Hah! Still more proof of media complicity in international terrorism, from the most trusted name in major media no less: and I thought the BBC didn't run commercials....
By Jake Anderson Taking a page from American know-how, Al Qaeda terrorists have taken to bolstering their ranks by running late night infomercials on Iraqi television stations. The ads, for "Terrorist in a Box," show testimonials from enthusiastic customers like Abdul Joheeza, 21, who says in the ad, "Before I answered the infomercial, I was an unemployed camel herder. But since ordering "Terrorist in a Box," I have a direction. Allah willing, I'll blow myself up within three months!"
The terrorist training kit includes a how-to book on mayhem- making topics like how to obtain fake IDs, driving a truck directly into a building, and how to take hostages. A sign of Al Qaeda's desperation to recruit new recruits may be indicated by the announcer in the ad, saying, "Call now and join the ranks of martyrs. Operators are standing by. And if you call within the next half hour, we'll throw in 25 extra virgins when you blow yourself up. AND THAT'S NOT ALL! We'll also include this 'Body bomb starter kit.' AND THAT'S NOT ALL! Act now and we'll give your next of kin a month's supply of polenta."
According to sources, the ads are working extremely well.
FORMER Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev presented the singer once known as Cat Stevens with a peace prize today, honouring his work for charity. Yusuf Islam received the "Man for Peace" award from Gorbachev's foundation and Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni's office at the opening of a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates. In September, the British musician was expelled from the United States after authorities diverted his London-to-Washington flight to Maine to remove him, saying he was suspected of ties to terrorism. He says he was a victim of an "unjust and arbitrary system," and that he has denounced terrorism. Mr Gorbachev alluded to the musician's troubles as he presented the award. "Cat Stevens' life has not been simple," Mr Gorbachev said. "Every person who takes a critical stance to make the world a better place ... has a difficult life."
And who would know more about a difficult life than Splotch-Head?
The meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates is organised every year in Rome by the Gorbachev Foundation. "I'm very honoured to be here today, not as a rock 'n' roller, but as someone who is sharing a platform with these noble examples," said Mr Islam, who founded Small Kindness, a charity to raise money for children and families suffering from poverty and war in the Balkans and Middle East. Other recipients of the "Man for Peace" award include Italian actor-director Roberto Benigni, who won in 2002. Benigni directed the Oscar-winning Life is Beautiful.
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Also known as the "Screw You Putin" award.
Otherwise this Peace Prize nonsense has gone way to far. Mind you I thought that 30+ years ago when the SG of the UN won - might have been U Thant.
Saudi Arabia has one of the largest liquidity in the world despite the flight of some $ 1trillion to foreign countries, according to Abdul Rahman Al-Jeraisy, chairman of the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry. "Saudi investments abroad are estimated at between $ 800billion and $ 1trillion and most of these funds are concentrated in the United States and Europe," Al-Eqtisadiah business daily quoted him as saying.
Jeraisy, who is chairman of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, called upon government departments to soften restrictions on foreign investment. "If we had allowed foreigners to own real estate and buy shares the volume of investments would have increased 10 times," he explained. "Many Saudis have invested in stocks and real estates as they are the easiest markets," he said. "The decision taken by a number of Saudi businessmen to invest their money in the Kingdom has made Saudi Arabia one of the countries with highest liquidity," he said.
Businessman Abdul Mohsen Al-Hokair, chairman of Al-Hokair Group, said in a recent press statement that more than 2,500 Saudi companies had chosen to establish investment projects in Dubai rather than Saudi Arabia during the past three years. He blamed bureaucracy, complex regulations and slow decision-making process for the massive exodus of capital.
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A little background on one of my former employers...
During WWII the U.S. Government took control of a German-owned manufacturing company's plants in the U.S. and used them for war production. At the end of the war, the American part of the company was forced to go public as an American-based company. The former owners who were loyal U.S. citizens were compensated with stock to the extent of their pre-war ownership. The U.S. Government received the balance from the stock sale. German owners lost out.
If push comes to shove and AQ manages to overthrow the royals, there's $ 1Trillion available for our taking from day one.
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Folks, our blue chip corporations are flush with Saudi money. It would be pretty hard to shut down the Saudis here without also shutting down much of corporate America.
Take the former Citibank, now Citigroup, the largest American bank with over $1 trillion in assets today. In 1991, just after the S&L debacle and the latin debt collapse, Citibank was reeling and came within an inch of being shut down by the Federal Reserve. To the rescue came one of the savviest of the Saudis, Prince Al Waleed, who bought a 25% stake in the bank when the stock was around $8 or so. Over the next six years, the stock soared to well above $100, giving Al Waleed a return of more than ten times his investment. Without Al Waleed's capital infusion in 1991, Citibank would have gone under.
MoD probe into video exposing boozy squaddies leering at lesbian sex show in Iraq.
Warning: Children over 60 should take their blood pressure medicine before proceeding.
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Royal Engineers Gone Wild:Iraq 2004 - 19.95 plus shipping and handling. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Royal Engineers Pensioners Fund. Copyright pending. Any duplication or distribution of this film without the concent of the copyright holders is unauthorized and subject to Royal and International law and penalties. Not available where prohibited by law.
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Hey, they are just blowing off steam. Give it a rest........
