(SomaliNet) Spokesman for Somali insurgents said on Friday that the Somali group welcomed Ethiopia's hint that it will withdraw its troops from Somalia even before the current Somali interim government is stable and effective.
Abdurahim Isse Adow, spokesman for the Union of Islamic Courts, told Xinhua by phone that: "We welcome Ethiopian Prime Minister's admission that he cannot rule Somalia and we will continue fighting his troops until the last soldier leaves Somali border."
On Thursday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi suggested in an interview with the Financial Times that Ethiopia would withdraw its forces from Somalia, saying Ethiopia's military commitment to the war-torn Horn of Africa country was "not open-ended".
The statement by the Ethiopian prime minister came a day after authorities in Addis Ababa managed to narrow a growing conflict between Somali President Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein. The civil war in the country has resulted in a serious humanitarian disaster.
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Britain's leading Muslim bodies say they are fighting extremism. In one of our most respected mosques, Sara Hassan came face to face with hardline female preachers of separatism. Here, she reports on the shocking results of her investigation.
A longer article from The Telegraph about the same subject as below with some different details. Here's hoping that more public awareness by British citizens about what's happening under their noses will start to make a difference.
Via JihadWatch.com
Revealed: Saudi women preaching hate in the British mosque that promised to clean up its act 18 months ago
Hardline female 'preachers of hate' are radicalising Muslim women at one of Britain's top mosques. The Saudi Arabian preachers were secretly filmed ordering women to murder gays and ex-Muslims.
Undercover reporters from Channel 4's Dispatches recorded the lectures in the women's section of Regent's Park Mosque in London. An unnamed Saudi woman is seen mocking other religions -- labelling Christianity 'vile' and an 'abomination'. Another, known as 'Angelique', claims Britain is a 'land of evil'.
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#1
one way ticket to the Magic Kingdom or whatever H*ell-hole she crawled out of.
#3
...So good the craven PC police useful idiots took them to court for inciting religious hatred - for airing footage of the religious hatred like this.
Thankfully we have private broadcasters who have their feet on the ground, to counter the increasing insanity of the BBC.
#4
You're going to need them, Bulldog. I hope they come through.
Last month I had an opportunity to discuss current events with a recently retired person who held a leadership position in UK broadcasting (not BBC). Over the course of several long dinners it became clear that a) he knew what was going on in Britain today, b) he was afraid to say so out loud lest he be accused of thinking bad thoughts and c) he was not going to take actions to try to change things.
He's in his early 60s, in good health and expects to live for 20+ more years.  But he is just hoping things somehow get better without him having to take any actions, speak up or act to change the dreadful trajectory Britain's on. Or failing that, to just weather it for the remainder of his own life.
Nice guy, bright, well educated, private convictions are sane. But he has totally abdicated any role as a citizen IMO. If he's representative of the conservative elite, things will not get better.
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Some English friends came to visit us last month. Lovely, educated people, he is an entrepreneur and university lecturer who wrote a popular textbook in his field... in German. I mentioned something about jihad, and she immediately said, "Yes, but that's racist to think." Racist.
#12
Mohamed was a man who thought he was a prophet
But he knew it wouldnÂ’t last.
Mohamed left his tribe in totaly fucked up Meca
For some British tea and cash.
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back Mohamed. Go home
Get back, get back.
Back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Back to where you once belonged.
Get back Mohamed
Hehehehe
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An unnamed Saudi woman is seen mocking other religions
I'd like to see some of these videos and hear the actual recordings.
I've suspected this hate speech in mosque's going on for a very long time. Good on Channel 4 for getting this out in the open. I'd like to see open filming of these sermons available to the public, to keep tabs on what is actually being promoted.
This type of brainwashing to it's congregants, especially young people by religious leaders and respected folks within the community of Islam or of these mosque's is very dangerous.
It will be more than interesting to see what those in charge do with this information. Especially since this was to be cleaned up over 18 months ago, what were they threatened with if at all, if they didn't clean it up I wonder.
I feel this type of hate speech goes on in many mosque's here in America as well, while getting the tax exempt status. Blend this with many sleeper cells embedded within our country and this is a very concerning issue.
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one doesn't have to be the Imam to talk with such authority on hate speech. The fact that congregants are discussing it in an open forum as acceptable within the mosque without being challenged is very concerning.
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#14: Saudi women can be preachers?
Only to other women, JohnQC.
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Jan, this is a followup to Undercover Mosque by Channel 4. The original video can be found here.
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According to reports in the newspaper De Telegraaf, the country's intelligence service, the AIVD, has stopped an espionage operation aimed at infiltration and sabotage of the weapons industry in Iran.
