Girl, 8, granted divorce - report
News.com.au
April 30, 2009 07:40pm
AN eight-year-old Saudi girl who was sold into marriage by her father has been given a divorce after an international outcry over the case, Saudi media reports.
The marriage of the girl to a man reportedly in his 50s was annulled on Wednesday in out-of-court settlement overseen by a new judge in the city of Onaiza, after the original judge in the case refused to bend to pressure to grant the divorce, several newspapers reported.
Riyadh newspaper said the settlement was reached after the intervention in the case by an unidentified "important personality".
The girl's father had sold her last year to the man in exchange for a dowry.
When her mother found out, she petitioned the court for a divorce for the girl.
The judge twice rejected her case - though he stipulated that the marriage could only be consummated after the girl attained puberty.
An appeals court sent the case back to the judge suggesting he reconsider, but he ruled again last week against divorce.
The case garnered strong criticism from international rights groups and foreign diplomats raised the issue quietly with the Saudi government, according to AFP sources.
UN Children's Fund executive director Anne Veneman said earlier this month that the child's rights were being violated.
"UNICEF joins many in voicing concern that child marriage contravenes accepted international standards of human rights," she said.
You see it IS one of the worlds "Great Religions" not only can an eight year old girl be SOLD to a 50 year old man, It also allows their mothers to petition the Court against it if they find out about the sale,and the civilized world has the opportunity to protest about it, so hey what was all the fuss about?
An American, Australian ,Israeli, British "Judeo Christian Friendly " blog.
Anthropogenic Global Warming SCAM
Friday, May 01, 2009
Dutch Royal Family in "Car attack"
BBC
1 5 09
A car has crashed into a crowd watching a parade involving Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family, killing four people and seriously injuring several others.
The car eventually careered into a monument, narrowly missing an open-topped bus carrying the royals.
No members of the royal family were hurt in the incident, in Apeldoorn, about 90km (56 miles) from Amsterdam.
Dutch officials said the driver, who was seriously hurt in the crash, appeared to have acted deliberately.
But after searching the car and his home, investigators have ruled out terrorism as a motive.
They have not named the man, but said he was a Dutch national aged 38.
Apeldoorn mayor Fred de Graaf told a news conference that four people had been killed in the incident and 13 injured - five of them seriously.
'Royal shock'
Cynthia Boll, a photographer at the scene, told the BBC the car was already badly damaged before it slammed into the crowds at high speed.
"There were people everywhere, you could definitely see that it was serious because everywhere was blood and shoes ripped off and all the people giving CPR," she said.
The crowds were celebrating Queen's Day - a national holiday in the Netherlands when thousands of people take to the streets to mark the queen's official birthday.
Officials said flags are at half mast on government buildings across the country and all planned celebrations have been called off.
Witnesses said the streets of Apeldoorn are now empty.
In a statement from the royal family, the queen gave her condolences to the victims of the crash.
"Her majesty the queen, on behalf of other members of the royal family, expresses her shock at the incident," the statement said.
1 5 09
A car has crashed into a crowd watching a parade involving Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family, killing four people and seriously injuring several others.
The car eventually careered into a monument, narrowly missing an open-topped bus carrying the royals.
No members of the royal family were hurt in the incident, in Apeldoorn, about 90km (56 miles) from Amsterdam.
Dutch officials said the driver, who was seriously hurt in the crash, appeared to have acted deliberately.
But after searching the car and his home, investigators have ruled out terrorism as a motive.
They have not named the man, but said he was a Dutch national aged 38.
Apeldoorn mayor Fred de Graaf told a news conference that four people had been killed in the incident and 13 injured - five of them seriously.
'Royal shock'
Cynthia Boll, a photographer at the scene, told the BBC the car was already badly damaged before it slammed into the crowds at high speed.
"There were people everywhere, you could definitely see that it was serious because everywhere was blood and shoes ripped off and all the people giving CPR," she said.
The crowds were celebrating Queen's Day - a national holiday in the Netherlands when thousands of people take to the streets to mark the queen's official birthday.
Officials said flags are at half mast on government buildings across the country and all planned celebrations have been called off.
Witnesses said the streets of Apeldoorn are now empty.
In a statement from the royal family, the queen gave her condolences to the victims of the crash.
