GMP20060729950019 Rabat Annahar al-Maghribiyah in Arabic 29 Jul 06
[Report by Said El Moumni: "Explosives found in the hands of Al-Qaeda organization in Morocco"]
A source close to the investigation into the Al-Qaeda cell in Morocco that was gradually dismantled recently said that the three men from the royal armed forces arrested last Tuesday [25 July] were found in possession of bombs ready for use, scanners, computers, and printing material.
... were found in possession of bombs ready for use, scanners, computers, and printing material...
Our source, however, did not reveal the targets that the men in question planned to attack, and whether the bombs were meant to be used soon against an already chosen target or they were rather stored for use at a later date. Moreover, according to the same source, the police, accompanied by explosives experts, carried out tests on the bombs in question in the region of the town of Bouknadil, and they found that they were indeed ready to be triggered off. As for the electronic equipment found in the hands of the arrested men, it was used for forging documents.
The same source stressed that the police had kept a watch for more than three days on the street where the suspects lived, and when they made sure that their targets were present, a large number of security men surrounded the area and arrested the three men who are suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda organization in Morocco.
The fact that the three arrested men belong to the royal armed forces suggests that the latter may have been infiltrated by these terrorist movements.
The fact that the three arrested men belong to the royal armed forces suggests that the latter may have been infiltrated by these terrorist movements. In this context, the national judiciary police unit, with the assistance of the Beni Mellal royal gendarmerie, had arrested a retired sub-lieutenant in the village of Tagzirt and other elements of the same cell were arrested also in El Youssoufia.
It should be noted also that the Sale police had arrested a terrorist cell composed of 19 members and suspected of putting the last touches to an announcement concerning the setting up of an extremist branch of Al-Qaeda in Morocco, on the lines of the Al-Qaeda organization in Mesopotamia. The Rabat appeal court investigating judge has started investigation of the group in question. The police arrests took place in three working class quarters in Sale, namely Hai Arrahma, Hai Achmaou, and Oued Edhahab. Among the most prominent detainees of the group figures was Hasan El Hattab. The latter had already been prosecuted in terrorism-related cases; he had spent two years in jail and he finished his sentence recently.
Hasan El Hattab had signed a commitment to the police that he would not re-offend and would not resume the activities for which he had been sentenced already...
Before his release, Hasan El Hattab had signed a commitment to the police that he would not re-offend and would not resume the activities for which he had been sentenced already. However, the police kept a watch on El Hattab and began asking questions about his finances because of the signs of wealth he was showing despite the fact that he had no job and he came from a poor family.
I don't think this is the very same Hassan al-Hattab that founded GIA and GSPC in Algeria. This reads like he was sentenced in Morocco.
The police believe that the members of this cell were the authors of the inflammatory statements that excommunicate people and call for violence and terrorism. These statements were signed on behalf of the Moroccan group for unification and combat [al jama'a al maghribia littawhid wal qital], and they contained threats that the blood of several ministers, artists, and intellectuals will be shed. These statements were sent by their authors to the national press through the Internet.
[Description of Source: Rabat Annahar al-Maghribiyah in Arabic -- Moroccan independent daily newspaper]
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It is amazing that regular Chinese tests of their DF-31 ICBM provoke no such headlines in the media yet a single Taiwanese test of a SRBM is labelled "troublesome".
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Think that's troublesome - wait till Taiwan tests a nuke.
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In the past Taiwan has pointed out that when the NPT was written, IT, not the PRC was the legitimate government of China and holder of the UNSC seat.
As such, they consider themselves a legitimate Nuclear Weapons State, albeit one without nuclear weapons, with the right to develop such weapons.
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Missiles, nuclear weapons ... it's all good. Taiwan is a delightful thumb in the politburo's eye.
Link is in french, but money quote from a beyrouth press conference is "Dans la région, il y a bien sûr un pays comme l'Iran, un grand pays, un grand peuple et une grande civilisation, qui est respecté et qui joue un rôle de stabilisation dans la région"... which gives us : "In the region, there is of course a country like iran, a great country, a great people and a great civilization, which is respected and plays a stabilizing role in the region".
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Thanks for the link; I rapidly checked with google to see if it was mentioned elsewhere, but I settled for just translating the quote, which is mindboggling indeed. French "Arab Policy" at work.
Posted by: Captain America ||
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Now, now, people - let's not diss the FM too much.
He's sort of right - he just misspoke (or the translation's a little off). I'm sure what he meant to say is Iran wants to play a stabilizing role in the region, and that's true.
Dead Jews, Christians, Sunnis, Druze, etc., are very stable.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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I SURRENDER
Based on "I surrender dear" (1938)
Sung by Bing Crosby
With burquas on
They must be loose
Fashions gone
Appeasement truce
We can't help it cuz we're French
We surrender to you,!
Roving gangs;
Religious police,
We say yes sir;
No women loose,
We can't help it cuz we're French
The wine is gone too
They took us over
We didn't care
Iranian mulla
To lead us now,
Amputations
and the stonings,
But I don't care
Cuz I'm French
When they appear
We bow down low,
Cause we have fear
We're all aglow,
To you O Mullah, my life, my all,
I surrender, to you!
Song Page
I Surrender Dear Link
http://gitpicker.com/isurrender.mid
#7
Bravo! bravo! *throws a thornless rose at the author (but clearly not meant for sniper duty, as the aim is off, and it hits the head of the elderly lady sitting just below the box, knocking her little hat askew)*
#8
Well, Captain America, France is supposed to be a country. I am living in France, and I see constantly the French people acting as if France was still a real country. The vast majority of them don't seem to understand that their country is on the way of total marginalization, if it continues like that.
And, gorb, don't forget that the French governments, during the last 39 years (in 1967, De Gaulle created the "french arab politics" after the 6 Days War), believe firmly that they can raise the stature of France in the world by bowing down before all muslim leaders and muslim people.
In France, a lot of people are walking on their heads. Don't laugh at them, thats difficult.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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leroidavid, please announce to Rantburg when you are ready to be sponsored to come to America (a5089 and JFM have already been invited). Clearly you would be as much an asset as our long-standing foreign correspondents. Between us we have a lot of useful contacts, and will find a way to make it happen.
Barbara, you've been sharpening your scalpels again, dear -- I can always tell.
America is a country I like a lot. The problem is, it's so vast that I don't know in which State I would settle, if I decide to come to America. So, I am planning to visit your big country in detail (traveling from State to State by car), for more than 2 months (if possible), maybe next year. For the moment, I know only Boston, Cambridge, and New York, so I have a lot to discover in reality (I've read a lot of guides and books of course).
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"In the region, there is of course a country like Iran, a great country, a great people and a great civilization, which is respected and plays a stabilizing role in the region"
A great country
A great people
A great civilization
No questions. No doubts. These three are true.
However, it is not so much respected. Respect is one thing Iran definitely seeks. Respect and (largely U.S.) recognition.
It definitely plays a stabilizing role in the region. The destabilizers, of course, are Israel and the U.S. Neither are so much respected either; the Jews (but not modern Israel) are a civilization onto themselves but this nation-state incarnation nearly defines the meaning of "destabilizing force"; the US lacks a history (other than brutally violent)to be accorded the status of a great civilization and as to whether it be a great country with great people ... God hopes they are not reading many of the comments here because America - that irascible, irresponsible, immature yet deliciously, lustfully free nation - has so much more to offer than racist hatemongering filth.
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We're a mobile peole, leroidavid. Where you start need not be where you end up. You want to look more at career opportunities and contacts, truly. In Cincinnati, Ohio, for instance, one of the nicer, more international suburbs (the secondary school is one of those in the area that awards the International Baccalaureate degree as well as a State diploma, the same as the American School in Paris), celebrates Bastille Day every year in nice style. And Hebrew Union College, the Reform rabbinic school, was established here 1 1/2 centuries ago.
1) Iran seeks definitely respect. Aiming definitely for a new genocide of the Jews is the best way to be respected.
2) Fighting dictatorships and terrorists, as the US and Israel are doing, is destabilizing. Mass graves are much more stable.
3) America is irresponsible and immature. Saving the world during WWII, then during the 50 years of the Cold War, and nowadays in the War on Terror, is clearly irresponsible and immature.
Doggod, confess it: are you the secret assistant of Philippe Douste-Blazy, the French FM?
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"So, I am planning to visit your big country in detail (traveling from State to State by car), for more than 2 months (if possible), maybe next year."
By car is definitely the way to go. There's a lot to see, and you get no idea of the size of this place from flying in an airplane. I've driven coast-to-coast several times, and it's great fun.
"For the moment, I know only Boston, Cambridge, and New York, so I have a lot to discover in reality."
If you're ever in Philadelphia, stop by and visit.
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LOL, leroidavid. I'll choose a different tack in my response...
Stabilizing role? Iran? Are there two of them?
Great country? Really? In what respects?
Great people? When? Now? LOL. In what...
Great civilization? Same questions.
Evidence, son, let's see the evidence for any of those silly assertions.
Definitely not respected by true democracies peopled by those who think and decide for themselves. Respect? You've got to be kidding - or self-deluded. Iran is a religious dictatorship. It doesn't get any more fucked up than that. Iran has a very bad case of Little Dick Syndrome. Desperate to be a major player -- when it is as backward, brutal, and barbaric as any shithole of the 7th Century.
The history of the US put the history of Persia to shame on its first day. Freedom vs Barbarism. No contest.
The hate-mongering comes from the Iranians, who would wipe a true democracy off the map -- in their dreams. They are so sophomoric and pathetic they paint "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" on their missiles, LOL. That the reverse is far more likely must terrify them. That's some funny shit.
Iran is doomed because they choose to be. You are deluded because you choose to be.
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I am aware of that, Trailing Wife, and this is a big difference from France.
What you are telling me about Cincinnati is very interesting. I like to learn such examples of the astonishing American patchwork.
Concerning mobility, my specific material problem is that I have some tons of books to move, so I have to think twice before jumping over the Atlantic.
