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I think I saw a recent discussion of a WW2 tank regiment that was paralyzed by mice eating through the wires, but I forget whose tanks these were.
(The post was titled "The Mouse that Roared..." I'll have to see if I can dig it up.
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That was a German unit on the Russian front that had all the wiring eaten by mice. Could this be called Weapons of Mouse Destruction?
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We all remember Pravda from the Cold War era. But now, maybe they aren't as bad? I'd certainly give them a chance versus someone like, oh, CBS.
I believe the USSR also had a Dog Mine. They would feed dogs under tanks, so they associated tank = food. They would then put strap-on explosives (like a splodeydope) and send them into the front lines. The problem was that the dogs associated food with Russian tanks...
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The mouse-eating-wire event took place November 1942 during the battle of Stalingrad in the German 57th Panzer Corps, which was by that time little more than a battalion.
WOMEN will gather outside the Justice Ministry today in a show of solidarity against discrimination. They will also call for the dismissal of the General Prosecutor. The demonstration is being organised by the Women Petition Committee in co-ordination with human rights and civil society groups. It starts at 10am.
Committee president Ghada Jamsheer said that women were often discriminated against when their cases were dealt with by either the General Prosecution or Sharia courts. "There are many women who have been affected because of this and many are living miserably because of these biased decisions," she said. "We will also call for the removal of a Sharia judge, whose decisions have been always against women and has a long history in controversial decisions, which were in favour of men, rather than being fair." Ms Jamsheer said that a petition would be signed and sent to His Majesty King Hamad with a list of wishes women hope to be granted. They include the urgent establishment of the Personal Law (family law) and stop Sharia judges from issuing official marriage certificates at home. They say these should be issued by a special office at the ministry, open 24-hours-a-day.
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A member of the Georgian presidential clemency commission has committed suicide, police said Saturday, just two days after the death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania. He didn't have the clemency vision thing.
Officials denied any political connection between the victim and the late prime minister. A total coincidence. Government officials have died in office like flies since the time of that great Georgian Stalin
Georgy Khelashvili, 32, was found dead of a gunshot wound at his home Friday night. Even before the suicide of Khelashvili, many Georgians wondered whether authorities were telling the truth about Zhvania's death Who? Who doubts the authorities in Georgia? ,
as Georgia has a history of political intrigue and violence. Compared to what? Venice Tudor and Stuart England, Chicago?
Khelashvili was a member of the state presidential commission on pardons. Perhaps he'd been neglecting those duties. Some people can be very impatient.
Initial media reports said he was also a member of Zhvania's former United Democrats political bloc. Officials confirmed Friday that Zhvania died of carbon-monoxide poisoning, apparently as a result of an improperly ventilated space heater at the apartment of a friend, who also died. The Prime Minister gave space heaters to all his closest friends so he would be warm on visits.
Zhvania's body was scheduled to be moved from his mother's home later Saturday to Tbilisi's Holy Trinity Cathedral, where a funeral will be held Sunday.
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Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said it was more efficient for Australia to continue to coordinate its tsunami aid directly with Indonesia rather than go through the United Nations. Downer said that regardless of Friday's report revealing corruption in the UN's oil-for-food program in Iraq and highlighting major flaws in the global body, Australia was always going to deal directly with Jakarta. "It's not that I don't trust them (the UN), we do put money into the United Nations, but in terms of getting the optimal outcome, we think in the case of Indonesia, being a next door neighbour, the optimal outcome is going to be a bilateral program," Downer told the CNN TV network in London. "Indonesia is a sovereign country, they will make their own decisions ultimately on how money is spent. They are the principal coordinating authority for tsunami relief and rehabilitation. The UN agencies can provide assistance as well and we obviously welcome that and in some cases we provided money for people like UNICEF and the World Food Program. But I do not think, at the end of the day, you can brush aside the responsibility of the individual national governments to coordinate relief within their own countries."
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Iwonder how all this OFF corruption and other UN shenanigans will affect those little coin envelope collections on international flights? I always empty out my pockets for UNICEF.
