It arrived for me in Beirut under plain cover, a brown envelope containing a small, glossy paperback in Arabic, accompanied by a note from an Egyptian friend. "Robert!" it began. "Did you really write this?"
The front cover bore a photograph of Saddam Hussein in the dock in Baghdad, the left side of his head in colour, the right side bleached out, wearing a black sports jacket but with no tie, holding a Koran in his right hand. "Saddam Hussein," the cover said in huge letters. "From Birth to Martyrdom." And then there was the author's name in beautiful, calligraphic typeface and in gold in the top, right-hand corner. "By Robert Fisk." Sounds like something you'd do, Robert.
Needless to say, I noticed one or two problems with this book. It took a very lenient view of the brutality of Saddam, (just like you, Robert)
it didn't seem to care much about the gassed civilians of Halabja (neither do a lot of other people in the "antiwar" movement)
and it was full of the kind of purple passages which I write regularly loathe. "After the American rejection of the Iraqi weapons report to the UN," 'Robert Fisk' wrote, "the beating of war drums turned into a cacophony..." Ok, Robert, gotta give you that one. That sounds more like Barbara Streisand.
Dare I suggest to readers that this kind of cliche doesn't sound like Robert Fisk? But it does sound like Robert Fisk.
The only war drums I could hear were those of my own astonishment. For I never wrote this book. But you could have! It's your style.
It wasn't plagiarism a common practice in Cairo, which is why I ensure that all my real books are legally published in Arabic in Lebanon. No, this wasn't plagiarism. This was forgery. Call it "fake but accurate."
Go read the rest. Fiskie's attempts to find the publisher are rather amusing, and even he seems to realize the absurdity of it.
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Maybe Fisk didn't write it, but he could have written it, and that's the point. His biggest complaint seems to be the prose style. Sez a lot.
The Israeli army said on Sunday that it had suspended several soldiers after they were filmed exposing their bare buttocks to Palestinians in the south of the occupied West Bank. "All personnel implicated in this unfortunate affair have been identified and immediately suspended from all professional activity," the army said, without specifying the number of servicemen concerned.
"This affair dates to a month ago and does not characterise the values taught to our soldiers," a statement said. "It will be settled today and the soldiers implicated will have to answer for their actions."
On Sunday the YNet news website posted a video, filmed and first distributed by a peace activist group last week, that shows two soldiers in full combat gear exposing their buttocks and a third flashing a victory sign with his fingers.
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You've got to love the mental hardwiring of the peace terrorits (if terrorists are called activists, I guess activists have to be called terrorists, am I wrong?)...
Blowing up oneself in a kiddie section of a pizzeria, or in a waiting line full of teenagers to a nightclub : tools of a righteous fight for Freedom. No need to dwell on that, beside, you're rooting for the guys who do that kind of stuff.
Mooning your ennemy and doing a V sign : something that needs to be publicized, and shown to the whole world. People HAVE to know, that's so shocking!
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signs of frustration, I should say. The best way to focus an Israeli soldier is to put a gun in his hand and point him to his enemy. A rebuke to the leadership of Olmert.
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I didn't save the link, but Arab quoted remarks about this incident were bizzarely over the top, way out of proportion to the incident at least from someone like my perspective.
I assume the mooning very severely pisses off the Paleos (that humiliation thing), which maybe explains why the Israelis did it.
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On the one hand, good for them! I agree its frustration.
On the other hand, to REALLY do it right requires a loss of situational awareness. Thus, I would have disciplined them for not having someone on point while they were doing it...
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By the way...Sharon must sure be stinking up the Zionist Applebaum hospital.. My...My...what a punishment Allah is giving that rotting vegetable...Heh..heh...
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Punished? Seems to me the proper course of action is to yell at them awhile for being unprofessional and then take them out for a beer for showing personal initiative and spirit. But(t) that's just me.
Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December.
The Afghan government claims they prove British agents were talking to the Taliban without permission from the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, despite Gordon Brown's pledge that Britain will not negotiate. The Prime Minister told Parliament on 12 December: "Our objective is to defeat the insurgency by isolating and eliminating their leaders. We will not enter into any negotiations with these people."
The British insist President Karzai's office knew what was going on. But Mr Karzai has expelled two top diplomats amid accusations they were part of a plot to buy-off the insurgents.
The row was the first in a series of spectacular diplomatic spats which has seen Anglo-Afghan relations sink to a new low. Since December, President Karzai has blocked the appointment of Paddy Ashdown to the top UN job in Kabul and he has blamed British troops for losing control of Helmand.
It has also soured relations between Kabul and Washington, where State Department officials were instrumental in pushing Lord Ashdown for the UN role.
President Karzai's political mentor, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, endorsed a death sentence for blasphemy on the student journalist Sayed Pervez Kambaksh last week, and two British contractors have been arrested in Kabul on, it is claimed, trumped up weapons charges. The developments are seen as a deliberate defiance of the British.
An Afghan government source said the training camp was part of a British plan to use bands of reconciled Taliban, called Community Defence Volunteers, to fight the remaining insurgents. "The camp would provide military training for 1,800 ordinary Taliban fighters and 200 low-level commanders," he said.
The computer memory stick at the centre of the row was impounded by officers from Afghanistan's KGB-trained National Directorate of Security after they moved against a party of international diplomats who were visiting Helmand.
A ministry insider said: "When they were arrested, the British said the Ministry of the Interior and the National Security Council knew about it, but no one knew anything. That's why the President was so angry."
Details of how much President Karzai was told remain murky. Some analysts believe Afghan officials were briefed about the plan, but that it later evolved.
The camp was due to be built outside Musa Qala, in Helmand. It was part of a package of reconstruction and development incentives designed to win trust and support in the aftermath of the British-led battle to retake the stronghold last year.
But the Afghans feared the British were training a militia with no loyalty to the central government. Intercepted Taliban communications suggested they thought the British were trying to help them, the Afghan official said.
