Eli wrote:Just think if more freedom and democracy were to spread to places like Egypt and Saudi Arabia for example the Islamic Radicals could run the entire Middle East.
satjeet wrote:And we in the US have a "freely" elected radical Christian regime ... so much for mob rule.
From Afghanistan to Indonesia, tens of thousands of Muslims around the world have launched a series of new protests -- some violent -- over cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed. Provincial authorities in Lagman, Afghanistan, said one protester died in a protest there after clashes broke out between demonstrators and police.
seahorse2 wrote:Keep in mind the American military doesn't like cartoons anymore than their arab counterparts. Remember, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently protested a cartoon run in the Washington Post depicting a wounded soldier and Rummy. The Pentagon said the cartoon made fun of wounded servicemen, but the cartoon was really an attack on a broken military. All those arguments aside, even Americans don't like cartoons that they deem unfavorable.
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2/6/06 Agence Fr.-Presse 16:41:00
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February 6, 2006
Middle East 'a powder keg': Oslo Accords diplomat
OSLO, Feb 6, 2006 (AFP) - The situation in the Middle East is at its most critical stage in decades, a Norwegian diplomat who was instrumental in bringing about the Oslo Peace Accords said on Monday.
"In a lot of respects, the region today can be compared to a powder keg with a lit fuse," said Terje Roed-Larsen, the former United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and a key figure in the now all but defunct 1993 Oslo Peace Accords between Israelis and Palestinians.
"I think the situation is more difficult, more complicated and more dangerous than it has been in a number of decades," he told public radio NRK.
Among the smoldering crises in the area the diplomat listed the ongoing clash between Israel and Palestinians, the dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions and continued tensions between Lebanon and Syria.
"All of this raises questions of fundamental values and opinions that could lead to the situation getting even more out of control than it has in recent days," he said, implicitly referring to massive Muslim protests across the region against Danes, Norwegians and other Europeans over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
Violent reactions to the cartoons, which first appeared in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten and which are considered blasphemous by Muslims, have included the torching of the Danish missions in Damascus and Beirut.
Norway, where the images were first republished, also saw its Damascus embassy set alight over the weekend.
1/27/06 Agence Fr.-Presse 17:41:00
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January 27, 2006
No trace of Oslo accords documents in Norway's archives: researcher
OSLO, Jan 27, 2006 (AFP) - A researcher hoping for insights into the confidential 1993 Israeli-Palestinian Oslo accords said on Friday she failed to find a single shred of paper about the deal in official archives in Norway, which mediated the talks.
The Oslo accords, negotiated secretly in the Scandinavian country, recognized the right of the Palestinian and Israeli peoples to coexist peacefully.
"There isn't a single document in the archives of Norway's ministry of foreign affairs about the talks between Israelis and Palestinians between January and August 1993 in Norway," researcher Hilde Henriksen Waage told AFP, confirming an earlier report in weekly magazine Ny Tid.
"Not a single word," she added.
Henriksen Waage was given access to the official archives to write a government-commissioned study on Norway's role in the talks, which was published in 2004.
"This means that there is absolutely no official trace of one of the most important episodes in the history of Norwegian diplomacy," she said.
The key Norwegian mediators, Jan Egeland, Terje Roed-Larsen and Mona Juul, meanwhile told Norwegian media that they only had "private" documents in their possession.
I agree that nobody likes cartoons when they are the butt of the joke but I don't seem to recall any buildings being burned down or anyone dying over the pentagon's protests.
Tim
Eli wrote:That is not true the US has invaded Iraq so that they can now have free elections so democracy can spread and blossom in the region.
hoplite wrote:And you all are surprised to learn that the practicioners of the "religion of peace" can't handle free speech? Do you know what "Islam" means?
Islam, directly translated means "SUBMISSION".
Hence the Muslim principle of "conversion" (under pain of death) ie; CONVERT or DIE. It's that simple. They live in the 7th century. That's HOW THEY THINK. Wake up liberal smack tards!
"If this military strategy is implemented it would have serious consequences for the allied forces in Afghanistan, especially at a time when they are mounting pressure on Iran," commented an intelligence analyst. "However, the Taliban made tall claims about winter suicide attacks, but barring a few events they failed to inflict major losses on allied forces."
That was before the Taliban secured a base in North Waziristan, though. This time around could see a very different outcome.
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