "That has been, in my opinion, the most important mistake that was made in Palestine."
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Oh look, Mabel - they have a Ward Churchill idjit, too. Yes, officer, that's him on the left. Of course.
A BRITISH rabbi who angered fellow Jews by speaking at a Holocaust denial conference in Iran now says millions did die in gas chambers but may have deserved it.
Ahron Cohen, an Orthodox Jew from Greater Manchester and a leading member of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement, sparked new controversy on his return from Tehran by suggesting that God would have saved the victims of the Nazis if they had deserved to live.
Cohen, whose house in Salford was pelted with 1,000 eggs last year because of his extremist views, told The Sunday Times: There is no question that there was a Holocaust and gas chambers. There are too many eyewitnesses.
However, our approach is that when one suffers, the one who perpetrates the suffering is obviously guilty but he will never succeed if the victim did not deserve it in one way or another.
We have to look within to improve and try to better ourselves and remove those characteristics or actions that may have been the cause of the success of the Holocaust.
Cohens trip to Tehran along with four American rabbis from the same sect was paid for by the Iranian foreign ministry, which organised the conference entitled The Holocaust: A Global Vision. They were warmly greeted by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, and had two meetings with him.
Cohen ended his speech to the conference with a prayer that the underlying cause of strife and bloodshed in the Middle East, namely the state known as Israel, be totally and peacefully dissolved.
The rabbi claimed learned gentlemen from both sides of the fence were at the latest conference. They included David Duke, former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Cohen said on his return: President Ahmadinejad is not a man of war. He is a man of peace. I have received criticism for meeting him and attending the conference, but Jewish people are adopting an attitude of criticism from an emotional point of view, not a logical or sensible one.
We know there was a Holocaust. We lived through it. I had relatives who died in it . . . But in no way must the Holocaust be used to further the aims of the Zionist concept.
Rabbi Yehuda Brodie, registrar of the Jewish Ecclesiastical Court for Greater Manchester, said: Rabbi Cohen has for a long time been ostracised by the vast majority of Jews for associating with and thus giving support and legitimacy to the enemies of Israel and the Jewish nation.
He represents an insignificant minority. His involvement is a stab in the heart of the Jewish community and of all decent law-abiding people.
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However, our approach is that when one suffers, the one who perpetrates the suffering is obviously guilty but he will never succeed if the victim did not deserve it in one way or another.
Common idea. Used to try to convice religious people to be even more religious. Because if they are religious enough, their suffering will go away because God doesn't need to punish them any more. [Note: "Enough" == bends sufficiently easily to the will of the religious authority that they can count on him/her to gladly do stupid stuff in the name of "God".]
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Ahron Cohen, an Orthodox Jew from Greater Manchester and a leading member of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement
Those would be the idiots who believe that Israel is an abomination and must be destroyed, which they're doing their best to help along by attending conferences like this. The head of their group was appointed the PLO's Minister of Jewish Affairs by Yasir Arafat. These are the people who in their spare time are fond of stoning women wearing shorts and cars driving past their neighborhood on the Sabbath. About as representative of Judaism as the Reverend James Jones was of Christianity when he passed out the poisoned Koolaid to his congregation in Guyana... and as they believe the Jews should be remain in the Diaspora until called back by God through His Messiah, they'd want to see more public displays of Christianity, so that all Jews should feel their abject misery as a subject people more deeply.
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Let me remind once again, Neturei Karta is a minority within a minority within a minority.
Most Orthodox Jews, like most Non-O jews are Zionist - in fact some could be called "ultra-Zionist" Chassidic Jews, with some exceptions (like the Lubavitch) are cool to Zionism, since they believe that only G-d can found a Jewish state. Most accept Israel as a fait accompli to be dealt with though. A few chassidic groups, of which the most prominent is Szatmar, consider Israel an abomination, and refuse to have anything to do with the Israeli govt. The Neturei Karta is a minority within Szatmar, and most Szatmar hassidim find Net Kartas antics embarrassing.