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I agree with you, Supple Whomper9999, when you say that Iran isn't a great civilization nowadays (It's not a civilization at all, just a dictatorship).
But we have to remind that once upon a time, there were great civilizations in Persia: for example, 3000 BC, in what is now the south of Iran, began the civilization of Jiroft, which has been discovered only two years ago, and which was very rich artisticaly speaking; and during the 5th century BC flourished Persepolis, a great civilization (tough immature and very irascible...).
It's a pity to see what this people has became thanks to islamism.
#23
Books are easy to move, so long as the packing boxes are sturdy, unlike crystal or antique ceramics. Easy to store, too, if the first temporary housing situation doesn't have room for all the bookcases needed (I've done it -- I chose "trailing wife" because I followed my husband to Europe 1991-1996 when his corporation needed him there (Bad Soden, Germany near Frankfurt, and Overijse near Brussels). Trailing daughter #1 was born in the US, but trailing daughter #2 was born in Frankfurt, and can never be President.)
Back on topic, Iraq was civilized in the Bronze Age, when Abraham left Ur to go to his promised land in Canaan. Iron Age Persia was a civilized empire, although very different than contemporaneous Greece or Rome. They managed to avoid the worst of the Muslim excesses for a while after being conquered, but eventually succumbed, and clearly never recovered.
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#13 leroidavid - make sure you come through Virginia. Drinks are on me.
#12 TW - Meow. ;-p
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Thanks for your invitation, Dave D. I will remember it.
Trailing wife, books are easy to move (with strong movers), but I really have the will to travel by car in the States for a while, before making my choice (a child's dream that a lot of people share in France, even if most are politically anti-American).
And now, for the people who can appreciate the greatness of the French government, a little story: in march 2001, Jacques Chirac welcomed in Paris, with great honors and red carpet, the Zimbabwean dictator Mugabe, who was (and still is) banned by all other countries (including all other EU countries); he cheered him, he cajoled him, and called him a great leader (I can't remember, though, if he spoke of the stabilizing role of Zimbabwe...); and Mugabe, delighted went back to his dictatorship, where he still is, working to destroy completly his (now) poor country.
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US Constitution Article 2: No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
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It is my understanding, 3dc, that the child of an American citizen is automatically a citizen as well... unless the following obtains: the child of the citizen is not born on American soil or American territory (so a hospital on an American army base counts as American soil), the child's child is also not born on American soil or American territory. Thus td #2's child must be born on American soil or American territory in order to automatically acquire citizenship at birth. This, we were told, was to prevent returnees from creating anchor babies into perpetuity.
This is separate from being President, and when td#2 was born, we were told she could not become President because of the extra-territoriality of her birth. I could, however, have been misinformed -- as she doesn't seem the type to become active in politics, we haven't looked into it further.
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3dc is correct. The key phrase is "Natural-born citizen": Who is a natural-born citizen? Who, in other words, is a citizen at birth, such that that person can be a President someday?
The 14th Amendment defines citizenship this way: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." But even this does not get specific enough. As usual, the Constitution provides the framework for the law, but it is the law that fills in the gaps.
Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in those gaps. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are "citizens of the United States at birth:"
* Anyone born inside the United States
* Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe * Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
* Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
* Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
* A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
Anyone falling into these categories is considered natural-born, and is eligible to run for President or Vice President. These provisions allow the children of military families to be considered natural-born, for example.
George W. Romney, the governor of Michigan who sought the presidency in 1968, was born in Mexico to American parents. John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone.
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University professors in the Netherlands are not allowed to voice "unscientific" opinions that are too critical of Islam. One such opinion is the statement of Pieter W. van der Horst that the Nazis' irrational hatred of the Jews has been adopted in the contemporary Islamic world. At a meeting today in Amsterdam a large majority of the chancellors of the Dutch universities agreed that academic freedom at universities should be limited. Only two of them, Frans Zwarts of Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Taede Sminia of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, said that a retiring professor should be allowed to express a personal opinion in his valedictory lecture.
Last month Pieter W. van der Horst, the retiring professor of Early Christian History and Judaism at Utrecht University, (the alma mater of James Boswell, Lord Hailes, the Earl of Sunderland, Wilhelm Rntgen, Hugh Williamson, and others) wanted to argue in his valedictory lecture that the islamisation of European antisemitism is one of the most frightening developments of the past decades.
... the lecture was unscientific and incited different population groups against each other...
However, his university's chancellor, the rector magnificus, Prof. Willem H. Gispen, prevented him from doing so by censoring the lecture in advance. According to Gispen the lecture was unscientific and incited different population groups against each other. Van der Horst says Gispen had also told him that Islamic students might disrupt the lecture, in which case the university would not be able to guarantee van der Horst's safety.
I guess van Gogh's been dead long enough that they've forgotten, at least until the next Dutchman's slaughtered like a sheep in broad daylight. Then they'll be good for another six months or so.
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More of this. What in hell is wrong with a person like Gispen ? He is simply a traitor to his country and enables its eventual fall. Prof. van der Horst was completely correct and trying to approach this from an historical perspective which is usually very accurate. All their society needs to be alerted to action against the invaders. Perhaps the problem is that there is no real society anymore. Society being a group that has common interests, promotes common ideals, and projects norms of behavior. Maybe this crucial fabric has fallen away.
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Btw, rewriting History to be muslim-friendly and muslim-oriented, plus setting specific rules for treating islam, is part and parcel of the Eurabia strategy. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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Coward ! Cowards all. The EU is becoming spineless. First the government, next the universities. Will the police be next to cower ?
Will their courts submit to sharia ?
Remember, this is the same Europe which has numerous muzzies camped out in Catholic churchs.
They have gone to hell. There's nothing left to loose except their pathetic EU liberal lives.
Europe's honor died in the 1940s. Survivors include appeasment, dhimmitude, and pointless leftist bloviation. Cowards all.
#9
Again, sorry to rant, but it's a feature, not a bug.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but between the internal rot set by the various shades of post/neo/paleo/marxists, the deliberate and planned (since the 1920's) killing of national identities by the EU, and Eurabia, what's happening is not the results of blind historical forces. Sure, they set the stage, starting with WWI which was the death of Europe, really, though the spiral started with the french revolution, but ideas are carried by people.
And there is an actual political will to change european societies into what the European Enlightened Elites wish them to be.
It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you.
And remember, you've got the same people at home, with basically the same agenda. Only thing that's helping you is a deeper sense of identity (religious and national), and a more healthy political "genetic memory" (but the new left came back from your shores).
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#9 anon - the 1st and 2nd Amendments don't hurt either.
Every day I wake up I'm grateful my ancestors got on those boats. And I'm really glad Jefferson's ancestors did, too.
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I have to wonder, the next time Europe needs a savior, someone to liberate them from murdurous scum.
Will we give a damn?
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We have to, Redneck Jim. Otherwise Europe becomes a reservoir to poison the rest of the world. We may have to choose to rebuild themselves next time though, if only to keep them busy and out of trouble, after the way it turned out last time.
I do apologise, all. I'm not thinking very logically about this right now. My mother just called to let me know that the genteman who'd hidden her during the war just chose to be euthanized, and was buried on Friday. He was 91, in continual pain after a series of debilitating strokes, and decided it was time. He died in the love of his family, including some of his (nine?) children and grandchildren. When I heard, my first thought was that at least he will avoid what is about to come to his little country. His memory is for a blessing, and in Israel he and his wife are listed amongst the Righteous Gentiles.
BOMBS destined to be used by Israel are being flown via Scotland only because the Irish government refused to allow them to land on its soil. Scotland on Sunday can reveal that after the conflict in Lebanon began three weeks ago, Ireland turned down a United States request for planes carrying 600lb so-called bunker busters to refuel at Shannon airport in Co Clare. As a result, cargo planes carrying the bombs, which the Israeli army is using in its offensive against the Hezbollah, are being flown via Prestwick airport in Ayrshire.
The use of Prestwick triggered a furious diplomatic row last week after it emerged that the US had broken aviation rules by failing to notify Britain about the flights. That row is intensifying this weekend as two further American planes carrying 'hazardous' material to Tel Aviv land at the airport.
In another controversial development, Scotland on Sunday has learned that Prestwick is negotiating to allow planeloads of US military personnel on their way to Iraq to stop there. A well-placed source close to the negotiations said it was bidding to take flights away from Shannon, which is currently used as a stopover for the bulk of the 900 American soldiers who travel from the US to the Middle East every day.
The American airlines which transport the troops through Shannon are understood to be reviewing their use of the airport, following protests in Ireland which have resulted in some of the planes being vandalised. The source said: "It could soon be the case that the Irish will say that they don't want these flights and, as a consequence, then we will look to get them."
The latest revelations are set to crush hopes among British diplomats that the row over Prestwick would die down following President George Bush's apology to Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday.
One Irish official said that the bombs would never have been allowed on Irish soil. The source said: "There is absolutely no way that we would allow munitions or weapons to be shipped through Shannon to a location where there is an actual war going on. We would not allow it. It is correct that we allow the US to transport troops to Shannon, but sending bombs to Israel is another matter and completely out of the question for us."
Opposition critics last night seized on the situation. Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond said: "It is highly significant that Shannon put its foot down and drew back from allowing the transport of bunker busters, which could become the tinder to escalate dramatically the Middle East conflict." He added: "It is absolutely appalling that we should allow Prestwick to become a stopover to death and destruction."
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell said the fact that more flights were now landing in Scotland was "adding insult to injury". He said: "What price the president's apology now?
To think that the Scots used to be warriors.
The British government should be pursuing an active policy of denying weapons of any kind to anyone in the Middle East who may be assisting the conflict in any way."
However, speaking from America, Blair defended the use of Prestwick: "We should just apply the rules in the appropriate way, which is what we are doing. What happens at Prestwick airport is not going to determine whether we get a ceasefire in the Lebanon.
"If what people are saying is that we should impose an arms embargo on Israel, or indeed on the US, I think that would be very curious indeed."
