The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel Fried, the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and will not replace him, according to an internal personnel announcement. Mr. Fried’s office is being closed…
The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel Fried, the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and will not replace him, according to an internal personnel announcement. Mr. Fried’s office is being closed…
Well clearly Al-Qaeda has been defeated…now that the election is over!
The promises are about as hollow as a drained coconut…
You know they might be fascists when they start burning libraries.
http://www.euronews.com/2013/01/29/mali-cultural-crimes-uncovered-as-timbuktu-is-secured/
Malians may be celebrating the liberation of Timbuktu, however some could be mourning the loss of artefacts destroyed by the Islamist rebels as they fled the city.
Two hundred Malian soldiers alongside 1,000 French troops entered the city, named as an endangered world heritage site by UNESCO.
The fleeing militants destroyed the tomb of Saint Sidi Mahmoudou and set fire to mosques and the Ahmed Baba Institute, a library containing many historical documents.
A librarian at the Ahmed Baba Institute described being told about the destruction: “ ‘We destroyed everything. We destroyed the mosque. We destroyed things that are more than 300, 400 years old,’ they said, because their religion doesn’t accept that (the artefacts).”
Timbuktu is home to some 20,000 manuscripts, some dating back as far as the 12th century. Militants destroyed some which had not been hidden away.
UNESCO spokesman Roni Amelan said the Paris-based UN cultural agency was “horrified” by the news of the fire, but was awaiting a full assessment of the damage.
The Ahmed Baba Institute, one of several libraries and collections in Timbuktu containing fragile documents dating back to the 13th century, is named after a Timbuktu-born contemporary of William Shakespeare.
The French and Malians have encountered no resistance so far in Timbuktu. But they will now have to comb through a labyrinth of ancient mosques, monuments, mud-brick homes and narrow alleyways to flush out any hiding fighters.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
We can hope that the salafists die sticky deaths.
As for the point about the Guantanamo prison, one notes that the parts of the police state have all been assembled, ready for use. It is a mere nuisance having an official around whose job description is to close it.
Or, the headline could have been “Every Obama promise comes with an expiry date”.
I don’t understand why you people are so hard on Bambam. After all, didn’t he campaign on his right to order the deaths of innocent women and children via drone strikes whenever he felt like it? Didn’t he campaign on his new ability to order the death of anyone, including American citizens, without due process of any kind? Didn’t he campaign on the necessity of ordering tens of millions of rounds of hollow-point ammunition and 7,000 assault rifles for DHS? Didn’t he campaign on his duty to appoint a czar for whatever industry captures his attention for a moment..
er, what’s that? He didn’t?!
never mind..
Cue the peacenik outrage and street demonstrations in 3, 2, 1…
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[crickets]
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Oh wait, Barry’s a -Democrat-. Sorry, as you were!
This has got to be the best description I’ve seen so far.
“My grasp of fact is not the best; in truth it is quite tenuous
My view of history, ‘bout the same, is fractured, filtered, nebulous.
A hurtful hate-filled vile vicious low down no good dirty rat
I am the very model of a modern liberal democrat.”
Obama ain’t agona close Gitmo, he is saving it for Republicans who dissent.
Ratt
That’s what the FEMA camps is for….Gitmo jus’ ain’t big enough fer the half the ‘merican they call the 1%………
Trouble was Mitty Romney campaigned on support for the same things. The American people did not want either, the American people wanted a Ron Paul. Blame Prince Pribus (establishment republican) and his lemmings for the 0 win.
I remember CBCpravda was all over the closing of Gitmo like ugly on an ape. Because in their estimation the yanks would be sending that precious little Omar Khadr home the day after. Bambam made all kinds of flair signing the executive order. suppose that was dissappearing ink?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2009/01/22/obama-guantanamo.html
Everything is alright when Obama does it.
Perhaps he should be sent there after being impeached. Hhmmm….
Mag Pushes Fake Picture of Obama Skeet Shooting
Then deletes it.
12:52 PM, Jan 29, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mag-pushes-fake-picture-obama-skeet-shooting_698730.html