Saddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the former Iraqi leader. "Hussein believed that Iraq could not appear weak to its enemies, especially Iran," FBI special agent George Piro wrote on notes of a conversation with Saddam in June 2004 about weapons of mass destruction. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200907...
German n-tv.de has apparently decided that there isn't enough anti-Semitism in Europe, so they are warming up the story about the two soldiers who have accused the IDF of war crimes again. Of course, the story is not reported as those individuals "accusing" Israel of something but of them "breaking their silence", which is the usual term employed when somebody accuses Israel or Jews of something.* I figure it will take a few days before their pro-Israeli columnist can write an article expl...
Residents of dozens of unrecognized Bedouin villages in southern Israel unimpressed by government's repeated promises to amend infrastructural neglect plaguing their communities. ... Members of the communities making up the Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages (RCUV) – an independent body which represents some 80,000 residents of the Negev's unrecognized Bedouin villages – are used to empty promises. They are still living in communities lacking proper health ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday in an unsourced news flash. [Usually, such a thing wouldn't be funny. But the man has let "his" people starve while he tortured dissidents and threatens South Korea and Japan.] Kim's health is one of the most closely guarded secrets in the reclusive communist state. [And indeed, this is the entire report.] http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56B24920090712
At least 40 people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike in north-west Pakistan, local officials say. ... Army spokesman, Major-General Athar Abbas, told reporters: "We have credible information that Maulana Fazlullah has been injured... But it is not possible to confirm whether he is alive or not." Maulana Fazlullah is a radical cleric who commands the Pakistani Taliban in the Swat Valley. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8139739.stm T...
There have been fights between Chinese police and Uigures in Xinjiang. Numbers of victims are now estimated to be in the hundreds. The Chinese have not yet provided information on their names and why they were killed. Has anybody seen any non-anti-Semitic protesters who are worried solely about innocent deaths yet or is China's government not Jewish enough?
I had alread written about Jewish "settlements" here: http://citizenleauki.joeuser.com/article/357556/Meddling_in_Israel_Obama_and_the_Settlements In that post I pointed out that the "settlements" are actually built by Palestinian Arabs who are quite happy to have a good income building them. In an earlier post I referred to the situation in Hevron, where the Arab land owner intervened when a foreign "peace activist" tried to demolish a synagogue built on Arab land. Contrary to pub...
Ok, that settles it. Sarah Palin becomes the new president of Honduras.
Dear world, According to Twitter the current toll, as admitted by the Iranian "government" is 57. Number of killed according to Iran HR: 51 ppl until June21 + 6 executions July1 in Evin Given that there is no evidence for any of the protesters to have initiated violence against anyone, I would call that "disproportionate violence". I think we might need a full UN enquiry into what exactly happened in Iran over the last few weeks. International law apparently has a ...
"Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: 'Yids, go back to Palestine,' so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: 'Yids, get out of Palestine.'" "There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in the world is war, I think the ultimate evil in the world is aggression, and aggression sometimes must be repelled by force. I will never forget the words of a rel...
This is what the unemployed in Germany receive for free from the state, as per Wikipedia. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_4 "Unemployed" are here those who haven't worked in years. These are the numbers for able-bodied young (20 to 40) people in Euros. Individual: 351 per month Married couple: 316 per individual per month Child (14 and older): 281 per child per month Child (younger than 14): 211 per child per month Also: between 42 and 126 per month according t...
While Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt is now calling for war http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2159.htm Has the West, with all its greatness, restored the village of Ghajar to us? The village of Ghajar was never part of Lebanon but was part of Syria for 30 years (and of Israel for 40). Its inhabitants are Israeli citizens who do not want to become Lebanese. Mr Jumblatt will have to explain why he wants to annex an Israeli/Syrian village. He goes on to describe his attitude to...
The problem of meddling in another country's politics by people ignorant of the situation is best described here: The last thing that Abu Mohammed al-Najjar wants is for Israel to succumb to US and European pressure and halt construction in the West Bank settlements. A Palestinian worker at a... As far as the 58-year-old laborer is concerned, freezing the construction would be a disaster not only for him and his family, but for thousands of other Palestinians working in variou...
As a memorial, I give you the names and ages of the dead children, as provided by the rebel Darfur Justice and Equality Movement (Sudan Tribune, March 24): Abdel-Latif Hassan Gar El-Nabi, 7 months old; Ahmed Musa, 7 months old; Munir Mohamed Ibrahim, 9 months old; Esam Babiker Yacoub, 3 years old. At another camp, Otash, after the mother of a 10-year-old, weak from dehydration after vomiting all night long, took him to a clinic, the door was locked. Said a relative of the boy: "The whi...
I support freedom and independence for all minorities in the Middle East including the Imazighen, the Fur and the other African tribes in Sudan, the Kurds, the Assyrians, and the Jews. I am a Phoenicianist and a Pharaonist , a supporter of the Darfurians and respectful of Aramaean, Chaldaean, and Assyrian culture. I support the right of Christians to worship as they want in Muslim countries and the right of Muslims to worship as they want in Christian countries. I support the right of...