A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the authorities had approved an 'exemption' allowing the two new flights to land at Prestwick. The first, a Boeing 747 from Texas, landed at about 1pm yesterday for refuelling. A second flight is due to arrive today. More at link, also read comments
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It's the press making a story and politicians talking out their asses. The SNP are full blown communists for all I can tell and your typical leftist jew haters. The Liberal Democrats follow closely behind.
Someone will take the planes and Prestwick is licensed for hazardous material cargoes. They are happy to have the business if Ireland isn't.
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Seems to me that in flight refueling is the logical answer: no bombs on any foreign soil, just some KC-135s or KC-10s topping off and departing for parts unknown. Redevous w/ the cargo jets and all is well.
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, alongside various anti-war and Muslim groups, announced plans this week for a "National Emergency March on Washington" to stop what he said was U.S. funding of the "Israeli war machine." Clark claimed that U.S. funding to Israel, which is battling Hizballah terrorists in southern Lebanon, is grounds for impeaching President Bush.
Isn't everything?
"If we'd acted on impeachment before now, Lebanon wouldn't be subjected to this misery," said Clark at the National Press Club Thursday. "If we fail to act now, who is next?"
Syria, I'd guess. Could be Iran or North Korea. I doubt if it'll be Sudan.
If we'd acted on impeachment before now, Lebanon wouldn't be subjected to this misery...
The National Council of Arab-Americans, Partnership for Civil Justice, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, and the ANSWER Coalition are partnering to show their dissent of U.S.-Israeli policy in a march planned near the White House on Aug. 12. "It is important to let the people of Lebanon and the people of Palestine know that even though the Bush administration speaks in our name -- spending our tax dollars to fund and finance these wars both in Iraq and in Lebanon -- it does so without the consent of the American people," said Brian Becker, national coordinator for the ANSWER Coalition.
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Clark was AG in the mid-sixties when LBJ wanted a liberal to advance the Civil Rights legislation. Clark was a one-trick pony, whose public career was unimpressive. I recall his humiliation when Dean Rusk presented him with photos of NVA anti-aircraft placements, positioned by the irrigation dikes that Clark accused the USAF of bombing, to force starvation. Once a liar, always a liar.
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Good democrat, good boy.
(what an asshole)
I wonder how many Jews will still be democrats after this march bullsheet ?
The left can't seem to read the signs of the times. As their cause looses momentum and the few good, well meaning lefties fall by the wayside, may we welcome them into the 21st century. It's great to shake off the yoke of stupid dogma in favor of facts and actions.
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Clark was AG in the mid-sixties when LBJ wanted a liberal to advance the Civil Rights legislation.
Actually (and the phone tapes of this were released recently - fascinating stuff - LBJ was a true political animal) what LBJ wanted was not Ramsey Clark.
He wanted a black Supreme Court Justice - Thurgood Marshall.
There were no upcoming vacancies but Ramsey's father, a former AG, was a justice.
LBJ schemed with his cronies, thinking of ways to get a supreme Court vacancy. Finally he saw a way - Ramsey.
He called Ramsey several times on the phone:
"Clark, you're a good man, I really want you in my administration"
"Clark, I've been thinking, you would make a good attorney General"
"Clark, one problem, if you're arguing cases before the supreme Court, folk are gonna attack your daddy, saying his little boy is before him and there is a conflict of interest and I appointed you because of that, trying to influence your daddy."
Clark Senior retired from the Bench to allow his son to take up the job of AG.
LBJ got his black supreme court justice
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John, that is a great story for a couple of reasons. First, LBJ was a known ego tripper. he really thought he was great. He was legacy building when president as egomaniacs are want to do. Wouldn't his legacy look great with a black Supreme ? Wow, you go LBJ.
What a jerk. How do we remember this dog abuser ? He faked the start of the Vietnam war, then he sent millions of Americans to fight with one arm tied behind their backs.
LBJ's legacy: dirty politician who may have had something to do with the murder of JFK, started a war for his own uses, picked up his dog by it's ears, and held briefings with staff members while he was taking a dump to belittle his staff.
No lie, folks, this jerk was the turning point for the democrap party. Did Billy Clinton fall far from the tree ?
Second, the democraps still use the LBJ playbook.
They still have no use for honesty, honor, God, private property, our military, and dogs.
A friend who lives in Seattle, just down the street from the Jewish center that was shot up by the angry Muslim on Friday, writes that he took a walk in the neighborhood this afternoon. This is what he saw:
A little old man was standing a couple doors down from the Jewish Center, holding a sign which read, "I am a Muslim but today I am a Jew."
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way back in the day, 600-1000
years ago, jews and muslims liked each other
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bk, I think you left out the words "to kill" after "liked".
p.s.: The muslims still do.
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If true, it's a great act of courage. God bless him.
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The Slimes in action. This paper needs a complete gutting. New York needs to close the UN. Start daily harassment with fire code checks, sanitary issues. Anything to cause daily grief. Impound vehicles when fines not paid. Get this reeking pile of garbage off American soil.
Those who knew Naveed Haq said Saturday that to them he was an enigma, a puzzle that they wish they could have solved before his deadly rampage in a Seattle Jewish center. Stunned and saddened by the news, some of Haq's acquaintances recounted many of what they saw as the contradictions of his life. He held a degree in electrical engineering and was the son of a successful engineer, yet he couldn't keep a regular job. He was smart, creative and skilled as a writer. He recently won an essay contest for a U.S. Institute of Peace scholarship.
Yet Haq was frustrated at his lack of friends and female companionship.
No nooky, huh?
He told friends he felt alienated from his own family, in part because his career had disappointed his father and also because he had disavowed Islam last year, converting to Christianity. Haq had begun studying the Bible, attending weekly men's spiritual group meetings, only to stop coming a few months after his baptism.
That seems to have worked well, too. We're on a roll here...
He had told the group's leader that he seen too much anger in Islam and that he wanted to find a new beginning in Christianity. Yet in the midst of his shooting spree in Seattle Friday, he declared himself an angry Muslim.
LUCKNOW: As the tally of polio cases reported from 15 districts rises to 106 highest in the country and also in the state during the past four years the government machinery goes into a huddle.
The big jump in the graph, as against 29 cases identified last year, has made Government of India convene an emergency meeting to "rethink and beef up the strategy to tackle the virus circulation in Uttar Pradesh".
The meeting is slated for July 28 just two days before the state takes up its 6th round of pulse polio immunisation drive this year.
Although senior officials attribute the spurt to the predictable four-year cycle (cases reported in 1998-900, and 2002-1242), what is bothering them, however, is an obviously well-calculated strategy to derail the drive.
There are reports of a systematic misinformation campaign being carried out in the western belt, particularly in the worst-affected Moradabad division which is leading to a stiff minority resistance to the polio vaccine.
Just before a vaccination drive, mysterious posters and handbill appear out of nothing with malicious propaganda in the affected pockets, confided official sources on Tuesday.
The mischief started in May 2005 when an Urdu newspaper carried a highly inflammatory write up and things have never been the same again ever since.
The write up penned by one Monis Bushra Abidi and titled "These drops of poison" made its appearance on May 27, 2005. Portions of the cleverly written piece are being quoted in posters or whisper campaigns, warning Muslins against the government-sponsored drive and save their progenies from ruination.
Polio this year is confined largely to the Muslim-dominated areas in the western UP. Significantly, out of the 106 cases reported so far, 69 cases are are from Moradabad division comprising Moradabad, Rampur, Bijnor and Jytoba Phule Nagar.
According to official records, "the virus has affected 74 per cent Muslims this year as against 26 per cent Hindus."
As indicated by the special monitoring by a WHO team in June, Moradabad division was found to be "inadequately immunised".
Incidentally, the report card of September, October and November 2005 drive, reveal records, was found to be particularly wanting.
However, "by June 2006, the number of missing houses has come down from ten to seven per cent," claimed principal secretary, health, Arun Kumar Mishra, on Wednesday. The department, he added, targets to further lower it down to five per cent by July 30.
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The mischief started in May 2005...
Mischief? TP-ing trees is mischief, this is vile and evil. May the perpetrators burn in Hell.
/My brother and sister both contracted polio in India in the 1950s. My sister's case was very mild with minimal permanent damage, but my brother nearly died and was left with a useless arm.
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Hey, if the Izzies want to refuse the Polio vaccine and all die from it, that solves a lot of problems India has with them and not have to play the Bad Guy.
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No, Machiavellian would be if someone started a rumor that any kind of vaccination causes muslim infertility (brain damage wouldn't work as that is done by thorough indoctrination in any case).
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someone started a rumor that any kind of vaccination causes muslim infertility
IIRC, this is what the Holy Men(Tm) already said in Nigeria, and might be saying in India... why they don't want their children to be vaccinated is beyond me... to further the "us vs them" mentality, IE muslims as a separate entity that cannot receive anything good from its neighbours (except eventually submission)???
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Ignorant. Ignorant. The people that oppose war with the islamofascists apparently want to jump into the 7th century with them. No polio shots. Burkas. Repression. No rights for women. No tolerance of other religions. No free speech. Bowing to mecca. No freedom.
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It's projection. The vaccine infertility rumors are indicative of what muslims would do to infidels if they had the technology to cause infertility.
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someone started a rumor that any kind of vaccination causes muslim infertility
Indian police on Monday arrested a journalist over his alleged ties to an outlawed Islamic group suspected of taking part in the Mumbai train bombings. However, investigator KP Raghuvanshi cautioned that the reporter, Danish Sheikh, who works for the Urdu Times, an Urdu language newspaper, is not suspected of playing any direct role in the July 11 bombings that hit Mumbai's crowded commuter rail network, killing at least 207 people.
Rather, Raghuvanshi said he is suspected of assisting Students Islamic Movement of India, a banned Islamic group that authorities say may have played a role in the series of seven bomb blasts, along with militants based in Pakistan. Documents linking Sheikh with SIMI, as the group is known, were allegedly seized from his home, Raghuvanshi said.
