(SomaliNet) African Union mission representatives who reached Somalia capital Mogadishu yesterday met on Monday officials of the transitional federal government over the deployment of the AU peacekeepers in Somalia. Uganda troops, the first AU peace keeping forces are on their way to Mogadishu where violence is escalating and forced many residents to flee their houses in fear of mortar and artelary fires exchanging by the Ethiopian backed interim government troops and insurgent groups. The Ugandan forces are expected to arrive Mogadishu on Monday sources say.
Speaking to the reporters, Adde Gabow, the mayor of Mogadishu said that the arrival of the eight-member AU mission in the capital is related to final assessment on the situation in Somalia for deployment of African troops. The African Union set the Ugandan mission for the tasks of the peacekeeping forces in Somalia that will enable the transitional government to establish the security.
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Much talk, no action?
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JERUSALEM: A major diplomatic row threatened to erupt between Israel and Egypt yesterday over claims that a crack Israeli unit killed Egyptian prisoners during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The claims, aired in a public television documentary in Israel, have been vehemently denied by the unit commander Benjamin Ben-Eliezer now the Jewish states national infrastructure minister.
But they have raised a storm of controversy in Egypt, where the affair has dominated the front pages for two days, sparked an angry debate in parliament and led the foreign ministry to summon the Israeli ambassador in Cairo.
The affair is in the process of becoming a major diplomatic incident, a senior Israeli official said on condition of anonymity. The relations between the two countries are compromised.
The row forced Ben-Eliezer yesterday to cancel a planned visit to Cairo this week, where he was due to discuss natural gas imports from Egypt, one of only two Arab countries to have signed a peace treaty with Israel. Following unfounded information published in Egypt on this affair and the current atmosphere not being favourable, the two parties decided to postpone to another date Ben-Eliezers visit, his press adviser Moshe Ronen said.
The Shaked Spirit documentary broadcast a week ago claimed that the commando unit led by Ben-Eliezer during the June 1967 Six Day war had killed 250 Egyptian PoWs in the El-Arish area of the Sinai peninsula. Nice to see Israel's Media complex is up to international western standards of self-bashing and self-loathing, always probing that dark, dark past to ask for attonement and flagellation. Didn't uncle Gromgoru said that Israel's moonbats were the best, or the worst?
On Sunday Ben-Eliezer a Labour party minister, reserve general and former defence minister denied the charges, saying his unit had killed Palestinian fighters in combat, not PoWs. In fact, in one clash during this war, soldiers of a battalion of Palestinian Fedayeen operating from the Gaza Strip against Israel, particularly against the unit I commanded, were killed, Ben-Eliezer said in a statement.
These soldiers were not executed as it was said, they were killed in combat.
Maybe the confusion is due to the fact that two days before this incident, the Shaked commando came across an Egyptian battalion that had stopped fighting, and men from the unit helped them by providing food and water, his statement said.
But Ben-Eliezers denial has done little to ease Egyptian rage. On Sunday the foreign ministry in Cairo summoned Israeli Ambassador Shalom Cohen to protest, and called for clarification about the reported events.
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40 years ago, merely a blink of the eye for people who cry about slights and injustices committed millenia ago. I guess when you have nothing to look forward to, past glories and slights consume the idle mind. These folks should get a life.
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Egypt under Sadat long ago [early 1970's] formally denied any claims of Israeli-caused "massacre" in this incident. The only thing achieved by this article is to illustrate a "generation gap" of misinformation and lack of knowledge/awareness/history between 1960's baby boomers and post-baby boom Clintonian twentysomethings.
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The Egyptians might seriously wish to consider where the precedent they are setting might lead. People that live in glass pyramids should not throw stones.
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They might also want to consider that this might break the treaty that gave them back Sinai and provides hefty checks to numberous Egyptian accounts.
If the Egyptians were smart they'd look south. As an Arab nation Egypt could easily grab up Sudan, take the oil, and play hero to the world.
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Ethnically the guys running Egypt and Sudan are virtually the same, I don't see the correlation. A deal could be cut with the blacks in the South, limited autonomy in exchange for oil wealth sharing and an end to the civil war. Win/win.
And the although the Egyptian army is pathetic the army of the Sudan is even worse.
(SomaliNet) Former rebel leader Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim has become the country's minister of defence two months after he agreed to end his rebellion against President Idriss Deby. I guess that makes sense, in a sub-Saharan Africa sort of way...
He just wanted his piece of the action
Mr. Nour headed the United Front for Democratic Change which led a raid on the capital, N'Djamena, in April last year in which hundreds of people died. He signed a peace deal in Libya, while other rebels in the east, bordering Sudan's Darfur region, did not.
The crisis in Darfur has spilled over the border and the governments of Chad and Sudan accuse each other of supporting the other's rebels. As a result eastern Chad is plagued with insecurity and in the past year some 120,000 Chadians have fled their homes to join more than 200,000 Sudanese refugees already living in camps. Last month, Chad rejected a United Nations military peacekeeping force for its border with Sudan. The UN has proposed 11,000-strong force to be backed up by helicopter gun ships to protect refugees in Chad and the Central African Republic displaced by Darfur's conflict.
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The president has rejected the mercy petitions of six of the seven Islamist militants condemned to death for killing two Jhalakathi judges in November 2005. With the rejection of the mercy petitions, there will be no obstacle to the executions of the militants.
Sources said the president rejected the mercy petitions on Sunday while the relevant documents were sent to the ministry concerned yesterday. Deputy Inspector General (Prisons) Maj Shamsul Haider Siddique told The Daily Star last night that he did not receive any official order regarding rejection of mercy petitions.
According to the jail code, if the president rejects clemency prayers by the condemned, the jail authorities are to reschedule the date of execution within 21-28 days from the date of receipt of the copy of his decision.
He, however, said the order would reach the jail through the law and home ministries and it may take two to three days.
According to the jail code, if the president rejects clemency prayers by the condemned, the jail authorities are to reschedule the date of execution within 21-28 days from the date of receipt of the copy of his decision.
In the first week of February the jail authorities sent the mercy petitions of the six to the president through the home ministry. The seven JMB militants were convicted and sentenced to death for killing two judges in Jhalakathi in a suicide bomb attack in November 2005. One of them, Asadul Islam alias Arif, is absconding. Senior assistant judges Jagannath Pandey and Sohel Ahmed were killed in the suicide bomb attack at Purba Chadkati in Jhalakathi town in the wake of a series of bombings carried out by Islamist militants across the country.