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UNICEF is probably the most corrupt and incompetant of the UN agencies - An independent audit in 1994 by Booz, Allen, & Hamilton found bloated overhead costs, lack of financial control and a proclivity for luxury travel accommodations and overstaffing.Link
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On Halloween when I used to see the little kids with the UNICEF boxes, I wanted to ask them if they knew what kind of outfit they were shilling for, but I just said, No Thanks. Now I'm in Red America and the parents are a little more careful with whom they let their children associate.
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The UN is actually less a disaster than the EU. The reason for this is a reflection of their charter, their constitution. The UNSC actually *does* help, in an indirect manner, to govern the activities of the UNSC members, the ones that really call the shots in the world (granted, a bit out of date: its membership should be the US, Russia, China, Europe, India, South America and Africa). But this only comes from the intentions of its members, not from the UN charter, which has little power over its members. The EU, however, has allowed the intentions, good or bad, of its members, to be subverted by a federal bureaucracy that has only *its* intentions, and *its* disgusting, bloated and monstrous constitution as *its* guide. This means that while the UN is a bloated, mostly inert joke filled with feckless and corrupt bureaucrats ignored by everyone, the EU is ruled by them.
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The EU, however, has allowed the intentions, good or bad, of its members, to be subverted by a federal bureaucracy that has only *its* intentions, and *its* disgusting, bloated and monstrous constitution as *its* guide.
1) Can you tell me a *single decision* which the so-called "bureaucracy" managed to pass without the consent of the majority of the member-states? Even one? Or indeed a single decision passed over the objection of even a sizeable *minority* of member-states?
2) For purposes of accuracy, until such time as the constitution actually becomes a reality, use the word "treaties" instead of "constitution".
granted, a bit out of date: its membership should be the US, Russia, China, Europe, India, South America and Africa)
South America? Africa? Europe?
How, pray tell, will these be "members", unless each of them has a common foreign policy and a single external representation? At this point you aren't objecting merely to the membership of the UNSC, you are objecting to the national division that exist in these continents.
#6
Oh great, Anonymoose, you've summoned the Attention Whore.
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Speaking of attention whores, everyone look at this thread, #79. This was Tom's comments up until 9 p.m. yesterday. I didn't include the ones he added in the last three hours before midnight or all his "It's all about meeeeeeee" comments. You'll have to imagine that his entire commentry yesterday was considerably longer.
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I have NEVER made any "It's all about meeeeeeee" comments, Attention Whore #2.
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Bwahahahaha - maybe I did? Gonna spend all day collecting my comments MS? Hee hee
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It's strting to look like someone fell of the wagon. Perhaps it's time to go back to AA or NARCONON.
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7. CE 3063, pp. 634-35, 638; cited in Mike Sylwester, "Jack Ruby, Smuggling
with and Spying on Communists" available here:
8. Ibid.
9. 14 H 503; Sylwester.
10. Sylwester.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. 15 H 289; Sylwester.
14. 15 H 300; Sylwester.
15. 15 H 316; Sylwester.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. 9 HSCA 524-86; Sylwester.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. David Scheim, *Contract on America,* 221; Sylwester.
24. Maurice Halperin, *The Taming of Fidel Castro*; Sylwester.
25. Hall Exhibit No. 3; Sylwester.
26. Sylwester.
27. Seth Kantor, *Who Was Jack Ruby?*, pp. 132-4.
28. Ibid.
29. cf. Edward Jay Epstein's *Inquest.*
30. Weberman Web site.
31. Ibid.
32. 14 H 341.
33. Ibid.
34. 14 H 359.
35. 14 H 343.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. 14 H 346-9.
40. Carol Hewett, "Methinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much!", available HERE
You without Fred's sight are nothing. Otherwise you wouldn't spend so much time here putting up with the abuse.
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Otherwise you wouldn't spend so much time here putting up with the abuse.
besides that dark need for it that you don't talk about...not even with Mommy
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Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
A name
I call Aris!
Fa!
A long long way to run.....
So!
What Mikey doing Here?
La a Note to follow Mikeys So
Tee!
