Mogadishu 30, Dec.06 ( Sh.M.Network) -Germany will send a special envoy to Africa on Saturday as the country could continue to monitor the situation in Somalia, German Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.
Germany, which holds the six-month rotating EU presidency on Jan. 1, "continues to monitor the situation with close attention, " said Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger. A special envoy for Africa would visit the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and the Egyptian capital Cairo for talks with the Arab League on the crisis, he said.
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Send them to Sudan instead. Sudan where you Europeans need to pick up your dropped ball along with your genocide supportive "nuanced" foreign polices.
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But it not what you do, it is what you are seen to be doing that is important. In fact, for the true post modern liberal, no action, all talk is considered to be the highest of true political form.
Those folks that actually take action are vilified beyond words.
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(SomaliNet) The defeated Islamic Courts Union has on Saturday called on Somalia people wherever they are to make insurgency and fight against the enemy Ethiopian troops in the country. The leader of executive council of Islamic Courts Union, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed made the call in ceremonial speech of Eid Ad-ha in which he gave to the people in the soon to be captured city of Kismayo city in southern Somalia.
It is an obligation on every Somali individual to fight against the Ethiopian troops who were used to nullify the developments done by the Islamic Courts, Sheik Ahmed told the gathering in 30 minute speech. We will not leave Somalia and continue the fighting against the Ethiopian occupation,
"While you stay in Somalia and continue fighting, I will go off to Saudi Arabia and do the heavy work of fund-raising and gun purchases. I'll be thinking of your sacrifice!"
The Islamic Court Union still controls parts of southern regions in Somalia for today at least despite the government pledge that it would pursue hunting down what they called the remnants of Islamic extremists in Somalia.
He said the world powers do not want peace and prosperity in Somalia but to remain in chaos and disorder.
Somalia had been doing so well in the peace and prosperity department ...
You can understand that when the Islamic Courts came out for the country and brought Sharia peace and stability, the world seemed to be opposing the good deeds by the ICU, Sheik Ahmed said casting condemnation on the interim government officials for leading the country into occupation.
We meaning the rest of you will die for the defense of the country against the enemy through insurgence attacks, he said.
Sheik Ahmed and other senior Islamic officials including the leader of Shura council of Islamic Courts Union are now in Kismayo city, 500 km south of Somalia capital Mogadishu, where they announced to arrange insurgent attacks on the Ethiopian troops backing the government. He accused the Ethiopian troops of closing all the economic sources in the capital like the airport and seaport.
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"The defeated Islamic Courts Union has on Saturday called on Somalia people wherever they are to make insurgency and fight against the enemy Ethiopian troops in the country."
There's a group of Somalis sitting in the Café Bolsho in Oslo ready to join in, just as soon as they finish their lattes.
The Algerian government has sought to play down rebel bomb attacks on police stations and foreigners, saying the situation is under control after years of bloody violence. "Oh, don't mind them!"
The United States has urged its citizens in the North African country to be vigilant and review their security after a bus carrying foreign oil workers was bombed on Dec. 10 in the first attack on Western expatriates in many years. The attack in the heavily protected Bouchaoui neighbourhood, 10 km (6 miles) west of Algiers, killed the Algerian driver and wounded nine people, including four Britons and an American. It followed a simultaneous truck bomb on two police stations in Algiers on Oct. 30, which killed three people and wounded 24 others.
The attacks "are not the rule and I can tell you the situation is under much better control at the moment", Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni told government-backed newspaper El Moudjahid, in the first reaction by the authorities to the incidents. "The security situation has greatly improved recently," he added in the remarks published on Wednesday.
Responsibility for the Bouchaoui attack has been claimed by an al Qaeda-linked group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). The group, which is on a U.S. list of terrorist organisations, wants to set up a purist Islamist state in the Muslim nation.
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Here's a potential major headache. The Shi'a majorities in the Gulf states see that their cousins in Iraq are gaining control and that their Persian cousins are increasingly emboldened. Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait are ripe for major unrest.
Update at 00:26 EST: Ryuge posted a very similar article two minutes before I did from a different source.
SITRA, Bahrain (AP) - Like most Shiite Muslim villages in this wealthy Gulf kingdom, Sitra is hidden away from the glitzy shopping malls, the steel-and-glass skyscrapers, the six-lane highways and luxury seaside hotels.
Less than three miles outside Manama, the booming capital, Sitra is dusty and poor. Many of its homes are shoddily built. The streets are dimly lit at night and some are unpaved. Young men in cheap tracksuits idly gather on street corners. Hardly a wall in the village is without anti-government graffiti or images of Shiites killed in years of anti-government protests.
The disparity between the country's affluent areas and Shiite villages such as Sitra lies at the heart of a potentially bloody conflict in this tiny island nation where a Shiite majority is ruled by a Sunni Muslim establishment.
Presented without commentary; the man fisks himself.
LONDON - Maverick British lawmaker George Galloway on Saturday denounced the circumstances surrounding Saddam Husseins hanging as an illegal act and massive political blunder that will fuel the fire in Iraq.
It was a squalid little lynching in the end, Galloway, a member of parliament who formed his own Respect Party after being expelled from the governing Labour Party, told the radio station Talksport.