"The operation, described as extremely successful, was halted recently in connection with plans for an impending US air attack on Iraq," said the report.
"Targets would also be bombed which were connected with the Dutch espionage action."
"Well placed" sources told the paper that a top agent had been recalled recently "because the US was thought to be making a decision within weeks to attack Iran with unmanned aircraft".
"Information from the AIVD operation has in recent years been shared with the American CIA secret service."
Brig Gen Seyyed Massoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of the Iranian armed forces, warned at the weekend that military attacks against Iran would trigger a Third World War.
"The exorbitant demands of the US leaders and the global Zionism which have created the current situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Caucasus are gradually directing the world to the edge of the cliff," he said.
The US has refused to rule out a military attack against Iran if its government continues to enrich uranium as part of its civilian nuclear programme, which the West suspects has the clandestine objective of developing atomic weapons.
Iran has warned it would close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the Gulf and a major oil shipping route, if it is attacked.
On Friday, the Israel newspaper Ma'ariv reported that Israel has stepped up preparations for a contingency plan to attack Iran, should diplomatic efforts, via the United Nations, fail to derail Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons programme.
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The operation, described as extremely successful, was halted recently in connection with plans for an impending US air attack on Iraq," said the report.
Goodness. Who else is going to claim running successful operations? Who is going to smile quietly and say nothing?
The former leader of the banned Batasuna party, which is considered the political wing of the armed separatist group Eta, has left prison after serving a 15-month sentence in Spain for offences related to "terrorism".
Arnaldo Otegi, who called for negotiations with the government, was greeted by cheers and shouts of "free the Basque prisoners" as he left jail in the city of San Sebastian on Saturday.
''I came to this prison 15 months ago. For 15 months and for many years, there has been an unresolved political problem in this country - that problem continues to be real,'' Otegi said. "It has not been resolved and I consider this problem will only be resolved through dialogue and negotiation."
He said he believes talks with the government could help end the separatist conflict in northern Spain.
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A police cordon was removed from the Jamia Faridia late on Saturday night and students were allowed to enter the premises one year after it was closed. According to sources, the police were recalled from the men's seminary on the orders of the Interior Ministry. The seminary, spread over 22 kanals, was closed in July 2007 after a military operation against the Lal Masjid. The chief cleric Abdul Aziz was arrested at the conclusion of the operation while his brother Abdul Rashid Ghazi was shot dead. Over 100 people were killed in the operation. The Lal Masjid administration has since been demanding the release of Aziz, the reopening of the Jamia Faridia and the rebuilding of Jamia Hafsa. "A dialogue had been going on between the Islamabad administration and the Lal Masjid management, and they were demanding the opening of the seminary before Ramazan," sources told Daily Times. That way they could get back to throwing their weight around during the holy month.
This article starring:
Jamia Faridia
Jamia Hafsa
ABDUL AZIZ
Lal Masjid
ABDUL RASHID GHAZI
Lal Masjid
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#1
Every time I see this picture it looks like he pissed his pants ( the wet-looking area on his left knee0 and dumped a load in his drawers.
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Maybe he did, look closely and notice he empty clip at his feet, and the one he's holding is also empty, an "Oh Shit" moment, if one ever was.
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A grand Jirga on Saturday warned all terrorists and miscreants to leave the district before the start of Ramazan or face the consequences.
The Jirga, comprising MNAs, MPAs, NWFP former MPs, Nazims, political leaders and officials of the Nowshera police, in a unanimous resolution asked the miscreants to leave the district or force would be used to flush them out.
The Jirga, organised by the district police at Nowshera Police Lines, expressed the resolve that nobody would be allowed to sabotage the peaceful environment, saying the people wanted peace and harmony and no terrorist activity would be tolerated in the district.
NWFP ministers Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Liaqat Shabab, MNAs and MPAs Masood Abbas, Pervez Ahmed Khan, District Nazim Daud Khan Khattak, former MPs Khalil Abbas, Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-S General Secretary Maulana Yousaf Shah, former minister Wali Muhammad Khan, Mian Jamsheddudin, Naib Nazim Ishfaq Khan, social and political figures, traders and a large number of Nazims and councillors attended the Jirga.
The Jirga forwarded a number of suggestions for maintaining peace and urged the people to unite against the looming terror threats. The participants demanded of the Ulema to rise to the occasion and create an awareness among the people through their Friday's sermons against terrorism and extremism.
They also took note of the presence of the Afghan refugees who, according to them, have made fake identity cards and could indulge in criminal and terror activities. They demanded their immediate expulsion from the district.
