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Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy New Year to everyone at RB. I thank God/Jesus for the invention of media, such as RB. I thank Steve White for not kicking me off. I know that I have tested you but, liberals pisses me off.
1. I pray for the Jewish people around the world who are being persecuted for their beliefs.
2. I pray for the Christians who are being persecuted and literally being crucified (in Africa) for their beliefs.
3. I pray that the Left-wing Jews and Christians recognizes the danger staring in their face.
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have a safe and Merry Christmas all, especially our snow-bound RB'ers!
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Merry X-Mas Everyone!
I might as well put this up here, for whoever reads it: Sunday I'll be driving to Austin to visit relatives, and then I'll probably do some sightseeing out there. If any of the Texas Rantburgers in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, or maybe points west (I haven't decided yet) want to go out for coffee, let me know; my email is on my web page, down and to the right.
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Merry Christmas...and may God bless us, every one.
Mike
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Merry Christmas to all at Rantburg, stay safe and warm, and thanks for the best site on the web, bar none.
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It's so nice to find a place where I can say Merry Christmas everyone, without worrying about offending anyone...errr...that's a white lie...even if I offended anyone with Merry Christmas before, I never worried...
And to Fred and the other eds, THANK YOU for this forum.
You have no idea how many people you've kept sane through this outlet. :-D
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Merry Christmas everyone! And especially to those [rough men|women] who are now, or have been, away from their families during this time in order to insure that the rest of us can celebrate Christmas safe and warm and free.
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What everybody said, epecially Barbara :-D Merry Christmas to those many of you who celebrate it, and Happy Snow! to the rest of us! Especially those in the Midwest, who hopefully are stuck somewhere warm, with congenial company and lots of Xmas cheer. (JoeBlow, anyone who chooses to be offended by sincere good wishes deserves only the back of your hand, so long as you are equally sincere in wishing them well for their own celebrations -- and I haven't noticed any snideness on the subject from you. You're one of the many, many good guys here at Rantburg.)
offsite, from snowy Vail, CO, where they know how to deal with the snow, and can get my eager family up on the mountain while I take my morning nap,
your ever devoted Trailing Wife
To all the amazing and wonderful Rantburgers, Merry Christmas and best of the new year to you. May we all do well, live well, and treat each other well.
To all Americans who will spend a cold night on duty tonight to keep the rest of us safe, a special thank you and God bless you.
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Merry Christmas to all Rantburgers and thanks to the editors for this wonderful source of knowledge and opinion. Merry Christmas and, God willing, a safe new year to our sailors, soldiers, airmen, and marines, in whatever dangerous places they may be; God bless and keep you.
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Bless 'em all
Bless 'em all
The long and the short and the tall
Bless all the sargeants and W-01s
Bless all the corporals and their blinking sons.....
I say God bless our military, who are on duty in far, remote, and nasty places in the world.
This year has been quite a ride. And I feel very thankful to Fred for putting this wonderful forum together for all of us to meet. I got a Christmas bonus, Fred, so you get one too. Take a look under your paypal tree.
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Let me add my sincerest wishes for all good men and women everywhere who love freedom that you have a Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy, prosperous New Year. Thank you, Rantburgers, for informing me, entertaining me, and giving me a smile, every time I stop by! Special thanks to Fred for hosting this site, and for putting up with all of us rampant extroverts that visit. A case of beer isn't enough - I'm trying to talk Pete Coors into donating a whole week's run to Fred, but he's not listening too well...
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Merry Christmas to all and a happy new year.
Be safe where ever you are,
I'll be in out of the O club bar.
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Merry Christmas all!
Thank you for all your well informed news and views, entertaining and biting comments, and the opportunity to rant a bit. I look forward to reading your posts in the comming year and want to especially give my thanks and kudos to Fred and the moderators for making all this possible.
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Merry Christmas or the Greeting of Your Choice to all. Goes double to all who are now or ever did celebrate the season in uniform. And to all a good night (eventually).
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Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy, prosperous New Year to all! A special thanks to Fred and the editors for this site and their insite and humor. God bless our military, who are on duty in remote, and nasty places far from home and family.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to one and all. To everyone deployed, stay safe, good luck, and good hunting!
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Merry Christmas to all, even the trolls (and you know who you are !!!).
Thanks for making this website possible Fred.
I love this place.
And to all....a goodnight.
