They are killing peace and Palestinians, both at the same time!
"Attack on 2 Israeli Settlers Rattles Peace Negotiations" by ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM — The circumstances surrounding the killing of two Israeli settlers by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank on Friday remained shrouded in confusion on Sunday, with three Palestinian militias, including one connected with President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah organization, claiming responsibility for the attack.
Not only that, the whole operation stinks to high heaven.
Army soldiers HIKING? Think I'm buying that?
What operation were they conducting?
I certainly don't expect the truth in my Jew War Daily, readers.
The prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, said Sunday:
"[Israel would be] unable to carry out any changes on the ground [that might expose Jewish residents to danger as long as the Abbas-led Palestinian Authority] does not take the necessary measures, with the necessary strength, to act against the terrorist organizations.”
Yup, and CUI BONO?
Also, I am sick of the lying, land-stealing, mass-murdering, genocidal NaZionist hurling the "terrorist" charge around.
Israel is the BIGGEST STATE TERRORIST going!
The Palestinian Authority and international aid organizations have long pressed Israel to ease its security regime in the West Bank, especially to remove some of the hundreds of army roadblocks and checkpoints that hinder the movement of people and goods.
Mr. Olmert’s comments came as a right-wing minister in his governing coalition, Eli Yishai, of the religious Shas Party, called on the prime minister to break off negotiations with the Palestinians because of the killings.
Yup! CUI BONO, readers?
The two slain Israelis were off-duty soldiers, Cpl. Ahikam Amihai, 20, and Sgt. David Rubin, 21, both sons of rabbis living in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron. They were hiking with a companion, a woman, in the area when they were attacked. The woman hid from the gunmen and escaped unharmed.
This story STINKS!!! The woman was somehow able to "hide," huh?
This whole thing reeks of a bullshit cover story!
The men fired their army-issued guns at the attackers, who were riding in a jeep. One of the four Palestinian gunmen was killed at the scene, and another was taken to a Palestinian hospital with a head wound, an Israeli police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said Sunday.
The Palestinian Authority was cooperating with Israeli security over the episode and sent his condolences to the bereaved families. He added that the soldiers’ weapons, which were seized by the attackers, had been returned to Israel.
The STENCH just INVADED the ROOM, readers!
Gag, gag!
Israeli Army officials would not comment about that statement or other reports of an army raid on a hospital in search of the wounded gunman.
That's a FUCKING WAR CRIME, dammit!
On Sunday, the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility in a joint statement, saying the operation was a response to Israeli strikes against their fighters in the Gaza Strip and army killings and arrests in the West Bank. Earlier, a branch of the Fatah-affiliated Aksa Martyrs Brigades militia had claimed responsibility together with Islamic Jihad.
Yeah, at least, that's what the Jew media reported!
But the Palestinian security commander in Hebron, Samih al-Sayfi, told the Palestinian news agency Maan that the motive behind the attack had been strictly criminal and suggested that the attackers might have been trying to steal the Israelis’ weapons. He said that the militant organizations had claimed responsibility to curry favor with the Palestinian public and to confuse the local security forces.
Yeah, they took responsibility for something they didn't do so Israel would have an excuse to kill the "peace process."
Right, tell me another Jew lie, will ya?
In addition to Friday’s episode, Israeli military officials announced late Saturday that they had intercepted a truck several weeks ago carrying about 6.5 tons of potassium nitrate. The truck, which was stopped at a crossing point in the West Bank, was apparently headed for Gaza.
The chemical is used to manufacture explosives for Qassam rockets, the officials said in a statement. The officials added that the consignment was hidden in sugar bags marked as “part of the humanitarian aid provided by the European Union” to Palestinians in Gaza. Militants have frequently fired such rockets from Gaza into Israel.
The army refused to provide further details.
This stinks to high heaven of an ISRAELI PLANT, readers!
David Kriss, a spokesman for the European Commission’s delegation to Israel, described the truck episode, based on the scant information available:
“[It is an] isolated criminal act. We condemn it.”
All European Union food assistance to Gaza that goes through the World Food Program or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency is always marked as such, and does not include sugar, Mr. Kriss said.
Yeah, because of ISRAEL, Times.
Don't leave that out!
On Sunday night, at least one Palestinian, a woman returning to Gaza from the annual Muslim pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, was killed by Israeli Army fire at the Erez crossing on the Israel-Gaza border, and several were wounded, according to news reports.
Oooooooooooh, so ISRAEL MURDERED a PALESTINIAN WOMAN Sunday, huh?
Then HOW COME IT AIN'T HEADLINES like the Israeli "settlers," stinkshit Times?!!
I think WE ALL KNOW WHY, readers!!!
God-damn FUCKING ZIONIST SHIT RAG, that's why!
Army officials said they were checking the reports. The woman was among 700 pilgrims who returned Sunday, traveling via Jordan, the West Bank and Israel.
Earlier on Sunday, Israeli soldiers fired at two Palestinians who were seen laying an explosive device near the border fence in southern Gaza, hitting one of them, an army spokeswoman said. Palestinian medics identified the dead man as Adel Ashta, 23, a member of the armed wing of Hamas, according to Agence France-Presse.
Separately, hundreds of Palestinians were stranded in the Egyptian Sinai on Sunday on their way back to Gaza from the pilgrimage in Mecca amid a dispute over how they would re-enter the Gaza Strip.
Israel asked Egypt to send the pilgrims back through an Israeli-controlled border crossing near Gaza, where they would undergo Israeli security checks."
Yeah, leave all of Israel's MONSTROUS CRIMES of OCCUPATION at the BACK, Times!
Whatta piece of Zionist shit the New York Times has become!
"Israel demands crackdown on militants" by Mark Lavie, Associated Press | December 31, 2007
JERUSALEM - Voicing anger over the killing of two Israelis hiking in the West Bank, Israel's prime minister said yesterday that no peace would come until Palestinians crack down on militants, a declaration that clouds a upcoming visit by President Bush.
There were two claims of responsibility: one from Hamas and Islamic Jihad; the other from Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which has ties to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement.
Which is Israel's FRIEND!
I'm just so sick of the Zionist bullshit being shoveled at us, readers!
That's why I no longer believe in AmeriKa's MSM -- and NEVER WILL AGAIN!
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, speaking before the weekly meeting of Israel's Cabinet, denounced the hikers' shooting deaths:
"As long as the Palestinian Authority doesn't take the necessary steps and act with the necessary vigor against terror organizations, Israel won't be able to carry out any change that would expose it to any jeopardy or endanger Israel's security."
And CUI BONO, huh?
Israel has stepped up military pressure on militants in the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops opened fire yesterday on militants planting explosives near the Israeli border in southern Gaza, the army said. Hamas said one member was killed.
Israel also said it was taking the threats of Osama bin Laden seriously a day after Al Qaeda's leader vowed to expand his terror group's holy war to Israel.
Pffffffffffttttt!
Yup, that was UNDOUBTEDLY a piece of Zionist shit!
Pretty BOLD PREDICTIONS for a DEAD GUY!
Most of the 56-minute audiotape released Saturday was about Iraq, but bin Laden also offered an unusually direct attack on Israel, threatening "blood for blood, destruction for destruction."
Olmert's spokesman, Mark Regev, said Al Qaeda operatives have been inching closer to Israel in recent years, and Israel is aware of the danger:
"Israel takes bin Laden's threats seriously. We have seen Al Qaeda activity to the north of Israel, in Lebanon, to the east of Israel, in Jordan, and to the south of Israel, in Sinai. There is also evidence of Al Qaeda activities in the Palestinian territories. As a result, we will be irresponsible not to take this rhetoric seriously."
What a FUCKING NaZionist LIAR!!!!!!
Yeah, HERE is your "Al-CIA-Duh" cell in Palestine, readers!!!
A MOSSAD CELL!!!!!
Case closed on "terrorism" and "Al-CIA-Duh," readers!
Just not buying this shit no more, especially when it comes from the mouth of a LYING NaZionist!
Palestinians deny that Al Qaeda militants operate in their territories. Also, the European Union condemned what it called an abuse of humanitarian aid after a chemical used to make bombs was discovered by the Israeli military in packages disguised as EU sugar.
The sacks, confiscated in the West Bank several weeks ago, contained 6.5 tons of potassium nitrate, a chemical Israel has outlawed because it can be used to manufacture explosives."
Whatever, liars! Stinks like an Israeli set-up to me!
Not only that, either.
Israel gets ANOTHER ARAB NATION to build REFUGEE CAMPS for the Palestinians!
What a LUCKY BREAK for ISRAEL, huh?
"Palestinian pilgrims are taken to camps in northern Egypt" by Ashraf Sweilam, Associated Press | December 31, 2007
El-ARISH, Egypt - More than a thousand Palestinian pilgrims, including members of the militant Hamas group, were put in camps in the northern Sinai yesterday until a dispute over how they will return to the Gaza Strip is resolved.
The Palestinians arrived in the Egyptian Red Sea port of Nuweiba in southern Sinai Saturday after completing their pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. But they have refused Egypt's attempts to have them return to Gaza through the Israeli-controlled Aouja border crossing.
Israel fears that if the pilgrims are allowed to return to Gaza through the direct crossing from Egypt at Rafah, where Israel has no control and where European monitors are not working, Hamas militants might get through and sympathizers could smuggle cash to the Islamic group in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
But Egypt's attempts to force the pilgrims to use the Aouja crossing have outraged Hamas supporters in Gaza, who staged large-scale protests Saturday. Hamas fears Israel will arrest its members at the crossing.
So why weren't THESE PROTESTS reported?
Makes you wonder about the "protests" the Zionist-controlled AmeriKan MSM decide to report, huh, readers?
Yup, if it is an Arab protest, or an antiwar protest, or an anti-Zionist protest, that doesn't seem to make the headlines -- if it makes the paper at all.
But when it comes to political protests in (name the foreign country) or protests on climate change, or for the illegal immigrants, it gets loads of coverage.
Readers, do you see now why I accuse (correctly) AmeriKa's Zionist-controlled MSM of PUSHING AN AGENDA and WORLD VIEW???!!!
Could it BE ANY MORE OBVIOUS?
More than two dozen buses brought 1,166 Palestinians from Nuweiba to el-Arish, on the Mediterranean coast, 15 miles west of Rafah, the security official said. Another ferry load of nearly 1,900 Palestinians at Nuweiba will also be brought to el-Arish, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Egypt has set up 11 temporary camps in el-Arish to house the pilgrims until authorities come up with a solution to the current crisis, the official said.
And knowing Israel, they will be there forever!!!!
See Lebanon and their camps, readers!!!
The standoff over the pilgrims comes as Egypt has come under increasing criticism from Israel, which accuses Egypt of not doing enough to stop smuggling of weapons and money from the Sinai into the Gaza Strip. Egypt has angrily denied the accusations, asserting it is doing all it can.
All I can say to that is, "FUCK ISRAEL!!!!!!"
President Hosni Mubarak of Israel said yesterday that his country was doing its best to resolve the crisis and advised the media to avoid inflammatory rhetoric.
Mubarak, at a press conference in Cairo with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France:
"We have allowed the pilgrims to cross because we are a Muslim country, but now we face a very critical situation because it is being said that they could carry prohibited things" [into Gaza]."
So what is the Zionist Sarkozy doing in Egypt, and why isn't it news, readers?
Mubarak said the problem with using Rafah was that the European Union no longer had representatives posted there to monitor the border crossing. Under a US-brokered agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, Egypt and the Palestinians operated the crossing, with EU monitors deployed on the Palestinian side. In the wake of the Hamas takeover in June, European monitors fled and Hamas militiamen took control of the terminal.
Earlier this month, Egypt allowed pilgrims from Gaza to travel to Saudi Arabia across its territory for the first time since the takeover that Egypt eased border closures along the tiny, isolated coastal strip. Al-Jazeera television aired interviews with pilgrims before they left Jordan in which they showed a paper Egypt allegedly asked them to sign saying they would to return to Gaza through Aouja.
About 7,000 demonstrators gathered at the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing Saturday waving Palestinian and Hamas flags and demanding the pilgrims be allowed to enter."
Yup, and Amerika's Jew MSM was SILENT ABOUT IT!
Because it is the INTRANSIGENT NaZionist ASSHOLES BLOCKING PEACE!
And for more on bin Laden's "threats" against Israel, read this:
AmeriKa's Sunday Papers: Pure Propaganda
"Bin Laden vows to extend terror network's war into Israel; On tape, warns Iraq's Sunni Arabs not to fight Qaeda" by Salah Nasrawi, Associated Press | December 30, 2007
CAIRO - Osama bin Laden warned Iraq's Sunni Arabs against fighting Al Qaeda and promised to expand the terror group's holy war to Israel in a new audiotape released yesterday, threatening "blood for blood, destruction for destruction."
Ummm, "Al-CIA-Duh" is already in Palestine!!!!!
It's a MOSSAD CELL!
And CUI BONO, readers, now that Iran has receded as a "threat" to Is-ray-Hell?
Whadda a NaZionist stink!
Most of the 56-minute tape dealt with Iraq, apparently Al Qaeda's latest attempt to keep supporters in Iraq unified at a time when the US military contends to have Al Qaeda's Iraq branch on the run. The tape did not mention Pakistan or the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
But bin Laden's comments offered an unusually direct attack on Israel, which has warned of growing Al Qaeda activity in Palestinian territory. The terror network is not believed to have taken a strong role there so far.
Ummm, readers, Osama bin Laden is Dead!!!
Also see: Osama bin Bush
Can you smell the shitstink of NaZionist propaganda, readers?
How can you miss it?
The authenticity of the tape could not be independently confirmed. But the voice resembled that of bin Laden.
Ha-ha-ha!
I'll bet it resembled bin Laden's voice, all right!
The tape was posted on an Islamic militant website where Al Qaeda's media arm, Al-Sahab, issues the group's messages."
Ummmmmm, about Al-Sahab:
"Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits"
Ummmm, S.I.T.E. didn't release it, did they?
Did I mention the DOD's MSM press offices in Lincoln, the Pentagon and Langley?
And why do the "Al-CIA-Duh" sites track back to Texas or Maryland?
Pffffffffftttt!!!
Haw-haw-haw-haw!!!!!!
This stuff is LAUGHABLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Haw-haw-haw!!!