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North and South Korea will be reunified one day but not the same way Germany was 15 years ago, former South Korean president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kim Dae-Jung said during a visit to Sweden on Tuesday. Speaking on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kim said the two Koreas would have to undertake a slow reunification process, preceded by an economic collaboration so that the North Korean economy could grow to the same level as its more prosperous southern neighbour. "The South Korean economy is not strong enough to bear the burden of the North Korean economy," Kim said following talks with Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson in comments reported in Swedish by local news agency TT.
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So, rather than rescue the NORKS after their govt collapses, Kim Dae-Jung wants the SKORS to slowly bleed to death economically on the installment plan?
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And much like CLINTONISM, one of whose premises is that Communist-controlled FASCIST-RIGHTIST America = Communist-controlled FASCIST-RIGHTIST RUSSIA-CHINA, where Russia's new National Army still flys the Commie-era Banners of the old USSR; and like reunified Germany where the former East German Communist Party is now part of the Social Democrats, SOKOR's democratic establishment can look forward to the same intrusive elements. Better to let the NORKOR PARTY and the NORKOR STATE IMPLODE AND DIE, AS ITS GOING TO ANYWAY IFF ON ITS OWN, and then allow each "FORMER" PARTY-REGISTERED MEMBER back on a PERSON-BY-PERSON CASE BASIS, after proper and thorough investigation of their background. ITS NOT THE RIGHT THATS WILFULLY PERVERTING EACH AND ALL ISSUES, NOR RESISTING REFORMS, NOR FOR 9-11, vv forcing SOCIALISM-OWG upon America and the free World, and then afterwards to decide if reform of the Left is even necessary!?
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Joseph, dear, you may want to lurk a little longer before posting again. I don't think you've quite got the feel for the purpose of this blog. Fred isn't so much a member of the vast right-wing conspiracy, as an independent operator trying to figure out what the hell is going on in the world behind the scenes. Please bring your expertise to bear on that issue. We all know that communists are bad.
For example, my own expertise is that of a someone who has housewived/mothered in several different countries. What is yours?
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The two Koreas will be reunited one day! Either by slowly bleeding the South into nothingness or by the North blasting the South back into the stone age.
eh, either one works for me.
The youth wing of Oslo's Conservative Party has charged the Red Electoral Alliance (RV) with violating terrorism laws after the Marxist worker's party raised money for the resistance movement in Iraq. According to the Conservatives, the money goes to organizations who are fighting the occupation forces and attacking civilians, as well as groups kidnapping and decapitating aid workers. According to the Conservative Youth, these groups also sabotage the infrastructure in Iraq, destabilize the country and are ruining the civilian population's chance for a life of peace and democracy. The party concludes that these groups must be by definition terrorist organizations and that RV is violation anti-terrorism laws by contributing financially to their cause. Paragraph 147b of the Criminal Code states that a prison term of up to ten years can await those who collect money or other valuables used, even partially, to fund terrorist acts or other violations of the anti-terrorism paragraph.
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The Globe and Mail Photographers captured images of a man of Asian descent wearing only boxer shorts being dragged from the building and escorted away, but police would not confirm any details.
Maybe it's the old two people separated by a common language thing, but they sure did look like briefs to me. And you guys expect them to know the difference between an M-16 and an AK-47?
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Maybe they're boxers that shrunk in the wash?
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I don't remember Frank Bruno or Lennox Lewis wearing anything like those when in the ring with Mike Tyson. I'd say briefs, if one or the other, but to me they look more like be wimmin's 'big pants'.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, in remarks released on Wednesday, ruled out use of military force against Iran and moves to overthrow the Teheran government amid rising concern over its nuclear programme. "I think that for all those involved war is not an option," said Fischer in a Stern magazine interview, adding that this included both the United States and Israel. Fischer also rejected supporting Iranian opposition groups to overthrow of Iran's current leadership. "We are placing emphasis on the political process," said Fischer.
I'd call hanging the mullahs with their own turbans a valid political statement.
Talks between Iran and European Union (EU) heavyweights Britain, France and Germany to win a suspension of Teheran's nuclear programme have made progress in past days and a final agreement is expected later this week. The EU's "Big Three" have warned Iran it risks UN Security Council sanctions if it fails to give up all activities with uranium by a 25 November deadline set by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.
And, boy, that'll fix 'em...
But US remains deeply skeptical over the long-term value of any such pledge from Iran. American officials believe Teheran is still seeking to build nuclear weapons. Jeffrey Gedmin, head of the US Aspen Institute in Berlin which has close ties to the American government, dubs the EU Big Three's approach an "axis of weakness."
Thank you for today's Statement of the Obvious™.
"In truth, Germany's Iran policy has been bankrupt from nearly day one," said Gedmin in a commentary posted on the Aspen Institute's website. "Bonn started the project in 1992 under the banner of 'Critical Dialogue'. While Germany and its European allies tried aid, trade, credits and diplomatic indulgences, the regmine in Teheran continued to support terrorism, repress the Iranian people, and clandestinely pursure nuclear weapons," says Gedmin. "In 1999 the EU changed the name of the policy to 'Constructive Dialogue' ... Europe is nice to the mullahs, and when this fails, well, Europe tries to be a little nicer," he said, adding: "Germany has been allergic even to the idea of stepped up political pressure."
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I'm not surprised, they'd rather the crazed Mullah's have the bomb than admit their policy of appeasement has failed.
"Axis of weakness" is spot on!
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"German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, ruled out use of military force against Iran amid rising concern over its nuclear programme."
