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2011-05-09 Africa North

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Posted by ryuge 2011-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Moo-mar says they're all al Qaeda, the locals say they're just anti-Gadaffi, who hates all of them.

Half a dozen Italian nuns have lived here peacefully as long as anyone can remember. Mother Superior Celeste, 74, from Vicenza, snorts at the notion that the rest of the world should be afraid of Derna or that her adopted home was a hotbed of Islamic radicalism.

"Gaddafi speaks about al-Qa'ida. But he is the terrorist. He has attacked Derna many times, attacked the houses, taken the children in the night."

She rattles off a list of the city's ailments: no work, no schools, no proper healthcare, no sport, no money. Some of the young men had chosen to die, she said, because they thought: "We are dying anyway; let us go to die in Iraq."

Posted by Bobby 2011-05-09 06:42|| 2011-05-09 06:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Half a dozen Italian nuns have lived here peacefully as long as anyone can remember. Mother Superior Celeste, 74, from Vicenza, snorts at the notion that the rest of the world should be afraid of Derna or that her adopted home was a hotbed of Islamic radicalism.

"Palestine" is full of Foreign Christians of this type (or was before it the advent of PA rule).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-05-09 11:24|| 2011-05-09 11:24|| Front Page Top

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