An Iranian man who gave his martial arts-enthusiast wife an ear-bending over her tardy homecoming was given a brutal response when she lopped off his ear with a knife, reports said Saturday. "My wife is a judo enthusiast and loves to go out into the streets and beat up young men. All the boys in our neighbourhood are afraid of her," her husband was quoted as saying by the Entekhab newspaper. Hmmm... She sounds kinda kinky, actually...
"One night she came home late and I angrily asked her to explain the reason why she was out late. She suddenly took out a knife from her pocket and cut off one of my ears," added the victim, whose name was not given. The paper said the woman, who it only identified by her local nickname of "Zahra commando", was now facing charges in a Tehran court. But it said she was unrepentant. "My husband is a very inquisitive person. I wanted to give him a lesson, so that's why I cut his ear," she told the paper. She'll come around...
"Honey, I'm really sorry I cut off one of your ears!"
"What?"
"I said I'm... TURN YOUR HEAD, BOZO!... I said I'm sorry I cut off one of your ears."
"Well, I forgive you, sweetheart..."
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apparently Reservoir Dogs is available on DVD with Farsi subtitles?
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Source: Sada News, Translated By Jihad Unspun
Twenty Four year old Saif Alwahid, son of Saif Al Adil, an important member of Al- Qaida in Egypt, has earned martyrdom from torture at the hands of the American military and the FBI. He will be missed... By his Mom, I guess...
Saif Al Adilâs wife and daughter are still incarcerated (may Allah grant them patience and Hasten their release). The American military arrested them at Tora Bora in injured condition. Saif Alwahid, son of the former Amir of Al Jihaad Egypt, was been shifted to the Kabul jail one month ago from an undisclosed location. Due to extreme torture, he was passing blood in his urine, his body had been burnt with fiery hot iron bars, he was burnt with lit cigarettes and one thumb and finger from his left hand had been chopped off. According to an eyewitness, the FBI teams, which include females, questioned him even as he was brought into Kabul jail. Saif Al Wahid, all three family members were also detained with him for a week and then were separated. "Talk, Saif, or Sadie will chop off yer other thumb!"
"I'll never talk, infidel wenches!"
"Hand me that iron bar, Flossie!"
"Uh... Hey! That thing looks... hot!"
According to the source, the Mujahidâs family was also arrested by Northern Alliance soldiers who had covered their faces with a black cloth. The prisoners included Saif Al Adilâs wife, his 11 year old daughter Al Qum, his 24 year old son Saif Al Wahid and another unidentified Mujahid. That would be Cousin Bob...
Saif Al Wahid was brutally tortured on Saturday and Sunday by teams of Federal Bureau of Investigation, earning Shahada. The American authorities have not handed over his body to either the Afghan authorities or the relief agencies. Y'see, they're still picking up pieces of it...
According to news agencies, Saif Al Wahidâs father, Saif Al Adil is a higher level member of Al Qaeda and is wanted in connection with the September 11th attacks. Saif Al Adil is from Egypt and has in the past been the leader of Al Jihad Egypt. He came to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets and he is considered a close ally of Osama Bin Laden. When the bombs started falling on Afghanistan, Saif Al Adil was in the Tora Bora Mountains with his family members. According to the source, Saif Al Wahid had been with his father for 7 years in Afghanistan, he was a Hafiz (knew the Quraan by heart) and was one of the Commanders of the groups of Mujahideen. A young man of profound accomplishment...
The FBI has kept the records of all the Mujahideen and their families in Kabul jail confidential. According to the source, he claims that over 11,000 Mujahideen and their families ranging including Taliban, Al-Qaida, Pakistanis and others are being kept in Pul Charkhee jail in Kabul where they are subjected to severe hardships and oppression. The prisoners also include over 1100 Mujahideen of a convoy of the banned âShariat Muahammadiâ group. Wow! 11,000 Bad Guys jugged in Kabul! Must be like the Black Hole of Calcutta in there! No wonder there hasn't been any serious Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan — they're all in the calaboose!
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Who is this "source"?Pepe Escobar?John Pilger?Hekmadyar?
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this is to funny to comment to , who wrote this the three stoges
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Source: Sada News, Translated By Jihad Unspun
In a clash between the Afghan army and unknown individuals, at least 6 people have been killed while several others have been injured. According to reports, the clash took place near Helmand at the highway in which the chief security officer, Asadullah Asad, was severely injured. The spokesman for the Governor of Helmand in an interview with âVoice of Americaâ said unidentified people had blocked the highway and had started to rob the cars. As a result, when the national forces arrived on the scene the bandits started firing on the army and in a long fight developed that left 6 people dead and several more were injured. Just a few Pashtuns, making their traditional living. The new Afghan army seems to be working, assuming not all the dead were on their side.
