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| Hundreds march for 'freedom' in Sudan |
| 2013-10-05 |
| [Al Ahram] Hundreds of men and women marched for "freedom" in the Sudanese capital on Friday despite the deployment of militia, troops and riot police, AFP correspondents reported. One of the largest rallies occurred in the poor Shambat area of North Khartoum, where several hundred residents marched along the dirt roads between their houses. They tried to make their way to a large lot but were blocked by uniformed security officers armed with rifles. "A million deaders for a new dawn," they called. "Freedom! Freedom! Justice! Justice!" They chanted: "The people want the fall of the regime," rallying cry of the 2011 Arab Spring revolts which toppled longtime rulers around the region. Elsewhere, hundreds demonstrated outside a state security service building, a United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... source said, adding there had been a number of other peaceful demonstrations. The protests followed the main weekly Musselmen prayers and came in spite of the roundup of hundreds of people after deadly demonstrations last week. Authorities say 34 people died after petrol and diesel prices jumped on September 23 when the government cut fuel subsidies, sending thousands into the streets in the worst urban unrest of President Omar Al-Bashir's 24-year rule. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 "There I was, alone in rainy Phuc Tup" ROFLMAO! Forget the low-rent part, Pappy - you're Hemingway reincarnated. (With a little P.J. O'Rourke added for fun.) :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-10-05 16:56 |
| #5 #3 Low-rent Hemingway? I think more a syphilitic Wolfe, but that's me. If he starts babbling about mushlim killer tomatoes then I'm correct. When I think about mushlims, I always want to go to the freezer in the basement, break off one of mum's limbs, and take it out in the back yard. You should take a few swings at overripe tomatoes sometime. You might like it. Swing. Swing. Swing and a mushlim. The spatter glistens in the sun like nipponese pomegranates beneath a roiling plum-purple mushroom mushroom. Out loud! Don't thank me. It's my job. You haven't seen any killer mushlim tomatoes around YOUR neighborhood lately, have you? p.s. I would love to have a nickname of my very own. I think "Wannabeer Lear" would be nice. |
| Posted by: El-Aurens Hemtingle3148 2013-10-05 15:09 |
| #4 'Muslim killer tomatoes' has to be better than "There I was, alone in rainy Phuc Tup, with nothing but a Bowie blade in muh teef, Giap's head in muh hand and a certainty that the CIA wasn't coming." |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-05 14:48 |
| #3 Low-rent Hemingway? I think more a syphilitic Wolfe, but that's me. If he starts babbling about mushlim killer tomatoes then I'm correct. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-10-05 13:30 |
| #2 The "concept of 'kuffirs'" was around long before Islam. I see you changed your label again. Why don't you go with 'Low-Rent Hemingway'? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-05 10:47 |
| #1 Islam marches on. Don't you wish you lived in a Moslem country? The people who gave the world ju-ju and mo-jo and the concept of "kuffirs". |
| Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 2013-10-05 07:31 |