Saddam, whom Galloway met before he was ousted in the 2003 US-led invasion, managed quite predictably, if you knew anything about him, to show rather more dignity in these circumstances than those who were hanging him.
The fiery politician claimed that the US government had acted illegally under international law by transferring a prisoner of war to his enemies for execution. The Americans had entirely illegally under the rules of war handed over their prisoner of war to the puppet regime in Baghdad. This was immediately denied by the puppets in Baghdad, Galloway said.
Galloway added that the filming of the execution must rank as the biggest political blunder since Latin American revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia with US help in 1967. Pictures of Guevaras corpse, Galloway said, helped turn a man who was in global terms a thorn in side of the United States into a sword that grew in force over the decades since his death.
I promise you this, Galloway warned the call-in chat show. The film of the execution of Saddam Hussein this morning will live in infamy and will haunt those who directed it for the remainder of their lives.
The response will be, already has been swift and terrible, he said, referring to a simultaneous surge in violence.
Mocking US President George W. Bush who hailed Husseins execution as an important milestone, Galloway said: Its a milestone already on the road through the gates of hell. He said Saddam has achieved what eluded him in life the status of martyr and Arab hero.
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Someone deck this POS after kneecapping his bodyguards please the putrid vomit emerging from Galloway's pie hole serves the sworn foes of mankind. He really should be put down.
The leader of Turkmenistans United Democratic Opposition, currently based in Norway, proposed Wednesday sending a trainload of flour to Turkmenistan and carrying out a flour revolution in the republic, Russias RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
President-for-Life Saparmurat Niyazov died at 66 of heart failure last Thursday. During his rule, the eccentric leader erected golden statues to himself, named a meteorite in his name, and decreed that his quasi-Islamic precepts, under the title of Ruhnama, be the nations guiding principal.
The opposition is going to dispatch to Turkmenistan a train of flour to support the republics starving people, Avdy Kuliyev said over the phone.
He said the leaders of opposition movements, who have fled overseas to escape persecution at home, could follow the train and return to Turkmenistan.
This will be the start of our flour revolution, Kuliyev, who was foreign minister in late President Saparmurat Niyazovs government in the early 1990s, said but added that the oppositions intentions are peaceful.
The opposition borrowed the name in association with the orange revolution and rose revolution in other former Soviet republics, Ukraine and Georgia, which brought West-leaning governments to power in 2004 and 2003.
Kuliyev said Turkmenistan suffers from a constant lack of bread and flour, which are the main products for the most residents in the current dire economic conditions.
Turkmenistans opposition earlier nominated Khudaiberdy Orazov, its leader and a former deputy prime minister, as a presidential candidate, who said the opposition will seek democracy in Turkmenistan by all means, including a possible coup. Orazov is wanted in Turkmenistan on embezzlement charges.
TOKYO - Japans army is to set up a new intelligence unit likely to include a human intelligence gathering service, the first for any branch of the modern nations military, a leading daily said on Sunday. The service is needed because increasing Japanese military activities abroad have left its troops more vulnerable, requiring more detailed local intelligence, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
According to sources quoted by the daily, the Ground Self-Defence Force Japans army in all but name would form a central intelligence unit of about 600 members. Yomiuri said the human intelligence group, expected to have around 70 members, would gather information through methods that would include tapping cooperative local sources.
Officials at Japans Defence Agency were unavailable for comment.
The Self-Defence Forces have a centralised intelligence unit created from all branches of the military, but Yomiuri said that until now the unit has been unable to use people to gather information, relying instead on satellite images, radio signals and analysis of foreign countries military affairs.
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The Japanese have the know how. Now if we can just keep the FBI out of it...
Japanese Intelligence
Japanese intelligence (that is, espionage) efforts against Pearl Harbor included at least two German Abwehr agents. One of them, Otto Kuhn, was a sleeper agent living in Hawaii with his family; he and they were essentially incompetent. The other, Dusko Popov, a Yugoslavian businessman, was thought quite effective by the Abwehr, but was actually a double agent whose loyalty was to the British. He worked for the XX Committee of MI5. In August 1941 he was tasked by the Abwehr with specific questions about Pearl (John Cecil Masterman's book on the Double Cross operation and Prange's Verdict both reproduce it), but the FBI seems to have evaluated the effort as of negligible importance. There has been no report that its existence, or even Popov's availability as a double agent, was passed on to US military intelligence or to civilian policy officials. J. Edgar Hoover dismissed Popov's importance noting that his British codename, Tricycle, was connected with his sexual tastes. In any case, he was not allowed to continue on to Hawaii and to develop more intelligence for the UK and US. Regardless, Prange demonstrates Popov's claim to have provided warning is overblown, and a case that his notorious questionnaire was a product of Abwehr thoroughness.
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I'll bet their Q San has a stash of serious stuff. Hell, come to think of it your average mid-level Japanese businessman has enough "stuff" and plenty of practice at riffling thru secrets various and sundry.
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Japan already has a very highly effective space imaging system with greater than one-meter resolution. I'm sure they're mapping China and Korea down to the smallest detail.