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I haven't seen anything authoritative or professional addressing the quality of the force. My guess would be that it's still a pick-up team, simply because it hasn't been around long enough to establish real norms. These little shootouts will be their blooding period, where they decide if they're going to be a professional force or something more along the lines of the Basij. The Afghans did have a professional army, through the Najibullah regime. It wasn't up to Soviet standards, but a part of that might have been loyalty problems.
I'm mostly guessing, but I'd guess they'll try and avoid the pitfalls of their neighbors - the Pak military's involvement in politix, the (current) fragmentation of the Iranian model.
I think they'll make good soldiers for the most part; they have the Masood tradition to build on, which showed what can happen when you combine tactics with personal bravery. Their biggest problems will be their individual reluctance to take to discipline and their susceptibility to Old Time Religion. Warriors are by nature not a disciplined lot, and the country's still crawling with mullahs...
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British special forces are searching for Osama bin Laden in Yemen after new intelligence has surfaced revealing that the al-Qa'eda leader fled Afghanistan last year and is being protected by tribesmen in his ancestral homeland. The Telegraph has learnt that the focus of the world's biggest manhunt has dramatically shifted over the past few weeks from Afghanistan and Pakistan's border areas to the lawless tribal region of Hadhra Maug in south-east Yemen, where bin Laden's father was born.
American officials said on Friday that they had captured a high ranking al-Qa'eda official in the region whom they would not name but described as "among the top dozen", suggesting that the noose might be tightening around the al-Qa'eda leader. Six other al-Qa'eda members were killed in a rocket attack by an unmanned Predator drone two weeks ago.
...it is thought that he fled Afghanistan last November travelling along opium traffickers' routes through eastern Iran then down through the desert of Baluchistan in Pakistan to the port of Gwador, an area mostly off-limits to foreigners.
He is then thought to have travelled by traditional dhow across the Arabian Sea to Oman and on to Yemen and the protection of the tribesmen of the Hadhra Maug, who are fiercely loyal to his family and have long waged war with the government in Sana'a.
An American official admitted to The Telegraph, "we left too many windows. We could not seal the border with Pakistan and we failed to monitor shipping particularly in those early days".
We can't seal the border with Pakistan now.
The new evidence came to light among thousands of documents captured by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, during raids on buildings used by Hamas, the Islamic militants, and Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah, on the West Bank, in late March.
We find Osama based on memos in Arafat's office. Well, blow me down!. Maybe the Israelis got their hands on a disgruntled office worker. "And another thing, Bob, lemme tell you something about TPS reports."
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No problem. I fixed it. It's worth the work for the article.
This is a story that seems to keep coming back. It's starting to ring true. There was the story about his favorite wife not two weeks ago, then the guys knocked off on their way to assassinate the American ambassador a day later. I said way back when that he'd cut and run to Yemen, but then he showed up all over the map, everywhere from Chechnya to Bali, and if you'd asked me two weeks ago I'd have said he was in Karachi or in Fazl's guest house, but more likely dead. Hope this recent spate of activity - starting with the Djibouti presence - means they're closing in on him.
Sure will be neat if we get him because the IDF got the opportunity to root through Yasser's underwear drawer.
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FWIW, Debka had a story on this on October 19. They claimed he was in Saudi Arabia, near the Yemeni border.
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I saw the story, and Steve and, I think, Paul mailed it to me. I didn't use it because I thought it was just another rumor. Sure is hard to type with this bag over my head...
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Iraq fired surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft guns at American and British warplanes patrolling a "no-fly" zone Friday — a move the U.S. considers to be a violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution. Hmmm... Bad thing. Not a surprise, but a bad thing...
Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. David Lapan said Iraq fired surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery at coalition planes. The shots came from Iraqi positions near the southern city of An Najaf, said Cmdr. Dan Gage, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command. In retaliation, coalition planes used precision-guided weapons to attack an air defense communications facility near An Najaf about 85 miles southeast of Baghdad, the Pentagon said. Sounds like a reasonable response: you fire missiles at us, we take out your missile site.
