Egyptian police on Sunday arrested 51 members of the country's largest opposition movement, the banned Muslim Brotherhood, according to the police, the group's lawyer and its Web site. The dawn arrests in three provinces were the latest in an ongoing crackdown on the Brotherhood and came three days after more than 50 other members were arrested in sweeps elsewhere in Egypt.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! You, too, Grampaw!"
The group's official Web site said Sunday it expected more arrests in the coming hours.
"They're coming to take us away, hah hah!"
The Web site listed the names of those detained Sunday, saying they were seized in raids on their homes in Dakahliya, located about 120 kilometers northeast of Cairo; Ismailia, located about 120 kilometers east of Cairo; and Beni Suef, about 95 kilometers south of the capital.
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Many Britons reacted with alarm at a suggestion by the Church of Englands top cleric this month that the country could adopt aspects of the Islamic code.
40 percent of the 1.6 million British Muslims said they would back the introduction of sharia law in majority Muslim areas.
Canterbury Archbishop Rowan Williams has faced calls to resign, while political leaders distanced themselves from his controversial views, insisting that domestic law must take precedent. But by saying that incorporating parts of sharia law seemed unavoidable in certain circumstances, he shed light on the fact that Muslims here have long been turning to the Islamic code.
There are about a dozen sharia courts in Britain although they have no formal legal status and are mainly used to resolve non-criminal, and particularly family disputes. According to a February 2006 survey, 40 percent of the 1.6 million British Muslims said they would back the introduction of sharia law in majority Muslim areas.
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So who gives a shit?! Where's the polls of all UK citizens who oppose sharia law?
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that's the thing about the Muslims who don't want to integrate. They just keep pushing. They never stop. They keep pushing until someone pushes back. The sooner the Western world grasps this very simple concept the better off we will all be. Do you want Sharia or don't you? There is no "I" in team and there is no
"tolerance" in Islam.
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Then they can emigrate to someplace where it's the law of the land.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista
Thats all I've got to say.
They will never quit until we kick the pushy bastards all the way back to the Arabian peninsula.
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I still haven't figure out if they want sharia (rhymes with diarrhea) law, why don't they pack up go to the Magic Kingdom, or the Wazoo Valleys?
The UK is going to rue the day they opened the floodgates and let cockroaches in. I forecast that sharia (rhymes with diarrhea) law will come to at least one Euro country in the next years.
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Let's see. It's against Shariah to pay or collect interest. The interest paid on US Treasury bills notes is falling steadily as the Fed cuts interest rates. 2-year notes last week were paying 1.98% a year. When the rates get to 0% or less, they will be Shariah-compliant. Allah be praised!
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Sounds like Britian is about to discover another variation of the "Sub-prime" lending fiasco, same disaster looming, different name.
Is there any requirement in Islam to actualy pay your dhimis back? Or just keep the "Loans" in the name of "Dhimi Tax"?
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'Issue' is one thing; having those called 'buyers' is something else altogether. I really don't expect any serious money fund managers to take any of this (in)action.
In an uncommon act of journalistic contrition, the BBC has apologized for equating former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh as "great national leaders."
The BBC took the unusual step after Don Mell, The Associated Press's former photographer in Beirut, lambasted the parallel, drawn by BBC correspondent Humphrey Hawkesley in a BBC World report last Thursday, as "an outrage" and "beyond belief."
American journalist Mell was held up at gunpoint by Mughniyeh's men as his colleague Terry Anderson, AP's chief Middle East correspondent, was kidnapped in Beirut in March 1985.
Hawkesley's report on what he called "an amazing day for Lebanon," when a memorial rally for Hariri was followed by Mughniyeh's funeral, concluded: "The army is on full alert as Lebanon remembers two war victims with different visions but both regarded as great national leaders." The clip was also posted on the BBC's Web site.
Mell's letter of complaint, which accused the BBC of doing "a huge disservice" to "your great institution and nation," was made available to The Jerusalem Post for publication. Contacted by the Post, the BBC issued a statement Friday acknowledging that "the scripting of this phrase was imprecise" and apologizing to anyone who was offended by the item.
Oh it was precise all right.
And that's not an apology.
In his letter to the British state broadcaster, Mell wrote: "For you to refer to former prime minister Rafik Hariri and Imad Mughniyeh as 'great national leaders' in the same sentence is beyond belief. One was an elected leader who spent years and millions of his own money rebuilding his country. The other was probably the world's second most notorious terrorist, who was responsible for, in addition to running a major criminal enterprise, destroying the US Embassy, the French and US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983; the hijacking of TWA 847; the bombing of the Israeli cultural center in Buenos Aires, [and] the kidnapping and murder of many Westerners in Lebanon, including Terry Anderson, Terry Waite, John McCarthy."
Mell noted that he personally had "a familiarity with these events" since he had witnessed many of them and "was with Mr. Anderson when he was kidnapped in 1985."
Mell and Anderson had just finished a game of tennis on March 16, 1985, when a green Mercedes pulled up in front of Anderson's car, bearded gunmen jumped out, a pistol was placed at Mell's forehead, and Anderson was dragged away into what became almost seven years of captivity. He was finally released in December 1991.
Responding to Mughniyeh's death last week, Anderson called him "the primary actor in my kidnapping and many others." Anderson added: "He was not a good man - certainly. To hear that his career has finally ended is a good thing and it's appropriate that he goes up in a car bomb."
No Stockholm Syndrome for him, apparently.
In his letter to the BBC, Mell went on, "Most recently, Mr. Mugnhiyeh was responsible for provoking the Israeli-Lebanese conflict in 2006, which one may ask, accomplished what?"
He concluded: "I seldom criticize the reporting of others because of my great belief in the exchange of differing viewpoints regardless of source, and for my great respect for the first amendment of my country's constitution. But today you went too far. You've done your great institution and nation a huge disservice."
The BBC, in its statement, said, "While there is no doubt that supporters of Hizbullah did regard Mughniyeh in such terms [as a great leader], we accept that the scripting of this phrase was imprecise. The description of Imad Mughniyeh should have been directly attributed to those demonstrating their support for him."