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Japans army is to set up a new intelligence unit likely to include a human intelligence gathering service
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IMMIGRATION authorities warned the Fraser government in 1976 it was accepting too many Lebanese Muslim refugees without "the required qualities" for successful integration.
The Fraser cabinet was also told many of the refugees were unskilled, illiterate and had questionable character and standards of personal hygiene.
somebody gets the Nostradamus award
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The current Federal Government is determined to repeat the same mistakes with Sudanese & Somalis.
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Every time I get to brooding how Ben Gurion (1948) and Eshkol (1967) screwed up, I read an article like this and immediately feel better
MADRID, Spain (AP) - A powerful car bomb exploded at Madrid's international airport Saturday and Spain's government, blaming the Basque group ETA, suspended plans for peace talks with the separatists. The blast left two people missing and 26 injured, most with damage to their ears from the shock wave.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said the government would halt talks with ETA over the bombing. The group had agreed to stop attacks in its cease-fire declaration earlier this year that was seen as the greatest hope in a decade of a peaceful end to the conflict.
"The condition for dialogue was and is the unequivocal desire to abandon violence," said Zapatero, who cut short a family holiday after the bombing. "The very grave attack today by the terrorist band ETA is radically contrary to that desire."
ETA did not claim responsibility for the bombing, but a man who placed a warning call before the attack said he was a representative of the group. Following previous attacks, the group has sometimes waited weeks to claim responsibility.
ETA and its political supporters have been warning for months that the peace process was faltering. They have complained that the government has made no gesture to reciprocate its call for a cease-fire, such as meeting a long-standing ETA demand for its prisoners to be moved to the Basque region of northwestern Spain from other parts of the country.
The group has also said that continued arrests of suspected members and court rulings against the movement have broken a government promise to relieve pressure on the pro-independence group. It is also angry that the government has refused to allow talks among Basque political parties on the region's future until ETA's outlawed political wing Batasuna renounces violence.
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Probably figured that if Zapatero was willing to appease Al Quada, he'd do the same for ETA.
What the hell kind of bomb was that? That's a serious explosion if it made 2 people completely go away.
The world needs to get serious about terrorism.
Its high time that Spain lays waste to its terrorist problem. President Bush should call Pooty and greenlight him on Chechnya. Then call Israel, tell them to get a real leader, then lend the next guy some hardware to squash Palestine. This kind of crap is bad enough coming from other countries, there is no reason any Nation should put up with it from there own.
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Some Muslims in Baltimore County say lessons involving Islam being taught to seventh and 10th-graders in public schools are inaccurate. Bash Pharoan, president of the Baltimore chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said resource sheets, called "Islamic Life," given to seventh-graders studying world cultures, and "World Religions" for 10th-graders in world history classes, not only misrepresent Islam, but show disrespect to the prophet Muhammad.
For three years, Pharoan said, he has unsuccessfully petitioned the Baltimore County school board to review the way Islam is presented in public school classrooms.
Joe Hairston, county school superintendent, said his "teachers do not use materials that contain inaccurate information."
Pharoan disagrees. He said the resource sheet on Islam belittles the prophet Muhammad by referring to him only as "Muhammad." Muslims always say "Prophet Muhammad," Pharoan said. "Omitting the word prophet is disrespectful," he said.
Pharoan said many of facts on the resource sheets are untrue or half-true, and they "emphasize negative differences that are divisive in nature." He said it is wrong to knowingly teach children inaccurate information. Getting accurate information to children is important now because of the war in Iraq, he said.
Pharoan said the information given to students about "jihad" and the Quran, the sacred book of Islam, is especially objectionable.
The resource sheets state Muhammad's "main goal was to get people to accept Allah and to spread the faith of Islam. Muhammad justified his attacks to his followers by explaining that to weaken those who opposed the spread of God's word was a virtue, and that those who fell in battle would be rewarded in heaven. Thus the idea of the jihad became the holy war of the Muslims against 'the unbelievers.'"
This reference, Pharoan said, inaccurately portrays Islam as a religion that embraces the use of force. I can see how they wouldn't want that little nugget broadcast far and wide.
"Islamic teachings explicitly forbid coercing others to adopt the Islamic religion. Suicide is forbidden. The taking of innocent lives is forbidden. Yet the curriculum would have students believing otherwise," Pharoan said.
"Jihad" is defined in the resource sheet as a "struggle." Pharoan said that is a true depiction. But it's "a struggle to be a good person, a struggle to help the community and mankind. It does not mean a holy war."
Mahammad Jameel, of Reisterstown, has also petitioned the board about school lessons on Islamic culture. Giving a partial definition of "jihad" -- as in the resource sheet -- is like saying gravity only exists under apple trees. Not only is it misleading, but it is inaccurate, Jameel said. "We have many jihads," Jameel said, like "a jihad against poverty, just like the U.S. has a war against poverty."
"Jihad" does not mean a Muslim should go out and kill the poor, he said.
Donald Arnold, the school board president, said he has not asked the school administration to look into Pharoan's and Jameel's allegations. "We take the approach that the class material was chosen on a scholarly basis (by the administration), and it (the information being taught) reflects the history of the Muslim community."