On Saturday, an Iraqi military spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency that the coalition planes bombed areas in Najaf province, 93 miles south of Baghdad on Friday, killing seven and injuring four others in the process. "All the dead and wounded were puppies, kittens, baby ducks, and children under the age of six..."
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well, duh! letting puppies, kittens, baby ducks, and children under the age of six man your antiaircraft sites is why Iraq hasn't hit anything yet....AFLAC!
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My sources tell me it was the Najaf baby milk factory.
Saddam Hussein has made secret plans for his family and leading members of his regime to be given political asylum in Libya in the event of a war with America or a successful internal coup in Baghdad. The extraordinary steps taken by the Iraqi leader to provide an exit strategy for key relatives and associates, which includes paying $3.5 billion into Libyan banks, provide the first evidence that Saddam is now facing up to the prospect of being toppled from power. But The Wanker Guardian sez the Iraqis will kick our collective butts...
Even as he makes faces public statements of defiance and vows to defend his country against an American invasion, The Times has learnt that Saddamâs secret emissaries have been visiting Libya and Syria to ensure that there is an escape route for his family and top cronies. The deal with Tripoli does not include providing refuge for Saddam or for Uday, his eldest son. If either were to seek political asylum in Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi would come under intense international pressure, particularly from Washington, to hand them over for war crimes. Likely we'd tromp right in and get them. Muammar wouldn't like that...
Word of Saddamâs deal with the Libyan leader has emerged from diplomatic sources in Tripoli following a visit to the Libyan capital on September 8 by General Ali Hasan al-Majid, a cousin and trusted member of Saddamâs clan. General al-Majid is known by the Kurds of northern Iraq as âChemical Aliâ because he was in charge of the Iraqi forces which launched a chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988. He was also initially the âGovernorâ of Kuwait after Iraqâs invasion of the Gulf state in August 1990, and is now one of the Baath Party regional command leaders. He is believed to have travelled to Tripoli to deliver a personal missive from Saddam to the Libyan leader, confirming the arrangements for his family. Wonder if Chemical Ali made some arrangements for himself, too?
The sources said that in return for the $3.5 billion deposited in Libyan bank accounts, Colonel Gaddafi has agreed to give sanctuary to members of Saddamâs family and to about a dozen senior officials of the Baghdad regime, with their families. Three and a half billion! Cheeze! For a piece of that, I might be able to take a couple of them in, too. I've got a spare room... Anybody remember the Saturday Night Live routine, where the suburban couple took in Idi Amin? "Idi, you've got to stop interrogating prisoners in the basement... And you've got to clean up after you butcher an antelope in the kitchen..."
The sources said they believed the regime members would include Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Naji Sabri, the Foreign Minister, and Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council. The other officials were believed to be less well known members of the ruling Baath Partyâs regional command. "Izzat Ibrahim?"
"No, I don't think that's him..."
In a separate arrangement, said to have been agreed in October during a visit by senior Iraqi officials to Damascus, an overland escape route was devised. It would involve Saddamâs family members and regime leaders travelling from Tikrit, home of the Saddam clan, to the Syrian border via the Badiyat al-Sham desert which divides Syria from Iraq. It is not clear whether the sanctuary deal includes Qusay Hussein, the Iraqi leaderâs second â and favourite â son. Prob'ly not. Qusay should be toast, too...
However, the diplomatic sources said that if Saddam felt his regime was about to collapse, he would do his utmost to see that his family escaped, especially Qusay, as well as Ali, his youngest son, and his grandchildren. Ali's the dumb one, who stays out of trouble and brings Pop his paper at night...
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3.5 billion? Think of how many millions of starving Iraqi children you could feed with that kind of swag!
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Libya says it ain't so: TUNIS, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Libya on Saturday said a British newspaper story saying Iraqi President Saddam Hussein offered Tripoli money to shelter his family and aides was fictitious.Libyan Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassouna Chaouch said his government reserved the right to sue Britain's Times newspaper for the story which said Saddam offered Libya $3.5 billion to provide a safe-haven for his family and top Iraqi officials. "These reports were totally unfounded and were simply fictitious and fabricated," Chaouch said in a statement carried by the official Libyan news agency Jana.
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Libya is indeed known for its ironclad honesty in international relations.
Snort.
Seriously, though, Qusay might get away in any case - he's the smart one, and likely has his exit strategy already planned out. Uday, on the other hand, is fertilizer the momeny the troops roll in - he's too well-known as a brutal thug.