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and yes, Id agree with TW, most guys like this dont really care about public displays of christianity. Such displays only matter to Jews who consider themselves citizens, and for whom such displays represent exclusion from citizenship. For guys like these, wrapped up in mystical fatalism, citizenship in ANY country is basically an irrelevance.
One group, the Lubavitch chassidim, actually LIKE Christmas displays. Thats cause they have (for reasons too complex to go into) an obsession with spreading public Hanukkah displays, and court cases allowing religious displays of course allow that as well.
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- Leaders of New York's ultra-Orthodox Satmar community vehemently denied any connection with the Hasidim who participated in the Holocaust denial conference held in Tehran last week and met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
New York Satmar leaders, who usually avoid all contact with members of the media, on Friday took the unusual step of issuing a press release slamming the "reckless outcasts" who took part in the Tehran gathering. The statement said that through their participation these individuals turned themselves into Holocaust deniers and joined those who dismiss the extent of the murder and cruelty and diminish the number of the victims who were murdered because they were Jewish.
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A separate press release issued by the Satmar Congregation Yetev Lev in Brooklyn took pains to establish that those who participated in the Iran conference do not belong to their community.
It is a big mistake, the statement continued, to call them rabbis or Hasidim just because of the way they dress.
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One group, the Lubavitch chassidim, actually LIKE Christmas displays. Thats cause they have (for reasons too complex to go into) an obsession with spreading public Hanukkah displays,
LH we got some of those in TLH, right down the street as a matter of fact and you're right, it's all about Hanukkah displays. Works well here. Do you have a link for information about the too complex to go into here?
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Iff we can have RINO CINO Dems, aka FASCISTS-FOR-COMMUNISM, ANARCHISTS-FOR-GOVERNMENTISM/
TOTALITARIANISM, etc, why not as per Rabbis/Jews for ...... Besides, many of these are just using their religion as cover = diversion for something else.
US senators John Kerry and Christopher Dodd held talks on Monday with Lebanese leaders on the country's deepening political crisis, a day before the two Democratic lawmakers head to neighboring Syria. Kerry and Dodd met with US-backed Prime Minister Fuad Saniora whose government is facing open-ended street protests staged by the Hizbullah-led opposition to pressure him into resigning. The National News Agency said Saniora briefed the two senators on his government's efforts to deal with the crisis. It did not elaborate.
Saniora also told Kerry and Dodd about Lebanon's preparations to convene an international donors' conference scheduled in France next month with the aim of revitalizing the national economy following the devastating Hizbullah-Israel war last summer, the agency said. The two senators also discussed the Lebanese crisis with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hizbullah ally. No details of their talks were disclosed and the two senators did not speak to reporters after their meetings.
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Never did hear anything about Kerry in Iraq. Anybody know what kind of reception he got from the troopies?
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I posted an article yesterday about Kerry in Iraq (nothing about response from the troops) it appeared, then disappeared! His knowledge of Iraq is now "crystallize"
Lebanese and Palestinian officials are holding intensive talks with leaders of Hamas and Fatah in southern Lebanon, urging them to prevent violence in the West Bank and Gaza from spilling over into the refugee camps, particularly sensitive in the Ein el-Hilweh camp, which accommodates more than 60,000 people. On Saturday, an unknown assailant hurled a noise bomb into a hall in the Ein Al-Hilweh camp where a Hamas gathering was taking place.
Officials are appealing to leaders of the factions to help maintain calm in the Palestinian camps. Tension in these camps is already high because of the precarious political situation in Lebanon.
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"...help maintain calm in the Palestinian camps."
President Emile Lahoud voiced support Saturday for the Lebanese opposition and for Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader MP Michel Aoun to succeed him as president. "I support the opposition because it has the political values in which I believe," Lahoud told Al-Aalam television. Urging Aoun to remain "steadfast," Lahoud said the FPM leader was bringing the Lebanese people closer to one another: "I agree Aoun should become the next president."
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(AKI) - Lebanese militia Hezbollah is open to the institution of an international tribunal that will judge the suspects in the murder last year of Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, says Tarad Hamadeh, one of six Shiite ministers who resigned on 11 November from the government of Fuad Siniora and a leading Hezbollah member. "We aren't against the institution of an international tribunal .. but we want to discuss the details," Hamadeh told Adnkronos International (AKI).