Cara Calder, a spokeswoman for the school system, said the class material was selected on a scholarly basis. "Our perspective is that when it comes to curriculum, our focus is academic rather than social or political," she said. "We (the administration) are aware of Dr. Pharoan's and Mr. Jameel's concerns, and as we would with any question of curriculum, we will rely on academic and scholarly information."
Calder did not know if the curriculum had already been reviewed, or if it was scheduled for review at some future date.
Pharoan said it is unfair to the students to perpetuate misinformation, and it might be up to the faculty to correct the problem. "Teachers should ask themselves, 'Am I teaching fact or opinion?'" Pharoan said.
Maybe Bash can tell us how many different meanings there are for taquiya and kufr. Most of what would follow that lesson would be redundant, as it sums up all the lies and hatred of the RoP, spit.
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Some of the featured lectures should include; Head chopping 101, Clitorectomy - for fun and profit, Safe goat sex, Bronze age technology, How to take advantage of Western guilt, Hitler my Hero, Rosie O'Donnel and your 71 other virgins, Muhammed - savage pedophile warlord or false prophet?
I'm tired of Muslim victimization in all facets. Grow the fuck up, join the 21st century and stop trying to jam yourselves down the civilized worlds throat.
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Gee I must have missed the articles about teaching Judaism and Christianity without being sued by the ACLU!
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I would like to see the entire AMERICAN-Muslim community condeming suicide bombing, the murderous aspect of jihad, and any type of violence perpetrated by Muslims in any place of the world very OPENLY, STRONGLY.
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"Jihad" does not mean a Muslim should go out and kill the poor, he said.
Yet, oddly, it DOES include emptying an automatic rifle into a child strapped into a car seat.
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Everything the School Board hands out belittles Jesus Christ because they refer to the date only as 2006. Christians always say "In they Year of Our Lord 2006". Documents and assignments ommitting this phrase are disrespectful.
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They keep pushing. A little bit here, a little bit more over there. Are we going to push back? My guess is "no", not until it gets a LOT worse.
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Time to look a bit deeper at "Bash Pharoan"...
"Pharoan disagrees. He said the resource sheet on Islam belittles the prophet Muhammad by referring to him only as "Muhammad."
Muslims always say "Prophet Muhammad," Pharoan said.
"Omitting the word prophet is disrespectful," he said."
When the shoe is on the other foot, and Muslims are causing deep offence to (eg) holocaust survivors, Bash plays it down, and doesn't see a big deal about it ...
However, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Dr. Bash Pharoan said he believes it's an attempt at propaganda by Ahmadinejad.
"I don't really see the big deal about it. Iranians, anyone else has the right to make a conference about any topic. Truthfully, I don't think Jewish Americans (or) Israelis have to fear anything. The facts speak for themselves," Pharoan said.
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Amusingly, describing Islam in dry academic terms will really get their panties in a bunch.
For example, "Mohammed, whose name has about 30 accepted spellings, is always referred to as "The Prophet Mohammed" by Muslims, and "The Prophet Mohammed, Praise Be Upon Him", in print, sometimes abbreviated as "The Prophet Mohammed (PBOH). Muslims trace their ethnic roots to the early Hebrews, known today as Jewish people, though they dislike Jews intensely."
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"Islamic teachings explicitly forbid coercing others to adopt the Islamic religion. Suicide is forbidden. The taking of innocent lives is forbidden. Yet the curriculum would have students believing otherwise," Pharoan said.
Sorry Pharoan, but reality (not to mention 1400-odd years of history of continuous violent Jihad and conversions by the sword) calls you a liar.
How about we teach about the 1400 years of Jihad and how the 'middle east' was converted to Islam by the sword? About how the Crusades were a defensive measure?
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#13 They keep pushing. A little bit here, a little bit more over there. Are we going to push back? My guess is "no", not until it gets a LOT worse.
Dr. Bash Pharoan is asking for just two days a year. In his decade-long campaign to have key Muslim holidays included in the Baltimore County Public Schools calendar, the dispute boils down to a question of two school days annually.
That's the controversy on its surface - but for Dr. Pharoan, the wound goes much deeper, reflecting what he calls a national prejudice against his faith. "It's clear cut that Muslim - Americans really face a wave or religious discrimination," he said. "I really feel this is religious discrimination."
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Charles Mitchell sat before a full-color blowup of the most notorious of the newspaper cartoons that have roiled the Islamic world - the one that shows the Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb - and said that how it makes Muslims feel was beside the point.
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But Bash Pharoan called the image unnecessarily hurtful.
"It indicates that all Muslims are terrorists, or potentially could be terrorists," said Pharoan, president of the Baltimore County Muslim Council. "It means that the Prophet Muhammad teaches terrorism. If you look at the face, it's an ugly face. ... It really gives the impression that Arabs or Muslims are ugly people, and that they do ugly things."
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"Ugly things", like seek to destroy Israel, blow up trains, planes and nightclubs, shoot teachers?