You just won't back down from supporting terror thugs, will you? Deep in your subsidized, complacent hearts you really really think the Islamicist terrorists are the good guys. Spit.
The statement noted that Hawkesley's report "made clear that Mughniyeh was believed to have been responsible for a series of bombings; it drew attention to his believed connection with Osama bin Laden and to the fact that he had been hunted by Western intelligence agencies for more than 20 years."
However, said the BBC, "We accept that this part of the report was open to misinterpretation. We apologize to anyone who may have been offended by this item."
Open to misinterpretation my ... foot.
Again, that's not an apology. An apology is, "We were wrong and we're terribly sorry for what we said. Please forgive us."
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 84, has thrown his support behind John McCain. Der Spiegel spoke with Kissinger about Germany's Afghanistan mission, tepid European commitment to combatting Islamist extremism and whether direct talks with Iran should go ahead.
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Some of the most straight forward and succinct comments I recall Kissinger ever making. Maybe because he was speaking directly to his historical countrymen and trying to jog them out of their funk from WW2. He does not fiddle faddle or obfuscate about Islamos. What we need is more direct talk at the highest levels to confront these assholes. Thanks, Henry, for speaking out while you still can.
Defense Minister Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen doesn't think soldiers can be withdrawn from Afghanistan for at least seven years. She told newspaper Dagsavisen on Monday that NATO (and NATO member Norway) can't pull out until the Afghan army "functions well." That's likely to take another seven years, she said, noting that the Afghan army now has 40,000 soldiers, and needs at least 80,000.
Norway currently has around 500 soldiers in Afghanistan and another 200 will travel to the war-torn country next month. Around 150 will be brought home just before summer.
Norway's foreign ministry, meanwhile, is having trouble finding qualified ambassadors to send to Afghanistan and Sudan. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv recently reported that the ministry is conducting another round of recruiting efforts for the embassies in Kabul and Khartoum, this time offering higher pay and better working conditions.
Afghanistan and Sudan receive around NOK 1.3 billion (USD 240 million) annually in foreign aid from Norway.
More than 1,000 police raided housing projects outside Paris early Monday, detaining at least 20 people in a bid to find rioters who led an outburst of violence last year, police said. Totally at random, I'm sure.
Police raided Villiers-le-Bel and three neighboring towns as part of the investigation into November riots, police said. Those detained ranged in age from 19 to 31. ... and knew how to send a text message.
Violence erupted in the town's housing projects, populated largely by families of immigrant background, after two teenage boys were killed in a motorbike crash with a police car. The Political Correctness is so thick here you can cut it with a knife.
Police and local officials said it was an accident but many residents were unconvinced. About 100 police officers surrounded one building in Villiers-le-Bel across from a library and preschool that were burned down by rioters. It was not immediately clear whether there were arrests in that building. Police also spread through projects in nearby Sarcelles, Gonesse and Arnouville.
Last year's flare-up in Villiers-le-Bel had stoked fears of broader unrest similar to the three weeks of rioting that swept poor neighborhoods across the nation two years earlier. Many of those rioters were of Arab or African background, frustrated by entrenched discrimination and isolation.
In Monday's raid, police said they were targeting about 40 people suspected of attacking officers during last year's violence. At least 130 police were injured in the rioting. Two gang leaders in particular were targeted for organizing the unrest, according to police officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. "It was a quasi-military organization," one police officer said of the riots. Quakers? Baptists?
At the height of three nights of unrest, rioters fired shotguns at police.
Prosecutors in the nearby city of Pontoise opened a judicial inquiry into attempted homicide against the assailants. Investigators issued an appeal for witnesses and promised monetary rewards for information leading to the shooters.
Earlier this month, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a sweeping plan to better integrate poor suburban youth and tackle the racism they often face in the job market. Ship those who refuse to integrate back to from whence they came and they'll integrate just fine, but their new job market will still suck.
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The Bush administration has agreed to turn over to international inspectors intelligence data it has collected that it says proves Iran worked on developing a nuclear weapon until a little more than four years ago, according to American and foreign diplomats. The decision reverses the United States longstanding refusal to share the data, citing the need to protect intelligence sources.
The administration acted as the International Atomic Energy Agency is scheduled to issue a report as early as next week on Irans past nuclear activities. Administration officials hope that the nuclear inspectors can now confront Iran with what the Americans believe is the strongest evidence that the Iranians had a nuclear program.
The Bush administrations refusal to turn over the data has been a source of friction with Mohammed ElBaradei, the ineffectual director general of the agency, who has argued that Iran must be given a fair chance to examine some of the case that Washington has developed.
But it remains unclear how much of the data Dr. ElBaradei will be allowed to disclose to the Iranians. In particular, it is not clear if the information includes diagrams and designs that were secretly taken out of Iran on a laptop computer in 2004 and turned over to the Central Intelligence Agency.
It's likely clear to us and to El Baradei, even if it isn't clear to the New York Times.
Under the terms of a work plan concluded last summer, Iran was to have met a series of deadlines set by the agency to resolve any unanswered questions about its nuclear activities. Dr. ElBaradei is eager to resolve all of the outstanding questions before he issues his next report to the agencys 35-member board, which could be as early as the end of next week.
The Bush administrations decision came two months after the publication of a controversial National Intelligence Estimate that concluded, with what it terms high confidence by those who were trying to undercut our government, that Iran was designing a weapon through 2003. But the assessment indicated that Iranian officials ordered the work halted later that year, perhaps because they feared it would ultimately be discovered. The publication of the new estimate in early December undercut efforts to toughen sanctions that were initially imposed because Iran refused to follow a United Nations Security Council demand that it stop enriching uranium.
On Sunday, in an interview with Fox News, Mr. Bush made it clear that he disagreed with the idea that the intelligence estimate lowered the threat from Iran. Iran is a threat, and thats what the N.I.E. said, if you read it carefully, he said. It showed they had a weapons secret military weapons program, but that doesnt mean they cant have another secret weapons military program.
