Hi kids, it's me alive another day, imagine that. sigh. who knows anymore.
L.O.B's post #104 "Fourth, tyrants will use a "crisis" to grab total power. After the massacre of 9/11, President Bush pushed through the Patriot Act" right on with that one dear! Perhaps we somex's can be on the same page.
have done my homework along the above mentioned lines. YEPPERS, indeed.
keep waiting to be picked up. however, have many (I HOPE) praying for me and SOME in IMPT. places perhaps, watching over me. MOST OF ALL (L.O.B. if u do not want to hear this do NOT read it my friend) My Friend, Brother, Lord Jesus Christ who gave me a waking vision when a child, showed me angels all around. (TIP of the ICEberg here folks in my "strange" life)
have told this to VERY few in the past, but the Time IS now for me to Come Out of the Closet, so to speak.
many visions, many dreams, etc...
just the way IT IS!
LOB, no my dear man, I am NOT taking DRUGS, no my dear man this is NOT a LSD flashback either.
stranger things have happened. many keep quiet for reasons, perhaps, as my own for many many years.
Pres. Bush has gotten 5 letters from me, recently the last 2, if memory serves me correctly were very open. NOTTA from him.
WE need a miracle in this worlds mess to wake people up, before things, as predicted, get real bad. (Pres. Bush, AGAIN I am NOT a terrorist, I AM not going to HURT anyone, I just have compassion and LOVE for this world and my fellow human beings)!
Perhaps the predictions are being accelerated by humans. For their own Power Hungry Purpose. I could be wrong, I am only human.
GOD SAYS ENOUGH, I AM SEPERATING THE TRUE BELIEVERS FROM THE FALSE, I AM POURING OUT MY SPIRIT FOR A SHORT TIME.
All Glory Power and Praise goes to GOD alone. Simple.
My Muslim friends if you wish to pray to Allah, please do, just pray Period and Pray Hard.
WE ALL NEED A MIRACLE.
One other thing I MUST mention is that we do NOT always know the reasons behind certain happenings and personal behavior unless we have "walked in their shoes".
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Faith, Hope and Love, the Greatest of these is LOVE!!!
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
An article on internet censorship in Iraq. Perhaps Akrawi is the leader of the group.
27 May 2007 11:41:54 GMT More BAGHDAD, 27 May 2007 (IRIN) - Islamic extremists who believe that the Internet can spread immoral and un-Islamic behaviour say that they will sabotage plans by the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to link the country's science centres electronically and offer free Internet access to students.
"On the Internet, the youth can find different kinds of information, many of which is unhealthy. Couples strike up friendships through the Internet and spread vice," said Abu Muhammad, who said he is a spokesman for the Islamic Army, an armed insurgent group in Iraq.
"We don't agree that such services should be offered and will do whatever is needed to prevent this system from working properly in Iraq. Pornographic sites are easily accessible and the youth adopt bad habits which cannot be accepted in an Islamic country," Abu Muhammad added. Nearly 200 Internet centres are to be set up in universities across the country with the aim of helping students do their research work.
"The use of the Internet was banned under [former President] Saddam Hussein's regime. The ban led the country to lag behind in information technology. The current proposal is to improve the culture of our students and help them to acquire more knowledge about what is happening in the rest of the world," said Hisham Abdul-Azim, a senior official in the education ministry and one of the project designers.
"The threats received from Islamic extremists are unacceptable and we should be strong enough to prevent our country from being backward just because some groups believe that it [the use of the Internet] might hurt their ideology," Abdul-Azim added. IRIN asked those who claim to be members of the Islamic Army why they would prevent the use of the Internet in Iraq when their own organisation has a website and they admit to using the Internet themselves.
"Our [Internet] work is only to find methods and information with which we can fight the occupying troops but the youth are using it to look for girlfriends and pornography. Iraq should be kept far away from such terribly disturbing behaviour," Abu Muhammad said. With people forced to stay at home as a result of the increase in violence in Iraq, the Internet has been the only source of escape and entertainment available for thousands of families.
"The number of Internet subscribers keeps increasing and the sale of computers has become brisk business in Iraq today. We will have to expand our signals because, unlike before, even small towns now require Internet services," Muhammad Nouri, Urulink Internet service administrator, told IRIN. Urulink is Iraq's only Internet provider and is handled by the government.