The High Court (HC) on August 31 last year upheld the trial court verdict handing down death penalties to the seven convicts on May 29. The Supreme Court on November 28 last year rejected the six convicts' petitions seeking permission to appeal against the HC judgement.
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Think i'd hold off popping the celebratory cork until after the ropes go tight. might just be a jail break, or sumpin....
GROZNY Authorities in Chechnya on Saturday unearthed what appeared to be the corpse of former Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, his son said, and forensic experts prepared to examine the remains to determine the cause of his mysterious death. As long as he stays dead. Don't disturb the stake through where his heart would have been.
Gamsakhurdia was elected as Georgias first president in 1991, but was overthrown in a popular uprising in January 1992. Zviad termed himself "the Saddam Hussein of the Caucasus."
He fled to Chechnya and lived there until he returned to Georgia and led an unsuccessful rebellion aimed at returning to power. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1993. Gamsakhurdias son Konstantin Gamsakhurdia told reporters in Grozny on Saturday that he had identified his fathers body based on his watch and shoes, put in his coffin in line with local tradition. I have no doubt that it is him, he said. "I'd recognize that silver bullet anywhere!"
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North Korea has ordered its diplomats stationed overseas to send their children back to the communist nation in an apparent attempt to prevent the diplomats from defecting, a news report said Tuesday.
About 3,000 children aged 5 and older must return home within 30 days, according to the order issued last month by North Korea's ruling Workers' Party. Younger children are exempt from the order, which was reported by South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo.
The measure is believed to be aimed at preventing defections by diplomats and their families by raising the possibility that their children might be persecuted, the newspaper said.
Yonhap news agency carried a similar report, but said each diplomat would be allowed to bring one child to their overseas post. It cited an unidentified South Korean government official.
An official at South Korea's Unification Ministry, the main government agency dealing with North Korean affairs, said it was checking the reports. The reports did not say what prompted North Korea to take the measure. There have been no known defections by North Korean diplomats in recent months.
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I suppose this goes to the top of the pile in the list of curious stories for Kim mavens to mull over. Plenty of unknown unknowns here as well, as with all things NKorean.
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Gee, here's a thought. Keep the kids in the country of assignment - and defect.
Last chance, guys. :-D
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Right, Barbara. This is a golden opportunity to get out of NORK.
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Just in time for the HISTORY CHANNEL's Specials on THE DARK AGES and BARBARIANS II > how the Huns + Vandals, etc. exchanged Noble/Royal family members as hostages = guests of their enemies in return for "peace" andor mil alliance.
North Korea is willing irreversibly to shut down its nuclear plants as part of a six-nation deal, a senior South Korean official said on Monday.
The communists state chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye-Gwan has reaffirmed that disabling the plants would be an irreversible process, the official told reporters on condition of anonymity. Kim was speaking during a meeting with his South Korean counterpart Chun Yung-Woo in New York on Saturday, said the official, quoted by Yonhap news agency. The Souths lead negotiator Chun said after meeting Kim on Saturday that the North appears strongly committed to the first steps of the agreement. Under those steps the North must shut down and seal its Yongbyon nuclear complex and admit international inspectors by mid-April. Disabling would be the next phase.
Suspicions arose after Pyongyangs official media said the six-party agreement requires it to temporarily suspend its facilities. Kim said his country only used the expression temporary suspension because the facilities can be restarted at any time until they are completely disabled, the Seoul official said.
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What's up here? Is Kimmie dying or something? Are sanctions having an effect? Did Chinese agents come visit him in the middle of the night? Some combination of the above? I understand he is making plans for his replacement. Perhaps he realizes he will be judged by history and hopes that people will only remember his "dying wishes" or something like that.
Sounds like someone is lying if they are selling the phrase "temprarily suspend" differently at home than abroad.
The only kind of seal I would believe would be delivered in the form of about 100000 trucks full of [probably South Korean] concrete mix and the right to visit or dig at any physical location at any time in a truly "unfettered" fashion.
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Actually, Kimmie may be having a Ghaddafi moment : the sudden clarity of mind that being blown up in your bed is a bad way to go; while living to a ripe old age and staying President-for-Life has its advantages. The crackdown on bank accounts, the growing Japanese military buildup in response to the missile and bomb tests, the seizure of several heroin transports, all put pressure on Kimmie to make nice. Also, the Chinese have an incentive to have Korea calmed down THIS year : the Olympics are in Beijing in 2008, and that would be a terribly inconvenient time for Kimmie to go hog wild on the world.
Plus, with the Taiwanese leadership talking more independently, the Chinese need a show to prove they can make their dog heel when commanded. The KMT in Taiwan is the PRC's last major hope for a reunification that is non-violent, and the KMT is not as popular as it once was. Also, the NorKors tempter tantrums have stirred up a lot of prior fears in the region, and it is starting to heat up the weapons purchases of countries like Japan and Singapore. These purchases undercut the military modernization that the PRC is doing, and so are viewed as problems. If Kimmie is a nice, leashed lapdog instead of a raging pit bull, the Asian theatre's arms buildup may calm down again, and let the PRC proceed with its power projection improvements; if not, Japan can easily outbuy and outbuild the PRC on all classes of modern weapondry, including ABM defenses. That serves to undercut the threat to Taiwan, and the PRC's negotiating space.
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Seems like lots of good ideas. The kinds of things that one has to present leaders who don't have a whole lot of common sense.
As for the other countries in the area, I wonder how far ahead of them they would let the Chinese get before they reacted. I don't think blowing up that poor innocent satellite and consequently anything in its orbit is viewed as much of a threat, and they would have to perceive that the US would have to have reason to abandon or shortchange them before they started taking matters into their own hands it seems to me.
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And it has been two years or so since there has been a real GOOD KCNA rant. Remember those good old days when we used to grade the rants like ice skating competition judges? Kimmie has gone downhill. Yes, he could pulverize Seoul, but after that, what? He would face total annihilation.
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There is a possibility that the PRC has given Kimmy a deal where kimmy gets a resort in China complete with sex slaves if he agrees to close up the nukes.
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I'm thinkin that this is related to the nuke test that went fizzz. The starch is out of Kimmy since then. Perhaps instead of building a nuclear bomb, they contaminated their nuclear facilities so bad, they're back to square one.