Sheikh was scheduled to appear in a Mumbai court later on Monday.
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Every terrorist group has: a "millitary" wing, a political wing, and a propaganda wing. Though, usually, members of the propaganda wing work for MSM and not directly for the terrs.
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Amusingly, when Mr. Wife was doing plant start-ups in India, he shocked the locals exceedingly when he he casually read shop signs and such written in Urdu -- being as he is American and all. Urdu is written in the Arabic alphabet, and he'd just spent several years developing products for the Arab-speaking world. I haven't bothered telling him about Mike the oilman's little ideas -- while he thoroughly enjoyed the Egyptians he worked with when he was there (so long as he didn't require them to actually accomplish much of anything beyond promises) and the charm and knowledge of the Moroccans, he came back from his first trip to Saudia Arabia convinced he'd been in the world's worst fascist regime, and he had/has no patience with those whose moral discrimination is stopped by receipt of Saudi blood-dripping gold.
QUETTA: NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq has said that the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) will continue its struggle for the enforcement of Islamic law, Sharia, in the country as it is the only remedy to Pakistans existing problems.
"That's right! We need more shariah!"
Addressing a congregation organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) at Quettas Ayub Stadium, Siraj said General Musharraf had failed to meet public expectations. He accused the president of snubbing public demand.
...the very existence of Islam was in danger and an alien culture was being introduced in the country under the umbrella of enlightened moderation...
The people of Pakistan want a system that provides them immediate relief and swift justice. Gen Musharrafs government has caused more problems than solving problems, he said.
Siraj criticised the present governments foreign policy and condemned its silence towards the latest developments in Middle East. He said that Pakistan was desperately in need of courts that provided justice according to Quranic teachings. The present regime, he alleged, was acting on the directives of its Western masters, particularly the US. Due to the policies of the present government, the very existence of Islam was in danger and an alien culture was being introduced in the country under the umbrella of enlightened moderation, he said. Pakistan needs the Islamic system and the MMA will thwart all plans to hinder its enforcement, he said. He said that if Gen Musharraf did not doff his uniform, he would ultimately face a humiliating fate.
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Remember sharia rhymes with diarrhea...and has about the same effect.
French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Sunday many Taliban fighters are crossing from Pakistan to stage attacks inside Afghanistan. Alliot-Marie said the NATO-led force assuming command in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan from Monday would need better cooperation from Pakistan. "We need real cooperation from Pakistan, but it seems very difficult for them. The border is a very difficult region and we ask Pakistan to make some more effort to control it," she told reporters in Kabul. "We think a lot of Taliban fighters are coming from Pakistan to Afghanistan."
On Monday, the 18,000-strong NATO formally takes command in the volatile south of the country from a US-led anti-terror coalition. About 8,000 mostly British, Canadian and Dutch troops have deployed there in recent months. The Taliban have stepped up attacks this year, and hundreds of insurgents have been killed in fighting with the international forces.
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Western troops aren't too vulnerable in Afghan cities. The war is in the countryside. As soon as Taliban concentrates they are wiped out. Unfortunately, the fact that Afghan mosques are allowed to incite jihad terror, is causing large recruitment. Most dead are Afghans who were trained in Pakistan. The Musharaf is playing both the MMA and the US.
Israel is facing a strategic threat and therefore must end the war in Lebanon with a strategic victory, Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday at the Knesset, responding to international pressures to end the fighting.
Turning his attention to the air raid on the village of Qana in southern Lebanon that left dozens of civilians dead, Netanyahu said: "Here in Israel, there's genuine regret over the killing of children."
Bibi warned that a missile war can commence at any moment and characterized the prospect as a strategic threat. "A third of the country is paralyzed because of this. Who knows whether this will include other citizens as well," he said. "This is a strategic threat that requires a strategic victory. Those were the objectives set out by the government, justly, wisely, and boldly. They were presented to the security cabinet on the 13th of this month." Netanyahu also stressed that Israelis will continue to back the government as long as it continues to fight Hizbullah.
"I know there's immense unification in order to achieve the objectives," he said. "It comes from all parts of the country because people know we're facing a different threat. This isn't merely a militia. In order to remove this threat, we recieved support from our greatest friend, the US, which rightfully said: We must do something, because if we don't, what have we done?"
Bibi aroused the anger of Arab Knesset Members after arguing "this is a war with a justified objective. No objective is more justified. None. The difference between us and the terrorists is that we hit (civilians) by mistake, and they do it with malice. This is the difference between a legitimate war and war crimes." "This is the difference between us and them. We genuinely attempt to minimize the harm to civilians," he said.
"The journey of war is like any other journey. It starts easily but midway there's a difficult junction where we must decide whether we continue to climb the mountain or stop, and I call on the government: Don't stop midway. Complete the job."
Turning to Arab MKs who earlier referred to the Qana air raid, Netanyahu said: "When missiles were falling, when an (Israeli) grandmother and her granddaughter were murdered, I didn't hear you "
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The fact that he's willing to stick up for the government is one of the few rays of hope I see. I sure hope I live long enough to read a book about what really went on in this war.
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If anything, this phase of conflict needs to be sustained long enough so that Iran finally steps on its own d!ck via proven arms shipments or other outright logistical support to Hezbollah. It'll be just one more excellent reason to bomb the living snot out of Iran in the months to come.
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Mr. Netanyahu is a thorn in the side of the MSM and their minions amongst all the appeasers. He just tells it like it is, and everone gets "offended" because they don't like to hear the truth...
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I agree, I don't want them to stop until they have achieved a decisive victory.
Where I come from, if you cannot keep your dog on a leash and it bites your neighbor, the dog gets put down and you get taken to court. The same analogy holds true here. Lebanon either internally "liquidates" it's pooch Hizzyebola or they suffer the consequences. Plausible deniability only extends so far.
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this phase of conflict needs to be sustained long enough so that Iran finally steps on its own d!ck
Now there's a positive outcome I hadn't thought about. That got the black dawgs moving.
While US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been in the Middle East meeting regional alongside Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, media outlets controlled by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party the past few days have been using racist rhetoric in their reports, referring to the American representative as the "black woman," "raven," "colored dark skinned black lady" and "black spinster."
The Palestinian media coverage follows an article last week in which WND reported senior Fatah members staged an anti-American protest outside the main government building in Ramallah while Abbas met with Rice. Most media coverage of last Wednesday's Ramallah protests claimed ralliers were affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
One placard had Rice drinking the blood of dead babies and stating, "I need more blood."
According to a translation by Palestinian Media Watch, the PA daily Al Hayat detailed Wednesday's Ramallah protests in which Rice was described as a "raven" who "brings only destruction."
Al Hayat featured pictures of ralliers brandishing anti-Rice placards, some reading, "Murderer Rice go to Hell" and "Get out." One placard had Rice drinking the blood of dead babies and stating, "I need more blood."
A cartoon last week in the PA controlled Al Quds depicted Rice pregnant with a monkey. A caption read, "Rice speaks about birth of new Middle East."
In a previous article by Al Hayat, Rice is described three times as the "black woman," and her father, who was an ordained Presbyterian minister, was called the "black clergyman (who filled Rice's head with Bible stories)." The article warned, "Beware of this 'black spinster,' we don't want to say 'the black widow' out of respect for her femininity and her intelligence." White House should be pitching this story to all African American media who may have missed its Israel-oriented source, Ynet
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I remember being shocked when visiting a lovely, Egyptian Coptic lady, the wife of one of Mr. Wife's colleagues from the old days in the Middle East, when she described her disgust at seeing a black man kissing a white woman on the Toronto subway. The level of bigotry endemic to the entire society, even by those who suffer from some aspect of it, is appalling to American minds.
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Rice needs to put a "Keep seething, I'm reloading" bumpersticker on her limo. She also needs to highlight the Palestinians' incredible bigotry to our precious multi-culti left so they can twist their heads off trying to put a positive spin on it.
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With endorsements like that, I'd say that makes Condi a shoe-in for President '08.
BTW, Condi did screw up by not mentioning the release of the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers yesterday when speaking of the rough outline of a ceasefire.
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Yup, BigED. "Black Spinster"? BLACK WIDOW more like.
Israel will "expand and strengthen" its attack on Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, the defense minister said Monday, while the army honored a 48-hour halt in aerial strikes.
Israel's top ministers will discuss expanding the army's ground operation at a meeting later Monday, while thousands of reserve soldiers train for the possibility that they will be sent into Lebanon to participate in the battle, senior defense officials said. "Israel will expand and strengthen its activities against the Hezbollah," Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Israel's parliament, while Arab lawmakers repeatedly interrupted him with calls for an immediate cease-fire.
Israel was pressured to call a 48-hour suspension of its airstrikes after nearly 60 civilians were killed in the Lebanese village of Qana on Sunday. However, the army has made clear that the cessation does not include a halt in artillery fire or limited ground operations.
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2 days to smuggle in more missles from Syria and deploy the one in the Beka valley. This is really a dumb move.
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SPoD, yes and no. Depends. If the data from UAVs and other means are utilized, that may help pinpoint some Hezbully locations that have been thus far obscured. I hope that monitoring teams are working overtime on that.
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2X4,
Debka has an interesting article about the Syrian Anti aircraft ambush downing one of our reconnaisance UAVs flying over lebanese/syrian border region just in time of increased activity of Syrian/Iranian Ammo convoys trying to cross the border into lebanon.
I expect to see some strong IAF presence in this region very soon.
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EoZ, at what point will the Israeli people/knesset become sufficiently dissatisfied with the way this war is being prosecuted to throw Olmert/Peretz out? Or is everybody over there please with the way things are going?
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday that he needed 10 days to two weeks to finish the offensive in Lebanon, according to a senior Israeli government official.
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Good on you, Olmert.
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Agreed.
Go a giant step further, Olmert, baby: tell, don't ask. Tell Rice and Bush to take a deep breath and realize that the US now shares the same situation as Israel:
It no longer matters. If you do right, you'll get no credit. If you do wrong, the blame will be endless, permanent. In fact, regardless of the facts, you will be blamed, just like us. You are Israelis, now.