According to American and foreign officials interviewed about the contents of the laptop, the information found there included descriptions of the so-called Green Salt Project. That project, which involved uranium processing, high explosives and a missile warhead design, demonstrated what the agency suspected were links between Irans military and its ostensibly peaceful nuclear program. If that evidence were substantiated, it would undercut Irans claims that its program is aimed solely at producing electrical power.
The documents on the laptop described two programs, termed L-101 and L-102 by the Iranians, describing designs and computer simulations that appeared to be related to weapons work.
Iran, while dismissing as baseless the assertions that such a program existed, agreed to examine documents that the United States said pertained to Green Salt. But Iran has said it wants to take possession of the documents, something the United States has refused to allow.
Iran could cry foul unless the Americans turn over the documents, which Dr. ElBaradei said it has a right to have. We have to give them access to the documents I think its fair, he said in an interview last August. Im a lawyer, and due process will tell me that I cannot accuse a person without providing him or her with the evidence. He added, I cant accuse a country saying, You will get your charges but I am not going to tell you what the charges are.
He's a lawyer and a nuclear weapons expert!
Officials cautioned that they did not know whether the information to be shared with Iran would be enough to persuade the country to be more forthcoming about certain aspects of its past nuclear activities. The most likely outcome, officials said, is that Iranian officials will be allowed to view a sanitized presentation, similar to the one that American intelligence officials showed in 2005 to countries it was trying to persuade to vote for sanctions against Iran.
The presentation included selections from more than a thousand pages of Iranian computer simulations and accounts of experiments that, according to the American officials, showed a longstanding effort to design what appeared to be a nuclear warhead or similar re-entry vehicle.
In recent months, France, Britain and Germany have been strongly urging the United States to turn over to Iran any relevant intelligence information, including documents found on the laptop, that could shed light on Irans nuclear history, European officials said. The Europeans did not want Iran to avoid cooperating fully in revealing its past by trying to blame the United States.
While Dr. ElBaradei is trying to bring the outstanding past issues to closure before he issues his report on the status of the Iranian program, the officials said that they were doubtful that Iran could clear up the remaining questions in such a short time.
On Thursday, Dr. ElBaradei met in Paris with President Nicolas Sarkozy and other senior French officials, who urged him to be firm with Iran, stressing that the credibility of his agency was at stake.
Oh, I don't think so, I think we settled his 'credibility' a while back ...
France has taken a hard line against Iran, joining the United States and Britain in pressing for new, tougher international sanctions against the country for flouting Security Council resolutions demanding that it stop making nuclear fuel. In a speech on Wednesday night to Frances Jewish community, Mr. Sarkozy called on Iran to renounce military nuclear power and live up to its word. He added that Irans uranium enrichment program has no civilian purpose.
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"Wow!", says ElBaradei, "Who would have thought that 8 of the 12 members of Iran's Guardian Council are secretly spies for the CIA? I had better put this 'Ultra Top Secret' US document in the highest secure vault of the UN, right after I leave it here on my desk during lunch."
"Miss Abuakbar, if the Iranian ambassador arrives while I'm at lunch, ask him to wait in my office instead of making him wait in that dreary waiting room. It's so much nicer in here."
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TOPIX > JPOST/VARIOUS - SOKOR Hankook Ilbo newspaper claims US HAS CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE THAT NORTH KOREA HELPED SYRIA BUILD AN UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR REACTOR???
Also from TOPIX > RUSSIA: NUCLEAR/BUSHESHR STAFF IN IRAN TO DOUBLE; + US DEMANDS IRAN, NORTH KOREA DECLARE NUCLEAR MATERIALS + US DEMANDS IRAN DECLARES ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS INTENTIONS.
WAFF.com > METIMES - THE REAL WORLD: US INTEL ON RUSSIA, IRAN. The Russo-Iranian Nuclear Axis?
US THREAT ASSESMENT [Dir McConnell/Congressional Hearings] > INTEL CONSENSUS OF 16 US AGENCIES > IRAN is intent on developing LR Ballistic Missles CAPABLE OF CARRYING NUCLEAR WARHEADS WHILE ALSO INTENSIFYING URANIUM-NUCMATS ENRICHMENT PROCESSES, to include eventually for WEAPONS PURPOSES; RUSSIA has been supplying ADVANCED MISSLE TECHS TO IRAN SINCE 2003; while the USA is UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME IFF IRAN HAS RESTARTED ITS MILITARY-ORIENTED NUKE PROGS??? Any de facto IRANIAN success in the above will put US MIL-BMD bases [by extens NATO?] in ROMANIA, ITALY, and GERMANY AT POTENTIAL RISK FOR LR IRAN NUKE-WMD MISSLE STRIKE(S) AS IRAN ALSO CONTINUES TO ENGAGE IN CHEMWAR AND BIOWAR RESEARCH AND DEV.
Again from TOPIX > OP-ED - IN OTHER WORDS, IRAN DIDN'T STOP ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAMS.
and John Kerry says EVERYTHING is going great! For some reason, he's there
The party of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto remained in the lead Monday and that of President Pervez Musharraf trailed behind in third place as vote-counting continued at the close of polls in Pakistan a stunning development with major implications for the war on terror in the United States and abroad.
Early indications showed Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party in a strong first place in the parliamentary elections, followed by opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League-Q was trailing in third.
Two opinion polls had predicted those results going into Monday's elections. There were no official tallies when polls closed about 5 p.m. local time, but results were trickling in late in the day. Final returns weren't expected before Wednesday.
Pakistan's embattled president appealed for unity Monday. Musharraf was not on the ballot, but the election was widely seen as a referendum on his eight-year rule including his alliance with the United States in the war on terror that many Pakistanis oppose.
Voter turnout was light to moderate, with fears of militant attacks and rigging keeping many Pakistanis at home. Officials confirmed that 24 people were killed since Sunday night in election-related violence, mostly in the country's biggest province of Punjab, the key electoral battleground.