The Western delegates, Michael Semple and Mervyn Patterson, were given 48 hours to leave the country. Their Afghan colleagues, including a former army general, were jailed. The expulsions coincided with a row within the Taliban's ranks which saw a senior commander, Mansoor Dadullah, sacked for talking to British spies. One official claimed the camp was planned for Mansoor and his men.
The computer stick contained a three-stage plan, called the European Union Peace Building Programme. The third stage covered military training.
Curiously, the European Union says the programme did not exist and there were no EU funds to run it.
Afghan government officials insist it was bankrolled by the British. UK diplomats, the UN, Western officials and senior Afghan officials have all confirmed the outline of the plan, which they agree is entirely British-led, but all refused to talk about it on the record. President Karzai's office claimed it was "a matter of national security".
The memory stick revealed that $125,000 (£64,000) had been spent on preparing the camp and a further $200,000 was earmarked to run it in 2008, an Afghan official said. The figures sparked allegations that British agents were paying the Taliban.
President Karzai's spokesman, Humayun Hamidzada, accused Mr Semple and Mr Patterson of being "involved in some activities that were not their jobs."
The camp would also have provided vocational training, including farming and irrigation techniques, to offer people a viable alternative to growing opium. But the Afghan government took issue with plans to provide military training, to turn the insurgents into a defence force.
Afghan government staff also claimed the "EU peace-builders" had handed over mobile phones, laptops and airtime credit to insurgents. They said the memory stick revealed plans to train the Taliban to use secure satellite phones, so they could communicate directly with UK officials.
Mr Patterson, a Briton, was the third-ranking UN diplomat when he was held. Mr Semple, an Irishman, was the acting head of the EU mission. Officially, the British embassy remains tight-lipped, fuelling speculation that the plan may have been part of a wider clandestine operation.
A spokesman repeated the line used since Christmas: "The EU and UN have responded to inquiries on this. We have nothing further to add."
But privately, the UN maintains it had no role in setting up the camp. Meanwhile, Mr Semple's EU boss, Francesc Vendrell, admitted he had very little idea what was going on.
Yet the British ambassador, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, cut short his Christmas holiday to meet President Karzai and "spell out the Foreign Office paper-trail" which diplomats claim proves his government had agreed. They met twice, but it was not enough to stop Mr Semple and Mr Patterson being forced to leave.
Gordon Brown has also said Britain would increase its support for "community defence initiatives, where local volunteers are recruited to defend homes and families modelled on traditional Afghan arbakai".
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The Brits have been "the enemy" for a while now. Talk of how to "salvage" the Atlantic Alliance is just so much logorrhea...
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Why does it not surprise me that the State Department is also involved in this little scheme?
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Intercepted Taliban communications suggested they thought the British were trying to help them
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The Brits have been "the enemy" for a while now.
Elements of the British Government are certainly amongst the enemy. But I don't think that Britain as a whole is the enemy. There are plenty of Brits that are appalled by the actions of their Soci@list Government. I'm wondering just how long it is before the Armed Forces launches a coup, and drags the scurvy dogs in Parliament outside and puts them to the sword. It is overdue.
First the traitors, then the enemy!
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It is not just the socialists.
There is a decades old core group of Islamophile and Arabophile mandarins in the Foreign Office responsible for this.
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There is a decades old core group of Islamophile and Arabophile mandarins in the Foreign Office responsible for this.
Then they would be the traitors I'm referring to. They need to go, I'd prefer it be the high jump for them.
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Isn't there a story from WWII about Germans holding a series of bunkers around a castle - put up a good enough fight then retreated. When the Allied soldiers moved into the bunkers they were wired with explosives and zeroed by artillary?
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..Think it was Citizen Soldiers by Ambrose - Patton's army trying to get into Germany, somthing about a castle. Any rate, that would have made a great ploy by the British in this case, in my world (except add sleeping gas exposures to go in and capture, next day other ticklebums would be hey what a great thing to capture, repeat etc.).
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Brit foreign policy in the Middle East, Africa and Asia has traditionally been to split and co-opt the opposition. We're looking at 500 years of experience at work. Not saying this particular one is good or bad, but I think I understand where it came from.
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Steve, it worked in the past because there was no multi-cult paradigm then. They knew what they were doing--simply an utilitarian-pragmatic approach.
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There are myriad instances in world military history where opposing camps offered benefits to enemy warriors-soldiers in order to promote an agenda, weaken or destroy an enemy = enemy advantage, or just to stop or win a specific battle, etc. NEITHER BRITAIN NOR AMERICA WERE THE FIRST, AND WON'T BE THE LAST. E.G AMERICA DID IT IN KOREA AND VIETNAM vv NVA-VC, SO DID THE COMMIES.
New York: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Pakistan's use of "extremism" to foment trouble for its neighbours has begun to backfire, insisting that failure to rein in militancy would spell "gloom and doom" for the region.
Karzai, who has frequently sparred with his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf on the issue cross-border terrorism, said the two neighbouring countries must join hands to eradicate extremism in the region. "Unless we do that, the picture is one of doom and gloom - for Pakistan, and as a consequence for Afghanistan," Karzai was quoted as saying in the latest issue of Newsweek magazine.
The Afghan leader also said nations must not use extremism as a tool. "We cannot use extremism as a tool for any purpose. It will hurt us eventually, as it has begun to hurt Pakistan," he told the magazine.
Interestingly, Karzai and Musharraf shared a platform at the recently concluded World Economic Forum in Davos, where they addressed the issue of terrorism and the need for a global effort to fight the scourge.
Karzai said the Taliban, ousted from power by the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, was trying to stall progress in the country by trying to prevent reconstruction, killing and intimidating people and preventing children from going to school. Without mentioning Pakistan by name, Karzai said militant groups "would not be strong without support".
