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The Vanishing Christians of Iraq
Post Date: 2007-02-22 08:04:00 by continental op
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Last October, a Syrian Orthodox priest, Fr. Boulos Iskander, went shopping for auto parts in the Iraqi city of Mosul. He was never seen alive again. A Muslim group kidnapped him and initially demanded $350,000 in ransom; they eventually lowered this to $40,000, but added a new demand: Fr. Boulos57; parish had to denounce the remarks made the previous month by Pope Benedict XVI that caused rioting all over the Islamic world. The ransom was paid, and the church dutifully posted thirty large signs all over Mosul, but to no avail: Fr. Boulos was not only murdered but dismembered. Five hundred Christians attended his funeral, where another priest commented: 60;Many more wanted to come to the ...
Italian judge sentences 13-year-old girl to abort baby...
Post Date: 2007-02-20 09:13:41 by A K A Stone
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This is a headline up at drudge. The story link isn't working.
Army and police desert beleaguered Mugabe
Post Date: 2007-02-19 00:06:53 by Jhoffa_
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Army and police desert beleaguered Mugabe Widespread desertions from Zimbabwe's army and police are weakening Robert Mugabe's security forces as large strikes loom because of the country's deepening economic collapse. With inflation now at a global record of 1,600 per cent, The Observer can reveal that soldiers and police officers who cannot feed their families are leaving their posts in large numbers. Flyers of army officers who have gone missing are posted in the hallways of the King George VI headquarters in Harare and the 1 Commando quarters near the airport, according to journalists. 'There are Awol notices up in the barracks, our reporter saw them,' said Bill ...
India-Pakistan rail link reopens
Post Date: 2007-02-18 23:04:51 by A K A Stone
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The new Thar Express train will connect the border towns of Munabao in the Indian state of Rajasthan to Khokrapar in Pakistan's Sindh province. The train crossed into India early on Saturday, carrying some 200 passengers. The two countries resumed a train service between Lahore in Pakistan and Amritsar in India in 2004. The decision to reopen the rail link is yet another step in a peace process that began in January 2004 and which has seen the easing of a number of travel restrictions. I am going home for the first time after 58 years Mohammad Ali Azhar, passenger from Pakistan A military band played traditional tunes and hundreds of people cheered as a train rolled into a small ...
Britney Shaves Her Head while Neocons Finger Iran on the Cheap
Post Date: 2007-02-18 23:02:05 by A K A Stone
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Frank Rich, writing for the New York Times, reposted at Raw Story, remarks that watching the neocons “try to get [their] story straight about Iran’s role in Iraq last week was like watching third-graders try to sidestep blame for misbehaving while the substitute teacher was on a bathroom break. The team that once sold the country smoking guns in the shape of mushroom clouds has completely lost its mojo.” Nice analogy. But, honestly, I don’t think the neocons, who are largely Straussians, thus buy into Strauss’ take on Plato’s Noble Lie—not a significant departure from Hitler’s Big Lie—are concerned their mojo amulets have dried up. Of course, ...
Communist (Collectivist Tyranny) Robert Pastor Spewing Sophi
Post Date: 2007-02-09 09:53:35 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:These assholes are conspiring to end the United States. I think they deserve a traitors end. Dammit I hate these assholes.
ANNA NICHOLE SMITH DEAD
Post Date: 2007-02-08 16:21:14 by A K A Stone
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel, one of her lawyers said. Smith, 39, collapsed and was unresponsive while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino, said the attorney, Ron Rale. She was rushed to a hospital. "She checked in Monday at 8 p.m. as a guest. She was due to check out tomorrow," said Danielle Giordaano, a spokeswoman for the hotel. Smith had been a tabloid staple even before she became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993. Readers were fascinated by her ...
To: The Artist now known as: Jethro Chicken
Post Date: 2007-02-06 00:54:45 by Jhoffa_
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Bgawwk! Bggawk! (Sure it's ridiculous.. but, so are you.)
Police in Tijuana issued sling shots
Post Date: 2007-01-23 08:39:31 by continental op
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TIJUANA, Mexico - The police department has issued about 60 slingshots to officers in the violent border city of Tijuana, where soldiers confiscated police weapons two weeks ago on allegations of collusion with drug traffickers. ADVERTISEMENT Municipal police spokesman Fernando Bojorquez said Monday that the slingshots, along with bags of ballbearings, were given to officers patrolling areas of the city visited by tourists. Tijuana's police force of 2,000 officers has been without guns since Jan. 5, but some patrol alongside armed state police. President Felipe Calderon sent 3,300 soldiers and federal police to Tijuana at the beginning of January to hunt down drug gangs. The ...
