CBS NEWS interrupted the final minutes of Wednesday night's episode of CSI: NEW YORK in order to air a special report about the death of Yasser Arafat. CBS has apologized and says it will rebroadcast the episode, in its entirety FRIDAY at 9PM CENTRAL TIME. "An overly aggressive CBS News producer jumped the gun with a report that should have been offered to local stations for their late news. We sincerely regret the error. The episode of CSI: NEW YORK will be rebroadcast Friday, Nov. 12."
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How could they complete that inquiry so quickly and they still haven't any results for Rathergate?
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Don't want the news to get in the way of the revenue from commercials entertainment!
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I'd agree with you, but Arafat was repeatedly declared dead, then alive/coma/deeply-unconscious/everything-working-but-the-brain. The inevitable wasn't exactly news big enough to run a special report on. Save it for 60 Minutes.
Saudi Arabia has made remarkable headway in its war on terrorism as it has succeeded in stripping terrorists of their capabilities to carry out major attacks, Interior Minister Prince Naif said. The government has moved beyond reacting to the militants "to stripping the terrorists of all means of carrying out criminal acts," Okaz Arabic daily quoted the minister as saying yesterday. The minister's statement came after security forces killed one suspected terrorist and arrested three others in a shootout early on Tuesday in Jeddah. The three included a foreign national. Prince Naif said the government was successful in "exposing the ideology and lies" of the deviant group, a reference to sympathizers of the Al-Qaeda terror network in the Kingdom. "Protecting citizens from terrorist thinking is a religious and joint duty," he said and urged families, Islamic scholars and educational institutions to play their role.
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Yeah, c'mon Islamic scholars! Step up to the plate and take a coupla swings.
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Whenever Prince Naif sez something, I imagine myself in a salt mine. He's the über-wahhabi amongst wahhabis. The only thing that bugz him is when someone thinks he is more wahhabi than Naif himself.
No such a thing can be allowed,
Be a good boy and you can expect a check,
Chain of command must be followed,
Try pulling a renegade and he'll smite your neck.
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Prince Naif. What can we say? Any comments, Your Excellency, on the scholars who issued a fatwa against our guys in Falluja?
A real Elliot Ness.
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Yep the clerics are more of a long-term danger then the terrorists. Problem is half the Saudi house is Islamist and probably good buddies with those scholars.
At a Kuwaiti hotel Sheikh Ali Abu al-Hassan holds an audience spellbound with his talk about "the pleasures of heaven", a paradise where true Muslims will enjoy virgins, eternal bliss and bounty. Down the road at Kuwait's university, women and men are brought down to earth with the reality of life in the oil rich emirate. They are segregated to prevent them from "sin". Islamist protests in Kuwait have forced the government to ban pop concerts, while at hospitals devout women surgeons are refusing to operate on men saying it is religiously forbidden for them to see their genitals.
In the past, men and women mingled and dated in Kuwait. The country had mixed beach clubs for nationals. No longer. Most now have separate swimming days for women and men. Like other Gulf states, Kuwait is witnessing a rising tide of fanatical Islam. More and more women wear the veil and more men grow beards to display their religious fervour. Islamist extremism indoctrinated by the Sunni Salafi and Wahhabi movements is spreading from Saudi Arabia to neighbouring Kuwait, influencing its youth and affecting all aspects of life.
Many Kuwaitis, like other Arabs, denounce the United States and its allies for backing "corrupt" rulers and what they see as Washington's war against Islam and plans to control their region's oil wealth. "Kuwait was a relaxed place 30 years ago. If people choose to be more Islamist you can hardly stop them from doing that," said a Western diplomat with long experience of the country. "There is a significant number of people who believe in the (Muslim) fundamentalist approach. There is also a significant number of people who hate the Americans and Europeans," he said.
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Okay, I've figured out the virgins thing.
If they don't have experience, they don't know how bad you are in bed. Got it.
Oh, and the fervor thing. It's overrated, trust me on this.
Unless it's our Marines -- OOORAH!
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Article: "The constricting religious atmosphere is generating frustration and leading the young to live two kind of lives -- an underground hedonistic one or another obsessively religious life," Othman said. "All the Arab world is looking for salvation from the grip of these religious tentacles that have spread everywhere. This is a catastrophe. How many years would it take us to break free of this? It is a tragedy," she added.
Typical regime protection strategy - suppress the secularists (who might demand power) and encourage the religious terrorists (who only want government funding). The problem is that the religious terrorists have now figured out that they can have it all by taking over the government. When will the Kuwaiti monarch wake up to this reality and start slaughtering the clerics?
"Dancing is banned, concerts are banned, weâre heading to dark times. Anything pleasurable is deemed un-Islamic and immoral," said Leila Othman, a liberal Kuwaiti writer.
I think it's really more of a "time share" program: "At a Kuwaiti hotel Sheikh Ali Abu al-Hassan holds an audience spellbound with his talk about "the pleasures of heaven", a paradise where true Muslims will enjoy virgins, eternal bliss and bounty." (question here: after 72 "bangs" the devotee is left WITHOUT any virgins, which in their minds is second rate--what, oh what, will they do? Eternity is a long time. And still no word on whether the "virgins" are beautiful or ugly or fat or have warts or halitosis, or even if they're human or female, for that matter--and WHERE'D they all come from again? And what happens to the women--do they get 72 male virgins? Doubtful.)
The mullahs strategy is to "lasso" basic human drives and desires, and "promise the moon" (or in this case, a very long orgy in the sky) to those who choose to fit themselves into the mullah's political schemas and aims. I'll say one thing for them. It's a workable tactic which falsely increases a sense of self-esteem of people who are in bad need of a boost that direction. Of course, the Communists and Socialists have always done the same type of thing to achieve their ends (the "goody" bag). The Nazis did the same thing. John Kerry was doing it during the campaign. Nothing new here.
"I am sad. We lived golden days in Kuwait in the past. The Kuwait I lived in is not the one I can identify with now." Othman, most of whose books are banned because of their progresssive ideas, has her own experience of the Islamic transformation. "I have a daughter who is veiled, she belongs to the salafis. My son is a religious extremist. This pains me because at home we didnât have this zealousness. It was the school and university. These were the dens of indoctrination. Our children regressed," she said.
"Regressed," did they?
Interestingly enough, the same thing happens to students in far too many US schools and universities--except in the opposite direction--i.e., through "liberalism." But wait just a minute: most of the "liberal" faulty at our schools and universities support Kerry, recognize Arafat, and sympathize with the terrorist "insurgents." In a roundabout way, the liberals here actually SUPPORT Isamic extremism there (think Michael Moore). In other words, post-modern Western liberals and Wahabbi Islamics are, (in a manner of speaking), the strangest of bedfellows. Political/cultural decontructionism, with a totalitarian bent , is what the two groups have in common. Control of sexuality--whether through hedonism or repression, is the other thing they have in common.
Sexuality is at the foundation of individuality, and individuality stands in the way of conformity. Conformity--in terms of sociopolitical homogeneity--is absolutely necessary in order to exert political control. One direction of sexual manipulation and control works for one group of totalitarians, and the opposite works for the other. But both "styles" rob the individual of personal power, and rob the society of true morality, which is the foundation of freedom.
