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Guns and Roses
Yeees!! GnR Baby! I'd like to request 'Knockin' on Heavens Door for this guy!
on Tuesday greeted the coffin of Palestinian volunteer Thaer Othman, waxed zapped banged killed in Iraq on his way to fight U.S.-led troops. Iraq said on Sunday more than 4,000 Arabs had arrived to "martyr" themselves in the fight against U.S.-led forces.
| 3999 to go, I guess... A hegemon's work is never done! |
Young men — some standing on rooftops and others leading the funeral procession — had gun sex fired volleys of shots into the air for two hours.
| "Was it good for you, too, Mahmoud?" |
Wonder how many people they took out when the bullets fell back down?
Shops were closed as a salute to Othman, and people stood on both sides of the roads, crying. Women ululated, and tossed rice on Othman's flower-covered wood coffin as it passed through the narrow streets of Beirut's Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp. A band played a funeral march and nationalist songs.GnR again?
Dozens of volunteers, including several Palestinians, left Beirut on Monday to fight in Iraq, joining several groups that left before them. Othman's brother, Samer, told Reuters the Palestinian left his home in Denmark on March 20 — the day Washington unleashed its war on Iraq — saying he was heading to Syria for vacation.
Ahhh - Damascus in Spring.
"Thaer left Denmark on March 20 on a tourist trip to Syria. We didn't know he was in Iraq, He didn't have any political or party allegiances. He was married to a Danish woman, and has a child with her," he added, saying Othman, 30, also had another child. Palestinians in the camp, solemnly holding Othman's picture, said they saw him as a role model. "I don't know him, but I am going to be like him," Maher, 11, said as marchers chanted in the background.
| And we're sure you will be, Sonny... |
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