Fire damaged part of a labour camp, in Naim, after three Bahraini teenagers burst in and set fire to the workers' clothes. It was the third time that they had raided the same building in one night. When the youths broke in the first time they beat up one of the workers, who required hospital treatment for his injuries. They returned half-an-hour later and stole the labourers' safety shoes. However, when they went back a third time they piled up the workers' clothes, doused the pile in kerosene and set it on fire. The labourers managed to put out the blaze, but only after it had destroyed their air-conditioner, refrigerator and carpets. "It all started when the Bahrainis barged into the labourers' residence at 10pm," said Bangladeshi mechanic Mubarak Muslim Mia, 27, who lives in the building. "They entered one of the rooms exclaiming that they are Bahrainis and have a right to be anywhere they want to be. "One of the residents asked them what they wanted, barging in so late at night, but the Bahrainis shouted at him and beat him up really bad. "We rushed him off to hospital to get treatment for cuts in his hand."
Almost 100 Indian and Bangladeshi workers live in the building. They work for various companies, but split the cost of the rent between themselves. However, they did not immediately report the matter to the police to avoid a confrontation with nearby residents. They even kept quiet when the teenagers came back 30 minutes later and stole their safety shoes. "Each shoe costs around BD7 or BD8 - this might not be much, but it is a fortune for people like us," said Mr Mia. "We did not want to go to the police right then because we thought that it would stop there. We did not want to get in trouble with people from the neighbourhood." However, half-an-hour later the culprits re-entered the building and took workers' clothes out of a cupboard before soaking them with kerosene normally used for cooking. They then set the pile on fire. "We fought to extinguish the fire, but our clothes were fully charred," said Mr Mia. "The air-conditioner, refrigerator and carpets were all lost to the flames and we immediately went to the police."
The incident happened last Tuesday, but the workers are still without air-conditioning and a refrigerator while summer temperatures hit 40C. It is understood the three youths were arrested, but have since been released from custody. "We are poor people, it is not easy for us to gather enough money to buy new equipment," said Mr Mia. "The air conditioner costs BD120, fridge BD70 and our clothes almost the same amount. "We are at the end of the month and are left with no money at all. "We do not know why these people treat us like this. We never harmed them, why would they harm us?
Greg Dyke, the former BBC director general ousted over the broadcaster's coverage of the Iraq conflict, unleashed a scorching attack on the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, blaming it for trying to bully the BBC into submission.
Dyke's got it all wrong. It was the Beeb doing the bullying.
Details. Mere details...
Dyke, in excerpts of his upcoming book "Inside Story" published in The Observer and the Mail on Sunday, also scalded the BBC governing board for pandering to Blair's office by pushing him out. "We were all duped," he said of the argument Blair made to drum up support for the Iraq war. "History will not be on Blair's side, it will show that the whole saga is a great political scandal."
Depends on which side wins the WoT. We've already established that it won't be Greg Dyke's side...
Blair was "either incompetent and took Britain to war on a misunderstanding, or he lied when he told the House of Commons that he didn't know what the 45-minute claim meant." Dyke referred to a claim made, then retracted, by Blair's office in arguing for Saddam Hussein's overthrow, that Iraq could deploy chemical or biological weapons in just 45 minutes. A BBC reporter accused the government of "sexing up" its dossier with the false claim, thereby triggering a scandal that pitted the BBC against the government in an open and rare conflict. An official inquiry, led by Lord Hutton to look into the death of a scientist used as a source for that story, cleared the government of blame but criticized the BBC. Dyke resigned under pressure after six members of the governing board voted for his removal. "I had no idea I would be sacked by a board of governors behaving like frightened rabbits caught in car headlights," he said, calling for the six now to resign.
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LOL - from the title I was thinking of a Janet Reno lookalike with an accent
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"History will not be on Blair's side, it will show that the whole saga is a great political scandal."
So says a man who apparently doesn't realise that not only is he already history, but that he has an inverted perspective of what history will actually reveal: that the Left rose almost as one to defend one of the world's worst remaining fascist dictators; a mass murderer, a genocide, a tyrant, and a reckless bloody war-monger. Time's tapestry has already been woven, and Dyke's trumpeted patch of alleged scandal is already starting to look small and very insignificant indeed - barely a footnote commemorating the impotence and moral decay of left-wing politics at the start of the twenty-first century.
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When I saw this and read it I just had to submit the link. Thanks to the editors for making a better job of it.
The BBC is an organ of self-loathing anglo boomers and socialist scum. It can't bring it's self to publish anything but scorn for Blair. It refuses as a culture to admit it was so totally wrong. That is why mister Dyke got the sack. But as you can see he still is living in a dream world of baby boomer self importance.