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There must be an exchange program. Use up the virgins and turn them in for a new 72. Then again I don't think the Koran actually says what you can do with the 72 virgins so it could be that all your allowed to do is look in which case maybe heaven is really hell which is where all these low-lives are going.
From the excellent Dutch blog Zacht Ei. His link goes to news source in Dutch, registration required.
The mole in the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD turns out to have been a Moroccan translator. His name is Outmar Ben A. (family names are customarily abbreviated in Dutch journalism) and he is 34 years old. After the Van Gogh murder, it became apparent that secret AIVD documents got into the hands of radical Islamists. This afternoon, secretary Johan Remkes of Domestic Affairs will have to answer to the Second Chamber, the Dutch Lower House of Parliament, for the failures of the AIVD.
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How many moles can u find among the 1000.000 muslims that live in The Netherlands and work with the police, on airports, city council, army ..........
French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat's death, has hailed the Palestinian leader as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state. Surprise meter? I think so...
"It is with emotion that I have just learnt of the death of President Yasser Arafat, the first elected president of the Palestinian Authority," Chirac said in a written statement on Thursday. "I offer my very sincere condolences to his family and to people close to him even that fat chick." I like how he says that he was elected, as if they were a democracy.
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One of the only articles about France, Paleos, Arafish, etc. which I was able to read while drinking coffee without it coming out my nose.
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You can't blame Jake. How many men of courage has he ever dealt with? And this does sound more dignified then "corrupt, lying, murdering, terrorist scumbag".
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Franceâs Chirac hails Arafat as man of courage
Yep, it was ballsy all right of Arafart to keep on with the Jew-exterminating while peace negotiations were going on. Slimeballs, the both of them. At the very least, it's one down, one more to go.
The White House has put out word daily of calls flooding in from around the world to congratulate President Bush on his re-election victory. But somehow, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero just hasn't been able to get his call past the switchboard. Zapatero phoned Bush not long after his Nov. 2 win but wasn't put through to the president. More than a week after the voting, the two leaders still have not hooked up.
The White House explanation signaled something of a cold shoulder toward the Spanish leader, who angered the administration by withdrawing troops from Iraq just after taking office in April. "I think that may be the case, that he has tried to reach out," Bush press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday. "Calls are scheduled at times that are mutually convenient. Some calls are able to be scheduled quicker than others." Meanwhile, Bush met privately Tuesday at the White House with Spain's former prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, who was a chief Bush ally in the war in Iraq.
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Old news . . . several days old . . . but worthy of mention. Zapatero got owned by GWB, who unhesistatingly took the proper step of ignoring the appeaser. Now if it just wasn't for that executive order banning assasination we could make it look like the jihadis . . . ummm . . . I'll shut up now.
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"Calls are scheduled at times that are mutually convenient. Some calls are able to be scheduled quicker than others."
***SMACK!!***
I approve. This snub is appropriate, as Zapatero went well out of his way to earn our contempt. Chirac should get the same treatment.
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I bet Bush likes his chats with Chirac.
"Say, Jacques, so how's the economy going for ya? Did I tell you our latest growth predictions? I'm not sure if I remember yours. Remind me."
"Yeah, we're quite busy in Iraq. Been cleaning up a few places recently. ... Contracts, you say? ... Sorry, ami, I have to let Allawi decide. You guys chewed the fat about that sort of thing recently, did't you? ... You couldn't make it? Oh, that's too bad."
"So, how's that African adventure of yours panning out, viewed from Paris?" [click] "Jacques?"
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"Owned" - when a hacker manages to penetrate a computer and gain access to administrative-level functions. At that point the hacker may choose at that time to do things like change passwords, install malicious software or undo security privileges.
The implication is that Bush is the one in a position of power vs. Zapatero in the relationship, and that he accomplished that despite Zapatero's hostility against him.
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I'm familiar with "0wn3d", and as someone who has owned boxes in the past, I say Jame Retief used it wrong. Dumbass.
And the executive order banning assassination (if it still exists) is to protect the U.S. President from assassination attempts by other nations. Sort of a reverse M.A.D.
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has nobody here played/seriously watched sports? Football, BBall - someone gets "owned" when they're repeatedly beaten to the score or can't keep up with the opponents' moves....one step prior to being someone's "bitch"....eh, Jack?
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Even Zapatero's own party doesn't take this idiot seriously-- they call him "Bambi" in Spain. In fact they nominated him precisely because they expected Aznar to win easily, and didn't want to waste one of their A-list candidates in a losing effort.
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James Retief? Could it be? "Diplomat at Arms"? Does anybody actually remember those great books by Keith Laumer? I'm impressed.
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Help! I'm overwhelmed with illuminating but contradictory information!
Ambassador Retief (one of my favorites when I was younger), please clarify your meaning to this computing end-user and non-watcher of professional sports. Thank you.
But I did check out your link, Lux, and now I understand what my kidlings are doing. (Not to mention the strange spellings and vocab. I thought were strictly a Rantburg thing.) Thanks!
French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat's death, hailed the Palestinian leader on Thursday as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state. "It is with emotion that I have just learnt of the death of President Yasser Arafat, the first elected president of the Palestinian Authority," Chirac said in a written statement. "I offer my very sincere condolences to his family and to people close to him." Chirac urged the international community to persevere with efforts to ensure an international peace plan known as the road map is put into effect in the Middle East.
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well mr. chirac , if we are name calling .... you stupid twat !
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On a more serious note, Nicholas Sarkozy, (the Former Finance Minister) (and a realist) seems set to challenge Cirac in 2007.
Chirac's corruption and suspected massive thefts of French money while he was Mayor of Paris are well known. The fact that he is the French President keep him from being tried and imprisoned at this time.
At this point, it is uncertain whether Chirac will run again in 2007. A re-election of his corrupt government may be the only thing preventing him from fleeing France. After all, he has no place else to go in this world. Former French colonies like Algeria and the Ivory Coast will not take him.
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Not only the honor guard at the airport, JFM, but Chirac was quoted at the hospital as saying "Je m'incline..." or I BOW to Arafat.
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Boy the guys on Fox News are having a hey-day with this! Chicago Mike is right, they just showed the clip of Chirac's quote, and the translator did say "I bowed down before PRESIDENT Arafat....." In between that and the UN flying it's flag at half staff gives me even less hope for Europe and the UN (not that I had much anyways). This guy was a TERRORIST for God's sake! Charles Krauthammer is slamming him (as well as Brit Hume) pointing out that there may be TRUE HOPE for peace now that he's gone!
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And Juan Williams, professional apologist, is making me hurl.
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I'm still trying to figure out if he and Mara Eliason get paid with our tax dollars... If so, then the entire process of public funding for partisan hacks should be dismantled immediately. Totally insane.
President George Bush is considering a major shakeup in his administration to ensure a unified U.S. policy on the Middle East.
Administration sources said Bush was examining recommendations to replace senior officials before the start of his second term in an effort to avoid the foreign policy split that characterized his administration since 2001. The dispute, which pitted the Defense Department against the State Department, was said to have extended to virtually every aspect of U.S. policy in the Middle East, particularly Iran, Iraq and Syria...