Balloting proceeded without major attacks, although the opposition party of Bhutto claimed 15 of its members were killed and hundreds injured in scattered violence "deliberately engineered to deter voters."
The elections were held Monday after a six-week delay in the vote, seen as a key step toward democracy after eight years of military rule under Musharraf, whose political survival was in serious jeopardy.
Gallows humour about the country's economic crisis pervades the political ambience days before Pakistan goes to the hustings. Symbolising the grim mood is a popular Urdu sms which reads in English, "No flour, no electricity, no water, no sugar, no cooking oil, no petrol, and if you too don't want to be around, then stamp Musharraf's cycle (PML-Q) on the ballot." Indeed, President Pervez Musharraf finds to his horror the story of Pakistan's economic miracle, scripted in breathless prose and spectacular figures, has reached an unexpected denouementinflation has touched 11.86 per cent, food prices are soaring, and acute shortages of wheat, cooking oil, gas and electricity have the nation groaning in misery. And to think, barely two years ago, policy wonks cited the booming Karachi stock exchange and a near double-digit growth rate to justify Musharraf's rule.
Taxing: Long line-up at a Karachi flour mill
Today, the galloping inflation has eroded the purchasing power of the country's 160 million people, three-quarters of whom live on $2 or less a day (one dollar is equivalent to 60 Pakistani rupees). Food prices have risen by 10 per cent in each of the last three years; the price of wheat, Pakistan's staple, has witnessed a 14 per cent hike since last November. Worse, Pakistan's central bankthe State Bankhas lowered its estimate of growth rate for this fiscal year from 7.6 per cent to just above 6 per cent.
Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader and former commerce minister Ishaq Dar says the irony of the looming crisis is that Musharraf had promised to rescue the economy to justify his coup against then prime minister Nawaz Sharif. "What statistics his officials reel on the TV may or may not be true," he shrugs, "but what the public suffers is high inflation, increasing poverty, stock exchange-related scams and controversial privatisation deals." Adds Pakistan People's Party leader Ahmed Mukhtar, also an ex-commerce minister: "Why should Pakistanis care about the Taliban and America if they have to fight for a day's aata?" This is why, Mukhtar says, "wherever you go, you hear people shout, 'Go Musharraf Go'."
What has principally fuelled the public outcry is the rising price of flour, a kg of which at subsidised rates costs between Rs 14-18. Early January, the price in the open market doubled, touching Rs 60 in some areas. Similarly, the price of a 20-kg flour bag has gone up from around Rs 250 to Rs 450. Former federal secretary for food and agriculture Zafar Altaf blames it on the government's decision to export half a million tonnes of wheat last year, amid Punjab CM Pervaiz Elahi's boasts of a "bumper harvest". The export led to shortages, and import of wheat at a 70 per cent higher price had a cascading effect. "Either the claims of a bumper crop were false and designed to justify wheat exports or, if the claims were correct, the wheat stock has been hoarded somewhere and the current crisis is artificial," says Dr Altaf.
The faulty export policy gave a fillip to hoarding. PML(N) leader Ahsan Iqbal claims several leaders of the ruling PML(Q) stocked two million tonnes of wheat, pushing the prices higher and earning billions.
Besides imports jacking up the prices, owners of rice mills exploited the wheat shortage to sell rice at inordinately high pricesRs 30 per kg for inferior quality and Rs 70-75 for the best quality. The rice millers then ploughed their profits to buy and hoard wheatmuch to the agony of people.
Apart from hoarding, wheat has also been reportedly smuggled into India and Afghanistan. Former federal minister Mohammad Ali Durrani says the government has recently deployed 6,000 rangers and paramilitary troops around flour mills, distribution points and checkposts to prevent smuggling. But, as ppp leader Sherry Rehman says, the government has already pushed the country back by decades, as the long-forgotten images of people queuing up for flour return. "Under no democratic government did Pakistanis see food prices soar, so much so that people standing in long lines outside government food distribution centers had to be turned away empty-handed," she says.
The bitterness of daily existence can't even be mitigated by a sweetenerthe rising price of sugar has made it scarce. The government's recent decision to increase the ex-mill sugar price from Rs 23 per kg to Rs 30 should cause a spike of Rs 6.50 in the open market. Oblivious to the consequences on the common man, Zaka Ashraf, chairman, Punjab Sugar Mills Association, justified the government's decision: "The government had the option of either reducing the support price of sugarcane to appease the mill owners or increase the price of ex-mill sugar." The government chose the second option which, Asghar Butt, a sugar dealer, says "wasn't justified and will be another bombshell for consumers".
What's more, the Federal Food Committee (FFC) has predicted an acute shortage of edible oil. Domestic production meets only 17 per cent of the demand. The decline in the world crop of palm oil and soybean is the chief reason behind the crisis, FFC officials say. "Edible oil has become costlier by Rs 40 per kg over the last month," said Fareed Qureshi of the Karachi Retail Grocers Group.
The darkness enveloping Pakistani society is symbolically manifested in severe power shortages. Most urban centres witness outages of 10-12 hours a day, and rural areas anywhere between 12-18 hours. The Musharraf government's failure to foresee future demands will, according to official estimates, cause a shortfall of approximately 6,000 megawatts by 2010. Also, no commercial gas was made available to industries for the last two weeks, forcing closure of hundreds of factories.
The agony of people has failed to convince people like ex-minister Tariq Azeem about the Musharraf regime's myopic economic policy. Azeem insists, "Even the government's worst critics acknowledge there was a turnaround. People who were using bicycles have switched to motorcycles, and motorcyclists to cars." But Sakib Sherani, chief economist, ABN Amro Bank, Islamabad, says the headline-grabbing growth figures have bypassed the average Pakistani. Quite like the nda's India Shining slogan of 2004. Then the poor took their revenge on Vajpayee and Co. It should be the same in Pakistan on February 18.