All of the barbarians, triangulators, thieves, ankle-biters, haters, and even the simple fools of the world would blindly support your destruction.
No matter the great good you do in the world. No matter the millions you've set free and defended. No matter the vast numbers you've saved and sheltered. No matter the great gifts in medicine, technology, crop yields, in almost every field of endeavor. No matter. None.
They're all blinded by their customary hates, institutional lies and stupidity, vaunted traditions, and raw jealousy. You are the victims of your own successes, liberal society, unmatched generosity, and obstinate belief that all mankind shares your desire for freedom. It doesn't.
You are Israelis, now. If you're smart, instead of suicidal, you will realize what this means, the liberating reality: You have nothing left to lose except by continuing to give a high holy shit what anyone else thinks or says.
You are free. Free to fuck your enemies like $2 whores at a global frat party. Free to decimate those who oppose your goals. Free to see for yourselves that only one thing matters in this world, only one thing actually changes anything: unapologetic direct action. Free to see for yourselves that your enemies can only restrain you with your permission. Free to realize your dreams of sanity and peace and fair-play. All you need do is plan well and methodically destroy those who seek to maintain or spread human misery. Yup, go medieval on their asses while you can.
Baby, that's freedom. Get yer game on, America. Or go sit in the corner and tell the world you're really very sorry for existing. Then cease to do so.
We'll hold out as long as we can... then, when the barbarians' breeding rate overwhelms us, we'll take a fucking shitload down with us.
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Come back home Condi: Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said he told her not to come (to Lebanon). Take a 6 week vacation on some deserted island without cell phone service.
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BTW, Olmert will be interviewed on Fox at about 12:30 Eastern, for those who wish to hear what he says without media-filtered spin.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Sunday called for an immediate cease-fire following the IAF airstrike on Qana. "I have expressed to [Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora] my profound dismay and deep sorrow at the death of innocent civilians in Qana," Solana said in a statement, reiterating his call for a cease-fire. "Nothing can justify this."
Which means that any terrorist organization can stop the Euros cold by putting some human shields in front of whatever they do. Eurabia here we come.
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European Union's commissioner for external relations, called the Israeli attack an "unjustifiable" escalation at a time when the international community is working to find an end to the violence between IDF troops and Hizbullah guerrillas. "Immediate cessation of violence and hostilities is now more important than ever. The killings of innocent people, particularly of children, must stop now," she said in a statement.
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Let's see how Solana feels about it when some of his relatives are killed by raghead terrorists. I suspect the answer will be more than slightly different. "Nothing can justify" having a pusillanimous bastard like that speak for any respectable organization...oh wait, I forgot we're talking about that bunch of feckless wankers, the EU. They've got an ugly end ahead of them and they've fully earned every bit of it.
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So you are going to stop Hizballah firing thousands of missiles at Israeli civilins. Oh, I forgot you had years to do that and were backed up by your beloved UN and you did exactly nothing. (I'll ignore that the IAF says it wasn't them and they are far more credible than the MSM complicit in Arab staged managed atrocities. For all I know, they collected some bodies put them in a building and blew it up. It would be consistent with past behaviour)
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When is ANYONE going to look at the law and correctly say that Heb'Allah is responsible for these deaths as they fired rockets using these civilians as cover?
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So exactly what are Arabs and the UN doing to help end the Shiite-Sunni proxy war in Iraq? Nothing. Only when Israeli soldiers accidently take innocent life, does civilian deaths become a serious matter.
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Solana clearly looks at Israel as non human, rockets blasting Israel raised not one complaint. But god help us when they hurt one Lebanese that was either willingly or unwillingly acting as a human shield. The EU is not going to fall to Islam, it is siding with them.
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Solana clearly looks at Israel as non human, rockets blasting Israel raised not one complaint. But god help us when they hurt one Lebanese that was either willingly or unwillingly acting as a human shield. The EU is not going to fall to Islam, it is siding with them.
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It's a good thing the Allies felt differently 60-odd years ago, or the EU would be an Aryan only outfit headquarted in Berlin.
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Solana: 'Nothing can justify' civilian deaths
Tell that to the effing terrorists you smarmy @sshole. Oh, wait, that might require the slightest degree of testicular endowment, by which Solana is obviously entirely uncontaminated.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Sunday night and discussed the IAF attack that killed at least 60 civilians in southern Lebanon and conditions for a cease-fire, including the proposed deployment of an international force there, an official said.
During the meeting, Olmert's military secretary, Gadi Shamni, briefed Rice about the Qana attack and explained that Hizbullah had used the town to fire rockets at Israel, the official said on condition of anonymity because the two-hour Olmert-Rice talks in Jerusalem were private. The official provided no details about the conditions for a cease-fire or the deployment of a peacekeeping force that were discussed. The official and Olmert's office both said the fate of the disputed Shaba Farms territory was not talked about.
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Superb but very long article from WaPo on the potential use of genetic engineering to create virulent organisms to attack society. Recommended reading.
Eckard Wimmer knows of a shortcut terrorists could someday use to get their hands on the lethal viruses that cause Ebola and smallpox. He knows it exceptionally well, because he discovered it himself. In 2002, the German-born molecular geneticist startled the scientific world by creating the first live, fully artificial virus in the lab. It was a variation of the bug that causes polio, yet different from any virus known to nature. And Wimmer built it from scratch.
The virus was made wholly from nonliving parts, using equipment and chemicals on hand in Wimmer's small laboratory at the State University of New York here on Long Island. The most crucial part, the genetic code, was picked up for free on the Internet. Hundreds of tiny bits of viral DNA were purchased online, with final assembly in the lab.
With the single lab a couple colleagues and I share, with the equipment in place, we could probably do the same. The technology isn't hard. The ability to insert a single gene into a plasmid, phage, virus or bacterium is simple enough that now it's in kit form.
Wimmer intended to sound a warning, to show that science had crossed a threshold into an era in which genetically altered and made-from-scratch germ weapons were feasible. But in the four years since, other scientists have made advances faster than Wimmer imagined possible. Government officials, and scientists such as Wimmer, are only beginning to grasp the implications.
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And this is probably how man, or at least most of mankind, will end. We truly appreciate all those who are diligently serving this market with the wherewithal to bring it about. Sadly, that new Mercedes and the summer house will do them no good when their efforts are finaly realized. I will probably be one of the survivors because I don't really care. But I promise I'll take good care of the car and the house...
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I worry about this kind of tech in the hands of eco-terrorists much more than Islamo-terrorists.
BTW, the article doesn't mention that engineered infectious agents could be used as a extremely effective weapon in a state to state war, if you had a vaccine.
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I wonder how hard it would be to create a defense? Distributed labs (and believe me, would want more than one, some out in the open, others with deep cover) that could quickly find, sequence, replicate and crank out vaccines for new, engineered viruses. You would have to constantly be monitoring the blood supply, looking for viruses like small pox that had a long incubation period, so you would want some sort of field presence at major hospitals and bloodbanks. Then you would need a super-robust distribution system.
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Airborne diseases will spread faster than a virus can be sequenced, analyzed, vaccine synthesized, distributed, administered, and immunity built up.
That said. Microbial warfare is not something a certain religion wants to engage in. The US is the leader in genetic engineering and with our low population density, redundant infrastructure, diverse racial profile, and world leading medical facilities, will come out of any such war in better shape than any other society.
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I remember a period (around the time of the 2003 invasion, I think) when there were intense discussions about the risks of bio and chem warfare here at Rantburg. The conclusion at the time, as I understood it, was that the most virulent diseases burn out quickly because too large a proportion of the hosts die off before spreading the disease very far, and the ones the spread most effectively are perforce much less deadly -- hence giving time to isolate carriers and develop innoculations and cures -- but that nonetheless I should keep my pantry stocked with a good month's worth of survival rations, and ensure Mr. Wife and the trailing daughters can work from home at need. Oh, and because of our suburban, large-pantry-ed lifestyle, the US is best situated of the advanced countries to survive epidemics and pandemics, whether natural or man-made.
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I'm with you TW, a large well stocked Pantry is a Southern Standard.
We might miss things like fresh veggies and Milk, but we could live off our own pantry a good month or so.
And to ensure we get to enjoy that well stocked Pantry, we also have another Southern Tradition, the well stocked Gun Cabinet.
One each provides wonderful peace of mind, even if never used in emergencies.
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The leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council says he wants to convert Indonesia into an "Allahcracy," it was reported Sunday. Abu Bakar Bashir, 68, free after serving two years in jail for his role in a bombing of two nightclubs in Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, tells the Sunday Times of London that Islamist bombings "are reactions by Muslims to defend themselves."
The democratic system is not the Islamic way. It is forbidden. Democracy is based on people, but the state must be based on God's law.
"The democratic system is not the Islamic way," he says. "It is forbidden. Democracy is based on people, but the state must be based on God's law. I call it Allahcracy."
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, does not embrace Bashir's ideas, the newspaper says. Fundamentalist parties have failed to win significant support and Islamists are trying to advance their agenda by pressuring politicians to adopt elements of Islamic law. "George Bush is trying to rot Islam from within," Bashir said, "and America is attacking Indonesian Muslims -- with ideas. That's why I'm fighting America -- but only with preaching and ideas, of course."
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God's Law.....He forgot to mention who would be responsible for implementation and enforcement. But I guess we can assume that the job ought to be left up to the clerics. Executive, judiciary and legislative power, give it all to the guys shouting, pointing their fingers, rolling their eyes and waving the Koran in the air. And when God fails to materialize and announce His Will on matters not covered in Koran in a booming voice heard by all across the land, then we can leave it up to the clerics to tell us what Allah is thinking.
Accountability....nah. Checks and balances? Pshaw. Qualifications needed to govern? Spend your whole life doing nothing but reading, memorizing and preaching the Koran. Oh yeah, it also helps if you've got a knack for denouncing and threatening crusaders, Jews, moderate Muslims...anyone not as pious as you. A talent for whipping up hatred and inciting violence is a bonus too. The Caliphate...utopia it aint.
