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  • Iraqi dead are hugely overestimated

    01/04/2007 4:37:20 AM PST · by Neophyte · 16 replies · 722+ views
    A New Zealand academic who has challenged a widely quoted estimate of the death toll in Iraq has been invited to go to Washington and advise the United States military on ways of predicting attacks. Dr Sean Gourley, 27, a research fellow at Britain's Oxford University, created a stir in scientific circles when he and a colleague dismissed a claim by other researchers that the American-led invasion of Iraq had led to the deaths of nearly 655,000 Iraqis. Dr Gourley and his colleague Professor Neil Johnson believe the figure is much lower – at about 218,000 Iraqi deaths. The New...
  • Race outburst - uni tries to oust professor

    07/27/2005 2:49:32 AM PDT · by Neophyte · 5 replies · 492+ views
    Sydney Morning Herald ^ | July 26, 2005 | Edmund Tadros
    UNI TRIES TO OUST PROFESSOR Macquarie University vice-chancellor Di Yerbury has denounced the racist views of its controversial Sydney law professor as repugnant. But Professor Yerbury denied that asking Associate Professor Andrew Fraser to bring forward his retirement was penalising him for expressing his views. Macquarie University said today it had invited the Canadian-born law professor to speed up his retirement, which was due to take effect from July 2006. Prof Fraser, who has taught at the university for 29 years, was last week cautioned over a letter in his local suburban newspaper in which he claimed Australia was becoming...
  • New Zealand Left spread anti-American venom

    11/08/2004 5:29:23 AM PST · by Neophyte · 29 replies · 1,153+ views
    The Dominion Post, Wellington, New Zealand ^ | 08 November 2004 | MICHELLE QUIRKE
    DEAN QUIT AFTER ANTI-US GIBES 08 November 2004 By MICHELLE QUIRKE Anti-American feeling was one of the reasons behind the shock departure of the former dean of Wellington's Anglican cathedral. Speaking from the United States, Douglas Sparks said Kiwi kids taunted his children for being Americans and told them they hoped Iraqis would kill American soldiers. "We realised six-year-old children don't come up with those kinds of statements on their own. They have to have heard it from some other adult or influential person in their lives. "My daughter came home from school and said, `I am so upset about...
  • Mosque in a secular school is celebrated by NZ Rducation Ministry

    03/04/2004 3:19:33 PM PST · by Neophyte · 14 replies · 224+ views
    The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand ^ | 5 March 2004 | MICHELLE BROOKER
    Minister sweats over about-face on prayer room 05 March 2004 By MICHELLE BROOKER Education Minister Trevor Mallard is embroiled in another embarrassing flip-flop, after caning a Christchurch school's mosque approved by his officials. Education Ministry officials not only gave permission and paid for Hagley Community College's $121,000 muslim prayer rooms, but they also turned up to celebrate its opening last year. However, much to the Minister's displeasure, they forgot to tell him. Mallard's attack on the mosque came in reply to a written parliamentary question from ACT MP Rodney Hide asking whether the Ministry of Education had funded chapels, mosques...
  • Ordinary Iranians are eager to be liberated

    12/20/2003 10:13:01 PM PST · by Neophyte · 1 replies · 95+ views
    GAMLA ^ | 12/17/2003 | DEBKA files
    DEBKAfile Special Report This week, Israel's Iranian-born defense minister Shaul Mofaz made the unique gesture of answering questions from listeners in Iran - in their own language - in a live broadcast over Israel Radio's Farsi-language service. The questions came thick and fast. In answer to one, he promised everything would be done to protect the environment against radioactive fallout should Israeli forces destroy Iran's nuclear capability. Shaul Mofaz was only six when his family emigrated from Iran to Israel. His knowledge of Farsi is rudimentary at best. But that didn't stop the Israeli defense chief from getting his message...
  • Istanbul homicide bombings

    11/15/2003 3:02:15 PM PST · by Neophyte · 105+ views
    Ananova | 11.15.2003 | Ananova
    At least 20 killed by Istanbul suicide bombers Suicide car bombers have attacked two synagogues in Istanbul at almost the same time, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 257. A militant Turkish Islamic group claimed responsibility for the blasts, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. One explosion went off outside the Neve Shalom synagogue, the city's largest. The other severely damaged the Beth Israel synagogue in the affluent district of Sisli, 3 miles away, where members of the city's tiny Jewish and Armenian, Greek communities live. Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said at least 20 people were killed...
  • Atta was in Israeli jail?