"Her majesty the queen, on behalf of other members of the royal family, expresses her shock at the incident," the statement said.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Rudds Australia: Illegal Immigrants reach Paradise and Australian taxpayers will PAY
Asylum-seekers on Christmas Island receive payments
By Andrea Hayward
News.com.au
April 29, 2009 11:43pm
A FAMILY of four asylum-seekers living on Christmas Island in community detention receives up to $1000 a fortnight from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).
DIAC spokesman Sandi Logan said 33 asylum-seekers who had undergone health and security checks were living in houses in the community while awaiting outcomes of their visa applications.
A further 40 asylum-seekers, mostly family groups, women, children and those with special needs, are in alternative detention while 193 single men are detained at the Christmas Island Detention Centre.
Women and children are not housed in the detention centre itself, and instead live in alternative detention called the construction camp near the Poon Saan neighbourhood on the island.
Mr Logan said adults in community detention were given $100 cash and $360 in store credit, which can be used at one of two local stores, a fortnight to buy food and other items.
A family of two adults and two children would receive $300 cash and $766 store credit each fortnight, which is administered by the Red Cross.
There were no figures available for the number of families on the island.
Those under the age of 18 who were deemed unaccompanied minors in community detention receive $50 a week and each household consisting of up to five minors, who are looked after by a carer, is given $900 a week for food and supplies.
Mr Logan said those on community detention had to cook and buy their own food.
"We can't put them out in community detention and let them starve," he said.
Some chose to save their money and buy luxury items including sunglasses and MP3 players, and were entitled to do so, Mr Logan said.
Inside the detention centre, detainees have 20 internet terminals.
"There is also a telephone available in each of the (eight) compounds and they are issued with a phone card each week to make phone calls, it could be to their representatives, to friends or to others ...," Mr Logan said.
The calls are unrestricted and include international calls.
Mr Logan said the detainees are encouraged to participate in activities and are rewarded for attending English classes and helping out in the detention centre.
The reward system has been in place for some time in Australian detention centres, Mr Logan said.
Detainees are free to move around the inside of the detention centre, often playing cricket and soccer on the oval, but have a night-time curfew when they go back to their single rooms.
The centre was built by the Howard government at a cost of $400 million and is located on the remote corner of Christmas Island, an Australian territory 2,600km northwest of Perth.
More than 200 people including 38 DIAC staff are on the island to support the centre.
More than 130 asylum-seekers picked up in the interception of four boats since Saturday, including two today, will also be taken to Christmas Island. It is not known when they will arrive on the island.
Anything Rudd's illegal Muslims want or demand,but NOTHING for Australians in need.
Pauline dudded of urgent treatment
Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island
By Andrea Hayward
News.com.au
April 29, 2009 11:43pm
A FAMILY of four asylum-seekers living on Christmas Island in community detention receives up to $1000 a fortnight from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).
DIAC spokesman Sandi Logan said 33 asylum-seekers who had undergone health and security checks were living in houses in the community while awaiting outcomes of their visa applications.
A further 40 asylum-seekers, mostly family groups, women, children and those with special needs, are in alternative detention while 193 single men are detained at the Christmas Island Detention Centre.
Women and children are not housed in the detention centre itself, and instead live in alternative detention called the construction camp near the Poon Saan neighbourhood on the island.
Mr Logan said adults in community detention were given $100 cash and $360 in store credit, which can be used at one of two local stores, a fortnight to buy food and other items.
A family of two adults and two children would receive $300 cash and $766 store credit each fortnight, which is administered by the Red Cross.
There were no figures available for the number of families on the island.
Those under the age of 18 who were deemed unaccompanied minors in community detention receive $50 a week and each household consisting of up to five minors, who are looked after by a carer, is given $900 a week for food and supplies.
Mr Logan said those on community detention had to cook and buy their own food.
"We can't put them out in community detention and let them starve," he said.
Some chose to save their money and buy luxury items including sunglasses and MP3 players, and were entitled to do so, Mr Logan said.
Inside the detention centre, detainees have 20 internet terminals.
"There is also a telephone available in each of the (eight) compounds and they are issued with a phone card each week to make phone calls, it could be to their representatives, to friends or to others ...," Mr Logan said.
The calls are unrestricted and include international calls.
Mr Logan said the detainees are encouraged to participate in activities and are rewarded for attending English classes and helping out in the detention centre.
The reward system has been in place for some time in Australian detention centres, Mr Logan said.