It is long past time to synchronize Def, State, and the Intel Zoo - and remove every swinging dick that thinks he is empowered by his Civil Service paycheck to make policy contrary to the espoused policy of the duly elected President of The United States. Boom. Gone. No package. A note attached to last check: "STFU! Be happy you're not headed to Leavenworth. Buh-bye!"
President Bush has chosen White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, a Texas confidant and one of the most prominent Hispanics in the administration, to succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft, sources close to the White House said Wednesday. Gonzales, 49, has long been rumored as a leading candidate for a Supreme Court vacancy if one develops. Speculation increased after Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist announced he has thyroid cancer. Gonzales' career has been linked with Bush for at least a decade, serving as general counsel when Bush was governor of Texas, and then as secretary of state and as a justice on the Texas Supreme Court.
I thought he'd be picked as a Supreme Court Justice, but AG is fine.
Gonzales has been at the center of developing Bush's positions on balancing civil liberties with waging the war on terrorism - opening the White House counsel to the same line of criticism that has dogged Ashcroft. For instance, Gonzales publicly defended the administration's policy - partially essentially repudiated by the Supreme Court and now being fought out in the lower courts - of detaining certain terrorism suspects for extended periods without access to lawyers or courts. He also wrote a controversial February 2002 memo in which Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture law and international treaties providing protections to prisoners of war. That position drew fire from human rights groups, which said it helped led to the type of abuses uncovered in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Some conservatives also have quietly questioned Gonzales' credentials on core social issues. And he once was a partner in a Houston law firm which represented the scandal-ridden energy giant Enron.
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Well, Paul Krugman was once employed by Enron, and that hasn't stopped the New York Times and others from publishing his crap...
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He can still be nominated for the Supremes if he becomes AG. In fact, this is a politically astute move if he is top runner for Supremes. Get all the negatives, dhimmi nonsense, NOW, PETA, Greens, etc. ammo depleted for the AG and leave them with blanks for the Supreme nomination.
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Lots of goodwill in the domestic and international Hispanic/Spanish communities as well. A very clever, nuanced move. Especially as the man in question is good enough to support the trust he's been given.
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Dammit--how are we Republicans going to maintain the image of being rich, white, racist males if we keep putting blacks, Hispanics, and women in power? Oh, wait, I just remembered that's another Democrat lie to keep minorities blindly voting for their party. Never mind!
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It will be interesting to watch the left try to villify him without pissing off the Hispanic community in the process.
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Ideology aside, I'm not sure he's such a good lawyer. Justice Scalia, among others, gave Gonzales's recommended approach to detainees a pretty thorough bitch-slapping in the recent SCOTUS decisions on Guantanamo. Whatever his political merits, Gonzales is not exactly SCOTUS material.
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Karl R: "Exactly what is your point lex?"
He is saying that Gonzales isn't packing the gear to sit on the bench in SCOTUS.
Is that clarified enough for you?
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I have my doubts for SCOTUS as well
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Hey Blondie .... I along with about 150,000 other good people were once employed by Enron .... have to find another reason to knock his crap.
And by the way ... it is crap.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has issued a statement saying he was "deeply moved" after learning of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death. He said Arafat would always be remembered for having led the Palestinians in 1988 to accept the principle of peaceful coexistence between Israel and a future Palestinian state. "By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realisation of this vision. It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled," Annan said in a statement late Wednesday. "President Arafat was one of those few leaders who could be instantly recognized by people in any walk of life all around the world. For nearly four decades, he expressed and symbolized in his person the national aspirations of the Palestinian people. " Annan said that now Arafat was gone, "both Israelis and Palestinians, and the friends of both peoples throughout the world, must make even greater efforts to bring about the peaceful realization of the Palestinian right of self-determination."
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I, too, was moved. Fortunately, the loo was unoccupied at the time.
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He said Arafat would always be remembered for having led the Palestinians in 1988 to accept the principle of peaceful coexistence between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
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I, too, was moved by the death of the Arafish because I was moved by the millions of people who were affected or killed and maimed by his actions. I am also moved and disgusted by people who make this terrorist and murderer out to be something that he never was.
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The 'peace' loving people of 'Arafatland'..
WARNING! VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOS VIA LINK
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Having a laugh
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has issued a statement saying he was "deeply moved" after learning of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafatâs death.
I just wish he would move to another planet , and let the realists of the world deal with the issues of the world
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Kofi is a Bum. Picture him with a fuller, longer beard, in baggy old clothes and sitting on a street corner with a tin mug in front of him. He'd make a fine bum.
Trust Kofi aBum to make Ara Rat seem like Mother Theresa.
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If only Kofi where so moved by the deaths of the Sudanese living and dying in Dafur, the kleptocracy in Zimbob'sway or any of a number of hell holes on this planet that the UN should be involved with. The world does need something like the United Nations just not this United Nations
And Thoan, I think I'll feel moved in about an hour
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I don't see any decent links for all of this bashing of the Secretary-General.
I'll be back around 1, to check up.
BTW: We found some of the silverware.
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Phew! It's Cairo! Some good restaurants there! Thank God it wasn't that Ramallah shithole!Charter 20 planes for my entourage and let's hit the road!
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"By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realisation of this vision. It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled," Annan said in a statement late Wednesday.
Annan: "Nope, couldn't be MY fault the Paleos never saw their "dream fulfilled." Eleven years after Oslo and where are we with Israel? Much like Iraq (what was the last count...17 resolutions and 13 years before peace was finalized?), the U.N. actually STOPS peace from occurring by all of their stalling, kissing up to thugs like Arafish and behind closed doors deals to enrich themselves. What a load!
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That bastard Annan needs a 9mm dose of mental floss to clean all the bulls#!t out of his corrupt brain. I wouldn't mind doing it personally, if I ever had the chance!
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From and interesting Daniel Pipes commentary on his illness:
"We know he has a blood disease that is depressing his immune system. We know that he has suddenly dropped considerable weight â possibly as much as 1/3 of all his body weight. We know that he is suffering intermittent mental dysfunction. What does this sound like?"
Uhh aids? Notice how there is no autopsy - even though I am sure the palestinians claim posioning...
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Drudge is running a story that Arafat's Personal Dr. wants an autopsy....probably to put these rumors to rest, huh? Gonna have somebody besides Baghdad Bob test the blood?
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EFL Leaders of a United States Senate subcommittee investigating allegations of fraud in the oil-for-food program in Iraq have accused Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, of obstructing their inquiry. Sounds suspeciously like Obstruction of Justice. Wonder if Kofi read about Martha Stewart and Frank Quattrone. Those were NYC cases. Turn this baby over to Spitzer for quick results.
The senators also complained that Mr. Annan was blocking access to 55 internal audit reports of the program and other relevant documents and refusing to permit United Nations officials to be interviewed by the subcommittee's investigators. The senators said it had taken four months for Mr. Annan to reply to the subcommittee's requests, and when he finally did, he refused to cooperate with the Senate inquiry. "We are concerned that the U.N.'s nondisclosure policy is being used as both a sword and a shield," the senators wrote, "sharing such 'internal records' when it favors the U.N., but then declining to do so when such disclosure could have negative implications." The blunt letter is signed by the subcommittee's chairman, Senator Norm Coleman, Republican of Minnesota, and Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan. I believe this is the first time in Senate history Levin has done anything intelligent
Edward Mortimer, director of communications in the secretary general's office, said United Nations officials would "carefully look into what is clearly a very awkward and troubling letter." Why is the letter awkward? If it was troubling you must have had not difficulty understanding it. Continued on Page 49
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I wonder if they want to talk to Mike Sylvester about Kofi Jr.âs involvement.