Lebanon and the United Nations have so far failed to agree on the terms for creating an international tribunal to try suspects charged in connection with the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. A UN panel is investigating the murder.
The outgoing labour minister, who teaches philosophy at the university of Beirut, also said Hezbollah was hoping for a government of national unity as "the only route to take."
"We Hezbollah are not asking for more ministries to halt the work of the executive, which would be illogical, but to oblige the majority coalition to take into account our positions, which are those of millions of people," he also said.
The Shiite ministers resigned after the majority group in parliament refused Hezbollah's request for cabinet seats that would give it and its allies the power of veto in multi-party talks.
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(AKI) - A new video message by al-Qaeda's second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri will be released in the coming days, according to a report posted on Islamic fundamentalist websites Monday. The video was made by the al-Sahab company which has produced other messages by the terrorist network, says the report. The new message will reportedly focus on the "truth about the fight between Islam and unbelievers." According to some Islamic forum users al-Zawahiri will also discuss relations between the West and Islam after the historic trip of Pope Benedict XVI to Turkey on 28 November-1 December.
In his last message, aired by Qatar-based satellite television al-Jazeera on 27 July, al-Qaeda's deputy leader said his organisation would not stand idle as Israel continued its offensive on Lebanon and the Palestinians and called on Muslims to fight back.
The statement was the first by Sunni Muslim-dominated al-Qaeda on Israel's offensive in Lebanon, sparked on 12 July by the abduction of two Israeli soldiers by Lebanon-based Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which ended with a ceasefire mid August.
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Zaw Baby! So good to see you. Fine. You? Family? Me too! Life can be a tricky bitch can't it? Of course we do, sure. How long is it? Does it have U no hoo in it? Ha! I am learn infidel speak brother. Seriously tho, can we maybe get a still of the main man with sandals on? Sure, sure, yeah, his agents a camel snapper, reminds me of the Jew Boras. Indeed the infidel JD Jew signed with the Sox Red, this is a sign that allah is going to be peeved. Seriously tho Zman, we need footage, times are changing quickly. And a good jingle, that would be way cool. The infidel loves his cool. We gotta do lunch, have your posse call mine at BR-54, what? I guess we can grill out, a bring your own lamb thing? Sure, let my people know. Good man. Get me the pictures.
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(SomaliNet) Somalis powerful Islamic Courts Union said on Monday that it would not attack Ethiopia the ICU seems to draw back its ultimatum given to Ethiopians to quit Somalia. Speaking to Shabelle Radio in Mogadishu, Sheik Abdirihin Ali Mudey, the head of information and communication department of Islamic Courts, said that recent remarks by his Islamic movement over that it would attack Ethiopian troops if they do not withdraw from Somalia was mistranslated and misunderstood. We did not mean to attack Ethiopian forces if they do not withdraw from our country but we meant it as to set condition for starting talks with Ethiopian government so the statement of ICU was misinterpreted, Sheik Ali Mudey said. 
(SomaliNet) Chads President, Idriss Deby, has held a reconciliation meeting with Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim, a former rebel leader. Nour led the United Front for Democratic Change (FUC) against Chads government forces in Chads capital in April, shortly before presidential elections. He spent one hour with Deby. "President Idriss Deby and Mahamat Nour exchanged views on the possibilities of Captain Mahamat Nour returning to the fold," an anonymous official told Reuters. 
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Italy's Agip in Port Harcourt while the facilities of Anglo-Dutch company Shell in the city were also targeted. No one was reportedly injured in the attacks. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta claimed responsibility and vowed to continue its year-long campaign to gain more control of funds paid to the central government in the capital Abuja.
North Korea and the United States staked out vastly divergent positions yesterday at the opening of the first six-nation talks seeking to persuade the communist nation to abandon its nuclear programme since its provocative atomic test.