Detainees are free to move around the inside of the detention centre, often playing cricket and soccer on the oval, but have a night-time curfew when they go back to their single rooms.
The centre was built by the Howard government at a cost of $400 million and is located on the remote corner of Christmas Island, an Australian territory 2,600km northwest of Perth.
More than 200 people including 38 DIAC staff are on the island to support the centre.
More than 130 asylum-seekers picked up in the interception of four boats since Saturday, including two today, will also be taken to Christmas Island. It is not known when they will arrive on the island.
Anything Rudd's illegal Muslims want or demand,but NOTHING for Australians in need.
Pauline dudded of urgent treatment
Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Australia: Hilel Merhi Good Riddence to Middle Eastern Rubbish
Violent thug Hilel Merhi lived and died by the gun
By Kara Lawrence
The Daily Telegraph
April 28, 2009 12:00am
HILEL Merhi was a loud-mouthed young man with a penchant for extreme violence.
Armed with a pistol, he had robbed liquor and video stores and petrol stations, and had his driver's licence disqualified because he was a danger on the roads.
As the Sydney criminal world was speculating yesterday about who ambushed Merhi, pumping five rounds into him at close range at a party at the weekend, the 25-year-old's family and friends were in mourning as his funeral was held.
A former prisoner who met Merhi in jail said yesterday: "He was a very confident character and was very outspoken - in other words he was a smart arse"
Merhi's shooting at a 21st birthday party in Merrylands on Saturday night was breathtaking in its audacity. Two hooded men walked through a gate of the Davies St property towards an outdoor carport where people were dancing, talking and laughing.
One of the men walked up to Merhi, who was an uninvited guest at the party, and fired repeatedly.
Then the men fled, pursued by some partygoers, down the street and around the corner into Price St, where they jumped into a late-model Commodore and fled.
Police confirmed yesterday they believed Merhi's criminal activities were linked to his shooting.
Merhi's criminal record dates back to 2002 when he was charged with driving recklessly at Casula, had his licence suspended and was given a good behaviour bond.
He graduated quickly to more violent crime.
In late 2003, he went on a gun spree. In October of that year he allegedly pulled a pistol on fellow students at Miller College of TAFE.
Students fled for safety to the nearby Liverpool Catholic Club, but when police arrested Merhi later that night he claimed the gun was a cigarette lighter.
Days later, while armed with a silver pistol, he forced a female employee of Video Ezy Moorebank to hand over $250.
His next two armed robberies in the next two months netted him $1300 from Prestons Village Liquor and $500 cash and 32 packets of cigarettes from BP Moorebank.
He was sent to jail for maximum two years and eight months and ordered to undergo drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
He was released from another stint in jail in the middle of last year after serving time for driving offences.
By Kara Lawrence
The Daily Telegraph
April 28, 2009 12:00am
HILEL Merhi was a loud-mouthed young man with a penchant for extreme violence.
Armed with a pistol, he had robbed liquor and video stores and petrol stations, and had his driver's licence disqualified because he was a danger on the roads.
As the Sydney criminal world was speculating yesterday about who ambushed Merhi, pumping five rounds into him at close range at a party at the weekend, the 25-year-old's family and friends were in mourning as his funeral was held.
A former prisoner who met Merhi in jail said yesterday: "He was a very confident character and was very outspoken - in other words he was a smart arse"
Merhi's shooting at a 21st birthday party in Merrylands on Saturday night was breathtaking in its audacity. Two hooded men walked through a gate of the Davies St property towards an outdoor carport where people were dancing, talking and laughing.
One of the men walked up to Merhi, who was an uninvited guest at the party, and fired repeatedly.
Then the men fled, pursued by some partygoers, down the street and around the corner into Price St, where they jumped into a late-model Commodore and fled.
Police confirmed yesterday they believed Merhi's criminal activities were linked to his shooting.
Merhi's criminal record dates back to 2002 when he was charged with driving recklessly at Casula, had his licence suspended and was given a good behaviour bond.
He graduated quickly to more violent crime.
In late 2003, he went on a gun spree. In October of that year he allegedly pulled a pistol on fellow students at Miller College of TAFE.
Students fled for safety to the nearby Liverpool Catholic Club, but when police arrested Merhi later that night he claimed the gun was a cigarette lighter.