The Invisible Enemy in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-01-22 07:37:18 by A K A Stone
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A homemade bomb exploded under a Humvee in Anbar province, Iraq, on August 21, 2004. The blast flipped the vehicle into the air, killing two US marines and wounding another - a soft-spoken 20-year-old named Jonathan Gadsden who was near the end of his second tour of duty. In previous wars, he would have died within hours. His skull and ribs were fractured, his neck was broken, his back was badly burned, and his stomach had been perforated by shrapnel and debris. Gadsden got out of the war zone alive because of the Department of Defense's network of frontline trauma care and rapid air transport known as the evacuation chain. Minutes after the attack, a helicopter touched down in the ...
Chinese missile destroys satellite in space
Post Date: 2007-01-19 07:29:24 by A K A Stone
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Britain has joined the US, Japan and Australia's condemnation of China after the communist country destroyed a satellite in space using a ballistic missile. Digram showing missile launch The British embassy in Beijing said it had raised the test, the first of its kind for 20 years, with the Chinese foreign ministry noting that the Government believed it was “inconsistent” with China’s opposition to the development of space weapons. A spokesman refused to elaborate on the form the protest took or on the Chinese government’s response. Later, a Downing Street spokesman said: "We are concerned about the impact of debris in space and we expressed that concern. ...
Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone amid growing military pressure
Post Date: 2007-01-17 01:05:48 by A K A Stone
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TEHRAN, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane recently, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Tuesday as the Islamic Republic was facing increasing military pressure from its arch rival -- the United States. The aircraft was brought down when it was trying to cross the borders "during the last few days," Seyed Nezam Mola Hoveizeh, a member of the parliament, was quoted by the local Fars News Agency as saying. The lawmaker gave no exact date of the shooting-down or any other details about the incident, but he said that "the United States sent such spy drones to the region every now and then." SECOND U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER The ...
The Real Agenda Of The Global Elite In Somalia
Post Date: 2007-01-11 11:45:27 by A K A Stone
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Neocons are backing the same warlords that slaughtered US troops in 1993 This week has seen the latest example of the US power elite bombing a broken-backed country in the name of the global 'war on terror'. The phantom menace of 'Al Qaeda' has again provided a pretext for the further destruction and destabilization of struggling state, this time Somalia, in order that the Western elite power-mongers can move in and control its valuable resources. The Bush Administration is essentially asking us to expect to believe that it is bombing a country in an attempt to kill three terrorists– Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the 1998 attacks on the U.S. ...
Future of Iraq: The spoils of war How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches
Post Date: 2007-01-07 09:38:49 by A K A Stone
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Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days. The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalised in 1972. The huge potential prizes for Western firms will give ammunition to critics who say the Iraq war was fought ...
PAPER: ISRAEL PLANS NUCLEAR STRIKE ON IRAN
Post Date: 2007-01-06 18:42:32 by A K A Stone
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Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, the SUNDAY TIMES of London is planning to report, British media sources tell DRUDGE... MORE...
Poster Comment:I pray that this is not true.
Monsanto Buys 'Terminator' Seeds Company
Post Date: 2007-01-05 18:49:03 by A K A Stone
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The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions. The Government has been working quietly on this technology since 1983. Now, the little-known company that has been working in this genetic research with the Government’s US Department of Agriculture-- Delta & Pine Land-- is about to become part of the world’s largest supplier of patented genetically-modified seeds (GMO), Monsanto Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri. Relations between Monsanto, Delta & Pine Land and the USDA, on closer scrutiny, show the deep and dark ...
India and New World Order
Post Date: 2007-01-02 23:58:06 by A K A Stone
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Last week speaking at the India Economic Summit Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the audience to accept the idea of India as an economic powerhouse. “History will judge us harshly for not making bold to make it happen,” he said. “Why should we be gripped by diffidence? Why should we live in fear of globalization?” Earlier at the same forum Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran for the first time acknowledged that after the emergence of China as a global economic powerhouse, closer Indo-US tie would help maintain a balance of power in Asia. He said both America and India could contribute to a new security paradigm for the region. But he hastened to rule out the containment of ...
