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No-fly list grounds up to 2,000 people

As many as 2,000 people have secretly been declared security threats by government officials, including CSIS and the RCMP, and will be denied airplane boarding passes as a result of the Canadian no-fly list that went into effect Monday
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Air India a 'disastrous failure,' says Ex-RCMP boss

The inability of police to uncover the Air India bombing plot before the loss of 331 lives is "the biggest and most disastrous civil intelligence failure that Canada has faced," former RCMP deputy commissioner Henry Jensen said yesterday ...-
(national newswatch)

Canadian Citizens Raise $1 Million in Support of Our Troops
DND/Canadian Forces ^ | 2007-06-19 | (press release)

OTTAWA – During the past year, Canadian citizens, through buying the Canadian Forces Personnel Support Agency’s (CFPSA) official “Support Our Troops” (SOT) t-shirts, caps, car magnets and other merchandise, have raised $1 million in support of the Canadian military community.

These profits will be distributed in their entirety to Bases, Wings, and Units across Canada and will be used for morale and welfare programs for Canadian Forces (CF) members and their families. This could include, for example, family events, site-specific funding of Canadian Military Family Resource Centre (MFRC) programs, or innovative activities that benefit CF members and their families.

Canadians have contributed to this remarkable accomplishment by purchasing official CF-sanctioned Support Our Troops merchandise online at the CFPSA website (www.cfpsa.com/supportourtroops), at various CF outreach events and, for authorized patrons, at Canadian Forces Exchange System (CANEX) outlets located at Bases, Wings and Units nationwide. CANEX is a division of CFPSA and their SOT merchandise is one of the many ways that Canadians can demonstrate their support. Other options, including donating to various military funds, are listed on the CFPSA website.

CANEX routinely reinvests a portion of its profits directly back to bases, wings, and units.

“This year, CANEX contributes over $4 million to the CF community,” says Gerry Mahon, president of CANEX. “One million dollars from the Support Our Troops merchandise sales, and over $3 million generated from regular operations. These funds will be used for local morale and welfare programs at Bases across the nation.”

CFPSA develops and delivers morale and welfare programs, activities and services to members of the CF and their families, in Canada and overseas. These activities include sports and recreation, health and fitness, family services, retail operations, financial services and, mess management. In addition, the CFPSA deploys approximately 60 civilian personnel per six-month rotation to Afghanistan to conduct morale and welfare programs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852601/posts
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City order burns troops -- [Pulling fire, ambulance ribbons is wrong]

Toronto Sun via Sun Media ^ | 2007-06-19 | Joe Warmington
The Support Our Troops ribbon on Toronto Fire vehicles, which were paid for by firefighters, are to be removed in September. (Joe Warmington/Sun Media) Our brave troops will still be fighting in Afghanistan this September even if the magnetic ribbon support decals on Toronto Fire trucks and ambulances won't be. The city has ordered the Support Our Troop decals to be removed from all fire trucks and EMS vehicles on Sept. 4, the Sun has learned. The reason? It depends on who you talk to. And there are lots of contradictions. Some say it is because it was not brought...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852595/posts

Muslim sharia law in Gaza and Toronto Red Star.

The left is allied with Muslim Islamist terrorists.
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Macho symbols risky for Tories

Ties to hockey, army, race cars won't woo women voters to party. Soldiers, hockey gear and race cars are not just the stuff of young boys' wish lists any more – they're also symbols that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government is deliberately choosing to embrace. (TO Red Star/Susan Delacourt)
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Christians warned: Accept Islamic law

JERUSALEM – Christians can continue living safely in the Gaza Strip only if they accept Islamic law, including a ban on alcohol and on women roaming publicly without proper head coverings, an Islamist militant leader in Gaza told WND in an exclusive interview.

The militant leader said Christians in Gaza who engage in "missionary activity" will be "dealt with harshly."

The threats come two days after a church and Christian school in Gaza was attacked following the seizure of power in the territory by the Hamas terror group.

"I expect our Christian neighbors to understand the new Hamas rule means real changes. They must be ready for Islamic rule if they want to live in peace in Gaza," said Sheik Abu Saqer, leader of Jihadia Salafiya, an Islamic outreach movement that recently announced the opening of a "military wing" to enforce Muslim law in Gaza.

Jihadia Salafiya is suspected of attacking a United Nations school in Gaza last month, after the school allowed boys and girls to participate in the same sporting event. One person was killed in that attack.