When pressed on Pakistan's possible involvement in fomenting terrorism in Afghanistan, Karzai said, "I've just had a very good trip to Pakistan, so what I would say is that Pakistan and Afghanistan and the US and the rest of the world must join hands in sincerity in order to end this problem".
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"rein in" implies usefully locked in the barn, ready to be brought out when needed. Karzai is a chucklehead, as are all other middle east "leaders"
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More than six years since the Taliban were ousted from power in Afghanistan, the militant movement is being "contained," with some 70 percent of violence last year occurring in just 10 percent of the country, NATO said.
The upbeat assessment Sunday contrasted reports that a resurgent Taliban are challenging the U.S. and its allies. It also comes as several of NATO's European members are refusing to send soldiers to Afghanistan's south, the scene of most of the fighting, opening a rift with the U.S. and others that have borne the brunt.
Three-quarters of Afghanistan suffered just one violent incident per week last year, Lt. Col. Claudia Foss, a spokeswoman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force told a press conference in Kabul. "It is becoming increasingly clear that the insurgent movement is being contained," Foss said. Within Pakistan. For now.
It is pretty much contained: to the Pashtun areas, and mostly in the deep rural Pashtun areas. There's only been a few (spectacular) incidents in Kabul, and little in the north. If you want to see where all the fighting is, on both sides of the border, just find the Pashtuns.
More than 6,500 people mostly insurgents died in violence in 2007, according to an Associated Press count of figures provided by local and international officials. It was the bloodiest year since the U.S.-led toppling of the Taliban in 2001.
An independent study co-chaired by retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones and former U.N. Ambassador Thomas Pickering warned last week that Afghanistan risks becoming a failed state because of deteriorating international support and the growing insurgency.
On Sunday, a British Cabinet minister called on allies to send troops to the south. "We have made clear to our NATO partners that we do want to see appropriate burden sharing, not just in the number of troops on the ground but where those troops are committed within Afghanistan," Douglas Alexander, British International Development Secretary, told the British Broadcasting Corp.
Germany in particular has been resisting pressure to deploy troops to the south. Germany insists its parliamentary mandate is for its 3,500 soldiers to serve along the northern border, only helping out in the south for a limited period.
Canada, meanwhile, is threatening not to extend its military mission in Afghanistan after 2009 unless another NATO country sends more soldiers to the south. Canada maintains 2,500 troops in Kandahar province. It has lost 78 soldiers and one diplomat since joining the U.S.-led mission.
The U.S. contributes one-third of NATO's 42,000-member International Security Assistance Force mission, making it the largest participant. The U.S. has an additional 12,000 to 13,000 troops there involved in counterterrorism operations.
Campaigners have expressed shock and regret after an Egyptian judge ruled that it is only legal to convert to Islam, but not to any other religion. The ruling came in the case of Mohammed Hegazy, who was suing the Egyptian Interior Ministry for the right to change his religion from Islam to Christianity on his official identification.
But last week Judge Muhammad Husseini ruled that it was only lawful to convert to Islam, and not to another religion. Hegazys lawyers told Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) that the judge argued in his ruling that Islam is the final and most complete religion, therefore to convert to a religion that preceded Islam is to insult the great religion and it cannot be allowed.
The judgment was based on Article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution which establishes sharia law as the primary source of legislation. Under traditional Islamic jurisprudence, apostasy, or converting from Islam, is punishable by death. Although Egyptian law does not criminalise conversion, CSW says that in practice converts from Islam to another religion often face legal barriers and risk serious harassment, including torture at the hands of the security police.
Hegazy and his lawyers are now waiting for the full transcript of the court ruling to be released before deciding whether they can appeal the decision. His wife, Zeinab, is also considering lodging her own legal challenge to change her religion to Christianity.
Since lodging the case, Hegazy and his wife have had to go into hiding as a result of threats made against them. Their daughter was born on January 10, 2008, while they were in hiding. Hegazys first lawyer, Mamdouh Nakhla, resigned from the case reportedly under duress. His current lawyers previously lodged a request to restart the court proceedings because of incomplete evidence presented to the court. However, the judge ignored this request when he rejected the case.
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Alrighty then. Start their own branch and call it u'pyors islam. Declare a pubah, and issue a fartwart claiming, "That in order to understand the state mandated religion fully we must first completely understand the Holy Bible." Practice as a Christian fully, fartwhat #2: "Sand is on the ground. The desert sand is hot. Hot is the work of the devil. Therefore touching your head to the ground is communicating with the devil. Therefore we pray standing and kneeling." Adopt the Ankh as their symbol as it is a traditional Egypt symbol. Get a big-assed PR system and blast Ave Maria, Ode to Joy, Girls Wanna Have Fun, Eminem's Without Me, and Stuck Mojo 5 times a day with large subwoofers pointed outwards. Oh, and consolidate their district armed to the teeth.
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Nice vision sw. I'm a Lutheran, but if I was shopping for a faith, I'd try the one you describe. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Dick Marcinko didn't call the CIA "Christians in Action" by accident...
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The father responsible for the recent honor killings of both his daughters near Dallas boasted long before he killed them that murdering them would be legal in Egypt.
As far as I am concerned Egypt and any other Muslim country is nothing but a thug ridden nation.
The command of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb did not publish the picture of the suicide bomber who blew himself up at a police station in eastern Algeria on Tuesday. Al-Qaeda which was behind a series of suicide attacks in Algeria said the suicide bomber was named Hamza Abu Abderrahmane without giving his real name.
Hamza Abu Abderrahmane who comes from a rural region was among the new recruited, Echorouk has learnt. All it seems that the suicide bombers picture was not published to avoid a conflict between Al-Qaeda command and the suicide bombers family. The suicide bombers families told the press that they were against such acts and their sons were misled. This opposition has a negative impact on terror support cells which seek members from terrorists families to foil any betrayal attempt.