I've needed a GOOD LAUGH lately!!!!
Thanks, Zionist-controlled MSM!!!!!
Thanks a lot, haw-haw-haw-haw-haw!!!!!!!!!
Monday, December 31, 2007
Israel's NaZionist Officer Corp
By God, the New York Times really is written by Israel!
"Israeli Army, a National Melting Pot, Faces New Challenges in Training Officers" by STEVEN ERLANGER
Awwwww, the poor genocidal mass-murderers of Israel, awwwwww!
MITZPE RAMON, Israel — The young officer candidates, in uniforms and old American helmets, their M-16s slung over their shoulders, were blowing up balloons. Lilac, blue and red balloons. Then they attached them to targets.
The balloons were “hostages,” they said. The point was to hit the target but not a hostage. Of course, since some of these young men and women were training for office jobs, their skills were not always so acute. They did not kill any hostages, but sometimes they did not hit the target, either, their bullets piercing the desert hills.
Other candidates, combat soldiers, were considerably better shots. But the mix was intentional: virtually all Israel’s officers-to-be, from every military branch excluding pilots, pass through this institution in the desert hills of the Negev, near the natural wonder of Mitzpe Ramon, an enormous eroded crater.
Israel’s defense forces are considered among the world’s best, a people’s army that combines professionalism and informality, and serves as a melting pot for a complicated society with real enemies. Yet it also faces challenges, including an effort to recover from a poorly run war, a rise in the number of young people dodging military service and an increase in religious Israelis, many of them settlers, who serve.
Look at the propaganda shoveling here!
If murder and genocide is professional, then yes, the Israelis are great!
The army has faced harsh criticism after the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak, a former chief of staff who was Israel’s most decorated soldier, has complained that too many people are evading service:
“From the army of the people, the Israeli Defense Forces are gradually becoming the army of half the people. A soldier must not feel that when he goes to battle that in the eyes of part of the society he’s a sucker.”
Yeah, and besides, we need more soldiers to fight the wars we are planning, right, shitstink state?
Col. Ziki Sela, who is in charge of personnel planning for the military, said it was important to distinguish between those who were not asked to serve — Israeli Arabs, ultra-Orthodox Jews, the ill — and the roughly 25 percent of eligible male draftees who found a way not to serve. That figure is nearly twice as high as in 1980, yet not much different from five years ago.
But some of the draft dodgers, both men and women, have been prominent in entertainment, including a famous model and five of the eight finalists in Israel’s version of “American Idol.”
Today, Colonel Sela said, about 54 percent of Israel’s 18-year-old men are being inducted, which is not enough to meet his needs, especially for support personnel. About 43 percent of eligible women do not serve either, he said, in part because a young woman can merely state that she “follows a traditional lifestyle” to be exempted as too religious for the army.
But of the 25 percent of eligible men who do not serve, many live overseas, have criminal records or medical exemptions. Colonel Sela said about 12 percent were draft dodgers. But some analysts, like Stuart Cohen, a professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University, argue that the real figure for true draft dodgers is 5 percent or less.
What the figures disguise, however, is the undiminished fervor of young men volunteering to fight in combat units, which make up roughly a third of the army. The Golani infantry brigade, for instance, gets 10 applicants for every place.
Yes, the fervor of the NaZionist Warfare State!
But in another challenge for the army, a large proportion of those volunteering for combat units — 30 percent to 40 percent — come from the “national religious” sector, Zionists who tend to wear knitted skullcaps and are frequently settlers.
Hey, how did the word "Zionists" get into the New York Times?!
What, editor miss it?
And look at the usage, as if they are almost embarrassed to say it!
In the past, many fighters volunteered from Israel’s kibbutzim, or collective farms. But now, large numbers are “the new pioneers,” the children of settlers.
Good!!!
Then THEY CAN FIGHT ISRAEL'S WARS so American boys and girls won't have to!!!!
They are eager to fight Israel’s enemies. But as Israel contemplates new peace talks with the Palestinians — and an eventual withdrawal from large sectors of the occupied West Bank — the government and army worry that many of those soldiers, and officers, may refuse orders to dismantle settlements.
Therefore, I say "FUCK ISRAEL!!!"
They want to start wars, they can FIGHT THEM THEMSELVES!!!
Leave America out of it!
And WE WILL LYNCH any president who attempts to take us into another lying war for Israel, believe me, NaZionists shitters!
So DON'T EVEN TRY IT!
Col. Aharon Haliva, 40, is the commander of this school, which is almost as old as the state and a former brigade commander in the occupied West Bank, said bluntly:
“The army reflects the society, with all its strengths and problems. After the second Lebanon war, people want to be able to believe in their army, which is themselves.”
Yeah, in a FASCIST SOCIETY, NaZionist puke!
Colonel Haliva said he worried for a time that young people might refuse to become officers after the failures against Hezbollah in Lebanon, in a tart comment on that war:
“It’s much easier to win battles when you understand why you’re there, and what you’re expected to do. We all want to be part of a strong organization. [By the time the candidates get here], they know how to fight. I’m not worried about how they use their weapons. I’m concerned with implanting the right values.”
Which is why the U.S. is failing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But this school, like the society, is struggling with the great internal challenge of how, if ordered, to remove thousands of Israeli settlers from the West Bank — many more than the 9,000 torn with such national agony from Gaza.
Yeah, poor, poor Israel!!!!!!
Excuse me, I need to hit the ceramic God again!
Ralph!!!!!!!
The army draws many of its best combat soldiers and officers from the “national religious.” Here, they make up about 10 percent of the staff officers, 15 percent of the combat support officers and up to 40 percent of the combat officers, the colonel said.
That's just great, isn't it?
Israel's army becoming more and more a force of ZIONIST EXPANSION!
That's just great for peace, huh, readers?
Colonel Haliva, using the biblical names for the West Bank:
“You don’t find them in Tel Aviv, but all over the hills of Judea and Samaria. They are the pioneers of today. [When there is a pullout from the West Bank], a lot won’t serve in a disengagement, I’m sure of it. Just as some kids on the left don’t want to serve in the territories. [I want my officers] to have more questions than answers. [But it is my job and that of his staff to explain] the importance of what they’re doing, and the reasons they’re being ordered to do it. After Gaza, we thought that maybe some of these kids would refuse to become officers, but it’s not true.”
Still, there are doubts.
Levi Harvith, 22, tall, fit and articulate, is a member of the Golani infantry brigade, like the current army chief of staff, and he has already served in Lebanon and Gaza sees himself as a leader:
“We’re in elite units. We’re trained in flexible thinking. We want to lead by example, but we’re encouraged to solve problems in more creative ways. In two months I’ll command 20 soldiers, and from them there will be maybe two officers, and that’s another 40 soldiers, and another 40 families. We have a big effect on the society. [First commanders matter]. The way I hold my weapon — it’s the way my first commander held it.”
Gee, I wonder what those could be, readers.
Harvith is also religious. Would he have pulled people out of Gaza?
Harvith: “That’s a good question.... [pause]... For me, it’s not just a religious question but a moral question. I do what I’m told... [pause again].... Except in moral cases, that’s the point.”
Harvith, when asked where he would seek advice: "[I would first talk to my father, and then to] previous commanders I admired.”
Would he talk to his rabbi?
Harvith: “Maybe my father would. You need the right proportion of asking questions and obeying.”
The national religious are estimated to make up some 15 percent of Israel’s population, and they have growing influence in the officer corps. Yael Paz-Melamed, a leftist columnist for the daily newspaper Maariv, warned that the army was becoming “increasingly political and right wing.”
Just like America. How about that, huh?
The “hesder yeshivas,” which combine military service and Torah study for some of the most religious candidates, also raise concerns. The hesder yeshivas now turn out 1,200 recruits a year -- a 40 percent increase in five years.
Colonel Sela: “We’re not happy with that. It’s too much. We want about 900.”
Israel rarely identifies future officers before they join the army. They are chosen by their commanders after a year or more in uniform, after a battery of tests and often after combat, to come to this place, known as Bahad 1, short for Instruction School No. 1.
About 6,500 cadets a year come through here, divided into those who will command offices, combat support units and combat units.
Colonel Haliva: “We have the young elite of the country here, full of motivation. They want to become officers, it’s still a very strong brand in the society, and it’s a brand for life.”
Noa Leshem, 19, an air traffic controller, arrived here after 16 months in the military, and will command a platoon of them:
“This place gives me tools. What it means to be a leader, what it means to be a Jewish Zionist. I’m more clear-minded now about the army, about the relationship to democracy and the way we can improve.”
This makes me sick, readers!
It is nothing more thasn NaZionist BRAIN-WASHING and INCULCATION in FASCISM!!!!!!!!!!
This semester takes only 15 weeks, with classes on technical subjects like navigation and weapons and courses on leadership, psychology, character and values. There is a trip to Jerusalem to visit institutions like the Parliament, the Supreme Court and the Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem. It ends with a long combined armor exercise.
Yup, Nazionist INDOCTRINATION, all right!
Then there are another 15 weeks of specialized training with their units. They graduate as first lieutenants and platoon commanders.
Shahar Heimann, 20, is a combat soldier, having served in Jenin, Nablus and Ramallah, and said the cadets were conscious of Israel’s social divide and how it could affect the army:
“Every soldier here sees himself as a company leader. We can’t change the whole society, but in a smaller way, by leading our soldiers the best we can. [It is important to mix with officer candidates from] all over the army and the society — the Druse, Bedouin, Ethiopians, Russians. You see all the minorities, and you understand their problems better.”
Awww, what a conscientous NaZionist, huh, readers?
Was this an article in the New York Times, or a NaZionist public relations flier, readers?
Hard to tell.
"Israeli Army, a National Melting Pot, Faces New Challenges in Training Officers" by STEVEN ERLANGER
Awwwww, the poor genocidal mass-murderers of Israel, awwwwww!
MITZPE RAMON, Israel — The young officer candidates, in uniforms and old American helmets, their M-16s slung over their shoulders, were blowing up balloons. Lilac, blue and red balloons. Then they attached them to targets.
The balloons were “hostages,” they said. The point was to hit the target but not a hostage. Of course, since some of these young men and women were training for office jobs, their skills were not always so acute. They did not kill any hostages, but sometimes they did not hit the target, either, their bullets piercing the desert hills.
Other candidates, combat soldiers, were considerably better shots. But the mix was intentional: virtually all Israel’s officers-to-be, from every military branch excluding pilots, pass through this institution in the desert hills of the Negev, near the natural wonder of Mitzpe Ramon, an enormous eroded crater.
Israel’s defense forces are considered among the world’s best, a people’s army that combines professionalism and informality, and serves as a melting pot for a complicated society with real enemies. Yet it also faces challenges, including an effort to recover from a poorly run war, a rise in the number of young people dodging military service and an increase in religious Israelis, many of them settlers, who serve.
Look at the propaganda shoveling here!
If murder and genocide is professional, then yes, the Israelis are great!
The army has faced harsh criticism after the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak, a former chief of staff who was Israel’s most decorated soldier, has complained that too many people are evading service:
“From the army of the people, the Israeli Defense Forces are gradually becoming the army of half the people. A soldier must not feel that when he goes to battle that in the eyes of part of the society he’s a sucker.”
Yeah, and besides, we need more soldiers to fight the wars we are planning, right, shitstink state?
Col. Ziki Sela, who is in charge of personnel planning for the military, said it was important to distinguish between those who were not asked to serve — Israeli Arabs, ultra-Orthodox Jews, the ill — and the roughly 25 percent of eligible male draftees who found a way not to serve. That figure is nearly twice as high as in 1980, yet not much different from five years ago.
But some of the draft dodgers, both men and women, have been prominent in entertainment, including a famous model and five of the eight finalists in Israel’s version of “American Idol.”
Today, Colonel Sela said, about 54 percent of Israel’s 18-year-old men are being inducted, which is not enough to meet his needs, especially for support personnel. About 43 percent of eligible women do not serve either, he said, in part because a young woman can merely state that she “follows a traditional lifestyle” to be exempted as too religious for the army.
But of the 25 percent of eligible men who do not serve, many live overseas, have criminal records or medical exemptions. Colonel Sela said about 12 percent were draft dodgers. But some analysts, like Stuart Cohen, a professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University, argue that the real figure for true draft dodgers is 5 percent or less.
What the figures disguise, however, is the undiminished fervor of young men volunteering to fight in combat units, which make up roughly a third of the army. The Golani infantry brigade, for instance, gets 10 applicants for every place.
Yes, the fervor of the NaZionist Warfare State!
But in another challenge for the army, a large proportion of those volunteering for combat units — 30 percent to 40 percent — come from the “national religious” sector, Zionists who tend to wear knitted skullcaps and are frequently settlers.
Hey, how did the word "Zionists" get into the New York Times?!
What, editor miss it?
And look at the usage, as if they are almost embarrassed to say it!
In the past, many fighters volunteered from Israel’s kibbutzim, or collective farms. But now, large numbers are “the new pioneers,” the children of settlers.
Good!!!
Then THEY CAN FIGHT ISRAEL'S WARS so American boys and girls won't have to!!!!
They are eager to fight Israel’s enemies. But as Israel contemplates new peace talks with the Palestinians — and an eventual withdrawal from large sectors of the occupied West Bank — the government and army worry that many of those soldiers, and officers, may refuse orders to dismantle settlements.
Therefore, I say "FUCK ISRAEL!!!"
They want to start wars, they can FIGHT THEM THEMSELVES!!!
Leave America out of it!
And WE WILL LYNCH any president who attempts to take us into another lying war for Israel, believe me, NaZionists shitters!
So DON'T EVEN TRY IT!
Col. Aharon Haliva, 40, is the commander of this school, which is almost as old as the state and a former brigade commander in the occupied West Bank, said bluntly:
“The army reflects the society, with all its strengths and problems. After the second Lebanon war, people want to be able to believe in their army, which is themselves.”
Yeah, in a FASCIST SOCIETY, NaZionist puke!
Colonel Haliva said he worried for a time that young people might refuse to become officers after the failures against Hezbollah in Lebanon, in a tart comment on that war:
“It’s much easier to win battles when you understand why you’re there, and what you’re expected to do. We all want to be part of a strong organization. [By the time the candidates get here], they know how to fight. I’m not worried about how they use their weapons. I’m concerned with implanting the right values.”
