Oh well, there goes restful, nightmare-free sleep for the balance of my life.
Oooops… lost my breakfast 8-(
*snigger…snort* 2 thumbs there T C! ;o)
Iraqi rebels turn on Qaeda in western city (of Ramadi)
Reuters ^ | January 23, 2006
Posted on 01/23/2006 9:56:02 AM PST by jmc1969
Iraqi nationalist rebels in the Sunni Arab city of Ramadi have turned against their former al Qaeda allies after a bomb attack this month killed 80 people, sparking tit-for-tat assassinations.
Residents told Reuters on Monday at least three prominent figures on both sides were among those killed after local insurgent groups formed an alliance against al Qaeda, blaming it for massacring police recruits in Ramadi on January 5.
“There was a meeting right after the bombings,” one Ramadi resident familiar with the events said. “Tribal leaders and political figures gathered to form the Anbar Revolutionaries to fight al Qaeda in Anbar and force them to leave the province.
“Since then there has been all-out war between them,” said the resident in the capital of the sprawling western desert province of Anbar, speaking anonymously for fear of reprisals.
Local Iraqi officials confirmed residents’ accounts of events but declined to comment publicly.
The pan-Arab Al Hayat newspaper quoted a statement from six Iraqi armed groups on Monday announcing they had united to form the “People’s Cell” to confront Zarqawi and preserve security in the Anbar province. >>> more http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563329/posts
I can suggest an air guitar act to accompany him.
Silence That Speaks Volumes
On January 6 we noted the rather amazing revelation that the Pope believes Islam is incapable of reform.
But although you could hardly imagine a more newsworthy story, the world�s mainstream media has avoided this subject as if it were radioactive�and in a way, it is. Here�s Diana West on the Silence that speaks volumes.
This bombshell dropped out of an early January interview conducted by radio host Hugh Hewitt with Father Joseph D. Fessio, SJ, a friend and former student of the pope. Father Fessio recounted the pope�s words on the key problem facing Islamic reform this way: �In the Islamic tradition, God has given His word to Mohammed, but it�s an eternal word. It�s not Mohammed�s word. It�s there for eternity the way it is. There�s no possibility of adapting it or interpreting it.� Father Fessio continued, elaborating not on how many ratings stars the pope thinks some biopic should get, but rather on the pope�s theological assessment of a historically warring religion with a billion-plus followers, some notorious number of whom are now at war with the West. According to his friend, the pope believes there�s no way to change Islam because there�s no way to reinterpret the Koran � i.e., change Koranic teachings on infidels, women, polygamy, penal codes and other markers of Islamic law � in such a way as to propel Islam into happy coexistence with modernity.
As I said, a bombshell. But this is one bombshell that has yet to explode because no one wants to touch it. Hugh Hewitt posted the extraordinary interview online, a couple of blogs picked it up, and Middle East expert Daniel Pipes wrote a short piece taking exception to it, but, as the Asia Times Online columnist Spengler noted (in a column called �When even the pope has to whisper�), �not a single media outlet has taken notice.� …
Is facing up to the pope�s notion of unreformable Islam really too horrible to contemplate? Sounds to me like the fabled abyss. By coincidence, a senior officer in Iraq with whom I�ve been corresponding made a similar point in explaining why he hoped for Islamic reform: basically, because without the hope of such reform, there is no hope of such reform � which, I assume, leads to those horrible consequences mentioned above, beginning, well, with hopelessness.
But despair masked in the wishful silence of studied neglect is the wrong response. That is, if the pope is right and Islam is not reformable along the lines of a Western model, it�s not a Western problem � meaning a problem the West is responsible for fixing. It is perhaps the ultimate Western chauvinism that even considering the failed overhaul of Islam, being beyond Muslim doctrine and beyond our own capabilities, should plunge us � infidels, non-Muslims, Jeffersonian deists, whatever � into the abyss. With apologies to Pygmalion via Lerner and Lowe, the question shouldn�t be: Why Can�t Islam Be More Like the West? It should be: How can the West prevent itself from becoming more like Islam? >> via LGF http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/dwest.htm
That dirty reptile has dihonred all those who died in WW II to keep britian from becoming a german run nation GEORGE GALLAWAY should be sent to the TOWER OF LONDON and locked up for life
It’s too bad all those Americans who were so impressed by Gorgeous George’s histrionics in DC don’t have the opportunity to see him on Big Brother.
If they did, they’d suddenly realize the truth: this man is a self-obsessed publicity whore and not a serious figure on the UK political landscape.
WND Exclusive OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM
New video reveals
real torture scandal
Saddam’s daily horrors make America’s
Abu Ghraib abuses seem almost trivial
Posted: June 21, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By David Kupelian
� 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
The heated charge that prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib by U.S. service personnel was somehow equivalent to that perpetrated by Saddam Hussein � a notion pervasive in the Muslim world and epitomized in the West by Sen. Edward Kennedy’s remark that “we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management” � has had ice-cold water dumped on it by a horrific new video. >>> more http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39045
Oh well, there goes restful, nightmare-free sleep for the balance of my life.