I welcome any information from anybody showing that Kofi Jr. had anything at all to do with the UN -- any information at all about any involvement at all. I've been waiting for several weeks.
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This one's a no-brainer. Turn over the documents, or we pass a bill revoking all U.S. funding of the U.N. until they're produced. (If that doesn't work, list U.N. H.Q. on eBay.)
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Mike,don't you think it is most enlightining that Kofi is doing evrything he can to obstruct the investigations into U.N. shinanigans.If he has nothing to hide the why won't he turn over the documents,and allow interviews with those involved.Seems to me that given your nieve loyalty to everthing U.N.you would be demanding full disclosure to at least clear Kofi and son's name.
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I need more links. Links for everything! I need Christian Witless! Crazy neos are running the world while good Methodists are being massacreeD! It ain't right! All links to the peple! More Bibles to China! More grease for Kofi! Trick or Treat MotherFuckers!
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11/11/2004 12:16 Comments ||
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Jack, don't you have some dead presidents to count?
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Not that we really needed it, but this is a PERFECT excuse/reason to CUT OFF UN FUNDING until they give us full access.
After all, it's OUR money. Though I'm sure Coffee wouldn't agree.
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If that doesn't work, list U.N. H.Q. on eBay.
Sell it to Trump; they'll be financially bankrupt in a few years.
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Re #5 (Raptor): don't you think it is most enlightining that Kofi is doing evrything he can to obstruct the investigations into U.N. shinanigans.If he has nothing to hide the why won't he turn over the documents,and allow interviews with those involved.
The posted article would have been a better article if it had reported the UN's side of this dispute.
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the point is, Mikey, they're obscuring, obfuscating, denying, and shredding, their side, even as we blog. Kofi's son's new co. got the contract over a better bid by a diff. co, any comment, UN-boy?
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Singapore will deploy 8,000 crack troops to guard key national facilities such as power stations and reservoirs as part of increasing anti-terrorism efforts, a press report said on Thursday. The government has established a new training base for police national serviceman designed to cut the amount of time required to enable them to guard key installations (Kins) from four years to two years, the Straits Times said. "This new training ground signifies that a new breed of Kins officers are being trained to handle post 9-11 challenges in the security and protection of Singapore's installations," the paper quoted Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee as saying. The daily said the new training base will enable 8,000 troops to be deployed by 2007 to guard vital national installations, which also include telecommunications facilities.
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Singapore knows how to do it right. I was in Malaysia headed back to Singapore when Desert Storm started. The Singapore airport was secured with very attentive, well-trained, well-armed soldiers. I felt very safe. None of this crap I've experienced in other places where the soldiers look half stoned and actually have their weapons unnecessarily pointed at passengers.
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Singapore will deploy 8,000 crack troops to guard key national facilities such as..
So how many coke troops do they have? How many weed troops? How many heroin troops?
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What Tom said. Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore had the wisdom and courage to tell the Europeans that they were clueless about the jihadist threat and that Bush was doing the right thing in Afgh and Iraq.
JAKARTA: The son of Libyan leader Moamer Qaddafi said Wednesday his country was willing to help end a long-running separatist conflict in Indonesia's Aceh province, a move welcomed by both sides. Sayef al-Islam Qaddafi, who holds no official position but is seen as a representative of his father, made the offer during a visit to Indonesia in which he hopes to hold talks with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. "We are ready to help the government to reduce the problems and to support the people there," Qaddafi told reporters, during a three-day humanitarian trip to Indonesia. He said Libya wanted to "narrow the point of view between the two parties and to erase the cause of the conflict and restore peace and security". The move was initially welcomed by senior government officials in Jakarta, who said Tripoli could play a key role in improving the economic infrastructure in the impoverished but resource-rich region in Indonesia's far west.
Good luck with that one...
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Iran is rapidly heading to "the point of no return" as indicated by Israel; the stage where outside assistance would no longer be needed to complete 'The Bomb'! I would surmise that when Iran test detonate their 'Trinity' device (especially if above ground), the world will hesitate in it's shock and awe; and Israel will trully be on the dagger's edge!
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I don't expect them to be allowed to test or live-fire. The stakes are too high
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One nasty possibility. Iran and China just signed a huge oil deal. What if one of secret clauses is to allow Iran to test a nuke using China's test area?
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Palestinians in Lebanon's refugee camps met news of President Yasser Arafat's death on Thursday with volleys of gunfire and wails of grief. As word of Arafat's death spread, thousands of Palestinians rushed into the narrow streets of the Ein el-Hilweh camp in south Lebanon, while gunmen loyal to his Fatah faction fired their rifles and rocket-propelled grenades in the air. Ein el-Hilweh is one of a dozen camps in which 350,000 Palestinians are registered as refugees in Lebanon, where Arafat's fighters were a main faction in the civil war that erupted in 1975. "I never knew a father, I knew Abu Ammar (Arafat)," said Johaina Okasha, a refugee from Ein el-Hilweh in her 40s. "He was the one we counted on, and now he is gone."
Witnesses said at least one person was injured by bursts of gunfire booming through the camp. Gunfire rang out in Beirut's Burj al-Barajneh and Sabra and Shatila camps, and residents of the southern Burj al-Shamali camp raised black banners and marched through the streets carrying Arafat's photograph. The Koran blared from loudspeakers across Ain el-Hilweh and plumes of black smoke rose from heaps of tyres set on fire in the streets and mourners marching through the camp chanted: "Abu Ammar (Arafat), where are you?"
Women clad in black garments of mourning crowded the streets of camps from Rashidiyeh in south Lebanon to Baddawi near the northern city of Tripoli, and "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") boomed from the loudspeakers of mosques. One Arafat gunman said the death of the man synonymous with the Palestinian cause dealt a blow to the hopes that refugees in Lebanon have of returning to homes lost with the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948. "Abu Ammar was our father, he was everything to us," said Nabil Abdel Salam, a Fatah militiaman in Ain el-Hilweh. "All hope is gone."
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"Abu Ammar (Arafat), where are you?"
I'm right here. In Hell.
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while gunmen loyal to his Fatah faction fired their rifles and rocket-propelled grenades in the air
great bit of intelligence from darwin camp no.1 , looks like they dont need Israel to aid in their downfall , they are quite talented at self destruction
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Women clad in black garments of mourning crowded the streets of camps from Rashidiyeh in south Lebanon
and how does this differ from their normal attire ?
President George W. Bush on Tuesday extended for one year a range of financial sanctions first imposed on Iran in November 1979, the White House announced in a statement. "Our relations with Iran have not yet returned to normal," Bush said in a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives. The original sanctions, imposed by then-president Jimmy Carter, froze assets of Iran's government following the November 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
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Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah said Wednesday that U.S. President George W. Bush's crusade against Islam had only stopped in theory but not in practice. Speaking during his weekly forum, the Shiite cleric said Bush had used the term crusade several times in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States. "But although he stopped using (the term) in the media, he has not really abandoned the idea," Fadlallah added.