-Naturally, one would require a respectable military force in order to do so in the first place. In Germany's case - they do not have one. Joschka is again the master of the obvious.
I hope he is not pretending to speak for the US. Iran or Syria will most likely be dealt w/through force in the next 5 yrs if the present course they are on stays as is. Either by us or the Israelis. The mullahs will play the "axis of weakness" for the fools they are as long as they can.
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"You were given a choice between war and dishonour.
You chose dishonour.
You shall have war."
W. Churchill
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the joke is that Joschka thinks he speaks for anyone but the Germans, French, and Brits, all who NEVER had any intention of taking Iran on in any way other than commercially
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Ship, we had our Officer's Ball last Friday actually. I was unable to attend as I was getting some guys ready to go to Southern CA. for convoy/urban training. I will be eating cake tonight & saying good night to Chesty Puller - where ever he is.
"We're surrounded, that simplifies our problem, we can now shoot in any direction and kill the enemy......"
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German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, in remarks released on Wednesday, ruled out use of military force against Iran and moves to overthrow the Teheran government amid rising concern over its nuclear programme.
Well Herr Fischer, you may as well pack up and go home. Without the promise of consequences if agreements are not kept (principles, sir), then even seeking an agreement is an endeavor unworthy of the effort.
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The Germans appear to have internalized the idea that when they go to war, very bad things happen, and generalized that to everyone else -- being a people fond of clear rules to govern behaviour and thought. They haven't yet expanded their view to realize that, in general, when America goes to war, the world benefits. Other than that, they are quite charming in their own way.
BTW-I read your second link on Jacksonians and ordered Albion's Seed at the library. The author was on C-Span this week. You've got me hooked on learning more.
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Thanks Jules. It's nice to be useful occasionally.
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Interesting comments from the Aspen Institute guy. I'd always thought that they were a solidly lefty outfit but their perspective here seems to be very much reality-based.
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Interesting comments from the Aspen Institute guy
Yes, Jeff Gedmin of Aspen Institute in Berlin has been a clear-eyed and courageous spokesman for sanity since 9/11. A telling contrast to our cowardly and backward-looking State Dept diplos.
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Face it, the mullahs cannot be bribed because they've already lined their pockets. Kerry's offer of nuclear fuel was especially foolish, and prompted even the mullahs to laugh at him and spurn the offer immediately.
Of what benefit is nuclear fuel to a nation that has 3% of the world's oil? Of what benefit is additional trade to a group of men who could not care less about their nation's economic health and who are, to a man, millionaires from the national loot they've already plundered?
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When these asshats drag out the rent a mob to shout "death to amerika" at every chance and Germany then says no war what are you to think about Germany? Where is TGA anyhow?
The rank hypocrisy in this European armpit stinks to high heaven.
Belgium's most popular political party was banned as racist by the country's high court yesterday, fuelling concerns that the judicial branch is being used to eliminate political enemies. The Vlaams Blok, a Flemish independence party promising to abolish Belgium as a nation, now cannot receive funding of any kind, and will have to disband. Frank Vanhecke, the party's chairman, accused the ruling elite of using totalitarian tactics to stop legitimate political expression and vowed to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights. "This is an attack on democracy and free speech. Our political opponents have changed the racism laws six times in a campaign to have us condemned. What they have done today is shocking," he said.
The party leaders plan to relaunch it next week with a new name, Vlaams Belang, or Flemish Interest, and a manifesto extolling women's rights, the secular state and the rule of law. Analysts say attempts to muzzle the group have invariably failed, adding to its mystique as the victim of a reviled establishment that has saddled Belgium with a huge national debt and some of the highest taxes in the world. The Vlaams Blok has risen from murky neo-fascist roots to reinvent itself as a modern, free-market party and become the biggest in Dutch-speaking Flanders, the richest part of Belgium with 60 percent of the population. Its ever-growing popularity is a threat to the ruling liberal party of Guy Verhofstadt, the prime minister, who could face political annihilation in the next election. The lawsuit against the Vlaams Blok was brought by a rights watchdog controlled by the prime minister's office. Verhofstadt's responsible for Belgium's magnificent 'Universal Competence' law. A man of genius, him. A real political wizard.
The high court upheld an earlier ruling that party branches had violated race laws by distributing 16 leaflets in the late 1990s deemed to be incitement against immigrants. The party attacked the ruling as a breach of free speech since much of the material consisted of official statistics. One of the tracts, denouncing female circumcision in Islamic countries, was written by a Turkish-born woman member of the Vlaams Blok but the court ruled that the arguments were intended to foment anti-Muslim feeling. Painting your enemies as racists for engaging in legitimate cultural criticism? Oh yeah, that's a new one for the Left.
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From LGF:
Several readers forwarded the link to this site, where you can watch the film that enraged the Dutch Muslim community and cost Theo Van Gogh his life: Submission, Part 1.
I've watched it and found it very moving. I highly recommend it.
Naturally you probably wont find it mentioned in the MSM. The subtitles are in Dutch (I think...) but she speaks in English - except when praying.
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Superb - could only manage 5 mins as at work - will definitely watch the whole later - I'm amazed at Muslim women friends who stand up for this misogyny whilst failing to observe Islamic customs themselves. Absolute hypocrisy.
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I hope that many millions of people watch this film for many, many years.
