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2005-05-23 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Fred 2005-05-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "We were this close!"

Posted by .Abu Maxhmoud al-Notsosmart 2005-05-23 00:06|| 2005-05-23 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll do a song about this and call it The Grand Wazir...

Posted by Frank Zappa 2005-05-23 00:32|| 2005-05-23 00:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Wazir hid in Waziristan>>>Spock: "Logical".

Abu Haris...Black Panther from Oakland?

Mulla Omar..I wonder if he lost his glass eye in the hurry up?

Posted by Mini Mullah 2005-05-23 01:11|| 2005-05-23 01:11|| Front Page Top

#4 He's no mullah, he's been de-turbaned.

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-05-23 02:02|| 2005-05-23 02:02|| Front Page Top

#5 "Abu Farraj Al Libbi, the third most wanted Al Qaeda activist, who was arrested a few weeks ago, also gave information about Wazir,"

Singing muslim watch?

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-05-23 09:20|| 2005-05-23 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Before the phone hits the receiver
You're halfway to the door
The voice said 'get out while you can,
There's just ten minutes, nothing more'
Time only for the essentials
Better gather them and run
The false name inside the passport,
The gold bars and the gun
And once again they've come out of the past
And though your mind is cool your heart is beating fast
You've been through it all before
Each time you wish a little more that you could ask

"What do you want from me?
What do you need from me?
There's no rest for the running man
Why can't you let him be?'

--Al Stewart, "Running Man"

Posted by Mike">Mike 2005-05-23 10:30|| 2005-05-23 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat

Well, she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well, morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat

--Ali Stewart "year of the cat"

Posted by Mac Suirtain 2005-05-23 14:10|| 2005-05-23 14:10|| Front Page Top

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