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Oh, they'll close down those nuke plants sure enough, because they already have other operating underground facilities that no one knows anything about!
Sure, go ahead and close down the above ground plants. No one will ever know the difference...
THE chief US prosecutor for David Hicks' upcoming trial says he would be "dumbfounded" if the Australian terror suspect's US military lawyer, Major Michael Mori, was court-martialled for outspoken comments.
There's a reason why they're known as 'mouthpieces'.
Colonel Morris Davis said he had no power to charge Maj Mori for contemptuous comments made against US President George W. Bush, the US Secretary of Defense or Congress.
But his commanding offficer does.
There were fears that if Maj Mori was court-martialled it would delay Hicks's long-awaited military commission trial.
"I'm not aware of anybody, anywhere that has any intention of charging Maj Mori with anything," Col Davis said.
Col Davis created headlines on the weekend when he suggested Maj Mori may have breached Article 88 of the US Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Article 88 prohibits military officers from using "contemptuous words" against the president, vice president, US secretary of defense or Congress.
Maj Mori, during numerous trips to Australia and in interviews in the US, has been a staunch critic of the military commission system set up by President Bush, the US Secretary of Defense and Congress to prosecute Hicks and other Guantanamo Bay inmates.
Col Davis stood by his allegation that Maj Mori had gone "too far" in his campaign to free Hicks, including attending rallies dressed in US military uniform. "I certainly wouldn't permit that from my folks," Col Davis said. "But, he's not one of my folks."
Asked if he believed Maj Mori should be court-martialled for breaching Article 88 of the UCMJ, Col Davis said "it's not my decision".
"He's not in my chain of command," Col Davis continued. "I have no authority over him.
"I'm in the Air Force, he's in the Marine Corps.
"I'm not responsible for Major Mori."
Col Davis said it was extremely rare for a military officer to be prosecuted for an alleged Article 88 violation. "You can count the number of court martials for Article 88 violations on one hand," Col Davis said. "They are very uncommon.
"I would be absolutely dumbfounded if this kind of thing rose to that level."
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"He's not in my chain of command," Col Davis continued. "I have no authority over him.
But you certainly do have the authority and responsibility as a commissioned officer in the service of the United States to RECOMMEND in writing with statements and supporting evidence, that this piece of human fecal matter be investigated under Article 32. of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) relative to his statements and potential violations of Article 88.
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So the scheme to delay the trial didn't work Eh Major Mori, (I wouldn't count on ever seeing Colonel)
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I looked up Mori's award. I'll be damned. Seems the ACLU keeps a sharp eye out for treasonous military lawyers, and gives them all "Hero of the People" awards.
Mori's conduct utterly stuns me, particularly because he was an enlisted Marine long before he was a lawyer. But, I'm making an effort to not derail these threads with my usual "we're not all scum" lecture. All I ask in return is that, should the opportunity arise, y'all let me have the first crack at this shitbag. He's breaking all the rules and he f*ckin knows it.
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Well, there is this little caveat about talking smack about the folks appointed over you...
"The words you are speaking about our President are in direct violation of DOD Directive 1344.10, which governs the political activities by members of the armed forces on active duty. Paragraph 4.1.3 Enclosure 3 specifies permitted and prohibited activities for servicemembers. Further examination of enclosure 3 (paragraph E3.3.11) states a member on active duty may not use contemptuous words against the officeholders described in 10 U.S.C. 888 (reference (b)), or participate in activities proscribed by references (c) and (d).
Title 10, U.S.C. 888 specifies these officials as, the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Failure to obey this directive, signed Aug. 2, 2004, would be a violation of Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Failure to Obey an Order or Regulation."
In other words, this Mori dude (Notice lack of Rank) will end up rightfully getting his Military Ass handed to him by his Chain of Command, and probably be forced out of the service. /Fingers Crossed/
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That's a very optimistic assessment, Bodyguard. To prevent conflicts of interest, military defense lawyers have their own chain of command, entirely independent from unit commanders with the power to prefer charges. A good idea in principle, but it assumes that defense lawyers will obey the rules, honor their oaths, and never place their clients' interests above that of the United States.
This Mori asshat has repeatedly ignored all these constraints and pulled publicity stunts over a long period of time now. The fact that his superiors (i.e., senior defense attorneys) haven't taken any action by now means they probably aren't going to. I suppose the buck stops with the Navy Judge Advocate General, but the heat will have to get cranked up a lot higher before anyone at the top is likely to take action.
THE father of Australian terror suspect David Hicks could be called as a key prosecution witness in his son's trial after calling his son a "terrorist", the US military chief prosecutor said today.
Chief prosecutor at the US Office of Military Commissions, Colonel Morris Davis, said he has evidence of Terry Hicks referring to his son as a "terrorist".
Mr Hicks is a vocal supporter of his son and has been a key figure in the campaign to have him released from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and returned to Australia. But Col Davis said Mr Hicks referred to his son as a "terrorist" in an interview soon after it became public Hicks had been picked up in Afghanistan in December 2001 and put in US custody. "The very first interviews I can find when someone referred to him as a terrorist was Terry Hicks," Col Davis said.
"The first time he was interviewed, Terry Hicks described the phone call with David in September (2001) after 9/11 and David was in Pakistan and said he was going to go back to Afghanistan. "Terry Hicks said he tried to talk him out of it and told him he shouldn't be taking up arms against his own.
"I think his quote was 'He's 26 years old, he's his own man, and I can't tell him what to do. In our eyes he's a terrorist because he took up arms against his own'.
"I would tend to agree with Terry Hicks."
Asked if Mr Hicks could be called as a prosecution witness or his comments used to bolster the prosecution case, Col Davis said: "Possibly". "I'm not the lead prosecutor in the case so I don't want to commit him to a particular strategy or not, but certainly Terry Hicks has changed his tune considerably since that time," Col Davis said. "But, on day one, he's the first one I can find anywhere that refers to David Hicks being a terrorist."
Col Davis said the prosecution was still open to a plea deal and if Hicks did plead guilty he could be back in Australia "walking free" this year. Col Davis said he could be open to a plea deal of 10 to 20 years imprisonment. If the sentence was the 10 years, and Hicks was sent back to Australia to serve it, Col Davis said it was his understanding Hicks's five years jail at Guantanamo could be taken into account.