He further said that Washington had "completely bypassed the United Nations in 2003, before launching a war against Iraq," adding that the way in which the U.S. launched a war against Iraq, against the advice of the international community, showed the ruling neoconservatives' disregard for this region. Fadlallah described Washington's pre-emptive wars as a "weapon used by Washington, not only to subdue the opponents of U.S. policy in this part of the world, but also to dismantle the UN in favor of the "leader country" in the world. The present U.S. administration is determined to remain the undisputed country which makes decisions affecting the destiny of others, Fadlallah said. He added that "despite all this, we believe the U.S. administration - under its neoconservative leadership - has received several setbacks, including its failure to locate any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the fact that the Americans are now caught in the Iraqi quagmire." Fadlallah said the United States was now compelled to abandon "its aggressive policy with regard to both Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere."
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Another classic case of projection from the reality-impaired world of islam. There's no crusade, but there is a jihad.
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Mullah Fudlullah obviously does not know the difference between a "War On Terror" and a "Crusade War against Islam"! Had this been a bonafide War of Christians against Muslims, the US's plight and other 'For Christ' nations, would have been much easier! Total Islamic national destruction could be acheived with or without the nuclear option, because the technology of the West leaves too wide a gap for "MAD" (Mutual Assured Destruction)!!
Syrian President Bashar Assad yesterday renewed his country's call for dialogue with the United States to improve strained relations. Assad spoke during a meeting with US Congressman Gary Ackerman, a Democrat from New York, Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported. SANA said the talks centered on the regional situation, including developments in Iraq and the occupied Palestinian territories, "as well as the Middle East peace process, terrorism and ways of combating it." The talks also dealt with strained Syrian-US relations, with Assad stressing the importance of dialogue "and the need to continue it for the benefit of the two countries." A press release issued by the American Cultural Center in Damascus said Ackerman's talks with Assad covered "a full range of topics relating to US-Syria relations and regional issues."
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Talk to the JDAM, dork.
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I guess that training as an Opthomologist did Baby Assad some good...
He can see things clearly...
Or - "Shit! That W. is gonna give me a healthy sized smart bomb right up my... "
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With Saddam in the clink, Syrian & Iranian terrorists being picked off like feas in Iraq & Yasser dead as a door nail, that only leaves, Dr. Assad, the Iranian Mullahs and a few top terrorists in al-Qa'ida. Bashar was educated in London and I don't think he favours hidding in caves. Can the Dr. be trusted? Of course not. Does the Dr. wish to remain alive. Yes.
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I'm sure the continuing images coming out of Fallujah (US Might) is "over casting a shadow" on his resolve, just as Kadafi 'saw the light' when Saddam was pulled out of that hole!
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Assad is just trying to cope. He serves as president at the pleasure of the goons and thugs, and terrorists around him. If he tries to purge them, he will be offed. If he plays the terrorist game, Israel and/or the US will smack him. Assad is weak and not really in charge, when it comes to power.
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He could become part of the solution if he were to make "sanctuary" even more difficult on the scurrying rats. If he coughed up some WMD that uncle Saddam stashed with him he could even pull himself out of US gunsites.
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He definitely has a look that says "I'd rather be practicing opthamology." I agree with AP's assesment. Papa Assad left his family jewels in a vice.
I'd say he probably has a fairly realistic assessment of what's going on in Fallujah, not that he'd admit it.
From The Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society
Hundreds of women are killed every year for alleged misdemeanours such as adultery, marrying without the family's consent, pre-marital sex or having been raped. According to the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Women Development, Ms Neelofar Bakhtiar, as many as 913 women had been killed in 'honour- related crimes' in the country during the year 2003 with 638 cases of honour crime committed in Sindh, 463 in Punjab, 120 in the North West Frontier Province and 40 in Balochistan. Human Rights Commission of Pakistan recorded honour killings of 329 women in 1998, 303 women in 1999, 315 women in 2000, 227 women in 2002 and 290 women in 2002 based on the press reports. But many incidents are not reported in the newspapers and the vast majority of the victims come from rural areas. .....
The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2004 which proposes amendments of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), 1860 enhances punishment for the offence of murders carried out in the name of honour. However, the word 'honour killing' has been replaced with 'honour crime' to make it mild and acceptable to various sections of the society.
From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, an article by Charles Recknagel, a senior correspondent for Gulf Affairs and related issues.
With just over two months to go, many key details about Iraq's upcoming election remain to be agreed, including the date itself. Vice President Ibrahim al-Jaafari said this month that the country's Election Commission has decided on 27 January. But that date still must be approved by the cabinet, and it is unclear when, or if, that will happen. The final timing could hinge on the success of the U.S.-led operation now taking place in Al-Fallujah. ....
Still, general outlines of election procedures are beginning to take shape after a cascade of rulings by the Election Commission in the past few weeks. Among the most important of these is a decision to conduct the election as if the whole country is a single voting district. Rend Rahim Francke, the Iraqi representative to the United States, described the decision by saying: "Iraq is going to be one single electoral district. This is a recommendation that was made by the United Nations, which the Iraqi government has agreed to and the Election Commission has agreed to. The idea remains to make sure, really, that every vote does count."
Turkey's military has begun preparing for what officials warned could result in a major invasion of neighboring Iraq. Officials said the Turkish General Staff has drafted plans for an invasion by at least 20,000 troops into northern Iraq in early 2005. "After the Iraqi elections in January, the Turkish military will be ready to move," a Turkish government source said... Subscription required for rest.
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good, now we'll have another way to get rid of all that old Saddam ordinance. Murat-shredder...
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Wonder if the Turks plan to accompany this invasion with a declaration of war? They are playing a very high risk game by invading a country under the protection of the US military. We should get our people out of Incirlik as quickly as possible so they can't be held hostage.
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The Kurds are demonstrating a fine example of working with and promoting a stable democratic governance. The US should quickly take the ante by removing all personel and hardware from Turkey. doing so, so quickly, that the vacuum would leave the Turkish government guessing as to the US's next motive would be. Don't leave the Kurds to "hang to dry"!
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Watch for the LLL to blame GWB for this by saying that the "pre-emptive, unilateral invasion of Iraq legitimized actions like Turkey's". Mark my words.
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OS: The Kurds will go on a rampage INSIDE Turkey, destroying the Turkish economy by takig the oild fileds and the western half of Turkey.
It occurs to me that the way for Kurdistan to get a port (and thus a route to the sea) may be via annexing Kurdish territory in Turkey and joining it to the Iraqi portion.
In today's "Maariv International":
... In response to a request of several dozen Israeli left wing activists, the Palestinian leader's chief financial advisor, Mohammad Rashid, told al-Arabiya television this afternoon that Israelis who wish to attend Arafat's burial ceremony should be allowed to do so. According to Gush Shalom spokesman, Adam Keller, among those who would participate are Uri Avneri, Teddy Katz the historian, Yitzhak Frenkeltal from the Forum of Bereaved Parents for Peace and former Jerusalem City Council member Meir Margalit.