New U.N. secretary begins by addressing capital punishment
Post Date: 2007-01-02 23:21:16 by A K A Stone
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UNITED NATIONS -- On his first official day on the job, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stepped back from the United Nations' long-standing opposition to the death penalty, saying capital punishment is an issue for each country to decide. Ban's statement contrasted sharply with his predecessors' public rejection of the death penalty, and with the condemnation by the United Nations' special envoy to Iraq of Saddam Hussein's execution last weekend. Responding to a question about the execution, Ban said the former Iraqi leader "was responsible for committing heinous crimes and unspeakable atrocities against the Iraqi people. We should never forget the victims of his ...
2007: Decisive Year for the Israeli-Neocon Attack Iran Plan
Post Date: 2007-01-02 08:20:53 by A K A Stone
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As if to kick off the New Year, and usher in the required political mindset, the Israelis are switching the attack Iran mantra into hyperdrive. “As an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help him pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and US newspaper editors,” declares Israeli Brigadier General Oded Tira. “We need to do this in order to turn the Iranian issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure.” It is refreshing, in a sadistic sort of way, so little translation is required here. First, Tira, a former IDF chief artillery officer, has cut to the chase, not belaboring us with the ...
Is Saddam Eligible for the “Rule of 72” Pension Plan for Muslim Martyrs?
Post Date: 2007-01-01 13:35:20 by alwaysontheright
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> One of the most appealing aspects of the Muslim faith is the promise that upon ascension to Islamic heaven, martyred men automatically inherit the company and pleasures of 72 virgins. This fringe benefit helps to explain why Muslims are always engaged in war and doing crazy things to get themselves killed. Religious scholars throughout the middle east are debating the application of the “Rule of 72” to Saddam Hussein who was sent on his merry way at dawn on December 30. While scholars differ, Saddam himself appeared convinced that orgiastic bliss was in his future. How can we infidels know what the deranged dictator thought? For starters, Saddam’s last ...
Bush has Saddam Murdered to cover up for his families crimes
Post Date: 2006-12-31 18:02:42 by A K A Stone
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Like a blue-blood version of a Mob family with global reach, the Bushes have eliminated one more key witness to the important historical events that led the U.S. military into a bloody stalemate in Iraq and pushed the Middle East to the brink of calamity. The hanging of Saddam Hussein was supposed to be – as the New York Times observed – the “triumphal bookend” to George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. If all had gone as planned, Bush might have staged another celebration as he did after the end of “major combat,” posing under the “Mission Accomplished” banner on May 1, 2003. But now with nearly 3,000 American soldiers killed and the Iraqi death ...
Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Donald Rumsfeld
Post Date: 2006-12-31 14:03:40 by A K A Stone
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Saddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's reach back into history and extract these facts: * On Dec. 20, 1983, the Washington Post reported that Rumsfeld "visited Iraq in what U.S. officials said was an attempt to bolster the already improving U.S. relations with that country." * Two days later, the New York Times cited a "senior American official" who "said that the United States remained ready to establish full diplomatic relations with Iraq and that it was up to the Iraqis." * On March 29, 1984, the Times reported: "American diplomats pronounce ...
Official: Saddam to Be Executed Tonight
Post Date: 2006-12-29 17:19:02 by A K A Stone
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The witnesses to Saddam Hussein's impending execution gathered Friday in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime's atrocities. A top Iraqi official said Saddam will be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, Baghdad time, or 10 p.m. Friday EST. The Iraqi government readied all the necessary documents, including a "red card" _ an execution order introduced during Saddam's dictatorship. As the hour of his death approached, Saddam received two of his half brothers in his cell on Thursday and was said to have given them his personal belongings and a copy of his will. Najeeb al-Nueimi, a member ...
Executing the Law in Iraq: Valuable Lessons for America
Post Date: 2006-12-27 21:03:27 by alwaysontheright
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On December 14, 2003, American military forces opened a rat hole on a small farm south of Tikrit, Iraq. Out of that miserable hole crawled one of the most despicable and loathsome freaks to have ever plagued this planet. Saddam Hussein, once feared and despised in nearly equal measure throughout Iraq, emerged from that hole as a haggard, beaten coward. The “Butcher of Baghdad” was taken into to custody to answer for his alleged crimes against humanity, including burying people alive in mass graves, gassing his own people, and other heinous acts of unspeakable brutality. It was Saddam’s severe misfortune to have been apprehended in Iraq, rather than in America. Had the ...
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