Col Davis said the matter had been discussed with Hicks's US military lawyer, Major Michael Mori. "In my understanding in talking to Major Mori that there is a strong possibility or likelihood or expectation the Australian Government would credit whatever time he spent in Guantanamo once he gets back to Australia they would apply the credit," Col Davis said. "Depending on the length of the sentence, there's a strong possibility he would be parole ready once he got back to Australia.
"I'm certainly no expert on the Australian parole system, but the way it was presented to me, if it was reasonably accurate, it's possible, and I can't say it's probable or likely, but it's possible he could be back home and walking free by the end of the year."
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.
The council chose an unfortunate anniversary to publish its decision approving the law, which came exactly 16 years after Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King were filmed by amateur videographer George Holliday in the night of March 3, 1991. The officers' acquittal at the end on April 29, 1992 sparked riots in Los Angeles.
If Holliday were to film a similar scene of violence in France today, he could end up in prison as a result of the new law, said Pascal Cohet, a spokesman for French online civil liberties group Odebi. And anyone publishing such images could face up to five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 (US$98,537), potentially a harsher sentence than that for committing the violent act.
Senators and members of the National Assembly had asked the council to rule on the constitutionality of six articles of the Law relating to the prevention of delinquency. The articles dealt with information sharing by social workers, and reduced sentences for minors. The council recommended one minor change, to reconcile conflicting amendments voted in parliament.
The law, proposed by Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, is intended to clamp down on a wide range of public order offenses. During parliamentary debate of the law, government representatives said the offense of filming or distributing films of acts of violence targets the practice of "happy slapping," in which a violent attack is filmed by an accomplice, typically with a camera phone, for the amusement of the attacker's friends.
The broad drafting of the law so as to criminalize the activities of citizen journalists unrelated to the perpetrators of violent acts is no accident, but rather a deliberate decision by the authorities, said Cohet. He is concerned that the law, and others still being debated, will lead to the creation of a parallel judicial system controlling the publication of information on the Internet.
The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information if they adhere to certain rules. The journalists' organization Reporters Without Borders, which campaigns for a free press, has warned that such a system could lead to excessive self censorship as organizations worried about losing their certification suppress certain stories.
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The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists.
So if a coupla Froggy "professional journalists" start whaling the piss outta each other, the average Joe can feel free to film away and get it on Youtube or something?
A) The French govt. is trying to deal with on-going riots / car-burnings by suppressing reporting of same.
B) The are trying to deal with the problem of 'Happy Slapping' - whereby some young thugs beat the crap out of some random passerby, film it on their cell-phone and send the video to other thugs to score thug points.
If it's 'A' - France is in serious trouble Denial is never an effective solution to a problem. If 'B' - how 'bout charging the perps with assault and using the video as evidence. Sheesh!
The Learned Elders of Islam main Muslim organizations in Germany are considering forming an organization to represent Muslim interests in German society, the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said. Leaders of Muslim organizations, such as the Turkish religious group Ditib, the Islamic Council, the Central Council of Muslims in Germany and the Association of Islamic Cultural Centres (VIKZ), all said they were in favour of an umbrella organization. "We are determined to act as representatives of all Muslims in Germany," Bekir Alboga, spokesman for Ditib, said.
Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble came out in favour of a Muslim umbrella organization last year when he formed an Islam Conference. Schaeuble said the German government needed a representative organization to discuss issues such as religious education. The Islamic Council was founded last year to discuss precisely this issue with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Alboga said he expected an association to be founded by the summer, but spokesmen for all the organizations acknowledged problems over how the separate groups would be represented in an overarching body and over what it would be called.
They will have that sorted out Real Soon Now. Just ask Abu Mazen.
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...spokesmen for all the organizations acknowledged problems over how the separate groups would be represented in an overarching body and over what it would be called.
Ummmmm...how about "Terror 'R' Us"?
Vice President Dick Cheney, who returned to Washington last week from an around-the-world trip, is being treated for a blood clot in his left leg, his office announced today. Such clots, while rare, are sometimes caused by extended air travel. Cheney is being treated with a blood thinner intended to prevent the clot from breaking loose and reaching his lungs, said his deputy press secretary, Megan McGinn. She said Cheney, 66, had experienced "mild calf discomfort."
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Condi for VP!
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We got an address? Bill Maher wants to send a card.
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It is my humble opinion that unlike normal times anyone that takes the position of VP now will not find it helpful in the quest for the Presidency in 2008. Maybe in 2012 after Iraq policies and such have had time to prove true.
It'll be interesting to see who would take the job.
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This will not slow Cheney's campaign for president in 2008. If all he had was "mild calf discomfort" it's no big deal. He'll take his medicine and get over.
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) President Qazi Hussain Ahmed said on Monday that there was ideological affinity between his party and the Pakistan Army, including the Inter-Service Intelligence, over the war in Afghanistan against Russia and the Kashmir dispute, but the army was now betraying the religious alliance.
Our men are being handed over to enemies of Pakistan at the behest of the US. Pakistan is being reduced to a parasite and a dependent state, said Qazi at a press conference along with Gen (r) Hameed Gul in the Supreme Court building.
Qazi called for eliminating the armys role in the countrys politics. He said the MMA would start a campaign in consultation with other political parties against the armys political role.
Replying to a question about Gen Pervez Musharrafs election as president, he said Musharraf should have to wait to contest the election for two years a mandatory beak for a public servant after retirement who wants to stand for the election.
Qazi criticised the government for not inviting Syria, Lebanon and Iran to a recent meeting of foreign ministers of various Muslim states.
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Our old friend Hameed Gul keeps turning up.MMA and him are major backers of the Taliban and should be targeted!!!!
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The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a constitutional petition filed by former Inter Services Intelligence chief Gen (r) Hameed Gul asking the court to order an inquiry into an attack by US-led forces in Afghanistan in the Shawal area in North Waziristan Agency.
The petition, filed under Article 184(3) of the Constitution, also asked the court to order the government to give compensation to the family of the Pakistani soldier killed in the incident, and to halt military operations against the people of the tribal areas. However, a five-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, Justice Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi and Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, unanimously dismissed the petition on the grounds that the tribal areas do not come under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The bench also objected that Gen Gul had no locus standi to file the petition, as he is not a resident of the tribal areas.