A lot lot lot like MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
#17
You without Fred's sight are nothing. Otherwise you wouldn't spend so much time here putting up with the abuse.
I wonder what you think your silly attempts at psychoanalyzing earn you. "Putting up the abuse" might be a more torturous task if it had more of a sting in it to hurt *me*.
But the worse it's been it's when the attitudes here made me depressive (and thus angry) about the chances of our civilisation to survive -- even personal attacks have more *annoyed* me because of the pettiness of the people who can't see the bigger issues because of the smallness of their minds and the kindergarten-attitude of their ego-games.
And such chances of civilizational survival won't magically increase if I close my ears and hum real loudly against the babble of the people who would doom us all with their idiocy.
Me without Fred's site am nothing? Am afraid that once again it's not a ego game, Mrs Davis -- or I wouldn't have asked Fred to make a decision on whether to tell me to take a hike or not.
Even letting aside the personal pursuits and fannish communities, there are many political forums around, Mrs Davis. I've commented in many places before Fred's site and I'll comment again after it. But once again it's not an ego thing for me, Mrs Davis -- it's a team play in a game of civilizations.
Me without participation in political forums would actually have a bit more time to do things I really enjoy doing -- reading books, writing stories, reviewing movies. And if I cared more about cheers rather than an attempt at actual effect in political discourse, I'd have stuck with such fannish communities as appreciated my presence -- like interactive fiction or HP fanfic or Tolkien newsgroups or whatever.
#19
like interactive fiction or HP fanfic or Tolkien newsgroups or whatever.
Damn, I'm sorry didn't think about that.
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Now see? That's what I'm talking about? I see the level of intelligence in Frank G's and "Von Trap"'s posts, people who assume that anything that challenges them must be an ego-driven troll, and thus know that America is most probably doomed. It's red-state Republican core is too arrogant and stupid and closed-minded to change.
#25
Frank, it was I who told you about May. So, it's really kinda pathetic that you keep on repeating, seemingly against me, information I've myself offered freely. This time you didn't even went into the bother of googling, I *told* y'all about May.
#28
When Aris first arrived at RB he drove me nuts. Then for a long time he bored me and I ignored any thread he was in. But recently I have developed a morbid fascination in his posts. It's like watching a house fire. You know its going to end badly and you have much more important things to do, but you can't tear yourself away.
#29
strangers in the night
me me me me me me me me
bobo bo bob bob bobobbobob beeee!
of nitwits in the night.
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Now see more examples of RRR (retarded reactionary right) idiocy? People who think that fanfiction is shameful or childish, but find nothing wrong with their anonymous cowardly trollish kindergarten attempts at bullying.
And you Mrs. Davis, still thinks the problem is my contribution, not theirs. Typical RRR reasoning -- the outsider's to blame, the one who holds the different opinion or the one who asks the questions that are difficult to answer.
Such attitudes will doom us all and you don't see it. Carry on.
#31
More fan fiction! More Fan Fiction! It good for MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Have you considered a part in the new Star Trek? There's a small speaking part for an neo-Agean, meantion MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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1) Can you tell me a *single decision* which the so-called "bureaucracy" managed to pass without the consent of the majority of the member-states? Even one? Or indeed a single decision passed over the objection of even a sizeable *minority* of member-states?
-To be honest, none that I know of (or could google) that have actually passed into law.
Here's one that worries some eu civil lib groups & a lot of corporations, but it's just a proposal, not a law yet. *If* it becomes a law, seems bad for civil liberties, just imo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1334371.stm
Here's another about computer patents that seems to have passed into law and some member states were not crazy about. I'm not familiar w/the issue so can't add anymore then what's in the article. Looks like it's gonna get overturned or was. Maybe someone more familiar w/it can get me up to speed.
Britain's hopes of drumming up $50 billion a year in aid for Africa suffered a serious setback on Friday when the United States rejected London's plan. Even Europe's backing seemed to be fading as both Italy and Germany said they would prefer something less ambitious than the proposal British finance minister Gordon Brown put to a meeting of the Group of Seven rich nations. But former South African president Nelson Mandela said he would accept no half measures. It was an outrage to let Africa sink further into disease and poverty, he said. "We are here to claim justice," the frail 86-year-old told the G7 ministers. "Do not delay while poor people continue to suffer," he said, demanding a full write-off of African debt and $50 billion extra a year in aid for the next decade... We have a right to 600 Billion of your dollars! Reparations for colonization! We need more palaces!