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Flour shortage? Hmmm. Bulk carriers are lined up in the river here, waiting to load. Guess they're not going to Pakistan. I bet you could swap some nukes for them though - care to try?
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The grass in the title refers to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's (Benazir's father) famous comment in 1965 (after Pakistan's defeat by India in the war earlier that year) that "We will eat grass" in order to get the atomic bomb.
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Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud paid out more than $7,000, including money to purchase suicide jackets, for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the chief Pakistani investigator said Sunday. Four suspects in custody said Mehsud also planned the December 27 attack, Chaudhry Abdul Majeed told reporters. Mehsud, who has ties to al Qaeda, remains at large. Majeed said two of the four men in custody last week confessed before a Pakistani judge that they had participated in the plot. Many others who helped plan the attack "have yet to be arrested," Majeed said.
A day after Bhutto's death, Pakistan's government announced that Mehsud was behind the attack. The CIA later reached the same conclusion. But two recent nationwide polls in Pakistan found a majority of Pakistanis believe President Pervez Musharraf's government had a role in her killing. Majeed said Sunday that he announced the details about Mehsud's connection to the attack because Pakistan could formally charge him at a later date.
Two of the suspects told a judge on Wednesday that they provided the suicide bomber with a house, transportation, a pistol and the suicide jacket he allegedly used in the attack that killed the opposition leader and nearly two dozen others, Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said. Both were at the Rawalpindi park when Bhutto was assassinated, according to Majeed. He said the bomber was motivated to carry out the attack because his friend was killed after Pakistani security forces stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad last year to rout Islamic extremists holed up inside.
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FALLUJAH Next to the Joint Communications Center in downtown Fallujah is a squalid and war-shattered warehouse for human beings. Most detainees are common criminals. Others are captured insurgents terrorists, car-bombers, IED makers, and throat-slashers. A few are even innocent family members of Al Qaeda leaders at large. The Iraqi Police call it a jail, but it's nothing like a jail you've ever seen, at least not in any civilized country. It was built to house 120 prisoners. Recently it held 900.
Are there any insurgents in here? I said.
No, Sergeant Dehaan said. Theyre kept in their own cell. They are way too dangerous to be left in here with these guys.
Theyre extremely violent, Sergeant Dehaan said as though they werent sitting right there in front of us. He patted his rifle. Theyre treated the same as everyone else, but they have to be segregated.
Not all Middle Eastern terrorists are alike. I have been inside Hezbollahs headquarters south of Beirut. I brushed shoulders with Hamas leaders in the Palestinian parliament, although I was there to interview other people. Never once did I worry that the Lebanese or Palestinian terrorists would actually harm me. Al Qaeda is different. These guys are like Arabic Hannibal Lectors.
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The nastiest ones are the little guys, Sergeant Dehaan said. The little rat-looking bastards. They're the ones who have done the worst things to people.
yeah, we have some like that here too. Small in stature, large in swagger. Usually get someone else to do the actual hitting (and getting hit) though.
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this part should be pushed with a fist into the face of every hyperventilating asshole (yeah, you, Andrew) who raves about the panties on the head and stupid photos taken at Abu Grahib:
The famous Red Building in the city of Suleimaniya is a horror show. Its a museum of sorts now, in the way Auschwitz is a museum. Perhaps monument or memorial are better descriptions.
Before it was liberated by the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga, resistance fighters and their family members were arrested, interrogated, and sadistically tortured inside its walls. A free-standing rape room with large windows was built just outside. Bloody womens underwear was found on the floor after the Baath regime agents were ousted. Inside some of the cells are messages carved by children into the walls. I was ten years old. But they changed my age to 18 for execution. Dear Mom and Dad. I am going to be executed by the Baath. I will not see you again.
10,725 people were murdered in the Red Building alone by the previous government of Iraq. All died during torture. Formal execution actually took place in Abu Ghraib
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Damn, If only we could only get 1000 or so Bubbleheads, ie. the Sean Penns, Rosie O'Donalds, John Stewarts and Susan Sarandon types to Back Up their constant criticism about how clumsily America was administering Iraq, running Abu Ghraib Prison etc.
Yes goad the Brave Hearts to do the job better!
Heh Super Stars It's easy, You will have all the courts power, just live and work for only 2 years 24/7/365 in regular homes in al-AnBar Province. LOL
That's right they could spread good vibes driving all over the Province being HUMANITARIANS, doing this "easy" job of running Iraqi Courts and Prisons and Jails.
And all their criticism of President Bush and tall talk about American blunders and "violent culture" would have to be "WALKED" by them first.
Yes, by living there and taking responsibility any little policy boo boos they made would boomerang on their ass first.
Uh-huh. Is this supposed to, like, surprise them?
Gaza Ma'an A group of Palestinians rounded up by Egyptian security forces are threatening suicide if they are not soon released either to the Gaza Strip or a life of dignity in Egypt. Ummmmmmmmm...nope. Don't think you're gonna get that choice.
About 500 Gazans are still being held as prisoners in a sports complex in the border city of Al-Arish. Egyptian police arrested them after they did not return to Gaza when the border was resealed earlier this month following a brief period of unrestricted cross-border movement. Several of the detained Palestinians have called Ma'an's office in Gaza, claiming that conditions in the sports center are appalling, lacking basic medical supplies, food, and clean water. Geez, this whiny bullshit always works with the EU and the UN? Why do our Egyptian "brothers" appear impervious to it? The Egyptian security officers reportedly responded to the suicide threat, "Do whatever you like; we have orders to gather you then transfer you back to the Gaza Strip." However, the transfer has not yet taken place. I'll get a mop.
One of the stranded Gazans, 21-year-old Khalid Abu Hasira asked in a telephone call to Ma'an, "Will the death of one of us end our suffering?" Care to step up to the plate and find out, Khalid?
He also inquired critically about the absence of intervention on the part of the Palestinian embassy in Cairo. Hey, it's the weekend, you ungrateful little shit... He added that yesterday he threatened to jump from the roof of the building, and an Egyptian officer told him that he will get an ambulance to evacuate him. Before or after he jumps?