The Prosecutor General's Office sent Denmark evidence of Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev's involvement in the abduction of Orthodox priests in Chechnya in 1996. "The evidence is based on the testimony of Father Filipp, born Sergei Zhigulin, whom Zakayev's gang abducted six years ago," Prosecutor General's Office spokesman Leonid Troshin said on Saturday. "The minutes of the questioning of Father Filipp was translated into the Danish language and handed over to the Danish authorities," Troshin pointed out. "Hey, Akhmad! Whattya want to do today?"
"I dunno, Askar. Whattya you want to do?"
"Let's go out and kidnap a priest and beat him up and hold him for ransom."
"Hokay."
A relevant criminal case was launched six years ago, he said. On November 11, 2002, it was added to the criminal case for incriminating Zakayev, he said. The Prosecutor General's Office requested that Zakayev be extradited from Denmark, where he was arrested during World Chechen Congress. "We should find the people responsible and bring them to justice!... Well, not him..."
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President Vladimir Putin, speaking after European Union criticism of Russia's Chechen policy, has warned that attempts to "justify terrorism" could undermine the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition. "I am very concerned about a situation in which someone here or there tries to put forward the thesis, or bring into the public consciousness, that there may be something that can justify terrorism," he told Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma in remarks broadcast on Rossiya state television on Saturday. "This is absolutely unacceptable, not only because it could lead to the destruction of the anti-terrorist coalition, but it would also almost certainly provide support for people with inhuman aims who use terrorist methods." I sure hope the Russians are glad they have Putin. I'm sure glad they do...
After last year's September 11 attacks on U.S. landmarks, Russia provided staunch support to the United States in its campaign against the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, and in its search for members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda organisation. Putin made no mention of any individual or state. But his comments came five days after a Russia-EU summit at which he made a strongly worded and impassioned defence of his military drive to crush separatists in Chechnya. Since Chechen guerrillas seized a Moscow theatre last month, Russia has said it has cancelled a policy of gradually pulling troops out of the region. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency, told Danish radio on the sidelines of the summit with Putin that military action could not provide a long-term solution to the Chechnya problem. It'll provide a long-term solution to all the terrorists they can lay hands on. If they can catch Maskhadov and kill him, that'll make things better, not worse.
Other EU leaders have also called for peace negotiations. "Would you like some warm milk for your mush, Jaques?"
Russia refuses to negotiate with the Chechen elected leadership, forced into hiding by the Russian military campaign, and has long said that its fight against Chechen separatists was connected to the U.S. anti-terror campaign. I'd like to see the U.S. agree a little more loudly and a little more regularly, 'cuz Vlad's correct...
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The U.S. Defense Department says U.S. jet fighters will patrol the skies over Prague during next week's NATO summit at the request of the Czech government. The Defense Department says F-16 and F-15 warplanes will be providing one part of a large NATO security effort. At the summit, President Bush and other NATO nation leaders will discuss Iraq and future expansion of the Western alliance during their talks. U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice says Iraq is a "prime example" of the kind of threat NATO now faces. Speaking in Washington Friday, Rice said the President Bush hopes to hear from NATO partners what support they will give U.S. and U.N. demands that Iraq disarm. Yep. Makes a prime target, doesn't it?
Rice says Bush will not hold formal talks with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. She tried to downplay that decision, adding, the two are bound to run into each other at the meeting. Schroeder has been on the poop list U.S.-German relations have been strained over Germany's decision not to take part in any possible U.S. led military action against Iraq. Inferring Bush is a Nazi didn't help. Nope, didn't help at all...
Bush plans to hold separate talks with NATO Secretary General George Robertson and the leaders of the Czech Republic, Turkey and France.
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Three men have been charged over an alleged terrorist plot to release cyanide gas on the London Underground tube network. The men are north African muslims said to belong to a group linked to al Qaeda. The alleged plot was foiled after the group was infiltrated by MI5 agents in a six month operation. Six men were arrested. Three were charged. You can tell they're very devout fellows. Thought the Japanese thing a few years ago was pretty neat, huh?
The men are thought to be of either Tunisian or Moroccan background and belong to a group called the North African Front, said to have loose connections with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Another new one on me. I take it this is still a mini-group, trying to hit the Big Time?