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But former South African president Nelson Mandela said he would accept no half measures.
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Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda under Idi Amin, the racist dictator Mugabe now... The list goes on an on of Africans pissing in thier own wells then screaming for someone to come fix things - all the while cursing those who are fixing things as White Devils, and trying to shift the blame to the outsiders for they horrors the inflict on themselves.
Tell ya what Mr Mandela. You get a handle on all the slavery, brutalism and racist tribalism by Africans against Africans that is running rampant across Africa especially in the totalitarian dictatorships, then we will talk aid.
Until then: Its your problem, you broke it, you fix it. Not the symptoms (the deaths and famine), but the root causes of problem itself (your tribalism).
Because until you so stop being tribal racists (and beginto see the real problem is not us, but YOU!), sending you aid is like feeding a starving gorilla and then handing him a fully loaded machine gun.
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show us Bob's head on a pike and we'll throw you a bone. Until then, STFU and get your house in order
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mandela is a dingleberry on the butthole of Africa. He's a communist, always has been a communist, always will be a communist. PISS ON HIM! And, PISS ON AFRICA! The problems they have are of their own doing. As long as they adhere to the principles of communism/socialism, no amount of aid, (U.S. taxpayer money), will do anything but intensify their suffering. In short.....FUCK 'EM AND FEED 'EM FISH HEADS.
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mandy's an asshole, always has been. How about we write off their debt but no new aid package, deal?
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Until then: Its your problem, you broke it, you fix it.
I dunno, King Leopold had a hand in it.
So did the Germans in South-West Africa. So did the French and the Brits. I suppose you could blame Brazilians, Americans and assorted New World governemnts, too, if you were rigorous in your scorekeeping.
Fact is, the Euros didn't do Africa any favors over the last five centuries or so. The worst thing, even worse than Leopold, may have been inflicting socialism on Africa. Damn that Marx guy.
I wouldn't mind at all helping Africa, particularly those Africans who have had the scales fall from their eyes. I see little nuggets of hope here and there and would like to encourage that.
But Mandela's extortion (for that is exactly what it is)? Nope, no way.
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It was an outrage to let Africa sink further into disease and poverty, he said.
And were we to try telling these guys how to clean up their act and run their show, it's almost a certainty that we'd be accused of meddling, or worse, imperialism.
You need a refresher on African history: the late 19th century colonization was an effort to protect blacks against Muslim slavery (or at least that how it was sold to the public). So much for the white man doing nothing for Africa. And whatever the afterthoughts of those cold monsters called statemen your average British or French believed it was doing Africans a favour. And before you sneer remember that it was not African doctors who brought a cure against paludism and it was not African Army the one who stopped the slaver raids (except in Rwanda) or put an end to the bloodbaths perpetrated by the Zulu Kings: hundreds of thousands dead mostly by impaling.
Of course it was bad to bring the Africans to what was none of their business ie WWI and the German and Belgian colonization were particularly brutal, greedy and times genocidical but as I said not evrything was bad.
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JFM is right. Much of what passes as history is little more ideology. Go back and read contemporary sources and you will find people were constantly asking why colonies cost so much and gave so little return and the arguments in return were its our duty to help them. The term 'white man's burden' was not originally ironic.
#13
Most African colonies were freed in the 1950s or 1960s. It's been nearly 50 years. Any problems are of their own making.
We bombed German and Japan flat in 1945. There was starvation and people freezing in '46-47. The much-vaunted Marshall plan was a far smaller amount of money than we've given to these kleptocracies. Yet, they were back on their feet and beating the pants of RCA and GM in under 30 years.
The difference was the culture. I can't see Africa ever becoming a decent place without a change in the culture.
Perhaps the problem with colonialism was that it didn't last long enough and the imperial states weren't aggressive enough in forcibly re-making the societies.