Which is why the U.S. is failing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But this school, like the society, is struggling with the great internal challenge of how, if ordered, to remove thousands of Israeli settlers from the West Bank — many more than the 9,000 torn with such national agony from Gaza.
Yeah, poor, poor Israel!!!!!!
Excuse me, I need to hit the ceramic God again!
Ralph!!!!!!!
The army draws many of its best combat soldiers and officers from the “national religious.” Here, they make up about 10 percent of the staff officers, 15 percent of the combat support officers and up to 40 percent of the combat officers, the colonel said.
That's just great, isn't it?
Israel's army becoming more and more a force of ZIONIST EXPANSION!
That's just great for peace, huh, readers?
Colonel Haliva, using the biblical names for the West Bank:
“You don’t find them in Tel Aviv, but all over the hills of Judea and Samaria. They are the pioneers of today. [When there is a pullout from the West Bank], a lot won’t serve in a disengagement, I’m sure of it. Just as some kids on the left don’t want to serve in the territories. [I want my officers] to have more questions than answers. [But it is my job and that of his staff to explain] the importance of what they’re doing, and the reasons they’re being ordered to do it. After Gaza, we thought that maybe some of these kids would refuse to become officers, but it’s not true.”
Still, there are doubts.
Levi Harvith, 22, tall, fit and articulate, is a member of the Golani infantry brigade, like the current army chief of staff, and he has already served in Lebanon and Gaza sees himself as a leader:
“We’re in elite units. We’re trained in flexible thinking. We want to lead by example, but we’re encouraged to solve problems in more creative ways. In two months I’ll command 20 soldiers, and from them there will be maybe two officers, and that’s another 40 soldiers, and another 40 families. We have a big effect on the society. [First commanders matter]. The way I hold my weapon — it’s the way my first commander held it.”
Gee, I wonder what those could be, readers.
Harvith is also religious. Would he have pulled people out of Gaza?
Harvith: “That’s a good question.... [pause]... For me, it’s not just a religious question but a moral question. I do what I’m told... [pause again].... Except in moral cases, that’s the point.”
Harvith, when asked where he would seek advice: "[I would first talk to my father, and then to] previous commanders I admired.”
Would he talk to his rabbi?
Harvith: “Maybe my father would. You need the right proportion of asking questions and obeying.”
The national religious are estimated to make up some 15 percent of Israel’s population, and they have growing influence in the officer corps. Yael Paz-Melamed, a leftist columnist for the daily newspaper Maariv, warned that the army was becoming “increasingly political and right wing.”
Just like America. How about that, huh?
The “hesder yeshivas,” which combine military service and Torah study for some of the most religious candidates, also raise concerns. The hesder yeshivas now turn out 1,200 recruits a year -- a 40 percent increase in five years.
Colonel Sela: “We’re not happy with that. It’s too much. We want about 900.”
Israel rarely identifies future officers before they join the army. They are chosen by their commanders after a year or more in uniform, after a battery of tests and often after combat, to come to this place, known as Bahad 1, short for Instruction School No. 1.
About 6,500 cadets a year come through here, divided into those who will command offices, combat support units and combat units.
Colonel Haliva: “We have the young elite of the country here, full of motivation. They want to become officers, it’s still a very strong brand in the society, and it’s a brand for life.”
Noa Leshem, 19, an air traffic controller, arrived here after 16 months in the military, and will command a platoon of them:
“This place gives me tools. What it means to be a leader, what it means to be a Jewish Zionist. I’m more clear-minded now about the army, about the relationship to democracy and the way we can improve.”
This makes me sick, readers!
It is nothing more thasn NaZionist BRAIN-WASHING and INCULCATION in FASCISM!!!!!!!!!!
This semester takes only 15 weeks, with classes on technical subjects like navigation and weapons and courses on leadership, psychology, character and values. There is a trip to Jerusalem to visit institutions like the Parliament, the Supreme Court and the Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem. It ends with a long combined armor exercise.
Yup, Nazionist INDOCTRINATION, all right!
Then there are another 15 weeks of specialized training with their units. They graduate as first lieutenants and platoon commanders.
Shahar Heimann, 20, is a combat soldier, having served in Jenin, Nablus and Ramallah, and said the cadets were conscious of Israel’s social divide and how it could affect the army:
“Every soldier here sees himself as a company leader. We can’t change the whole society, but in a smaller way, by leading our soldiers the best we can. [It is important to mix with officer candidates from] all over the army and the society — the Druse, Bedouin, Ethiopians, Russians. You see all the minorities, and you understand their problems better.”
Awww, what a conscientous NaZionist, huh, readers?
Was this an article in the New York Times, or a NaZionist public relations flier, readers?
Hard to tell.
Occupation Iraq: No One Died Yesterday
Nowhere is the Zionist propaganda more apparent than the MSM stories on Iraq, readers.
So NO ONE DIED in Iraq yesterday, 'eh, MSM?
Yup, no wonder the American public ate the shit surge propaganda.
Gobbled it up, in fact!
"In Sunni enclave, safety hinges on empowering civilians" by Ann M. Simmons, Los Angeles Times | December 31, 2007
YOUSIFIYA, Iraq - The process is sometimes messy, but US military officials and Iraqi military leaders say they are slowly making progress. Part of that messy process is to teach these local leaders, steeped in age-old tribal culture based on patronage, corruption, and fear, to lead in more effective, democratic and law-abiding ways.
Is that just flat-out WESTERN HYPOCRISY and RACISM or what, readers?
Gotta hand it to the Jew War Dailies, don't you?!
Excuse me, readers, I gotta go puke!
Army Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Rohling, commander of the 3d Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, and a Milwaukee native:
"It's a cultural challenge. In the end they will need to follow our plan, but we've got to make them feel that it's their plan."
You know, maybe you guys can BULLSHIT the 'Murkn shit-eating public all the time, but my sense is that foreigners DON'T EAT THAT SHIT, 'Murkn!!!!!!!
So KNOCK IT OFF!
The local government council has proved to be largely ineffectual, the commander pointed out.
Corruption is rife, and some officials are known to be profiting from the sales of seed and grain intended for the population.
Yeah, so that is different rom AmeriKa how?
Progress is slow. On a recent day, for example, a few patrons trickled into the well-known Yousifiya market. In safer times, Starz said, about 10,000 customers per day passed through the throng of hawkers and maze of stalls selling a colorful array of vegetables, fruit, and clothes."
Ooooooh, I am SO SICK of being LIED TO by the AmeriKan government and its propaganda horns in the MSM, readers.
I mean, really!
"Hussein anniversary passes quietly in Iraq" by Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times | December 31, 2007
BAGHDAD - Hundreds of mourners visited the tomb of Saddam Hussein yesterday to light candles and recite the Koran in memory of the ousted dictator who was hanged one year ago.
Security forces braced for possible attacks in Baghdad and the Sunni Arab heartland north of the capital, where Hussein's execution heightened the alienation many Sunnis feel under Iraq's new Shi'ite rulers.
Driving bans were imposed in the flash-point cities of Baiji and Dour to ward against car bombs, and extra checkpoints went up in and around Tikrit. But there were no reports of violence associated with the anniversary.
In Al Auja, Hussein's birthplace on the outskirts of Tikrit, schoolchildren lit candles in the hall where the dictator was laid to rest. Hundreds visited the tomb covered with flowers and the Iraqi flag. Residents chafed at the beefed-up security presence in their village.
Thamer Baker, an unemployed former civil servant from Hussein's Albu Nasir tribe:
"We were surprised with these measures taken by the government, curfews in some areas and the blockage of various streets. Why? Do they fear us? Where is the democracy they talk about?"
In the chaos of competing armed factions and near-daily bombings across Iraq, there are some who hanker for the comparative stability of Hussein's regime.
Yup, bunch of them nostalgic for the old days, before Bush's "liberation!"
Saif Nateek, a policeman from Hussein's tribe:
"He was not a dictator. He was able to keep this country united, to hold it with a firm grip."
Even in Shi'ite parts of Iraq, which suffered most under Hussein's regime, it was a day that many preferred to forget.
Abed Hadi Hussein, a Shi'ite security guard who lives in the vast Baghdad slum known as Sadr City:
"This is a bad memory to have during the Eid days, and we want to erase it from our history. We want to turn a new page among the people . . . We don't want to make this day a divisive day."
Ziad Tariq, a Sunni civil servant in Baghdad, forgot about the anniversary:
"People don't want to be reminded about sad things."
The anniversary passed without comment on state-run television and in parliament."
Yeah, this another reason I don't buy the sectarianism lie put forth by the stinking Jew MSM!
And how about the best job in Iraq, readers?!
Street sweeper, street sweeper!
"For Iraqi Street Cleaners, Scraps Include Human Flesh" by STEPHEN FARRELL
BAGHDAD — It must be a candidate for the worst job in Iraq.
It falls to Baghdad’s street sweepers to pick up the fingertips and scraps of flesh left behind after the emergency workers haul away the torsos and heads of bombing victims. They do the job without gloves, in all but the coldest weeks of winter.
If the attack comes while they are off duty, they get roughly $8 extra for cleaning up. Despite the grisly work, and the sadness at the deaths, that is a welcome sum when they are each paid about $6 a day. There were many such bomb bonuses paid in 2007, though markedly fewer than in past years.
This is disgusting!
Not only the "work," but the fact that a culture has been brutally assaulted and destroyed.
Look at what Bush's "liberation" has done to Iraq, readers!
But on Sunday, at year’s end, two municipal street cleaners, Imad al-Hashemi and Laith Mahdi Latif, said the bonuses would be something they could happily live without in 2008.
They were outside the Faqma ice cream shop in early August, when at least 15 people were killed at one of central Baghdad’s most popular refreshment spots in the Karada district; outside the numerous attempts on the Sayyed Idris shrine nearby; and at the market where more than a dozen people were blown up on Dec. 5. Across town, their colleagues had to clear up Ghazil animal market last month, and Tayaraan Square last Friday, hurling bags of debris into a battered white Scania truck after a car bomber killed eight people.
Mr. Hashemi: “Things have got better over the last few months, maybe 70 percent, and God willing, they will be better again next year. Although we get a 10,000 dinar bonus” — about $8 — “for each bomb, we do not want to see explosions, we don’t want to see this. They are Iraqis, Sunni, Shia or Christian, they are all Iraqis.”
More "sectarianism" put to rest, readers!
Oh, what a ZIONIST LIE you have been sold about Muslim division, 'Murkn shit-eater.
Go ahead, eat your fill, 'Murkn (chomp, chomp).
Shrugging, the two cleaners, whose hands look like those of men twice their 40 years or so, concede that it is not much of a job. But it is at least employment in a country where that is scarce.
Like it is a GOOD THING, huh?
I'll tell you what, NYT, how about RAISING Saddam from the grave, huh, and giving him the country back (although he probably wouldn't want it)?
Because the shape Iraq is in now is MUCH WORSE, assholes!
Thanks, NYT!
Thanks for printing lies so Bush could sell his invasion!
Thanks a lot!
Each has lost count of the number of bombs they have swept up. At least 10, Mr. Hashemi estimates. Maybe six in the past 18 months, Mr. Latif guesses, although he concedes that all but the worst details fade for the two, both veterans of Saddam Hussein’s military campaigns.
And now they are street-sweepers!
Mr. Hashemi: “This is normal for me. I was a soldier for eight years in Basra and Amara during the Iran war. Sometimes it does make you depressed; I was standing 50 meters away from one car when it blew up, and I saw heads cut off from bodies. It was disgusting.”
As residents of Karada they are on night call when the other cleaners have gone home to Sadr City or elsewhere.
Mr. Latif, as soon as he hears a bomb, stops everything and waits for the phone call, which inevitably comes:
“The worst one was at Al Faqma. There was this woman, she was dying and they couldn’t pull her out because the driver’s seat trapped her against the steering wheel.”
Both reiterate that they hope, and expect, things to get better.
Mr. Hashemi concedes he thought the same thing after the Iran-Iraq war, but then:
“I thought after we finished that, that there would be no more killing, no wars, and after 1991.”
You didn't count on George W. Bush, did you, sir?
Neither did we!
Elsewhere in Iraq, on the first anniversary of Mr. Hussein’s execution, fears of violence proved largely unfounded, amid tight security. Hundreds of supporters, including schoolchildren who were given the day off, gathered at the mausoleum erected over the grave in his hometown, Awja. Many laid flowers while others recited poetry or chanted."
So NO ONE DIED in Iraq yesterday, 'eh, MSM?
Yup, no wonder the American public ate the shit surge propaganda.
Gobbled it up, in fact!
"In Sunni enclave, safety hinges on empowering civilians" by Ann M. Simmons, Los Angeles Times | December 31, 2007
YOUSIFIYA, Iraq - The process is sometimes messy, but US military officials and Iraqi military leaders say they are slowly making progress. Part of that messy process is to teach these local leaders, steeped in age-old tribal culture based on patronage, corruption, and fear, to lead in more effective, democratic and law-abiding ways.
Is that just flat-out WESTERN HYPOCRISY and RACISM or what, readers?
Gotta hand it to the Jew War Dailies, don't you?!
Excuse me, readers, I gotta go puke!
Army Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Rohling, commander of the 3d Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, and a Milwaukee native:
"It's a cultural challenge. In the end they will need to follow our plan, but we've got to make them feel that it's their plan."
You know, maybe you guys can BULLSHIT the 'Murkn shit-eating public all the time, but my sense is that foreigners DON'T EAT THAT SHIT, 'Murkn!!!!!!!
So KNOCK IT OFF!
The local government council has proved to be largely ineffectual, the commander pointed out.
Corruption is rife, and some officials are known to be profiting from the sales of seed and grain intended for the population.
Yeah, so that is different rom AmeriKa how?
Progress is slow. On a recent day, for example, a few patrons trickled into the well-known Yousifiya market. In safer times, Starz said, about 10,000 customers per day passed through the throng of hawkers and maze of stalls selling a colorful array of vegetables, fruit, and clothes."
Ooooooh, I am SO SICK of being LIED TO by the AmeriKan government and its propaganda horns in the MSM, readers.
I mean, really!
"Hussein anniversary passes quietly in Iraq" by Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times | December 31, 2007
BAGHDAD - Hundreds of mourners visited the tomb of Saddam Hussein yesterday to light candles and recite the Koran in memory of the ousted dictator who was hanged one year ago.
