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...it was noted in England that the Queen, in order to accommodate a Muslim employee, had an Islamic prayer-room opened at Windsor Castle... Windsor Castle and the Town of Windsor are among the most historic and essentially "English" parts of England. ... I can't find any news of Christian chapels being opened in Saudi Arabian palaces Muslim rioters wrecked a house in Windsor which had been rented by four British soldiers returning from service in Afghanistan... More rioting followed... a Muslim was allowed to enter a hospital and harass a wounded paratrooper... "You have been killing my Muslim brothers!" Jack...

Hi. I'm just getting back into hunting and target shooting, initially to 1,000 yards. Game would be whitetail deer. Target shoots would be for both single shot accuracy and for grouping multiple shots. I'm looking for information on the .308 vs the 30.06 And any other suggestions would be fine. I grew up with the 30.06, (gamemaster & Springfield bolt) but several people are telling me its time to look at the .308 particularly since it may become harder to find 30.06 if times in this country become tough, and 308 ammo is everywhere. What are your ideas on long...

The U.N. war crimes tribunal hopes an autopsy on Slobodan Milosevic on Sunday will clear up the cause of his death in his cell only months before a verdict was due in his four-year-old trial. Milosevic, branded the "Butcher of the Balkans" for conflicts that tore Yugoslavia apart in the 1990s, was found dead on Saturday, prompting some world figures and relatives of war victims to say they had been robbed of justice. As questions were raised as to why the trial had dragged on for so long, a tribunal spokeswoman said there was no indication the 64-year-old former Yugoslav...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel settled on Sunday for watered-down restrictions on the Palestinian Authority in an apparent nod to U.S. calls to avoid adding to Palestinian hardship after Hamas's election victory. At the same time, interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the Palestinian Authority was turning into a "terrorist" body now that Hamas, an Islamic group dedicated to Israel's destruction, was assuming power. "Israel will not hold contacts with a government that Hamas is part of," Olmert said, echoing pledges he has made since the militant movement crushed the long-dominant Fatah faction in the January 25 Palestinian parliamentary election.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday faced mounting international calls to close its Guantanamo prison camp with U.N. investigators saying detainees there faced treatment amounting to torture. In a 40-page report, which had been largely leaked, five United Nations special envoys said the United States was violating a host of human rights, including a ban on torture, arbitrary detention and the right to a fair trial. The report is likely to fuel new Arab anger over the treatment of Iraqi inmates at Baghdad's U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison after Australian TV broadcast more images of abuse there. "The United...

TAORMINA, Italy (Reuters) NATO's top commander of operations said on Friday he was not confident the alliance will be able to declare a new rapid reaction force fully operational in October as scheduled due to a shortfall in troops. NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. James Jones also told Reuters the alliance would scale back the first major maneuvers for the NATO force scheduled for June in the Atlantic island group of Cape Verde. He was speaking at a NATO defense ministerial meeting in Sicily. The NATO Response Force is supposed to have 25,000 troops deployable to distant trouble spots...

For The Peace Among All The Countries In The World... NO WAR... We have conquered the world for ages...However we never hurt,rape our Captives. We never made them suffer.Today the world is changing.ýn the lands that are suffering from unfair invasion and exploitation,brutality and grief is reigning...we are calling out to you out there..america russia canada france and Israel are gonna pay for what they have done to this world one day,however sometimes we make those days closer and rampage without a blink... Forum.TR Devilish baseness from the English who are jealous of 'Forum TR ' that has lately become...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Efforts to form a new German government were plunged into crisis on Tuesday when a senior conservative abandoned plans to join the cabinet and party leaders on both sides said coalition talks could collapse. "We want to bring these negotiations to a successful conclusion, but one can't rule out that they will fail," Wolfgang Bosbach, the deputy conservative leader in parliament and a close ally of top Christian Democrat (CDU) Angela Merkel, said on German radio. Gernot Erler, the deputy head of the Social Democrats (SPD) in parliament, said his party would have to take a new...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - In Niger, a desert country twice the size of Texas, most of the 11 million people live on a dollar a day. Forty percent of children are underfed, and one out of four dies before turning 5. And that's when things are normal. Throw in a plague of locusts, and a familiar spectacle emerges: skeletal babies, distended bellies, people too famished to brush the flies from their faces. To the aid workers charged with saving the dying, the immediate challenge is to raise relief money and get supplies to the stricken areas. They leave it to...

MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 people linked to the CIA for "kidnapping" an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Milan and flying him to Egypt where he said he was tortured, judicial sources said on Friday. "In the judge's order, it (the abduction) is clearly attributed to the CIA," a source said. Confirming the arrest warrant without mentioning the U.S. intelligence agency, the prosecutors office said the 13 suspects were believed to be behind the abduction of imam Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was grabbed off a Milan street on...