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Public schools close for Christmas because the great majority of the students are Christian, and will take the holiday off, regardless... and the winter break has to occur sometime in midwinter anyway. Those schools with relatively high percentages of Jewish students learn that significant numbers of their students will be absent for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, and don't give important tests or key lessons on those days. *shrug* In the trailing daughters' schools the Jewish kids have always been a small minority, so we warn the teachers up front when they'll be absent and get the work ahead of time. That's how it works.
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Wow, the Baltimore Catechism I had not seen that in, um, a long time Sister Mary Chokehold.
I started to read it and the words were like listening to an old song... I'm back in the Wayback machine Sherman.
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I got an idea. We'll refer to the "Prophet Mohammed" if Muslims refer to "Our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God". How's that?
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If you read the rest of the article posted by Whiskettes4Hillali in #17, you get to what's really irritating the boil on Bash's butt. It's not so much that he wants the holiday, it's that those damn Jooooooos have their holidays on the school calendar. Can't have that!
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I agree with this joker. The explanation given of Muhamhead does not suffice. All school districts should have a curriculum depicting exactly what this crimianl was and did. A child molesting thug and barbarian who used every means of treachery to accomplish his stealing and unthinkable tortures. A drug addict who came up with tales which could only have occurred in a drug induced stupor. A desert bedouin thief. The absolute lowest form of humanity on the ladder of life. A usurper and cult master who has deformed the lives of millions and millions of simpletons over the millenia. The cancer of the Muzzie cult should be made very well known to the children who will find their adult lives twisted and bent in the effort to throw the barbarism on the trash pile of history.
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Is Bash a shortened form of Bashir? It seems that being offended these days requires a remedy to make up for the offending. I propose Bashir leave the USA as a solution to make everyone happy. (Hopefully, he will also be humilliated as the door hits him in the ass.)
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None of this has much to do with the overall problem. Islam wants to convert or kill, in that order, all non-Muslims in the world, and practically nobody with any power has the balls to do anything about it. Happy New Year.
On Sept. 5, a man calling himself Miguel Alfonso Salinas was apprehended off a deserted highway near the U.S.-Mexico border. The tinted windows on Alfonso Salinas' vehicle aroused the suspicion of Border Patrol agents patrolling a dark and desolate stretch of Highway 9, which runs parallel to the border and is the site of large numbers of illegal crossings. The agents discovered three Mexican illegal migrants in the vehicle with Alfonso Salinas. But what they discovered several days later made a far greater impression.
Alfonso Salinas was not who he seemed, according to U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security documents. He lied to the agents about who he was, where he came from and what he was doing. It would take nearly a week of interviews with federal agents before Alfonso Salinas would give his real name: Ayman Sulmane Kamal, a Muslim born in Egypt – a country designated as "special-interest" by the United States for sponsoring terrorism.
Kamal's case is not an isolated one. Evidence of "special-interest aliens" using the Mexican border to gain entry to the United States has been kept secret from the American public, according to federal law-enforcement agents, terrorism experts and critics of U.S. foreign policy with Mexico.
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COLUMBUS, N.M. - On Sept. 5, a man calling himself Miguel Alfonso Salinas was apprehended off a deserted highway near the U.S.-Mexico border. The tinted windows on Alfonso Salinas' vehicle aroused the suspicion of Border Patrol agents patrolling a dark and desolate stretch of Highway 9, which runs parallel to the border and is the site of large numbers of illegal crossings.
The agents discovered three Mexican migrants in the vehicle with Alfonso Salinas.
But what they discovered several days later made a far greater impression.
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The Daily Bulletin and its sister paper (San Bernardino Sun) have been doing fine invesigative work on the illegal-immigration issue for a year or more. In a saner world, their efforts would get them a trophy case full of Pulitzers - but instead these stories are completely and intentionally ignored by the national papers, wire services and broadcast networks.
Several months back, the Daily Bulletin published an article claiming that not only had Mexican consular officials been allowed to set up shop in INS facilities - but that they had been granted effective veto power over INS operations. People need to be on trial for treason over this - instead, the problem is swept under the rug by the elites (both left AND right wing) and the national media. Given the almost certain enactment of a total cave-in on amnesty for illegals "comprehensive immigration reform" by the new Quislingcrat congress and enthusiastically signed by G-Dub, I'll be surprised if this country's intact in twenty years.
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Twice, the pic appears.... and I say,
Gentlemen, as a lit'le ole lady who can bitch, cuss and down good Scotch with the best of 'em, and who really enjoys the "Man" talk with Fred's finest in his choice of women for that favorite, the Rantburg Defender-Scimitar, I find that first picture above, every time I click and see it, to be just about the most repulsive image that I ever have to view. And I do have to view it, cause it is there when I click.
And with a great bit of Texas twang, blended with the best of my Southern lady voice, "Can we not use it again?"
Sorry, can't explain it.... it is just not a pic that is fitting coming from a Rantburg "officer and a gentleman."
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Sherry: e-mail us with a suitable replacement pic.
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Sherry, I have to respectfully disagree. I think that pic is the PERFECT image to post with any story related to illegal Mexican immigration. Not only should it not be retired - it should be seen so often it becomes the first image that pops into people's minds when they think about this subject. Because what these two slimeballs are "telling" the photographer is the same thing that Mexico's people and government, both our political parties, President Bush and the media are saying to all of us.
