Posted on 12/20/2006 10:48:15 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum
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Where's Ike and Bahbah?
Haven't seen'em yet...there's a joke in there somewhere, but I will resist, because it's almost Christmas and I want to be nice!
Dot for you, 4
Russia successfully test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday in a launch intended to extend the lifetime of aging Soviet-built weapons, the Defense Ministry said.
The RS-20V Voevoda, which NATO identifies as the SS-18 Satan, was fired from its silo in the southern Ural Mountains' Orenburg region.
Officials said it hit a target on a testing ground on the Far East Kamchatka Peninsula, more than 6,000 kilometers (3,750 miles) away.
"The launch once again confirmed the technical characteristics of the missile and its readiness to perform combat tasks while its service lifetime has been extended," Defense Ministry's spokesman Igor Kostyshin told The Associated Press.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881945774&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
16:06 Iran says UN resolution will not stop nuclear work (Reuters)
15:56 IDF says it last month arrested Gaza man over arms production Hamas, Jihad (Haaretz)
15:47 Austria bans Holocaust denier David Irving for unlimited period (DPA)
Iran is certainly sounding like a broken record.
Somalia 'is at war' with Ethiopia
A Somali government soldier on patrol in Baidoa
The government is getting military help from Ethiopia
The leader of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), which controls much of southern Somalia, says the country is in a state of war with Ethiopia.
"All Somalis should take part in this struggle against Ethiopia," Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said from Mogadishu.
Heavy fighting for a second day is some 20km from the government's Baidoa base. There are fears conflict could plunge the entire Horn of Africa into crisis.
Local residents say Ethiopians troops are clashing with Islamist militias.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6199239.stm
Iran President Facing Revival of Students’ Ire
NY Times ^ | December 21, 2006 | NAZILA FATHI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756775/posts
Posted on 12/21/2006 9:22:37 AM EST by King of Florida
TEHRAN, Dec. 20 — As protests broke out last week at a prestigious university here, cutting short a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Babak Zamanian could only watch from afar. He was on crutches, having been clubbed by supporters of the president and had his foot run over by a motorcycle during a less publicized student demonstration a few days earlier.
But the significance of the confrontation was easy to grasp, even from a distance, said Mr. Zamanian, a leader of a student political group.
The student movement, which planned the 1979 seizure of the American Embassy from the same university, Amir Kabir, is reawakening from its recent slumber and may even be spearheading a widespread resistance against Mr. Ahmadinejad. This time the catalysts were academic and personal freedom.
“It is not that simple to break up a president’s speech,” said Alireza Siassirad, a former student political organizer, explaining that an event of that magnitude takes meticulous planning. “I think what happened at Amir Kabir is a very important and a dangerous sign. Students are definitely becoming active again.”
The protest, punctuated by shouts of “Death to the dictator,” was the first widely publicized outcry against Mr. Ahmadinejad, one that was reflected Friday in local elections, where voters turned out in droves to vote for his opponents.
The students’ complaints largely mirrored public frustrations over the president’s crackdown on civil liberties, his blundering economic policies and his harsh oratory against the West, which they fear will isolate the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
PMO rejects report on Olmert-Siniora meeting
Published: 12.21.06, 16:00
The Prime Minister's Office rejected a report on Thursday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met his Lebanese counterpart Fouad Siniora in Egypt.
The report said the two met in Egypt at the end of the war between Israel and Hizbullah. (Ronny Sofer)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3343014,00.html
PA Residents Accuse Israel of Air Strike
15:56 Dec 21, '06 / 30 Kislev 5767
(IsraelNN.com) Gaza area residents accused Israel of attacking terrorists who were trying to launch rockets, The Associated Press reported. None of the terrorists was injured.
The explosion apparently was caused by a misfiring or a "work accident." The terrorists were from the Islamic Jihad organization, which fired six rockets on Israel Wednesday.
Two of four rockets launched toward Israel Thursday landed in the Gaza area, one of them hitting a house in Beit Hanoun, wounding a pregnant woman. Three children and their uncle were wounded and the baby was lost.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=117886
Read that some of those students are now in hiding, too...
Articles like this one and the Kosovo one last night make me optimistic.
They need our help for democracies to bloom. Not complete annihilation...
Gotta sick cat sleeping on one arm, LOL.
Morning all. Getting a late start this a.m. Looks like things are ratcheting up. Did see a reference to the Ethiopia-Somalia escalation; one to watch for sure. I still believe that eventually the Nigerians will throw in their lot as well, with the Ethiopians.
Dot, or more cheese and whine? You decide:
The North Korea could prepare a new nuclear test
SEOUL - suspect activities were detected in North Korea, suggesting preparations for a new nuclear test after the explosion of the first atomic bomb North-Korean on October 9, indicated to Thursday a South Korean deputy.
“Since the beginning of this month, there were many activities in a tunnel close to the Mantap Mount, in Punggyeri”, 350 km in the North-East of Pyongyang, where the first test took place, indicated Chung Hyung-keun, deputy of the opposition member of a parliamentary commitee on the information.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756652/posts
That is an encouraging report...I feel sorry for the Iranian young people...the ones that are aware that there is life other than Islamic radicalism, that is.
Iran: U.N. Won’t Stop Us
16:36 Dec 21, '06 / 30 Kislev 5767
(IsraelNN.com) Iranian security chief Ali Larijani said Thursday that sanctions that may be imposed as a result of a planned United Nations resolution against the country’s nuclear development program will not have the desired result.
“The nature of this resolution is not capable of pressuring Iran, and Iran will give an appropriate response to it,” he said, according to the ISNA students’ news agency.
Larijani said the resolution would not affect Iran’s progress in its race to produce nuclear energy. He added, however, that it would affect its cooperation with the U.N.’s atomic agency.
From Arutz Sheva: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=117891
Echoes of Saddam....
I guess they need to hide...but, I pray that eventually there will be enough of them that they won't hide, NUTJOB will hide!!
I am encouraged by both also...we just have to pray that annihilation holds off long enough to let the "good guys" take over..
A broken record, Iran...
I have seen some reports that there are some strange goings-on a'happenin' in the power structure in Iran. The Supreme Leader is reported to be very ill and some of the higher ups in the IRGC (Pasdaran) have been knocked off. Is Ahma-nutjob positioning himself to trump the mullahs? Not sure. As the Count likes to say, "...lookin'..."
Sorry, I typed faster than my brain was working -- Kenya.
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