Addressing the Jirga, DPO Yamin Khan said local peace committees would be formed. The members would be provided the latest weapons to tackle the menace of terrorism and other criminal activities in the district.
"The whole country is under the terrorist threat but we must stand up to them to save the area from destruction," Daud Khattak added. Provincial ministers Mian Iftikhar and Liaqat Shabab said Pakhtuns were being massacred in the name of religion, Jihad and Talibanisation.
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Iraqi police in this provincial backwater got a tip earlier this month that a suicide bomber was on the loose. They were even given his name, age and a description of his car. With all that, they still couldn't stop him.
Four days after the initial warning, 19-year-old Ashraf al-Yas talked his way through a police checkpoint, drove his vehicle into a crowded farmers market and detonated his explosives. He killed 28 people and injured 72.
The attack raised questions about whether Iraqi forces are yet capable of protecting civilians from determined extremists as across the country, the Americans hand over primary responsibility for security to Iraqi soldiers and police.
The U.S. insists the Iraqi army has made great progress in improving its operational capability. But there are still doubts about efficiency, training and professionalism among police, who must bear primary responsibility for maintaining security in the cities.
U.S. forces only conduct occasional patrols in this northern Iraqi city of 220,000, settled mostly by Turkomen, an ethnic minority divided along religious lines here between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
Tal Afar's Iraqi army units have been shifted to more troublesome Mosul, a nearby stronghold of Sunni insurgents.
After receiving the initial warning about a suicide bomber, Tal Afar police enforced a vehicle ban to try to keep the assailant off the streets. It's an effective method but can't be imposed for too long without severely disrupting daily life.
In the evening of Aug. 8, police lifted the curfew, and residents crowded the local market. At one point, a car carrying two men approached the police checkpoint near the market, witnesses say. Hajji Zainel, the local security chief, said police searched the car and allowed it to proceed.
Moments later, the passenger got out, the driver drove into the market and detonated the explosives, witnesses say. It appears the bomber carried a passenger to get around the ban on single men driving alone, imposed to deter lone assailants.
The U.S. military said Iraqi forces should have done a better job of searching at the checkpoints.
But Zainel says he needs more equipment to do the job. "The main problem we face is a lack of equipment that detects explosives," said Zainel, adding that only two of the four checkpoints at the city's gates have such devices.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army has replaced American troops in securing a refugee camp north of Baghdad where members of Iran's main armed opposition group are grouped, Iraq's defence ministry said on Saturday.
"Iraqi forces have taken over responsibility from US forces to protect Ashraf camp," ministry spokesman General Mohammed al-Askari told AFP. "Our forces have deployed to protect this camp, not to seize it as recent rumours have alleged," Askari added.
Nearly 4,000 members of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) fled to Iraq in the 1980s and settled at Ashraf camp, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Baghdad, which the group now uses as its headquarters. Opponents of the Iran government and wary of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whom they consider too close to Tehran, the future of the PMOI in Iraq is uncertain and Maliki has said he is looking for ways to end their presence.
The group is on the European Union's list of terrorist organisations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze, and has been designated by the US government as a foreign terrorist organisation. Formed in the 1960s in opposition to the rule of the US-backed shah, the PMOI took part in the 1979 Islamic revolution but then took up arms against the Islamic republic. It killed several of Iran's new leaders in the early years after the revolution and backed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the 1980-1988 war with Iran. But the attacks had ceased by the early 1990s.
American troops disarmed thousands of Mojahedin fighters at Ashraf following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 that toppled Saddam and afforded them protection after classifying them as "non-combatants."
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The "Hauptstadt der Bewegung" has been taken? The end must be near.
Egypt opened its sealed border crossing with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday for two, allowing hundreds of people to enter and leave the coastal territory in a goodwill gesture before a holy Muslim month.
Egyptian security and border sources said the Rafah border crossing will remain open for two days to allow Gazans with foreign residence permits and humanitarian cases to cross into Egypt. "We thank (Egyptian) President Husni Mubarak for opening the crossing today, and we hope it the opening days will be extended," said Gaza Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, in a statement to the press.
Hamas' interior ministry, eager to demonstrate its ability to control security on the Gaza side of the crossing, did not allow residents to approach the southern passageway on Saturday morning.
Egypt closed the Rafah border crossing after Hamas Islamists seized the Gaza Strip more than a year ago, and hundreds of Egyptian citizens have been stuck in the coastal enclave.
Some 100 people have crossed into Egypt and 200 Palestinians have returned home to Gaza, the Egyptian sources said.
