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You have a nice weekend too 4thgipper - hopefully it will be a nice one for all of us.
Thanks for sharing that post with us Jerseygirl. Stuff happening it seems we'll never know the rhyme or reason for. Would be nice if they apprehended a few of those Chechens before they do whatever it is they snuck across the Mexican border to do to us (hopefully our alphabet agencies and law enforcement can give them a big American welcome before much time has passed). Do we ship back dead illegals or bury them as paupers here (thinking of the Chechen 25)?
Drudgereport.com has a space on the lower right side of the page that says, "SEND NEWS TIPS TO DRUDGE."
Maybe the information could be submitted there.
I PMd you a link for P&G my daughter-in-law forwarded tome this week showing an ad for fabric softener with two men in bed - which I was not ready for and which was the first thought I had with the words "Bed Buddies" in your post. My shopping habits are about to change.
Wow, what a great read!
The 'Therapeutic' Take On Terror
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/15/opinion/main649699.shtml
You have mail, M'Dear.
Random Links...ON THE NET:
http://ansaar.ca.cx/
http://www.ansaar.info/forum/
http://www.ansaar.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=494&sid=b6c2cfb49a318b8095bfbeb5c76ce9a7
http://www.jihadunspun.com/articles/120202002-answering.azzam/answering2.html
http://www.tibyan.net/
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=perelman20041013928
"Banks Eyed In Lawsuits On Funding For Terror
Saudi Accounts At Issue"
By MARC PERELMAN
October 15, 2004
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s04100071.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com, Web Site: www.assistnews.net
Friday, October 15, 2004
DARFUR DEATH TOLL 'REACHES 70,000'
More Than A Million People Have Fled Their Homes
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
DARFUR, SUDAN (ANS) -- About 70,000 displaced people are thought to have died in Sudan's Darfur region since March, mainly from disease and malnutrition, a UN official says, according to a report on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website.
David Nabarro, head of the World Health Organization's health crisis group, said up to 10,000 people were still dying in refugee camps each month, the BBC reports.
Nabarro said the mortality rate would not fall unless more urgent aid was sent.
The African Union has announced it will begin deploying armed peacekeeping troops to Darfur this weekend, the BBC said. The union's chairman, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, said a Rwandan battalion would arrive on Sunday, to be followed by Nigerian troops. (Pictured: More than a million people have fled their homes --BBC photo).
The plan was to have the 4,500-strong force on the ground by the end of November, a spokesman for Mr Obasanjo said.
WORDS AND DEEDS
The overall death toll was put by the WHO at 50,000 last month. Mr Nabarro said aid agencies had so far received only half of the $300m needed to cope with the crisis.
"We are running on a threadbare, hand-to-mouth existence, and if the plight of these people in Darfur is as important to the international community as it seems to be, then we would have expected more long-term support," Mr Nabarro said.
More than 1.5m displaced
About 70,000 dead since March
More at risk from disease, starvation and lack of aid
Arab militias accused of ethnic cleansing
Sudan blames rebels for starting conflict
DARFUR CONFLICT
More than 1million people displaced
Up to 70,000 people killed
More at risk from disease, starvation and lack of aid
Arab militias accused of ethnic cleansing
Sudan blames rebels for starting conflict
Nabarro urged the international community to provide money rather than simply show concern over the plight of some 1.4m people in Darfur.
"It's amazing that we still can't seem to get the money that is required," he said.
Mr Nabarro added that media coverage and the speeches of politicians suggested the crisis was important to the international community, but this concern had not been converted into resources and the price was being paid in death, the BBC said.
The estimate only covered the period since March, when aid agencies were given access to the region.
Last month, Mr Nabarro said that only about 15 percent of deaths were due to attacks and violence, while the rest were caused by the poor sanitation and diseases.
The BBC said a succession of high level visitors have been to Sudan recently, including US Secretary of State Colin Powell and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
But the most significant international response to the crisis has come from the AU which has supplied a 300-strong ceasefire monitoring mission, the BBC's Mark Doyle reports.
However, members of that mission admit that it is too small and inadequately supplied, our correspondent says.
TROOPS DEPLOYMENT
On Friday, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said 4,500 troops from the AU were expected to be deployed in Darfur by the end of November.
Mr Obasanjo -- who is currently serving as chairman of the AU -- said in a statement that the AU force would be made up of five battalions.
He said one battalion from Rwanda would be deployed in Darfur by Sunday, while a Nigerian battalion will be on the ground by October 30. Mr Obasanjo said he expected three other countries to provide the remaining three battalions.
The BBC said it was not immediately clear which other African nations would supply the troops. The conflict between government forces and rebel groups broke out last year.
The US has accused the government in Khartoum of failing to prevent atrocities against civilians by the pro-government Janjaweed Arab militia.
Sudan denies the allegations.
** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, CA. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in Sept., 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.
** You may republish this story with proper attribution.
Our friend EOM (a.k.a Chicken Little) is back, promising attacks within 48 hours. With his track record, don't run to the bunker just yet...
http://www.trackingterrorism.com/Default.asp?dismode=article&artid=454
Saturday, October 16, 2004
EOM: 'amerikkka will see fire from skies'
Source: EOM & Friends | 12:18:16 AM EST
As usual, the following message was sent in the same manner that our usual EOM Culprit follows. It was sent 5 times within the hour, obviously he/she is expressing extreme urgency. As usual, nobody knows the true identity of this sender, but the message expresses a ominous feeling that we all are experiencing now that the elections are a few weeks away.