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The Dutch are unique in many issues concerning individual freedom. Theo Van Goghs film presented the "unshowable," in the US & UK. Slaying a Van Gogh is at the heart of this magnificent culture of artistic freedom by traditionl Dutch.
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This guy is intelligent and funny and takes no prisoners. :-D
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Hilarious. A classic. Nothing more revealing of the stupidity, technical cluelessness and overall incompetence of our journos than their incoherent rants against the blogosphere.
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Yeah! Screw you, Slate. What were you thinking -- publishing information without access to the cautions being provided by the pool's experts? That's halfway to being a hate crime. Why, journalism without expert gatekeepers is like ice cream without Worcestershire sauce.
I love it!
... And if I'm not afforded that respect -- well, Mr. Engberg, you may find that when you hold the intelligence and judgment of the American people in contempt, the American people will return the favor.
And smile when you say parasite. We lawyers take that personally.
The author, a lawyer, is a TCS contributor.
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It would be interesting to compare the educational and technical credentials of leading bloggers with those of leading journos. For ex.:
Glenn Reynolds: JD Yale, leading expert on Space Law, Professor of Law at U Tennessee, vs
Dan Rather, Buttwipe BA in Journalism from Sam Houston State College.
Andrew Sullivan, MA, PhD (Politics) from Oxford, vs
Eric Engberg, BA, University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Dan Drezner, PhD Stanford, Professor of Poli Sci, U. of Chicago, vs
Mo Dowd, BA Catholic U.
Even the lefty bloggers are vastly better educated than the MSM morons-- for ex., Eric Alterman has a PhD in History from Yale, and Ana Marie Cox has an advanced degree, if I'm not mistaken, in Statistics.
Yet another sad day for the disloyal opposition. They won't have John Ashkkkroft to kick around any more.
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I'd like Dubya to find someone who would outrage the ACLU, Chucky Schumer, et al even more. Someone to the right of Atila the Hun would be good.
How about Roddy Piper:
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
Works for me cuz I'm not an Ivy League scofflaw, weak-minded hand-wringing wimp, or terminal stoner. Time to beef up the Patriot Act and get in some faces and places where you can snarf up the jihadis and their tools. 'Tis ass-kicking time.
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aye was in solid clan in MoH some time ago , very amusing , all on voice and done with military precision . We hardly ever lost in all competitions :)
Counterstrike was another class game , but like Duke Nukem aged very badly
Farcry is prolly the best one out atm , well thats just a personal opinion.
The inner Cabinet decided this (Wednesday) morning to approve the burial of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat at the Mukata in Ramallah.
The decision had been reached despite objections of senior defense officials who argued against a West Bank burial, citing logistical and security-related problems. They noted that Gaza would be a better location.
In addition, it was also decided that the Palestinians would be in charge of safeguarding the funeral itself, but Israel would bear the responsibility to secure the area around Ramallah.
Prime Minister Sharon, security service chiefs and senior ministers also determined that all requests of foreign leaders, including of nations that do not hold diplomatic relations with Israel, would be submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which would make sure that all appeals are granted.
In addition, it was agreed upon that Palestinian movement between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would not be permitted, except in cases involving persons who hold an official position.
Meanwhile, it has been revealed that officials at the PM's office have requested to meet with senior PA leaders in recent days. However, the Palestinians turned down the offers. "They don't want to appear as collaborators with Israel", a senior diplomatic source said. "First, they need to establish their rule, and only then would they be able to meet Israeli officials".
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Nice, if true, and it may well be. The process seems to be underway now.
Al Qaeda will begin to disintegrate within two years as its various factions start to squabble and militants return to their local roots, a senior parliamentary adviser has predicted.
I'll start laying in popcorn against the day they start cutting off each other's heads.
Professor Michael Clarke, a specialist adviser to lawmakers on the House of Commons defence committee, said the consequence would be that the security services would be able to win the "war on terror" as the group's structure fell apart. "I think (cracks) are going to start to appear in the next 12 months to two years," he told Reuters at a security conference in London on Wednesday. "It's going to start to fragment and split up," he said.
Unfortunately, we're still waiting for the first squabble...
Clarke said he envisaged the network breaking down into smaller, disparate cells which would be more easily infiltrated and dealt with, bringing an end to the group's ability to carry out major attacks along the lines of the September 11 attacks "Terrorism will go back to being about more local issues. It will be reduced to a level which people can live with," he said.
... at least until somebody cuts their heads off...
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I think this is off the mark. al Qaeda is already not much more then a mouthpiece for various terrorist organizations. The real danger is with groups such as The International Association of Muslim Scholars, Hizb ut-Tahrir and at the top of the pyramid Iran who really control all these terrorist cell through funding and issuing fatawas. If we want to end terrorism we need shut-up the Islamist scholars, and cause a regime change in Iran one way or another.
EFL:As Pakistani troops make a push towards the border, US military units are stepping up anti-Taliban patrols in southern Afghanistan in an attempt to trap and annihilate Islamic militant units. Optimism is running high among American commanders, who note that fighting conditions in southern Afghanistan have experienced a sudden shift in favor of US and Afghan government military forces. According to Col. Gary Cheek, the commander of the joint force at the Salerno Forward Operating Base in Khost Province, a marked decline in support among the local population for the Islamic insurgency is hampering the fighting capability of Taliban-al Qaeda units. Cheek added in an interview, conducted before the launch of Pakistan's latest security sweep, that the Taliban's inability to follow through on threats to disrupt Afghanistan's presidential election in early October severely damaged the movement's credibility among conservative inhabitants of Khost and other southern Afghan provinces.