Echorouk has learnt that many terrorists families cut contact directly after the killing of their sons as they are afraid of being chased by security forces. Investigators believe that Al-Qaeda did not publish the suicide bombers picture to mislead security forces.
Algerian interior minister Nourredine Yazid Zerhouni said the suicide bombers carried out their attacks under the effect of drugs while Al-Qaeda has shown them smiling and wearing military uniforms. Investigators believe that suicide bomber Hamza Abu Abderrahmane was under the effect of drugs; thats why, it was impossible to take picture of him as his was absent-minded.
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Carrying blankets and bed sheets on their heads, thousands of refugees fleeing fighting in Chad's capital N'Djamena crossed a drought-stricken river to get to neighboring Cameroon Sunday, local officials and journalists said.
Government forces, under the direction of Chad's President Idriss Deby, continued a bloody battle for power in N'Djamena against the rebels, according to a French military spokesman. Between 2,000 and 3,000 rebel soldiers armed with rifles roamed N'Djamena's streets in pickup trucks, the spokesman said.
Guess the ceasefire didn't last long, huh?
The rebels entered the city on Saturday, local officials and journalists said. Chadian Ambassador to the United States Mahamoud Adam Bechir said the rebels were mercenaries supported by the government in neighboring Sudan. He said Sudan wanted to destabilize Chad's government. Both the Sudanese and Chadian governments have previously accused one another of fomenting violence in the other's country by giving support to rebel groups.
On Sunday, the Chadian refugees flooded the Cameroon town of Kousseri, which lies just across the border from N'Djamena, according to Helene Caux, a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva.
She said authorities in Kousseri have put the number of Chadian refugees in the thousands. That was confirmed by Agnes Teile, a journalist for Cameroon television station Canal 2, who witnessed a steady stream of people -- mostly women and children -- spilling into Kousseri. Some of the refugees were able to cross into Cameroon over a bridge, which was reopened earlier Sunday. Others had to wade through the river which was at low levels due to an ongoing drought.
Aid groups are struggling to reach the injured because of the ongoing fighting, according to the Chadian Red Cross which estimates about 200 have been wounded since Saturday. Many of the injured are civilians caught in the crossfire, according to the aid group Doctors Without Borders -- known internationally by its French name, Medecins Sans Frontieres. Some of those who fled to Cameroon also sustained injuries and are being treated by Cameroon's military and Red Cross, Teile said.
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I keep wondering if what we see in Africa now is what existed before colonialism started. It seems that there's nothing but incessant tribal warfare everywhere.
Muslim women training in several hospitals in England have objected to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands, because it is regarded as immodest in Islam. Universities and NHS trusts fear many more will refuse to co-operate with new Department of Health guidance, introduced this month, which stipulates that all doctors must be "bare below the elbow".
According to a report in The Telegraph, the measure has been deemed necessary to stop the spread of infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile, which have killed hundreds.
Deobandism has killed hundreds of thousands. What's the big deal?
Minutes of a clinical academics' meeting at Liverpool University revealed that female Muslim students at Alder Hey children's hospital had objected to rolling up their sleeves to wear gowns. Similar concerns have been raised at Leicester University. Sheffield University also reported a case of a Muslim medic who refused to "scrub" as this left her forearms exposed. Documents from Birmingham University reveal that some students would prefer to quit the course rather than expose their arms, and warn that it could leave trusts open to legal action.
Hygiene experts said last night that no exceptions should be made on religious grounds. "Perhaps these women should not be choosing medicine as a career if they feel unable to abide by the guidelines that everyone else has to follow," they said.
But the Islamic Medical Association insisted that covering all the body in public, except the face and hands, was a basic tenet of Islam. Dr Majid Katme, the association spokesman, said: "Exposed arms can pick up germs and there is a lot of evidence to suggest skin is safer to the patient if covered. One idea might be to produce long, sterile, disposable gloves which go up to the elbows."
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"Perhaps these women should not be choosing medicine as a career if they feel unable to abide by the guidelines that everyone else has to follow," they said.
IOW: Shut up, skanks
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Lop their arms off. No need for all that nasty immodest hand washing then...
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Muslim women training in several hospitals in England have objected to removing their arm coverings in theatre
Little wonder morale among the ranks is suffering for phuechs sake.
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If this were America I would say hire them and then everyone who catches even a cold in a British hospital sues for ten million dollars, one hundred for penumonia a billion pr death.
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"One idea might be to produce long, sterile, disposable gloves which go up to the elbows."
Another idea might be to produce a bunch of poles to slide down like in the Batman comics. When they get to the bottom they will be wearing long, sterile, disposable Burkas.
*Better first check to make sure sliding down poles isn't an insult to Islam or anything.
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Firefighters wear nomex. Strippers get nekkid. Health professionals are sanitary. All 3 are volunteer jobs with very specific job requirements. Perhaps a job at a dry cleaners, chimney sweeps?
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It's clearly their husbands or father's faults. They are making or allowing them to work and go outside the home, bringing dishonor to their families. Therefore, execute their husband or father and castrate every male relative within 3 degrees.
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"But the Islamic Medical Association insisted that covering all the body in public, except the face and hands, was a basic tenet of Islam."
(The tenents of our religion trump your stupid rules for hygiene and public health, you stupid kufir.)
"One idea might be to produce long, sterile, disposable gloves which go up to the elbows."
Another idea might be to summarily refuse to train female muzzies for careers in medicine since a tenent of their religion conflicts with basic standards of public health.
I recall a few months back it was reported that muzzie med students were refusing to attend med seminars/training courses dealing with STD's and HIV. Whatever became of those a**holes? Did the med schools find a way to accomodate them or were they tossed out on their ears? I'm betting the med schools turned a blind eye, kissed muzzie a**, and the med schools prayed they wouldn't be called islamophobes.