    09/12/2002 8:05:49 PM PDT · by Neophyte · 12 replies · 183+ views
    Private E-mail message | unknown
    In Case You Didn't Know... Terrorist pilot Mohammed Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called "political prisoners". However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands. The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released. Thus Mohammed Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This...
  • TOO LATE for a PEACEABLE SOLUTION

    07/18/2001 2:24:42 AM PDT · by Neophyte · 30+ views
    IsraelDailyNews ^ | Boris Shusteff | 12 July 2001
    TOO LATE for a PEACEABLE SOLUTION Boris Shusteff We welcome the Jews to live as dhimmis, but the rule in this land and in all the Muslim countries must be the rule of Allah... (Sermon on PA TV, 7/6/01). (1) The Jews have always tried to coexist with the Arabs. Devoid of a state they were forced to live under a dhimmi status in the Moslem ruled countries. When the modern Zionism was born the socialist-minded Zionist leaders believed that they would peacefully share the land of Eretz Yisrael with the Arabs. More and more Jews would come to Eretz ...
  • FORMER BOY KING POISED FOR BULGARIAN POLL VICTORY

    06/16/2001 5:41:40 AM PDT · by Neophyte · 118+ views
    Daily Telegraph ^ | June 10, 2001 | Matthew Brunwasser
    Sunday 10 June 2001 FORMER BOY KING POISED FOR BULGARIAN POLL VICTORY By Matthew Brunwasser SIMEON II chose Bulgaria's medieval capital of Veliko Turnovo, a picturesque hillside town redolent of a more glorious age, to launch his final week of campaigning yesterday as his party heads for victory in next Sunday's elections. The symbolism was powerful for the former boy king, dethroned by the Soviet army when he was nine, as he addressed the crowd in front of the ruined palace of a previous Bulgarian era. The Madrid-based businessman, now 63, is on course to become the first deposed monarch ...
  • Muslims persecute Christians not only in the Balkans

    06/03/2001 1:53:14 AM PDT · by Neophyte · 14+ views
    AIDS Trial in Libya Proceeds on Merits of Case, Next Hearing Scheduled for June 16 The six Bulgarian defendants in the Libyan AIDS case pleaded not guilty at a hearing of the Libyan People's Court on Saturday, when the trial proceeded on the merits of the case. Six Bulgarian medical workers are among those charged with intentionally infecting 393 Libyan children with the AIDS virus. Nurses Kristiyana Vulcheva and Nassya Nenova said at the hearing that they had made confessions during the investigation because they had been brought under psychological and physical pressure, tortured with electric shocks, beaten and, in ...
  • OSCE - terrorists' middlemen? (My title)

    05/24/2001 12:43:51 PM PDT · by Neophyte · 13+ views
    Reuters ^ | 05.24.2001 | Reuters
    ANGER AT OSCE BALKANS ENVOY Robert Frowick, senior Balkans envoy of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, was leaving the country under a cloud after his bid to mediate the deal was denounced by the government's Slav majority as well as major powers. An ethnic Albanian guerrilla commander said army shelling had killed the seven civilians and wounded at least five others, shortly after an offensive was launched Thursday aiming to isolate rebel-held villages. Commander Sokoli told Reuters by telephone that six members of the Kymberi family were killed when a shell pierced the concrete roof of a ...
  • Domestic Palestinian terror

    05/17/2001 1:09:59 PM PDT · by Neophyte · 13+ views
    GAMLA: NEWS AND VIEWS FROM ISRAEL ^ | 05.16.2001 | Aaron Lerner
    Fatah Tanzim terrorize Palestinians in Bethlehem and Beit Jalah *************************************************************** Date: 16 May 2001 Israel Radio reported today that Israeli security sources say Palestinians living in Bethlehem and Beit Jalah are so frustrated with the reign of terror they are subjected to by Yasser Arafat's Fatah Tanzim that they are providing Israel with information so that they might be stopped from attacking Israel. The Palestinians are not just concerned about the return fire that Tanzim attacks draw to Palestinian neighborhoods, they also complain of Tanzim violence against their own community. Recently a local Palestinian girl was raped by Tanzim members ...
  • Saudi rules anger top Air Force pilot

    04/18/2001 2:51:50 PM PDT · by Neophyte · 36+ views
    USA Today | 4/18/01 | Edward T Pound
    Saudi rules anger top Air Force pilot By Edward T. Pound, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Maj. Martha McSally is the highest-ranking female fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, the first woman in that service to fly a combat aircraft into enemy territory. But she does not like the way she and other American military women are treated in Saudi Arabia, the male-run oil kingdom they are risking their lives to protect. In Saudi Arabia, McSally says, she is "treated like a Muslim piece of property." Whenever she and other women leave their military installations, their commanders require them to ...