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| Al Qaeda commander calls for Islamic rule in Libya |
| 2011-03-14 |
| A top Libyan al Qaeda commander has urged his countrymen to overthrow Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime and establish Islamic rule, expanding the terror network’s attempts to capitalize on the wave of unrest sweeping the region. Abu Yahia al-Libi, al Qaeda’s Afghanistan commander, said in a video posted on a militant website that after the fall of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, it is now Col. Gadhafi’s turn, as rebel fighters there press a nearly month long campaign to oust him. Those nation’s autocratic governments — enemies of Islamic militants — practiced “the worst kind of oppression” with the backing of the West and failed to heed the lessons of history, he said. “Now it is the turn of Gadhafi after he made the people of Libya suffer for more than 40 years,” he said, adding that it would bring shame to the Libyan people if the strongman were allowed to die a peaceful death. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #26 Good but stinky :-) |
| Posted by: Fi 2011-03-14 23:15 |
| #25 Mmmmmm - kimchi. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-03-14 22:58 |
| #24 Or kimchi which may as well be radioactive and is consumed daily. |
| Posted by: Fi 2011-03-14 22:56 |
| #23 It is interesting to note that stomach cancer is very common in Japan, in large part due to widespread radioactive fallout. After the war many people were starving and ate anything they could, and much of the food supply was contaminated and somewhat radioactive - for many decades after. Stomach cancer rates are still many times higher for Japanese that for other people elsewhere. One of my closest friends in Japan is a Stomach cancer survivor. I think it's a diet/genetic thing: Japanese-Americans have high rates of colorectal, stomach, prostate and breast cancer compared with other groups, the researchers found. Obesity may play a role, they said, noting that 52.5 percent of Japanese men and 28.3 percent of women are overweight, and many say they are relatively inactive. Koreans also have a high rate of stomach cancer. I have to wonder if it's related to miso, which is something both societies have in common. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-03-14 22:44 |
| #22 Frank - think Abe Vigoda's gonna catch him? |
| Posted by: Raj 2011-03-14 21:08 |
| #21 Tsutomu Yamaguchi died at the age of 93 on January 4, 2010 of stomach cancer. taken from us before his time |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-03-14 18:20 |
| #20 Re: #15 It is interesting to note that stomach cancer is very common in Japan, in large part due to widespread radioactive fallout. After the war many people were starving and ate anything they could, and much of the food supply was contaminated and somewhat radioactive - for many decades after. Stomach cancer rates are still many times higher for Japanese that for other people elsewhere. One of my closest friends in Japan is a Stomach cancer survivor. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2011-03-14 18:10 |
| #19 Yes, Pan, we are and we will. The point of the original snark if you scroll back was that Obama would assist because its another group that could play the old victim hood game rather than follow the growing pattern of ignoring a long and trusted ally. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-14 16:08 |
| #18 The people of Japan see the bomb in many ways. We beat them and I'm sure the loss still stings, just ask the South about the war of Northern aggression. The war over 60 years ago and none of it has anything to do with this earthquake and the ten of thousands lost. We are Americans and help the unfortunate, wherever they are. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2011-03-14 15:51 |
| #17 On ME, like reading Homer Lea with a quarter turn to the west. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-03-14 15:39 |
| #16 link to hibakusha at Wikipedia. Seems they are discriminated against; their children too. Go figure. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-03-14 15:17 |
| #15 RE: # 12 and # 13 - People who suffered the effects of both bombings are known as nijû hibakusha in Japan. On March 24, 2009, the Japanese government officially recognized Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916–2010) as a double hibakusha. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was confirmed to be 3 kilometers from ground zero in Hiroshima on a business trip when the bomb was detonated. He was seriously burnt on his left side and spent the night in Hiroshima. He got back to his home city of Nagasaki on August 8, a day before the bomb in Nagasaki was dropped, and he was exposed to residual radiation while searching for his relatives. He was the first officially recognised survivor of both bombings. Tsutomu Yamaguchi died at the age of 93 on January 4, 2010 of stomach cancer. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-03-14 15:11 |
| #14 Seculars have no allies in Western governments. Islamists need only look to the Saudis, Iran's ayatollahs, Sudan arabs and Yemenese vermin. |
| Posted by: Angoting McGurque1187 2011-03-14 14:20 |
| #13 I, too, am a believer that, though destructive, the atomic bombings saved the Japanese from oblivion. It must be remembered that both the Soviets and the Chinese had a bone to pick, neither known for their nicey-nice treatment of enemies, plus the red tide rolling post-WWII. No US in Japan, Korea falls quick, Korea being the key to who controls Japan/East China. More so if the US maintained its ally vs. axis obligations and provided air cover and bombing. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-03-14 13:09 |
| #12 I believe the fireboming of Tokyo killed more in one night than at Hiroshima. Seems most of the survivors lived on to enjoy full lives yet, when they do eventually die, Hiroshima and America will be blamed. And a Japanese civilian death toll would have been much, much, higher had we not done it and proceeded with an invasion of their homelad. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-03-14 11:30 |
| #11 Interesting is that in Tunisia, 3 new islamic parties registrations have been iced (plus two other parties, not sure if they were pastafarians or what). Tunisian constitution forbids parties based on religion, gender, or ethnic lines. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2011-03-14 11:22 |
| #10 poor babys', when you live by the sword, as Japan did for its entire history, well.......um eventually someone will hand you your ass, as was demonstrated by the US and our eminently superior culture. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Thraish1250 2011-03-14 10:29 |
| #9 over the last 50 years the death count seems to have grow from 80k to 150k Most of the survivors are dead now. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-03-14 09:53 |
| #8 Every August they run out ceremonies on Hiroshima [of course nothing is covered in their history books about Nanking or Manila]. And somehow over the last 50 years the death count seems to have grow from 80k to 150k to mark the event. State finally showed up at the event last year, part of the Smarter Diplomacy(tm). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-14 09:51 |
| #7 I don't see or hear of anyone in Japan playing the victim card right now. I see a lot of ordinary Japanese citizens rolling up their sleeves and getting to work to fix the damage and help their countrymen. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-03-14 09:28 |
| #6 What I meant was Obama's policy of bowing to our enemies while at the same time pissing on our allies ans telling them it's just raining. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-03-14 09:26 |
| #5 ...cause we already nuked them twice and they can play and do play the victim card on that. He should be able to identify victim politics are run on something that's many generations pasts. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-14 09:13 |
| #4 Why would he help our allies in their dire need? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-03-14 08:32 |
| #3 Obama wants to help somebody, he should help the Japanese. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-03-14 08:18 |
| #2 A little RED on RED. What's the harm? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-03-14 08:16 |
| #1 there are worse alternatives to |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-03-14 08:13 |