"I would never want to write off our enemy, but clearly the Taliban lost a major battle during the elections," Cheek said. "We believe the Taliban is severely fractured as an insurgency movement, and not capable of organized military operations." Cheek also indicated that the US military would look to mount psychological operations designed to widen the perceived split within the Islamic radical ranks. "I think it is time the low-ranking Taliban to give up their quest and rejoin society," Cheek said.
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If anyone had told me three years ago that things would be going this well in Afghanistan so soon, I'd have thought him a starry-eyed dreamer. If Iraq is in this good a shape three years after the invasion, I'll be very pleased.
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But what about the brutal Afghan winters, us winding up just like the Russians, the grave humanitarian crisis, the starvation of millions, and the baby ducklings? You mean that was all defeatist bullshit?
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Taliban violence continues to be meager and uncoordinated. Apparently only a few armed groups of Taliban are in action at any one time, and most of them are Pakistanis don't do anything. Moreover, Pakistani troops on the border have become more cooperative in going after Taliban groups that live in Pakistan, but cross the border to do their dirty work in Afghanistan.
That'd be virtually all of 'em...
You have to have a steady job to live in Afghanistan. Grow poppies or something ...
Taliban kidnappers of three UN employees continue to demand the release of 26 Taliban fighters. The government refuses to do anything like that and demands that the three UN employees simply be released. The kidnappers continue negotiations, even though several of their deadlines have passed without a response from the government.
Another extension was announced today.
The Taliban want to stop reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan, in order to make people more miserable and more willing to support the Taliban cause. Well, at least that appears to be the strategy. Newly elected president Karzai says that the major threat to the well being of Afghans are drug gangs and warlords, not the Taliban.
Another idea whose time has gone...
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Dickinson College, in partnership with the Smithsonian, sponsored a contest for 9-11 lesson plans. Winners for the elementary school, middle school, high school, and college level share a common theme, says Front Page: It's our fault. Call it Blame America 101. Outspoken leftist activist and fifth grade teacher Bob Peterson, whose plan to teach 9-11 at elementary schools was selected as one of the four winning entries, urges students to consider the attacks "in the broader context of global injustice." To wrap their young minds around terrorism, Peterson contends, they must first untangle the "tough questions," such as, "Why do they hate us?" Another winner, Iowa middle school teacher Tracy Paxton, recommends a vocabulary lesson. Among the words she believes shed light on the nature of terrorism are, "Al Qaeda," "Saddam Hussein," "stereotype," "Taliban," and, ominously, "Right wing." But not "left wing."
Equally politicized is the lesson plan of Oregon high school teacher Masato Ogawa. A proponent of "multicultural" studies, Ogawa's lesson teaches students about the legislation prompted by September 11, the Patriot Act. Far from a dispassionate discussion of legal issues, Ogawa's lesson exhorts teachers to present the Patriot Act against the backdrop of the Japanese internment during World War II.
Finally, there is David Mednicoff. To teach his winning course, "Explaining Terror: The U.S. and the Middle East," the University of Massachusetts professor, a strident critic of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East who has accused Israel of backing the Iraq war in order to ethnically cleanse Palestinian Arabs, relies on a book by Fawaz Gergez. Gerges, it may be remembered, is the prominent Middle East studies professor who, prior to 9-11, downplayed the danger of militant Islam and assailed the U.S. government for "inflating" the importance of Osama bin Laden.
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My Sixth Grader is an outcast in his class. His Social Studies teacher, the most ignorant American I have ever known, has taken upon herself to brainwash the class on blame America first and last. He stood up for his country and since then she just has it in for him. Two nights ago we had our first Teacher/Parent conference and she could not hide her dislike of us, especially after finding out that we just moved back from the Middle East and my husband is an economist. She knows it will be impossible for her to bullshit/brainwash us or our son.
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4724 - stay strong. If you feel she's being biased and not teaching the facts feel free to write the board or superintendent. Hold these folks accountable every step of the way. Better yet, offer to come in and lead a discussion on your experiences in the M.E. - that will get her. I assume that your son goes to a public school?
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especially after finding out that we just moved back from the Middle East
Meanwhile she probably hasn't been out of the country..... If you offer to talk to the class offer to the Principal and have him/her approach the teacher in question.
I know when I first visted a '3rd world' country it really opened my eyes. And that was the Philippines.
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My husband and I signed up the volunteer sheet at the beginning of the year. We are yet to hear from her. We are waiting for the next School Board meeting to approach the subject. We would have not cared if she would had just stated her opinion but to try pass it as facts, that is another story.
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Anonymous4724 - where do you live? Am wondering whether this is a problem confined mainly to college towns and other enclaves of anti-US idiotarianism like the Bay Area, Seattle/Portland etc or something much more widespread.
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I'd bring it up at the local PTA meeting and put some heat on the school to do something about it. Simply ask if brainwashing is condoned by the school and point out some of the things this teacher has done, and is doing, to the kids. I'm sure there are a lot of parents that have no idea what's going on.
Either that or buy your sixth grader a few shirts with the American flag on it and see if the teacher over reacts. If she does it will likely escallate and be to your advantage.
You could always call Bill O'Reilly, I think he'd love to do a story like that.
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lex 2004,
Unfortunately, in the home of Michigan State University.