Subject: within 48 hours
amerikkka will see fire from skies fall all in place these final
hours of prepardness slayer of infidels make final crossings
hours ago arrive to areas to begin Allah's victory
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,135596,00.html
"Radical Cleric Faces U.K. Terror Charges"
Friday, October 15, 2004
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LONDON — British authorities have decided to charge a radical Muslim cleric with terrorist offenses, pre-empting a bid from the United States to try him on similar charges, a British news agency reported Friday.
Press Association said British charges were likely to be filed next week against Abu Hamza al-Masri (search), who faces 11 charges in the United States."
Extract from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3748360.stm
British soldiers could be sent to support American forces in some of Iraq's most volatile areas. Senior British military sources say the US has asked British troops to fill in behind American soldiers, who are being sent elsewhere.
It is believed UK forces could be sent from Basra, in southern Iraq, to an area south of Baghdad.
More also at http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1155729,00.html
and comments: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246941/posts
News just in on Sky News via AP:
"Fallujah offers to resume talks if attacks stop"
Didn't catch the audio, but that's what the strap says. There'll doubtless be more from Sky's website in the fullness of time when they update it.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/home
you can send tips directly to him from his webpage. good luck if he posts it.
Mama got it covered. Thanks alot.
I was reading some weird story yesterday that China has possession of OBL and is to turn him over to Tenet.
That just made my day.
All- news updates from Mutter's
2004/10/16 18:46 KST
N Korea at Combat Readiness on Deployment of U.S. Fighters,Bombers
PYONGYANG, Oct. 16 (KCNA-Yonhap)
North Korea said Saturday that its military is at full combat readiness as the United States has deployed dozens of strike aircraft in South Korea.
Two separate squadrons of U.S. F-15E fighter jets and F-117A stealth bombers have been deployed in South Korea for several months to familiarize themselves with the geographical features of the Korean Peninsula.
www.yonhapnews.co.kr/Engn...647E7.html
I was asked to post the following article here by one of your posters.......
If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you believe in ethnic and gender diversity but not diversity of thought or if you think there is an acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn to the funny pages, and take the children, too.
This piece is not for you.
We published pictures Thursday of burnt American corpses hanging from an Iraqi bridge behind a mob of grinning Muslims.
Some readers didn’t like it.
Mothers said it frightened their children. A woman who works with Muslim physicians thought it might offend or endanger them.
Well, we sure don’t want to frighten, offend or endanger anybody, do we? That’s just too much diversity to handle. I mean, somebody might get hurt.
We could fill the newspaper every morning with mobs of fanatical Muslims. They can’t get along with their neighbors on much of the planet: France, Chechnya, Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain, Morocco, India, Tunisia, Somalia, etc. etc. etc. Can anybody name three ongoing world conflicts in which Muslims are not involved? Today, where there is war, there are fanatical Muslims. We might quibble about who started what conflicts, but look at the sheer number of them.
One thing is sure. Muslim killers started the one we are in now when they slaughtered more than 3,000 people, including fellow Muslims, in New York City.
Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and feckless appeaser who helped get us into this mess, said last week Muslims still resented the Crusades. Well, Madame Albright, if Westerners were not such a forgiving people, we might resent them too.
Let’s recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe, and when they reached sufficient numbers, they imposed their intolerant religion upon Westerners by force. Christian monarchs drove them back and took the battle to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of centuries, and we bottled them up for 1,000 years.
Now, a millennium later, Muslims have expanded forth again. Ask France. Ask England. Ask Manhattan. Two-and-a-half years ago fanatical Muslims laid siege to us. We woke up to the obvious. Our president announced it would be a very long war, then took the battle to the Islamic homeland. Sound familiar?
Let’s consider the concept of a “long war.” Last time it was 200 years, give or take.
Anybody catch Lord of the Rings? You know, the good part, the part that wasn’t fiction, the part that drew us to the books and movies because it was the truest part: the titanic struggle between good and evil, between freedom and enslavement, between the individual and the state, between the celebration of life and the worshipping of death.
That’s the fight we are in, and it never ends. It just has peaks and valleys.
There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims –– some live here –– but that did not save 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the millions gassed and butchered in the Middle East, the tens of thousands slain in Eastern Europe and Asia, the hundreds blown to bits in the West Bank and Spain, or the four Americans shot, burned and hung like sausage over the Euphrates as a fanatical minority of Muslims did the joyful dance of death.
Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent on “diversity,” we are so nonjudgmental, we are so wrapped up in our six-packs and ballgames that our brains have drained to our bulbous behinds. Maybe we’re so addled on Ritalin we wouldn’t know which end of a gun to hold. Maybe we need a new drug advertised on TV every three minutes, one that would help us grow a backbone.
It doesn’t take a Darwin to figure out that in this world the smartest, the fastest, the strongest, and the most committed always win. No exceptions.
Look at your spouse and children. Look at yourself in the mirror. Then look at the pictures from the paper last Thursday. You better look at them. Those are the people out to kill you.
Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you can take your ball and go home and they will leave you alone? Read a little history. Start with last week, last month, last year, and every other year back for half a century. Then go back a thousand years. Nobody hides from this fight.
Like it or not, that’s the way it was and that’s the way it is.
But many Americans don’t get it.
That’s why I made the case to my boss and fellow editors to publish those pictures.
If they jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you, if they scared your children and sent you into a rage at mass murderers or heartless editors, then I say, it’s a start.
.....Westy.....
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