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2005-07-15 Iraq-Jordan

British keep out of Basra's lethal Islamic take-over

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Posted by ed 2005-07-15 06:15|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Another shitforbrains journalist who thinks he understands what is going on.

Posted by phil_b 2005-07-15 07:46|| 2005-07-15 07:46|| Front Page Top

#2 As for the unnamed militia, lol, it's clearly the Sadrists - the mighty Madhi Army. They've been running amok regularly down there and, on occasion, the MSM fucks up and reports it.

Posted by .com 2005-07-15 09:33|| 2005-07-15 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 If the Brits are truly persuing a hands off policy then I think they're making a major blunder which will come back to haunt them (and us) at a later time. I find it disgusting to think the Brits won't lift a finger to identify, track down, then kill the bastards knocking off the booze drinkers, prostitutes and belly dancers. The hard core religious findamentalists need to be sent a deadly message that their intolerance will not be...well...tolerated.

Posted by Mark Z. 2005-07-15 11:04|| 2005-07-15 11:04|| Front Page Top

#4 More of the "light touch" policing that lost Britain its Empire.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2005-07-15 11:39|| http://www.punictreachery.com/]">[http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2005-07-15 11:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution, have become a common sight on street corners. Shops selling musical instruments have been bombed after warnings that musicians were the "servants of Satan".¹ Stores selling DVDs report that groups of men inspect their wares to ensure it contains no items considered too provocative. Women are approached on the streets and criticised by strangers if they do not wear a headscarf, while parents who allow their daughters to play sports have received envelopes with bullets in them.

But we infidels don't understand, don't you know? Allah Akhbar. It is written, and all that kind of stuff...

The holy militia is enforcing rules that are being channeled through a magic mullah from the ghost of the prophet's own second cousin three times removed...

¹ After the Iranian Islamist coup that over threw the Shah (Thanks loads Jimmy Carter) western classical music was eventually banned from the radio.

Here are some servants of Satan:

Yeah. Allah Akhbar, and all that kind of stuff...

Posted by BigEd 2005-07-15 12:00|| 2005-07-15 12:00|| Front Page Top

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