We are very concerned about what type of education our son is going to receive from people who are so detached from reality.
On an interesting note...during the mock election at my son's school, of course Kerry won; he took the time to survey the students voting for Bush. He, at 11 years old, realized that most of the students voting for Bush were first generation very successful immigrants, mainly Koreans and Vietnamese. He asked us why Americans who have been here for such a short time appreciated and loved this country more than Americans who have been here for generations? We thought that was a very good observation for somebody that young.
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A4724, it sounds like you've done a good job at home, where most education, or lack thereof, takes place. My kids grew up in the bluest of the Bay Area and voted their first time for Bush last week. School teachers can teach skills, but they just aren't smart enough to brainwash kids who are smarter than they are, which is most kids.
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Anybody remember the Smithsonian's efforts to label the atomic bombing of Japan as "American aggression" [scroll down]?
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thanks, 4724. Has anyone here considered/actually done homeschooling? I've resisted from fears that it would hold back our children's social development, but I also don't want to have to undo all the damage wrought by idiotarian social studies nonsense
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Lex, scroll around that web site. It has connections to all the big homeschool web sites. You'll get the pros and cons there. There's no right answer, but a lot of it has to do with the chemistry of the parent and child working together and the child's attitude about being taken out of the social culture of the school. It's a big comitment but what's more important than you child's education?
Frankly, I'm more concerned about the debilitating effects of the peer culture than the transparent and ineffective efforts of teachers to brainwash my kids. They have made for many humorous discussions at the dinner table and finally led one of my daughter's start a blog to record the insanity.
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Where in Bay Area do you live, Mrs D? We left San Mateo a year ago. Miss the weather and our friends but otherwise pleased with the big step up in our economic situation.
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Since July we don't reside in the Bay Area. Got fed up.
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4724, I'm originally from Michigan to. Though I graduated from H.S. over a decade ago I don't remember the p.c. bs being so prevalent as when I did college (also in MI). I remember Lansing being much more conservative then Ann Arbor but I guess you have your lib teachers anywhere.
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#10 lex - You kids can get their social development at church, scouts, non-school league sports, etc. People I know who have home-schooled say that's not a issue.
[disclaimer-I don't have kids. I'm basing this on the testimony of experts - those who do.]
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Jarhead,
Lansing in general might have been conservative but East Lansing has always been the home of the liberal crowd. We just moved to the area (Okemos) and we were under the impression that the neighborhood and the school district were fairly conservative. We were pulling our hair out when Kerry signs started popping out everywhere until we talked to our neighbor. He explained to us that our neighborhood was populated by MSU professors and that this part of the city has always been like that. I am not sure if Ingham county went to Kerry, do you know?
By the way, my husband was born in Norway, Upper Peninsula.
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His Social Studies teacher, the most ignorant American I have ever known, has taken upon herself to brainwash the class on blame America first and last. He stood up for his country and since then she just has it in for him.
Get your kid outta there. I would if I were in your place.
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Lex, I went to San Mateo High, grew up in Foster City. Moved to San Diego two years ago and haven't looked back. I love the bay area but if felt like occupied territory for a while there (probably still does).
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RJ: I"m still here and it is indeed still occupied.
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4724 - I don't think Ingham went to Kerry but am not positive - only Wayne/Washtenaw and some UP counties I know of. CNN and Fox both have county by county maps that give the exact breakdown. I was born in Howell.
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Anon4724---weren't you in Saudi Arabia and had someone looking at RB before you got out? I sent emails to Steve White, Fred and others for you. Please email me. I lost your address. Glad to see you back on RB.
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Alaska Paul,
Yes and thank you very much for helping. I am keeping a sort of low profile for now, just in case.....
The political mouthpiece of the settler movement resigned from Ariel Sharon's coalition government yesterday after the Israeli prime minister refused to bow to demands to put his Gaza pullout plan to a national referendum. "I offered my letter of resignation as planned," Welfare Minister Zeev Orlev told Israeli television. Earlier in the day, Orlev laid out the reasons for his resignation and for the departure of his National Religious Party from the coalition at a press conference in Jerusalem. "We said, if there is a referendum, we will stay in government whatever the result, even if we lose the referendum," he said, acknowledging that the option had been rejected by Sharon. The NRP, one of three parties still in government, had set Sharon a two-week deadline to either call new elections or a referendum on his so-called disengagement plan after it won parliamentary approval a fortnight ago.
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French forces opened fire on loyalist crowds Tuesday outside a makeshift French military post, witnesses said. A leading hospital reported seven killed and more than 200 wounded. The French military force said it was investigating and refused to immediately comment. Dr. Sie Podipte, the emergency room chief at Cocody Hospital, said the hospital was treating more than 200 wounded in the clash and had received seven people with fatal injuries. The clash took place as thousands of loyalists massed outside the home of President Laurent Gbagbo, next to a hotel that the French have converted into a temporary evacuation center.
