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Algerian butchers in 'donkey scam' Saturday 22 November 2003, 16:31 Makka Time, 13:31 GMT Butchers allegedly sold more than 57,000kg of suspect meat  Related: Cairo food alert over dead donkeys Ten people, five of them butchers, have been arrested in Algeria for passing donkey meat off as beef during the holy month of Ramadan.The butchers, allegedly conspiring with four vets and the director of the El-Harrach abattoir in the eastern suburbs of Algiers, sold the meat in the form of minced steak and spicy sausages, Algerian radio reported on Saturday. Customers at markets in the city centre and the working...

Horse (Non)Sense Thomas McIntyre Wild Horses is an oxymoron. Wild equines did evolve in the Western Hemisphere, but they also started going extinct here millions of years ago...... These feral horses and donkeys are about as wild as stray cats and park pigeons. Like many feral animals, they are whizzes at exploiting newfound habitats........ And predators have never represented a threat: In the early 1800s, when it was seemingly possible to walk(rather briskly, to be sure) on the backs of wolves and grizzly bears from the Mississippi to the Pacific, feral horses were estimated to number 2 million................. Then in...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed a senior Hamas militant with a helicopter missile strike on a donkey cart he was riding Thursday after his radical Islamic faction fired a rocket into a large Israeli city for the first time. Palestinian medics identified the militant as Hamdi Kalakh, the eighth Hamas man to be slain by Israeli helicopter missiles in the past week. They said three Palestinians were wounded, including a four-year-old boy who was in critical condition. The Hamas rocket that crashed into an industrial zone in the Israeli Mediterranean seaside city of Ashkelon, 5.5 miles north...

Baghdad crowd honors donkey, not Saddam, on strongman's birthday Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo! BAGHDAD (AFP) - Joyous crowds in Baghdad celebrated Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s birthday in a brand new way, pasting photos of the former strongman on a donkey as they heaped scorn on his brutal 24-year reign. AFP Photo Latest news: · Iraqi Delegates Gather for Gov't Talks AP - 4 minutes ago · Saddam's birthday still feted in Tikrit as others try to move onAFP - 21 minutes ago · Baghdad crowd honors donkey, not Saddam, on strongman's birthdayAFP - 23 minutes...

Abraham and Sarah were childless. Sarah wanted a child so badly she asked Abraham to take her servant Hagar and have relations with her and thus, de facto, she could have a child that way. In the Middle East, a barren woman at that time might strip down and the newborn child would be placed on her to symbolize that she had "given birth". In this way, she would be honored by having a "child". This was apparently an attempt to practice this very thing. However, it backfired horribly. Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife had borne him no children,...

Teens forced to make very public apology FAIRPORT HARBOR, Ohio (Court TV) — Two teenagers were forced to parade a donkey through a town after they admitted defacing a statue of the baby Jesus. Jessica Lange and Brian Patrick, both 19, were ordered by a judge to make the Feb. 2 march through the northeast Ohio town after they admitted stabbing and desecrating the statue with Satanic symbols at St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church on Christmas Eve. Groups of residents watched as the two walked and asked for forgiveness. The repentant duo led a donkey provided by a petting zoo...

A donkey rigged with explosives blew up as a bus passed on the road from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion, approximately 80 meters from a nearby IDF roadblock and the ascent to Har Gilo and Beit Jala on Sunday morning. No one was wounded, though a bus passenger was treated for shock. According to the army, a gas canister filled with explosives and metal rods was strapped to the donkey and a second, full of explosives, was placed next to it. The bombs were detonated simultaneously by two cellphones. In the Gaza Strip in June 2001, a Palestinian drove a donkey...

On other terrorist fronts, a "donkey bomb" attack failed when a donkey laden with explosives was detonated alongside a line of Israeli cars. Several passengers were treated for shock, and light damage was caused. Josh Adler of Efrat told Arutz-7 what happened: "I was on my way to Jerusalem, and I saw a donkey on the road. It appeared both suspicious and dangerous, so I notified the Gush Etzion Emergency Center, and then I continued traveling and saw another donkey, this one with two baskets on it. I wanted to call again, but exactly at that moment it blew up...

A donkey laden with explosives blew up next to an Israeli bus along the Jerusalem-Etzyon Bloc road near Al-Khidr, Israel radio reported on 26 January. The radio said there were no casualties but first aid crews were treating several people suffering from shock.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian court ordered five vandals to ride around their neighborhood on donkeys, facing backwards, in a bid to take them down a peg or two, the daily Entekhab newspaper said Sunday. The court also sentenced the five young men to be lashed and to an unspecified spell in jail after local people in a south Tehran district filed complaints against them ranging from breaking shop windows to gang fights. The paper carried a picture of one of the glum-faced men, perched on the rear of a donkey, surrounded by curious onlookers. Public humiliation of criminals is...

<p>KA'UPULEHU, Hawai'i — A motorcycle rider who struck a donkey on Queen Ka'ahumanu state highway in North Kona on Tuesday died yesterday.</p> <p>Police identified him as Michael Carta, 29, of the Orchidland Estates subdivision near Kea'au.</p> <p>Sgt. Samuel Jelsma said police were called at 7:57 p.m. Tuesday after Carta struck and killed a wild donkey near the 86-mile marker, by Hualalai Resort. The donkeys, known as "Kona nightingales," live upslope of the resort area, which has several "Donkey Crossing" signs.</p>

RABAT (Reuters) - Surgeons have managed to stitch back a Moroccan boy's penis after it was bitten off by a donkey, the official MAP news agency reported Thursday. Professor Mouaad Mounir, chief urologist at Ibnou Toufail hospital in the southern city of Marrakesh, was quoted as saying the operation on the seven-year-old boy was carried out last week. He said the operation had taken 45 minutes and was successful. MAP did not say how the donkey managed to bite off the boy's penis. A source at the hospital confirmed the agency's report, but declined to give further details. Donkeys in...

DEMS LAMENT THEIR SAD SACK STATE John Balzar, well-known columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is the latest Democrat to write a column lamenting the sad sack state of the donkey party and the incompetence of its leaders. Bush is running rings around them. So on one hand, you have to give Bush credit. I mean, when he came in, the Democrats said, "He's illegitimate. He doesn't have an IQ anything higher than a pencil eraser. He's a dumb frat boy, only there because of his dad - blah, blah, blah." Balzar writes, "[S]o muddled are the Democrats and so...