Frenkental, whose son was murdered in 1994 while serving in the IDF, told NRG Maariv, "I asked to take part in Arafat's funeral because I think it would contribute to an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue and express empathy towards the Palestinian people. Arafat is no longer alive and the gesture is towards the Palestinian people. I am sure many Israelis sympathize with the Palestinians today. I met Arafat many times and saw in him a man who wanted to reach a long-lasting peace. But again, I say, there was no partner on the Israeli side".
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let em go - if they're threatened or harmed they can appeal to their Paleo friends for security - LOL- be sure to wear your yarmulkes, heros!
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I met Arafat many times and saw in him a man who wanted to reach a long-lasting peace
until his death, he wore his kaffiyeh in the shape of "palestine" -- which looks remarkably like Israel, the west bank and gaza. That asswipe would only be happy if Israel ceased to exist. And now, fittingly, he ceased to exist, instead. There's a lesson there.
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Re: There are LLL folks everywhere. It is what makes a world. Deal with it as you may but don't expect to rid the world of them. The only real answer is Elections in a republic/democracy form of government (but then you still have the Klinton Factor).
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DEBKAfile's Palestinian sources report extremist PLO politburo chief Farouk Kaddoumi is challenging legitimacy of interim regime. He claims he is rightful PLO chairman after Arafat's death not Abbas. Self-exiled in protest against 1993 Oslo Peace accords, Kaddoumi is promised Hizballah support for a fresh wave of terrorist violence starting during Arafat funeral. Hizballah chairman Hassan Nasrallah schedules an inflammatory speech to mark event. Last Friday, Kaddoumi forwarded funds to Fatah-Tanzim's al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades for mob clashes with Israeli troops and spectacular terrorist attacks. His supporters in Ramallah PLO, Hani al Hassan, Azzem Ahmed, Abbas Zaki and Saher Habash, have failed to broker an amicable arrangement with Abbas. Let the bloodbath begin.
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I am sick today, and am going home from work. But I could sure use some cyber popcorn for this festival. Email me some, please, and I will gladly pay you Tuesday.....
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And when this internecine war is over with, I'm betting the victorious losers winners abrogate the deal with Suha.
If they don't, they're even dumber than I thought.
Maybe they can convince the Euros to pay her directly instead of funneling it through the PLO.
:-D
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Let's hope the IDF can continue to protect the Jewish people. I hope the Palestinian Christians are NOT EXTERMINATED by the Islamofascists. As for Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al Asqa (sp). bunch, let's hope there are NO SURVIVORS.
Diwali, the festival of lights, was celebrated in style at the White House for the second consecutive year when former Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill lit a lamp in the presence of a large number of Indian Americans in the Eisenhower Building. Pictures of Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesha, two deities of the Hindu pantheon worshipped on Diwali, adorned the room that was decorated by many lamps. Though President Bush was not present, his message of greetings to the Indian Americans on the occasion of Diwali and its significance of the triumph of good over evil was read out by a State Department official. Bush gets it -- the seculars don't. He has consistently been respectful of other faiths. Believers notice this (except maybe many Muslims).
Bush said Diwali also means peace and prosperity and goodwill for all people and expressed the hope that the world would adopt this message. Sambhu Banik, one of the Indian American leaders and a senior Bush administration official, told IANS that Blackwill said President Bush, who wanted very much to visit India before the end of his term, will now re-schedule it before the end of next year. He mentioned how Bush was also very keen to improve India-US relations and how he distanced himself from the outsourcing debate during the campaign (unlike his Democrat challenger John Kerry) because the president himself felt that outsourcing benefited both countries.
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Did the Blue Elephant show?
(it's really Santa with a garland, I learn lots at RB)
A Nigerian Islamic appeal court on Wednesday freed a pregnant woman sentenced to be stoned to death for having sex out of wedlock. Judge Mohammed Mustapha Umar said the conviction of 29-year-old Hajara Ibrahim by the Lere lower court was unsound and set the woman free. "Thank God it is all over now. I wish myself a safe delivery," said a six-month pregnant Ibrahim, wearing a light blue Islamic robe and headscarf.
The lower court had sentenced her to 100 lashes and death by stoning after she confessed to having unlawful sex with a 35-year-old man, Dauda Sani. Sani was released for lack of evidence. The appeal judge annulled the conviction on the grounds it was incorrect to deliver the two sentences for the crime; the confession was void because it was not made four times; Ibrahim was not given the chance to defend herself; and the investigation was not properly carried out. "The court has therefore set Hajara free of all charges," Umar said.
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Israeli officials said yesterday they may release jailed Palestinians after the death of Yasser Arafat as a "good will gesture" toward the future PA leadership. Sources tell WorldNetDaily the decision comes amid heightened pressure from the U.S. Unnamed senior Israeli officials were quoted by Army Radio as saying the possible prisoner release is "intended to strengthen the moderate leadership within the Palestinian National Authority." The release, they said, is considered favorable to Israeli Foreign and Defense Ministries, but the final decision rests with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Sources tell WorldNetDaily U.S. officials have recently been sending strong messages to Israel indicating the Jewish state should take certain measures, such as prisoner releases, that could strengthen the new Palestinian leadership in a succession phase. Sharon, however, is not warm to the idea. Israel is also considering a host of other "gestures." A foreign ministry paper urges the IDF to go into "defensive mode" and not launch pre-emptive strikes against terrorist organizations for the time being. Other planned moves include further easing restrictions on Palestinian movement and encouraging economic activity.
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Personally, there is a gesture I'm willing to make to the Palestinian National Authority. It involves my middle finger.....
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send any released to Gaza - they won't be going anywhere and can be part of the Civil War post-Araft celebratory party
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"the moderate leadership within the Palestinian National Authority."
Are these the ones who only want to kill half the Israelis?
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If they are released.
1) Mark of Cain - tattoo "murdering terrorist" on their foreheads.
2) embed GPS and transponder within their skulls so they can be tracked to other terrorists and used as JDAM targets.
The militant (terrorist)Islamic group Hamas said the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat would strengthen its resolve to keep up attacks against Israel. Is that so
"The loss of the great leader will increase our determination and steadfastness to continue Jihad and resistance against the Zionist enemy until victory and liberation is achieved," Hamas said in statement. Bla, bla, blaaaa Israel is now free of the thing called Arafat.
Hamas, sworn to Israel's destruction, is the main Palestinian group behind suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis. It will be the other way around
The militant Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades also urged militants to attack Israel to avenge the "Zionist assassination" of Yasser Arafat, who died hours earlier in a Paris hospital, said a statement received by AFP. The old terrorist queen may have really had Aids
The Palestine Liberation Organisation's (PLO) top body is to meet at to discuss arrangements for a smooth transition of power following Mr Arafat's death. Hamas members should ready themselves to join 'Yasser' sooner than they think.
The PLO executive committee will discuss "the transition and how to fill the void left by President Arafat," as well as "preparations for the funeral and burial," negotiations minister Saeb Erakat told AFP. The void will be filled by more Islamic terror on other Islamics, like always.
"We extend our condolences to the Palestinian and Arab people upon the death of the symbolic leader," he added. "Yasser Arafat is dead ,(are they sure this time?)
but the Palestinian (Arab) cause lives on and we will continue in the footsteps of Abu Ammar (Arafat) to freedom and independence and the creation of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital," he said. Jerusalem will remain the capitol of Israel, not HQ for Islamic killers
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"The loss of the great leader will increase our determination and steadfastness to continue Jihad and resistance against the Zionist enemy until victory and liberation is achieved..."
