Let's all think those good thoughts...
The health of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is deteriorating, according to reports in the Islamic Republic. The reports come after Ahmadinejad, 52, canceled a series of public appearances, including two speeches and a cabinet meeting.
A top aide to Ahmadinejad, Amir Mansour Borghei, told journalists the president was "indisposed". Iranian news Web site Shahab said doctors had advised the president to reduce his workload if he wanted to avoid illness, quoting "sources close to the government." The Web site indicated that the president had pulled out of the engagements due to fatigue caused by low blood pressure.
However, other sources in Teheran speculated that the opposition was spreading rumors about Ahmadinejad's health in order to garner support for next year's elections.
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I suppose the Iranian Mullahs are taking a page from the Fidel Castro/Yasser Arafat playbook.
There is nothing like a quiet terminal illness and sudden unexpected death to solve a leadership problem in a dictatorship. Methinks he is dying of a sick economy and high unemployment with complications from general social unrest.
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I'm sure President Ahmadenijad would not want it, Besoeker, as it is a Jewish prayer for health. He appears quite convinced he worships a different god. Perhaps if you were to not say the prayer translated into Arabic... ;-)
It has been suggested that AIDS is epidemic in Qom, because the Shiites weirdly interpret homosexuality to be oral sex only. A large percentage of their new students are therefore sodomized by multiple men on their arrival in Qom for religious studies.
Because Nutjob belongs to a particularly kooky cult, the odds of him having full blown AIDS is sky high.
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'Moose, I'm not doubting that such a thing is possible having seen a daisy chain of Muzzies doing each other on the deck of a ship, but do you have a source for that statement? I'd be interested in knowing how to back that up if I used it in a discussion.
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Tell him to rub some bacon grease on his chest as this will allieviate his symptoms. (sorry I know that was wrong) I didn't see this anywhere on NBC or CNN, are the illuminaties covering this or are they too busy taking picturs of OB with his grandma.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana held talks on Thursday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the Middle East peace process and regional issues, highlighting improved ties between them, Syria's official SANA reported. "The European Union strongly supports the peace process and is trying to play a constructive role," Solana said, as quoted by SANA.
Since May, Syria has been engaged in indirect peace talks with Israel under Turkish mediation. SANA quoted Assad as saying Europe's "role in the peace process is important and essential. "Peace guarantees security and stability to the people of the region and this reflects positively on Europe and the world."
Solana's visit to Damascus is his first since March 2007, when his trip signaled a resumption of EU contacts with Damascus frozen after the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri.
Anti-Syrian Lebanese figures blamed Syria for the murder but Damascus has repeatedly denied any involvement. In March 2007, Solana urged Syria, the former powerbroker in Lebanon, to help ease a protracted crisis in Lebanon.
His return to Damascus comes after Syria and Lebanon formally established diplomatic ties on October 15, for the first time since independence 60 years ago.
Solana and Assad also discussed bolstering ties between Syria and the European Union and they agreed "to pursue consultations on regional and international issues," SANA said. "Syrian-European ties continue to make progress," Solana said, according to SANA. He voiced hope that both sides might next year sign an "association" agreement.
The EU has signed such a deal with other Mediterranean countries in a bid to pave the way for the creation of a free trade agreement in 2010.
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Lebanese resistance fighter Samir Kuntar says he is more committed than ever to his longtime struggle against the Israeli regime. "As long as there is something called Israel in this region, the resistance must continue ... and I am totally committed to the resistance. I am ready to take part in any resistance mission." Kuntar, 46, told AFP in an interview.
He said he now spends his days mostly in meetings linked to the resistance and is convinced that Israel is preparing a major attack against Lebanon. "They don't realize what we have in store for them. Israel is going to suffer great losses and they will lose for sure. The idea that Israel is an invincible, secure state has become a myth," he noted.
Kuntar claimed that even if Israel withdraws from the contested Shebaa Farms territory in southern Lebanon which was captured in 1967, the Lebanese resistance would continue with its struggle against Israel.
The Lebanese fighter mentioned he was not especially concerned for his safety and realized he could never lead a normal life though he hoped to one day marry and have children. "I guess my message to the Israelis today is that they didn't manage to break me," he concluded.
On July 16, Samir Kuntar and four other Lebanese prisoners tasted freedom and arrived in Lebanon as part of a prisoner swap between Hezbollah and Israel.
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Would be nice if the Israelis snuck in some night and this...thing was found the next morning skinned alive and staked out on some Lebanese anthill with his balls in his mouth.
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Arab bluster may be using kuntar as a propaganda prop, but it's good to remember what kind of hero he was (and I just don't mean the baby-killing stuff) :
From: Yakov Marks, Maalot,E-Mail: big_yakov@bezeqint.net
(...)As to the truth concerning Samir Kuntar, a Druse, born on July 20, 1962 in Abey, Lebanon, please allow me to relate from first hand experience exactly who "their" brave hero really is. I met the 16.9 year old hate-filled, sexually abused, wild-eyed youth that murdered Dani Harran and his four year old toddler, Einat that night April 22nd, 1979 on the beach in Nahariyah.
(...)When we arrived on the scene, I witnessed first hand how Samir Kuntar viciously murdered Danny and then grabbed Einat by the arm and hair as he used the butt of his rifle to smash her little skull on the rocks.
Once he had surrendered, sniveling after three of his comrades were killed, he was taken into custody along with his comrade, Ahmed AlAbras. AlAbras would later be freed by Israel in the Jibril Agreement of May 1985.
Standing near Kuntar, I saw how from abject fear of retribution he defecated on himself, whimpered, cried and begged. We could have shot him but the officers said, he surrendered, leave him alone. He was pitiful. Later, in order to hide his embarassment, he claimed that since he had been shot he could not have murdered Danny or Einat. I never saw any wound on him.
(...)In the routine pre-relief briefing while reviewing the cases of our prisoners who needed continual treatment, it was recorded in Kuntar's files that during the required pre-imprisonment psychological exam it was found that he had been a sexually abused and beaten child. He voluntarily admitted the information without any force upon him, how his own father had sodomized him and how as a new young recruit he had repeatedly been sodomized by his friends in the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) camp of Rashadiyah, Lebanon, near Tyre before the terrorist attack in 1979. Furthermore, we learned that as a young Lebanese Druse the Palestinians taunted him consistently as they questioned his loyalty to the cause.
Later, while one of the doctors and I were administering treatment to Kuntar, he readily verified this information freely during treatment.
His fair and conscientious medical care was in glaring contrast to how Israeli POWs are treated.
(...)In the prison camps were we served there were cases of murder between rival gangs. Gang rape, brutal sodomy, torture and all forms of physical abuse by their own cellmates were a daily occurrence. Many times when homosexuals were discovered by their cellmates they would be abused and tortured to death, their screams muffled by socks filled with bread dough stuffed brutally down their throats by their torturers. The torturers comitted horrid atrocities against those they felt were spies. The worst was how they would treat young boys, just as they had done to Kuntar.
(...)Years later, during another reserve duty stint I remember seeing the new hero of the Palestinians and Hezbollah. He was overweight, suffering from hyperuricema, diabetes mellitus, dyspnea and severe water retention from his hypertension. Some hero.
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EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana held talks on Thursday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the Middle East peace process and regional issues, highlighting improved ties between them, Syria's official SANA reported. "The European Union strongly supports the peace process and is trying to play a constructive role," Solana said, as quoted by SANA. 