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Sherry I likes the pic but am old enough not to ever start a fight with a lit'le ole lady who can bitch, cuss and down good Scotch with the best of 'em!!!
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for years hard working SF hospital staff at St. Marys, UCSF, and Mt. Zion have told me that illegals get better access to health care because it's all free to them yet our Hospital staff cirizens can't afford the high co-pays for standard health care/medicine let alone the elective-new-age-holistic-magnetic-herbs-cosmetic medicine because their insurance packages aren't as good as medi-cal [state-fed]
Medi-cal is free for illegals with practally no limits. Years ago Medi-cal was established for seriously handi-capped folks with obvious needs, a good thing. But the good system was corrupted so long ago that it's unrecognizable today.
I know there are decent illegals but Jeebus lets care about our citizens first and foremost.
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I agree with Ricky: that pic PERFECTLY captures these peoples' complete contempt for our laws and our culture. It's the face of the enemy-- one of them, at least...
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I thought this was just a picture of a balcony in one of the many apartment buildings I see while driving through Santa Ana every day.
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Every time I read something like this, a voice inside my head says that this crap could not be happening without Bush's blessing.
"W" stands for WORM !
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no doubt he's employing several on the WH staff!
/jeesh
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Sherry, I'm an old lady too, but prefer bourbon to scotch. ;) (maybe throw in a little homebrew too)
No disrespect intended, but I do like the picture. It really represents the illegal problem for me.
I get very frustrated when folks start talking about this globalization of Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Did I miss something? I don't remember ever voting on anything like this. Instead, we are being told that this is what will be our future. Denver being a sanctuary city is so PC it makes me crazy.
My girlfriends cousin works for the border patrol down there and the stories I hear first hand are really sickening. And they don't get picked up by the MSM. No surprise there but that really sucks.
Here, let me shine a mirror on that picture!
GLARE!
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Ricky, Jan: if you are aware of significant news about the border/immigration issue that misses the MSM, please feel free to post articles & links on Rantburg, that's one of its functions. Stories told by an employee of the Border Patrol would be great to read here.
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Okay -- I ranted in Rantburg. It didn't go over so well. My thought had nothing to do with the immigration problem, I happen to agree with all of you about that (I do live in Texas and work in a part of Austin that often, the only English I hear when I am out of the office, is mine)
It was purely the sexual connotation that grates on me. So -- I'm not going away, I just won't read any immigration articles! Very easy solution. Now why didn't I think of that first before Ranting? Hum....
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that graphic has as much to do with sex as a burqa, IMHO - it's all about domination and taking favors at someone else's (our) expense
without the cab fare or a simple 'thank you'
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Sherry, that graphic has as much to do with sex as rape does.
It's all about defiant losers pretending they have power.
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Frank, like I said, and thanks for your comment of not including it in a post I read before I got to here.
My thoughts are mine, and I will keep them to myself, and just not click on articles concerning immigration, just like I always scroll through the troll stuff, then to ignore reading their trash, click, and they are gone.
And with this, click, and it is gone! No problem. I've handled this pic for several years now, by clicking. Just wanted to rant last night.
So click -- poof --- it's all gone!
Now, I'm off to New Years...... with the new year being dubbed the "year of me" by friends of mine. Physically, it hasn't been an easy year.
Here is the source document (PDF) referred to. The costs portion begins on page 25. Note that the authors of this document are:
Blas Nuñez-Neto - Analyst in Domestic Security - Domestic Social Policy Division
Stephen Viña - Legislative Attorney - American Law Division
Debate likely over $60 billion estimate
WASHINGTON - A hotly disputed fence on the U.S.-Mexico border will cost more than $60 billion - nearly 10 times more than original estimates - with billions more needed for land acquisition and maintenance, according to a new government study.
Tombstone, AZ
While officials have estimated that the 850-mile fence will cost $7 billion to erect, the report notes that maintenance could cost as much as $70 million per mile over its 25-year life span and that miles of private property in Texas still must be purchased.
The new cost estimates come as a Democratic-controlled Congress prepares to revisit the contentious issue of reducing illegal immigration. And a number of lawmakers have called for a re-evaluation of the fence now being built along the Southwest border.
"It won't ever get built the way it was mandated," predicted Marshall Fritz, advocacy director for the Washington, D.C.-based American Immigration Lawyer's Association. "I don't think you're going to see them repeal the law. It's just a matter of whether you're going to see them fund the entire thing."
Or none at all, which is your goal.
Before adjourning earlier this month, the House and Senate passed sweeping legislation to extend a 14-mile fence already under way in San Diego east to Arizona and Texas.
President George W. Bush signed the measure into law. Lawmakers so far have allocated $1.2 billion for the fence's infrastructure and technology.
But the fence also has raised the ire of many Democrats, who call it an unnecessary and costly diplomatic obstacle. And now they will be in charge of deciding how much funding the project will get.
Let's not talk about the $billions$ we spend annually directly resulting from the illegal flow. Why Laficornia spends more than this just on the preggers illegals - annually. And, well, it's just not nice. They're not breaking US law really. We've never enforced our borders before, why start now? Evil bastards.