Then the Hamas apokesman said, with his trademark brilliance, "I'm going to keep hammering my thumb until it stops hurting".
Israeli Justice Minister Tommy Lapid on Tuesday welcomed the death of veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, telling military radio that it was "good that the world is rid of him". The Israeli army on Thursday imposed a total security clampdown on the Palestinian Territories due to a fear of attacks following the death, military radio announced. "The sun is shining in the Middle East and around the world, as Arafat was not only the leader of terrorism against Israel, but also the founding father of the terrorism that is running rampant around the world right now, including that of Al Qaeda," Mr Lapid said. "All this terrorism is the fruit of Arafat's work, and it's good that the world is rid of him. Without Arafat there could have already been peace in the region and a Palestinian state. The government of Israel will continue with its efforts to reach peace."
Israeli President Moshe Katsav expressed hope that the death of Mr Arafat would allow his successors to open a "new chapter" in their relations with the Jewish state. "The death of Yasser Arafat can constitute the start of a new chapter," Mr Katsav said in a statement. "I hope that the new Palestinian leadership will take a new path with a view to putting an end to terrorism and violence, which would allow a resumption of negotiations," he added. "If this new Palestinian leadership commits to this path, it will find in us a reliable partner aspiring to peace," Mr Katsav noted. "I hope that the Palestinians will quickly know how to overcome their grief, and that their new leaders will act to help them escape the suffering and distress in which they have been plunged," said the president.
Israel's army imposed a general closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday after Mr Arafat's death. The army said it the decision was made following security assessments by the Government. "The IDF (Israel Defence Force) is deploying in order to allow for a dignified funeral ceremony for the chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat," a statement said.
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Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat
al-Qudwa al-Husseini of Cairo
Old al-Limp-of-Wrist al-Fatah
"Any good looking terrorists here"?
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Rumours go that Arafat actually died on 911 (09-11-2004) and not on the 11th like the official announcement, could this be true?
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Good riddance indeed. BTW MSNBC during its flash coverage called Arafat a Palestinian activist.
Activist! The man was a thug and a terrorist!
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aa - It seems like a little bit long to carry on a farce. If it were true, the rationale would be that muslims need to be interred within 24 hours of death. Up until recently, there was no agreement wear to bury him. Now there is. And he's officially dead.
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aa may be reading source with a euro-style date, which would translate to 11-9-04 in the US.
In any case, the first $22 million raised by the Palestnian Authority each year will be reserved for her royal majesty the grieving widow Suha Arafat (age 41), for the rest of her life. Good gravy. What a scam.
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That pic is priceless. Last night I watched Fox with the sound off, and they kept running old clips of him. The shades are just too, too precious. He looks like a rapper. Wonder what he'd call himself?
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It's easy to mock him but Arafat and Che both managed to create a radical chic with ignorant westerners that allowed them to survive and even prosper despite their sick agenda.
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Saw him on a clip last night on Nightline. Ted went to interview him while the al muqata was being dismembered by the IDF demolition team. Pathetic. "I am a general!!!" Shaking, shouting, his head leaning toward Ted, only a foot away. Ted was so intimidated that he was afraid of saying anything that might make to nutjob pounce on him.
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The U.S. military has employed Israeli urban warfare tactics during the current invasion of the Iraqi city of Fallujah. U.S. officials acknowledged that hundreds of officers have trained in Israel over the last two years in urban warfare and counter-insurgency. In September, scores of U.S. officers trained at the Adam urban warfare school northeast of Tel Aviv, a facility that contains a mock Arab village. The U.S. officers trained in Israel relayed their expertise to the U.S. Army's Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, La. Over the last two years, the army center has increased the number of mock Arab villages from four to 18 and employed Arab speakers for urban warfare exercises.
A key Israeli lesson adopted by the U.S. military was the need to maintain surprise during an infantry advance in an Arab urban environment. Officials said the Army and Marine Corps have employed tactics developed during the Israeli military invasion of West Bank cities in 2002. They said the Israeli methods helped save soldiers and accelerate the advance through Fallujah. "We have learned a lot regarding urban warfare tactics in the Middle East from our allies," an official said. "Yes, this includes Israel."
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None of this sounds particularly new. Our GIs learned in WWII to blow mouseholes through walls so they could stay out of the street. The Brits also came up with the demining explosive barrel concept back then with one of their "funny tanks". I bet the real good stuff is classified, and, like most journalists, the author has no grasp of history or military concepts.
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Shhhhhhhh.....careful, the "Arab Street" might get outraged and seethe even more....
"The death of Yasser Arafat is a significant moment in Palestinian history. We express our condolences to the Palestinian people. For the Palestinian people, we hope that the future will bring peace and the fulfillment of their aspirations for an independent, democratic Palestine that is at peace with its neighbors." - President Bush.
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"President Arafat was one of those few leaders who could be instantly recognized by people in any walk of life all around the world. For nearly four decades, he expressed and symbolized in his person the national aspirations of the Palestinian people." - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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"It is one of the tragedies of the world that he didn't understand that the terror that began here would spread to the entire world." - Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid.
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"His passing has to be a positive sign for future Middle East peace prospects, because under his leadership things could not have been worse." - Rabbi Marvin Hier, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
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"Yasir Arafat's legacy is one of terrorism and failed leadership. Instead of building a state for the Palestinian people, he focused on ways to destroy the Jewish state of Israel." - Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.
He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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I'm not sure how to 'feel' about his passing. Was he the 'George Washington' of his nation, or a man bent on the extermination of the Jews?
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He's dead; that's good.
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He may have been the George Washington of his nation - look at the nation we're talking about.
His death is satisfying, but it changes nothing. He leaves behind a people just as wedded to the self defeating death cult (that he was such an inspirational leader of) as they were this time last week.
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From CNN "The last two days were very painful, very difficult days," said Saeb Erakat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, who confirmed Arafat's death Thursday morning. "And now, after these painful days of President Arafat, he is dead."
"These painful days of President Arafat" . . .
hmmm that's what the Israelis are thinking too .
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Just read on LGF that a State Dept official is going to attend Arafart's funeral. That son of a bitch doesn't even deserve the attendance of a Capitol page.
A Washington-inspired project for Middle East reform will begin in Morocco next month by looking at ways of improving cooperation and strengthening political and economic reform, the foreign ministry said here. The project, formally presented in June by President George W. Bush at a Group of Eight (G-8) summit, has been treated with reserve in the Arab world. The December 11 meeting of Arab foreign and finance ministers plus G-8 countries will examine ways of "consolidating the commitment of Middle East and North African countries to fruitful co-development and the harmonious strengthening of the process of political, economic and social reform."
To be called the Forum for the Future, it would serve as an initial step towards "a frank, constructive partnership, based on co-responsibility between the countries of the region and G-8." But this partnership must "respect the will and specific characteristics of each country and seek a just and lasting settlement of sources of tension in the region."
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âa frank, constructive partnership, based on co-responsibility between the countries of the region and G-8.â
Ha! I've heard about those frank relationships, everybody wears aloha shirts and leers meaningfully.