The man said he suffered an injury in his knee, and needed to replace the bandage in a hospital, but that he would not be allowed to go to hospital in Egypt. Too bad, so sad...just another Gazan with a limp.
He also added that he was interrogated in an Egyptian detention center along with five other people, including an elderly man, and that they underwent very rough treatment and that 6,000 US dollars were stolen from one of them. Real or counterfeit? And I thought they were broke and starving?
A 23-year-old Gazan called 'Adil Atallah said that he was captured at Nasser governmental hospital one day after he was operated on. He said that he was treated badly by the security forces, while he was urgently in need for rest after the operation. He is supposed to undergo another operation, which he would prefer to skip if he is allowed home. Thirty-five-year-old Ayman Ash-Sha'ir from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip said his cell-phone was stolen when he was brought to the sport club in Al-Arish. Sucks to be youze...ya whiny bitches.
Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on the identities of 230 Palestinian prisoners to be freed as part of a deal to secure the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, Army Radio reported Monday morning.
According to the report, disputes remain regarding 120 additional prisoners the group is demanding be freed in the first stage of the deal - prisoners Israel has thus far refused to release. Progress in the negotiations was reportedly made after a decision by a special ministerial committee to relax the criteria for defining a prisoner with "blood on his hands." Initially, Israel was only willing to release 44 prisoners on the Hamas list.
Nevertheless, the criteria change needs cabinet approval and it is not certain that ministers will approve the move, especially in light of Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) head Yuval Diskin's vehement opposition.
In closed discussions, Army Radio reported, Diskin has come out fiercely against the plan, calling it "blackmail that will lead to additional abductions," that the government must not give in to. Diskin's objections grew even stronger following the proposal by the ministerial committee, led by Vice Premier Haim Ramon, to release even those Palestinians who fall in the category of prisoners with "blood on their hands."
Meanwhile, diplomatic officials quoted by Army Radio said that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will not present changes to the criteria for the release of prisoners "with blood on their hands" to the government's approval until a prisoner swap with Hamas is finalized.
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These folks are total idiots, make them produce Shalit BEFORE anyone at all is "Released."
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No doubt once the 230 are released Ham-Ass will find some trivial reason to refuse to release Shalit -- all with the U.N.'s Blessing as they blame Israel...
Has Hamas ever, in it's entire existance, fulfilled even one of its obligations?
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I'm betting he's dead as well. Make the offer contingent on him being alive and well. Perhaps a condition that the 230 will be turned over in the same condition Shalit is in?
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sad but he prob is dead, if they do realease any of the prisoners lets hope they "tagged"them before hand. so as too folow them up and see where they go
3,600 homes in 4.5km range from Strip will receive secure rooms; Kassam hits near Sderot preschool.
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Olmert is going to spend $(US)97000000 to fortify homes in Sderot. For a lot less than that they could clear an area 4.5 km from the Israeli border in Gaza.
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For a lot less than that they could clear an area 4.5 km from the Israeli border in Gaza.
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A Phalanx system only costs about $5.5M, and would blast every incoming rocket and mortar to bits. The only expense beyond that would be airburst ammo and noise abatement.
The Defense Ministry has been instructed to raise its alert level due to concerns that Hizbullah will target Israelis and Jews abroad with the aid of Iran and Syria in retaliation for the death of Hizbullah operations chief Imad Mughniyeh, Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced on Sunday.
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Barak said Mughniyeh was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians and soldiers over dozens of years in numerous countries worldwide. He estimated that it would take time for Hizbullah to replace him.
Syria and Hizbullah still don't have a clear picture of who assassinated Mughniyeh, Barak went on, but that hasn't stopped Hizbullah from pointing an accusing finger at Israel. Earlier, London's Sunday Times reported that at the time of his assassination, allegedly carried out by the Mossad, Mughniyeh was cooperating with the Syrians in planning an attack against Israeli targets to avenge an IAF strike on a Syrian site in September 2007, according to "informed Israeli sources."
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As suspected, the 'device' was detonated remotely, the quagmire results from the Syrians not knowing 'how remotely', and I don't want to be the first on this site to offer ways and methods.
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"first on this site to offer ways and methods."
I will. I've been seeing these stories on super-lifelike love robots with skin as soft as a baby. The Mossad has perfected the exploding 12-year-old-boy love robot.
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The Brits beat 'em to it with Dolly, the cloned sheep. All the Israelis need are about 500 clones, each with a 15lb C-4 charge and a pressure-sensitive detonator.
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Gorb and Andy, nah, SplodeyGoat ® is what they need.
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TOPIX > AOUN: MUGNIYEH KILLING WAS AN ATTACK AGZ SYRIA + LEBANON BRACES FOR POSSIBLE IRAN,SYRIA MILITARY CLASH WITH ISRAEL + ISRAELI MILITARY ON WORLD WIDE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE HEZ RETALIATION + HEZBOLLAH VOWS TO ATTACK ISRAELI CITIES, BASES TO REVENGE MUGNIYEH.
Gaaawd, so many headlines-artikles today ITS GETTING SO I CAN'T GET MY HEZZIES versus HIZZIES versus HUZZIES versus HIZBIES, etc. STRAIGHT ANYMORE - for today, anyhoo.
UN Undersecretary of Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes advocated pressuring the leaders of Hamas to halt the rocket fire at Sderot, during a visit to town on Sunday.
Pressure on the neck works well, I'm told ...
Holmes condemned the Kassam fire, saying the real victims were the civilians, and that this was a violation of all principles of human rights. "We condemn absolutely the firing of these rockets. There's no justification for it. They are indiscriminate, there's no military target," he told The Associated Press. However, he said the only way to solve the problem was through a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Ham-Ass better watch out or they might get the dreaded strongly worded letter.
How can you have a peace agreement when one side refuses to abide by any of its obligations?
I think what he really means is that the way to solve the problem is for Israel to surrender and its men to line up along a long pit for beheading while their women and children watch. The women and childen of course to be raped later.