According to the Congressional Research Service report released earlier this month, the hidden costs of the fence far outweigh known expenses. "At issue for Congress is how best to allocate scarce border security resources while safeguarding homeland security," investigators wrote in the first government study to examine long-term costs of the newly expanded fence.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who will head the House Homeland Security Committee, has indicated he will re-evaluate the project - a plan that could involve denying additional funding.
Other lawmakers - including Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. - have met to discuss a renewed immigration bill that would offer a guest-worker program and a means for millions of illegal immigrants to obtain legal status.
Neither of those creatures speaks for flyover America.
Any proposed funding cuts, however, are certain to spark heated debate.
Bob Dane, a spokesman for the Federation for Immigration Reform, a D.C.-based group that advocates against illegal and most legal immigration, called the barrier a necessary expense. "That fence is a very tangible statement of this country's intent to enforce its borders," Dane said. "It is expensive, but it's a fixed cost," he said, contrasting the cost of the fence to what he described as the "variable" cost to the U.S. of paying for illegal immigrants' education, health care and other social services.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who supports extending the fence, has not taken a position on future funding, said her spokesman, Scott Gerber. "She has seen the fence be effective in California," Gerber said. "The question is, how much money is there and how much is realistic?"
Got a wet finger in the wind. She'll let you know when the feeling returns to her digits. It all rushed to her head in November and hasn't come out since.
According to the Congressional Research Service report, the 14-mile fence south of San Diego has been effective in reducing the number of illegal crossing arrests. But officials note that many believe illegal immigrants are simply crossing the border in Arizona instead.
And investigators warned Congress that extending the fence through Arizona and Texas will still leave vulnerabilities. One side effect could be an increase in underground tunnels like the ones discovered this year, necessitating federal investment in tunnel-detection technologies.
The report also found a number of other costs that Congress has not yet accounted for, including increased costs associated with building in remote areas where workers might need to be housed for extended periods; purchasing land in Texas; and using private contractors, as the DHS has proposed.
Fitz and others predict that immigration in general and the fence in particular will be at the forefront of policy debates in 2007. "The time has ripened for this issue," he said. "Democratic leaders recognize it as an absolutely critical policy issue for them to address head-on."
Head on? Lol. I predict the "debate" will be dominated by crapweasel tactics.
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The main cost for building in remote areas is the gasoline necessary to haul trailers, water & portapotties out there. The reasons for not putting up a border fence will smell like a manure pile.
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"That fence is a very tangible statement of this country's intent to enforce its borders," Dane said. "It is expensive, but it's a fixed cost," he said, contrasting the cost of the fence to what he described as the "variable" cost to the U.S. of paying for illegal immigrants' education, health care and other social services.
Makes sense to me. May I suggest an income tax "check off" bracket, say $1.00 ? Ah what the heck, how about a ceiling of $ 10.00 I bet they'd have enough to fence off Canada as well.
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Gentlemen, as a lit'le ole lady who can bitch, cuss and down good Scotch with the best of 'em, and who really enjoys the "Man" talk with Fred's finest in his choice of women for that favorite, the Rantburg Defender-Scimitar, I find that second picture above, every time I click and see it, to be just about the most repulsive image that I ever have to view. And I do have to view it, cause it is there when I click.
And with a great bit of Texas twang, blended with the best of my Southern lady voice, "Can we not use it again?"
Sorry, can't explain it.... it is just not a pic that is fitting coming from a Rantburg "officer and a gentleman."
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Sherry, come see me in my office and bring that Chivas Regal with you. I think we have enough data to document a formal sexual abuse or discrimination complaint with regard to that tasteless Mex "package grabber" photo.
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sorry Sherry, but it is apropos to the situation. Everytime they birth a new anchor-baby or steal someone's ID, they're giving you and your tax dollars the finger. The sick thing is the people defending illegals are not called for the anti-AMERICAN POS's that they are
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I'd've asked to have the hog-on-a-hog banned, myself. That's repulsive.
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Cost of fencing too high ? Use snipers, the renewable barrier. Portable, self-propelled, willing to guarantee a safe border for the small price of confirmed kills and 3 meals a day. No burials necessary, no costly annimal impediments, no expensive high tech gizmos, and no expensive command structure. Act now !
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Sherry, would the pic be more acceptable if it also had someone shooting them in their Phulking heads? I'm sure someone here can modify the pic, and I know I would fully support the updated image.
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Yeah, that's the ISI / PakiWaki Way. The We're Doomed! aspect doesn't actually help do anything, except sell papers, though.
Anti-terrorism forces in Pakistan have been told to brace themselves for a wave of atrocities. Intelligence officials warned that the security situation is now more precarious than it was before the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Senior officers say they are "back to square one" in their fight against international terrorist groups after the release of dozens of militants by Pakistani courts. High-ranking police officials say that as many as 80 hard-core militants are on the loose after being cleared by the courts or released on bail.
Yep, that's distinctly "unhelpful". The lesson they've learned is that their ISI Masters will see to it they don't pay the price. The lesson we can draw is that OP's patented Grid Pattern makes perfect sense.