#14
Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda under Idi Amin, the racist dictator Mugabe now... The list goes on an on of Africans pissing in thier own wells then screaming for someone to come fix things - all the while cursing those who are fixing things as White Devils, and trying to shift the blame to the outsiders for they horrors the inflict on themselves.
Tell ya what Mr Mandela. You get a handle on all the slavery, brutalism and racist tribalism by Africans against Africans that is running rampant across Africa especially in the totalitarian dictatorships, then we will talk aid.
Until then: Its your problem, you broke it, you fix it. Not the symptoms (the deaths and famine), but the root causes of problem itself (your tribalism).
Because until you so stop being tribal racists (and beginto see the real problem is not us, but YOU!), sending you aid is like feeding a starving gorilla and then handing him a fully loaded machine gun.
#15
Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda under Idi Amin, the racist dictator Mugabe now... The list goes on an on of Africans pissing in thier own wells then screaming for someone to come fix things - all the while cursing those who are fixing things as White Devils, and trying to shift the blame to the outsiders for they horrors the inflict on themselves.
Tell ya what Mr Mandela. You get a handle on all the slavery, brutalism and racist tribalism by Africans against Africans that is running rampant across Africa especially in the totalitarian dictatorships, then we will talk aid.
Until then: Its your problem, you broke it, you fix it. Not the symptoms (the deaths and famine), but the root causes of problem itself (your tribalism).
Because until you so stop being tribal racists (and beginto see the real problem is not us, but YOU!), sending you aid is like feeding a starving gorilla and then handing him a fully loaded machine gun.
From Compass Direct
Christian pastor Hamid Pourmand went on trial before a military court in Tehran last week, charged with deceiving the Iranian armed forces about his religion. It was the first time Iranian authorities have produced Pourmand, 47, arrested five months ago when police raided a church conference in Karaj, near Tehran. Although the nine other pastors and 76 laymen detained with him were all released within a few days, the Assemblies of God lay pastor has remained under incommunicado arrest since September 9, 2004. .....
Together with his wife and two children, Pourmand was living in Bandar-i Bushehr, a port city on the Persian Gulf in southern Iran. In addition to his military duties as a colonel in the army, he was the volunteer lay pastor of a small Assemblies of God congregation in the city. Pourmand converted from Islam to Christianity nearly 25 years ago. Shortly after the Islamic revolution, Iranian laws had been passed to prohibit non-Muslims from serving as military officers. But according to his family and Christian acquaintances, Pourmand had never concealed his religious conversion. Rather, he was widely liked and respected for his honesty, one friend told Compass.
Pourmand reportedly declared in court last week that he had documented proof, in the form of a letter, that the army knew he had become a Christian before he was ever given officer rank. It is expected that regardless of the outcome of his deception charges before the military court, Pourmand will now be forcibly discharged from the Iranian army.
During last week's trial, the Christian prisoner was informed that he would be transferred back to Bandar-i Bushehr, where he will face trial on two separate charges of apostasy and proselytizing. During the hearing, court officials declared that for many years Pourmand had belonged to an "underground" church through which "many Muslims" had deserted Islam and become Christians. .....
The world's only theocratic regime, the Islamic Republic of Iran maintains harsh suppression of local evangelical churches and various house-church movements accused of evangelizing Muslims. Since 1990, several ex-Muslims who converted to Christianity have been either assassinated or executed by court order, under the guise of accusations of spying for foreign countries. Under Iranian law, apostasy is listed along with murder, armed robbery, rape and serious drug trafficking as a capital offense.
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Muslim militants pronounced a death sentence on five Christian students expelled from public schools in November for conducting an evangelistic outreach. The families of two of the students, Miss Hanatu Haruna Alkali and Abraham Adamu Misal, were attacked on January 26 when militants went to their family homes in the state of Gombe in northern Nigeria intending to kill them. A sister of Alkali, who asked not to be named, reported to Compass from Gombe that Muslim militants have attacked the house several times. Family members fear for their lives.
