“The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.”
Diar was 4 years old when she was struck by a stray bullet during a gunfight between unidentified persons. They weren’t even aiming at her, it was a stray bullet, an accident, “collateral damage.”
If you support what the American government has done in Iraq this child’s blood is on your hands too - don’t bother […]
So the Washington Post is having a spot of bother because it’s ombudsman Howell ot caught shilling and won’t admit that she was wrong. And now people are fighting back. This is a screen shot of a google news search I did a few minutes ago. Feel free to click the graphic […]
“Steal the code” click into the form.
Right click
“Select all”
“Copy”
You know what to do after that :-)
For a drop cap like this one I forced the first letter to span about five lines and adjusted the font-size to 100 px and the line height to 70 px. (I tried a line-height of 80 but that […]
How intriguing, has anyone used this piece of software? There’s a tutorial for it here.
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Nur al-Cubicle has a superb translation of a Le Monde article “Les Kurdes sont les vrais maîtres de Kirkouk” up on her site. Here’s the concluding paragraph:
“A majority on the elected council, the Kurdish parties are the true masters behind the curtain of the Kurds who are members of the armed forces and local police. […]
I’m showing my age, because I found this from Defective Yeti be absolutely hilarious. If you scroll down to the next post you’ll see that Defective Yeti has been around for quite a while - go play.
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The Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly is scheduled to receive a preliminary report into US run torture camps on European soil and “extraordinary renditions”on January 23rd. This posting is a preliminary briefing for readers.
Several investigations are now underway in Europe both into the so-called “extraordinary rendition” and the presence on European soil of America run […]
“The Western tendency to describe all forms of Islamic activism as a more or less unitary phenomenon whether it be labelled “Islamism”, “political Islam” or “Islamic fundamentalism” and to contrast it with the practice of Islam as religious belief by “ordinary Muslims” has increased markedly since the attacks of 11th September 2001 and President […]
“Three sewing machines in a dingy apartment were all Munna Abdul Adeem Ahmed could scrape together when she set up a tailoring co-op for poor widows. She soon realised it was not enough.
More than 1,000 women from the northern city of Mosul turned up looking for work on the first day. Ahmed finally stopped registering […]
Recently Siun whom Du and I have got know via FDL emailed me asking me to recommend some books on how we got into this God awful mess vis a vis the Middle East and Islam. I replied suggesting two books by Robert Fisk.
The Great War for Civilisation : The Conquest of the Middle East
Pity […]
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