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The Persian Gulf is definitely heating up...<<<<<

Add that to all the re-releases of video's, the fact gold is higer and Iran's president appears to be nuts and wants someone to hit him, it does indeed look much hotter.

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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is really a piece of . . . work!

Iranian leader condemned for Holocaust remarks

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany, Russia and Switzerland joined the European Union on Friday in a chorus of condemnation of the Iranian president for suggesting the Holocaust might not have taken place and that Israel should be moved to Europe.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2005-12-09T150034Z_01_DIT953927_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAN-ISRAEL.xml&rpc=22

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Gang rapist claims right to assault
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) ^ | December 10, 2005 | Natasha Wallace

Posted on 12/09/2005 2:52:39 PM PST by Mount Athos

THE eldest of four Pakistani gang rapist brothers has admitted lying at
trial and apologised to his victims but said he thought he had a right to
rape the "promiscuous" teenage girls.

MSK, 27, told the NSW Supreme Court yesterday that this was
because the girls did not wear headscarves, were drinking alcohol and
were unaccompanied when they went to his Ashfield home. MSK also
blamed his intoxication, "cultural beliefs" and an undiagnosed mental
disorder.

He and his brothers MAK, 25, MRK, 21, and MMK, 19 - who cannot be
named for legal reasons - are serving between 10 and 22 years for
raping two girls in 2002. All except MRK are yet to be sentenced for
several other rapes.

Continued..........

Granny google:

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http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=muslim%20raped%20girls%20in%20florida%20and%20on%20island

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Hamas to end truce with Israel
BBC News ^ | Friday, 9 December 2005, 16:55 GMT | BBC

Posted on 12/09/2005 5:23:34 PM PST by Cinnamon

The political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas has said it
will not renew its informal ceasefire with Israel that expires at the end
of year.

Khaled Meshaal told a rally in the Syrian capital Damascus his group
was preparing for a new round of conflict.

The truce begun in February was based on Israel ending its attacks on
Palestinians and releasing prisoners.

Hamas had already said it would pull out of the truce when Israel
killed a military leader in November.

Addressing the crowd at the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus,
Mr Meshaal said there was no room for a truce.

"I say to our brothers in the [Palestinian] Authority that we are
witnessing political stagnation," he said.

"I say it loudly, we will not enter a new truce and our people are
preparing for a new round of conflict."

Mr Meshaal was named the organisation's most senior figure after the
assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in March 2004.

Correspondents say Hamas' politburo, which Mr Meshaal heads, is
more hardline and ideological than the group's leadership in Gaza.

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The only way is out [Eqypt on the Iraq war, for
those with a strong stomach only]
Al Aharm ^ | 12-9-05 | Abdul-Ilah Al-Bayaty

Posted on 12/09/2005 10:42:59 AM PST by SJackson

The American ship of state will be broken on the rock of the nation of
Iraq, leaving unconditional withdrawal as Washington's only option

---

The defeat of the United States' aggression on Iraq was expected even
before the beginning of the invasion. There were many indicators to
show that the right of Iraqis to independence and democracy would be
stronger than all the military might of the US.

As is well known in war theories, aggressive power cannot achieve
victory except under two scenarios: by its ability to destroy
completely, or by destroying the will to continue resisting. In the case
of the war on Iraq, it is evident that the enemy of the United States is
the majority of the Iraqi people which it attacked to destroy its
Arab-Muslim appurtenance and identity, plunder its natural resources
and subjugate it to a puppet government it creates. This is impossible
for geopolitical, moral and practical reasons. The consequence of this
impossibility is that the more the United States tries to destroy its
enemies in Iraq, the more it finds that the resistance of the Iraqi
people grows.

The Iraqi people by its culture, civilisation and heritage supported,
and supports always, the oppressed against the oppressor. If it
seemed to some that the Iraqi people are against Saddam Hussein,
they forgot that the same people were never against the Iraqi state
that the United States invaded to crush, abolish and remake according
to its interests and will. Only some Kurdish leaders who seek
separation, and some Shia politico- religious men who want to install
Wilayat Al-Fakih (the rule of the supreme guardian) under Al-Hakim
family, can accept to destroy the secular Iraqi state. Iraqis are proud
of being Iraqis. They consider themselves all sons of Iraq and are
proud of having a united Iraq that possesses oil, culture and science,
water and a strategic position.