"The situation has now changed 180 degrees in Gaza," said Abu Saqer, speaking from Gaza yesterday. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852592/posts

Susan Delacourt
Ottawa Bureau Chief

OTTAWA– Soldiers, hockey gear and race cars are not just the stuff of young boys' wish lists any more – they're also symbols that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government is deliberately choosing to embrace.

What's puzzling some observers, however, is how all this heavily male symbolism, mixed with an aggressive, disciplinary governing style, is going to help the Conservatives get more votes in the next election, especially from women.

"It's definitely not a growth strategy. It's the opposite of a growth strategy," says pollster Nik Nanos, who says all this macho posturing may be part of the reason the federal Conservatives are stalled in the public-opinion surveys conducted in the past few months.

"It's reinforcing stereotypes that they're trying to get rid of – which is that the Conservatives appeal to a very narrow group of voters that tend to be very male and right-wing. ... They're creating their own glass ceiling."

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/226854

Late in on the discussion re: youth with guns in Toronto:
Things got very personal for us when some relatives were carjacked in Detroit(wxyz.com elderly sisters carjacked June 14,07).
No guns involved, but the ladies were hurt and shook up. The perps:16 and 14, the youngest with a rap sheet.
What amazed us was the cops found the car, found the kids, charged them immediately as adults, (none of this "alleged" crap),names were in the media, and the cops are determined to get them off the street.
The words of one cop from the news article Detroit Free Press(freep.com) The 14 year has been thru the juvenile system and obviously it isn't working for him. Court date June 28.Our 'elderly' lady relatives have nothing but good things to say about the cops in Detroit, and I believe it was an eye opener for them in getting a better understanding of the way cops work is made very difficult here in Canada with the YCJA.Huge difference!
These guys would get their knuckle slapped here and be in to guns the next time.

5-year long terrorist plot to attack California's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station http://www.theonion.com/content/news/after_5_years_in_u_s_terrorist ">exposed.

According to this, the actual total number of Islamist terrorists is at least double the official estimates.

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP has swallowed the bait:

Jack says:"Given all their talk of green, why weren't they supporting one of the bicycle competitions going on around the country?"

The Conservative Party has scored a major propaganda blow against the effete, powder-puffing MayDion-Taliban Jack.
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Opposition parties blast Conservatives over support of NASCAR vehicle
[...]

he official NASCAR gas is 104 octane and has the biofuel ethanol blended into it.

The Conservative Party rolled out its latest advertising effort on Sunday: car No. 29 at the Mosport race track in Bowmanville, Ont. The big blue Conservative C will also be on the car at NASCAR Canadian Tire Series races in Edmonton in July and Trois-Rivières in August, with Pierre Bourque behind the wheel.

In addition to his driving career, Mr. Bourque, 48, is a painter, screenwriter and blogger whose website http://www.bourque.org is often accused of emphasizing stories that show the Liberals in a negative light.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20070619.NASCAR19/TPStory/National/

More evidence that the military campaign in Afghanistan has been, on balance, successful to date:

- www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284052,00.html

- www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=4b8eede9-85b3-4c64-af75-5dd7f6690358&k=5152

- www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/world/story.html?id=7b2c52da-d0c9-47ef-979d-fe86a0c082fa

- www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070618.waffy0618/BNStory/Afghanistan

Anyone see Canada AM this morning? Here are their poll results from yesterday:

Should Canada have a No-fly list?
Yes: 58%
No: 42%

When these results were shown to the hosts there was much hand-wringing along with the inevitable comment "almost an even-split". How much hand wringing would there have been if the results were reversed?

Yesterday's G&M poll that tells you all you need to know about that site's readership:

Is socialism still a viable political alternative for the major industrial nations?
Yes: 60%
No: 40%

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/poll/pollResultHub?id=59955&pollid=59955&save=_save&show_vote_always=no&poll=GAMFront&hub=Front&subhub=VoteResult

Check out "break.com" and click on the video showing an Arab woman giving a verbal ass kicking to a Muslim cleric. She rocks!

The Ottawa Nights - The Ballad of Stevie Harpie" Poster Contest is underway. The first entry is here.

The Environ"mental" position summed up in three panels

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070619.html

"Yesterday's G&M poll that tells you all you need to know about that site's readership:

Is socialism still a viable political alternative for the major industrial nations?
Yes: 60%
No: 40%"

The interesting unstated point to this is that under statist socialism the 40 dissent just dissappears in the night. In a dystopian socialist state like Canada the 40% dissent is ignoored, marginalized and damaged as deeply as possible by state policy legislating...political cleansing is inherent in socialism....it has no accomodation for dissent, discussion or diversity of political opinion.