Security forces braced for possible attacks in Baghdad and the Sunni Arab heartland north of the capital, where Hussein's execution heightened the alienation many Sunnis feel under Iraq's new Shi'ite rulers.
Driving bans were imposed in the flash-point cities of Baiji and Dour to ward against car bombs, and extra checkpoints went up in and around Tikrit. But there were no reports of violence associated with the anniversary.
In Al Auja, Hussein's birthplace on the outskirts of Tikrit, schoolchildren lit candles in the hall where the dictator was laid to rest. Hundreds visited the tomb covered with flowers and the Iraqi flag. Residents chafed at the beefed-up security presence in their village.
Thamer Baker, an unemployed former civil servant from Hussein's Albu Nasir tribe:
"We were surprised with these measures taken by the government, curfews in some areas and the blockage of various streets. Why? Do they fear us? Where is the democracy they talk about?"
In the chaos of competing armed factions and near-daily bombings across Iraq, there are some who hanker for the comparative stability of Hussein's regime.
Yup, bunch of them nostalgic for the old days, before Bush's "liberation!"
Saif Nateek, a policeman from Hussein's tribe:
"He was not a dictator. He was able to keep this country united, to hold it with a firm grip."
Even in Shi'ite parts of Iraq, which suffered most under Hussein's regime, it was a day that many preferred to forget.
Abed Hadi Hussein, a Shi'ite security guard who lives in the vast Baghdad slum known as Sadr City:
"This is a bad memory to have during the Eid days, and we want to erase it from our history. We want to turn a new page among the people . . . We don't want to make this day a divisive day."
Ziad Tariq, a Sunni civil servant in Baghdad, forgot about the anniversary:
"People don't want to be reminded about sad things."
The anniversary passed without comment on state-run television and in parliament."
Yeah, this another reason I don't buy the sectarianism lie put forth by the stinking Jew MSM!
And how about the best job in Iraq, readers?!
Street sweeper, street sweeper!
"For Iraqi Street Cleaners, Scraps Include Human Flesh" by STEPHEN FARRELL
BAGHDAD — It must be a candidate for the worst job in Iraq.
It falls to Baghdad’s street sweepers to pick up the fingertips and scraps of flesh left behind after the emergency workers haul away the torsos and heads of bombing victims. They do the job without gloves, in all but the coldest weeks of winter.
If the attack comes while they are off duty, they get roughly $8 extra for cleaning up. Despite the grisly work, and the sadness at the deaths, that is a welcome sum when they are each paid about $6 a day. There were many such bomb bonuses paid in 2007, though markedly fewer than in past years.
This is disgusting!
Not only the "work," but the fact that a culture has been brutally assaulted and destroyed.
Look at what Bush's "liberation" has done to Iraq, readers!
But on Sunday, at year’s end, two municipal street cleaners, Imad al-Hashemi and Laith Mahdi Latif, said the bonuses would be something they could happily live without in 2008.
They were outside the Faqma ice cream shop in early August, when at least 15 people were killed at one of central Baghdad’s most popular refreshment spots in the Karada district; outside the numerous attempts on the Sayyed Idris shrine nearby; and at the market where more than a dozen people were blown up on Dec. 5. Across town, their colleagues had to clear up Ghazil animal market last month, and Tayaraan Square last Friday, hurling bags of debris into a battered white Scania truck after a car bomber killed eight people.
Mr. Hashemi: “Things have got better over the last few months, maybe 70 percent, and God willing, they will be better again next year. Although we get a 10,000 dinar bonus” — about $8 — “for each bomb, we do not want to see explosions, we don’t want to see this. They are Iraqis, Sunni, Shia or Christian, they are all Iraqis.”
More "sectarianism" put to rest, readers!
Oh, what a ZIONIST LIE you have been sold about Muslim division, 'Murkn shit-eater.
Go ahead, eat your fill, 'Murkn (chomp, chomp).
Shrugging, the two cleaners, whose hands look like those of men twice their 40 years or so, concede that it is not much of a job. But it is at least employment in a country where that is scarce.
Like it is a GOOD THING, huh?
I'll tell you what, NYT, how about RAISING Saddam from the grave, huh, and giving him the country back (although he probably wouldn't want it)?
Because the shape Iraq is in now is MUCH WORSE, assholes!
Thanks, NYT!
Thanks for printing lies so Bush could sell his invasion!
Thanks a lot!
Each has lost count of the number of bombs they have swept up. At least 10, Mr. Hashemi estimates. Maybe six in the past 18 months, Mr. Latif guesses, although he concedes that all but the worst details fade for the two, both veterans of Saddam Hussein’s military campaigns.
And now they are street-sweepers!
Mr. Hashemi: “This is normal for me. I was a soldier for eight years in Basra and Amara during the Iran war. Sometimes it does make you depressed; I was standing 50 meters away from one car when it blew up, and I saw heads cut off from bodies. It was disgusting.”
As residents of Karada they are on night call when the other cleaners have gone home to Sadr City or elsewhere.
Mr. Latif, as soon as he hears a bomb, stops everything and waits for the phone call, which inevitably comes:
“The worst one was at Al Faqma. There was this woman, she was dying and they couldn’t pull her out because the driver’s seat trapped her against the steering wheel.”
Both reiterate that they hope, and expect, things to get better.
Mr. Hashemi concedes he thought the same thing after the Iran-Iraq war, but then:
“I thought after we finished that, that there would be no more killing, no wars, and after 1991.”
You didn't count on George W. Bush, did you, sir?
Neither did we!
Elsewhere in Iraq, on the first anniversary of Mr. Hussein’s execution, fears of violence proved largely unfounded, amid tight security. Hundreds of supporters, including schoolchildren who were given the day off, gathered at the mausoleum erected over the grave in his hometown, Awja. Many laid flowers while others recited poetry or chanted."
Afghanistan Aberration
Any time the Zionist-controlled AmeriKan MSM reports on it, I now wonder why.
Just shoveling shit propaganda, and as an American, I'm tired of it:
"NATO soldier killed by bomb"
KABUL - A roadside bomb killed a NATO soldier and wounded four others in southern Afghanistan yesterday, while a Taliban ambush left eight Afghan security personnel dead, officials said. The NATO soldiers were patrolling in the country's volatile south when an explosion ripped through their vehicle, NATO said in a statement. NATO did not identify the nationalities of the dead and wounded soldiers, or the exact location of the blast. (AP December 31, 2007)."
"Taliban Leader Expels Commander" by THE NEW YORK TIMES
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, has ordered his chief commander expelled from the movement for disobeying Taliban rules, a spokesman said in a statement over the weekend.
The commander, Mansoor Dadullah, took over after his brother, Mullah Dadullah, was killed in May in Helmand Province. The Taliban statement said that Mansoor Dadullah was no longer the legitimate commander, and that his men were advised to continue their fight without him.
Local news reports suggested that he and his men were giving the Taliban a bad name through their criminal behavior, including robbery and extortion. Mr. Dadullah denied that he had been expelled and said that reports of his dismissal were baseless. He said he continued to respect and obey Mullah Omar.
NATO said in a statement that a roadside bomb killed a NATO soldier and wounded four others in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, The Associated Press reported."
But nothing about the Taliban ambush, huh, Times?
Just the Zio-prop about the Taliban, 'eh?
Pffffffffttttt!
Just shoveling shit propaganda, and as an American, I'm tired of it:
"NATO soldier killed by bomb"
KABUL - A roadside bomb killed a NATO soldier and wounded four others in southern Afghanistan yesterday, while a Taliban ambush left eight Afghan security personnel dead, officials said. The NATO soldiers were patrolling in the country's volatile south when an explosion ripped through their vehicle, NATO said in a statement. NATO did not identify the nationalities of the dead and wounded soldiers, or the exact location of the blast. (AP December 31, 2007)."
"Taliban Leader Expels Commander" by THE NEW YORK TIMES
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, has ordered his chief commander expelled from the movement for disobeying Taliban rules, a spokesman said in a statement over the weekend.
The commander, Mansoor Dadullah, took over after his brother, Mullah Dadullah, was killed in May in Helmand Province. The Taliban statement said that Mansoor Dadullah was no longer the legitimate commander, and that his men were advised to continue their fight without him.
Local news reports suggested that he and his men were giving the Taliban a bad name through their criminal behavior, including robbery and extortion. Mr. Dadullah denied that he had been expelled and said that reports of his dismissal were baseless. He said he continued to respect and obey Mullah Omar.
NATO said in a statement that a roadside bomb killed a NATO soldier and wounded four others in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, The Associated Press reported."
But nothing about the Taliban ambush, huh, Times?
Just the Zio-prop about the Taliban, 'eh?
Pffffffffttttt!
Silence on Somalia
That would be the New York Times, readers:
"Mother, 5 children die during fighting"
MOGADISHU - A mother and her five children were killed yesterday by a mortar round fired during clashes between Somali insurgents and Ethiopian troops in the south of the capital. In another district in southern Mogadishu, the insurgents fought with government soldiers and also attacked an African Union peacekeeping force base. None of the peacekeepers was hurt, a spokesman said (AP December 31, 2007)."
Pffffffffftttt!
"Mother, 5 children die during fighting"
MOGADISHU - A mother and her five children were killed yesterday by a mortar round fired during clashes between Somali insurgents and Ethiopian troops in the south of the capital. In another district in southern Mogadishu, the insurgents fought with government soldiers and also attacked an African Union peacekeeping force base. None of the peacekeepers was hurt, a spokesman said (AP December 31, 2007)."
Pffffffffftttt!
Mexico Imprisons Its Children
I want you to see the picture of the beautiful mommy and baby, readers.
This whole situation, no matter where it is, is OFFENSIVE TO ME as a HUMAN BEING!!!
NO CHILD should be living in a prison, and if that means letting the women out to live in apartment complexes, then SO BE IT!!!!!
What kind of childhood can these families be having in a prison, readers?
Appalling!
"In Prison, Toddlers Serve Time With Mom" by JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
MEXICO CITY — Beyond the high concrete walls and menacing guard towers of the Santa Martha Acatitla prison, past the barbed wire, past the iron gates, past the armed guards in black commando garb, sits a nursery school with brightly painted walls, piles of toys and a jungle gym.
Fifty-three children under the age of 6 live inside the prison with their mothers, who are serving sentences for crimes from drug dealing to kidnapping to homicide. Mothers dressed in prison blue, many with tattoos, carry babies on their hips around the exercise yard. Others lead toddlers and kindergartners by the hand, play with them in the dust or bounce them on their knees on prison benches.
Karina Rendón, a 23-year-old serving time for drug dealing, said her 2-year-old daughter thought of the 144-square-foot cell she shared with two other mothers and their children as home, as she smiled sadly:
“She doesn’t know it is a prison. She thinks it’s her house.”
That is why children are beautiful and precious.
Because they are filled with wonder and love!
While a prison may seem an unhealthy place for a child, in the early 1990s the Mexico City government decided it was better for children born in prison to stay with their mothers until they were 6 rather than to be turned over to relatives or foster parents. The children are allowed to leave on weekends and holidays to visit relatives.
A debate continues among Mexican academics over whether spending one’s early years in a jail causes mental problems later in life, but for the moment the law says babies must stay with their mothers. So the prison has a school with three teachers.
The warden, Margarita Malo, said the children had a calming effect on the rest of the inmates. The presence of children also inspires the mothers to learn skills or, in many cases, to kick drug habits that landed them in trouble in the first place.
This is all over DRUGS?!
And even though the prison is full of women capable of violence, the children usually walk safely among them, as if protected by an invisible shield. It is as though they tap the collective maternal instinct of the 1,680 women locked up here.
Is that New York Times racism, or is it just me?
Ms. Malo said: “The minors are highly respected by the population. The fact we have children here creates a mind-set of solidarity. I have never seen aggression on the part of the inmates toward the children. Everyone acts as if they could be their children, and they don’t want anything to happen to them.”
Oh, so the prison inmates are HUMAN and CARING WOMEN, huh?
So why are they there? Drugs?
Still, raising a child in prison presents a tough set of problems, mothers said in recent interviews. Those serving long sentences dread the day when they must be separated from their child because he or she has turned 6.
Oh, that is not going to be a good situation at all!
Others who lack financial help from relatives struggle to earn enough money in prison to care for a child. Several said they waged a constant struggle to keep their children from getting sick in the damp, drafty cells. They often have no money for the prescriptions the prison doctor gives them.
Yet, few want to give up their bright-eyed offspring to relatives on the outside. They say the children are like a breath of normal life inside the stuffy, deadening confines of the prison.
I'm tearing up right now, readers, because children truly are the wonder of our lives.
How come we don't value and love our children, America?
Why do we brutalize them with drugs and violence?
Victoria Jaramillo, as she held her 3-month-old daughter on her lap:
“It’s beautiful. It keeps one busy.”
Ms. Jaramillo, who is 40, is serving a 20-year sentence on a drug-dealing conviction, maintains that she was only ironing clothes in a house when the police burst in and discovered a cache of drugs:
“The only thing that bothers me is I will have to lose her.”
Dressed in a pink fleece jumpsuit, the baby looked up at her mother with dark, innocent eyes. Whatever the truth, Ms. Jaramillo faces the certainty that she will have to give up her daughter, Frida, in six years.
Yeah, I'm crying now!!!!!!!!!!!
A mother’s crime plays no role in the decision to let her keep a baby born in jail, the warden said. Cecilia Nava López, 25, has served two years of a 27 ½-year sentence after being convicted of causing her stepchild’s death, a charge she denies. She was pregnant with her fourth child when the death occurred, and she was incarcerated based on the testimony of the father of her children.
Ms. Nava López said it was hard to keep her spirits up, facing such a long sentence for a death she said was not her fault, but taking care of her son, Emmanuel, who is 20 months old, gives her life some meaning:
“He motivates me to keep trying to improve myself.”
Reader, how drab and dull would our world be without children?
Ms. Rendón, however, said she sometimes wished she could give her daughter to relatives to raise. No one gives her money, so she makes a living selling snacks to visitors. Her child is delicate and gets sick frequently with chest colds, she said. She said she considered the prison food unhealthy, so she buys food for the girl from a grocery store the prison allows to operate inside its walls.