Advocate Muhammad Ikram Chaudhry, Gen Guls lawyer, told reporters after the hearing that former MNA from FATA Haroon Rashid would now move a similar petition on behalf of the people of the tribal areas. The counsel in his preliminary arguments submitted that the people of FATA were citizens of Pakistan and it was the governments responsibility to protect their lives and property.
Ah, there was the trap the court avoided. If the people of FATA are citizens of Pakistan, it means the government is responsible for a lot of stuff that happens there.
Besides Gen Gul, MMA leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed and MNAs from the tribal areas also attended the hearing.
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Advocate Muhammad Ikram Chaudhry, Gen Guls lawyer
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
former MNA from FATA Haroon Rashid
Hameed Gul
Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar
Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday
Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan
Justice Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi
Qazi Hussain Ahmed
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DARA ADAM KHEL: Barbers in Darra Adam Khel have followed the example of their counterparts in Bajaur by ceasing the service of shaving mens beards, two days after an explosion at a barbers shop near the main Darra bazaar, tribal sources said on Monday. The barbers hanged notices in their windows saying: Mens shaving is banned and Taliban zindabad, eyewitnesses said. Barber Fazle Rahim told Daily Times: An (Islamic) organisation ordered the ban on mens shaving and we are following the order.
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Can't the barbers' customers get their hands on some Bic disposables and shave their own beards?
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that the government was tackling terrorism and extremism prudently, and described them as the biggest challenge for the government. Inaugurating the two-day Overseas Pakistanis Investment Conference, Musharraf said, There are no quick-fix solutions, but the government is dealing with law and order problems, Al Qaeda, the Taliban and issues related to madrassas in the broadest perspective. He said a well-conceived and holistic strategy was being pursued.
The president differentiated between extremism and terrorism, describing the latter as a state of mind under which anyone can be indoctrinated to become a suicide bomber. There is no magic wand to resolve all these issues, but we will do it ... (and) we will win, he said. He said that he was also committed to bringing peace in the region by resolving disputes with India.
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Basically we choose who we call terrorist/extremist!!!!!
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The party of hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday confirmed that he was suffering from kidney cancer and had been advised to travel to the United States for medical treatment that was currently unavailable in India, while urging New Delhi to release his travel documents for this purpose.
The Hurriyat Conference (G) issued a press statement saying that the medical team at Apollo Hospital, led by Dr Sameer Kaul, that had conducted tests on Geelani over the weekend, had recommended that the ailing leader travel to the US to undergo laser therapy known as Radio Frequency Ablation on his one remaining kidney, a procedure that they said would not be able to be performed in India.
Geelani, 72, whose hardline faction of the regions main separatist alliance supports union with Pakistan, had one kidney removed two years ago after doctors found cancer. Now, doctors have confirmed the detection of the disease in his remaining kidney. Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, a close Geelani aide, was quoted by AFP, while addressing a news conference in Srinagar, as saying: I urge the Government of India to allow our leader to travel abroad for specialist treatment.
New Delhi currently holds Geelanis passport. He has not been allowed to leave the territory since the insurgency against New Delhis rule began in 1989, except for one occasion in 2005, where he was permitted to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj. Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed also joined the chorus urging the Indian authorities to allow Geelani to travel abroad for medical treatment.
Meanwhile, the Hurriyat Conference (G) also confirmed that they had received an overwhelmingly large number of offers of kidney donations from the people of Kashmir. However, some sources said that Geelani had ruled out the possibility of undergoing a transplant. Last week, the ailing leader had urged the Kashmiri people not to forget the sacrifices of thousands of youth for the cause of freedom and take the ongoing movement to its logical conclusion. Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, who telephoned Geelani from Pakistan to inquire about his health, quoted him describing that as his last wish.
He also cited Geelani as saying: Everything is in the hands of Allah. But I want that Kashmiris should get freedom as they have sacrificed everything for this cause. You have to safeguard the sacrifices offered by Kashmiris, and I hope you will take the responsibility.
Meanwhile, fears over Geelanis health appears to have brought together rival separatist groups within Indian-held Kashmir. Sources said that the umbrella All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), which Geelani broke away from to form his own faction, believed that the hardliners presence was essential during what it described as the crucial stage that the separatist movement was currently passing through.
They said that Shahidul Islam spokesman and private secretary to APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq had offered to donate his kidney to Geelani, while the APHC chairman last Friday prayed for the hardliners speedy recovery, while attending prayers Srinagars historic Jamia Masjid.
This article starring:
All Parties Hurriyat Conference
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed
MIRWAIZ UMER FARUQ
All Parties Hurriyat Conference
MOHAMAD ASHRAF SEHRAI
Hurriyat Conference (G)
SHAHIDUL ISLAM
All Parties Hurriyat Conference
SYED ALI SHAH GILANI
Hurriyat Conference (G)
SYED SALAHUDIN
Hizbul Mujahideen
Hizbul Mujahideen
Hurriyat Conference (G)
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I would think that hot curry would burn out any germs, wonder just what he's been eating?
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wonder just what he's been eating?
No doubt powdered plutonium dusted on top for pretty, the way the Japanese used to dust food with gold back when they were flush. Separately, what gives Mr. Geelani the idea that he would be allowed into the US? We've been known to block the entrance of mere Swiss professors who have ties to the wrong organization, let alone the head of a local terrorist group.
WUERZBURG, Germany - A U.S. Army medic who refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition to the war was convicted of desertion at his court martial Tuesday, and could face as long as seven years in prison. Spc. Agustin Aguayo, whose case has been closely watched by American anti-war groups, opened the one-day proceeding on a U.S. base in Germany by admitting he intentionally avoided his deployment back to Iraq. Aguayo has said in the past that he had refused to return to Iraq because he believes war is immoral, and that he could "no longer go down this path."
Though Aguayo only pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of being absent without leave, Judge Col. R. Peter Masterton sided with prosecutors in finding him guilty of the more severe charge of desertion. He also was found guilty of missing a troop deployment. Masterton did not immediately issue a sentence, which can also include loss of pay, demotion to the lowest enlisted rank and a dishonorable discharge.
The 35-year-old with the 1st Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team served a year as a combat medic in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit in 2004 after the military turned down his request to be considered a conscientious objector.
He then jumped out of a window of his base housing in Germany on Sept. 2 rather than be forced to ship out for a second tour and fled home to California. He turned himself in to the military at California's Fort Irwin about three weeks later.