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okay ima done postin chrismas card list on em blog. theren lotta moren yous ima wanted adder but am gettin headache tryin remeber evryones. if im missed you im didnt mean to. yalls have a merry chrismas and a beter 2005. :)
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Merry Christmas to you all... such a small, small world, this internet thingy, full of dear friends whom we have never actually met face to face...
We are in the middle of great things, my friends... great things, such things as will figure in histories yet to be written.
So, try to be becomingly modest, OK?
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That all of us might celebrate each day of our lives like this particular season.
Warmest Holiday Wishes,
Zenster
PS: I'm cheerfully making a $20 donation towards Rantburg this New Year. I will gladly let half of that money visit Fred's liver first. In fact, I insist upon it.
U.S. authorities are releasing one of 11 Kuwaiti detainees held at a military detention center for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, raising questions about why others are not being freed, according to a group of family members and a lawyer. Nasser al-Mutairi, a 26-year-old employee of the Kuwaiti Education Ministry whose family says he was teaching English in Afghanistan when he was captured three years ago, is expected home soon aboard a special plane sent by the Kuwaiti government, said Kalid al-Odha, the father of another Kuwaiti detainee.
U.S. officials declined to comment. "Our policy has always been that if detainees are transferred we will only announce it once it is complete," said Defense Department spokesman Maj. Michael Shavers. He confirmed that department also refuses to give information about individual detainees.
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"We are finished interrogating you. There is nothing more to learn from you. Now you are just a feces-throwing muttering madman. You may go now in peace. And a Merry Christmas to you. Now get out. Next time we meet, it will be on the business end of a bullet."
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What'd you expect him to say? "I dunnit and I'm glad"?
An imprisoned rebel leader wanted in the United States on drug trafficking, kidnapping and terror charges said in an interview published Thursday that he was innocent and was framed by American agents, but he believed his extradition was imminent.
"I wuz framed! Framed, I tells yez!"
Ricardo Palmera, who went under the nom de guerre Simon Trinidad, would be the first member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, extradited to the United States from Colombia. He was captured a year ago in Ecuador and brought to Colombia, where he is in a maximum-security prison. Palmera — the most senior Colombian rebel leader ever captured in Colombia — was sentenced in May to 35 years in prison for aggravated kidnapping and rebellion. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said this month he will extradite Palmera to the United States for trial unless the FARC releases dozens of hostages, including three U.S. military contractors, by Dec. 30.
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A prominent member of a Chechen illegal armed group, Akikhan Mashugov, who is believed to have killed at least six law enforcement and security officers, has been killed in Chechnya, spokesman for the federal forces in the North Caucasus Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax on Thursday. "Special services killed one Akikhan Mashugov in the village of Chervlnyonnaya in Chechnya's Shelkovskaya district. He had been searched by law enforcement agencies for murdering two FSB [Federal Security Service] officers, including deputy chief of the FSB office in Grozny, in the summer of this year," Shabalkin said.
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Russian forces killed a rebel believed to have been involved in the 1998 kidnapping of three British nationals in Chechnya, the chief spokesman for anti-terrorist operations in the North Caucasus, Major-General Ilya Shabalkin, told ITAR-TASS news agency. Shabalkin said the rebel was shot after he resisted arrest by police officers. The spokesman refused to divulge the rebel's name citing the interests of investigation. He said the search for his accomplices was continuing in the republic. Three Britons and a New Zealander were abducted from the Chechen capital, Grozny, in early October 1998, following a shoot-out between their bodyguards and a gang of kidnappers. The hostages — Britons Peter Kennedy, Darren Hickey, and Rudolf Petschi, and New Zealand's Stanley Shaw — were kidnapped while working for Granger Telecom, a British telephone company, installing 300,000 telephone lines across Chechnya. Two months later their remains were discovered on a roadside. The men had been beaten and starved before being beheaded by their kidnappers.
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Good riddance baby killer.
Never forget Beslan.
One of the terrorist leaders, Aslan Barayev, the brother of Movsar Barayev, who commanded the seizure of hostages in Moscow at the Dubrovka theater center in October 2002, has been killed in Chechnya, said Major-General Ilya Shabalkin, official spokesman for the Regional Operations Headquarters for controlling the antiterrorist operation in the North Caucasus. "Barayev was eliminated in the Chervlennaya village together with Alikhan Mashugov, the so-called emir of the Chechen capital, Grozny. Aslan Barayev's body was identified by law-enforcement officers," the general said. "The operation to eliminate Grozny emir Alikhan Mashugov and Aslan Barayev was conducted a few hours ago by the servicemen of a combined detachment of the federal troops in the Chervlennaya village," he added.
