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Footage of Iraqis celebrating Saddam's execution:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e98b139a4

Al-Sadr and Mullahs in Iran will celebrate this too.

"Television footage showed most of the building reduced to rubble with at least one police vehicle crushed and one lying upside down."

Brits blowing up a police station and police cars? Who will pay for the reconstruction?

This test proves, that UN and economic sanctions are unable to stop rogue countries from building Nukes. We should learn from this case and act different regarding Iran.

Biggest threat for the Western World is not Korea owning nuclear weapons, but their possession of blueprints building them, which they can secretly sell to other rogue countries or even to terrorists.

I am German/Italian and wonder about the american shopping habits. An Example: Milk, i buy every second day 1L of fresh milk, i have to go downstairs an walk some Meters to the shop selling it. In America you have only such incredible huge bottles of milk, i would never buy them because of my rather small fridge and we couldn't drink so much milk before it deters. I have enough space for a bigger fridge in my house, but why should i buy it, a bigger fridge means more energy consumption and Energy is not cheap here and since the packages of food are smaller compared to the US i don't need it.

ALDI Markets are in almost every german town. In my City which has 35000 habitans there are four ALDI-Markets + many other Discounters like Lidl, Penny Market etc.

ALDI offers a very good quality, but has lets say only the essential. They buy from the renomed food-industry great quantites of their best products (and pay always in cash) and relabel them with ALDI-Brands. You can buy food from a Nestle-Brand for 1€ or the very same product with an Aldi-Label for 75 Cent. Some Germans with Diesel-Cars even buy the olive-oil from ALDI when they have special offers and put it in the tank of their cars, also very funny is, you often see the newest and biggest Mercedes- or BMW Cars parking at ALDI-Markets.

There is a Wal-Mart near my Hometown, but i have to take the car and with gas-prices around 1,50€/l it would be insane, they offer good prices but i was never really satisfied with the Quality, you see many Turks, Russians and other imigrated families buying there.

The two Aldi-Brothers are among the richest people in Germany btw.

Good news. One more Islamikaze down.

R.I.P. Bruno

He was not Welcome in Germany.

"Der Bär war nicht zu Gast bei Freunden."

Russia, Venezuela, Norway, Saudi-Arabia and Iran will benefit from this.

Funny old story, but...

...victim of this fraud was a 62yr old immigrant from Iran (The name Bernd Friedhelm was just a newspaper hoax). The 16yr old delinquent showed up next day together with his mom and gave the money back.

Pics: http://www.scherzbanknote.de/

"Keine Todesstrafe", this is german an means No Death Penalty.
"Keine Todesstraffe" means "No Deathtight" ;-)

Here in Germany there is much news coverage about this Tookie-Case, the lefties use this opportunity to bash on America again while they are silent when Iran or China execute and torture every day innocents.

Ok, the final*) results are here:

225 Seats CDU/CSU - Merkel
222 Seats SPD - Schröder
61 Seats FDP - Liberal Party
54 Seats Linke - Communist Party
51 Seats Die Grünen - Green Party

*) One Seat is missing from Dresdnen, the election is in two weeks there.

This is a national tradegy for Germany, a communist party with around 8% is a great shock for us and those that wanted a strong german nation to support U.S. in the war against terrorism.

I believe this party was voted from "german" Muslims, Stalinists from the East, Punks, Nazis and Slackers.

Expect the final results in around 6 hours, but the number of 292 will not change much. SPD and CDU both lost votes, the winners are the liberals (FDP) and the commies.

This will end in a great coalition between CDU (Christian Demokratic) and SPD (Socialists).

This is a big loss for Angela Merkel, her partner from the CSU said they wanted 45%.

I believe Angela Merkel will resign now as consequence.

The solution is so simple: Use Nukes!

I wonder why Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi or Qazi Hussein Ahmed both evil terrorist supporters who obviouskly hate civilized western countries are still alive? You Americans should bomb them to hell!

Thanks to the war in Iraq, much of the world sees the British government as resolute and tough and the French one as appeasing and weak. But in another war, the one against terrorism and radical Islam, the reverse is true: France is the most stalwart nation in the West, even more so than America, while Britain is the most hapless.

British-based terrorists have carried out operations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kenya, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, Morocco, Russia, Spain, and America. Many governments - Jordanian, Egyptian, Moroccan, Spanish, French, and American - have protested London's refusal to shut down its Islamist terrorist infrastructure or extradite wanted operatives. In frustration, Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak publicly denounced Britain for "protecting killers." One American security group has called for Britain to be listed as a terrorism-sponsoring state.

Counterterrorism specialists disdain the British. Roger Cressey calls London "easily the most important jihadist hub in Western Europe." Steven Simon dismisses the British capital as "the Star Wars bar scene" of Islamic radicals. More brutally, an intelligence official said of last week's attacks: "The terrorists have come home. It is payback time for … an irresponsible policy."

While London hosts terrorists, Paris hosts a top-secret counterterrorism center, code-named Alliance Base, the existence of which was recently reported by the Washington Post. At Alliance Base, six major Western governments have since 2002 shared intelligence and run counterterrorism operations - the latter makes the operation unique.

More broadly, President Chirac instructed French intelligence agencies just days after September 11, 2001, to share terrorism data with their American counterparts "as if they were your own service." The cooperation is working: A former acting CIA director, John E. McLaughlin, called the bilateral intelligence tie "one of the best in the world." The British may have a "special relationship" with Washington on Iraq, but the French have one with it in the war on terror.

France accords terrorist suspects fewer rights than any other Western state, permitting interrogation without a lawyer, lengthy pre-trial incarcerations, and evidence acquired under dubious circumstances. Were he a terrorism suspect, the author of Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe, Evan Kohlmann, says he "would least like to be held under" the French system.

The myriad French-British differences in treatment of radical Islam can be summarized by the example of what Muslim girls may wear to state-funded schools.

Denbigh High School in Luton, 30 miles northwest of London, has a student population that is about 80% Muslim. Years ago, it accommodated the sartorial needs of their faith and heritage, including a female student uniform made up of the Pakistani shalwar kameez trousers, a jerkin top, and hijab head covering. But when a teenager of Bangladeshi origins, Shabina Begum, insisted in 2004 on wearing a jilbab, which covers the entire body except for the face and hands, Denbigh administrators said no.

The dispute ended up in litigation and the Court of Appeal ultimately decided in Ms. Begum's favor. As a result, by law British schools must now accept the jilbab. Not only that, but Prime Minister Blair's wife, Cherie Booth, was Ms. Begum's lawyer at the appellate level. Ms. Booth called the ruling "a victory for all Muslims who wish to preserve their identity and values despite prejudice and bigotry."

By contrast, also in 2004, the French government outlawed the hijab, the Muslim headscarf, from public educational institutions, disregarding ferocious opposition both within France and among Islamists worldwide. In Tehran, protesters shouted "Death to France!" and "Death to Chirac the Zionist!" The Palestinian Authority mufti, Ikrima Sa'id Sabri, declared, "French laws banning the hijab constitute a war against Islam as a religion." The Saudi grand mufti, Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, called them a human rights infringement. When the "Islamic Army in Iraq" kidnapped two French journalists, it threatened their execution unless the hijab ban was revoked. Paris stood firm.

What lies behind these contrary responses? The British have seemingly lost interest in their heritage while the French hold on to theirs: As the British ban fox hunting, the French ban hijabs. The former embrace multiculturalism, the latter retain a pride in their historic culture. This contrast in matters of identity makes Britain the Western country most vulnerable to the ravages of radical Islam whereas France, for all its political failings, has held onto a sense of self that may yet see it through.

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2764