As his court martial opened, Aguayo admitted to the facts of the case in a short statement. "I understand that the formation was to move ... to Iraq your honor," he told the judge in a quiet, wavering voice. "Yes, I deliberately stayed away from the movement. I knew that I wouldn't be making this movement."
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...whose case has been closely watched by American anti-war groups
Hope they got a real good look...
He'd better do time.
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Hmm, I am thinking this guy has some problems beyond being a CO. He wife says that a care package he received in Iraq turned him into a CO. I wonder how long he has been in the Army? 35 yrs old and still an E-4? Anyone know?
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...I wanna know how a deserter got from germany to California.
Mike
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Cashed in his frequent flier miles?
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I once prosecuted a deserter who made it from The Netherlands to California.
He'd actually been in custody on post after being convicted of assault in a German court. The night before he was to be transferred to a German prison to serve his 3-year sentence, he climbed out a window, went over the fence, and made his way to the UK, where met up with a friend and worked at a bar for a while. He somehow got back into the US, got a job, a dog, a girlfriend, etc. He may well have used his frequent flier miles.
About a year later, Mr. Genius here mailed a letter to his old CO detailing the whole escapade, and casually asking how things were going, like it was all water under the bridge. Only then was a federal arrest warrant obtained, and after that all it took was a broken tail-light. He was sent back to Germany to serve his time, after which I sent him up for another couple years in US confinement for desertion and generally being a pain in the Army's ass.
I.e., the combined power of this dingbat's stupidity and audacity was the only reason he wound up serving any time at all. So savor every desertion conviction you can, because they rarely happen anymore.
But don't hold your breath: he pled guilty, which means there's a plea agreement, which means he won't be serving 7 years.
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Aguayo, who was not the first soldier to be convicted of desertion for refusing to serve in Iraq, said he enlisted in 2002 to earn money for his education. Though military operations in Afghanistan were under way and discussions about Iraq were ongoing, he said he never thought he would have to fight.
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I wonder how dumb he actually is? He made it through basic and AIT as a Medic. After he is discharged he will have a very marketable skill as a medic. I bet he was popular with the other troops in his unit. Nothing builds unit moral when someone deserts during a unit deployment.
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Once upon a time 'Medic' was the route the CO took: you could be opposed to war (specific or general) on moral grounds, and still serve honorably, without (usually) having to kill anyone. To desert to avoid deploying when one is already a medic is not moral objection to war, but cowardice.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz on Monday praised Saddam Hussein and denied there had been mass killings under the executed dictators rule, earning sharp rebukes from the judge at the so-called Anfal genocide trial. I had the honour to work with the former regime and with the hero Saddam Hussein, Aziz said from the witness stand at the Iraqi High Tribunal, where six leaders of the former regime are accused of genocide against Kurds.
He is the hero behind the unity of Iraq and its sovereignty. This is an honour to me, Aziz added in a statement that belied the reputation he enjoyed in some quarters as a moderate in Saddams camp.
Shut up -- dont speak, said the trials chief judge Mohammed Al Oreibi Al Khalifah, angrily trying to silence the ailing Aziz. Why do you prevent me from speaking? Aziz answered calmly. I will take legal measures against you, the judge warned. Aziz replied: Why? I am already a prisoner. What would you do to me?
Guess.
The judge again ordered him to shut up.
Aziz, 71, surrendered to US troops in Iraq in April 2003. Since then he has been under lock and key at Camp Cropper, a holding centre near Baghdad international airport. His family has repeatedly called for his release on health grounds, saying that he suffers from diabetes and respiratory problems.
Why is that a problem? Didn't the Kurdish civilians have all sorts of medical problems before you gassed them to death?
Aziz is suspected of involvement in the execution of dozens of members of the former Baath regime in 1979 and mass killings of Shias and Kurds in 1991, but his lawyers say he has yet to be charged.
On Monday he was brought to the High Tribunal to give evidence against the six defendants in the Anfal trial of Saddam aides charged with involvement in the killing of up to 182,000 Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s. But Aziz denied there had been any mass killings under Saddam. I was foreign minister... The government I was part of did not commit genocide against the Kurdish people, he insisted.
His comments again angered the judge. You are here testifying (on behalf of) the regime, not the accused, the judge said. No, I am testifying (on behalf of) the accused, Aziz answered.
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Guess
OK. How about something that involves about half a roll of duct tape? One piece across his eyebrows, of course. And if they need to do it a second time, a piece across his moustache.
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Word was that Aziz would be charged in the marshes case. Dunno where that case stands. That photo appears to have been taken at the Martyr's Monument in B'dad - which is actually a very impressive design (don't know what condition it's in these days).
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Reports say it was destroyed by dynamite, the crossed Sabers are no more.
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Jim, that was a different place. Martyr's Monument is located outside the IZ. Crossed swords are/were next to the Unknown Soldier monument, which I'm sure wasn't touched.
In the past 3 days, a person was killed and two others, including two children, were wounded in the Gaza Strip in the context of the state of lawlessness and proliferation of weapon prevailing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
At approximately 19:30 on Thursday, 1 March 2007, Yasser Fathi Zannoun, 17, from al-Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, was wounded by a bullet to the left foot when he was checking a gun inside his house.
At approximately 21:00 on the same day, Zuhair Said al-Hilu, 14, from Nusairat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, was wounded by shrapnel from a bullet he had played with. Here, kid. Go play with this. Ya botherin me...
At approximately 22:30 also on Thursday, unknown gunmen opened fire from a traveling car that had no registration plate at Hussein Mustafa Abu Karsh, 18, when he was near his house in al-Shati refugee camp in the west of Gaza City. He was wounded by a number of bullets to the left foot. No license plate? Kill him!
At approximately 02:00 on Friday, 2 March 2007, unknown gunmen fired at a house belonging to Ashraf Mohammed al-Ghaffari, 37, a member of Fatah movement, in Deir al-Balah refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported.
At approximately 16:30 also on Friday, chaos prevailed during a football match in Khan Yunis and sounds of shooting were heard in the area. The Palestinian police intervened to end the chaos. As a result of the indiscriminate shooting in the area, Fayed Ali Ashour, 42, was seriously wounded by 3 bullets to the right leg. He was evacuated to the hospital, but he died from his wound at approximately 22:30. Chaos in Gaza. Can ya believe that...