I am so tired of the Beebs largely successful campaign to make all in the U.K. hate anyone in and everything the US does.
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It seemed like quite the coincedence that I would run across this current George Will column after reading a similar one yesterday on WorldNetDaily.
This topic is probably my biggest concern in regards to the Islamofreaks and the best reason I can think of to re-elect W.
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Please post exceprts to "Login Required" sites.
I dont trade my privacy to the Post or Times, and there are others here like me. So this like is bascially useless to us.
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I just don't see much of a possibility for a fission weapon in the US. Small and portable is very expensive, and it gives off a major gamma signature which is pretty easy to detect by monitors all over our ports of entry.
Radiation bombs are terribly overrated, except for "fear factor", by their own nature. Heavy isotopes are very hard to disperse any distance (think blowing 'up' lead powder as to how far it would travel.) Light isotopes have short half-lives, from a few days to a few weeks--half-lives that mean as soon as you have the stuff you have to use it, so unless it's made *in* the US, it's probably not going to happen.
If nuclear weapons are going to be used, I suspect less that they would be used by terrorists, than by an (unnamed) Asian power, inside a ship at the ports of San Diego and Bremerton, to try and disable our Pacific fleet.
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You sick monster! A radiation weapon would render most of NY State uninhabitable for the next 300 years! Can't you read? It's in the damn papers! It would be like dropping Yuca Flats on Manhattan! The radiological effects would reach almost to Jefferson Mississippi! Wake Up America!
From The New York Times
The scene was captured on secretly filmed videotape shown last week in Federal District Court in Manhattan: Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, a fundamentalist Islamic cleric and convicted terrorist, devouring Baby Ruth bars even though his prison doctors had forbidden chocolate because he is diabetic.
I think I'll take up a collection to buy him more...
The tapes, displayed at the trial of the sheik's lawyer, Lynne F. Stewart, show him pining to see a geisha girl, and railing about foul-smelling gases that he believed prison authorities had sprayed into his cell to drive him mad. ...
That might have been the chili, though...
The elderly cleric is clearly ailing and disoriented after eight years of solitary confinement in United States prisons. ...
His turban was perhaps a bit overwrapped when he went in...
In a discussion that suggested the toll his confinement had taken, the sheik tells how he battled the odors invading his cell. "They used to get to my brain. I couldn't read, pray or do anything," he says. "Oh my Lord, they messed me up." He went around his cell covering any openings with paper, and then he prayed, he says, for tape to secure it. "Lord, I need adhesive tape," he said, and soon his prayers were answered. "I found adhesive tape," he says, without explanation, and Mr. Yousry exclaims: "Praise God."
"So then I prayed for a pony and went for a ride!"
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"she tells the sheik that a kidnapping by a terrorist group in the Philippines to pressure for his release was "very, very crucial," because it would "keep your name as someone that the mujahedin consider their own hero,"
Now dosen't this sound like a cpnspiracey to comit a crime?
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Maybe he's smelling Richard Ried's feet since they're residents of the same 'hotel' in Florence, CO. Eight or nine years in solitary would probably make someone yearn for a transfer to GITMO.
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Stupid question, I know, but how would a blind Islamist read? Its not like improving the light in his cell would make a difference, and I can't imagine a braille for Arabic has been invented, or that he would have the temperament to learn it if it had.
via Dhimmi Watch
Riot police used water cannons Friday to disperse protesters demanding that the Philippines lift its ban on allowing its citizens to go to war-ravaged Iraq for jobs. The protesters marched to the presidential palace to urge President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to let them leave for Iraq, where they said U.S. military contracts await them. "Your concern for us is highly appreciated but we need cash," one placard read. "Please allow us to work in Iraq," said another.
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Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said Saturday that the Iran's "deterrent capabilities" have been stepped up in order to counter "regional enemies". "Relying on its domestic abilities, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been able to increase its deterrent capabilities against the constant military conspiracy of the regional enemies," Rear Admiral Shamkhani told television. He added that all "ground, air and marine force and missile needs" had been addressed.
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Wild guess: the Norks just agreed to sell them something.
Pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud's bid to stay in office three more years was assured in a dramatic about-face Saturday when political rival Prime Minister Rafik Hariri bowed to Syrian pressure and proposed a constitutional amendment allowing the head of state to extend his term. The amendment, adopted at a 20-minute extraordinary Cabinet meeting Saturday, will be sent to Parliament, where pro-Syrian legislators hold a large majority. Lahoud's term expires in Nov. 24 and Parliament was expected to meet as early as next week to pass the amendment, extending the president's term without an election. The president's supporters have said the security and political conditions in the Middle East demanded Lahoud stay in office. Lahoud's opponents have said there was nothing urgent that required the country to amend its constitution. The amendment came despite mounting international pressure on Syria, led by the United States, to keep hands off. Syria wants a pro-Syrian president to guarantee its position in Lebanon, seen as crucial to Syria's political influence in the Middle East and security.
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Assad's boy - how does it feel to be a puppet?
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"It's imperative that we keep a short leash on our proxies..."
I know Arabs don't like dogs (consider them unclean), so I am especially pleased to see the Israelis using them. I just hope the Israelis also dispatch bomb-sniffing pigs, too, maybe "Pavel's Pork Platoon."
After months of bureaucratic delays, a new security plan for public buses across the country is currently underway, including the unprecedented use of bomb-sniffing dogs on Jerusalem City buses to snuff out Palestinian suicide bombers, a senior official in the Internal Security Ministry said Sunday. As part of the bus security plan, sixteen specially trained dogs are being used to safeguard city buses in Jerusalem, with the number of dogs expected to triple in the coming months as the program expands nationwide, said the deputy director general of the internal security ministry, Eliezer Rosenbaum.
The dogs, which undergo a five-month training period by the 'Pups for Peace' Organization before being handed over to security officials for use on public buses, include German Shepherds, and Labradors. The dogs are used by security guards to sniff out explosives at bus stops, bus stations, and bus queues. The army and police routinely use bomb-sniffing dogs for their work, but the dogs' deployment to search for bombers on select Jerusalem city bus lines this month was the first time they have been specifically used on public transportation anywhere in the country, security officials said. If proven successful, the number of dogs used in the bus security project could increase even further by next year, Rosenbaum added. The usage of the bomb-sniffing dogs for city buses is part of a nationwide increased bus security plan aimed at preventing Palestinian suicide bombers from blowing up city buses.
The $7 million project, which is being sponsored in part by the Chicago-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, has provided the more than 900 bus security guards with hand metal detectors to frisk passengers boarding popular city and intra-city bus lines. Nearly all of the bus security guards should be in possession of such metal and explosives detectors by the end of the week, six months after the program was first announced by Internal Security Minister Tzahi Hanegbi. Some 1.7 million commuters ride the 5,500 public buses in service nationwide on an average day, making the nations buses one of the primary targets for Palestinian suicide bombers.
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One of the prime suspects in last week's probable suicide bombing of two Russian airliners, a 27-year-old Chechen woman, was yesterday revealed to have had a compelling motive for her alleged actions: Dire revenge. Amanta (also known as Aminat) Nagaeva experienced the sharp end of the brutal decade-long conflict between Russia and the separatist region first hand, according to her neighbours in Chechnya. Three or four years ago, one of her three brothers was suspected of terrorism and was abducted, apparently by federal Russian forces. Like many others who have suffered the same fate he has never been seen again and is presumed dead.
The Russian daily Izvestia said her profile fitted that of the archetypal Chechen female suicide bomber Black Widows, as they are often known. "As experience shows, practically all the female suicide bombers who have blown themselves up in Moscow or the Caucasus were the wives of [rebel] fighters killed in battles with federal forces or had lost close relatives involved in the hostilities," the paper wrote. "Nagaeva had an obvious motive to become a suicide bomber; by blowing herself and the plane up she was avenging her brother."
Nagaeva was on a TU-134 bound for Volgograd which broke up in mid-air 120 miles south of Moscow, while the other prime suspect, a Chechen woman known only as S Dzhebirkhanova, was on a TU-154 heading for the Black Sea resort of Sochi which dropped out of the air within minutes of the other plane. Eighty-nine people died in the two explosions. Investigators' suspicions were aroused when nobody came to identify the two women's bodies, and their fears that the catastrophe was man-made were confirmed when the FSB security service uncovered traces of a high explosive traditionally favoured by Chechen rebels in the wreckage of one of the planes.
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A recent series of assassination attempts on high-level officials here is the result of a growing and deadly alliance between Pakistani extremists and second-rung al Qaeda operatives from Arab countries and Central Asia who use the border area with Afghanistan as a refuge, according to senior Pakistani intelligence sources. The development is a disquieting one, foreign diplomats said, because it suggests that Pakistan's security services may be losing control over home-grown militants they once embraced as allies, first in the struggle against the Soviets in Afghanistan and more recently against Indian forces in Kashmir.
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