Rabah Chekat-Bais, 21, Rabah Kadris, in his mid 30s, and Karim Kadouri, 33, all of no fixed abode, were charged under Section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000 for the possession of articles for the preparation, instigation and commission of terrorism acts. Unemployed Chekat-Bais appeared before Bow Street Magistrates Court, in central London, last Monday and Kadris and Kadouri, also both unemployed, appeared in court on Tuesday. When your welfare system produces a low-paid liesure class with nothing better to do that kill people for amusement, you're doing something wrong...
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Khalid Akhtar sounds like a typical fanatic. Standing outside a community centre in southern England last week, he branded Jews as 'devils' and called for a war on the enemies of Islam. But Akhtar is different in one crucial respect from most of the extremists who gather at certain mosques around Britain and talk of revolution.
Once known as John, 29-year-old Akhtar is one of a new generation of white converts being recruited into British Islamic organisations with links to al-Qaeda. On Friday nights members of al-Muhajiroun, a UK-based militant group, gather in Ilford's Eton Road Community Centre to hear the charismatic spiritual leader, Sheikh Omar Bakri, denounce the West. On average, about 70 young British men - including 20 whites - attend.
Since 11 September, al-Muhajiroun has proved itself to be the most rebellious section of the British Muslim community. The British shoe bomber Richard Reid, 28, was seen at several al-Muhajiroun meetings in Ilford in the months before his failed attempt to bomb American Airlines Flight 63 over Miami.
'Al-Muhajiroun has one goal,' said Anjam Choudry, its UK chairman. 'We would like to see the implementation of the sharia law in the UK. Under our rule this country would be known as the Islamic Republic of Great Britain. To do that, attracting young Asians is not enough. So we are making a conscious effort to recruit large numbers of non-Muslims. It's nice to have ambitions
'Whites, Chinese, Japanese and Indians in this country are all bored with the capitalist system. It's a bankrupt ideal. We have found that young non-Muslims, like our Asian followers, want something new. You can tell that from the anti-globalisation movement. So we're offering them something pure: a religious mission, the values of sharia law and jihad.' Another similarity between radical leftists and Islamists
'I never felt like I belonged anywhere,' said Mohamed Khan, 24, formerly known as Alan and a white convert in al-Muhajiroun. He said he was disillusioned with Christianity. 'It didn't give me any sense of respect. No one goes to church any more. At least the mosques are full, so Islam obviously has something.' His friend, Salim Yunus, 20, also a former Christian, said that in al-Muhajiroun they were led by example. 'You look at your average church priest, and what does he do? Who would he go to war with? No one. So how can Christianity claim to be a religion when its followers don't believe in spreading the word? Only the one true religion would let us kill people
The fact that Western politicians like Bush and Blair are scared of Islam means that it is a great religion. Sheikh Bakri knows that: he would die for it.' Our great and glorious leader would die a martyr, except he is too important..
'There is a clear rise in the politics of identity,' said Paul Weller, Professor of Inter-Religious studies at Derby University. 'Young white men who join Islam might be feeling out of place from modern life. So you find that when they join a religion like Islam they have an unbending view. Their views on jihad, for example, might be less compromising than the views of people who were born Muslims.'
One white convert, Suleyman, a former drug addict from London's East End, said that a holy war was an obligation, not a debatable option. 'Richard Reid tried it and he was right to,' he said. 'Islam has enemies everywhere. It's up to Allah's soldiers to secure a victory.'
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In England the average Joe (or Nigel) gets sent to jail if he stabs someone attacking him in his own home, but these known nutballs walk the streets preaching hatered and violence.
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A batch of hundred detained Pakistanis will be flown to Pakistan on Immigration and Naturalization (INS) chartered flight by end of this month. This was stated by Imran Ali, Second Secretary dealing with Consular Affairs at Pakistan Embassy. G'bye, boys! Take your jihad and don't come back!
Speaking to NNI, Ali revealed that the Embassy is awarding $100 each from Community Welfare Fund so that the deportees have money with them after reaching Islamabad. He said, in previous flights quite many of deported expatriates were even without a cent and had faced difficulties in reaching their hometowns from Chaklala. And that's our problem because...?
About the deportation procedures, Ali notified that in previous deportations by two flights various natives whose immigration cases were ceased and were to be deported showed anxiety to continue staying in jail instead of expulsion. About 10 of those with Embassy involvement managed to stay in jail in United States. "You can't sent me back to Pakistan! Those people are crazy!"
"You're a Pak. What's that make you?"
"Aw, c'mon! Keep me in jug instead! Please? I'd rather be in jug than in Peshawar!"