Something that more than a few folks around here have been saying for some time now, myself included. Glad to know you're along for the ride, Supple Whomper9999. If such a thing exists, Bashir is d@mn close to evil incarnate.
His "Allahcracy" is just another way of saying that he wants to take a huge chunk of the world's population off-line so that they can be manipulated however @ssholes like him deem fit.
"The democratic system is not the Islamic way,"
I believe that democracy (and elected representation) are a fundamental human right. Rectal cavities like Bashir seek to commit crimes against humanity with their visions of theocratic rule. The time to revoke his oxygen consumption license is long past.
1) You have the right to kill Jews - particularly ones standing behind talking trees.
2) You have the right to kill Christians, Hindus, and other infidels.
3) You have the right to kill atheist / agnostic Western liberals - but do them LAST.
4) You have the right to pray to Mecca at least five times a day.
5) You have the right to have your head separated from you shoulders if you don't do #4.
6) You have the right to kill female relatives who do something 'naughty' - like flash their ankle in public.
7) You have the right to burn American flags.
8) You have the right to blame America for anything and everything that goes wrong.
9) You have the right to own a woman - but only if you agree to keep her in her place.
10) You have the right to do everything your relgious leader tells you, but only when prefaced with 'Allah says ...'.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council passed a weakened resolution Monday giving Iran until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions.
Iran immediately rejected the council action, saying the resolution would only make negotiations more difficult over a package of incentives offered in June for it to suspend enrichment. "All along it has been the persistence of some to draw arbitrary red lines and deadlines that has closed the door to any compromise," Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Javad Zarif, said. "This tendency has singlehandedly blocked success and in most cases killed proposals in their infancy."
"This approach will not lead to any productive outcome and in fact it can only exacerbate the situation," he said.
Because of Russian and Chinese demands, the text was watered down from earlier drafts, which would have made the threat of sanctions immediate. It now essentially requires the council to hold more discussions before it considers sanctions.
And then more discussions, and more resolutions. Remember Iraq: 17 resolutions, and not one enforced until GWB can along.
The resolution passed by a vote of 14-1. Qatar, which represents Arab states on the council and lives next door to the big bad wolf, cast the lone dissenting vote.
Drafted by Britain, France and Germany with U.S. backing, the resolution follows a July 12 agreement -- by the foreign ministers of those four countries, plus Russia and China -- to refer Tehran to the Security Council for not responding to the incentives package. The ministers asked that council members adopt a resolution making Iran's suspension of enrichment activities mandatory. The resolution includes that demand and calls on all states "to exercise vigilance" in preventing the transfer of all goods that could be used for Iran's enrichment and ballistic missile programs.
"If you remember the reason for that resolution is to make the suspension of enrichment and related activities mandatory and then to give Iran a deadline by which it should accept the now mandatory requirement that it suspend its enrichment activities," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters on a flight from Jerusalem.
In a lengthy speech after the resolution was adopted, Zarif told the council it had no legal legitimacy to demand that Iran suspend uranium enrichment and reprocessing. He repeated Iran's claim that it has every right to pursue nuclear technology and does not want to develop nuclear weapons. Zarif faulted the United States and Britain for supporting a 1953 coup in Iran, and blasted the council for being slow to address Iraq's invasion of Iran in 1980 and its use of chemical weapons against Iranians.
You sorta poisoned that well when you took American embassy personnel hostage, remember?
Tehran said last week it would reply to the Western incentive package on Aug. 22, but the council decided to go ahead with a resolution and not wait for Iran's response.
The resolution calls on the U.N nuclear watchdog, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, to report back by Aug. 31 on Iran's compliance with the resolution's demands. If Iran does not comply, the council would move to adopt political and economic sanctions, the resolution said.
Diplomats said the threats spelled out in the resolution would be revoked if Iran agrees to the package of incentives. "It does not mean an end to the negotiations and we reaffirm the proposals," France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said. "We appeal to Iran to positively respond to the substantive proposals that we made last month."
Explaining his "no" vote, Qatar's U.N. Ambassador Nassir Al-Nasser said that while the demands of the six nations were legitimate, the resolution will only exacerbate tensions in the region and Iran should be given more time to respond because his country doesn't want to get clobbered. "We do not agree with the tabling of this resolution at a time when our region is in flames," Al-Nasser said. "We see no harm in waiting for a few days to exhaust all possible means and in order to identify the real intentions of Iran."
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Anybody have any ideas just how long this sick, stupid, senseless charade is going to be allowed to continue before somebody actually does something about the menace of Nuts With Nukes?
Sheesh...
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How long to proclaim 17 resolutions, the standard set by Saddam?
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I'd dearly love to believe he'd do that, DMFD, but I've given up hope.
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un brilliantly extended the deadline from the proclaimed 8/22 to the 31st. This should give Prez Dinnerjacket a few laughs, and since it is pre-rejected, why not stir the pot now with a strongly worded demarche from France and get that out of the way too?
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We're going to see economic sanctions, a naval quarantine. and the feared oil weapon. No more gas for Iranians. There may even be some industrial accidents in the few refineries Iran does have. Let the Iranians handle it from there.
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Hmmm... Not to start grief, but with the exception of one possibility, I can't see why, Dave D.
Things seem to be shaping up for the sequence of confrontations needed to make the case to the US public and Congress. The Mullahs are being extremely helpful in so many ways, too.
I don't have access to the Bush timeline, and wouldn't say anything at all if I did, but the moment of truth clearly approaches, IMO. Whether it will occur per DMFD's prediction, is well beyond my poor info. That it will occur, however, I have no doubt - unless, and here's that one exception that worries me:
If the Dhimmicrats take control of the House in November. In that case, reality will surely be derailed -- dropping US foreign policy in the shitter. If that happens - we're fucked. Impeachment bullshit, the watered down resolution regards Iran will stand, and the focus will be forcibly shifted to inane domestic partisan bullshit and Tranzi appeasement... all of the stuff that simply doesn't matter if we lose the WoT. It will be a circus of fools running an appeasement festival of Tranzi surrenders and domestic boondoggles sure to make us all paupers. I believe I've read some comments from you that echo my pessimism, in this case.
If the Republicans hold the house, Iran's dead meat.
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Heh. Your last two lines sum it up pretty well.
I'm not saying that what we're hoping for regarding Iran won't happen; I'm just saying I don't want to set myself up for a big disappointment.
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Ah, I get ya. I'm putting money into a few "key" House campaigns - against Murtha, for example. It seems we agree November will be a true pivotal moment in the history of the US. I admit I am pessimistic to put it at 50-50, so I'm doing what little I can.
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IMO the best the Dems can hope to accomplish is to gain a few seats, not enuff to threaten or stifle GOP control or Right-leaning/centric GOP-Dem Moderates. The broad agenda for the DemoLeft is to get America under PC "justified" OWG and overt National Socialism which for the Clintons is Communism. CLINTONISM > America = Socialist Amerika is a SOCIALIST COUNTRY = PRO-SOCIALIST COUNTRY being led by the wrong type or kind of Socialists + wrong type/kind of Socialism. amongst other "straight arrow" = PDeniable, John Wayne = Jimmy Carter, Hitler = Stalin, etc. premises. Wid mediocre to failed domestic electioneering andanti-GOP efforts, the only thing/ace card the DemoLeft has left is "American Hiroshima(s)", i.e decapitation strike = PDeniable reactionary terror attack agz Dubya-GOP. Hillary and Co-POTUSes will rule becuz they weirdly and mysteriously survived the WMD attacks of Radical Islam-Terror as MSM-Leftpert verified caused by Bush-GOP. IFF ONE ACCEPTS THAT THE WOT IS A WAR BY AND FOR SOCIALISM = GLOBALISM, AS WELL AS AGAINST
"ISLAMO-FASCISM", DEMOLEFT > THE ANTITHESIS OF ISLAM-FASCISM IS ISLAMO-COMMUNISM. A WAR AGAINST FASCISM = WAR FOR COMMUNISM. Thus for the DemoLeft and MSM, FASCIST > both Hated Despicable Nazi-Hitlerists + Well-intentioned but defective and unruly imperialist, de-regulated, Limited Totalitarianist-Governmentist LEFTCOMMUNIST, AN ERROR-PRONE LIMITED MARXIST-STALINIST. ONE SIDE = ALL SIDES = NO SIDE(S), EVERYONE = ANYONE = NO ONE. Iff the Cold War=era USSR-Red China, but espec the USSR, were the in charge, Iran or any other nation would already be invaded iff not conquered, even as the diploms were conversing and debating before the People's Global Assembly at the Red Banner UNO. ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER, etal laws, protocols, or courtesies is for America and Western democracies, NOT THE ULTRA-LEFT USSR-RED CHINA. RADICAL ISLAMISTS + SECUALRISTS > WAR MUST OCCUR + USA SUFFER CASUALTY-INTENSIVE ATTACKS IN ORDER FOR ANTI-AMERICAN AMERIKANS-GLOBALISTS, etal ANTI-DEMOCRATIC GOVT-ISTS, CENTRALISTS, AND REGULATORY TOTALITARIANISTS-ABSOLUTISTS, TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE(S), to ensure OWG and that hyperpower America is IRREVOCABLY, PERMANENTLY SUBORNED UNDER SAME. Russia-China & SCO, aka Commie Asia, aka Mackinder's World Island of Eurasia, won't have to worry anout attaining "parity" wid hyperpower America + West circa 2030-2050 iff America + West no longer exists by Year 2015-2020, now won't they!? GORBACHEVISM > IFF THE USSR-COMMIE BLOC-EAST CANNOT SUCCCEED IN ACHIEVING THE POWER, WEALTH, AND STANDARDS OF THE US-WEST, THE US-WEST WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO THE LEVELS OF COMMUNISM = the EAST. GORBACHEVISM > INVERSE PARITY TO ACHIEVE SOLE SUPERIORITY-VICTORY, more contemporarily known as "THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA", from FIRST WORLD to THIRD WORLD. FIRST WORLD AMERICA must be "constrained/controlled" by MOSTLY THIRD WORLD WORLD COMMUNITY = UNO. MALE BRUTE FASCISTS > defective lowly Rightist Authoritarians = also well-meaning Limited Totalitarianists, i.e COMMUNIST CAPITALISTS/COMMPITALISTS. America = Amerika's volunterr army is allowed to attack Iran-North Korea, BUT NOT WIN OR PREVAIL AGAINST SAME, UNTIL WASHINGTON COMMUNIZES-STALINIZES EVERYTHING BACK IN CONUS - you know, Lefties telling the Amer people/voter "the Truth" = Propanganda-PCorrectness.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin who is a man welcomed on Monday Israel's pledge to suspend air strikes in neighbouring Lebanon for 48 hours, but said it was not enough.