Mashugov was subordinate to both Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, Shabalkin said. "According to intelligence reports, Mashugov had committed numerous murders of law-enforcement officers and residents of Chechnya," he said. According to the spokesman, the law-enforcement bodies in Chechnya have established that the killed militant was personally involved in assassinating two FSB officers and four officers of the Chechen Interior Ministry in summer this year. Mashugov also took part in the murder of the deputy chief of the Grozny FSB directorate this year, Shabalkin said in conclusion.
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Arson was suspected in an early morning fire yesterday that caused some damage but no injuries at a recently built mosque near Frankfurt in Germany. Police in the town of Usingen, 25 kilometers north of Frankfurt, said it was too early to say whether an anti-Islamic motive was behind the blaze. "It could have been a prank by teenagers or it could have a terrorist background," a police spokesman said. "We just don't know yet." A motorist noticed smoke billowing out and called the fire service at 5.20 a.m. local time. The fire was extinguished 55 minutes later. The damage was initially estimated at 50,000 euros (about $70,000). Arson attacks on mosques and churches in the Netherlands last month raised fears that violence could spill over into Germany, where Islam is the third largest religious denomination after Catholicism and Lutheranism. So far, there have been only two confirmed attacks on German mosques in the latter part of this year. On Wednesday a bullet broke a window and damaged a wall at a mosque in Schwaebisch Hall, southern Germany. Police made one arrest in Sinsheim, near Heidelberg, after a firebomb burned a mosque door on Nov. 17.
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pat the guy who burnt it down and send him on his way. I'm sure he has learnt his lesson
The United Nations imposed sanctions Thursday on two Saudi activists accused of ties to al-Qaida and the leader of a Muslim extremist group in the Philippines. It also dropped the punitive measures against a Jordanian who claims he was Osama bin Laden's bodyguard. The Security Council committee in charge of anti-terrorism sanctions said Saudi dissident Saad al-Fagih, Saudi businessman Adel Batterjee, and Khadaffy Janjalani, leader of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group that has kidnapped Americans in the Philippines, have been added to the list of those subject to sanctions.
At the same time, it announced that Jordanian Shadi Abdellah, who was convicted of helping plan terror attacks in Germany but granted early release last month, had been removed from the list. Abdellah, who testified he acted briefly as bin Laden's bodyguard while in an al-Qaida training camp, was a government witness while in prison including against his alleged co-plotters in the German cell of the Tawhid and Jihad group, headed by Islamic militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Earlier this month, Abdella's attorney said he had been questioned by U.S. officials who are considering having him testify at the Virginia trial of terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui.
I guess he's been turned. First the testimony, then the plastic surgery and the witness protection program...
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Unidentified men armed with machetes attacked a Christian preacher on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island on Friday ahead of Christmas eve services in the region, which has a long history of Muslim-Christian violence. The Rev. Jemri Tambalino was in critical condition after the attack by three men in the Central Sulawesi coastal town of Poso, said local hospital official Sugianto Kalimudin. The preacher, who was riding a motorbike, suffered slash wounds to his neck and face, Kalimudin said. A friend traveling with Tambalino also was attacked, and suffered injuries to his hand, he said.
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"...a long history of Muslim-Christian violence".
Damn Christians can't live in peace with their neighboors anywhere.
Plotting, plotting, plotting: doesn't ANYONE have a JOB in moose limb land? Other than seething and exploding, that is?
Mahmoud rolls his eyes alot.
Terrorists are plotting attacks next year at tourist resorts across Thailand, according to documents found in the house of a fugitive leader of the country's Islamic insurgency, a senior security official said. The rebels also plan to turn three Muslim-dominated provinces in Thailand's south into a base for international terrorist groups, the official told The Associated Press in an interview on Thursday.
The plans indicate the insurgents want to broaden a conflict in the south that has killed more than 570 people this year, and fuel concerns that their cause is gaining support among Islamic extremists outside the country. Gen. Kitti Rattanachaya, a senior security adviser to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, said the seized documents indicate the separatists want to escalate their fight against the Buddhist central government next year. "The situation will be terrifying as the terrorists open war on all fronts to divert attention from the southern area," Kitti, a former army commander in the south, told the AP. He said the documents show that in 2005, the militants plan to attack "soft targets" such as the tropical beach resorts of Pattaya and Phuket, which draw tourist from around the world.