Days later, while armed with a silver pistol, he forced a female employee of Video Ezy Moorebank to hand over $250.
His next two armed robberies in the next two months netted him $1300 from Prestons Village Liquor and $500 cash and 32 packets of cigarettes from BP Moorebank.
He was sent to jail for maximum two years and eight months and ordered to undergo drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
He was released from another stint in jail in the middle of last year after serving time for driving offences.
Pauline Talty, Australia: Why Americans should think twice about Hussein's "Universal Health Care"
Pauline dudded of urgent treatment
Peter Dutton
News.com.au
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Pauline Talty – the woman surviving in Royal Prince Alfred as she fights for government assistance for a bowel transplant – has been badly let down by the health system that should be helping her.
Proud Australian's Pauline Talty and Leo Sayer.
Last week, more than five months after she first applied to the Medical Treatment Overseas Program to travel to America, MTOP funding was rejected for a second time.
Nicola Roxon’s health chiefs in Canberra say Pauline doesn’t qualify because transplant treatment is available at a hospital in Melbourne where, I might add, not one bowel transplant has yet been attempted.
The advice of four medical experts that Pauline should undergo a transplant in America has been discounted.
Pauline Talty has been dudded in this process.
The plain fact is she should have been approved for overseas treatment months ago and the health department’s own documents clearly show that.
Pauline first applied for help last October.
In November, the department officials were told that “intestinal transplantation is not” currently offered in Australia – which should have led to a positive decision for her.
In January the department was told again “no intestinal transplant has been performed…in Australia”, yet an initial decision,
confirmed last week, was made to reject her MTOP application.
It appears to have been made on the basis that transplants could be carried out here in the future; Pauline was in effect being told she would have to wait for that day to come, even though she might die in the meantime.
There appears to be significant inconsistencies in reports before the department.
I think it’s outrageous! Pauline Talty should already be receiving treatment in hospital in America.
Minister Roxon needs to show some gumption. Get involved and turn this decision around.
Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island
Note ALL BLUE coloured TEXT represents the VIEWS of Aussie News & Views and NOT those of Peter Dutton, I have inserted the picture and the comments underneath the picture written in BLUE, Capisch?
Peter Dutton
News.com.au
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Pauline Talty – the woman surviving in Royal Prince Alfred as she fights for government assistance for a bowel transplant – has been badly let down by the health system that should be helping her.
Proud Australian's Pauline Talty and Leo Sayer.Pauline has been treated just as Australians would expect to be treated by their Socialist Government, she has been ABONDONED.
When you have socialised medicine the Government works on the fact that many,many of those requireing treatment will DIE before they make it to the "list" yes LIST, not the fricking operating table the bloody LIST,either from their medical condition or age.
Unlike hundreds of Illegal Islamic "refugees" who wash up on Australia's shores almost daily now since the Socialist Rudd government came to power in 2007,Pauline Talty is NOT able to access ANY of the "TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS " for instance,that has miracousily appeared to treat Middle Eastern Illegal immigrants, after they were badly burnt, after they voluntarialy set fire to their boat so as to ensure they were picked up by the Royal Australian Navy and taken to Australia's mainland,and take a seat on the Australian Labor Party's Islam, Refugee friendly, life time social security gravy train.
No expense has been spared for these criminals in treating them or providing them their every want and need so as not to offend their "Religious and Cultural sensitivities"
Pauline Talty however is neither a "refugee" or a "Muslim" she is one of the Australian Labor Party's most despised and reviled, she is an Australian.
Comrade Rudd and his Beijing / Marxist worshipping underlings that are his partys (Australian Labor Party, ALP) financiers, The Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU, see themselves as Internationalists first second and third, and as such have no time for Australians, least of all unwell Australians.
When you have socialised medicine the Government works on the fact that many,many of those requireing treatment will DIE before they make it to the "list" yes LIST, not the fricking operating table the bloody LIST,either from their medical condition or age.
Unlike hundreds of Illegal Islamic "refugees" who wash up on Australia's shores almost daily now since the Socialist Rudd government came to power in 2007,Pauline Talty is NOT able to access ANY of the "TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS " for instance,that has miracousily appeared to treat Middle Eastern Illegal immigrants, after they were badly burnt, after they voluntarialy set fire to their boat so as to ensure they were picked up by the Royal Australian Navy and taken to Australia's mainland,and take a seat on the Australian Labor Party's Islam, Refugee friendly, life time social security gravy train.
