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French intellectuals feud over Libya campaign
Film-maker Claude Lanzmann turns against philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who urged Sarkozy to intervene in Libya
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Posted by: tipper || 04/26/2011 14:06 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Slap fight!
Posted by: mojo || 04/26/2011 16:59 Comments || Top||

#2  There is no consensus anywhere on the issue. Including in my house.
Posted by: Elmomoter Sforza8466 || 04/26/2011 20:06 Comments || Top||

#3  i think the closest thing to a consensus on this is the lament that both sided cannot fight to the death and end in a tie.
Posted by: abu do you love || 04/26/2011 23:01 Comments || Top||


'Nuclear hellstorm' if bin Laden caught: 9/11 mastermind
[Emirates 24/7] The criminal mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned that Al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe that will unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" if Osama bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed on Monday.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told Guantanamo Bay interrogators everything and we mean everything the terror group would detonate the device if the Al-Qaeda chief was captured or killed, acording to the classified files released by the WikiLeaks website.

Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed criminal mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been held at Guantanamo since 2006 and is to be tried in a military court at the US naval base on Cuba over the attacks.

His nuclear threat was revealed in Perfidious Albion's Daily Telegraph newspaper, one of several media outlets which have published the classified assessments of detainees at Guantanamo.

Sheikh Mohammed, captured in 2003 in Pakistain, also claims to have personally beheaded US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 with his "blessed right hand" and to have helped in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people.
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Posted by: Fred || 04/26/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11146 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  And, even worse things will happen if Bin Laden is not captured!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/26/2011 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  I picture some jihadi in a Hamburg flat eating massive amounts of tabouli, falafel and ful with a butt plug super glued in tight, waiting by the phone for the launch code.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 04/26/2011 2:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Little bit tricky to keep a nuke going that long, especially an amateur one.

Even harder would be hiding all that radiation...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/26/2011 5:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Ha, ha. That is a funny one. Tell me another. What, you'll huff and puff and turn off the anti-matter containment in the warp drive? Oh, now I am really worried.
Posted by: rammer || 04/26/2011 8:51 Comments || Top||

#5  An empty threat with all the substance of bovine flatulence: If they ever had it, they'd have used it already.
Posted by: Ptah || 04/26/2011 9:53 Comments || Top||

#6  he's dead, Jim
Posted by: Frank G || 04/26/2011 9:55 Comments || Top||

#7  The guy;s lying. It's what he does.
Posted by: mojo || 04/26/2011 10:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Arab bloviation. To carry out an act, you need both intent and capability. We know they have the intent. If they had the capability, they would have already used it. No sale.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/26/2011 12:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Yeah yeah yeah. We heard that one already. Got any new material, junior?
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/26/2011 14:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed criminal mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been held at Guantanamo since 2006

I assume it was in 2006 or shortly thereafter that this threat was revealed. Certainly we were discussing the possibility of suitcase nukes as far back as 2004, here at Rantburg. As I recall, it was decided that Al Qaeda couldn't possibly have the highly trained technicians necessary to perform the frequent maintenance required to keep such things from turning into radioactive paperweights.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/26/2011 21:24 Comments || Top||


France to ban Muslim street prayers
[Iran Press TV] French Interior Minister Claude Gueant seeks to ban praying in the street as part of a continuation of recent discrimination against Mohammedans in the western European country.

Gueant said that he plans to make praying in the streets for Mohammedans illegal, although all public prayers in La Belle France receive government approval beforehand.

"Here we have the hypocrisy of the French right. On one side, they authorize in the street and on the other side, they say 'look French people, Mohammedans are taking over our streets and speak of invasion'," French politician Axel Urgin told a Press TV correspondent.

Even though La Belle France has the greatest Mohammedan population in Europe, Gay Paree has only one mosque. This lack of mosques leaves French Mohammedans no choice but to attend Friday prayers at about a dozen street locations across La Belle France.

"If we are praying in the street, it's because we have no other choice. We are using what we have, and that is the street," the president of Mohammedan Association of Openness, Moussa Niambele said.

French politicians use the country's 1905 secularism law as reasoning why taxpaying Mohammedans cannot be financially assisted by the government to build mosques. Right-wing mayors also allegedly refuse issuing construction permits to those who have the money.

Although another large mosque is currently under construction in the French capital of Gay Paree, many say it will not be sufficient.
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Posted by: Fred || 04/26/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Praying in the middle of a street is Jihad against the people of France. It is the act of stopping all traffic during "prayer time". Which essentially forces everyone traveling that street to submit to Islam.
Posted by: Solomon Slulet6960 || 04/26/2011 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  "If we are praying in the street, it's because we have no other choice."

Yes they have: leaving France for Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: JFM || 04/26/2011 2:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Good on the French. This while US authorities arrest those who want to protest in front of a mosque. Just who are the dhimmis?
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 04/26/2011 2:30 Comments || Top||

#4  What's wrong with house mosques, analogous to house churches? A small congregation meeting in someone's living room to pray together. Or renting a conference room for a larger group... There's no need for these 10,000 person monstrosities with congregations so large the members can't possibly get to know one another.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/26/2011 9:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Isn't Friday the traditional day in France for driving your pigs to market through the streets?
Posted by: mojo || 04/26/2011 10:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Jesus said go pray in the closet. No mention of pigs, but I assume you leave them outside. Depends on the pig, I guess.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/26/2011 11:49 Comments || Top||

#7  A whiff of grapeshot would do wonders for clearing the streets.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/26/2011 14:30 Comments || Top||

#8  "French Interior Minister Claude Gueant seeks to ban praying in the street as part of a continuation of recent discrimination against Mohammedans in the western European country."

Oooo, you're catching on.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/26/2011 21:21 Comments || Top||



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