At the same time, unknown gunmen traveling in a civilian car kidnapped Shadi Mohammed Hmaid, 30, when he was near his house in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City. Later, the kidnappers dumped him into the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis after having wounded him with several bullets to the feet.
At approximately 22:40 also on Friday, Tariq Shaheen Shaheen, 27, a member of the Palestinian National Security Forces, from Nusiarat refugee camp, was brought into Shifa Hospital in Gaza City as he sustained bruises throughout the body. Shaheen was kidnapped by unknown gunmen from al-Jalaa Street. The gunmen violently beat him and then dumped him into al-Nafaq Street in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
At approximately 09:00 on Sunday, 4 March 2007, 4 persons were wounded during an exchange of fire between members of Hamas and Fatah movements:
1) Abdul Rahman Mohammed Msabbeh, 18, wounded by a bullet to the abdomen;
2) Jamal Husni Abu Yousef, 35, wounded by a bullet to the right foot;
3) Maher Ahmed Msabbeh, 20, wounded by shrapnel to the buttocks; and
4) Nidal Jamal Msabbeh, 25, wounded by shrapnel to the hands.
PCHR is gravely concerned over increasing casualties resulting from the misuse of weapons. PCHR calls upon the Palestinian National Authority, represented by the Attorney-General, to investigate these incidents and bring those who are found responsible to justice.
PCHRs preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 16:00 on Monday (5 March 2007) Mohammad Hasan El-Liddawi (24-year old resident of Nuseirat) was admitted to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital suffering from multiple shrapnel wounds throughout his body. He was injured when an explosive device he was making exploded prematurely. He was transferred to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City due to the severity of his injuries. However, he was pronounced dead at 20:00.
At approximately 18:00 on the same day, the child Ahmad Abdallah Shamallakh (15-year old resident of southern Gaza City) was admitted to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. He was suffering from a bullet wound in the right shoulder. He was injured when Presidential Guard soldiers fired at a vehicle that did not stop at one of their roadblocks near the childs house. Medical sources stated that the injury is moderate.
At approximately 19:30 on the same day, Zaher Kamal El-Yazji (40-year old resident of Gaza City) was moderately injured by a bullet in the left hand. The bullet was accidentally fired by El-Yazji as he mishandled a firearm inside his house. He was taken to Shifa Hospital for treatment.
PCHR is concerned over the continued falling of victims due to the misuse of weapons. The Centre calls upon the PNA, represented by the Attorney-General, to seriously investigate these crimes, and bring the perpetrators to justice.
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Shooting in the foot or leg comes from the old Ottoman laws that say an attack that result in injuries below the abdomen are assult, those in or above are regarded as attempted murder. Just can't forget their roots, don't ja know.
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This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto." Several hours earlier on Sunday you probably would not have heard German Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke choose such a divisive analogy.
But then on Sunday morning he was still in Israel and the rhetoric was considerably different than the one elected by the German Bishops' Conference once they crossed over in to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday evening.
The visit of 27 members of the German Bishops' Conference to Israel included a historic first-time visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem as well as guided tours of sites holy to Christianity and meetings with Christian congregations in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority.
During their time in Israel the bishops uniformly made moderate and balanced statements, but once in the PA they provided German reporters accompanying them with a plethora of harsh proclamations against Israel. Their criticism received widespread coverage in the German media on Monday.
While crossing one of the checkpoints into East Jerusalem the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, told reporters: "This is something that is done to animals, not people." Meisner, a resident of eastern Germany, said that the fence reminded him of the Berlin Wall and that in his lifetime he did not believe he would see such a thing again. As the Berlin Wall was brought down so will this wall be brought down, he said, adding that the fence served no purpose.
The delegation's visit to Ramallah took place several hours after their visit to Yad Vashem and several of the bishops chose to equate the situation in the Palestinian Authority with the Holocaust.
"Cages in the image of ghettos," said the Bishop of Augsburg of the territories. Augsburg was once under the spiritual leadership of Pope Benedict XVI, who was Archbishop of the Munich-Freising Archdiocese and his brother Monsignor Georg Ratzinger still resides there.
"Israel has, of course, the right to exist, but this right cannot be realized in such a brutal manner," said Bishop Hanke, who later stated that he intends to amend this year's Easter message to German churches so as to include the delegation's political impressions from their visit to the territories and a demand to change the situation. A suicide bomber in the middle of Sunday mass might help clear this idiocy from their minds.
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Nazism chic: Absolute silence against the two genocides perpetrated in Sudan. Horror cries about imaginary israeli atrocities => Joooooos are eeeeeevil => We can hate them (and by Arabs intermediary) wish them exterminated without being called Nazis.
I have called it Nazism chic but in fact it is Nazism for cowards.
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There is also a big difference in "concept". That is, in Germany and in the rest of Europe, the despised minority of Jews were pushed into ghettos and kept apart from the rest of society.
In Israel, the Paleos are pushed into what could be their own country, if they chose to keep it as their own country; but they refuse, and want to take over Israel and destroy the Israelis.
What, the Israelis could coyly say to the Germans, would the Germans do if the Jews had violently tried to take over all of Germany and drive out the Germans?
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German anti-semitism and romanticism of arab virtue. I read Mein Kampf - in translation admittedly - but this is all sounding strangely non-surprising.
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Every German I've met has a deep, deep, sense of guilt over the Holocaust. A simple, public, HOW DARE YOU MAKE SUCH A COMPARISON would shame these Bishops far more than any logical arguement.
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I must be very unobservant. I don't believe that I ever saw an Israeli operated death camp when I was in Israel. As further proof that the Israelis have not followed the German model, there doesn't seem to be a booming market in articles made from rendered Palestinians. This is just one more example of the devaluation of language by the left. Everyone they disagree with is a Nazi; everyone they agree with is a hero. They live in a world of complete reality distortion and like it that way. That is why Europe, for the most part, is irrelevant to the rest of the world, the mouldering corpse of a once great civilization.
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In Israel, the Paleos are pushed into what could be their own country, if they chose to keep it as their own country; but they refuse, and want to take over Israel and destroy the Israelis.
A simple comparison between the reasons for the walls/fences in Nazi Germany and Israel (i.e. keeping people in vs. out) should be all the logic needed to puncture such stupidity. Spiteful, self-induced delusion, alas, is not so easily punctured.