They are believed to have been involved in crimes including the attempted assassination of President Pervez Musharraf and a suicide attack on the American consulate in Karachi.
A memo sent by Pakistan's interior ministry to law enforcement agencies around the country warns of a plot to use suicide bombers to target Britons and Americans, including diplomats, in a coordinated campaign involving some of the country's most notorious terrorist groups. The ministry warned that the bombers were also believed to be looking at high-profile individuals and military installations as potential targets.
Continued on Page 49
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If we get hit again Pakistan needs to yield a warm glow for a few hundred years, the Magic Kingdom needs to lose most of it population and all it's oil along with that since they are paying the freight for all this from the get go.
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Unfortunately, the message the courts are sending is that arresting them is a waste of time. My guess is that in the future, more of these people will be killed "resisting arrest" or while attempting to "flee".
(2006-12-30) The Pentagon announced this morning that a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) was found today in Baghdad, hanging from a rope on a platform.
This particular WMD, a Pentagon spokesman said, is known to have killed thousands of Iraqis, as well as Iranians, Kuwaitis and some U.S. troops.
The weapon is described as a nasty, corrosive agent which kills indiscriminately and without warning.
A lot of folks including Hans Blix, the United Nations and the Democrats said there were no WMD in Iraq, the Pentagon source said. Perhaps they were just looking in all the wrong places.
According to Iraqi government sources, the WMD has been contained, neutralized and prepared for burial.
Mustard gas discovered at WWI battlefields is still potent. Iraqi sarin was so impure that it was mixed on site at the airfields and artillery batteries just before use.
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12/31/2006 18:24 Comments ||
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That's Pete Hoekstra.
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12/31/2006 18:37 Comments ||
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TIKRIT, Iraq - Saddam Hussein was buried early Sunday in his home village of Awjah in northern Iraq after he was hanged for crimes against humanity, a member of his family told AFP.
Hind end facing Mecca, I hope ...
Saddam Hussein has been buried today at 4:00 am in a place that was constructed during his regime in the centre of Awjah, said Musa Faraj, one of Saddams relatives from the area.
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nice graphic :-)
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Put a hidden camera at the gravesite to check out who shows up there. Have a fast-reaction squad standing by to nab the juicy targets. Bet some interresting characters stop by.
FORT GREELEY, Alaska, Dec. 14, 2006 Members of the Alaska Army National Guard here are sizzling with excitement about their new cold weather gear that keeps them toasty warm even when temperatures dip to double digits below zero. The new Generation III Extended Cold Weather Clothing System takes the latest insulating and wicking materials that have become hot tickets among skiers, snowmobile riders and other extreme-sports enthusiasts and adapting them for soldiers operating in demanding arctic conditions, explained Army Maj. Joe Miley, operations officer for the Alaska Guards 49th Missile Defense Battalion. Its designed to work in extremely cold weather, he said.
Those conditions make soldiering pretty demanding. They gel up diesel fuel in vehicles and fray or split belts, freeze up weapons systems, and render radios unusable. Such conditions can take an even bigger toll on troops, particularly those serving outside over extended periods. The new ECWCS gear, with 12 components that can be mixed and matched depending on the conditions and how active a soldier is, offers the critical protection soldiers here need to do their jobs, Miley said.
The Fort Drum, N.Y.-based 10th Mountain Division received it in 2005, in time for its deployment to Afghanistan.
Lt. Col. Christopher Cavoli, commander of the divisions 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, offered the new system his highest praises after seeing its effectiveness in Operation Mountain Lion in the spring. During Operation Mountain Lion, I found myself praying for bad weather -- the first time in my military career I was actually begging for a cold front to come through, he said. I knew my soldiers could handle it and the enemy couldnt.
The ECWCS allowed my men to outlast the enemy on their own terrain, Cavoli said. When the enemy was forced out of the mountains due to the bitter cold to take shelter, thats when we got them.
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When the enemy was forced out of the mountains due to the bitter cold to take shelter, thats when we got them.
That's how the US Cavalry finally handled the Comanche Dawg warriors, the Sioux and the Nez Perce.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(SomaliNet) The defeated Islamic Courts Union has on Saturday called on Somalia people wherever they are to make insurgency and fight against the enemy Ethiopian troops in the country. The leader of executive council of Islamic Courts Union, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed made the call in ceremonial speech of Eid Ad-ha in which he gave to the people in 
The Algerian government has sought to play down rebel bomb attacks on police stations and foreigners, saying the situation is under control after years of bloody violence.
COLUMBUS, N.M. - On Sept. 5, a man calling himself Miguel Alfonso Salinas was apprehended off a deserted highway near the U.S.-Mexico border. The tinted windows on Alfonso Salinas' vehicle aroused the suspicion of Border Patrol agents patrolling a dark and desolate stretch of Highway 9, which runs parallel to the border and is the site of large numbers of illegal crossings. 
TIKRIT, Iraq - Saddam Hussein was buried early Sunday in his home village of Awjah in northern Iraq after he was hanged for crimes against humanity, a member of his family told AFP.