"Internet subscriptions have nearly tripled when compared to 2004 numbers. For local people, the Internet is the best thing that has happened to them as it gives them a way of forgetting the daily violence and also enables them to communicate with their relatives and friends who have fled the country," Abdel-Azim said.
However, with the boom in Internet usage in Iraq has come a growing opposition to it by Islamic extremists. Many Internet cafes have been targeted countrywide, especially in areas where extremists are prevalent.
"Many districts were forced to close their Internet centres, which makes it now more important for our project to run as students will have access to the Internet in a safer and calmer environment, in their own college," Abdel-Azim added.
Two liers and cowards meeting to work out how best the screw Iraq.
U.S. tells Iran to stop backing Iraq militias BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Washington's top official in Iraq said he told an Iranian delegation that Tehran should stop supporting militias in Iraq but described rare talks between the two foes on Monday as positive. United States Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said the talks, the first high-profile discussions between the two countries in almost three decades, ended without setting a date for another meeting. "The talks proceeded positively. What we need to see is Iranian action on the ground," Crocker told reporters. There was no immediate comment from the Iranian team after the talks.
"I laid out before the Iranians a number of our direct, specific concerns about their behaviour in Iraq, their support for militias that are fighting both the Iraqi security forces and coalition forces," Crocker said.
"The fact (is) that a lot of the explosives and ammunitions that are used by these groups are coming in from Iran ... Such activities ... need to cease and ... we would be looking for results," he added.
Crocker said the Iranian delegation, led by Iraq Ambassador Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, did not respond directly to the charges other than to express their support for the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. As if to underscore the sole topic of the meeting -- sectarian violence in Iraq -- a car bomb exploded in the busy commercial area of Sinak in central Baghdad, killing 19 people and wounding 46 others shortly after the talks broke up.
HAND SHAKE Washington has long accused Tehran of fomenting violence in Iraq by supporting Shi'ite militias. The U.S. military has put on display what it says are Iranian-made rockets, mortars and sophisticated roadside bombs seized in Iraq. Iran denies the charge and has called on U.S. forces to leave Iraq, saying their presence is fuelling sectarian violence between majority Shi'ites and Sunni Arabs who were dominant under Saddam. Maliki said before the start of the meeting in the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad that Iraq would not be a launchpad for any attacks on neighbouring states, an apparent reference to Iranian fears of a U.S. attack.
Crocker and Kazemi-Qomi met at Maliki's office, shaking hands before sitting across the table from each other. While mid-ranking officials from Iran and the United States have met occasionally in the past, Monday's talks are the most widely publicised bilateral talks since the start of the 1980s. Washington severed formal diplomatic relations with Iran in 1980. U.S. and Iranian officials did not expect any breakthroughs from the talks, which came as U.S. warships hold war games in the Gulf and after Tehran said it had uncovered spy networks on its territory run by the United States and its allies. The talks did not touch on Tehran's continued stand-off with the West over its nuclear programme. Iran says its atomic work is for the peaceful generation of electricity but the United States says it is being used to develop a nuclear bomb. Reuters
Two liers and cowards meeting to work out how best the screw Iraq.
You said it. A report from yesterday concerning the bombing of the Sinak near the Gailani mosque:
IRAQ CAR BOMB KILLS AT LEAST 20
A car bomb in the Iraqi capital Baghdad near one of the city's most revered Sunni mosques killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more, police said.
The bomb went off at 1400 (1000 GMT) in the Sinak commercial district on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. At least two traffic policemen were among the injured and several civilian cars were damaged, the Associated Press quoted police as saying.
The bomb went off near the Sunni Abdul Qadir Gilani mosque. The imam from the mosque appeared on local TV saying there was serious damage, including to the mosque's minaret.
What did this guy do to desreve being shot other he was one of our most gifted academics? They have prevented future generations from learning their craft from one of Iraqs masters.
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Leading Muslim calligrapher shot One of the Muslim world's leading calligraphers has been shot dead by gunmen in Baghdad. Khalil al-Zahawi was the most famous practitioner in Iraq of the art of writing classical Arabic script.
He was outside his house in the New Baghdad district of the city on Saturday when he was ambushed by gunmen and killed. The art of writing classical Arabic script is highly regarded in Iraq and the rest of the Muslim world.
Try googling the latest report, you might get lucky.