The shootings came hours after South African President Thabo Mbeki met with Gbagbo, launching an African effort to rein in chaos that has erupted in this West African nation. Before Tuesday's shooting, an estimated 600 people had been wounded and at least 20 killed in four days of confrontations between loyalists and French troops. The U.N. Security Council, African Union, European Union and a bloc of West African leaders have all condemned Gbagbo's government in the violence, which began when Ivory Coast warplanes killed nine French peacekeepers and an American aid worker in an airstrike on the rebel-held north. The violence has also shut down cocoa exports in the world's largest producer, closing ports that ship more than 40 percent of the world's raw material for chocolate, cocoa traders said Tuesday. The clashes have come at the peak of Ivory Coast's harvest, which last year was a record of 1.4 million tons. Violence has closed the country's two main ports, in Abidjan and San Pedro, since Saturday afternoon, traders and other officials told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity. Cocoa buyers are not venturing out to buy, they said. "For the moment nothing is moving in Abidjan and the insecurity is still there so we are at home," the manager of a leading UK exporter told Reuters.
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Time to prosecute the war criminal French before the ICC!
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Wow, the UN, the EU, the African version of the EU and some other guys have issued strongly worded statements.
Yeah, that's what crazy mobs really fear......
The Egyptian president marked the holiest night of the Islamic calendar Tuesday, calling for greater tolerance for all religions and saying the world was wrong to equate Arabs and Muslims with terrorism. Hosni Mubarak also said the global spread of terrorism and confusion over what causes it has led many to unfairly blame Arabs and Muslims. "Propagating these allegations has entered a very dangerous turn, which has been represented in a new wave of hatred and hostile behavior against Arabs and Muslims," Mubarak said during a nationally televised speech delivered on "Lailat al-Qader," the most holy night of the Muslim fasting month, Ramadan, which is expected to end this week.
Mubarak, speaking to some 300 people, including turbaned Islamic clerics, in a Cairo conference center suggested it was unfair that attacks against Islam and Christianity aren't treated as serious as attacks against Judaism. International sensitivity "toward the phenomenon of anti-Semitism should be similarly extended to the Islamic and Christian religions," he said. Muslims, on the other hand, must also respect all religions if they want others not to hurt Islam. "Showing keenness not to violate Islam should go along with showing greater keenness not to hurt other faiths," he said.
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Mubarak Decries Anti-Islam Bias Against Christians Bias
I tried to fix the headline, but I think it just needs to be rewritten.
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'the world was wrong to equate Arabs and Muslims with terrorism'
LOL , well if the arabs actually DID something to show that they arent with the murdering scum then maybe we wouldnt equate terrorism to Arabs and Muslims , but alas we all know the score there , what a tosser ! (you folk in USA use www.urbandictionary.com to translate my English slang , tis an amusing site)
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Americans and American Rightists are mature enough not to blame all Muslims for the work of the Radicals/Terrorists - the core question still remains, what is world Islam and Muslim govts. going to do about the Radicals/Terrorists? They are grossly violating the KORAN by killing non-Muslims without allowing them a chance to convert, as well as violating the KORAN again by killing dedicated Muslims without explanation or cause or consent. And as if that wasn't bad enough, what makes the Radical Islamists and other colllusory orgs believe that by helping to destroy and force America under Global Socialism/Communism and OWG, that the Clintons and still-Communism-centric Russia-China is going to allow their [future] politically INCORRECT Islamist mercenaries/proxies to achieve their hallowed Global Islamic State, i.e is not going to turn on them??? The history of Communism is such that its more likely future world- and OWG-dominating Communist Asia WILL GULAG AND DEATH CAMP/KILLING FIELDS YOUR ISLAMIST ASSES!
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the core question still remains, what is world Islam and Muslim govts. going to do about the Radicals/Terrorists?
Funding them, sheltering them, training them, and equipping them.
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#5 I guess I forgot to condemn all those Jewish and Christian terrorists groups that behead hostages and make video tapes.
Posted by: mhw 2004-11-10 9:09:44 AM
Who knows , if things escalate much further then this will become a real scenario . I imagine there are some shady groups out there just itching to make a start ....
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In Mubarak's defence, Egypt has been arresting, jailing (gaoling), and duly torturing Islamic Brotherhood idiots for decades. So he knows whereof he speaks with regard to terrorists. On the other hand, the Coptic Christians are treated abominably, the Jews were expelled in the early 1950s, and both schoolbooks and media demonize Israel constantly.
More than a bit of a hypocrite is our Mr. Mubarek, Sr. (Jr. is being groomed to take over shortly). But preceded only by Israel in fighting Muslim terrorists. (I do not, however, think he should continue to receive the $2 bil/year peace-with-Israel bribe, as he patently hasn't earned it.)
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People outside the United States (and too da$$$$ many INSIDE) don't understand that we won't tolerate outsiders killing our people, destroying our property, and trying to tell us what to do (Got that, France?). We do tend to get a little ticked under those circumstances, and send in the anti-bully squad (Army, Marines, Air Force) to "settle the arguments". There's a very simple solution on how to keep this from happening to anyone - DON'T MESS WITH THE US. Now, will somebody please go grab Koffing Anus' hand and lead him home? The poor boy needs a long dirt naprest.
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Arab leaders remind me of the kids in Lord of the Flies, lethal, malignant, and seething in their own little rituals until the adults show up. If the "Crusader Nations" were as they portray them, all the muslims would already be dead and there would be a fierce debate on how to best develop the empty lands.
Sudanese government and rebel leaders from the war-torn region of Darfur agreed yesterday to sign two accords on the humanitarian and security crises in the western part of the country, delegates said. Sudanese Deputy Foreign Minister Najeib Abdel-Wahab told reporters, "What has been finalized is the security and humanitarian protocols." When asked if the Khartoum government would sign the documents, a major sticking point in negotiations in the Nigerian capital, the minister replied, "Yes."