(SomaliNet) Japanese officials on Monday denied Pyongyang's allegation that Japan had kidnapped a North Korean, saying the claim will not affect Tokyo's plan to press the North over its abductions of Japanese citizens. 
Two of them, Barry Freeman, 80, and Janie Freeman, 71, were charged with second-degree trespass after refusing Bellamy's request that they put their signs down. The couple's 8-by-11-inch signs read "Hands Off My Grandchildren." Stephen J. Woolford, 39, a peace advocate from rural Chatham County, was charged with second-degree trespass. Attila Nemecz, 26, of Raleigh, and Eric Gardner, 22, of Apex, were charged with picketing.
ABC News' David Chalian Reports: As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to assess a possible presidential candidacy and the contours of a Democratic nomination fight, she has taken another step away from her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq by saying that she "wouldn't have voted that way" if she knew everything she knows now.
On his first day as defense secretary, Robert Gates warned Monday that failure in Iraq would be a "calamity" that would haunt the United States for years. Underscoring eroding security there, a Pentagon report said the number of insurgent and sectarian attacks had risen to the highest level in years.
Robert Gates was already on the job as secretary of defense when he was sworn in during a ceremony Monday afternoon at the Pentagon. Gates had taken the oath of office first thing Monday morning privately at the White House. During the public ceremony Monday, President Bush called Gates "the right man" to take on the multiple challenges of war and military reform. Vice President Dick Cheney administered the oath of office as Gates wife looked on.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman, secretary general of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Maulana, has warned President Gen Pervez Musharraf that he will need the help of religious parties for peace in the Pak-Afghan border region, and so should avoid alienating religious leaders.
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana expressed his support on Monday for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "I wish to reiterate my support for President Abbas and his efforts to overcome the current political crisis for the benefit of all Palestinians," said Solana in a statement. 
The High Court of Justice on Monday called a sweeping ban against Palestinian students studying at Israeli universities unreasonable and gave the army 60 days to establish criteria for admitting at least some Palestinians into the country for studies. The court also ordered the state to allow Sawsan Salameh, a Palestinian doctoral student in chemistry who won a full scholarship from the Hebrew University, to continue her studies beyond the six months granted her so far by the state. The interim decision came in the wake of a petition filed on Salameh's behalf by the human rights organization Gisha (Access.)
Turkey's prime minister on Monday called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' decision to push for early elections "very negative," especially since efforts to resolve the Palestinian political crisis had taken some positive steps. 
US senators John Kerry and Christopher Dodd held talks on Monday with Lebanese leaders on the country's deepening political crisis, a day before the two Democratic lawmakers head to neighboring Syria. Kerry and Dodd met with US-backed Prime Minister Fuad Saniora whose government is facing open-ended street protests staged by the Hizbullah-led opposition to pressure him into resigning. 
The National News Agency said Saniora briefed the two senators on his government's efforts to deal with the crisis. It did not elaborate. 
President Emile Lahoud voiced support Saturday for the Lebanese opposition and for Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader MP Michel Aoun to succeed him as president. "I support the opposition because it has the political values in which I believe," Lahoud told Al-Aalam television. Urging Aoun to remain "steadfast," Lahoud said the FPM leader was bringing the Lebanese people closer to one another: "I agree Aoun should become the next president."
(AKI) - Lebanese militia Hezbollah is open to the institution of an international tribunal that will judge the suspects in the murder last year of Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, says Tarad Hamadeh, one of six Shiite ministers who resigned on 11 November from the government of Fuad Siniora and a leading Hezbollah member. "We aren't against the institution of an international tribunal .. but we want to discuss the details," Hamadeh told Adnkronos International (AKI). 
(AKI) - A new video message by al-Qaeda's second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri will be released in the coming days, according to a report posted on Islamic fundamentalist websites Monday. The video was made by the al-Sahab company which has produced other messages by the terrorist network, says the report. The new message will reportedly focus on the "truth about the fight between Islam and unbelievers." According to some Islamic forum users al-Zawahiri will also discuss relations between the West and Islam after the historic trip of Pope Benedict XVI to Turkey on 28 November-1 December.
