“A suicide bomber targeted a vehicle carrying Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in Kabul on Thursday morning. The ensuing blast killed five and wounded 12 others, the defense ministry said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.”
Kiwi insults Buddhism in Burma, charged with blasphemy. NZ Embassy office unsacked, Charge d’Affaires safe.
…the ad showed a psychedelic mock-up of the Buddha wearing DJ headphones to trail a cheap drinks night this Sunday.
A small group of locals protested outside the bar on Wednesday night, another police source said, requesting anonymity.
Al nusra – suicide attack in Syria –
sequence from 3:07 to 3:58 in the video
UN Spokesman: Using UN equipment by Jabhat al-Nusra to carry out terrorist acts unacceptable
New York, SANA – Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Stephane Dujarric expressed the UN’s concerns over the use of UN equipment by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization to carry out terrorist acts, describing it as “clearly unacceptable.”
Answering a question about vehicles captured by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists and the use of one of them to carry out a terrorist operation inside the Syrian territories, the Lebanese al-Akhbar newspaper quoted Dujarric as saying that any misuse of UN equipment is clearly unacceptable whether to carry out terrorist acts or for any other purposes.
He added that the UN demands that Jabhat al-Nusra return the stolen vehicles and weapons, adding that this matter causes concern for the organization which is still working to resolve it.
==================================================== Al Qaeda Uses U.N. Vehicle as a Car Bomb in Syria
Nusra group sets off twin explosions in a Syrian army barracks using armored trucks belonging to U.N. peacekeeping forces
A video released on an official Nusra Front Twitter account appears to show that the group converted an armored U.N. peacekeeping vehicle in the province of Dar’aa into an improvised car bomb rigged with explosives.
The battle for Egypt isn’t over and Obama won’t help the Egyptian people remain free.
It’s a really big problem. Terrible numbers of people may perish.
I know you are trying to be optimistic but I think the word should be will, Terrible numbers of people will perish. Obama has cut the US military to the point where the Europeans are being forced to start building up theirs, granted their efforts seem to be too little too late but better late then never.
Not that it matters, but I like Egyptians. Islam is the problem.
Agreed, it and atheism are the only religions that try to force you to convert.
In the late 1920s or early 1930s secular humanism applied for and was granted religious status by the IRS.
Part 1 of 3 on Qatar’s performance in the fight against terror finance. ^v^
The fact is that if Mohammad were to come back today, he would point to ISIS as the modern world’s truest followers of his religion. Justin Trudeau and Ben Affleck might not know that, but the Muslims of the world sure as hell do. In a conflict between ISIS and the Egyptian Army, only ISIS can point to the Quran and say that they are simply following their beloved religion, while the Egyptian Army is clearly in violation of a half-a-dozen of Allah’s proclamations. The Egyptians could quite definitely lose, especially if Obama bin Husseini lion of the desert keeps throwing the game, like he’s doing now…
At least we all know for sure that the Egyptian People do not want to be ruled by a theocratic dictatorship. Let’s hope they kick ISIS’s ass…
Personally, I’d like to see some of those 19th century, ten-man-gallows set up, with a dawn-to-dusk procession of evil monkeys being euthanized ten-at-a-time. Yes!!!
Me too. A branch of my family lived there almost forever. The roots are deep; some ties still bind.
Unfortunately Islam warps the mind. Most Egyptians have peasant backgrounds, and even after several generations in the city they’re narrowly conservative. Superstitious beyond sanity. The alley or side-street tends to replicate the village. Education’s improved, but not enough.
They folded to each successive foreign invasion over millennia, yet remain uniquely Egyptian and proud of it. Most were serfs until Nasser took over. They’re easily led by their perceived “betters” – the “best” in a village invariably was the imam.
Take a good hard look at Europe and the peasant comment, a lot of the European attitude making them so reverent to the government can be traced back to the days of monarchy.
Low Oil Prices Make Time Ripe to Pressure a Panicked Iran
Not with Obama in charge, he is upset because the price of oil is falling, him and a lot of leftist politicians. The falling price means that the free market will set the price and not the politicians which means they lose power and the people gain power.
Suicide bombing kills 5 Afghan soldiers (CNN, Dec 11, 2014)
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/11/world/asia/afghanistan-violence/index.html
“A suicide bomber targeted a vehicle carrying Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in Kabul on Thursday morning. The ensuing blast killed five and wounded 12 others, the defense ministry said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.”
Kiwi insults Buddhism in Burma, charged with blasphemy. NZ Embassy office unsacked, Charge d’Affaires safe.