The documents were seized earlier this year from the house of Masae Useng, a former Islamic school teacher who the government accuses of masterminding a separatist plan for Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces, which border Malaysia. Officials have said previously that the separatists have threatened to attack tourists sites, but have not said where the information came from. Thaksin's government has struggled to quell violence in the south that has swelled since Muslim militants early this year rekindled a decades-old dream of an Islamic state separated from Buddhist-dominated Thailand.
Most of the deaths have been police and local government officials killed in drive-by shootings and small bomb blasts, while scores of militants have died in crackdowns by security forces who are accused of brutality. Kitti said last year's arrest in Thailand of al-Qaida-linked terrorist suspect Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, proved that international extremists had operated in Thailand for some time. Hambali, a leader of the Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah, visited southern areas three times before his arrest in the central city of Ayutthaya, Kitti said.
Jemaah Islamiyah had cells in several Southeast Asian countries and allegedly had training camps in Philippines and Indonesia before a regional crackdown after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States crippled its operations. Kitti said southern Thailand was a favorable for a hub of pan-Islamic extremism than the southern Philippines or Indonesia's Aceh province, where Muslim rebellions have long flared. He said more than 3,000 Thai Muslim militants had received military training over the past seven years and thousands of stolen or illegally purchased weapons have been stockpiled.
And a Merry Christmas to all. Sleep well, infidels!
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One man was killed and eight others were injured Friday when a bomb exploded in a town in Thailand's southern Narathiwat Province, police said. The bomb exploded in front of a Siam Commercial Bank automated teller machine near a market in the town of Sungai Kolok, the police said. The bomb was in a motorcycle parked in front of the bank and apparently triggered by mobile phone. Police said those who were injured are residents of the town.
A FUEL tanker exploded in a packed Baghdad neighborhood Christmas Eve, apparently leaving some dead, a US military spokesman said. "It was a fuel tanker. It appears there was a loss of life," said First Cavalry Division Lieutenant Colonel James Hutton. Several homes were burnt and 19 wounded in the blast in the wealthy Mansour district, not far from some foreign embassies, a police officer said. A huge fireball ripped through the area near a major telecommunications tower, according to eyewitnesses. Haidar al-Mussawi, a member of the Iraqi National Congress party, said the blast about 300 metres (yards) away damaged his home. "A fire ball shot into the sky and blew out the windows of my house," he said. The explosion occurred near a checkpoint on the road to the offices of the Iraqi National Congress, the party of prominent secular politician Ahmed Chalabi, other residents said.
Peace on earth and mercy mild...
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A Pakistani military court convicted two low-ranking army officers on charges of involvement in an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf last year, a military spokesman said on Friday. Spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan said one of the officers was given the death penalty, the other was sentenced to 10 years in jail. "They were tried under the military law and they can go into appeal," he told Reuters. Sultan said the officers were involved in the first assassination attempt on Dec. 14 when a bomb blew up a bridge minutes after Musharraf's motorcade passed it.
The military court handed down the sentences a few days ago and the trial of up to four other junior army officers and six air force officers was under way, Sultan said. The announcement of the verdicts came on the first anniversary of the second attempt when suicide car bombers attacked his motorcade in which 15 people were killed. According to local press reports, the air force technicians, indoctrinated by religious radicals, had strapped large quantities of explosive to the pillars of the concrete bridge to kill Musharraf near his military house. Pakistani officials say militants linked to al Qaeda masterminded the assassination attempts on Musharraf but deny that they had infiltrated the army. Musharraf has said in the past that junior military officials were involved in the assassination attempts on him but dismissed the suggestions of involvement of senior officials.
In March, Musharraf said a Libyan linked to Osama bin Laden's network was a prime suspect in the plots. The intelligence officials identified the man as Abu Faraj Farj, who has emerged as a key al Qaeda leader in Pakistan. In August, the authorities had announced a reward of 20 million rupees ($340,000) for information leading to Farj's arrest. The police last week arrested a gang of four militants linked to Farj and foiled attempted attacks by them in the eastern city of Lahore. In September, the security forces killed Farj's close aide and Pakistan's most wanted militant, Amjad Hussain Farooqi, who was also accused of attempts on Musharraf's life.
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looks like these 2 jo's aren't going to make retirement.