No expense has been spared for these criminals in treating them or providing them their every want and need so as not to offend their "Religious and Cultural sensitivities"
Pauline Talty however is neither a "refugee" or a "Muslim" she is one of the Australian Labor Party's most despised and reviled, she is an Australian.
Comrade Rudd and his Beijing / Marxist worshipping underlings that are his partys (Australian Labor Party, ALP) financiers, The Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU, see themselves as Internationalists first second and third, and as such have no time for Australians, least of all unwell Australians.
Last week, more than five months after she first applied to the Medical Treatment Overseas Program to travel to America, MTOP funding was rejected for a second time.
Nicola Roxon’s health chiefs in Canberra say Pauline doesn’t qualify because transplant treatment is available at a hospital in Melbourne where, I might add, not one bowel transplant has yet been attempted.
The advice of four medical experts that Pauline should undergo a transplant in America has been discounted.
Pauline Talty has been dudded in this process.
The plain fact is she should have been approved for overseas treatment months ago and the health department’s own documents clearly show that.
Pauline first applied for help last October.
In November, the department officials were told that “intestinal transplantation is not” currently offered in Australia – which should have led to a positive decision for her.
In January the department was told again “no intestinal transplant has been performed…in Australia”, yet an initial decision,
confirmed last week, was made to reject her MTOP application.
It appears to have been made on the basis that transplants could be carried out here in the future; Pauline was in effect being told she would have to wait for that day to come, even though she might die in the meantime.
There appears to be significant inconsistencies in reports before the department.
I think it’s outrageous! Pauline Talty should already be receiving treatment in hospital in America.
Minister Roxon needs to show some gumption. Get involved and turn this decision around.
Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island
Note ALL BLUE coloured TEXT represents the VIEWS of Aussie News & Views and NOT those of Peter Dutton, I have inserted the picture and the comments underneath the picture written in BLUE, Capisch?
Hilel Merhi, shot DEAD.
Hilel Merhi was shot dead like a gangland killing
By Adam Walters and Chelsea White
The Daily Telegraph
April 27, 2009 12:00am
GANG life was the theme of his MySpace page and "gangland" would be the style of Hilel Merhi's death at a friend's 21st party.
He was shot several times from close range with a handgun after two hooded men crashed the party at Merrylands.
Gallery: Scenes from the birthday party
Birthday girl Tania Merhi, who was not related to the victim, was among the stunned witnesses.
One said: "Three guys just walked in and shot him on the dance floor."
A woman who was among the 100 guests said there didn't appear to be any argument.
"They just shot him and ran out before everyone started screaming," she said.
The victim, 26, described himself on his MySpace page as a "straight, single and athletic hustler, earning $250,000 a year".
The opening screen is adorned with a sinister illustration of a pistol and a hotted-up car under the title of Gang Life.
He painted a picture of a young man in a hurry, updating his mood status on April 21 to "impatient".
Neighbours thought they were hearing fireworks when the gunshots echoed through Davies St late on Saturday night.
Those at the party said it was a mix of invited guests and gatecrashers.
One of the partygoers, who didn't want to be identified, said the victim had no chance.
"I just saw him lying there with holes in his upper body. He wasn't moving and it seemed to take forever for the ambulance to arrive," the witness said.
"The cops actually beat the ambulance here but there was nothing they could do."
Some of the party's guests attempted CPR but Hilel was later pronounced dead on arrival at Westmead Hospital.
"I'm so devastated. What's this world coming to? May God forgive his bad doing," friend Lexy Saleh said.
Neighbours said Tania's grandfather, who raised her from a young age, went to extraordinary lengths to ensure the safety of guests, hiring their own security for the party.
By Adam Walters and Chelsea White
The Daily Telegraph
April 27, 2009 12:00am
GANG life was the theme of his MySpace page and "gangland" would be the style of Hilel Merhi's death at a friend's 21st party.
He was shot several times from close range with a handgun after two hooded men crashed the party at Merrylands.
Gallery: Scenes from the birthday party
Birthday girl Tania Merhi, who was not related to the victim, was among the stunned witnesses.
One said: "Three guys just walked in and shot him on the dance floor."
A woman who was among the 100 guests said there didn't appear to be any argument.
"They just shot him and ran out before everyone started screaming," she said.
