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2004-05-16 Arabia

Yemen finds money an effective weapon to reform terrorists

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Posted by Phil B 2004-05-16 9:25:28 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ... release 246 jailed suspects, put some on the army payroll and use millions of dollars to pay off tribes that sheltered them ... in a country where poverty, extremism, corruption and nepotism are rampant ...

A little help here? My Frink-O-Matic WTF Meterâ¢ just exploded.

Posted by Zenster 2004-05-16 3:39:42 PM|| 2004-05-16 3:39:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Man, what a place! I'll just get my Robert Pelton Young travel book, read up on Yemen, and bugaloo right on down there for an exciting holiday.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-05-16 3:48:34 PM|| 2004-05-16 3:48:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Here is the famous poem for the curious.

Danegeld
(Rudyard Kipling)

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighour and to say:--
''We invaded you last night -- we are prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.''

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:--

We never pay anyone Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of the game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-16 5:13:07 PM|| 2004-05-16 5:13:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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