"It is, for France, a first step, but an insufficient step given the current stakes," he told reporters at Mantes-la-Jolie, a suburb west of Paris, at his regular monthly press conference. "We must all together redouble our efforts to achieve the immediate cessation of hostilities requested by the president," de Villepin added.
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy is due to hold meetings with Lebanese government officials in Beirut on Monday.
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Old Europe looses its kahoonas at the sight of war. How many friendly fire casualties have occurred in Afghanistan and Iraq? Hell, this is war and as Sherman said "War is Hell." Politicians need to quit pissing their pants and get on with WWIII. The Islamofacists already view it as occurring.
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Who really cares what France has to say? Certainly not Israel, we let France rant in our press, but at the end of the day no one really cares. Britton will always be with us, despite their BBC and our CNNs best efforts. Israel cares about Israel and the preservation of their state, nothing more and as it should be. If Israel is halting their attack for 48 hours they are doing it for tactical reasons, not political ones, no matter what they say in the press.
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I'm really looking forward to the French led Multi-National Force that is going to separate the Israelis from the Hezb. I wonder how soon Hezb's fuel problem will translate to short flight rockets.
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What a truly simplistic and pitiful bastard. If...and I am quite certain it will never happen...Israel were to be destroyed who do the French think would be the very next target for destruction ?
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SOP, Israel need not be destroyed for France to fall. The Islamifacation of europe will have little to do with Israel. My guess is France is the #1 western European targeted nation by Islamic radicals. Villepin is such an idiot, but then the French have a wonderful history of political suiside.
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Puts in mind the ceasefire Hitler invoked with France while it shifted its military from Poland to France.
Some things just never change
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To De Villepin: FOAD.
To RB'ers; As you all know, the enemy in France is not 'the French', it is the 'French elite'. 'The French' can be (and are often) annoying, but are most certainly not of a mind with their ruling class.
Just saying.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that she believes she has achieved general agreement on terms to end almost three weeks of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah and that she expects a cease-fire to take hold this week.
"This morning as I head back to Washington, ... Take along vacation Condi
... I take with me an emerging consensus on what is necessary for both an urgent cease-fire and a lasting settlement. I am convinced we can achieve both this week," Rice said at a small press conference for reporters traveling with her. No mention of returning the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers.
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It's a heart rendening shame adults put children in such a situations this could happen to them.
No bagging on the blog that exposed the exploitation of this horror however It's even more revolting when their deaths are used to further someone elses sick agendas. There is no dignity for them, dignity which they deserve in death, in these images being shown to further the agendas of adults.
I keep saying these 'press' people who demonstrate they are on the other side should be treated accordingly. What would you have done to Joseph Goebbels and his helpers if you could have laid hands upon him?
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the IDF needs too have an eye open for this "civil defence worker" since IMO he is probably hezbollah himself. But i'm glad that someone pointed out how long this man paraded the bodies of the 2 children around for the benefit of the cameras
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Is it me or is anyone else disturbed about this 'worker' and the media molesting the bodies of these children for hours after they were dead in order to stage this scene?
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#2 "What would you have done to Joseph Goebbels and his helpers if you could have laid hands upon him?"
The Allied Powers did get their hands on one of his helpers - Hans Fritzsche.
"Fritzsche was taken prisoner by Soviet soldiers in Berlin on May 2, 1945. He was tried before the International Military Tribunal. In place of the deceased Goebbels, he was charged with conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was one of only three Nazi figures to be acquitted at Nuremberg, but he was soon charged with other crimes and was eventually sentenced to nine years. He was released in September 1950 and died of cancer soon afterwards." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Fritzsche
Iran awarded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez its highest state sprocket medal on Sunday for supporting Tehran in its nuclear standoff with the international community, while Chavez urged the world to rise up and defeat the U.S., state-run media in both countries reported.
"Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire," Chavez said.
The leftist Venezuelan leader also condemned Israel for what he called the "terrorism" and "madness" of its attacks in Lebanon, Venezuelan state television reported. "Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire," Chavez said. "This (task) must be assumed with strength by the majority of the peoples of the world."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented Chavez with the Islamic Republic Medal in a ceremony at Tehran University. The award was to show Iran's gratitude for his "support for Iran's stance on the international scene, especially its opposition to a resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency," Iranian state-run television said. "He is the one who has resisted imperialism for years and has defended the interests of his and other Latin American countries," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
In February, Venezuela opposed an IAEA decision to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council over its disputed nuclear program.
Iran denied Sunday it was helping Hizbullah in its fight against Israel in Lebanon. "We haven't deployed any forces there (Lebanon)," said Hamid Reza Asefi, spokesman of Iran's foreign ministry. "We don't send weapons to the resistance. We don't support them militarily. "If we choose to give them future military support, we will announce it. We have no fear of Mr. Bush and company."
Iran is a vocal backer of Hizbullah, which is battling Israel in its southern Lebanese strongholds after its guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others on July 12.
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That old diplomatic standard, the unbelieved denial.
On July 29, 2006, the London Arabic daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a detailed article on assistance extended to Hizbullah by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, as reported by a high-ranking Revolutionary Guards officer who had trained Hizbullah naval units. According to the officer, Hizbullah has a diver unit and a naval commando unit.
He further claims that Revolutionary Guards officers assisted Hizbullah in the July 14, 2006 firing of a C802 missile at an Israeli Navy ship, and had also helped Hizbullah construct underground facilities including command and control rooms which are being operated by Revolutionary Guards officers along with Hizbullah fighters.
In addition, Iranian news agencies have published a number of reports about groups of Iranian volunteers sent to Lebanon to aid Hizbullah in its fight against Israel.
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The Great Satan remains in the lettering = spelling. And now you know why American parents buy so much Campbell's "Alphabet Soup" for the kiddies - Iff you don't know your alphabet or speelling, you'll end up a terrorist and camel-kaze".
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday repeated his call for an immediate halt to violence between Israel and Hizbullah, condemning an IAF air strike that killed at least 54 people and telling the UN Security Council he was "deeply disturbed" that his previous calls for cease-fire had gone unheeded.
Annan spoke at an emergency meeting of the council which he convened after that IDF air strike in Qana early Sunday. He said the council had a responsibility to demand an end to the violence. "We meet at a moment of extreme gravity first and foremost for the people of the Middle East but also for the authority of this organization and especially this council," Annan said. "Action is needed now before many more children, women and men become casualties of a conflict over which they have no control."
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F-U Annan!
What a dickhead. He sat around for *years* while Hez fired missle after missle after missle into Israel to kill civilians. Now that Israel decided to do his job for him he cries.
The dead civilians (if that is what they were) are Hezbollah's fault for firing from civilian areas.
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"Action is needed now before many more children, women and men become casualties of a conflict over which they have no control."
They had control, just as the Paleos. All they needed to do was reject terrorism and terrorists in their government, in their neighborhoods, in their families. They merely needed to choose freedom and sanity over their traditions of blind self-destructive hate. They failed miserably. They chose this situation. This is the obvious just reward for congenital stupidity.
To be the world's "official" apologist for the terminally insane has been a perfect fit for Annan.
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More years and decades of new or continuing terror attacks, Radical Islamists becoming de facto part of the local Public Govt and eventually the dominant or absolute force in Public Giovernment. Dozens or scores of rockets RPG's and AK47's became 000's, now 0,000's, now soon enuff in LT to become scores or tens of 000's iff not larger, not to mention also larger-sized, longer-ranged, more accurate and multi-/WMD-capable. OLLIE NORTH > challenged Colmes to name him one "ceasefire" which has resulted in bilateral peace, the cessation of rocket, arty, and suicide attacks agz Israel, or was respected /obeyed by the terror groups in Lebanon. ISRAEL = USA > THE BURDEN IS ON SAME, AND ONLY SAME, TO RESPECT AND FOLLOW UN PROTOCOLS, TREATYS AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS, NOT THEIR ENEMIES OR THE TERROR GROUPS. ISRAEL = USA > can be attacked and harmed at any time, but is simul NOT allowed to retaliate or even get angry about anything. NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO MAKE ANY MISTAKE OR ERROR LEST THE BURDEN FALLS ON SAME FOR EVERYTHING. THE STRONG = SUCCESSFUL MUST BE "PERFECT" IN EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING, THE WEAK = LESS SUCCESSFUL CAN BE UNILATERALLY DECEITFUL, VIOLENT, VENGEFUL AND MURDEROUS AT THE LATTER'S CONVENIENCE. WHats the difference between the Army/Garrison or Occupation brothels of Secular Atheistic Communism-Socialism versus the 72 Virgins-Pleasure Slaves of Radical Islamism; between the "Permanent War/Revolution" of the former versus the "Permanent Jihad" of the latter???
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Supple Whomper-yep.
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If Kofi is so concerned about this, why isn't HIS ass over there? Why isn't HE roaming around Lebanon? I'm certain that anything that occurred while he was on the ground would be preferred over him continuing to run his mouth and waste perfectly good oxygen from afar.