So the stews in TO who think this system is still "viable" are just mindless arsewipes wo foolishly support errant social orthodoxies from a fossilized era of political collectivist tyranny.

From Inside the CBC, the CBC's Official Blog:

Pro-Life groups take over CBC Facebook experiment

A concert in Ireland

At a U2 concert in Ireland , Bono (the lead singer) asks the audience for some quiet. Then he starts to slowly clap his hands. Holding the audience in total silence, he says into the microphone...."I want you to think about something. Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies."

A voice from the front of the audience yells out...."Then stop clapping, ya fooking asshole!"

You Got To Love the Irish!

Necole Small, sister of Jordan Manners, released on bail with 26 others charged last week

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/226845

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Shell casings littered the pavement of a basketball court outside
298 Grandravine Dr. where bullets flew just after 4:30 p.m.

Root causes, my ass.

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Liberal $enator Mobina Jaffer:

The Muslim poster girl of the Ad$cam Liberal$/Librano$.

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Daily Blogger

The Shotgun | Senator Jaffer’s $10,000-a-day bill

An interesting fact (conveniently?) left out of the Globe and Mail’s story, about a Catholic order’s lawsuit against the Vancouver law firm of Dohm, Jaffer and Jeraj for an excessively high legal bill of $7.3 million over four years, is that one of the alleged legal gougers, Mobina Jaffer, also happens to be a lefty-Liberal Senator.

According to the story, Jaffer and partner Azool Jaffer-Jeraj have been accused of some pretty shady dealings, including: ...-
http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/

Senator Mobina Jaffer Representing the Province of British Columbia

"Senator Jaffer is currently a member of the Standing Committee on ... Mobina has been very involved with the Liberal Party of Canada in various roles. ..."
sen.parl.gc.ca/mjaffer/bio.htm

Steve Janke is looking for some help in a legal fight.

http://stevejanke.com/archives/230518.php

I saw this small dead animal (racoon) on the trail to the ferry in Anacortes, Washington. I couldn't resist taking a photo.

http://ceallaighgirl.smugmug.com/photos/164482373-L.jpg

Ooops. Didn't read further down the page and see the Janke thread. Sorry for the above post.

Video: NatLamp's 72 Virgins

Mockery. Jihadis hate it, a lot. Hence, we must.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

another interesting read avail. at jacksnewswatch
John Ivison points out Why are we sending aid in the combined amouts of Billions to countries that clearly do not need it.(National Post) N.Ireland, Poland,China,Venezuela,Brazil etc....
Ivison is correct in his findings & states the facts that these programs of aid were started in the years 04/05, However he fails in the article to point out that these aid programs were Under the watch of the day, Liberal PM Martin & he is in a roundabout way questioning todays Gov't.
Seems to me that the Opposition back then was also questioning these Aid Programs to countries that have a better GDP then Canada.
And of course we all Know that this will turn into just Another Liberal Screw-up that PM Harper will be blamed for.

Take care all & Happy Motoring Kate

WLMR. Look at the socialist survey again. 40% would vote Tory, while other 60% go to Opposition. Grits has moved left so are indistinguishable from Dippers, Greens and Bloc. In that scenario, Harper has good shot at majority; so bring it on I say.

Delacourt's article is a joke. An elitist out of touch with Mary and Joe Sixpack declares Harper is too macho. Of course, being a macho man, he is also authoritative. No sexist labelling there, eh Susan. Yes, Nick, appealing to middle class values is "the opposite of a growth strategy." Such wisdom from the ivory tower.

Nick Nanos is full of Sh*t, much like Greg what's his name, the pollster !

Canada's New Government (TM): Getting the Job Done.

I WANT KNIVES BANNED, I WANT KNIVES BANNED.....WAAAAAAAAAA.....in a 24 hour period in lovely old Kingston, a taxi driver was stabbed to death, and some crack ho robbed a pharmacy with a knife....I want knives registered and/or banned.....wendy kookyho, where are you when we need you?

[ The world will end in 2060, according to Newton.

Luckily for modern scientists in awe of his achievements, Newton based this figure on religion rather than reasoning.