Palestinian officials said more than 500 Egyptians and Gazans with foreign residency permits have already crossed into Egypt and they expect hundreds more to follow.
Hamas wants Egypt to permanently open Rafah to ease an Israel-led blockade, but under a U.S.-brokered agreement signed in November 2005, they cannot do so without the consent of Israel and Hamas-rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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How much will the local Egyptian shopkeepers suffer this time from fake money made in Gaza?
They live just a couple of miles from each other along a country road winding through parched fields, but they are worlds apart.
Avinadav Vitkon, an Israeli freelance writer, is putting down roots in this strip of West Bank land known as the Jordan Valley, helping to establish a new Jewish settlement with his government's backing. Palestinian farmer Jasser Daraghmeh is barely hanging on to the 10 acres he says have been in his family for years.
Vitkon, 29, lives in a trailer, but will eventually move with his wife and four young children into one of 20 homes to be built on an adjacent hill. Daraghmeh, a 34-year-old father of six, expects the Israeli military to demolish his family's wooden shack because it was built without a permit.
Their differing fortunes are the product of a struggle for control of this valley alongside the Jordan River _ biblical terrain which Israelis and Palestinians both say they need for national survival.
Human rights groups say Israel has systematically fostered Jewish communities at the expense of Palestinian growth in several areas of the West Bank it wants to keep, and the Jordan Valley is among the hardest hit. Israelis move freely through the valley, while Palestinians are hampered by building restrictions and roadblocks, one of which even keeps them from nearby Dead Sea beaches.
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Evil, greedy Israelis, yet again. How many years exactly was that land in the family of Mr. Daraghmeh, who lives in a mere wooden shack, not a proper Arab house?
#3
Palestinians are an open, running sore kept that way by their Arab brothers to deflect attention from their own kleptocratic governments. When we finally get off the oil addiction and those sorry excuses for people no longer have the big bucks to waste on supporting terrorism, the Paleo issue will finally go away.
GAZA - Egypt opened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, allowing hundreds of people to leave the Hamas-controlled territory, Palestinian officials said. Egyptian security and border sources said the Rafah crossing would stay open for two days to allow Gazans with foreign residence permits and humanitarian cases to cross into Egypt.
Egypt closed Rafah after the Islamist movement Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip more than a year ago, and hundreds of Egyptian citizens have been stuck in the coastal enclave. With the reopening, some 500 people have crossed into Egypt and 700 have returned home to Gaza, the Egyptian sources said. Palestinian officials said more than 1,000 Egyptians and Gazans with foreign residency permits had crossed into Egypt.
'The opening of Rafah for a few days will alleviate the suffering of our people,' said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.
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GAZA CITY - Doctors in the Gaza Strip went on strike Saturday to protest the sacking of some 50 doctors and other health workers by the Hamas-run health ministry, saying the decision was politically motivated. "Today we have begun a total strike in the government-run health sector in the Gaza Strip and there is good participation, with 70 percent taking part," an official in the health workers' union told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The official said emergency services providers and health workers loyal to the Islamist Hamas movement which has ruled Gaza since June 2007 were not taking part in the strike.
The doctors are protesting the firing of 46 doctors and administrators linked to the Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, which was largely driven from Gaza when Hamas seized power.
Hamas downplayed the strike, saying the number participating was "very limited" and claimed the doctors strike and a teachers strike held last week were both politically motivated. "(The strikes) follow calls issued by Fatah-run unions in Ramallah," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, referring to the headquarters of Abbas's Palestinian Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "It is aimed at strengthening the blockade on Hamas, the Palestinian government, and the Palestinian people," he said, referring to an Israeli virtual blockade of the territory enacted after Hamas took power.
Abbas's health ministry in Ramallah said it was not involved in the strike but said it "understood the motivations for it, which come from the oppressive actions taken against our workers in the Gaza Strip."
The Palestinian Authority still pays the salaries of all civil servants in the Gaza Strip, including most doctors and health workers.
The parallel Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza issued its own statement slamming the strike, saying "these poisonous calls come when there are more than 1,600 patients in desperate need of treatment and care."
Hamas called on all workers to remain at their posts and threatened to arrest those responsible for ordering the strike. "We will not let anyone mock the health security of our citizens," Hamas-appointed health minister Bassem Naim told reporters, threatening "the worst form of punishment" for those who do.
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Interior Minister Ziad Baroud told the Voice of Lebanon radio station on Saturday that the attack by Hezbollah fighters on a Lebanese Army helicopter which resulted in the death of the Lebanese officer Samer Hanna requires "explanations, not justifications." He added "we also want to know the details."