NZ man held over Buddha bar promo
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/449016/nz-man-held-over-buddha-bar-promo
…the ad showed a psychedelic mock-up of the Buddha wearing DJ headphones to trail a cheap drinks night this Sunday.
A small group of locals protested outside the bar on Wednesday night, another police source said, requesting anonymity.
Al nusra – suicide attack in Syria –
sequence from 3:07 to 3:58 in the video
UN Spokesman: Using UN equipment by Jabhat al-Nusra to carry out terrorist acts unacceptable
New York, SANA – Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Stephane Dujarric expressed the UN’s concerns over the use of UN equipment by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization to carry out terrorist acts, describing it as “clearly unacceptable.”
Answering a question about vehicles captured by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists and the use of one of them to carry out a terrorist operation inside the Syrian territories, the Lebanese al-Akhbar newspaper quoted Dujarric as saying that any misuse of UN equipment is clearly unacceptable whether to carry out terrorist acts or for any other purposes.
He added that the UN demands that Jabhat al-Nusra return the stolen vehicles and weapons, adding that this matter causes concern for the organization which is still working to resolve it.
http://www.sana.sy/en/?p=21243
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Al Qaeda Uses U.N. Vehicle as a Car Bomb in Syria
Nusra group sets off twin explosions in a Syrian army barracks using armored trucks belonging to U.N. peacekeeping forces
A video released on an official Nusra Front Twitter account appears to show that the group converted an armored U.N. peacekeeping vehicle in the province of Dar’aa into an improvised car bomb rigged with explosives.
http://www.vocativ.com/world/syria-world/video-al-qaida-converting-un-vehicles-car-bomb/
ISIS Enters Egypt
How Washington Must Respond
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142423/khalil-al-anani/isis-enters-egypt
The battle for Egypt isn’t over and Obama won’t help the Egyptian people remain free.
It’s a really big problem. Terrible numbers of people may perish.
I know you are trying to be optimistic but I think the word should be will, Terrible numbers of people will perish. Obama has cut the US military to the point where the Europeans are being forced to start building up theirs, granted their efforts seem to be too little too late but better late then never.
Not that it matters, but I like Egyptians. Islam is the problem.
Agreed, it and atheism are the only religions that try to force you to convert.
In the late 1920s or early 1930s secular humanism applied for and was granted religious status by the IRS.
Part 1 of 3 on Qatar’s performance in the fight against terror finance. ^v^
Qatar and Terror Finance
http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/qatar-and-terror-finance-part-1
Turkey “Improves” Education
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4947/turkey-improves-education
Will Sweden Soon Reverse Recognition of Palestine as a State?
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4938/sweden-recognition-palestine
Don’t think so.
You are probably right.
The fact is that if Mohammad were to come back today, he would point to ISIS as the modern world’s truest followers of his religion. Justin Trudeau and Ben Affleck might not know that, but the Muslims of the world sure as hell do. In a conflict between ISIS and the Egyptian Army, only ISIS can point to the Quran and say that they are simply following their beloved religion, while the Egyptian Army is clearly in violation of a half-a-dozen of Allah’s proclamations. The Egyptians could quite definitely lose, especially if Obama bin Husseini lion of the desert keeps throwing the game, like he’s doing now…
At least we all know for sure that the Egyptian People do not want to be ruled by a theocratic dictatorship. Let’s hope they kick ISIS’s ass…
Personally, I’d like to see some of those 19th century, ten-man-gallows set up, with a dawn-to-dusk procession of evil monkeys being euthanized ten-at-a-time. Yes!!!
Me too. A branch of my family lived there almost forever. The roots are deep; some ties still bind.
Unfortunately Islam warps the mind. Most Egyptians have peasant backgrounds, and even after several generations in the city they’re narrowly conservative. Superstitious beyond sanity. The alley or side-street tends to replicate the village. Education’s improved, but not enough.
They folded to each successive foreign invasion over millennia, yet remain uniquely Egyptian and proud of it. Most were serfs until Nasser took over. They’re easily led by their perceived “betters” – the “best” in a village invariably was the imam.
Take a good hard look at Europe and the peasant comment, a lot of the European attitude making them so reverent to the government can be traced back to the days of monarchy.
Low Oil Prices Make Time Ripe to Pressure a Panicked Iran
http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/low-oil-prices-make-time-ripe-pressure-panicked-iran
Golden hour. Grab it.
Not with Obama in charge, he is upset because the price of oil is falling, him and a lot of leftist politicians. The falling price means that the free market will set the price and not the politicians which means they lose power and the people gain power.
There’s a good picture here:
Are Declining Oil Prices Iran’s Achilles Heel?
http://blog.camera.org/archives/2014/12/states_threatened_by_iran_act.html