Ms. Rendón: “I think the best thing for my daughter would be for her to be outside with her grandmother. I have to take her to work with me,... [pauses]... but the truth is I need her. She is something very special.”
Just sitting her sobbing, reader. Are you?
Cell doors clang open at 7 a.m. and the guards call the roll at 8 a.m. Most of the mothers live together on the bottom floor of Cellblock H. They take their children to the school at 8:30 a.m. and pick them up at 2:30 p.m. The children spend the rest of the day in their mothers’ cells or with their mothers in the exercise yards.
The school has barbed wire above a yellow sign reading Cendi, short for Centro de Desarrollo Infantil, the Center for Child Development. On a recent afternoon, the children and their mothers gathered for La Posada, a traditional Mexican Christmas celebration. They sang songs about Joseph and Mary’s search for a place to stay in Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus in a manger. Then the children broke a star-shaped piñata and scrambled after the candy. It was hard to believe that they were surrounded by prison walls.
Pffffffffffttttt!
Elsa Romero MartÃnez, a psychologist who runs the school, said the children showed no signs of overly aggressive behavior. There have been few reports of abuse, though one child, suffering bruises, was taken away from a cocaine-addicted mother two years ago.
Why would there be?
People -- when not corrupted by societies -- innately LOVE CHILDREN!!!!
Why wouldn't you?
The thorniest problem she and the teachers face is preparing the children and mothers for separations once the children reach 6.
Ms. MartÃnez: “We have to teach them to say goodbye to the mothers.”
Pffffffttt! WHY?!
To show them that a wider world exists, the teachers try to take the children on field trips as often as possible. Their budget is limited and they rely on charity for the outings. They have managed only three this year — to a museum, an amusement park and a children’s theater.
At least that is something, I guess.
Some of the mothers live in a state of limbo, because a third of the prisoners have yet to be convicted of a crime. Diana Merlos Espericueta, 24, was arrested in December 2004 on charges of being a member of a kidnapping ring. She maintains that she dated the gang leader, the father of her child, but knew nothing of his business dealings.
For three years, she has waited for a judge to decide her case. She gave birth to her daughter, Jaqueline, soon after being incarcerated and has watched her grow to become a sprightly toddler, not knowing what the future holds for them. She faces a long sentence, possibly 70 years, if convicted.
Sigh (as author shakes his head and goes, "pfft, pfft.")
Watching her child play amid plastic balls at the prison’s school, she said she lived in a state of impotent fear. Sometimes, she said, she contemplates committing suicide if she is forced to spend the rest of her life in jail and to give up her child.
Ms. Espericueta: “The confinement is very hard."
Sigh.
I sometimes find the cold-hearted cruelty of governments a little too much to bear sometimes, readers.
The people who luvs us and want to care for us.
Right!
This whole situation, no matter where it is, is OFFENSIVE TO ME as a HUMAN BEING!!!
NO CHILD should be living in a prison, and if that means letting the women out to live in apartment complexes, then SO BE IT!!!!!
What kind of childhood can these families be having in a prison, readers?
Appalling!
"In Prison, Toddlers Serve Time With Mom" by JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
MEXICO CITY — Beyond the high concrete walls and menacing guard towers of the Santa Martha Acatitla prison, past the barbed wire, past the iron gates, past the armed guards in black commando garb, sits a nursery school with brightly painted walls, piles of toys and a jungle gym.
Fifty-three children under the age of 6 live inside the prison with their mothers, who are serving sentences for crimes from drug dealing to kidnapping to homicide. Mothers dressed in prison blue, many with tattoos, carry babies on their hips around the exercise yard. Others lead toddlers and kindergartners by the hand, play with them in the dust or bounce them on their knees on prison benches.
Karina Rendón, a 23-year-old serving time for drug dealing, said her 2-year-old daughter thought of the 144-square-foot cell she shared with two other mothers and their children as home, as she smiled sadly:
“She doesn’t know it is a prison. She thinks it’s her house.”
That is why children are beautiful and precious.
Because they are filled with wonder and love!
While a prison may seem an unhealthy place for a child, in the early 1990s the Mexico City government decided it was better for children born in prison to stay with their mothers until they were 6 rather than to be turned over to relatives or foster parents. The children are allowed to leave on weekends and holidays to visit relatives.
A debate continues among Mexican academics over whether spending one’s early years in a jail causes mental problems later in life, but for the moment the law says babies must stay with their mothers. So the prison has a school with three teachers.
The warden, Margarita Malo, said the children had a calming effect on the rest of the inmates. The presence of children also inspires the mothers to learn skills or, in many cases, to kick drug habits that landed them in trouble in the first place.
This is all over DRUGS?!
And even though the prison is full of women capable of violence, the children usually walk safely among them, as if protected by an invisible shield. It is as though they tap the collective maternal instinct of the 1,680 women locked up here.
Is that New York Times racism, or is it just me?
Ms. Malo said: “The minors are highly respected by the population. The fact we have children here creates a mind-set of solidarity. I have never seen aggression on the part of the inmates toward the children. Everyone acts as if they could be their children, and they don’t want anything to happen to them.”
Oh, so the prison inmates are HUMAN and CARING WOMEN, huh?
So why are they there? Drugs?
Still, raising a child in prison presents a tough set of problems, mothers said in recent interviews. Those serving long sentences dread the day when they must be separated from their child because he or she has turned 6.
Oh, that is not going to be a good situation at all!
Others who lack financial help from relatives struggle to earn enough money in prison to care for a child. Several said they waged a constant struggle to keep their children from getting sick in the damp, drafty cells. They often have no money for the prescriptions the prison doctor gives them.
Yet, few want to give up their bright-eyed offspring to relatives on the outside. They say the children are like a breath of normal life inside the stuffy, deadening confines of the prison.
I'm tearing up right now, readers, because children truly are the wonder of our lives.
How come we don't value and love our children, America?
Why do we brutalize them with drugs and violence?
Victoria Jaramillo, as she held her 3-month-old daughter on her lap:
“It’s beautiful. It keeps one busy.”
Ms. Jaramillo, who is 40, is serving a 20-year sentence on a drug-dealing conviction, maintains that she was only ironing clothes in a house when the police burst in and discovered a cache of drugs:
“The only thing that bothers me is I will have to lose her.”
Dressed in a pink fleece jumpsuit, the baby looked up at her mother with dark, innocent eyes. Whatever the truth, Ms. Jaramillo faces the certainty that she will have to give up her daughter, Frida, in six years.
Yeah, I'm crying now!!!!!!!!!!!
A mother’s crime plays no role in the decision to let her keep a baby born in jail, the warden said. Cecilia Nava López, 25, has served two years of a 27 ½-year sentence after being convicted of causing her stepchild’s death, a charge she denies. She was pregnant with her fourth child when the death occurred, and she was incarcerated based on the testimony of the father of her children.
Ms. Nava López said it was hard to keep her spirits up, facing such a long sentence for a death she said was not her fault, but taking care of her son, Emmanuel, who is 20 months old, gives her life some meaning:
“He motivates me to keep trying to improve myself.”
Reader, how drab and dull would our world be without children?
Ms. Rendón, however, said she sometimes wished she could give her daughter to relatives to raise. No one gives her money, so she makes a living selling snacks to visitors. Her child is delicate and gets sick frequently with chest colds, she said. She said she considered the prison food unhealthy, so she buys food for the girl from a grocery store the prison allows to operate inside its walls.
Ms. Rendón: “I think the best thing for my daughter would be for her to be outside with her grandmother. I have to take her to work with me,... [pauses]... but the truth is I need her. She is something very special.”
Just sitting her sobbing, reader. Are you?
Cell doors clang open at 7 a.m. and the guards call the roll at 8 a.m. Most of the mothers live together on the bottom floor of Cellblock H. They take their children to the school at 8:30 a.m. and pick them up at 2:30 p.m. The children spend the rest of the day in their mothers’ cells or with their mothers in the exercise yards.
The school has barbed wire above a yellow sign reading Cendi, short for Centro de Desarrollo Infantil, the Center for Child Development. On a recent afternoon, the children and their mothers gathered for La Posada, a traditional Mexican Christmas celebration. They sang songs about Joseph and Mary’s search for a place to stay in Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus in a manger. Then the children broke a star-shaped piñata and scrambled after the candy. It was hard to believe that they were surrounded by prison walls.
Pffffffffffttttt!
Elsa Romero MartÃnez, a psychologist who runs the school, said the children showed no signs of overly aggressive behavior. There have been few reports of abuse, though one child, suffering bruises, was taken away from a cocaine-addicted mother two years ago.
Why would there be?
People -- when not corrupted by societies -- innately LOVE CHILDREN!!!!
Why wouldn't you?
The thorniest problem she and the teachers face is preparing the children and mothers for separations once the children reach 6.
Ms. MartÃnez: “We have to teach them to say goodbye to the mothers.”
Pffffffttt! WHY?!
To show them that a wider world exists, the teachers try to take the children on field trips as often as possible. Their budget is limited and they rely on charity for the outings. They have managed only three this year — to a museum, an amusement park and a children’s theater.
At least that is something, I guess.
Some of the mothers live in a state of limbo, because a third of the prisoners have yet to be convicted of a crime. Diana Merlos Espericueta, 24, was arrested in December 2004 on charges of being a member of a kidnapping ring. She maintains that she dated the gang leader, the father of her child, but knew nothing of his business dealings.
For three years, she has waited for a judge to decide her case. She gave birth to her daughter, Jaqueline, soon after being incarcerated and has watched her grow to become a sprightly toddler, not knowing what the future holds for them. She faces a long sentence, possibly 70 years, if convicted.
Sigh (as author shakes his head and goes, "pfft, pfft.")
Watching her child play amid plastic balls at the prison’s school, she said she lived in a state of impotent fear. Sometimes, she said, she contemplates committing suicide if she is forced to spend the rest of her life in jail and to give up her child.
Ms. Espericueta: “The confinement is very hard."
Sigh.
I sometimes find the cold-hearted cruelty of governments a little too much to bear sometimes, readers.
The people who luvs us and want to care for us.
Right!
The Establishment's Ace-in-the-Hole
In case Ron Paul gets too far along in his campaign, 'ey, Globalists?
"Bloomberg Moves Closer to Running for President"
America ain't gonna elect some short Jew mayor from NYC, assholes, no matter how much money he's got!
We already got Rudy, and the electorate hates him!!
Update: Maybe it ain't Bloomy!
"Bloomberg and sexual harassment, racism and homophobia, and the "truly weird" sexual environment"
"Will the corporate media give him a pass if he runs for President?
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/5...
But what would we think of Michael Bloomberg if we had been a fly on the wall in his office? Would the language and demeanor with which he wielded power tell us something?
That was a question I thought I had some answers to when I wrote a column in September based on an obscure booklet called The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg. The booklet had been prepared as a birthday present by his closest staff members and was filled with business shibboleths and office witticisms that also portrayed an on-the-fly sexism, racism, and homophobia. The woman who prepared the book, Elisabeth DeMarse, one of his closest associates at the time, confirmed its authenticity and described all the quotations as verbatim and the booklet as a tribute. Indeed, it was vivid financial-guy talk ("Make the customer think he's getting laid when he's getting fucked"). Wall Street is a place, as the booklet strikingly demonstrates, not only of economic Darwinism but of verbal Darwinism -- a place where, if you're not part of the white, male Establishment, you have to survive exactly the kind of social, ethnic, and sexual slings and arrows that appear throughout this booklet.
The documents create a picture of not just a hostile sexual environment but a truly weird one. This isn't Clintonesque lunging on Bloomberg's part, but rather, what is alleged here is a broader, more juvenile kind of control. Bloomberg's company is a playground, or clubhouse, or frat house, with Bloomberg himself as the strangely removed but obviously volatile bully or grand master or BMOC. That Bloomberg is the boss may be much more the point than the sex -- insults, and the power to get away with insults, are more important than gratification.
There's the alleged dress code for Bloomberg women: short skirts and "fuck me" shoes. Bloomberg, in these papers, frequently admonishes his female employees on how they should dress, and on what he finds attractive.
There is, described in these documents, a detailed picture of Bloomberg's odd feelings about the marriages of his female employees.
"What, is the guy dumb and blind? What the hell is he marrying you for?" Bloomberg is alleged to have asked Sekiko Garrison, a senior sales executive, who is one of the plaintiffs in these papers, when he saw her engagement ring. A week later, she maintains, he said, "Still engaged? What, is he that good in bed, or did your father pay him off to get rid of you?"
A sense of proprietorship over his female staff is another constant theme in these papers. He tells Garrison, in one instance, that he doesn't like her dress. "Your ass looks huge in it," she says he said.
more..."
"Bloomberg Moves Closer to Running for President"
America ain't gonna elect some short Jew mayor from NYC, assholes, no matter how much money he's got!
We already got Rudy, and the electorate hates him!!
Update: Maybe it ain't Bloomy!
"Bloomberg and sexual harassment, racism and homophobia, and the "truly weird" sexual environment"
"Will the corporate media give him a pass if he runs for President?
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/5...
But what would we think of Michael Bloomberg if we had been a fly on the wall in his office? Would the language and demeanor with which he wielded power tell us something?
That was a question I thought I had some answers to when I wrote a column in September based on an obscure booklet called The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg. The booklet had been prepared as a birthday present by his closest staff members and was filled with business shibboleths and office witticisms that also portrayed an on-the-fly sexism, racism, and homophobia. The woman who prepared the book, Elisabeth DeMarse, one of his closest associates at the time, confirmed its authenticity and described all the quotations as verbatim and the booklet as a tribute. Indeed, it was vivid financial-guy talk ("Make the customer think he's getting laid when he's getting fucked"). Wall Street is a place, as the booklet strikingly demonstrates, not only of economic Darwinism but of verbal Darwinism -- a place where, if you're not part of the white, male Establishment, you have to survive exactly the kind of social, ethnic, and sexual slings and arrows that appear throughout this booklet.
The documents create a picture of not just a hostile sexual environment but a truly weird one. This isn't Clintonesque lunging on Bloomberg's part, but rather, what is alleged here is a broader, more juvenile kind of control. Bloomberg's company is a playground, or clubhouse, or frat house, with Bloomberg himself as the strangely removed but obviously volatile bully or grand master or BMOC. That Bloomberg is the boss may be much more the point than the sex -- insults, and the power to get away with insults, are more important than gratification.