The ignorance of the American strategists and their allies -- Ahmed
Chalabi, Rend Rahim, Kinaan Makiyah, Falih Abdul-Jabar, and the like
-- who theorised the US invasion of Iraq is such that they took their
interests as reality, forgetting Iraqis' pride in their free will and
independence, and in their Arab-Muslim identity which passes to them
from father to son. They believed, or wanted to believe, that with
some money and much terror, Iraqis would bow before their imperial
project as they bowed -- at least they think -- before Saddam
Hussein. They forgot, or wanted to forget, that Saddam Hussein, in
spite of his dictatorship, has the support of the secular, educated
middle class for the nationalisation of the oil industry, the
development of Iraq's modern infrastructure, the universalisation of
electricity, education and health services, and for putting Iraq on the
plain of Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea in refusing imperialist
diktat. They forgot also, Kurds and pro-Iranian religious leaders
excepted, that Iraqis may differ but they continue to feel that they are
the same people, that they are brothers, and that they don't want
Iran, Arab, Western or Eastern interference in their affairs.

In addition, the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies took
place when imperialist powers wherever are no more able to invade
other countries as they used to do in the 19th century. The reasons
are multiple.

Firstly, the wars in Vietnam, Cuba, South Lebanon and Palestine
proved that military superiority and military victory don't mean the
ability to occupy the invaded country if its people resist; and the Iraqi
people proved it would resist from the very first battles in Um Qasr
and Nassiryah. Secondly, it is the youth of the world and its
progressive movements that builds world public opinion, not the
mainstream media controlled by the US. This was proven in Seattle,
Durban and in the world's demonstrations against the war on Iraq. We
see the result of this fact in the demonstrations against the war in the
US itself.

Thirdly, war and invasion cost money and the American people have
no interest in paying money to invade other countries, by way of which
only the military industries and oil multinationals make profits,
especially when the Iraqi military, as every patriot would do,
prevented the occupation from using Iraqi petrol to finance the
occupation's military operations.

Fourthly, civilisation and international law don't permit any more
adventurers like President Bush and the neo-buccaneers around him
to insult the world's human consciousness by invading poor peoples in
name of lies.

Fifthly, Iraqi people, like all living peoples, do not accept occupation
and slavery.

Now we arrived to a situation where the US, by invading Iraq, is in a
political and moral ruin from which it will not recover -- if it tries to
recover -- for years. On the other hand, Iraq has suffered political,
moral and economic crimes committed by the US. What is the way
out?

I think it is of no use all this changing of tactics, like the Cairo
Conference or the phony next elections, whose end is that the US
decides the destiny of Iraq and escapes liability in waging an illegal
war on Iraq. As long as Iraq is not left to its people, America's
military, economic, political and moral losses will continue to increase.
There is no path before the US but to pull out rapidly and
unconditionally, taking with it this monster which it created and called
the government and security forces, recognising that all oil in Iraq is
the property of the whole Iraqi people, and letting the legal
administration pre-invasion -- especially the national army and its
resistance groups -- take power and administer the country until free
and fair democratic elections can take place.

The people of Iraq will never, however long is the time afforded,
recognise the puppet government, its contracts and agreements and
laws, as legal or legitimate. In addition, if the US wants to have
amicable relations with the people of Iraq, it should pay compensation
for all the damage and suffering it caused Iraq.

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San Jose's bogeyman (mini-golf course made
Homeland Sec. watch list)
San Jose Mercury News ^ | December 9, 2005 | Patrick May

Posted on 12/09/2005 5:40:53 PM PST by jiggyboy

``I heard we were 17 on a list of 18 sites, in order of the terrorists'
favorite targets. We're small potatoes. They'd probably rather go for
the Winchester Mystery House.''

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...

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I think this is a sample of why we are not winning the war on terror, this was not terrorists, but still it shows the way that America is leaning........
granny

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Drug raid in Aspen stirs pot
Rocky Mountain News ^ | 12/8/05 | Ellen Miller

Posted on 12/09/2005 4:24:09 PM PST by elkfersupper

A dramatic drug bust at two Aspen restaurants busy with the après ski
crowd has created a rift between the two major law enforcement
agencies at one of Colorado's premier ski resort towns. Fifty-three
officers from a number of law enforcement agencies, some with guns
drawn, stormed into two Aspen restaurants during the busy after-ski
time last Friday.