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He's better than a poet, Elder of Zion. He's one of the Guam Mendiolas. ;-) anonymous5089 recognizes some of dear JosephM's more emphatic phraseologies from some of the more obscure sites he's visited on occasion, but the mere mention of some of their philosophies sounds too complicated for me to master. JosephM's interests are catholic in the extreme, and the glimpses of knowledge he reveals are fascinating to one who's lived as sheltered a life as I.
Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric on Sunday demanded an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon, warning that the Muslim world would "not forgive" nations that stand in the way of a stop to the fighting. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued the call following the IAF airstrike that killed at least 60 Lebanese, mostly women and children, in the village of Qana. "Islamic nations will not forgive the entities that hinder a cease-fire," al-Sistani said, in a clear reference to the United States. "It is not possible to stand helpless in front of this Israeli aggression on Lebanon," he added. "If an immediate cease-fire in this Israeli aggression is not imposed, dire consequences will befall the region."
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No can do, pops
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Hezbollah warned on Sunday it would punish Israel for the deaths of at least 51 civilians in Israeli air raids on the village of Qana, saying the Jewish state had to accept the consequences of its "massacre". "This horrible massacre, like the others, will not remain unpunished," the Shiite militant group said in a statement. "The Israeli enemy will assume the consequences of its massacres in Qana and elsewhere, as the Islamic Resistance has promised," it said.
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The difference being, of course, hezbollah would celebrate the deaths of Israeli women and children and try for more.
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Nice logo, btw. Is that a globe in the background? Wonder about the significance of that......
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An Israeli air strike on the Lebanese village of Qana which killed 51 people on Sunday, including 25 children, drew a barrage of fierce condemnation in the Middle East. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa issued a statement in which he "strongly condemned Israel's ongoing barbaric attacks on Lebanon, the latest of which is the attack on the village of Qana". He called for "an international investigation into this massacre and others of Israeli war crimes committed in Lebanon".
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose country has been involved in diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis, called Israel's attack "irresponsible" and reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire.
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I take it from this that the Hizzies are gettin' their asses kicked.
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Also see: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html and http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/who-is-this-man.html but they've just been mentioned on the Rush Limbaugh show, so the site might be getting a hammering...
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And here we thought we'd be safe as long as we avoid making Muhammad cartoons...
The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards called on his troops on Sunday to "prepare themselves to get even" with Israel and the United States, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. "Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards and Basij should prepare themselves to get even with Zionists and Americans," General Yahya Rahim Safavi was quoted as saying. "The fearless supreme leader will announce the time for this," he said, referring to Iran's top cleric and commander-in-chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
We have to keep this sacred hatred of the enemies of Islam alive in our hearts until the time of revenge comes
It was not clear if the comments represented an order for the Revolutionary Guards and its Basij militia, a volunteer force, to actually mobilise for conflict. "We have to keep this sacred hatred of the enemies of Islam alive in our hearts until the time of revenge comes," the general was quoted as saying. "I hope our nation can one day avenge the blood of innocent people in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan," he said, adding: "I ask God to arouse the dignity of Muslims and destroy America, Israel and their associates. I hope the clerical leaders in the Islamic world clarify the duty of Muslims against Israel."
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We already have the pre-emptive war talk, let's do the walk. Current projections are that Iran's genocidal Ayatollahs will have an extra $60,000,000,000 in oil cash to play with. Screw waiting for the November elections; Iranians can play the pre-emption card with all that extra money. Nuke Qom, the nuclear installations and bases on the Straits of Hormuz, and Iranians will topple the Ayatollah rule. Tokyo fire-bombing: 200,000 dead. Hiroshima/Nagasaki: 180,000 dead. We did that, and our ancestors are rolling in their graves over the current Neo-Moron, we-don't-do-that vomit. Iran can be taken, with only 250,000 dead on their side, and zero on ours. Ahmadinejad provided the pretext; let's provide the war.
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We don't need to use nukes. At least not yet. We can take down Iran conventionally - and permanently as a threat when it splinters into its natural states. The payoff for doing so compounds everyday.
We should, indeed, accommodate their desire for a decisive conflict. Now, please.
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You know....it's time to change the image associated with Islam. No longer shall we say "The Lions of Islam." No, there is a far more apt symbol for them.
The Donkeys of Islam.
Because like the Democrats, all they do is bray bray bray.
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On first glance I thought those were lightning bolts on his collar tabs, but looking closer I guess not. If they had class, they'd more closely model themselves on the Nazis - their heroes - who had the game down pat. It's probably some moronic Arab graphic nonsense like a torch or something equally unfrightening and silly.
Lightning bolts, twits. You wanna be cool? Scary cool? Lightning bolts. Poseurs. Wimps.
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This is his moment of glory. Like a drunk in a bar trying to start a fight. Eventually we will get tired of this shit or he will actually strike and we will clean him out. Hope he's enjoying himself.
I agree that we could destroy them in a few good nights of bombings but the world needs to understand with total clairity that we are done with this Islamic Jihad crap. Use conventional weapons on Teheran to eliminate their economic capabilities and nuke their military, oil, and weapons sites. Then we can be done with this crap before my son is of age and has to go fight the war we did not finish.
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We don't need to use nukes.
Quite right, SW9999. Glad to see another voice of reason hereabouts. No need to justify terrorist nuclear retaliation upon American soil. JDAMs and MOABS will do quite fine. They are merely long overdue. Like, since 1979.
Remember how elastic our economy was following the 9/11 event? We've lost trillions of dollars. Lots of guys lost their businesses, their homes, their families. Not just the guys in the towers, little guys in towns, large and small, across the country. The big companies get the headlines, but the losses in a micro sense were brutal and amazing.
And here, five years later, our national accounts are in the best shape they've been in for years. (If you don't know "current v. real dollar" analysis, please don't comment.) Trillions of lost dollars. Let us do some numbers:
Per capita GDP for Iran...2392.15.
Syria...1253.89
Lebanon...5689.49
Egypt... 969.58
Israel..18726.78
USA..39452.74
So why are these numbers important? The resultant post-9/11 losses were shared among 296-million people. We all suffered loss. Being middle- or upper-class economically means you may have felt it less...but not necessarily. Lots o' guys who made more money than you do had to start over.
All the terrorists did was take down two towers, put a hole in the Pentagon and put a hole in Pennsylvania. The horror of possibly having lost tens of thousands of innocents galvanized the nation. The horror of losing three-thousand still motivates a lot of us. (Not to forget the thousands of military we've asked to work for us in this current war.)
Here's the point. The uncertainty introduced into the political/economic system by the 9/11 event still reverberates through those systems. It's a thing called "risk". So far, through the post-9/11 period, several nations have responded to risk. 38 nations, including the USA, responded to the need to invade Iraq. There are 192 member nations in the U.N. One-fifth of the world's nations allied to invade Iraq. Britain, Poland, Japan, South Korea, effing Mongolia! These are people who understand risk. What you don't do is as important as what you do do. ( I said do-do.) (Lighten up...it's a blog)
So view risk as the crucible of choice. What have we done to introduce risk into the current situation with Syria and Iran?
We're a risk aversive people. That's common sense. But we're also an entrepreneurial nation. We're risk takers. We're Yankee Traders. We're Maverick. We temper the pussy risk aversive ness with common sense that with great risks come great rewards. If you've ever served on a Chamber of Commerce committee...you know about risk aversive ness. If you've ever run a company, you know about taking risks.
But what risks do nations like Syria and Iran take? There are no outcomes for their behaviour. There are for Israel. Hell, they're civilized. Nobody loves being hated. Even the Jews, who have had more practice than any other race on the earth.
What about Iran? Syria?
Go back to the table on per capita GDP. National risk is shared risk. We lost trillions following 9/11. Where is the 9/11 for Iran and Syria? What risk are they facing?
The fact that our economy rebounded as well as it does redounds to our credit. Most of what we do encourages risk taking and profit making. Is that true in Iran and Syria? What proportion of GDP is held by the upper 1-10 percent of their population? What proportion of risk will be felt by their autocrats?
Unless, and until, we re-introduce risk into the current regimes of Syria and Iran we're simply a paper tiger.
How much damage to the infrastructure of Syria and Iran would need to be perpetrated to reduce their economies by 10-20 percent? Given a twenty percent reduction in GDP in Iran...how much international mischief making could they afford? Have you looked at the cheap suits Bashar Assad wears?
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all I'm asking for is 24 hr notice so I can pull my pension funds from Janus Overseas fund and put it into a low-risk S&P 500 mutual fund - is that too much to ask?
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On July 29, 2006, the London Arabic daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a detailed article on assistance extended to Hizbullah by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, as reported by a high-ranking Revolutionary Guards officer who had trained Hizbullah naval units. According to the officer, Hizbullah has a diver unit and a naval commando unit. He further claims that Revolutionary Guards officers assisted Hizbullah in the July 14, 2006 firing of a C802 missile at an Israeli Navy ship, and had also helped Hizbullah construct underground facilities including command and control rooms which are being operated by Revolutionary Guards officers along with Hizbullah fighters.
In addition, Iranian news agencies have published a number of reports about groups of Iranian volunteers sent to Lebanon to aid Hizbullah in its fight against Israel. The following are excerpts from these reports on Iranian assistance to Hizbullah. Rest at link.
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In english, Iran vehemently denied the accusation.
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French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Sunday many Taliban fighters are crossing from Pakistan to stage attacks inside Afghanistan. Alliot-Marie said the NATO-led force assuming command in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan from Monday would need better cooperation from Pakistan. "We need real cooperation from Pakistan, but it seems very difficult for them. The border is a very difficult region and we ask Pakistan to make some more effort to control it," she told reporters in Kabul. "We think a lot of Taliban fighters are coming from Pakistan to Afghanistan."
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Iran denied Sunday it was helping Hizbullah in its fight against Israel in Lebanon. "We haven't deployed any forces there (Lebanon)," said 
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An Israeli air strike on the Lebanese village of Qana which killed 51 people on Sunday, including 25 children, drew a barrage of fierce condemnation in the Middle East. 
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