The major parties/elected elites in the UK are pushing the people toward joining the BNP because the BNP is the only party that speaks out against the encroachment of islam on daily life. Witness the stories over the weekend where muzzies with multiple wives get extra welfare benefits and the story where the "muzzie honor killings" and "muzzie forced marriage" get short shrift by the UK police.
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Don't know gorb, seems like that may be a 5 year stint in the gulog for incitement of hate in ol' brittania and I have been to the hospital a couple of times where there were so many things going on at once wondering if hands were scrubbed happened the next day. In that profession cleanliness is mandatory and must be strictly enforced. There is a hospital out my way of which it is said, "If you stay there long enough they'll kill ya." on account of staph etc. IIRC lots of mexikansans there with the long finger nails probably not washed thoroughly enough.
Otherwise I agree, "Don't get your hair cut by someone with a bag covering their head."
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No gorb not in the UK, in the UK that is considered a hate crime.
That sucks. OK, perhaps you could insist that she wash up in front of you? Everyone's got a right to defend themselves against germs and other people's foolish ideas about them, right?
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It is all about freedom; the freedom to protect the majority from disease, notwithstanding a parasitic and disrespectful minority. Muslims can go to hell.
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This is all a part of the campaign that those who would heal you will kill you. Wasn't it recently that some Muslim doctors were arrested in Britain or somewhere who were going to commit terrorism in the West?
And isn't the number two Al Qaeda man, Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahari, and Egyption Muslim doctor?
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And wasn't it in the UK that the Islamic Medical Association demanded Muslim Doctors not vaccinate?
Dr Abdul Majid Katme, head of the Islamic Medical Association, is telling Muslims that almost all vaccines contain products derived from animal and human tissue, which make them "haram", or unlawful for Muslims to take.
Islam permits only the consumption of halal products, where the animal has had its throat cut and bled to death while God's name is invoked.
Islam also forbids the eating of any pig meat, which Katme says is another reason why vaccines should be avoided, as some contain or have been made using pork-based gelatine.
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Some of the ummah perform jihad with guns, others with germs.
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I don't remember anything about vaccinations, www, except on the Indian sub-continent and Africa, where they refused polio vaccines for a while. But there was a ring of Pakistani doctors in Britain and Australia, if I recall correctly... I don't recall if they were directly linked to the two idiots drove through the entrance of the Glasgow airport and caught themselves on fire for their efforts, but the first of the doctors were picked up shortly thereafter, fleeing up one of the M motorways. The one in Australia first had his visa revoked, then afterward it was given back with apologies. Details are in the Rantburg archive, which cleverer people than I know how to search.
Jørn Holme, chief of The Norwegian Police Security Service, confirmed for the first time on Monday that active recruiting efforts are being carried out by older, militant extremists in Norway. Holme refused to go into detail, but he told newspaper Aftenposten that intelligence gathering indicates that the terror challenge in Norway has gone beyond extremists' efforts to gain support for terrorist activity abroad.
"We've had reports about older, manipulative Islamic extremists here in the country, who have tried to motivate youth to take part in jihad (holy war) attacks abroad," he told Aftenposten. He said PST is taking the reports seriously. He wouldn't say how many efforts have been made, how they're carried out or how the extremists come in contact with Norwegian youth. Nor would he say whether PST knows of any successful recruiting efforts. But he confirmed that recruiters are in the country, and active.
That surprised several muslim youth leaders interviewed by Aftenposten. They claimed they weren't aware of any terrorist recruiting efforts, and doubted they would succeed in Norway. "Jørn Holme must be talking about another world than the one I'm in," said Kim Abdul Karim at an Islamic association's locale in Oslo. "I've been active in muslim circles both in Oslo and other Norwegian cities, and I've never heard about this." Suleman Ijaz said he was also surprised. "Muslims know well that terror isn't in accordance with the religion," he said.
Mariam Javed, leader of the Muslim Students' Association in Norway, said Norwegian youth are too well-informed to fall for recruiting efforts, and he thinks they'd report any to PST.
Holme urged "strong resistance" to any such recruiting efforts within Norway's various ethnic circles. He drew parallels to PST's efforts to fight right-wing extremism by tracking neo-Nazi organizations and recruiting efforts, and enlisting the aid of local communities and families. He said the terror threat in Norway remains complex, but stressed that most terrorist links uncovered in Norway relate to activity outside the country, not within Norwegian borders.
As head of the PST, Holme is the man charged with protecting democracy, government leaders, the royal family and the general population in Norway. While he's often referred to as the Norwegian equivalent of "M" in James Bond novels and movies, Holme remains relatively unknown and keeps a low profile.
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"Muslims know well that terror isn't in accordance with the religion,"
Terror? No, no, no. Righteous jihad against Jews and Unbelievers is a different story.
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I just can't understand for the life of me why these foamers and droolers don't just throw the lot of these parasites out.
What do the Mohamedan's have to do before the light comes on in their thick skulls? Will these people stand around like confused imbeciles as the 'slums cut their throats and carry off their women? Are there no men in these countries? CR@P!
First the traitors, then the enemy!
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GDLOTW, I believe there are still men in Yurop, somewhere out there... the multi-culti politicos ain't men, they just assure, due to their stupidity, that the inevitble clash would be bloody.
First the traitors, then the enemy!
I think we may have to skip the preferential treatment and handle them at the same time.
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No problem. First we will build a cathedral in Mecca for all of Arabias Christians and people who want to convert to Christianity, then we will rebuild part of the Temple in Jerusalem and after that we can have a nice sit down and chat about future mosque construction in Europe.
Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf on Monday advocated the need for creating an 'enabling environment' for the success of the India-Pakistan peace process and said the Kashmir issue could be resolved through 'sincerity, courage and flexibility'.
Flexibility by the Indians, not Pakistanis
In a message on the eve of the 'Kashmir Solidarity Day' to be observed on Tuesday across Pakistan,
a national holiday
Musharraf said, "We firmly believe that an enabling environment is necessary for the success of the peace process".