This happened earlier this morning:
Many killed in Iraq suicide bomb At least 20 people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a police recruitment centre in the Iraqi city of Falluja, police say. Dozens more people were wounded in the attack, which occurred at about 1100 (0700 GMT).Police said the bomber was wearing an explosives vest and had passed through several checkpoints when the device was detonated among a crowd of police recruits, the Associated Press news agency said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6707643.stm
This is really too cowardly and scummy. The attack took place in Diyala and I am wondering if it has anything to do with the new poppy farms that are close to the area?
Iraq police chief's children held Gunmen in Iraq have attacked the house of a senior police officer, killing his wife and 13 other people and taking away three of his children. The attack took place late on Thursday on the house of Col Ali al-Jurani, the head of emergency police in the town of Kanaan, in Diyala province. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6732999.stm
This is really too cowardly and scummy. The attack took place in Diyala and I am wondering if it has anything to do with the new poppy farms that are close to the area?
Could be. Didn't think of that but it does seem likely now the farming culture in the area has switched from rice to heroin. I'm a little skeptical as to the validity of these reports concerning the poppy fields so would like to see more proof of this. What ever the case this is about as cowardly as you can get.
I wondered what had happened to this story after reading about the kidnapping over a year ago. What was their crime? representing their country? Thouleh Shino Thenibhum Khatiya?
Bodies of lost Iraq taekwondo squad found
THE decomposed bodies of at least 13 martial arts experts have been found more than a year after they were kidnapped in an al-Qaeda stronghold west of Baghdad, local officials and family members said. The bodies were found on Thursday in a ditch in the desert about 100km west of Ramadi in Anbar province, one of Iraq's most violent areas and where al-Qaeda and Sunni Arab insurgents are battling US and Iraqi forces.
All appeared to have been shot, hospital officials said. Weeping relatives gathered at Imam Ali Hospital in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr city to identify the bodies of the taekwondo experts. Reuters television footage showed a jumble of skulls, some with tufts of black hair, and other bones in a large white bag.
Family members sifted through a collection of dirty t-shirts, pants and sandals in a hospital hallway. “These young players lifted the name of Iraq ... these innocents were killed without any reason and they are martyrs,” 60-year-old Juad Muhawi, the father of one of the victims, said. The 15 were kidnapped in May 2006 as they were travelling by bus through the Anbar desert on their way to Jordan to attend a training course. Qasim al-Mudalal, the director of Imam Ali Hospital, told Reuters that partial remains which may be those of the remaining two squad members were also recovered.
The Iraqi Government had tried to secure their release but no word had been heard of them until Thursday's grisly find.
Black armbands “They were killed about the same time they were taken. They were killed and left in the desert,” Hameed al-Hai'es, head of a Sunni Arab group that has been fighting al-Qaeda in Anbar, said. He said family members had been able to identify them by the clothes they were wearing. An identity card was also found on one body belonging to 26-year-old squad member Haidar Jabbar.
Hundreds gathered in Sadr City today for a funeral procession for the athletes. Mourners held aloft their wooden coffins, which were draped in Iraqi flags and flowers, and large photographs of the dead. They will be buried in the holy Shiite city of Najaf. Bashar Mustafa, head of Iraq's Olympic Commitee, declared three days of mourning and ordered Iraq's national soccer team to wear black armbands before its match against Iran in Amman later today.
Hai'es said members of the Anbar Salvation Council, a group of local Sunnis who have been fighting al-Qaeda in the province, found the bodies after an al-Qaeda captive told them where the taekwondo team members had been killed. Thousands of Iraqis have been kidnapped for ransom or political gain during Iraq's sectarian conflict between majority Shiites and Sunni Arabs. Athletes are frequently targeted, often by Islamist militants who regard sport as contrary to Islamic values. In July 2006, then Iraqi Olympic Committee chief Ahmed al-Hadjiya and about 30 other sports officials were kidnapped from a Baghdad hall.
Dude, I guess its Haram to play sports in Iraq. You posted a video on the youtube thread some time ago where Sadr chastised anyone playing football and claimed that it was sent to Iraqis by the West and Israel. The team was buried in Sadr City so we cant blame the dumb ass for this one. Or can we???
Hi LOB. Sports are one of the unifying factors for Iraqis. Whenever our football team wins a game all the Iraqi populace celebrates the victory (by firing their Kalashnikov's). The people responsible for these cowardly murders don't want any sign of unity. Divide and conquer is their strategy.