There's the alleged dress code for Bloomberg women: short skirts and "fuck me" shoes. Bloomberg, in these papers, frequently admonishes his female employees on how they should dress, and on what he finds attractive.
There is, described in these documents, a detailed picture of Bloomberg's odd feelings about the marriages of his female employees.
"What, is the guy dumb and blind? What the hell is he marrying you for?" Bloomberg is alleged to have asked Sekiko Garrison, a senior sales executive, who is one of the plaintiffs in these papers, when he saw her engagement ring. A week later, she maintains, he said, "Still engaged? What, is he that good in bed, or did your father pay him off to get rid of you?"
A sense of proprietorship over his female staff is another constant theme in these papers. He tells Garrison, in one instance, that he doesn't like her dress. "Your ass looks huge in it," she says he said.
more..."
The Boston Globe's Shit Page
Oh, I'm sorry, I meant FRONT PAGE!
"For our New England teams, as good as it gets"
Oh, I see they are both the same thing.
Sorry, my bad!
"For our New England teams, as good as it gets"
Oh, I see they are both the same thing.
Sorry, my bad!
Pooping Pakistan
Because it's MSM coverage, readers, not blogs.
And I notice the articles of information flowing forth from the Zionist-controlled War Dailies just as the Week-Ender Shit-Eater is off the delivery schedule.
Hmmmmmmmm!
Of course, it is still garbage propaganda.
"New Questions Arise in Killing of Ex-Premier" by JANE PERLEZ
LAHORE, Pakistan — New details of Benazir Bhutto’s final moments, including indications that her doctors felt pressured to conform to government accounts of her death, fueled the arguments over her assassination on Sunday and added to the pressure on Pakistan’s leaders to accept an international inquiry.
Athar Minallah, a board member of the hospital where Ms. Bhutto was treated, released her medical report along with an open letter showing that her doctors wanted to distance themselves from the government theory that Ms. Bhutto had died by hitting her head on a lever of her car’s sunroof during the attack.
In his letter, Mr. Minallah, who is also a prominent lawyer, said the doctors believed that an autopsy was needed to provide the answers to how she actually died. Their request for one last Thursday was denied by the local police chief.
Pakistani and Western security experts said the government’s insistence that Ms. Bhutto, a former prime minister, was not killed by a bullet was intended to deflect attention from the lack of government security around her. On Sunday, Pakistani newspapers covered their front pages with photographs showing a man apparently pointing a gun at her from just yards away.
Her vehicle came under attack by a gunman and suicide bomber as she left a political rally in Rawalpindi, where the Pakistani Army keeps its headquarters, and where the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency has a strong presence.
The government’s explanation, that Ms. Bhutto died after hitting her head as she ducked from the gunfire or was tossed by the force of the suicide blast, has been greeted with disbelief by her supporters, ordinary Pakistanis and medical experts. While some of the mystery could be cleared up by exhuming the body, it is not clear whether Ms. Bhutto’s family would give permission, such is their distrust of the government.
Mr. Minallah distributed the medical report with his open letter to the Pakistani news media and The New York Times. He said the doctor who wrote the report, Mohammad Mussadiq Khan, the principal professor of surgery at the Rawalpindi General Hospital, told him on the night of Ms. Bhutto’s death that she had died of a bullet wound.
Dr. Khan declined through Mr. Minallah to speak with a reporter on the grounds that he was an employee of a government hospital and was fearful of government reprisals if he did not support its version of events.
The medical report, prepared with six other doctors, does not specifically mention a bullet because the actual cause of the head wound was to be left to an autopsy, Mr. Minallah said. The doctors had stressed to him that “without an autopsy it is not at all possible to determine as to what had caused the injury,” he wrote.
But the chief of police in Rawalpindi, Saud Aziz, “did not agree” to the autopsy request by the doctors, Mr. Minallah said in his letter.
A former senior Pakistani police official, Wajahat Latif, who headed the Federal Investigative Agency in the early 1990s, said that in “any case of a suspected murder an autopsy is mandatory.” To waive an autopsy, Mr. Latif said, relatives were required to apply for permission.
At a news conference Sunday, Ms. Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari, said he had declined a request for a post-mortem examination:
“It was an insult to my wife, an insult to the sister of the nation, an insult to the mother of the nation. I know their forensic reports are useless. I refuse to give them her last remains.”
The question of an autopsy has become central to the circumstances of Ms. Bhutto’s death because of conflicting versions put forward by the Pakistani government.
Don't you wish the Times had been more like this surrounding what happened on 9/11, readers?
The new images of the men who appear to have been Ms. Bhutto’s assassins showed one dressed in a sleeveless black waistcoat and rimless sunglasses, and holding aloft what appeared to be a gun. He had a short haircut and wore the kind of attire reminiscent of plainclothes intelligence officials, though Al Qaeda and other militants have also been known to dress attackers in Western-style clothing in order to disguise them.
The Pakistani versionof the Zapruder film, huh?
Yeah, "Al-CIA-Duh" likes to dress up!
Pfffffttttt!
That man is seen standing in front of another whose head is covered in a shawl in the style of Pashtun men from the Pakistan’s tribal areas, where Al Qaeda has regrouped in the past year. He is described in the newspaper Dawn as the suicide bomber.
Or not, ha-ha! So "Al-CIA-Duh" and the ISI pulled this off TOGETHER, huh?
Mr. Minallah, the hospital board member, said Ms. Bhutto’s doctors raised the likelihood of a bullet killing her in their report, when they wrote:
“Two to three tiny radio-densities underneath fracture segment are observed on both projections. [We tried for 41 minutes to revive her]. The patient was pulseless and was not breathing] when she arrived at the hospital]. A wound was present on the right temporoparietal region, through which blood was trickling down and whitish material which looked like brain matter was visible in the wound."
Oh, God!
Ms. Bhutto’s colleagues who were in the vehicle with her said the interior was covered in blood, and the doctors wrote that “her clothes were soaked with blood.”
Bruce Riedel, an expert on Pakistan at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and a former member of the National Security Council in the Clinton administration:
"[An account of her death that did not involve a gunshot wound was the optimal explanation for the government]. If there is a gunshot wound, the security was abysmal. [The government did not want to be exposed on its careless approach to security]."
So the guy is basically admitting an INSIDE JOB COVER-UP here!
I only got one thing to say: NINE-ELEVEN!!
On Sunday, Ms. Bhutto’s husband, Mr. Zardari, said he received a call from the Punjab home secretary on Thursday evening with a request for his permission for a post-mortem examination. He said he refused because he did not trust the government investigation to prove the cause of her death.
In ordinary circumstances, an autopsy runs counter to Islamic belief that a body should not be tampered with and should be buried as quickly as possible. But several Pakistanis said that in certain classes of Muslim society, particularly the better educated and more urban people, autopsies were not ruled out on religious grounds."
American and British officials, as well as an increasing number of Pakistanis, said that an investigation under the United Nations or some other international effort would restore confidence in the Pakistani government.
On Sunday a conference of Ms. Bhutto’s party, the Pakistan Peoples Party, called for an inquiry led by the United Nations.
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States Congress, said Saturday that the Bush administration should condition its future aid to Pakistan on its willingness to undertake an independent international inquiry.
Would the U.S. stand for an international inquiry over 9/11?
Did we?
Then SHADDUP!!!!!!!!
David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, said Britain was ready to offer whatever help was needed.
Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema, the Interior Ministry spokesman, made clear Sunday, however, that an international inquiry was not in the cards:
“At this point in time we are quite confident with the kind of progress that is going on with our inquiries. [Foreign experts do not have the expertise to deal with the peculiarities of tribal areas that are the base of the nation’s terrorist activities]. This is not just an ordinary criminal case where you only need forensic expert. We understand the dynamics better.”
Well, you guys are certainly doing a tremendous job so far!
NOT!!
"U.S. Experts Criticize Bhutto Post-Mortem" by LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Proper examination of the autopsy material, the clothing Ms. Bhutto wore when she was killed and the debris in the area surrounding the explosion could also help determine which extremist group made a bomb or fired a bullet, if either caused her death.
Ms. Bhutto’s case recalls that of President John F. Kennedy, who was slain in 1963. Controversy still swirls around the assassination, in part because of a flawed autopsy.
Would that the NYT would take an investigative look at so many horrors of AmeriKan history!
Instead, they bring in the Kennedy cover-up M.E.!
Pfffffttttt!
Dr. Michael M. Baden, who is a top forensic official for the New York State Police as well as a former New York City chief medical examiner and chairman of the forensic pathology panel of the House of Representatives select committees on the assassinations of Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr:
“With Kennedy, the treating doctors were wrong about the entrance and exit wounds” [of the bullet-damaged skull]."
This is an INSULT!!!!!!!!
Yeah, right, the treating doctors were wrong.
BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!!!!
Dr. Baden said he suspected that Ms. Bhutto died from a bullet that left two or three tiny fragments seen on X-rays before it exited the skull through a wound that the Pakistani doctors did not notice in part because they apparently did not shave the bloodied thick scalp hair.
Dr. Werner U. Spitz, former chief medical examiner in Detroit, said he could not understand why the government did not try to quench “the thirst of the Pakistani people to know the facts, because they are all angry, and if you confronted them with the facts, maybe the anger” would disappear.
Dr. Spitz said he suspected that Ms. Bhutto died after being hit by a bullet fired from a high-powered rifle."
So a SNIPER, not a GUY in the CROWD got her?!?!
Well, THAT REALLY STINKS!!!!!
Of course, the NYT and the rest then turn to bullshit politics!
Yeah, never mind asking those tough questions and doing some investigating on these assassinations.
Just run with the LIE of CONVENTIONAL MYTHS you helped promote and build, MSM!
Pffffffffttttt!
"Opposition Parties Vow to Proceed With Jan. 8 Election" by SOMINI SENGUPTA
NAUDERO, Pakistan — Asif Ali Zardari, Ms. Bhutto's husband, said he would manage the chairmanship of the Pakistan Peoples Party. Mr. Zardari said that his wife had expressed the wish in her will that he be left in charge of the party.
Mr. Zardari, in an interview:
“It’s not an easy chair to sit on. A, she leaves me. B, she ties me in this. To say the least, it’s overbearing.”
WTF?! Like the whole thing is her fault?
At the news conference, the elder Mr. Zardari said he would not run in the election and therefore would not be the party’s prime ministerial candidate.
So WHO is this guy?
"Bhutto's husband, new party leader, is former convict with shady reputation" by Sadaqat Jan, Associated Press | December 31, 2007
Uh-oh!
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto's husband, who took effective control of his slain wife's party yesterday, is a former Cabinet minister who spent eight years in prison on corruption accusations and is known as "Mr. 10 Percent" for allegedly taking kickbacks.
Oh, greeeeeeeeaaaaattt!
In her will, read yesterday, Bhutto named Asif Ali Zardari her successor as head of the Pakistan Peoples Party in case of her death. But Zardari, who is viewed with suspicion by many Pakistanis. Zardari is a prominent figure in Pakistani politics, earning a checkered reputation because of allegations that he made big money during Bhutto's government.
Oh, no!
Asif Ali Zardari, 54, who comes from a feudal family, shot to fame after his arranged marriage to Bhutto, who become prime minister for the first time in 1988, fewer than three months after giving birth to her son. Bhutto's husband is generally blamed for many of her political misfortunes, with her twice being forced out of the prime minister's office over allegations of corruption and misrule.
The elder Zardari was jailed for the first time in 1990 on charges ranging from murder to bank fraud when Bhutto's first government was dismissed. He was released in 1993 and acquitted of the charges, including the accusation that he tried to extort several million dollars from a British businessman by attaching a bomb to his leg. Asif Ali Zardari and his supporters said the charges were politically motivated.
The elder Zardari became investment minister in Bhutto's second government. He was nicknamed "Mr. 10 Percent" for allegedly skimming off commissions on government contracts. He was also accused of spending state money on ponies and the apples to feed them at the prime minister's residence while the poor lacked food.
And yet, Bhutto was going to be the savior of the poor?
Sigh!!!!
He was jailed a second time in 1996 over corruption allegations and alleged involvement in an attack on Bhutto's brother, Murtaza, who died in a shootout near his home in Karachi.
After years in prison, facing marathon trials in different courts in the country, the elder Zardari was freed in December 2004 and left Pakistan to live with his family in the United Arab Emirates.
Asif Ali Zardari has several ailments, including a heart problem."
How come every single leader the West backs is as corrupt as shit?
"US Seeks Free, Fair Pakistan Elections" by Larry Margasak Associated Press | December 30, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration and presidential hopefuls from both parties said Sunday that it's crucial for Pakistan to hold free and fair elections either as scheduled or fairly soon. Pakistan's Election Commission is to announce Monday if the vote will be postponed.
"Bhutto's party picks son, spouse to lead; Bloc voices intent to compete in vote" by Griff Witte, Washington Post | December 31, 2007
"That election, scheduled for Jan. 8, appears likely to be postponed. Tariq Azim Khan, spokesman for the party of President Pervez Musharraf, said that voting may be delayed for as long as four months because of the turmoil after Bhutto's assassination.
The election commission was expected to convene an emergency meeting today to decide whether to postpone the long-awaited vote. Rioters have targeted the commission's offices, and several have been burned to the ground."
So what is happening ON THE GROUND in Pakistan, readers?
"Karachi paralyzed by days of violence; Residents struggle to find food, fuel" by Burt Herman, Associated Press | December 31, 2007
KARACHI - Residents of Pakistan's largest city cautiously emerged from their homes yesterday and struggled to find food and fuel amid the blackened buildings, shattered glass, and burned-out vehicles on the streets of Karachi.
With police and troops patrolling, the city appeared quiet for the first time since Benazir Bhutto's assassination Thursday sparked a wave of rioting. The previous three days of clashes and looting had left at least 40 people dead across Sindh Province, where Karachi is located, provincial Home Minister Akhtar Zemin told the Associated Press.
Hundreds of bank branches were destroyed and 950 vehicles burned. The normally bustling port city remained a virtual ghost town, shocked by Bhutto's death. Nearly all shops were closed and streets normally packed with traffic were empty, save for boys playing cricket.
Mohammed Umar, 60, a retired government official, left his apartment to buy flatbread at one of only two shops open in a main market area. He said his wife normally bakes bread at home, but that they had run out of flour, sugar, and milk.
