Aug 5, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
"Our methods are tough, but do not include torture"
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It's like he's trying to piss of Israel or something. Atlas Shrugs: How deep is Obama's Jew-hatred? Deep enough to award the medal of freedom to a rabid anti-semite: "...the White House has announced that Mary Robinson will be one of sixteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States...she was ...
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This might as well be a declaration of war on the Right. JihadWatch: Geert Wilders, an international champion of free speech, is barred from Britain, but a Jew-hating Islamic supremacist is just fine with UK authorities. Absurd Britannia Alert: "Anti-Semitic Saudi chief imam feted in London: Senior cleric of Mecca's Grand Mosque speaks at East London Mosque," ...
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Wired: The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately. “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries,†reads a Marine Corps order, issued Monday. ...
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Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON -- The road to freedom for two American journalists held captive by North Korea came into view last month when Pyongyang made a special request of the Obama administration: Send Bill Clinton. Euna Lee and Laura Ling, held by Pyongyang since March, told their parents by telephone last month that the former president ...
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The Jerusalem Post: The state prosecution has informed six doctors from the Kaplan Medical Center's Harzfeld Geriatric Hospital that it intends to indict them, pending a hearing, for allegedly carrying out illegal medical experiments on elderly patients. Charges could include abuse of helpless victims, assault under aggravated circumstances, causing death through negligence, fraud, forgery, and obstruction of ...
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From The Times Online Three years after Israel fought a bloody war in Lebanon against Hezbollah, there are fears that hostilities could erupt again — this time with the militant group better armed than ever. According to Israeli, United Nations and Hezbollah officials, the Shia Muslim militia is stronger than it was in 2006 when it ...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two Pakistani intelligence and one army official said Wednesday that a U.S. missile strike in northeastern Pakistan had killed a wife of top Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. Mehsud's associates would not confirm the report, although they did say a woman was killed in the missile strike in South Waziristan, part of ...
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Sudan Police Beat Protesters As Woman Goes On Trial For Wearing Trousers From The Guardian. Police fired teargas and beat supporters of a Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public
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CNN: North Korean President Kim Jong Il has pardoned and ordered the release of two U.S. journalists, state-run news agency KCNA said Wednesday. The announcement came after former U.S. President Bill Clinton met with top North Korean officials in Pyongyang to appeal for the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had been arrested while ...
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Above: Ghada al-Amily, manager of a Baghdad publishing firm and professional Fran Drescher look alike. The New York Times: BAGHDAD — The doors of the communications revolution were thrown open in Iraq after the American-led invasion in 2003: In rushed a wave of music videos featuring scantily clad Turkish singers, Web sites recruiting suicide bombers, racy Egyptian ...
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Jerusalem Post: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed a planeload of olim on Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport, telling them "we're close to a tipping point." According to the prime minister, "for the first time in 2,000 years, there are going to be more Jews in Israel than outside it." Speaking to a terminal full of olim from the ...
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ACTIVE is launching a very important ACTIVE Operation, a permanent fundraising effort for Michael Yon, whose stories from the frontlines have earned him the reputation as the premier independent combat journalist and photographer of his generation. His work has been featured on “Good Morning America,†CNN, ABC, FOX, and in The Wall Street ...
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Times Online: A quarter of boys and 15 per cent of girls left primary school unable to read and write properly, Government figures show today. Overall one in five 11-year-old pupils failed to reach the expected level in their national curriculum tests in English. It is the first time results in the subject have declined since the tests, ...
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News.AU: ARMED with explosives, two men are heading to Mongolia's desert to find the fabled acid-spitting and lightning-throwing Mongolian death worm. The worm- allegedly found in the country's Gobi Desert- has never been documented but locals strongly believe it exists. The worm- about 1.5m long- apparently jumps out of the sand and kills people by spitting concentrated acid ...
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News.AU: A PLOT by Islamic extremists in Melbourne to launch a suicide attack on an Australian Army base has been uncovered by national security agencies. The Australian newspaper reports federal and state police, armed with search warrants, swooped on members of the suspected terror cell this morning, as they seek to arrest Australian nationals of Somali and ...
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TRCB: The story is not new: Afghans and the rest of the world have known about the deaths of up to 2,000 Taleban prisoners of war immediately following their surrender to General Abdul Rashid Dostum in November 2001. Nor is there any doubt that Dostum was then a partner of the United States in its successful ...
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Times Online: Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child’s iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company. The Times has learnt that the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign a settlement form. The proposed agreement ...
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The Guardian: Britain will come under fresh pressure to send more troops to Afghanistan this month when General Stanley McChrystal, the Nato commander in the country, tells President Barack Obama that a further troop surge by the military alliance is necessary. The review was ordered by Obama and British officials have been closely involved. It comes as ...
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