Rev. Oludare Aliu, national coordinator of the students' ministry of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA), confirmed the report. "Muslim militants went to Gombe to ⊠kill Hannatu, but fortunately, she was not at home at the time. The family was held at gun point. Hannatu's father happens to be a former military officer. He wrestled with the militants and was able to disarmed one of them who had a gun. While he was fighting them, one of the militants stabbed Hannatu's mother with a knife. She has been treated for the wounds." Alkali is now in hiding.
"Also, the militants attacked the family of Abraham Adamu Misal; he has already escaped and is now in hiding. We are yet to get details about the whereabouts of the other three students," Aliu added.
Alkali, Misal, and three other Christian students (Habakkuk Solomon, Hankuri Gaya, and a student identified as Uzochukwu) were expelled by the authorities of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) and the Federal Polytechnic in Bauchi for sharing the gospel with Muslim students. According to officials in the two schools, Muslims in the schools complained that the Christian students blasphemed the prophet Mohammed. Sunday Nache Achi, a student and president of the campus chapter of ECWA students' ministry at ATBU in Bauchi, was murdered over the incident on December 8, 2004. He was not part of the group of Christian students conducting the gospel outreach.
In January, representatives of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Bauchi called on the Nigerian government to carry out investigations into the murder of Achi and bring to justice those who killed him. They also demanded the reinstatement of the five expelled Christian students and the removal of the head officials of the two public schools for contributing to the conflicts between Muslim and Christian students.
On January 25, Muslim leaders in Bauchi held a press conference. They called on all Muslims to defend Islam and to resist the demand by Christian leaders that the Muslim militants who killed Mr. Achi be brought to justice. Alhaji Muhammad Dan Madami, who led the conference, said the Muslim leaders opposed the reinstatement of the Christian students and supported the activities of the Muslim militants. He also said the Nigerian government must not remove the heads of the two schools, both of whom are Muslims. "The incidents [Christian evangelism outreach to Muslim students] in both ATBU and Federal Polytechnic Bauchi were meant to deliberately provoke the Muslims," Madami said. Therefore, all Muslims must be prepared to defend their religion "and the person and good name of the prophet of Islam, Mohammed, at all times."
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Several dozen Egyptians have demonstrated against a fifth term for President Hosni Mubarak.
Dozens? That doesn't sound encouraging.
Thousands of police kept the protesters apart from tens of thousands of visitors attending the Cairo International Book Fair in the suburbs of the Egyptian capital on Friday.
Thousands of police for dozens of protesters?
"Enough!" said one banner, in an apparent reference to Mubarak's 24-year rule and his expected decision to run again later this year. "No to the Renewal [of Mubarak's mandate]," the demonstrators chanted. "No to heredity," they said, referring to speculation that if Mubarak, 76, does not stand his eldest son Gamal will be anointed in his place. Under the Egyptian system, parliament will elect a single candidate for the presidency in May, whose name will then be put to a referendum in September.
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Dozens? That doesnât sound encouraging.
No, but it's a start. Some people obviously don't buy the arabic fatalistic credo "it's the Allan's will".
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.
WOMEN will gather outside the Justice Ministry today in a show of solidarity against discrimination. They will also call for the dismissal of the General Prosecutor. The demonstration is being organised by the Women Petition Committee in co-ordination with human rights and civil society groups. It starts at 10am.
A member of the Georgian presidential clemency commission has committed suicide, police said Saturday, just two days after the death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania. 
Foreign Minister 
Britain's hopes of drumming up $50 billion a year in aid for Africa suffered a serious setback on Friday when the United States rejected London's plan. Even Europe's backing seemed to be fading as both Italy and Germany said they would prefer something less ambitious than the proposal British finance minister Gordon Brown put to a meeting of the Group of Seven rich nations. But former South African president Nelson Mandela said he would accept no half measures. It was an outrage to let Africa sink further into disease and poverty, he said. "We are here to claim justice," the frail 86-year-old told the G7 ministers. "Do not delay while poor people continue to suffer," he said, demanding a full write-off of African debt and $50 billion extra a year in aid for the next decade...
Several dozen Egyptians have demonstrated against a fifth term for President 