"We also want details," Baroud said in a radio interview, which indicates that the judiciary has not been allowed to interrogate Hezbollah fighters who were in the Sujud southern region where the chopper was attacked on Thursday.
Hezbollah turned over one suspect to the judiciary saying he was the person who opened fire at the helicopter.
Baroud said that that the incident affected the Lebanese army's morale
He also said the judicial investigation into the event would continue "until the end," because Lebanon's political leaders have given their support to the judicial process.
Baroud continued : "Supporting the army is mandatory because it is the only protector of Lebanon, and it upholds its stability".
In a related development Information Minister Tareq Mitri said the "attack" against a military helicopter by Hezbollah fighters in the southern Sojod region raises "questions regarding the extent of coordination between the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah."
Mitri, in a television interview, said "resisting an external attack is a non-controversial issue. This is the duty of the Lebanese people."
The problem, according to Mitri, is in "blocking the re-creation of the state for tens of years."
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Hezbollah turned over one suspect to the judiciary saying he was the person who opened fire at the helicopter.
As expected the Lebanese cabinet on Friday met at the presidential palace in Baabda and appointed Brigadier General Jean Qahwaji ( also spelled Kahwaji) as new army commander, replacing the former army chief Michel Suleiman who became president in May.
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The Lebanese government during its meeting yesterday at the Baabda palace under President Michel Suleiman, has denounced the trespassing by Syria into Lebanese territory in the eastern Bekaa Valley.
The cabinet outlined the stand in its meeting Friday in reference to the digging by Syrian teams of two wells in the Deir al-Ashayer village which abuts Syrian territory. "The government denounced the trespassing into Lebanese territory in Deir al-Ashayer by digging two wells in Lebanese territory within property owned by Lebanese citizens," the government said.
Information Minister Tareq Mitri said President Suleiman "informed the cabinet that he is following up his contacts in this regards and a waits an thorough response."
Cabinet minister Wael Abou Faour had raised the issue during the cabinet meeting saying Syria has penetrated Lebanese territory to a distance of 100 meters from the border line to dig two wells.
Diplomatic sources noted that the cabinet's denunciation as well as Suleiman's comment on the reported trespassing did not mention Syria explicitly.
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A senior military commander warned on Saturday that any attack on Iran would start a new world war, as Tehran pressed on with its controversial nuclear drive despite the risk of further UN sanctions. "Any aggression against Iran will start a world war," deputy chief of staff for defense publicity, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, said in a statement carried by the state news agency IRNA.
Iran is under international pressure to halt uranium enrichment, a process which lies at the core of fears about Iran's nuclear program as it can make nuclear fuel as well as the fissile core of an atom bomb. "The unrestrained greed of the US leadership and global Zionism... is gradually leading the world to the edge of a precipice," Jazayeri said, citing the unrest in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and Georgia. "It is evident that if such a challenge occurs, the fake and artificial regimes will be eliminated before anything," he said, without naming any countries.
Iran does not recognize Israel, which is often described by officials in Tehran as a "fake regime" and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has provoked international outrage saying it should be wiped off the map.
The United States has never ruled out military action against Iran over its defiance of international demands for an enrichment freeze, but so far is pursuing the diplomatic route.
Iran has repeatedly vowed a crushing response to any attacks and has flexed military muscles in recent years by holding war games and showing off an array of home-grown weaponry including ballistic missiles.
During war games in July which stoked international concern, aides to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that Iran would target US bases and US ships in the Gulf as well as Israel if it was attacked. Iran also test-fired its Shahab-3 missile which it says puts Israel within range.
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#1
More rectal bravado. Firey slap down coming soon.
#3
Blah, blah, blah. Some mullah's ought to try reading a little history rather than the Koran once in awhile. They'd see that the US is 11-and-0 with 1 draw (Revolutionary War, Civil War, Mexican War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam (draw - US won all major battles, but withdrew in the end due to political pressure at home, Cold War, Gulf War I, Iraq War, Afghan War) so far. I don't think their little podunk religion or military capability is going to seriously challenge us.
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(SomaliNet) Spokesman for Somali insurgents said on Friday that the Somali group welcomed Ethiopia's hint that it will withdraw its troops from Somalia even before the current Somali interim government is stable and effective. 
A police cordon was removed from the 
GAZA - Egypt opened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, allowing hundreds of people to leave the Hamas-controlled territory, Palestinian officials said. Egyptian security and border sources said the Rafah crossing would stay open for two days to allow Gazans with foreign residence permits and humanitarian cases to cross into Egypt.