Oooops… lost my breakfast 8-(
*snigger…snort* 2 thumbs there T C! ;o)
Iraqi rebels turn on Qaeda in western city (of Ramadi)
Reuters ^ | January 23, 2006
Posted on 01/23/2006 9:56:02 AM PST by jmc1969
Iraqi nationalist rebels in the Sunni Arab city of Ramadi have turned against their former al Qaeda allies after a bomb attack this month killed 80 people, sparking tit-for-tat assassinations.
Residents told Reuters on Monday at least three prominent figures on both sides were among those killed after local insurgent groups formed an alliance against al Qaeda, blaming it for massacring police recruits in Ramadi on January 5.
“There was a meeting right after the bombings,” one Ramadi resident familiar with the events said. “Tribal leaders and political figures gathered to form the Anbar Revolutionaries to fight al Qaeda in Anbar and force them to leave the province.
“Since then there has been all-out war between them,” said the resident in the capital of the sprawling western desert province of Anbar, speaking anonymously for fear of reprisals.
Local Iraqi officials confirmed residents’ accounts of events but declined to comment publicly.
The pan-Arab Al Hayat newspaper quoted a statement from six Iraqi armed groups on Monday announcing they had united to form the “People’s Cell” to confront Zarqawi and preserve security in the Anbar province. >>> more
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563329/posts
I can suggest an air guitar act to accompany him.
Silence That Speaks Volumes
On January 6 we noted the rather amazing revelation that the Pope believes Islam is incapable of reform.
But although you could hardly imagine a more newsworthy story, the world�s mainstream media has avoided this subject as if it were radioactive�and in a way, it is. Here�s Diana West on the Silence that speaks volumes.
This bombshell dropped out of an early January interview conducted by radio host Hugh Hewitt with Father Joseph D. Fessio, SJ, a friend and former student of the pope. Father Fessio recounted the pope�s words on the key problem facing Islamic reform this way: �In the Islamic tradition, God has given His word to Mohammed, but it�s an eternal word. It�s not Mohammed�s word. It�s there for eternity the way it is. There�s no possibility of adapting it or interpreting it.� Father Fessio continued, elaborating not on how many ratings stars the pope thinks some biopic should get, but rather on the pope�s theological assessment of a historically warring religion with a billion-plus followers, some notorious number of whom are now at war with the West. According to his friend, the pope believes there�s no way to change Islam because there�s no way to reinterpret the Koran � i.e., change Koranic teachings on infidels, women, polygamy, penal codes and other markers of Islamic law � in such a way as to propel Islam into happy coexistence with modernity.
As I said, a bombshell. But this is one bombshell that has yet to explode because no one wants to touch it. Hugh Hewitt posted the extraordinary interview online, a couple of blogs picked it up, and Middle East expert Daniel Pipes wrote a short piece taking exception to it, but, as the Asia Times Online columnist Spengler noted (in a column called �When even the pope has to whisper�), �not a single media outlet has taken notice.� …
Is facing up to the pope�s notion of unreformable Islam really too horrible to contemplate? Sounds to me like the fabled abyss. By coincidence, a senior officer in Iraq with whom I�ve been corresponding made a similar point in explaining why he hoped for Islamic reform: basically, because without the hope of such reform, there is no hope of such reform � which, I assume, leads to those horrible consequences mentioned above, beginning, well, with hopelessness.
But despair masked in the wishful silence of studied neglect is the wrong response. That is, if the pope is right and Islam is not reformable along the lines of a Western model, it�s not a Western problem � meaning a problem the West is responsible for fixing. It is perhaps the ultimate Western chauvinism that even considering the failed overhaul of Islam, being beyond Muslim doctrine and beyond our own capabilities, should plunge us � infidels, non-Muslims, Jeffersonian deists, whatever � into the abyss. With apologies to Pygmalion via Lerner and Lowe, the question shouldn�t be: Why Can�t Islam Be More Like the West? It should be: How can the West prevent itself from becoming more like Islam? >> via LGF
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/dwest.htm
That dirty reptile has dihonred all those who died in WW II to keep britian from becoming a german run nation GEORGE GALLAWAY should be sent to the TOWER OF LONDON and locked up for life
It’s too bad all those Americans who were so impressed by Gorgeous George’s histrionics in DC don’t have the opportunity to see him on Big Brother.
If they did, they’d suddenly realize the truth: this man is a self-obsessed publicity whore and not a serious figure on the UK political landscape.
WND Exclusive OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM
New video reveals
real torture scandal
Saddam’s daily horrors make America’s
Abu Ghraib abuses seem almost trivial
Posted: June 21, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By David Kupelian
� 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
The heated charge that prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib by U.S. service personnel was somehow equivalent to that perpetrated by Saddam Hussein � a notion pervasive in the Muslim world and epitomized in the West by Sen. Edward Kennedy’s remark that “we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management” � has had ice-cold water dumped on it by a horrific new video. >>> more
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39045