Israel publicly apologized to the United States on Sunday over arms exports to China that have drawn criticism from Washington and strained U.S.-Israeli security ties. "It is impossible to hide the crisis between Israel and the United States with regard to the security industries. We are doing everything possible to put it behind us," Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said on Israel Radio.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) The European Union was in disarray on Thursday after the Netherlands followed France in resoundingly rejecting the bloc's new constitution, possibly stalling future expansion and disrupting decision making. The rejection of the charter by two of the six countries that founded the bloc in the 1950s could deal a fatal blow to a treaty designed to make the EU run more smoothly following its enlargement from 15 to 25 states last year. The votes also cast doubt on the EU's hopes for a stronger foreign policy and its plans to expand further to the western Balkans, Turkey and...

Iran Says Will Never Give Up Uranium Enrichment 28 minutes ago TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not abandon uranium enrichment, despite its negotiations with the European Union on its nuclear program, a senior official said on Sunday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran would never renounce its right to carry out the process, but was hopeful about the outcome of the talks with Europe. Britain, France and Germany, representing the European Union, have been trying to persuade Tehran to scrap all parts of its atomic fuel cycle, particularly uranium enrichment which can be used to make atomic bombs...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities in Iraq (news - web sites) have arrested three close associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, officials said Friday, claiming to be close to capturing the al-Qaida-linked terror mastermind himself two days ahead of historic elections that extremists have vowed to subvert. The announcements, made days after the arrests, appeared aimed at helping reassure Iraqis about security ahead of Sunday's polls. The arrested al-Zarqawi associates included Salah Suleiman al-Loheibi, the head of his group's Baghdad operation, who met with al-Zarqawi more than 40 times over three months, said Qassim Dawoud, a top security adviser to Iraqi Prime...

LONDON (AFP) - Hundreds of Sikhs tried to storm a theatre in Birmingham, halting a play they say mocks their religion and slightly injuring five police officers in the melee, police said. The protesters at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre forced the cancellation of the play "Behzti" (Dishonor), which depicts acts of sexual abuse and murder in a Sikh place of worship, they said. Two men were arrested for public order offenses, police added. "There have been peaceful protests outside the theatre all week due to a play which has caused upset in the Sikh community," a police spokeswoman said. Nonetheless,...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - "Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore on Monday rejected the idea that Hollywood had hurt John Kerry (news - web sites)'s chances of winning the White House, insisting that he and other entertainers helped spare Democrats an even bigger defeat. "For the last month, we've had to listen to a lot of conservative pundits talk about how Democrats need to run away from Hollywood," Moore said. "It's actually the opposite. Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story." In the final analysis, Moore said,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Monday reached a deal on overhauling the nation's spy agencies, ending a month-long wrangle about the Pentagon (news - web sites)'s power under intelligence reforms proposed after the Sept. 11 attacks. Resolving the issue clears the way for the House of Representatives and Senate to pass the legislation that creates a new director of national intelligence post, and send the bill to President Bush (news - web sites) for his signature. After last-minute appeals by Bush, House and Senate negotiators said they had agreed on language resolving differences over the military chain of command....

I've read in a few other posts that the CIA is an executive agency, and thus Bush is perfectly justified in replacing the Clinton era slackers with those that support his policies. While I do believe that we need to sweep out the CIA, can someone cite sources to prove that the CIA serves as an arm of the executive branch?. What finding or legislation established the CIA, and what are it's legal duties?

Annan Warns U.S., Britain, Iraq Against Falluja Raid 1 hour, 39 minutes ago World - Reuters By Irwin Arieff UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) has warned the United States, Britain and Iraq (news - web sites) that an assault on Falluja risked further alienating the Iraqi people and undermining planned January elections. The warning, contained in letters dated last Sunday and obtained by Reuters on Friday, surfaced as U.S. troops urged civilians to flee the rebel-held city and launched air strikes in preparation for an assault aimed at crippling the insurgency before the elections....

Some time ago, I posted that I thought that we had a great shot at 286 EVs for Bush. Looks accuate at this time, but I had always hoped for Wisconsin. Here's why: Taking WI would have validated Rove/Bush's alternate plan to win the EV without WI. That would change the pre election dynamics for 2008 and greatly altered the dim's strategy to retake the White House. Now, it seems like a validation to concentrate even more on Ohio/Florida, and also that the alternate plan would have failed. What happened, and how do we plan realistic steps to change the...