In a letter from 1704 which has gone on show in Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Newton uses the Bible's Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the Apocalypse. ]thisislondon.co.uk

//www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23401099-details/The+world+will+end+in+2060%2C+according+to+Newton/article.do

So, ya see, 'Big Al' you are nothing new. The world has already been forcast(TWN) to end ---- many times already :)

"Their sympathizers"? Taliban-Jack Layton-NDP, Hezbollah Coderre, Liberal Citoyen Dion, et al, aka socialist allies of the Muslim Islamist murderers.
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Do you believe the campaign against Can.'s presence in Afghanistan(Taliban threats to attack Cdns,Britons,Americans, Germans at home; anti-war marches,letters accusing soldiers of war crimes; opposition to security provisions; parties demanding troop withdrawal)are part of a sophisticated propaganda campaign by Taliban,al Qaeda & their sympathizers?
Yes
74.8%
No
24.7%
Other, email us at mornings@cfra.com
0.32%
Total Votes: 924 ...-
cfra.com

And they promised the olympics would have open media access. So stay away.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSPEK21813920070619?pageNumber=3&sp=true

June 22.. Quebec city.. peaceniks will be there protesting AFG as well as VanDoos et familie deploying.. photos NEEDED. http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/006437.html

See also June 15 sda "Chickendoves"

Any SDAers around there?

The cold war never ended, it just got put on hold.

Putin decided to press play:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/19/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Syria-Jets.php

"Russia has started delivery of top-of-the-line fighter jets to Syria under a new deal estimated to be worth US$1 billion"

There is more. Read it all.

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What about the separation... of
Church and State Trooper?

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Burman Steps Down!

A banner day? Let's see what the "New Direction" will look like.....

I thought they were ALL Palestinians!
600 Gazans trying to flee to West Bank!

Of course it's Israel's fault too.............

Brynar, 11:45am foreign aid to China? Why?

This piece shows so many things about modern industrial China.

Surging ahead with millions of hands organized. Moving towards clean energy so as not to choke on their own industrial pollution.
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China*s Suntech's revenue and profits are following a similar path. Sales in 2006 rose to $598.6 million, more than doubling 2005 revenue, while net income rose by from 30.6 million in 2005 to 106 million last year. Revenue this year will likely hit $1 billion. In 2002, revenue was $3 million.

*We came from nowhere,* Chan said. *We were able to grow in the face of an industry shortage of silicon.*

Many believe the company now has its eye on toppling Sharp as No. 1 in the industry. Sharp has factory capacity to produce enough solar cells to put out 600 megawatts of power in a year, compared with Suntech's 360 megawatts. By 2010, Suntech expects to have the factory capacity to produce 1 gigawatt of solar cells a year.

*Suntech, longer term, is going to be the Honda Civic of the industry,* said Jeff Osborne, an analyst at CIBC World Markets.

*My fundamental belief is that 80 to 90 percent of the market, long term, will be a commodity product and the Chinese and Taiwanese are going to dominate that (commodity) sector.*

Alternative energy is becoming big business in China. In the past two years, several Chinese solar companies--such as Nanjing's Sunergy, JA Solar Holdings and Solarfun Power Holdings--have held initial public offerings in the U.S.

Suntech did it first, in late 2005; because of the IPO, founder Zhengrong Shi is one of the richest men in the country.

http://tinyurl.com/3buyfe

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China is sending arms to buyers in the ME. All they need from us is a boycott until they show effective safeguards for poison free food exports, not foreign aid. = TG

Make solar panels available to mega-millions in rural China and the demand for electronics becomes endless. China has a built in gold mine. = TG

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Title: Muslim world inflamed by Rushdie knighthood.

Other titles they could have used:

Muslim world inflamed by Sun being center of Solar System
Muslim world inflamed by women who smile
Muslim world inflamed by Earth being on a 23 degree axis tilt

(via BCF)

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Solar produced electricity is three times more expensive than conventional. And is unreliable.

It is in vogue today only because flakes such as McGuinty and Mo promote spending taxpayer $$ on the latest pet project.

Canadian Patrick Moore has lotsa credibility on environmental issues. His whole website should be required reading, especially school kids.

www.greenspirit.com

Update: from Bagh, ..., er, Toronto where the brazens are shooting at Jane and Finch in daylight, in Toronto, in Canada, in Canadian streets near basketball courts.

More basketballs needed. Do not send courts.
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4 suspects sought in Jane-Finch shooting
CBC.ca - 5 hours ago
Toronto police are searching for four suspects after a brazen daylight shooting Monday near a basketball court in the Jane-Finch neighbourhood. ...-
google news

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813061916&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Hamas whacks Church and environs.

Jihad attacks Christian churches as well.

I don't see why you need rocket propelled grenades to enter the church when the door is unlocked!

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP

Commander in Chief

Frankenstein Battalion

Knecht Rupprecht Division

Hans Corps

1st Saint Nicolaas Army

Army Group “True North”

"Father Manuel Musalam, leader of the small Latin community in the Gaza Strip, said masked gunmen torched and looted the Rosary Sisters School and the Latin Church.