"And I want a pony. A brown one. With big eyes."
"We remain engaged in a sincere, sustained and purposeful dialogue with India on Kashmir. We believe that with sincerity, courage and flexibility, we can achieve a solution to the long-standing Kashmir dispute," he said.
Referring to his four-point proposal aimed at breaking the decades-old deadlock, he said this demonstrated Pakistan's 'readiness to work constructively to find a solution acceptable to all parties, especially the Kashmiris'.
"we want Kashmir"
"and a pony"
The proposal envisages the demilitarisation of Kashmir and joint control of the region by India and Pakistan.
Pakistan being the very epitome of good governance and state control
Several Kashmir-related confidence-building measures initiated by Pakistan had brought 'some relief' to Kashmiris living on both sides of the Line of Control, he said.
Pakistan always stressed the need to end violence and human rights abuses in the Indian part of Kashmir, he added.
human rights abuses in Pakistan are of course nobody's business
Musharraf reiterated Pakistan's commitment to extend moral, political and diplomatic support for a "just and peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiri people".
Musharraf noted that the Kashmir issue remained on the agenda of the United Nations as 'an unfulfilled obligation'.
"Sniff, Uncle Ban, make the bad Indians give me Kashmir"
Musharraf said, "Pakistan stands in solidarity with our Kashmiri brothers and sisters and assures them of our full support in their just struggle for self-determination".
No self determination for Balochis or Sindhis or Pashtuns though
Pakistan has observed the Kashmir Solidarity Day since 1990, when the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir backed by Islamabad was at its peak.
In a separate message, caretaker prime minister Muhammedmian Soomro said lasting peace in the region could be achieved only if the world community and India honoured 'the pledge made to the Kashmiri people for their right to self-determination'.
and give Perv his pony
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Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, had just consoled the father of a 16-year-old suicide bomber when he spoke of his religious compulsion to drive American forces out of Pashtun tribal lands. "I know very well the military might of America, and that fighting with America is like banging my head against a wall," said Mehsud, his dark eyes gleaming beneath a black turban. "But my religion compels me to fight against the occupiers until the last drop of my blood," he said, according to a witness among the scores of kinsmen and fighters who had assembled to commemorate the boy's martyrdom for the cause.
Two months ago, Mehsud was declared Emir of the Taliban in Pakistan. Yet in 2005 a Pakistani general had called him "a soldier of peace" for signing a peace deal that brought a short-lived lull in the conflict in South Waziristan.
Intelligence officials say he's been behind a wave of suicide attacks in Pakistani cities since the army stormed Islamabad's Red Mosque in July to crush a militant movement. But it was when Pakistani officials named him as the prime suspect in the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on December 27 that Mehsud's notoriety rocketed. CIA Director Michael Hayden also said the evidence pointed toward the little big man -- Mehsud is barely five foot tall -- in South Waziristan.
A Mehsud tribesman has said that Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, is diabetic and does not sleep well because of his ailment.
Pray for necrosis.
Baitullah is a member of the Shahbikhel, a sub-tribe of the Mehsud, who with the Wazir represent the main tribes in Waziristan. Abdul Karim Mehsud, a lawyer in Peshawar who comes from the same tribe, said he hadnt seen his clansman for six years, but recalls a simple person, quite religious, but an avowed jihadi driven by desire to liberate Afghanistan, where he had fought. Intelligence officials say hes been behind a wave of suicide attacks in Pakistani cities since the army stormed the Lal Masjid in July to crush a militant movement.
Not very good with directions, is he? Lal Masjid isn't in Afghanistan. For that matter, Wazoo's not in Afghanistan, and Afghanistan is properly a problem of the Afghans, not of the Paks.
But it was when officials named him the prime suspect in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto that Mehsuds notoriety rocketed. According to The Friday Times weekly, Mehsud is financed by Al Qaeda and Afghan and Pakistani businessmen in the United Arab Emirates.
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More benefits of severe inbreeding.
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A freelance American journalist who was expelled from Pakistan had gone to the country as a research scholar and not as a journalist, and violated his visa terms, an embassy official said.
Nicholas Schmidle accused Pakistani authorities of expelling him because of his exposure of Taliban extremist elements operating in the country.
In an article in the Washington Post on Sunday, Schmidle writes that he was summarily expelled from Pakistan, linking his expulsion with the travels and reporting I had done for a story published two days earlier in the New York Times magazine about a dangerous new generation of Taliban in Pakistan.
He states that he had spent several months travelling throughout the troubled areas along the border with Afghanistan including Quetta, Dera Ismail Khan, and Swat. He adds that his visa listed no travel restrictions, and less than a week earlier, the president had told foreign journalists in Islamabad that they could go anywhere they wanted to in Pakistan. An embassy official asked to comment on Schmidles claim said that he went to Pakistan more than two years ago as a research scholar and was attached to a local organisation in Islamabad. He did not go to Pakistan as a journalist, neither freelance nor one attached to a news organisation. Journalists, the official stressed, require a different category of visa, which Schmiddle did not have.
He was also travelling in areas, as he himself confesses in his article, where even foreign journalists would need permission for the sake of their own safety. As such his forays into those areas were totally unauthorised and in violation of the terms of his visa, the official added.
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He might want to layover in Paris for a few days and have a long talk with Mariane Van Neyenhoff and her fatherless young son Adam Daniel Pearl.
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Why does it now seem that claiming to be a journalist makes about as much sense as claiming to be a pederast?
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A freelance American journalist who was expelled from Pakistan had gone to the country as a research scholar and not as a journalist...
Pak officials don't understand that in American culture a 'journalist' considers himself/herself an expert a large number fields [without having spent more than Google(tm) minute on the subject], so being a 'scholar' is just another self anointed title they can give themselves.