Spokesmen for the two rebel movements and African Union officials confirmed that the signing ceremony was to be arranged for later in the day. The signing of the two protocols marked a significant breakthrough in talks to resolve Darfur's 20-month-old civil conflict. Previously, the Khartoum government had refused to agree to a security protocol which would include a provision banning their aircraft from flying over Darfur. Delegates and AU officials said that Nigerian president and current AU chairman Olusegun Obasanjo had been invited to attend the signing ceremony at the Abuja international conference center, venue of the peace conference.
Well, I'm surprised. I'm sure at least one side and probably both will proceed to break it, but it's a good sign. Fallout from who won the election, perhaps?
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...Ya know, it took me a couple looks to confirm that the chair he's in weren't part of his shoulder boards.
One other note: is it just me, or is there a direct inverse correlation between the amount of crap these idiots wear on their uniforms and how far out of whack their nations are?...
Mike
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No, it's not just you. But be happy they're not into cod pieces. Yet.
PESHAWAR: Traders on Tuesday criticised the local police for detaining Eid card sellers on charges of selling vulgar and obscene cards. Qasim Hasrat, former president of the Frontier Printers and Publishers Association, told Daily Times that the shopkeepers were being harassed by the police in the name of a drive against selling vulgar Eid cards. He demanded the provincial government stop police from arresting Eid card sellers, as their business had nothing to do with obscenity. Zafar Khattak, Markaz-e-Tanzeem Tajiran provincial information secretary, said that the police took action against the shopkeepers under pressure from the local Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) leaders. He said some incompetent MMA advisors to the provincial government were making the party unpopular among the masses. Mr Khattak said the shopkeepers sold items according to the customers' demand but the MMA workers called the phrase Eid cards inscribed with "I love you" as vulgar. He said the harassment of traders would affect their business and no one would invest in the province.
However MMA leaders differed from the traders' representatives, saying the shopkeepers had sold vulgar Eid cards. Haji Ehsanul Haq, MMA's Peshawar district secretary general, told Daily Times that people voted for the MMA to purge obscenity and vulgarity from society. He said that the drive against obscenity was reflecting the wishes of the masses which had annoyed shopkeepers.
One might ask why the masses are buying the vulgar cards if they don't want them? But we're talking about Peshawar, where the phrase "I love you" is considered vulgar, so I won't bother asking.
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Other "vulgar" sayings included "freedom" and "liberty."
They hanged the men who sold those.
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Qazi Hussain Ahmad, the Jamaat-e-Islami ameer and the president of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), has condemned the US attack on Fallujah and asked the United Nations and human rights organisations to take notice of international laws violation by American troops.
No doubt they'll do something about the head choppings, too. Qazi forgot to mention them, but I'm sure it was an oversight...
Addressing an Iftar dinner on Tuesday, he appealed to the Muslim Ummah to help stop massacre of Muslims in Iraq. He said that US President George Bush was violating international laws and warned that history would never forgive him. The MMA leader regretted that Iraq's interim prime minister had rejected an appeal by UN General Secretary Kofi Annan to refrain from attacking Fallujah. "Whose interests were the Iraqi rulers serving by killing their own people," he asked.
Whose interests are the jihadis serving by killing their own people?
He asked the Iraqi resistance groups to be aware of US conspiracies and foil all attempts aimed to exploit their freedom struggle.
Sorry, Fred, but now I've got "The Waltzing Muttahida" playing in my head. Oh, and Qazi? Here, have some more double cheeseburgers and fries with gravy. You look like you're wasting away...
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I think that we ought to photoshop olde Quasi with a red Fez. Just for sh*ts and giggles.
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MMA? Misogynist Moronic Assclowns?
Next time some of your asshat followers kill a Hindu I will take it under advisement.
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.com - you left off the donkey ears and the goat horns, but other than that, right on!
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Pretty good, .com. Since I have neither the time or the program, I will make this suggestion:
His fez should be that color, just smoother, with a large tassle off the top to the side. Quasi should have a smoking jacket. Any accessories as suggested in other posts is at your option. LOL! Old Patriot's ideas go off the edge, but they WOULD be a nice touch. Heh heh.
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He looks more like the Chia Iman to me. Someone forgot to water his head.
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AP - That's Qazi, not Major Hoople!
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He needs a Shriner's logo on that fez. (Steal one here.)
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"In truth, Germany's Iran policy has been bankrupt from nearly day one," said Gedmin in a commentary posted on the Aspen Institute's website. "Bonn started the project in 1992 under the banner of 'Critical Dialogue'. While Germany and its European allies tried aid, trade, credits and diplomatic indulgences, the regmine in Teheran continued to support terrorism, repress the Iranian people, and clandestinely pursure nuclear weapons," says Gedmin. "In 1999 the EU changed the name of the policy to 'Constructive Dialogue' ... Europe is nice to the mullahs, and when this fails, well, Europe tries to be a little nicer," he said, adding: "Germany has been allergic even to the idea of stepped up political pressure."
French forces opened fire on loyalist crowds Tuesday outside a makeshift French military post, witnesses said. A leading hospital reported seven killed and more than 200 wounded. The French military force said it was investigating and refused to immediately comment. Dr. Sie Podipte, the emergency room chief at Cocody Hospital, said the hospital was treating more than 200 wounded in the clash and had received seven people with fatal injuries. The clash took place as thousands of loyalists massed outside the home of President 
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