"The masked gunmen used rocket-propelled grenades to storm the main entrances of the school and church," he said. "Then they destroyed almost everything inside, including the Cross, the Holy Book, computers and other equipment."

Musalam expressed outrage over the burning of copies of the Bible, noting that the gunmen destroyed all the Crosses inside the church and school. "Those who did these awful things have no respect for Christian-Muslim relations," he said.

He estimated damages at more than $500,000. "Those who see the destruction will realize how bad this attack was," he said. "Christians have been living in peace and security with Muslims for many years, but those who attacked us are trying to sabotage this relationship."

He said Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas phoned him on Sunday night to express his strong condemnation for the attack. "President Abbas promised that he would do his utmost to prevent such attacks on Christians here," he said.

Fatah officials blamed Hamas militiamen for the attack on the church and school. However, Islam Shahwan, spokesman for Hamas's Executive Force in the Gaza Strip, denied responsibility."

They can run; but, they cannot hide.
More, and, faster.
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Missiles kill 32 militants in Pakistan tribal region

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A missile attack, probably launched by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, killed at least 32 pro-Taliban militants in a Pakistani tribal region near the border on Tuesday, Pakistani officials said.

The missiles targeted a suspected training base in a village near the mountainous Datta Khel district, 60 km (40 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.

Intelligence officials said some foreigners were among those killed in Mamy Rogha, raising the possibility that al Qaeda fighters might have also been present. North Waziristan is a known refuge for remnants of Osama bin Laden's network. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852872/posts

Today's CTV poll:
http://www.ctv.ca/news

"Should the Anglican Church of Canada bless same-sex unions?
Yes
2839 votes (42 %)
No
3917 votes (58 %)

Total Votes: 6756"

Mark
Ottawa

Be Not Afraid [full text of Michael Yon's dispatch from Iraq]

You shall cross the barren desert, but you shall not die of thirst. You shall wander far in safety though you do not know the way. You shall speak your words in foreign lands and all will understand. You shall see the face of God and live.

Be not afraid. I go before you always; Come follow me, and I will give you rest.

[From a prayer card I found on a base in Anbar Province, Iraq.]

Thoughts flow on the eve of a great battle. By the time these words are released, we will be in combat. Few ears have heard even rumors of this battle, and fewer still are the eyes that will see its full scope. Even now—the battle has already begun for some—practically no news about it is flowing home. I’ve known of the secret plans for about a month, but have remained silent.

This campaign is actually a series of carefully orchestrated battalion and brigade sized battles. Collectively, it is probably the largest battle since “major hostilities” ended more than four years ago. Even the media here on the ground do not seem to have sensed its scale. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852869/posts

One of these things is just like the other.
Viewership is.
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Garth Turner's viewership numbers questioned

Garth Turner says his webcast is downloaded by about 30,000 to 40,000 viewers every night. 30,000 to 40,000 viewers every night? That would be incredible, if true....-

Tony Burman to leave CBC

Tony Burman, editor in chief of CBC News, is leaving the public broadcaster after 35 years. Burman, 59, will finish up at CBC on July 13.
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(national newswatch)

Libranos* go to Washington. The scene: A diner/ristorante in Montreal/Ottawa, Quebec/Ontario. No jukebox; lotsa grappa. A nostalgic sing-song: Gag speaks first, Da boss sent you dis gift. Fade to brown envelopes stuffed with hot, unnumbered hush/bribery bills/cash.

It worked as a finale for AdScam Chretien-Martin for 13 years too long.
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[Hillary] Clinton spoofs Sopranos, selects Celine Dion song for campaign

WASHINGTON - The scene: A diner and a jukebox. A nostalgic song. A long fade to black.

It worked as a finale for “The Sopranos.”...-
(jacks newswatch)

*H/T: THE WESTERN STANDARD. The Libranos. Monday, 16 May 2005. Kevin Libin with files from Kate ..."
10.esigplus.com/

Hans Corps Leader Rupprecht brings our attention to the pointless smashing of Christian churches.

Mad Mullah directives from Acmahdinejad through war lords like Muqtada al-Sadr, Hizballah and Hamas are the chaos fiends.

Surprising that the war lords, at least, never seem to get a sniper*s bullet.

Intelligence and stealth must improve before we can hope for better stability in Lebanon, Gaza Iraq and Afghanistan. = TG

mspike007: Thanks for the chuckle, too bad its accurate. I gave you a h/t at blue marble climate.