Six hundred suicide bombers are present in Karachi and they are planning a major attack, revealed Qasim Toori and Danish alias Talha during interrogations by law-enforcement agencies. Most of the suicide bombers are also former students of Islamabads Lal Masjid. The two militants, who were captured along with women and children during a raid in Sector-17A, Shah Latif, on January 29, have been handed over to the Anti-Violent Crime Unit (AVCU). A third militant, who was killed during the raid, has been identified as Gohar Muhammad alias Abrar Keamari Wallah, according to Special Investigations Unit (SIU) DSP Wasif Qureshi.
Qureshi declined to comment. However, a source privy to the interrogation told Daily Times that the militants had confessed, Around 600 Jundullah militants are present in Karachi. They are mentally prepared and trained to commit suicide attacks. They confessed that they had robbed foreign banks and dispatched the money to their headquarters in Wana, from where their needs for weapons, explosives and other necessities were being met. The source added that law-enforcement personnel have also taken into custody two brothers, Abu Abdullah and Gohar Muhammad. Abdullah and Gohar are physically unfit, and it is rumoured that the brothers were to carry out suicide attacks.
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I'd protest the pooplisting of JUSTICE but I began to think he's probably just a kid who sits in front of a computer in his mother's house and abuses himself. After all, if he was a real jihadi, he'd be out blowing himself up.
#5
Oh yeah, maybe they should all get together and do a thorough equipment check. You know, to make sure everything works.
May have to agree with EU6305. As just-lice believes that paper is used to clean feces and not one's buttocks. But leave it to him to try and polish a turd.
Disparate militants bands in Pakistan are increasing coordination in their insurgency while the authorities, which should be challenging their spread, are demoralised and fearful, security analysts say.
Militants have battled security forces in several parts of the northwest in recent weeks and briefly seized a main road tunnel 50 km from Peshawar late in January. Suicide bombers have killed hundreds of people over the past year, striking in all of the countrys main cities and killing former premier Benazir Bhutto on December 27. The attacks have raised fears about the stability of nuclear-armed Pakistan. While theres no chance of the insurgents defeating the army or holding territory outside remote enclaves on the Afghan border, the violence looks set to intensify.
Peace deals backfire: Brigadier (r) Mahmood Shah, a former chief of security in the ethnic Pashtun border lands, said peace deals with the militants in their border hub of Waziristan had backfired. Unfortunately, the policies of the last few years have helped them in re-establishing themselves, in reorganising and rearming Shah told Reuters.
A Pakistani militant chief, Baitullah Mehsud, who the government and the CIA says was behind Benazirs murder, was in December declared leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The organisation is for now little more than a name but more coordination would spell trouble, analysts said.
Taliban strengthening: The TTP is 95 percent theory and 5 percent tangible, said a senior government official who has worked in the tribal areas. They dont have a concrete, organised mechanism but things are moving towards that and that would be very dangerous, said the official, who declined to be identified. You can only convert the sympathies of the public from these guerrillas by providing what the government should be providing: justice, security, clean hospitals, said the official.
Resentment runs deep in the seven isolated, long-neglected tribal agencies. The government has nothing for the tribal people but troops, missiles and cobra gunship helicopters, said Abdul Karim Mehsud, a lawyer from South Waziristan.
Former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said he expected violence to intensify before the general election. Attacks on the police had demoralised them while investigators were failing to catch anyone behind the suicide bombs, he said. Afrasiab Khattak, a leader of a Pashtun nationalist party challenging Islamist parties for power in the NWFP in the election, said, Militants have their own agendas, he said. Its a volcano created in the mountains that is throwing lava on both sides of the border.
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A pause in the ongoing military operation against Taliban militants in South Waziristan is being seen as a temporary halt to pave way for a truce in the troubled region, residents and elders believe. However, Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Major General Athar Abbas told Daily Times he was unaware of any offer from militant leader Baitullah Mehsud as was earlier reported by some media outlets.
Asked why the military had stopped advancing or even firing, he said it might be a lull to consolidate their positions, and added that there is no ceasefire at the moment. He said any peace deal was related to the civil administration.
However, an unofficial source privy to previous talks between the government and the Taliban militants in the area said efforts were underway to secure a peace deal. The source remained elusive when asked if the Taliban had made any offer for a ceasefire with the government. The source added, There is a temporary ceasefire.
Although the government has not made an official announcement and reports of scattered incidents of firing have been arriving from certain areas, the two sides are striving to secure a permanent peace deal, the source hoped. He said the Taliban had not requested tribal elders for negotiations with the government, nor had the government assigned the elders any task to start negotiations. There were yet signs that both sides were inclined to reach a truce to bring calm to the area, the source maintained. Locals confirmed there had been no artillery shelling by security forces or attacks on checkposts by militants since Friday. The locals believe, however, it might be due to excessive snowfall in some areas.
Reports about a ceasefire offer by Mehsud have appeared at a time when troops have made advances against militants in Waziristan, and army officials say they have come close to hideouts of the militant commander.
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Peace of the grave, maybe...,
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GAZA - An aide to Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Sunday that the Islamist movement, which administers the Gaza Strip, supports an economic dissociation from Israel and instead would prefer depending on Arab and Islamic countries for support.
Take the blood money and buy more ammo, huh?
But at the same time, Ahmed Yousef denied his movement wants to separate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, where a government appointed by President Mahmoud Abbas, but as yet unratified, sits. What I was talking about is to stop keeping Gaza subordinate to Israel from an economic point of view, and to stop using the economy to blackmail the Palestinians, he told reporters in Gaza.
Haniya told the Gaza-based pro-Hamas Palistine daily on Saturday that Gaza needed stronger links with Egypt as a way of enforcing an economic dissociation from Israel. We said during our election campaign in 2006 that we are seeking to move toward an economic disengagement from the Israeli occupation, he said, adding that Egypt has a greater ability to meet the needs of Gaza.
And many more links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Our idea does not annul the fact that Gaza is still under the Israeli occupation, but all what we want is to breath freedom, find job opportunities, develop agriculture and promote commerce, said Yousef.