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Nazi Germany did not have fences to keep people in, in fact the Nazi's had trouble keeping their military age men inside the recognized German borders. They were all over Europe and North Africa the buggers.
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When Israel starts killing 10,000 Palestinians a day for months on end, they can think about equating Israel's actions to the Holocaust.
During the height of the Intifada, Israel was killing 3 Palestinians a day.
I.e. It's not even close!
Al
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I must be very unobservant. I don't believe that I ever saw an Israeli operated death camp when I was in Israel.
I bet you missed those concentration camps that Haliburton runs for transexuals in the deserts of Arizona, too. Thank God(dess)for Democratic Underground or we'd never hear about them, either!
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked parliament on Sunday to delay the release of a key report expected to criticise inadequate protection for Israeli civilians under rocket fire during last years war in Lebanon. "Oh, yeah? How much of a delay do you need?"
"Sixty years oughta do it."
Olmerts approval ratings have plummeted since the inconclusive month-long war that was widely criticised for Israels failure to crush Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. Under a hail of public criticism, Olmert has named a panel of judges to investigate these complaints about the military. State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss has launched a separate probe into complaints the Israeli home front was unprepared to face the onslaught of rockets fired by Hezbollah during the fighting. Parliament has scheduled a committee hearing to air these findings on Tuesday. Amid reports the government would face criticism for inadequate bomb shelters and warning systems to civilians, Olmert accused Lindenstrauss of sowing panic among Israelis, in a letter whose contents were published by his office.
In the letter to the parliament speakers bureau, Olmert also accused the comptrollers office of leaking false reports ahead of the report and of failing to solicit a government response before publishing its findings. I see no room for plans to release it at a parliament committee meeting on Tuesday, Olmert wrote. The Israeli military has also asked to see a draft of the report before publication, a military spokesman said. It was unclear whether parliament would agree to the postponement requests.
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THE crescent of Islamic violence is on the rise again in Southeast Asia, characterised by a growing ruthlessness and sophistication.
"We advise you to reconsider your need to travel to Indonesia due to the very high threat of terrorist attack. We continue to receive a stream of reporting indicating that terrorists are in the advanced stages of planning attacks."
The grim warning on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website, echoed in similar advisories for The Philippines and Thailand, underscores the challenges facing government ministers and counter-terrorism chiefs from five countries meeting this week in Jakarta.
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PATTAYA, Thailand A man arrested for the murders of two female Russian tourists in Thailand insisted that he was not a part of any crime syndicate following a re-enactment of the crime Sunday morning. I was robbing them and there is no one else involved, said Anuchit Lamlert, who was arrested Thursday and has confessed to the murders of Tatyana Tsimfer, 30, and Lyubov Svirkova, 25.
The victims bodies were found Feb. 24, shot and slumped in lounge chairs on a beach in Pattaya, about 110 kilometers southeast of Bangkok. Sunday mornings public re-enactment of the crime followed standard Thai police procedure, and was covered by most Thai television stations. The brutal killings shocked Thailand and have been dominating news headlines for the past week, as well as being the subject of intense interest in Russia.
Anuchit told police that the motive for the killings was robbery and that he killed the pair because he was afraid they would remember [his] face after they saw him and started crying out for help. Police believe he may be lying, however. There are inconsistencies between his confession and the evidence, a Thai national police official said on Saturday.
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Saber-rattling and wishful thinking from Syrian state media...
Day after day people in the occupied Golan stress their commitment to their Syrian Arab identity and vow to continue commitment and loyalty to the homeland Syria and adherence to national principles, a report by Syrian T.V. said yesterday. "Our belonging to the motherland is not only a geographical but moreover it is a belonging to a history and Arab highborn identity." Golanis said, hoping to rejoin the motherland. The report spoke about suffering of our people in the occupied Golan saying that, due to the Israeli occupation, Golanis were prevented to plant their lands, noting that their steadfastness and resistance had forced Israel to allow them to plant the lands. The liberated Golanis captives wished their detained fellows and all Arab captives in the Israeli jails to be released soon.
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Occupied Golan?
The question is : to whom this land belong?
And if a Nation keep in denying the other the right to exist and kill or trying to kill the people in that Nation. The victim has the right and the obligation of punish the agressor by taking the Land.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The president has rejected the mercy petitions of six of the seven Islamist militants condemned to death for killing two Jhalakathi judges in November 2005. With the rejection of the mercy petitions, there will be no obstacle to the executions of the militants.
GROZNY Authorities in Chechnya on Saturday unearthed what appeared to be the corpse of former Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, his son said, and forensic experts prepared to examine the remains to determine the cause of his mysterious death.
North Korea is willing irreversibly to shut down its nuclear plants as part of a six-nation deal, a senior South Korean official said on Monday.
THE chief US prosecutor for David Hicks' upcoming trial says he would be "dumbfounded" if the Australian terror suspect's US military lawyer, Major Michael Mori, was court-martialled for outspoken comments.
Vice President Dick Cheney, who returned to Washington last week from an around-the-world trip, is being treated for a blood clot in his left leg, his office announced today. Such clots, while rare, are sometimes caused by extended air travel. Cheney is being treated with a blood thinner intended to prevent the clot from breaking loose and reaching his lungs, said his deputy press secretary, Megan McGinn. She said Cheney, 66, had experienced "mild calf discomfort."
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) President Qazi Hussain Ahmed said on Monday that there was ideological affinity between his party and the Pakistan Army, including the Inter-Service Intelligence, over the war in Afghanistan against Russia and the Kashmir dispute, but the army was now betraying the religious alliance. 
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a constitutional petition filed by former Inter Services Intelligence chief Gen (r) 
WUERZBURG, Germany - A U.S. Army medic who refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition to the war was convicted of desertion at his court martial Tuesday, and could face as long as seven years in prison. Spc. Agustin Aguayo, whose case has been closely watched by American anti-war groups, opened the one-day proceeding on a U.S. base in Germany by admitting he intentionally avoided his deployment back to Iraq. Aguayo has said in the past that he had refused to return to Iraq because he believes war is immoral, and that he could "no longer go down this path."
This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto." Several hours earlier on Sunday you probably would not have heard German Bishop Gregor Maria Franz Hanke choose such a divisive analogy. 
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked parliament on Sunday to delay the release of a key report expected to criticise inadequate protection for Israeli civilians under rocket fire during last years war in Lebanon. 