The raids happened shortly after 4 p.m. and netted about 2 ounces of
cocaine, $3,000 in cash, nine arrests for drug involvement and 11 for
immigration law violations.

Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, an opponent of the "war on drugs"
who believes education and treatment are better answers to drug
abuse, didn't know about the raid until after the fact, even though his
jail was packed to overflowing.

"The sheriff should have been informed and the police chief has rightly
apologized,'' Aspen Mayor Helen Klanderud said Wednesday. "It's
extremely important that the agencies cooperate and have a positive
relationship.''

Late Wednesday afternoon, Braudis remained in a closed-door
meeting with Police Chief Loren Ryerson and City Manager Steve
Barwick. None returned phone calls for comment.

The city manager scheduled a special work session Jan. 17 for the City
Council to discuss the raid and the town's police policy regarding
drugs.

"Our paramount concern is the safety and well-being of visitors and
citizens of Aspen," Klanderud said. "Our police are not to do
undercover investigations or use paid informants. We need to get all
the facts of what happened here."

On the other hand, Klanderud said, the city policy requires police to
cooperate with other law enforcement agencies in drug investigations.

Ryerson told the Aspen Daily News that the sheriff's views on drug
enforcement played a factor in Ryerson's decision not to tell the sheriff
about the raids. But he repeated Tuesday that he made a mistake by
not informing Braudis in advance.

The newspaper also quoted Ryerson as saying guns were drawn by
some officers during the raid.

The raid was carried out by officers from the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Colorado
Department of Revenue and police from Aspen and Snowmass Village,
according to law enforcement news releases.

It was DEA agents who did the undercover work, Ryerson told the
Aspen Times.

Braudis has long called for the legalization of drugs, calling the war on
drugs a failure and saying addicts should see doctors, not go to
prison.

Councilman Torre, who goes by only one name, said it was good that
the sheriff and police chief "are trying to mend fences."

"But the city doesn't support undercover work, and our police
department doesn't," Torre said. "It's a matter of community trust and
public safety, and we believe in education and treatment as more
effective with drugs. It's not necessarily done with a bust, but to
intervene."

The controversy is the talk of the town, said Councilwoman Rachael
Richards.

"The city does not turn a blind eye to drug activity," she said. "And we
as a council certainly aren't told of these things in advance. But there
seemed to be a risk factor with these tactics and so many innocent
bystanders."

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Mexican Diplomat Wants Legal Status for "All its
Citizens" in the U.S.
HispanicBusiness.com ^ | December 8, 2005

Posted on 12/09/2005 4:03:42 PM PST by SwinneySwitch

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What Copts fear
Al Ahram ^ | 12-9-05 | Gihan Shahine

Posted on 12/09/2005 10:31:43 AM PST by SJackson

Are the concerns of Copts following the gains the outlawed Muslim
Brotherhood made in the parliamentary elections justified? Gihan
Shahine finds some answers

---

That the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has doubled the number of its
seats in parliament, forming the largest opposition bloc, concerns
apparently not just members of the ruling National Democratic Party
(NDP). Many Copts, not to mention secularists and liberals, have also
expressed fear that the group's rise to power will ultimately turn Egypt
into a conservative Islamic state where Copts will be treated as
second-class citizens and women would be discriminated against.

Only one out of 50 Coptic candidates who ran in the parliamentary
polls won a seat -- probably for no reason other than being a minister
-- increasing speculation that a growing sectarian environment is
sweeping the country where voters cast their ballots according to
religious rather than political affiliations. The speculation found
expression in a recent controversial US-based conference which called
for greater US pressure on Egypt, and restrictions on Washington's aid
to Cairo, in light of alleged persecution of the nation's Coptic Orthodox
Christians.

continued......

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Also in Australia, is the French riot spreading??
granny......

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Police attacked by petrol bombers('youths' in england)
bbc ^ | 11 December 2005 | na


Posted on 12/11/2005 3:25:12 AM PST by Flavius


Police have been attacked while investigating petrol bomb attacks on an estate in Londonderry.

Officers were called to the mainly Protestant Fountain estate following reports of youths throwing petrol bombs into the area at 2100 GMT on Saturday.

When they arrived petrol bombs were thrown at police Land Rovers. There are no reports of any injuries.

"Police maintained a presence in the area throughout the night," a police spokeswoman said.