Umar said the night before he had watched looters cutting locks off shops and questioned why authorities were not taking more aggressive steps to stop the chaos:
"The government is purely responsible for this."
Next door, Mussarad Nasim Albert bought some laundry detergent from a supermarket where the shopkeeper peddled goods from beneath a metal door and through bars usually open during business hours. The 49-year-old nurse said she had been unable to get to work for the past few days.
Ms. Albert lamented that goods were now being sold at nearly double normal prices, and bought just a few necessities like potatoes and onions because of the crisis-spawned inflation:
"There is nothing in the house, I am searching for things."
Makeshift barriers surrounded almost every gas station, including one where 18-year-old Mohammad Shoaib was waiting in hope of filling up his small motorcycle, who had been set to take an entrance exam to earn a bachelor's degree in computer science, but the test was indefinitely postponed because of the violence.
Mr. Shoaib, of those who caused the destruction:
"These are the stupidest people who are doing this. We will have to rebuild it again."
Police with assault rifles were stationed on street corners across Karachi, and military patrols in armored vehicles rode through the rougher parts of the city, such as the notorious Lyari slums that have seen the most unrest.
Hundreds of Bhutto supporters gathered for memorial prayers at a party office, chanting "Benazir is innocent!" before marching into the streets. They were trailed by a police truck with an officer on top wielding a tear gas grenade launcher.
At Bhutto's house in the city, supporter Masi Mehru's tears welled behind her eyeglasses as she clasped her hands on her head and pounded her chest, saying she had not eaten because of grief since the former prime minister was killed at a campaign rally in the northern city of Rawalpindi.
Mehru, who is in her 70s: "I would rather have died instead of her."
She and her 40-year-old daughter, Husan Banu, wanted to pay their respects at the house, but had become stranded there because most transport in the city was shut down.
The military said in a statement that it was giving shelter to more than 5,000 people in the province who were stranded because of vandalized trains, taking some to their destinations via buses after clearing blocked roads."
"Bhutto's party picks son, spouse to lead; Bloc voices intent to compete in vote" by Griff Witte, Washington Post | December 31, 2007
KARACHI - The political announcements yesterday followed widespread rioting after Bhutto's death.
In Sindh Province, rioters had left a wide swath of destruction Saturday, with still-burning fuel tankers and smoldering tires littering the highways. And young men wearing Peoples Party head scarves had set up dozens of impromptu checkpoints along the major roads, looking for targets.
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, retired Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, said 174 banks had been burned and billons of rupees worth of property had been destroyed across the country. The violence drew threats of a stiffer government response.
Cheema: "We are warning people to stay calm and restrain themselves. They will be punished in the toughest way if it does not stop."
The army was out in force in many areas of Sindh on Saturday and appeared to be regaining control there. Elsewhere, however, unrest intensified. In Rawalpindi, riot police and Peoples Party supporters clashed near the spot where Bhutto was killed.
In the eastern city of Lahore, workers slept in their offices because public transportation was shut down and many were unable to get enough gas in their cars to go home. Families brought blankets and pillows to the airport, where they waited for flights that never left. All cafes, movie theaters, and markets remained closed in Lahore."
Did you get all that, reader.
What a GREAT SITUATION for the Pakistani people, huh?
How long until this sort of crap touches American society, shit-chewing 'Murkn?
WAKE the FUCK UP!!!!!!
Oh, and do you think Roger Cohen was on Bhutto's list, readers?
"Although Ms. Bhutto was twice expelled from office on charges of corruption, she kept up her visits to Washington, usually several a year. She would call on administration officials and members of Congress willing to see her as well as reporters and editors at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Soon her American Christmas card list, excluding people in government and Congress, was up to 375 names."
No wonder we get the "democratic martyr" out of the "chairperson of the party for life" in our newspapers.
And I notice the articles of information flowing forth from the Zionist-controlled War Dailies just as the Week-Ender Shit-Eater is off the delivery schedule.
Hmmmmmmmm!
Of course, it is still garbage propaganda.
"New Questions Arise in Killing of Ex-Premier" by JANE PERLEZ
LAHORE, Pakistan — New details of Benazir Bhutto’s final moments, including indications that her doctors felt pressured to conform to government accounts of her death, fueled the arguments over her assassination on Sunday and added to the pressure on Pakistan’s leaders to accept an international inquiry.
Athar Minallah, a board member of the hospital where Ms. Bhutto was treated, released her medical report along with an open letter showing that her doctors wanted to distance themselves from the government theory that Ms. Bhutto had died by hitting her head on a lever of her car’s sunroof during the attack.
In his letter, Mr. Minallah, who is also a prominent lawyer, said the doctors believed that an autopsy was needed to provide the answers to how she actually died. Their request for one last Thursday was denied by the local police chief.
Pakistani and Western security experts said the government’s insistence that Ms. Bhutto, a former prime minister, was not killed by a bullet was intended to deflect attention from the lack of government security around her. On Sunday, Pakistani newspapers covered their front pages with photographs showing a man apparently pointing a gun at her from just yards away.
Her vehicle came under attack by a gunman and suicide bomber as she left a political rally in Rawalpindi, where the Pakistani Army keeps its headquarters, and where the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency has a strong presence.
The government’s explanation, that Ms. Bhutto died after hitting her head as she ducked from the gunfire or was tossed by the force of the suicide blast, has been greeted with disbelief by her supporters, ordinary Pakistanis and medical experts. While some of the mystery could be cleared up by exhuming the body, it is not clear whether Ms. Bhutto’s family would give permission, such is their distrust of the government.
Mr. Minallah distributed the medical report with his open letter to the Pakistani news media and The New York Times. He said the doctor who wrote the report, Mohammad Mussadiq Khan, the principal professor of surgery at the Rawalpindi General Hospital, told him on the night of Ms. Bhutto’s death that she had died of a bullet wound.
Dr. Khan declined through Mr. Minallah to speak with a reporter on the grounds that he was an employee of a government hospital and was fearful of government reprisals if he did not support its version of events.
The medical report, prepared with six other doctors, does not specifically mention a bullet because the actual cause of the head wound was to be left to an autopsy, Mr. Minallah said. The doctors had stressed to him that “without an autopsy it is not at all possible to determine as to what had caused the injury,” he wrote.
But the chief of police in Rawalpindi, Saud Aziz, “did not agree” to the autopsy request by the doctors, Mr. Minallah said in his letter.
A former senior Pakistani police official, Wajahat Latif, who headed the Federal Investigative Agency in the early 1990s, said that in “any case of a suspected murder an autopsy is mandatory.” To waive an autopsy, Mr. Latif said, relatives were required to apply for permission.
At a news conference Sunday, Ms. Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari, said he had declined a request for a post-mortem examination:
“It was an insult to my wife, an insult to the sister of the nation, an insult to the mother of the nation. I know their forensic reports are useless. I refuse to give them her last remains.”
The question of an autopsy has become central to the circumstances of Ms. Bhutto’s death because of conflicting versions put forward by the Pakistani government.
Don't you wish the Times had been more like this surrounding what happened on 9/11, readers?
The new images of the men who appear to have been Ms. Bhutto’s assassins showed one dressed in a sleeveless black waistcoat and rimless sunglasses, and holding aloft what appeared to be a gun. He had a short haircut and wore the kind of attire reminiscent of plainclothes intelligence officials, though Al Qaeda and other militants have also been known to dress attackers in Western-style clothing in order to disguise them.
The Pakistani versionof the Zapruder film, huh?
Yeah, "Al-CIA-Duh" likes to dress up!
Pfffffttttt!
That man is seen standing in front of another whose head is covered in a shawl in the style of Pashtun men from the Pakistan’s tribal areas, where Al Qaeda has regrouped in the past year. He is described in the newspaper Dawn as the suicide bomber.
Or not, ha-ha! So "Al-CIA-Duh" and the ISI pulled this off TOGETHER, huh?
Mr. Minallah, the hospital board member, said Ms. Bhutto’s doctors raised the likelihood of a bullet killing her in their report, when they wrote:
“Two to three tiny radio-densities underneath fracture segment are observed on both projections. [We tried for 41 minutes to revive her]. The patient was pulseless and was not breathing] when she arrived at the hospital]. A wound was present on the right temporoparietal region, through which blood was trickling down and whitish material which looked like brain matter was visible in the wound."
Oh, God!
Ms. Bhutto’s colleagues who were in the vehicle with her said the interior was covered in blood, and the doctors wrote that “her clothes were soaked with blood.”
Bruce Riedel, an expert on Pakistan at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and a former member of the National Security Council in the Clinton administration:
"[An account of her death that did not involve a gunshot wound was the optimal explanation for the government]. If there is a gunshot wound, the security was abysmal. [The government did not want to be exposed on its careless approach to security]."
So the guy is basically admitting an INSIDE JOB COVER-UP here!
I only got one thing to say: NINE-ELEVEN!!
On Sunday, Ms. Bhutto’s husband, Mr. Zardari, said he received a call from the Punjab home secretary on Thursday evening with a request for his permission for a post-mortem examination. He said he refused because he did not trust the government investigation to prove the cause of her death.
In ordinary circumstances, an autopsy runs counter to Islamic belief that a body should not be tampered with and should be buried as quickly as possible. But several Pakistanis said that in certain classes of Muslim society, particularly the better educated and more urban people, autopsies were not ruled out on religious grounds."
American and British officials, as well as an increasing number of Pakistanis, said that an investigation under the United Nations or some other international effort would restore confidence in the Pakistani government.
On Sunday a conference of Ms. Bhutto’s party, the Pakistan Peoples Party, called for an inquiry led by the United Nations.
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States Congress, said Saturday that the Bush administration should condition its future aid to Pakistan on its willingness to undertake an independent international inquiry.
Would the U.S. stand for an international inquiry over 9/11?
Did we?
Then SHADDUP!!!!!!!!
David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, said Britain was ready to offer whatever help was needed.
Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema, the Interior Ministry spokesman, made clear Sunday, however, that an international inquiry was not in the cards:
“At this point in time we are quite confident with the kind of progress that is going on with our inquiries. [Foreign experts do not have the expertise to deal with the peculiarities of tribal areas that are the base of the nation’s terrorist activities]. This is not just an ordinary criminal case where you only need forensic expert. We understand the dynamics better.”
Well, you guys are certainly doing a tremendous job so far!
NOT!!
"U.S. Experts Criticize Bhutto Post-Mortem" by LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Proper examination of the autopsy material, the clothing Ms. Bhutto wore when she was killed and the debris in the area surrounding the explosion could also help determine which extremist group made a bomb or fired a bullet, if either caused her death.
Ms. Bhutto’s case recalls that of President John F. Kennedy, who was slain in 1963. Controversy still swirls around the assassination, in part because of a flawed autopsy.
Would that the NYT would take an investigative look at so many horrors of AmeriKan history!
Instead, they bring in the Kennedy cover-up M.E.!
Pfffffttttt!
Dr. Michael M. Baden, who is a top forensic official for the New York State Police as well as a former New York City chief medical examiner and chairman of the forensic pathology panel of the House of Representatives select committees on the assassinations of Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr:
“With Kennedy, the treating doctors were wrong about the entrance and exit wounds” [of the bullet-damaged skull]."
This is an INSULT!!!!!!!!
Yeah, right, the treating doctors were wrong.
BULL-FUCKING-SHIT!!!!
Dr. Baden said he suspected that Ms. Bhutto died from a bullet that left two or three tiny fragments seen on X-rays before it exited the skull through a wound that the Pakistani doctors did not notice in part because they apparently did not shave the bloodied thick scalp hair.
Dr. Werner U. Spitz, former chief medical examiner in Detroit, said he could not understand why the government did not try to quench “the thirst of the Pakistani people to know the facts, because they are all angry, and if you confronted them with the facts, maybe the anger” would disappear.
Dr. Spitz said he suspected that Ms. Bhutto died after being hit by a bullet fired from a high-powered rifle."
So a SNIPER, not a GUY in the CROWD got her?!?!
Well, THAT REALLY STINKS!!!!!
Of course, the NYT and the rest then turn to bullshit politics!
Yeah, never mind asking those tough questions and doing some investigating on these assassinations.
Just run with the LIE of CONVENTIONAL MYTHS you helped promote and build, MSM!
Pffffffffttttt!
"Opposition Parties Vow to Proceed With Jan. 8 Election" by SOMINI SENGUPTA
NAUDERO, Pakistan — Asif Ali Zardari, Ms. Bhutto's husband, said he would manage the chairmanship of the Pakistan Peoples Party. Mr. Zardari said that his wife had expressed the wish in her will that he be left in charge of the party.
Mr. Zardari, in an interview:
“It’s not an easy chair to sit on. A, she leaves me. B, she ties me in this. To say the least, it’s overbearing.”
WTF?! Like the whole thing is her fault?
At the news conference, the elder Mr. Zardari said he would not run in the election and therefore would not be the party’s prime ministerial candidate.
So WHO is this guy?
"Bhutto's husband, new party leader, is former convict with shady reputation" by Sadaqat Jan, Associated Press | December 31, 2007
Uh-oh!
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto's husband, who took effective control of his slain wife's party yesterday, is a former Cabinet minister who spent eight years in prison on corruption accusations and is known as "Mr. 10 Percent" for allegedly taking kickbacks.
Oh, greeeeeeeeaaaaattt!
In her will, read yesterday, Bhutto named Asif Ali Zardari her successor as head of the Pakistan Peoples Party in case of her death. But Zardari, who is viewed with suspicion by many Pakistanis. Zardari is a prominent figure in Pakistani politics, earning a checkered reputation because of allegations that he made big money during Bhutto's government.
Oh, no!
Asif Ali Zardari, 54, who comes from a feudal family, shot to fame after his arranged marriage to Bhutto, who become prime minister for the first time in 1988, fewer than three months after giving birth to her son. Bhutto's husband is generally blamed for many of her political misfortunes, with her twice being forced out of the prime minister's office over allegations of corruption and misrule.
The elder Zardari was jailed for the first time in 1990 on charges ranging from murder to bank fraud when Bhutto's first government was dismissed. He was released in 1993 and acquitted of the charges, including the accusation that he tried to extort several million dollars from a British businessman by attaching a bomb to his leg. Asif Ali Zardari and his supporters said the charges were politically motivated.