Ali said all those unfortunate persons were actually ripped off by their attorneys, with assurance that they would manage to over turn the INS deportation court orders. He said most of them paid out their life savings from $10,000 to $15,000 and their plea cases were rejected by the INS. Many of the confined had to sell their watches to pay off their attorney's fee. "Gimme a buck for this Timex? I gotta pay my lawyer..."
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Jailed sniper suspect John Lee Malvo, whose lawyers claim his right to privacy and other rights have been violated by his guards, was denied a request for a court order requiring better treatment. Nobody's gut-shot him, so his treatment is better than that which he handed out to his victims, isn't it?
Juvenile Court Judge Charles Maxfield refused to grant the order Friday. Defense lawyers had claimed that their 17-year-old client's mattress is too thin, he has been denied reading material, his cell lights glare 24 hours a day and he is being denied vegetarian meals. "This is about the right to human dignity," lawyer Michael Arif told Maxfield. Damn. Where's my violin?
Prosecutor Robert Horan Jr. called Arif's motion "slightly short of frivolous." Very slightly, in fact...
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Hamas said following talks in Egypt it would halt suicide attacks in Israel if the army stopped its raids, in a rare indication that the radical Islamic group was ready to reconsider its position. Either that, or it's an indication Hamas doesn't like the IDF going after them in their holes in Gaza...
However unrealistic Hamas' demands are — Israel has consistently refused a deal which does not include its citizens in the occupied territories — the army acknowledged that the simple fact the radical movement sat down in Cairo to discuss a ceasefire with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah was a positive sign. It's a sign what the IDF is doing is working...
A senior Hamas official said today that his group would stop suicide bombings in Israel if the army "puts an end to incursions into the West Bank and Gaza, arrests and the killing of civilians. "Only if Israel complies with those demands, will we agree to stop our operations." "Go ahead. Trust us. Give up something strategic and wait for us to keep our word..."
A Fatah source said an Egyptian proposal providing for an end to "suicide operations inside Israel and attacks against civilians for several months," had been discussed there and endorsed by Arafat's faction. The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said "Hamas promised to study the document." "Mahmoud, go through this a get back to me with a list of loopholes and obfuscations by Wednesday!"
"Hokay, Sheikh!"
He did not specify whether the term "civilian" included Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, whom Palestinian groups often describe as legitimate targets, together with soldiers, in their struggle against occupation. But the Hamas official said the proposal had been only verbal and that his group would release a written statement "only if Israel stops its incursions, arrest and the killing of Palestinians civilians." As anybody who's ever had anything to do with the government knows, if it's not on paper, it didn't happen. And even then there are doubts...
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The operative terms is "...for several months." They want time to rebuild for a counterstrike to be timed along with an Invasion of Iraq.
As for the IDF stopping attacks against palestinian civilians: They've never attacked civilians. They've been attacking terrorists who hide behind civilians.
Israeli troops retook control of the divided city of Hebron in the West Bank Saturday after militant gunmen ambushed a procession of Jewish worshippers, killing 12 Israelis, mostly security forces. Just annex the place and kick the Paleos out. They Israelis can get Mexicans and Salvadorans cheaper. They work hard, don't start trouble except in beer joints, and the food's better...
Israeli forces went door to door looking for the terrorists responsible for Friday night's ambush shootings that also left three of the Palestinian attackers dead. Israeli soldiers on Saturday were blindfolding Palestinian suspects and herding them into army buses. The military said 41 Palestinians were rounded up. "Yo, Moshe! Herd 'em over this way!"
"Head 'em up! Move 'em out! And stop mooing, Mahmoud..."
The army withdrew from the Palestinian sector of Hebron last month, but returned in force Saturday as soldiers patrolled mostly deserted streets. "Ahmed! The IDF is gone!"
"At last! Gimme my dynamite belt!"
The commander of West Bank forces, Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinski, said, "The army intends to return to its previous deployment in the city, that is, to be in all parts of the city." "No, you Paleojackasses can't be in charge of Hebron. So don't ask again..."
Officials are worried there could be more violent skirmishes Saturday night during a rally in support of the creation of a Palestinian nation. Yeah. That's zackly what we need. Get the atrocities organized on a national scale, by golly!
Fifteen Israelis were wounded in the 90-minute gunfight that took place after the Palestinian ambush Friday night, but the Army did not say whether they were security forces or civilians. Killed were five border police, four soldiers, including the commander of Hebron, and three civilians, the army said.
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The commander died? What happened? Was he part of the quick-reaction force?
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