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Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Vacation Spot? Not...

Al Qaeda Claims to Have Taken 2 U.N. Diplomats, 4 Tourists Hostage
Al Qaeda's North Africa branch claimed Wednesday it is holding hostage a senior U.N. peace envoy, his aide and four tourists kidnapped in the Sahara Desert in recent weeks.

The United Nations special envoy for Niger, Robert Fowler, and his aide Louis Guay, both Canadian diplomats, were kidnapped Dec. 14 in the southern Sahara country.

Four tourists, including two Swiss, a German woman and a British man, were kidnapped by gunmen Jan. 22 near the border in neighboring Mali, their tour operator said.

"We announce to the general public that the mujahideen (holy warriors) reserve the right to deal with the six kidnapped according to Islamic Shariah law," Al Qaeda in North Africa's purported spokesman, Salah Abu Mohammed, told the pan-Arab TV station Al-Jazeera overnight Wednesday.
Tourists? Seriously? What the f-ck is there to "tour" in the middle of the desert on the Algeria/Mali border? I know Europeans have a liberal definition of what constitutes an acceptable "vacation" but you'd think even they might not be intrigued by sand, rock, and camel shit. Here's a pic from Google:


There, you've seen the middle of nowhere and didn't have to risk being kidnapped and beheaded by barbarians.

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Who Knew?

Somalia's President Quits After 4 Years In Power
Somalia's president resigned Monday after a four-year term in which his Western-backed government failed to extend its power throughout a country crippled by infighting and a strengthening Islamic insurgency.

Abdullahi Yusuf's resignation, which comes amid deepening international pressure, could usher in more chaos as Islamic militants scramble for power — even though the government controls only pockets of the capital, Mogadishu, and the seat of parliament in Baidoa.
Wait, wait, wait a minute... Somalia had a President? Goodness! If he hadn't resigned we might have never known.

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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Too Simple Or Just Crazy Enough To Work?

Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan Refused Entry To Zimbabwe
Carter and two other members of The Elders group — former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and rights advocate Graca Machel, who is married to Nelson Mandela — had planned to assess the country's humanitarian needs as Zimbabweans are stalked by disease and hunger while political crisis occupies its politicians.

But they were told Friday night by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, who is mediating the political crisis, that efforts to secure travel visas for the group had failed, Carter told reporters at a news conference in Johannesburg.

"We are very disappointed that the government of Zimbabwe would not permit us to come in, would not cooperate," Carter said.

It was the first time the 2002 Nobel Peace laureate has been denied permission to carry out a mission in any country, he said.
Do you think we could get away with refusing entry to Jimmy the Dhimmi when he tries to come home? Nah, it couldn't be that easy...

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Friday, June 27, 2008

Vote Or Die... No, Really! VOTE OR DIE!

Voters Led To Polls In Zimbabwe's One-Man Election
Paramilitary police and bands of ruling party militants patrolled Zimbabwe's capital and marshals led voters to polling stations Friday for an internationally discredited presidential runoff held in an atmosphere of intimidation. [...]

Mugabe, the country's ruler since independence in 1980, was expected to use violence and intimidation to get people to vote for him in the hope that a massive turnout could demonstrate he still has support and to make his inevitable victory appear credible. [...]

About 20 paramilitary police in riot gear were stationed in a central Harare park then began patrolling the city in a truck. Militant Mugabe supporters roamed the streets, singing revolutionary songs, heckling people and asking why they were not voting.

"I've got no option but to go and vote so that I can be safe," explained a young woman selling tomatoes.
So you see Mr. Combs, why some of us think you're slogan Vote or Die is stupid?

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Is South Africa "Zimbabwe" Bound?

The 'Bring Me My Machine Gun' Campaign

South Africa, meet your next president.

Jacob Zuma, the 65-year-old "100 Percent Zulu Boy" and new leader of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC), has garnered the popular support of communists and young people, some of whom publicly display anti-gay and anti-feminist views. [...]

Despite Zuma's removal as deputy president of South Africa after fraud charges two years ago, and subsequent corruption and rape charges, the ANC announced this week that the party will support his candidacy for the national presidency.

During his rape trial, Zuma took a "short skirt" excuse, claiming it was his duty as a Zulu warrior to have sex with a woman if she wore a short kanga (an African wrap), and that he could not leave her "unfulfilled."

Zuma told the court that he knew the woman was "clearly aroused" by the fact that her kanga was "quite short" — meaning knee-length.

"In the Zulu culture, you cannot just leave a woman if she is ready," he explained.

Good grief. Move over Mugabe, you've got competition for "The Most Awful Leader" in southern Africa award. Ann Coulter was right: "...the natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish aberration is America and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world."

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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Birds of a feather...

Zimbabwe and China are cozy bedfellows. Well, what do you expect? Dictatorships are as dictatorships do.

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Friday, November 12, 2004

Hello Neighbor...

Can you say "failed society"? How about "hypocrisy"?

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