Grab those stupid little islands from Spain and give them back to Morocco.
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Hey! We don't make fun of Neuvo Hampshire!
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For Morocco, a good thing. Will be able to tell other regional folks about its real parliament. Coming from Morocco, it will be absorbed, not promulgated, but at least absorbed. For the rest, participate or wallow in the mire. It's your country.
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and jeans...boot cut...
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sorry I missed that one, Ship :-)
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Palestinian officials prepared for the funeral of their ailing leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday as Israel agreed to allow his burial at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Mr Arafat, 75, suffered a brain haemorrhage on Tuesday at the French hospital where he was flown from the West Bank on October 29 and had lain in a coma. Officials maintained in public that he was alive, though aides said privately that he was dead.
"HE'S NOT DEAD, DAMMIT! I WANT MY MONEY!"
Palestinian sources said Mr Arafat's death could be announced within days and arrangements were being hastily made for a funeral in Cairo and burial at his West Bank headquarters. Earth-moving equipment set to work digging up the grounds of his shell-shattered compound in Ramallah, which was to be turned into a shrine to the icon of Palestinian nationalism. But adding to the confusion, Sheikh Tayseer al-Tamimi, a leading West Bank cleric, told reporters after seeing Mr Arafat at the military hospital in a Paris suburb: "He is sick and his condition is very difficult but he remains alive." "As long as there is a manifestation of life present, from movement to temperature in the body, then he is alive," said Mr Tamimi.
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Tunisian President Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali reshuffled his government yesterday to speed up reforms after his re-election last month, officials said. Ben Ali extended his 17 years in power by another five-year mandate last month, getting more than 94 percent of the vote in presidential and parliamentary elections several opposition parties called unfair. The Cabinet reshuffle, dismissed as insignificant by several opposition figures, keeps in place Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi and the economic and finance ministers.
Foreign Minister Habib Ben Yahia was replaced by respected intellectual Abdelbaki Hermassi, who was culture minister, government officials said. Mohamed Aziz Ben Achour, another intellectual figure, took Hermassi's former job. Sadok Chaabane was replaced as higher education minister by law university teacher Lazhar Bououni. "The replacement of Chaabane and Ben Yahia, closely associated with the previous hard-line policy against opposition, might be a signal toward more political opening," a Western diplomat told Reuters. A senior government official said the new cabinet members, most of them young ministers, were appointed to give a "new impetus" to the president's election program.
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The prosecutor-general's office yesterday released 60 alleged members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group who had been detained for six months for belonging to an outlawed organization.
"The check cleared. Now g'won, git!"
An official at the prosecutor-general's office, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the charges had been dropped and the 60 were freed after the maximum detention period allowed under Egypt's emergency laws. He gave no reason for dropping the charges. Sawasya Center for Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination said 61 active members of the group had been arrested in May under the emergency laws, which give authorities wide powers of arrest and prolonged detention. Ali Abdel-Fattah, a leading Brotherhood member, confirmed the release of the men and told the Associated Press that some of the freed have already arrived at their homes. In a statement, Sawasya Center praised the release and urged the settlement of cases other citizens detained under emergency laws.
One detainee died in custody in June, prompting the Brotherhood to accuse the government of negligence and lack of medical care for the detainees. The government said Akram El-Zoheiri, 40, broke his pelvic bone while being transported to another detention facility and died while receiving treatment in the hospital, likely from internal bleeding exacerbated by his diabetes.
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"This time was just a warning. Next time it'll be for real." I can hope, can't I? But likely they were released in response to bad publicity over the death.
The government is just days away from reaching a peace agreement with a group of militants loyal to Nek Muhammad, the chief government negotiator claimed on Wednesday. "We have made a breakthrough," said Colonel (r) Inamullah Wazir of talks with the tribesmen loyal to Nek Muhammad, a former Taliban commander killed by an army missile in June. "Within a day or two, we will reach agreement with the militants," he added. However, he declined to give details of the agreement. "It's too early to say," he said. "We are just waiting for the tribes' guarantees on behalf of the militants."
He said NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah was personally involved in the negotiations and fully supported them. Tribal sources said that talks were being held with militant leaders Maulvi Muhammad Abbas, Muhammad Javed, Maulvi Abdul Aziz and brothers Haji Muhammad Umar and Muhammad Sharif at a secret location. The militant leaders declared war on the government after their boss Nek Muhammad was killed in a precision-guided missile attack in Wana in June this year, less than two months after the controversial Shakai deal of April 24. The sources said the talks had been underway for a month. Waziri cleric Maulana Noor Muhammad, who has influence among the Nek group militants, was facilitating the talks behind the scenes. The cleric enjoys close contact with Governor Shah and is a political rival of Maulana Abdul Malick, a Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MNA.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat's death, has hailed the Palestinian leader as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state.
The White House has put out word daily of calls flooding in from around the world to congratulate President Bush on his re-election victory. But somehow, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero just hasn't been able to get his call past the switchboard. Zapatero phoned Bush not long after his Nov. 2 win but wasn't put through to the president. More than a week after the voting, the two leaders still have not hooked up.
French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat's death, hailed the Palestinian leader on Thursday as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state. "It is with emotion that I have just learnt of the death of President Yasser Arafat, the first elected president of the Palestinian Authority," Chirac said in a written statement. "I offer my very sincere condolences to his family and to people close to him." Chirac urged the international community to persevere with efforts to ensure an international peace plan known as the road map is put into effect in the Middle East.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has issued a statement saying he was "deeply moved" after learning of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death. He said Arafat would always be remembered for having led the Palestinians in 1988 to accept the principle of peaceful coexistence between Israel and a future Palestinian state. "By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realisation of this vision. It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled," Annan said in a statement late Wednesday. "President Arafat was one of those few leaders who could be instantly recognized by people in any walk of life all around the world. For nearly four decades, he expressed and symbolized in his person the national aspirations of the Palestinian people. " Annan said that now Arafat was gone, "both Israelis and Palestinians, and the friends of both peoples throughout the world, must make even greater efforts to bring about the peaceful realization of the Palestinian right of self-determination."
Leaders of a United States Senate subcommittee investigating allegations of fraud in the oil-for-food program in Iraq have accused Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, of obstructing their inquiry. 
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Syrian President Bashar Assad yesterday renewed his country's call for dialogue with the United States to improve strained relations. Assad spoke during a meeting with US Congressman Gary Ackerman, a Democrat from New York, Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported. SANA said the talks centered on the regional situation, including developments in Iraq and the occupied Palestinian territories, "as well as the Middle East peace process, terrorism and ways of combating it." The talks also dealt with strained Syrian-US relations, with Assad stressing the importance of dialogue "and the need to continue it for the benefit of the two countries." A press release issued by the American Cultural Center in Damascus said Ackerman's talks with Assad covered "a full range of topics relating to US-Syria relations and regional issues."
DEBKAfile's Palestinian sources report extremist PLO politburo chief 
Palestinian officials prepared for the funeral of their ailing leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday as Israel agreed to allow his burial at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Mr Arafat, 75, suffered a brain haemorrhage on Tuesday at the French hospital where he was flown from the West Bank on October 29 and had lain in a coma. Officials maintained in public that he was alive, though aides said privately that he was dead. 