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There. I said it. All right?
So where's dinner?
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pressuring the leaders of Hamas to halt the rocket fire at Sderot, during a visit to town on Sunday.
A bit of Snark, "Only during his visit?"
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"Somebody" ought to drop about a million bucks in Sderot's lap so they can go out and buy their own missles. Big, accurate ones. And when they start blasting away at towns in Gaza, Olmert and Barack can just throw up their hands and say, "The crazy bastards! We just can't stop them!"
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Hey, I'm sure the Russians would sell them a few of their version of the MRLS, those spiffy neat ones mounted on trucks and made with cutting edge 1940's tech. Course, it's still better than what the gits are firing at them.
Muhammad Dahlan, the former Fatah security commander in the Gaza Strip, is working to oust Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the veteran leadership of the ruling party, an Abbas aide told The Jerusalem Post.
Fatah central committee member Hakam Balawi, a former PLO ambassador to Tunis, said Dahlan was responsible for the defeat of the Fatah-controlled PA security forces in the Gaza Strip by Hamas last June. "Dahlan is an opportunist who is spreading chaos, illusions and poison," Balawi said in a statement issued on behalf of the Fatah central committee in Ramallah. "Dahlan's actions and statements have long been based on intimidation, threats and ultimatums."
Balawi dismissed Dahlan's assertions that Abbas and the old guard Fatah leadership were responsible for the defeat in the Gaza Strip. "Dahlan is under the illusion he's the strong man in Fatah," he said. "All he wants is to preserve his position [inside Fatah] and to create divisions."
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They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Gaza way, and that's how you get Abbas.
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WND??? > THERE WILL BE A PALESTINIAN-CONTROLLED GOVERNMENT IN JERUSALEM, + FATAH's Al-Aqsar/Aqsr military wing claims to had allegedly formed a new, anti-Israeli armed militant faction named in honor of Mugniyeh.
Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal recently escaped an assassination attempt after Arab countries passed information about his movements to the US and Israel, ...
... so their brother Arabs are ratting them out ...
A-Sharq al-Awsat reported a senior Hamas official in Gaza as saying on Sunday. According to Israel Radio, Ahmad Yussuf, one of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's advisers, told the newspaper that senior Hamas members in Gaza don't communicate by phone out of fear for their lives.
Check out what happened to Muggsie, for example ...
Meanwhile, the Hamas newspaper Al-Rasala reported Sunday that Haniyeh recently received warnings from Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and other sources that Israel planned to assassinate him. Haniyeh is currently in hiding and avoiding giving speeches at the mosque near his home in the Ashati refugee camp, the report said.
Several of your security goons are turned, Ismail, though I don't know which ones. Better cap 'em all before they get you ...
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adios My Friend. If I were you, I'd get out of the sewers you are hiding in and enjoy your final opportunities to enjoy a beautiful sunrise and sunset.
An Iranian ayatollah died suddenly of a heart attack during an impassioned speech lashing out at insults against the family of revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the run-up to elections, the press reported on Sunday. Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Tavassoli, a former head of Khomeinis office, died while delivering the speech to Irans main arbitration body, the Expediency Council, of which he was a member, the Kargozaran daily reported. He had been responding to unprecedented ultra-conservative attacks against Hassan Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeinis respected grandson, who had criticised mass disqualifications in the March election and military interference. He was attacking those people with fossilized minds who attack the family and the ideas of the Imam Khomeini when he had a cardiac arrest, Mohammad Hashemi, brother of council head Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, told the paper.
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"Ayatollah you so!" God exclaimed as His finger hit the SMITE button.
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*rolls eyes* Read more carefully.
He had been responding to unprecedented ultra-conservative attacks against Hassan Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeinis respected grandson, who had criticised mass disqualifications in the March election and military interference. He was attacking those people with fossilized minds who attack the family and the ideas of the Imam Khomeini when he had a cardiac arrest, Mohammad Hashemi, brother of council head Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, told the paper.
This will be used by the ayatollahs we oppose to further strengthen their grip on power, "See! Allah struck down this opposer of His true servants (Us that is!). OBEY US, for it is Allah's Will!"
Remember, IRANIAN Conservatives are not the same as AMERICAN Conservatives.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday that God would punish Iranians if they did not support the country's disputed nuclear program, state radio reported. "The Iranian people openly announce that they will defend their rights... God will reprimand them if they do not do so," state radio quoted Khamenei as saying.
The 68-year-old ayatollah, who has the final say on all state matters, said Washington's claim that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon was false. "They know that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon, and they are just trying to block the Iranian nation from achieving advanced technology," Khamenei was quoted as saying in Teheran.
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Methinks this is IRAN's version of the 2008 POTUS Elex, as per its budding/nascent nucprog ambitions being nipped in the bud. KHAMEINI IS DOING A WINSTON CHURCHILL AND PC WARNING THAT THE "FINEST HOUR" OF REVOLUTION/ISLAMIST-
LED IRANIAN NUC AMBITIONS = MANIFEST DESTINY IS HERE. ITS NO TIME TO GIVE UP THE FIGHT.
Again, 2008-2010 > is pragmatically the best time for Radical Islam to defeat or destroy the US-led WESTERN COALITION widout resort to Amer Hiroshimas/New 9-11's and by Islamist will, leadership and force of arms. After 2010, wid or widout Amer Hiroshimas, the Radical Islamist GLOBAL STATE agenda will very likely become dependent on GREAT POWERS MIL CONFRONTATION + MUTUAL DESTRUCTION options to defeat US entrenchment and Regional-Global Domination.
IOW, ANY AMER HIROSHIMAS AFTER OCCURING AFTER 2010 MAY NOT BE ENUFF TO SAVE THE ISLAMIST GLOBAL AGENDA. US DEFEAT AFTER 2010 > ALWAYS POSSIBLE, BUT UNLIKELY.