The elder Zardari became investment minister in Bhutto's second government. He was nicknamed "Mr. 10 Percent" for allegedly skimming off commissions on government contracts. He was also accused of spending state money on ponies and the apples to feed them at the prime minister's residence while the poor lacked food.
And yet, Bhutto was going to be the savior of the poor?
Sigh!!!!
He was jailed a second time in 1996 over corruption allegations and alleged involvement in an attack on Bhutto's brother, Murtaza, who died in a shootout near his home in Karachi.
After years in prison, facing marathon trials in different courts in the country, the elder Zardari was freed in December 2004 and left Pakistan to live with his family in the United Arab Emirates.
Asif Ali Zardari has several ailments, including a heart problem."
How come every single leader the West backs is as corrupt as shit?
"US Seeks Free, Fair Pakistan Elections" by Larry Margasak Associated Press | December 30, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration and presidential hopefuls from both parties said Sunday that it's crucial for Pakistan to hold free and fair elections either as scheduled or fairly soon. Pakistan's Election Commission is to announce Monday if the vote will be postponed.
"Bhutto's party picks son, spouse to lead; Bloc voices intent to compete in vote" by Griff Witte, Washington Post | December 31, 2007
"That election, scheduled for Jan. 8, appears likely to be postponed. Tariq Azim Khan, spokesman for the party of President Pervez Musharraf, said that voting may be delayed for as long as four months because of the turmoil after Bhutto's assassination.
The election commission was expected to convene an emergency meeting today to decide whether to postpone the long-awaited vote. Rioters have targeted the commission's offices, and several have been burned to the ground."
So what is happening ON THE GROUND in Pakistan, readers?
"Karachi paralyzed by days of violence; Residents struggle to find food, fuel" by Burt Herman, Associated Press | December 31, 2007
KARACHI - Residents of Pakistan's largest city cautiously emerged from their homes yesterday and struggled to find food and fuel amid the blackened buildings, shattered glass, and burned-out vehicles on the streets of Karachi.
With police and troops patrolling, the city appeared quiet for the first time since Benazir Bhutto's assassination Thursday sparked a wave of rioting. The previous three days of clashes and looting had left at least 40 people dead across Sindh Province, where Karachi is located, provincial Home Minister Akhtar Zemin told the Associated Press.
Hundreds of bank branches were destroyed and 950 vehicles burned. The normally bustling port city remained a virtual ghost town, shocked by Bhutto's death. Nearly all shops were closed and streets normally packed with traffic were empty, save for boys playing cricket.
Mohammed Umar, 60, a retired government official, left his apartment to buy flatbread at one of only two shops open in a main market area. He said his wife normally bakes bread at home, but that they had run out of flour, sugar, and milk.
Umar said the night before he had watched looters cutting locks off shops and questioned why authorities were not taking more aggressive steps to stop the chaos:
"The government is purely responsible for this."
Next door, Mussarad Nasim Albert bought some laundry detergent from a supermarket where the shopkeeper peddled goods from beneath a metal door and through bars usually open during business hours. The 49-year-old nurse said she had been unable to get to work for the past few days.
Ms. Albert lamented that goods were now being sold at nearly double normal prices, and bought just a few necessities like potatoes and onions because of the crisis-spawned inflation:
"There is nothing in the house, I am searching for things."
Makeshift barriers surrounded almost every gas station, including one where 18-year-old Mohammad Shoaib was waiting in hope of filling up his small motorcycle, who had been set to take an entrance exam to earn a bachelor's degree in computer science, but the test was indefinitely postponed because of the violence.
Mr. Shoaib, of those who caused the destruction:
"These are the stupidest people who are doing this. We will have to rebuild it again."
Police with assault rifles were stationed on street corners across Karachi, and military patrols in armored vehicles rode through the rougher parts of the city, such as the notorious Lyari slums that have seen the most unrest.
Hundreds of Bhutto supporters gathered for memorial prayers at a party office, chanting "Benazir is innocent!" before marching into the streets. They were trailed by a police truck with an officer on top wielding a tear gas grenade launcher.
At Bhutto's house in the city, supporter Masi Mehru's tears welled behind her eyeglasses as she clasped her hands on her head and pounded her chest, saying she had not eaten because of grief since the former prime minister was killed at a campaign rally in the northern city of Rawalpindi.
Mehru, who is in her 70s: "I would rather have died instead of her."
She and her 40-year-old daughter, Husan Banu, wanted to pay their respects at the house, but had become stranded there because most transport in the city was shut down.
The military said in a statement that it was giving shelter to more than 5,000 people in the province who were stranded because of vandalized trains, taking some to their destinations via buses after clearing blocked roads."
"Bhutto's party picks son, spouse to lead; Bloc voices intent to compete in vote" by Griff Witte, Washington Post | December 31, 2007
KARACHI - The political announcements yesterday followed widespread rioting after Bhutto's death.
In Sindh Province, rioters had left a wide swath of destruction Saturday, with still-burning fuel tankers and smoldering tires littering the highways. And young men wearing Peoples Party head scarves had set up dozens of impromptu checkpoints along the major roads, looking for targets.
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, retired Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, said 174 banks had been burned and billons of rupees worth of property had been destroyed across the country. The violence drew threats of a stiffer government response.
Cheema: "We are warning people to stay calm and restrain themselves. They will be punished in the toughest way if it does not stop."
The army was out in force in many areas of Sindh on Saturday and appeared to be regaining control there. Elsewhere, however, unrest intensified. In Rawalpindi, riot police and Peoples Party supporters clashed near the spot where Bhutto was killed.
In the eastern city of Lahore, workers slept in their offices because public transportation was shut down and many were unable to get enough gas in their cars to go home. Families brought blankets and pillows to the airport, where they waited for flights that never left. All cafes, movie theaters, and markets remained closed in Lahore."
Did you get all that, reader.
What a GREAT SITUATION for the Pakistani people, huh?
How long until this sort of crap touches American society, shit-chewing 'Murkn?
WAKE the FUCK UP!!!!!!
Oh, and do you think Roger Cohen was on Bhutto's list, readers?
"Although Ms. Bhutto was twice expelled from office on charges of corruption, she kept up her visits to Washington, usually several a year. She would call on administration officials and members of Congress willing to see her as well as reporters and editors at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Soon her American Christmas card list, excluding people in government and Congress, was up to 375 names."
No wonder we get the "democratic martyr" out of the "chairperson of the party for life" in our newspapers.
Cop Tasers Himself
How did it feel, fascista?
"Cop Tasers Himself During Arrest Attempt"
" 
"Cop Tasers Himself During Arrest Attempt"
"
Classic - now if we can just get them to arrest themselves (and Zionists), we'll be well on our way to a Utopian society.
Related: Israel Nukes Itself"
What Got Benazir Bhutto Killed?
Could it be this?
"Bhutto told Frost that Osama Bin Laden is dead. Did THAT get her killed?"
"Text of fax broadcast:
"Bhutto told Frost that Osama Bin Laden is dead. Did THAT get her killed?"
"Text of fax broadcast:
BHUTTO TOLD FROST THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD. DID THAT GET HER KILLED?
NEW YORK, NEW YORK * 30 DECEMBER 2007
Citizen of the USA Stephen M. St. John addresses the international community in Washington and here in New York City, all members of the US Congress as well as other organizations and individuals, public and private, and, in condoling with the people of Pakistan over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and in searching with them for the truth of how and why and by whom she was killed, points to her earthshaking statement during an interview with David Frost two weeks after her triumphant return to Pakistan on 18 October 2007. Bhutto's return to the acclaim of 3 million devotees was marred by an attempt on her life that killed 158 people near her, and two weeks later she appeared on the TV program Frost Over the World and endeavored to satisfy Frost's curiosity as to who would want to kill her by referring to three individuals, one of them "a very key figure in security" who she claimed had "had dealings with Omar Shaikh, the man who murdered Osama Bin Laden"! With typical British sangfroid, Frost showed no reaction to this bombshell statement and steered away from the topic of Bin Laden's death. (See http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/242.html at the 6 minute, 13 second mark.) Bhutto added that she had conveyed to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf the names of the three individuals who she believed were ready, willing and able to stop her by causing internal security to turn a "blind eye" in collusion with unnamed supporters, organizers and financiers. Who are they? Were they unnerved by Bhutto's revelation of Bin Laden's death? After all, Bhutto's announcement of Bin Laden's death dovetails nicely with the widespread belief of experts that his videotaped messages are all fake. This in turn jibes well with Winston Churchill's dictum, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies"; and the truth is, a suppository-sized statue of Churchill stands on George W. Bush's desk in the Oval Office to remind him! More ominously, Bhutto's statement that Osama Bin Laden is dead was followed within weeks by John Negroponte's visit to Pakistan, ostensibly to impress on Musharraf the need to let democracy flower and military dictatorship recede; but where Negroponte goes, there are death squads commencing operations, as in El Salvador and Iraq. Does a tiger change his stripes?
Stephen M. St. John
Post Office Box 449
Rockefeller Center
New York, New York 10185
NEW 9/11 Film Focuses on Zionist Connection
A MUST-WATCH VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"NEW 9/11 Film to FOCUS on ZIONIST connections"
"This is just a very SHORT taste of what it will be like.EXCELLENT POST and INVESTIGATION, blogger!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
"NEW 9/11 Film to FOCUS on ZIONIST connections"
"This is just a very SHORT taste of what it will be like.
there will be LOTS of changes with this and I'm gonna be helping where I can, any others who wanna help out with expertise or ideas contact Khanverse or Prothink @ http://www.prothink.org
PEACE
EXCELLENT POST and INVESTIGATION, blogger!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Obama's Boast
"OBAMA CONTRASTS HIMSELF WITH ROMNEY
"Obama loves his Republicans. He makes an open pitch for GOP voters in his stump speeches, even as he calls them out in his stump speeches, saying he can beat Mitt and Rudy and Huckabee. At a town hall in Knoxville today, he threw in Ron Paul. "They don't poll Ron Paul, but I can beat him too."
Haw-haw-haw!
Oh no you can't, Obama, not in a FAIR ELECTION!!!!!!!!
Just look at the map!
And as the MSM polls can attest, this upcoming election seems anything but fair.
So let's VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBENTS and TEST IT!
Ron Paul Turnout May Shock the Iowa Caucus
".... And that brings me to what I increasingly believe will be the "shocker" in the Iowa caucus. Let me make it clear that my vague description of activities above has nothing to do with the prediction I'm about to make.
As I've written in prior columns, I find it hard to believe that massive numbers of voters returning from their New Year's celebrations -- in a state where it gets dark at 4:30 p.m. and is likely to be very cold -- will be compelled to leave the toasty confines of their homes and abandon watching the Orange Bowl game in order to vote in a caucus.
Under this theory, turnout will be impossible to predict. There are many theories that I've already explored about which candidates, of both major parties, might benefit from this quirky set of circumstances created by the move of the Iowa caucus to Jan. 3. But the one candidate I believe could benefit above all others will be GOP candidate Ron Paul. Iowa political insiders I've talked to agree.
After covering the public appearances of various presidential candidates on the Republican side, and even participating in the seemingly secure atmosphere of a post-debate media "spin room," I have been amazed at the zeal of Ron Paul supporters to appear in huge numbers.
What received little coverage out of last week's CNN-YouTube debate in Florida was that the biggest demonstration outside the hall was a parade of Paul supporters. Inside the spin room, where credentialed journalists and, now, bloggers are allowed to interview candidates and their surrogates, a seemingly unknown but large group of "reporters" surrounded Paul.
At a recent Rudy Giuliani rally, the Paul supporters virtually outnumbered the Giuliani crowd.
All of this tells me that what looks like 6 percent of the vote for Paul in states like Iowa could easily, especially where turnout is low, move toward double digits. From what my friends in Iowa are telling me, Huckabee or some other candidate may emerge the winner, but the big story that night may be that the contrarian Paul could find himself placing ahead of some really big names. Time will tell."
So HELP HIM, readers!
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"Obama loves his Republicans. He makes an open pitch for GOP voters in his stump speeches, even as he calls them out in his stump speeches, saying he can beat Mitt and Rudy and Huckabee. At a town hall in Knoxville today, he threw in Ron Paul. "They don't poll Ron Paul, but I can beat him too."
"They don't poll Ron Paul, but I can beat him too."
Haw-haw-haw!
Oh no you can't, Obama, not in a FAIR ELECTION!!!!!!!!
Just look at the map!
And as the MSM polls can attest, this upcoming election seems anything but fair.
So let's VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBENTS and TEST IT!
Ron Paul Turnout May Shock the Iowa Caucus
".... And that brings me to what I increasingly believe will be the "shocker" in the Iowa caucus. Let me make it clear that my vague description of activities above has nothing to do with the prediction I'm about to make.
As I've written in prior columns, I find it hard to believe that massive numbers of voters returning from their New Year's celebrations -- in a state where it gets dark at 4:30 p.m. and is likely to be very cold -- will be compelled to leave the toasty confines of their homes and abandon watching the Orange Bowl game in order to vote in a caucus.
Under this theory, turnout will be impossible to predict. There are many theories that I've already explored about which candidates, of both major parties, might benefit from this quirky set of circumstances created by the move of the Iowa caucus to Jan. 3. But the one candidate I believe could benefit above all others will be GOP candidate Ron Paul. Iowa political insiders I've talked to agree.
After covering the public appearances of various presidential candidates on the Republican side, and even participating in the seemingly secure atmosphere of a post-debate media "spin room," I have been amazed at the zeal of Ron Paul supporters to appear in huge numbers.
What received little coverage out of last week's CNN-YouTube debate in Florida was that the biggest demonstration outside the hall was a parade of Paul supporters. Inside the spin room, where credentialed journalists and, now, bloggers are allowed to interview candidates and their surrogates, a seemingly unknown but large group of "reporters" surrounded Paul.
At a recent Rudy Giuliani rally, the Paul supporters virtually outnumbered the Giuliani crowd.
All of this tells me that what looks like 6 percent of the vote for Paul in states like Iowa could easily, especially where turnout is low, move toward double digits. From what my friends in Iowa are telling me, Huckabee or some other candidate may emerge the winner, but the big story that night may be that the contrarian Paul could find himself placing ahead of some really big names. Time will tell."
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