Since you've done everything you can in that regard so far ...
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Egypt just made clear they would have none of it.
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Heh, I wonder if the Gazans resented the fact they were being poisoned....
LOL politics of the Souk.
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WORLDTRIBUNE > HAMAS FIRES IRANIAN NUR ROCKET INTO ISRAEL + REPORT: HAMAS OPERATIVES [12 ea.] CAUGHT ENTERING GAZA WITH 700,000 PALESTINIANS, Captured by Egypt.
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday he would not quit the government despite a harsh Lebanon war report, relieving pressure on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he pursues peace talks with the Palestinians.
The Labour party leader had suggested he might pull out of Olmerts fractious coalition if an official inquiry into the 2006 Lebanon war released last week blamed the prime minister directly for political and military bungles.
But Barak, whose departure would likely have felled the government and prompted snap polls, said he would stay in the job to deal with recommendations laid out by the Winograd Commission and would later set a date for elections.
I decided to stay, Barak told reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting in remarks aired on Army Radio. And why am I staying? I remain in my job as defence minister because I know the challanges that face Israel.
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TEHRAN: Iran criticised France on Sunday for adopting an unfriendly position in Tehrans nuclear row with the West and setting up a military base in the Gulf which it said would harm peace in the oil-rich region.
So far, our policies regarding France and their unfriendly stances have been restrained, but if they continue this trend we will also review our stances, the spokesman, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, told a news conference. France is among world powers trying to exert diplomatic pressure on Iran to halt atomic work they fear is aimed at making bombs and it has stepped up its rhetoric against Tehran since President Nicolas Sarkozy took office last May.
Iran says its nuclear programme is a peaceful drive to generate electricity. France and Iran share commercial ties but relations took a turn for the worse after Frances foreign minister in September said the world should prepare for a war with Iran.
Hosseini criticised a deal Paris signed with the United Arab Emirates to build Frances first permanent military installation in the Gulf, just across the water from Iran. The base, housing 400 to 500 personnel, will keep France within reach of sea lanes through which over a third of global oil shipments pass.
Presence in Gulf: The French Defence Ministry on Jan 31 said forces from France, the UAE and Qatar would hold their first joint war games in the Gulf later this month. We are against any kind of increase in the military presence of foreign forces in the region, Hosseini said in comments carried by Irans Press TV. We do believe that such a presence is not conducive to the security and peace in the region.
Envoy summoned: Referring to Israel, Hosseini said France was ignoring the Zionist regimes crimes against Palestinians. On Friday, the French Foreign Ministry summoned Irans ambassador to Paris over a new verbal attack on Israel last week by Ahmadinejad who in the past has called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map. In a tit for tat response, Iran on Sunday summoned the French ambassador to Tehran.
The state broadcasters website said Iran had summoned French ambassador Bernard Poletti to protest at Frances dual policies regarding Irans peaceful nuclear activities and the Zionist crimes in Palestine. Hosseini had told reporters that Iran would call in Poletti to object to the summoning of its ambassador to Paris, Ali Ahani, on Friday. He also warned that Iran would reconsider its position towards Paris over its tougher line in the long-running nuclear standoff between the Islamic republic and the West. agencies
TEHERAN - Iran criticised France on Sunday for adopting an unfriendly position in Teherans nuclear row with the West and setting up a military base in the Gulf which it said would harm peace in the oil-rich region.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman suggested that Iran would respond in kind after Paris last week summoned its ambassador over anti-Israeli remarks made by its hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. So far, our policies regarding France and their unfriendly stances have been restrained, but if they continue this trend we will also review our stances, the spokesman, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, told a news conference.
Hosseini criticised a deal Paris signed with the United Arab Emirates to build Frances first permanent military installation in the Gulf, just across the water from Iran. The base, housing 400 to 500 personnel, will keep France within reach of sea lanes through which over a third of global oil shipments pass. The French Defence Ministry on Jan. 31 said forces from France, the UAE and Qatar would hold their first joint war games in the Gulf later this month.
We are against any kind of increase in the military presence of foreign forces in the region, Hosseini said in comments carried by Irans Press TV. We do believe that such a presence is not conducive to the security and peace in the region.
Referring to Israel, Hosseini said France was ignoring the Zionist regimes crimes against Palestinians: We will surely express our objections by summoning the French ambassador.
On Friday, the French Foreign Ministry summoned Irans ambassador to Paris over a new verbal attack on Israel last week by Ahmadinejad who in the past has called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.
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A Foreign Ministry spokesman suggested that Iran would respond in kind...
So the peaceful Iranians are going to establish a base in, say, Paris? Oh, wait, there's already one in place there!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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It arrived for me in Beirut under plain cover, a brown envelope containing a small, glossy paperback in Arabic, accompanied by a note from an Egyptian friend. "Robert!" it began. "Did you really write this?"
Carrying blankets and bed sheets on their heads, thousands of refugees fleeing fighting in Chad's capital N'Djamena crossed a drought-stricken river to get to neighboring Cameroon Sunday, local officials and journalists said.
Muslim women training in several hospitals in England have objected to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands, because it is regarded as immodest in Islam. Universities and NHS trusts fear many more will refuse to co-operate with new Department of Health guidance, introduced this month, which stipulates that all doctors must be "bare below the elbow".
A Mehsud tribesman has said that Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, is diabetic and does not sleep well because of his ailment. 
A pause in the ongoing military operation against Taliban militants in South Waziristan is being seen as a temporary halt to pave way for a truce in the troubled region, residents and elders believe. However, Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Major General Athar Abbas told Daily Times he was unaware of any offer from militant leader Baitullah Mehsud as was earlier reported by some media outlets.
TEHERAN - Iran criticised France on Sunday for adopting an unfriendly position in Teherans nuclear row with the West and setting up a military base in the Gulf which it said would harm peace in the oil-rich region.