Jordan has completed the training of an expanded batch of Iraqi police cadets. The Iraqi Police Service graduated 1,423 officers from the basic police training course at the Jordan International Police Training Center in Amman on Dec. 16. Officials said the graduation marked the completion of an eight-week training course for one of the largest batches of inexperienced recruits. Officers with prior experience attended a three-week "transition integration program" course of instruction. All graduates were ordered to deploy immediately for duty at stations throughout Iraq. The Iraqi police processes cadets for training both in Iraq and Jordan. Basic training includes the fundamentals of policing skills and techniques as well as law enforcement principles in a free society.
I hope the Jordanians gave them the special course on how to use a tire iron...
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Rule 1. He makes a fist, you use you club.
Rule 2. He pulls a knife, you cash his check.
Rule 3. Always do Rule 2 first.
Karbala police said Thursday they have arrested five Iraqis and one foreigner linked to the Al Qaeda network who confessed their involvement in Sunday's deadly bombing in the Iraqi Shiite shrine city. "Five Iraqis and a foreigner were arrested in the last two days and they confessed their involvement in the attack and their links with Al Qaeda," said police spokesman Rahman Meshawi.
Meshawi said police recovered "weapons, documents and videos proving these people have links with Al Qaeda," but he refused to reveal the nationality of the non-Iraqi. During interrogation, the men admitted they had "two accomplices from Arab Gulf countries and police are actively looking for those two people," Meshawi said. The arrests signaled that Saudi-born terror mastermind Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group has an "active cell" in Karbala, Meshawi said. More than 50 people have been arrested in Najaf in connection with the bombings. However, after previous attacks in the Shiite shrine cities, mass round-ups by the police have yielded little fruit and failed to lead to those responsible for bombings.
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sounds like 5 singing in higher key before losing their voice (via dull saw, I hope).
Freedoms we have lost
Writing in Jang, Nazeer Naji stated that in the past Pakistani society was more free. People used to do preaching for Islam but there was more emphasis on example than on coercion. Today any kind of celebration is banned. We cannot celebrate the new year, we cannot celebrate weddings indoors if we serve food and singing which used to be so common in the past is now disapproved. Pretty dresses for women are now frowned at. Anglo-Indian ladies who once plied their bicycles freely in Lahore have long migrated out of Pakistan. Restaurants where the youth of Lahore used to enjoy their evenings are nowhere in sight. Pakistani films show goonda-gardi [thug] and kalashnikov culture instead of romance. Worshippers at mosques are no longer safe. Even different dresses for the different sects have been made obligatory in some communities. Pakistani society is internally riven with narrow mindedness.
That's an illustration of the fact that democracy doesn't give you freedom. Free people gravitate toward democracy because one free man's as good as an another and their opinions are all worth counting. That situation doesn't apply in feudal Pakland, where all the holy men are holier than thou, and it won't as long as they keep pooping themselves anytime anybody utters the word "secular state."
Lahoris hit the bottle on Eid
According to Khabrain, the people of Lahore hit the bottle on Eid and consumed worth Rs 1.5 crore of it during the Eid holidays. After it was declared that the Eid moon had been sighted, the Lahoris went berserk looking for alcohol and picked up all the stock available at the hotel bar rooms. In one day, they emptied four bar rooms, buying alcohol worth Rs 80 lakh.
Quarrel over moon-sighting (again)
According to Khabrain, this year too many clerics refused to go along with the verdict of the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee and accused it of announcing Eid on Sunday without really sighting the moon in accordance with the practice laid down in the Quran. Some mosques in Lahore and Gujranwala actually got their followers to celebrate Eid on Monday instead of Sunday. At the Taxali Gate mosque one imam took the people sitting in etekaf (divine trance) hostage and forced the community to observe Eid on Monday through the order of completing 30 fasts. Zeenat Masjid and Jama Masjid Razvia in Gujranwala also rebelled and observed Eid on Monday. In Peshawar the rebels were actually arrested and released later.
Asoka not acceptable
Daily Khabrain published reaction to federal education minister General (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi that Pakistan's history books should contain chapters on Asoka and Chandra Gupta Mauriya. Teachers and students said if this was done they would come out and hold protest rallies. One religious leader said that Islamic culture was being destroyed while another intellectual said that it was no use teaching Asoka in Pakistan. Islami Jamiat Tulaba said such additions to the course would be resisted, while Imamya Students said they would not tolerate it.
Good idea. Deny any historical connection with greatness. It's not in your future, so you don't need it in your past.