Iff there is an ANTi-US ISLAMIST "HIDDEN IMAM-MAHDI" as per WHITNEY FAN OSAMA BIN LADEN + MOUD, etc, and as e.g. per "THE MAHDI" versus GENERAL GORDON AT THE SIEGE/BATTLE OF KHARTOUM, the time for same is getting there vv THE SLAVATION AND "JUSTIFICATION" OF BOTH GENER ISLAM AND RADICAL ISLAM.
1960's > WHITNEY'S "LETS DANCE" versus MADONNA'S "OPEN YOUR HEART". OSAMA/USAMA + The Guy from Guam.. NOW ABOUT MARIAH .........
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The antithesis of that statement suggests that God would be displeased with the lack of development of the Iranian 'Bomb'; while Satan The Devil would be most pleased! And just why would The Resister be so pleased...he wouldn't be alone at the events of Rev: 20:7-10!
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WND > CANCEROUS ISRAEL TO BE DESTROYED BY RADIATION [Therapy vv Hezbollah]; + TOPIX > THE PENINSULA [QATAR] > IRAN: PREDICTS HIZBOLLAH WILL DESTROY ISRAEL.
Also from TOPIX + THE PENINISULA > PRIME TARGETS -COUNTRIES WITH US PRESENCE ARE TARGETS FOR AL QAEDA. US-ISLAMIC WORLD FORUM Perts -
* Al QAEDA's targets are predomin Muslim
* SAUDI ARABIA as seen a significant decline in AQ/Islamist-induced local Terror incidents as due to better security and intel methods. DOES DECREASE IN SA ATTACKS INDUCE AQ TO STRIKE AT SMALLER GULF NATIONS???
* 2007 - AQ apears to be REBUILDING ITS CADRES, espec in old stomping grounds Afghanistan-Pakistan.
*OMAN-KUWAIT do not appear to be a target for AQ as AQ still relies on heavy PRIVATE FUNDING ESPEC VV THESE TWO NATIONS???
* Civilian casualties in Iraq-ME are down but NUMBERS OF ARMS CACHES HAVE DOUBLED.
USA > while has not experienced any new domestic attacks on its soil since 9-11, A POSSIBILITY REMAINS OF SOMETHING HAPPENING THIS 2008 MAJOR ELECTION YEAR [later]. IOW, USA shouldn't be overly COMPLACENT.
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, is refusing to remove medieval artistic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, despite being flooded with complaints from Muslims demanding the images be deleted.
More than 180,000 worldwide have joined an online protest claiming the images, shown on European-language pages and taken from Persian and Ottoman miniatures dating from the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, are offensive to Islam, which prohibits any representation of Muhammad. But the defiant editors of the encyclopaedia insist they will not bow to pressure and say anyone objecting to the controversial images can simply adjust their computers so they do not have to look at them.
The images at the centre of the protest appear on most of the European versions of the web encyclopaedia, though not on Arabic sites. On two of the images, Muhammad's face is veiled, a practice followed in Islamic art since the 16th century. But on two others, one from 1315, which is the earliest surviving depiction of the prophet, and the other from the 15th century, his face is shown. Some protesters are claiming the pictures have been posted simply to 'bait' and 'insult' Muslims and argue the least Wikipedia can do is blur or blank out the faces.
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Hang in their Wiki!! Added defiance...post the number of objections to the illustration below the illustration!
'So long as they are relevant to the article and do not violate any of Wikipedia's existing policies, nor the law of the US state of Florida where Wikipedia's servers are hosted, no content or images will be removed because people find them objectionable or offensive.'
How long until Florida outlaws depictions of Mohammed (ptui)?
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I'm impressed. I would have bet money they would cave. Go Wikipedia!
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They have to stand firm, otherwise anybody could "Rewrite" history to please themselves.
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All hail the Great Boiling Ball of Allan which he will use to Strike fear into the infidel.
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Nah that was Mo' and his homies trying to slingshot a bowling ball at some dudes across his yard.
Mo was a rad dude.
Here he is betting his homies he can seriously grind this stair rail on his skateboard. (See him pointing to himself? He's all like DUDE I can serioulsy grind this, watch me!)
You can tell he's got money - look at the satellite dish in the yard there.
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Egyptian police on Sunday arrested 51 members of the country's largest opposition movement, the banned Muslim Brotherhood, according to the police, the group's lawyer and its Web site. The dawn arrests in three provinces were the latest in an ongoing crackdown on the Brotherhood and came three days after more than 50 other members were arrested in sweeps elsewhere in Egypt. 
In an uncommon act of journalistic contrition, the BBC has apologized for equating former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh as "great national leaders." 
The Bush administration has agreed to turn over to international inspectors intelligence data it has collected that it says proves Iran worked on developing a nuclear weapon until a little more than four years ago, according to American and foreign diplomats. The decision reverses the United States longstanding refusal to share the data, citing the need to protect intelligence sources. 
Pakistani Taliban commander 
Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on the identities of 230 Palestinian prisoners to be freed as part of a deal to secure the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, Army Radio reported Monday morning. 
Muhammad Dahlan, the former Fatah security commander in the Gaza Strip, is working to oust Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the veteran leadership of the ruling party, an Abbas aide told The Jerusalem Post. 
Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal recently escaped an assassination attempt after Arab countries passed information about his movements to the US and Israel, ...
An Iranian ayatollah died suddenly of a heart attack during an impassioned speech lashing out at insults against the family of revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the run-up to elections, the press reported on Sunday. Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Tavassoli, a former head of Khomeinis office, died while delivering the speech to Irans main arbitration body, the Expediency Council, of which he was a member, the Kargozaran daily reported. He had been responding to unprecedented ultra-conservative attacks against Hassan Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeinis respected grandson, who had criticised mass disqualifications in the March election and military interference. He was attacking those people with fossilized minds who attack the family and the ideas of the Imam Khomeini when he had a cardiac arrest, Mohammad Hashemi, brother of council head Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, told the paper.
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, is refusing to remove medieval artistic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, despite being flooded with complaints from Muslims demanding the images be deleted. 