Thank you Sadiq for your most excellent contribution. Don't you see a pattern developing here? Each time you post a comment practically every member jumps down your throat. In England they say "your havin a laugh incha".
Thank you Sadiq for your most excellent contribution. Don't you see a pattern developing here? Each time you post a comment practically every member jumps down your throat. In England they say "your havin a laugh incha".
Dudes. More bombs, more dead, to what end? Further into the report in details the discovery of 20 headless corpses.
Baghdad blast kills at least 20
A car bomb has killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police said.
The bomb was left in a parked car at a bus terminal in the mainly Shia district of Bayaa in south-west Baghdad, officials said. The explosion tore through crowds of commuters waiting for buses during the morning rush hour. Separately, 20 headless bodies without identification were found on the banks of a stream near the Tigris river.
The bodies - found in Nahrawan, south-east of Baghdad - appear to be those of civilians, police told the BBC. The bombing in Baghdad comes as US and Iraqi forces continue a big security drive in and around the capital city. Police said about 40 vehicles, including buses, had been set alight in the explosion, which occurred at 0815 (0415 GMT).
Television pictures from the scene showed blackened and twisted wreckage across a wide area. Police and medical officials said between 20 and 25 people had been killed and 35-40 injured. Meanwhile, three British soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their patrol in Basra, in southern Iraq. A fourth soldier was wounded. 'Arrowhead Ripper' The US has poured thousands of extra troops into Baghdad and the surrounding area in an effort to curb bombings and sectarian killings.About 10,000 US and Iraqi troops launched operation "Arrowhead Ripper" last week, trying to flush what the US called al-Qaeda militants out of Diyala province north-east of Baghdad.
There has been heavy fighting in the city of Baquba, where Brig Gen Mick Bednarek of the US 25th infantry division said at least 60 suspected al-Qaeda militants had been killed. But US commanders have warned that Iraqi forces can not yet be relied on to hold territory captured from insurgents.
Earlier this week, the White House predicted a "difficult" summer ahead in Iraq as militants "do their very best to try to create very spectacular acts of terror". 'Wrongful attack' Separately, the US military said it was investigating an incident in a village north of Baghdad last week where an American helicopter attack killed 11 men and wounded eight others after wrongly identifying them as al-Qaeda militants. Survivors and residents of the village, Khalis, have told the BBC that all those killed and injured were guards, recognised by local authorities.
The US military told the BBC that it considers the armed men to have been a militia conducting an offensive operation near Iraqi police. But they no longer described them as al-Qaeda. The survivors of the attack said they were helping the police check a house believed to be used by insurgents. Neither US nor Iraqi forces had been told of a local watch programme in the area, the BBC's Andrew North in Baghdad says.
Will someone please explain what the hell is goin on?
US Shielding Culture Minister From Arrest? South American Contractors Reportedly Barred Iraqi Police From al-Rashid Hotel As'ad Kamal al-Hashemi, the culture minister being charged with acts of terrorism for a 2005 attack on Iraqi MP Mithal al-Alusi which killed his two sons, has been in hiding since Iraqi security forces raided his house in attempt to arrest him on Monday night. Now Mithal al-Alusi is charging the US embassy with shielding Hashemi from arrest. As Eli Lake reports for the NY Sun:
Mr. Alusi said the wanted man, As'ad Kamal al-Hashemi, had fled to al-Rashid Hotel inside the American-protected international zone in the center of Baghdad. Iraqi national police on Tuesday went to this location, only to be told by the South American mercenaries guarding the al-Rashid compound that they could not enter the grounds of the hotel where Mr. Hashemi was staying. Mr. Alusi then called the office of the American ambassador in Iraq, Ryan Crocker, to ask the Americans to order the guards to allow the national police to enter the premises. He was, in so many words, refused.
"I called Ambassador Ryan Crocker's office today and yesterday and they did not give any kind of answer. They are playing with us. They say this is an Iraqi issue, we are not going to be involved. And normally this is a very good attitude, but not when it stops us from arresting terrorists," Mr. Alusi said.
According to Lake, an American officer close to the situation reported that US troops had been ordered by Petraeus to accompany Iraqi forces serving the arrest warrant on Hashemi Monday, but the Pentagon ordered them to turn back en route. Lakes writes, "On the way to his home, the GIs were ordered to turn around after the Pentagon decided no Americans should be involved in the arrest. 'The order was overturned in Washington,' the officer said."
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