Who killed Murtaza Malik?
According to Nawa-e-Waqt, the men who killed Lahore's renowned but controversial religious scholar Dr Ghulam Murtaza Malik in 2002 were arrested by the police during a chance stop-and-search operation. The two were violent criminals produced in the past years by a mixing of jihad with crime. In the decade of the 1990s jihad brought more weapons into the underworld and gave rise to new brands of armed robbery. Youths taking to it found it easier to kill and stick around without witnesses rather than steal and flee as they used to do in old days. The arrested dacoits admitted that a religious leader called Dr Hafiz Shahid of Pattoki, leader of Sunni Tehreek, told them to kill two religious scholars because they were 'insulters' of the Prophet PBUH. They lured a rather greedy Dr Malik out of his house on the promise that they would gift a piece of land to him and shot him to death on a deserted road. They also killed another religious scholar Prof Ataur Rehman Saqib the same year for the same 'offence'.
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After it was declared that the Eid moon had been sighted the Lahoris went berserk looking for alcohol and picked up all the stock available at the hotel bar rooms. In one day, they emptied four bar rooms, buying alcohol worth Rs 80 lakh.
A bomb exploded outside the home of a tribal elder in a remote northwestern tribal region of Pakistan on Thursday, killing his son and wounding another man, residents and officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast in the village of Makin, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) to the north of Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, said Azam Jan, a local resident.
Can't trust those wily Rotarians. They're always up to no good...
He said the dead man, Nazir Ali, 19, was the son of a tribal elder Sharghan Mehsud, who had helped Pakistani forces in operations against Islamic militants. He said the blast also injured a villager, but didn't give other details. Two officials in the area confirmed the incident, but refused to speculate who could be behind the attack.
"Er, we'd prefer not to explode just yet."
Pakistan has said scores of militants - among them Arabs, Central Asians and Afghans - are hiding in South Waziristan, where security forces have carried out several operations in recent months to flush them out.
FALLUJAH, Iraq - US Marine infantrymen fought with insurgents in Fallujah as warplanes and tanks bombarded guerrilla positions in the heaviest fighting here in weeks. The clashes raged as nearly 1,000 residents returned to the devastated city for the first time since US troops drove out most of the militants last month. At least three Marines were killed in the fighting in Fallujah, underlining how far the city and surrounding area are from being tamed as the United States and its Iraqi allies try to bring quiet before national elections Jan. 30.
In the center of Fallujah, F-18s dropped several bombs, sending up plumes of smoke. Tank and machine gun fire could be heard to the south, while howitzers at Camp Fallujah southeast of the city boomed throughout the day. The guns fired illumination rounds after dark to help Marines on the ground spot attackers.
The military would not give specific figures for casualties in Fallujah, saying only that three Marines were killed in action Thursday in Anbar province, which includes the city. But a US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the three deaths occurred in the Fallujah clashes.
While the fighting raged, hundreds of Fallujans spent hours lined up at a checkpoint northwest of the city, one of four entry points where people had to prove they lived in the Andalus district, a mostly commercial area in the heart of Fallujah that was the first neighborhood opened to residents.
Iraqi National Guardsmen hung small, colorful posters on concrete barriers that showed a crying girl and the words in Arabic, "Zarqawi killed her parents," a reference to Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was believed to have been in Fallujah before the US attack. Another poster showed a father lifting his daughter to put a ballot in a voting box, meant to encourage people to vote Jan. 30.
Not too subtle, are they.
Most of the people showed up on foot or shuttle buses, not having gotten word that authorities had changed their minds about allowing cars into the city. US officials had wanted to keep vehicles out, to lessen the chances for car bombings, but Iraq's interim government insisted people be permitted to bring in their cars.
Officials said few people stopped by humanitarian centers set up around the city to offer food and other supplies. Huge tanks holding drinking water have been erected across Fallujah because the water system is still out of commission. By the end of the day, 921 people had passed through the four checkpoints, 16 were turned back and one was detained, a US military spokeswoman, Maj. M. Naomi Hawkins, said.
Officials said people may not have known they were allowed to go home, and more might come after announcements during weekly prayers at mosques Friday. They also said some people were waiting to hear whether it was safe to return _ a question made more acute with the fighting. "The word is slow to get out," said Lt. Col. Michael Paulk, a military spokesman. "They want to hear reaction from people who are coming to the city."
Many may be in for a shock. Marines have said many people staying in refugee camps near Fallujah did not seem to be aware of the extent of damage. Few buildings were left unscarred in the US offensive, which began Nov. 8. "This is all that's left of my property," one returnee said Thursday, waving a dusty blanket.
Others seemed undeterred by the destruction. "We want to go back to Fallujah. We want to see whether our houses were looted or not," a man said. "Even if our houses were destroyed, we are ready to set up tents inside Fallujah."
Thursday's combat was the heaviest around Fallujah since a surge of fighting Dec. 10 that killed seven Marines, three Iraqi soldiers and about 50 insurgents.
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Locate every single attacker, and shoot them dead. The objective? Fill the Fallujah morgue to the rafters with the bodies of insurgents.
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It is past the time for fooling around. Use D9's on Fallujah the way the local highway departments around here have been clearing the interstates of snow -- overlapping fields of plowing, to be repeated until the way is completely smooth and clear.
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Actualy, D-9's are a little small for razing cities. Good for individual houses.
I would suggest a D-11. less likely to fall into a open basement.
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Our office manager has a son who is a corporal in Fallujah. He called last Monday 3AM. He said the place was really pounded, and eery while everyone was evacuated and the main fighting was over. Ghost town. He and his buddies had some video recorders. They are trying to put together a DVD. If we get one, will try to make more.
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Actually I was thinking a B-41... MUCH much less work, but quite a bit louder...
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The Coalition should do two things (1) Level the Jolan district which was the hub of insergent activity and salt the ground there (2) Move the highway about thirty miles North to cut the majority of travel and trade into Fallujah. This will make attacks upon shipments along the highway tougher, and it will make it easier to spot people sneaking into and out of Fallujah, and eventually this will kill the city and the city fathers will know it. If they want to save the city they will have to do something.
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good idea ruprecht - alternative 2 - don't fix the water supply
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Biggest dozer I was on was a TD-21,that monster would push some seies s$^t.I could bury the blade and the tracks would keep digging.If you have never had the thrill of driving one of those beasts you have missed good ride,Smokey.Lota fun crushing cars and turning abandon buildings into matcsticks.
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All together now: ditch the State Department war, let Rummy spins his wheels in permanent retirement, repatriate Anglo-American oil interests and let the local space-takers eat jihad. We, nation-wreckers will prevail! Hearts and minds are for bullets.
The commander of a U.S. military hospital said Thursday she hopes many of those wounded and sent here for treatment after a suicide bombing on an American base in northern Iraq will be able to return to the United States for Christmas. Doctors at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center have treated some 35 soldiers and civilians wounded in an insurgent attack Tuesday at a dining facility in the northern city of Mosul. Many have suffered serious injuries but all are expected to survive, said hospital commander Col. Rhonda Cornum. "We don't have anybody we don't expect to recover," she said. The blast killed 22 people, including 14 U.S. service members, four American civilians, three Iraqi National Guard members, and one "unidentified non-U.S. person." Military officials have said it's not yet known whether that final death was the suicide bomber.
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The terrorist group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi denied Thursday that it staged car bombings that killed 67 people in two holy Shiite Muslim cities this week, but stressed that it will continue to attack those who help the Americans. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks Sunday, which caused the worst carnage in Iraq for months. The strikes at a funeral procession in Najaf and a bus station in Karbala appeared designed to provoke sectarian fighting between majority Shiites and minority Sunnis. U.S. officials said early this year that they had intercepted a letter from al-Zarqawi in which he allegedly called for attacks on Shiites to provoke a civil war and undermine the U.S.-led effort to stabilize Iraq. Al-Zarqawi's group, which recently changed its name to Al-Qaida in Iraq and pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, denied having anything to do with Sunday's bombings.
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ISLAMABAD: The federal government has directed police officials to remain on alert during Christmas after receiving reports of a possible terrorist attack on December 25. In this regard, the prime minister's house issued special instructions to police and law enforcement agencies. According to reliable sources, the prime minister has received intelligence reports indicating a possible terrorist attack in the capital or its adjoining areas on Christmas and New Year. After reviewing the reports, the PM house issued special instructions to the Inspector General of Police to implement necessary security measures and put the police on alert. Police sources said security at churches and other places of worship had been placed on alert and special instructions had been issued for tighter security. The PM house also called for complete coordination and cooperation between law enforcement agencies to avoid any incidents.
And Merry Christmas to you, too, you Islamic bastards.
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