The victim, 26, described himself on his MySpace page as a "straight, single and athletic hustler, earning $250,000 a year".
The opening screen is adorned with a sinister illustration of a pistol and a hotted-up car under the title of Gang Life.
He painted a picture of a young man in a hurry, updating his mood status on April 21 to "impatient".
Neighbours thought they were hearing fireworks when the gunshots echoed through Davies St late on Saturday night.
Those at the party said it was a mix of invited guests and gatecrashers.
One of the partygoers, who didn't want to be identified, said the victim had no chance.
"I just saw him lying there with holes in his upper body. He wasn't moving and it seemed to take forever for the ambulance to arrive," the witness said.
"The cops actually beat the ambulance here but there was nothing they could do."
Some of the party's guests attempted CPR but Hilel was later pronounced dead on arrival at Westmead Hospital.
"I'm so devastated. What's this world coming to? May God forgive his bad doing," friend Lexy Saleh said.
Neighbours said Tania's grandfather, who raised her from a young age, went to extraordinary lengths to ensure the safety of guests, hiring their own security for the party.
Sarah, oh Sarah!!!
Sarah Murdoch
Displays Bonds Ladies undergarments as only she can.
One of Sydney's Northern Beaches most beautiful exports to the world.
(Yes Rupert's daughter in law, Lachlan's wife)
Displays Bonds Ladies undergarments as only she can.
One of Sydney's Northern Beaches most beautiful exports to the world.
(Yes Rupert's daughter in law, Lachlan's wife)
Indonesia: Christian Minister & Wife Hacked to Death in the land of the "Religion of Peace"
Priest, wife hacked to death in Indonesia: policeYahooNews.com
April 27, 2009
JAKARTA (AFP) - An elderly Christian priest and his wife were hacked to death with machetes in Indonesia, police said.
Frans Koagow, 64, and his wife, Femy Kumendong, 73, were found in the priest's home in Manado city, North Sulawesi province, Saturday with deep slash wounds to their heads and necks, provincial police spokesman Benny
Bella said.
"The priest was cut from behind in the neck while his wife was cut in the head while she lay down sick with a stroke," Bella said.
"The priest had been squatting down to tie his shoes when he was attacked... there was no time for him to fight back."
Bella said police were looking for suspects but were unsure how many people were involved in the attack.
"We found a machete but we don't know if it was one that was used in the murder," he said.
North Sulawesi province is a stronghold of mostly Protestant Christianity in Indonesia, where Muslims make up roughly 90 percent of the national population.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Pakistani men beaten and shaved by Taliban for listening to music
Taliban militans shave four men as punishment for listening to music
From correspondents in Peshawar, Pakistan
News.com.au
April 26, 2009 05:38pm
TALIBAN militants in northwest Buner district shaved the heads and moustaches of four Pakistani men as punishment for listening to music, one of the men said.
Buner has been subject to huge US concern after hundreds of Taliban fighters advanced into the area from the neighbouring Swat, where the hardliners fought a brutal, nearly two-year insurgency to enforce Islamic law.
"I was with three other friends in my car, listening to music when armed Taliban stopped us and, after smashing cassettes and the cassette player, they shaved half our heads and moustaches,'' he said.
"The Taliban also beat us and asked us not to listen to music ever again,'' said the terrified man.
Local police said they had no information about the incident.
The victim said neither he nor his friends lodged a complaint with police, as this would have been "useless.''
"It might have annoyed the Taliban further and I fear for my life,'' the man said.
Residents in Mingora, the main town in Swat, said Taliban posters had been put up in streets and markets ordering women not to go shopping.
The posters had appeared after the Taliban's controversial agreement with the government to enforce Islamic law in the region.
"We will take action against women who go out shopping in the markets and any shopkeeper seen dealing with women shoppers will be dealt with severely,'' read the poster from the Swat branch of Tehreek-e-Taliban.
"The peace agreement does not mean that obscenity should be re-born,'' it added.
Hardline Islamists in the extremist Taliban consider it "obscene'' for women to leave their homes, and ban females from venturing out in public without an immediate male relative -- namely a father, brother, son or husband.
For years, Swat was a popular ski resort frequented by Westerners but the Pakistani government effectively lost control of the mountainous district after the violent Taliban campaign to enforce sharia law.
From correspondents in Peshawar, Pakistan
News.com.au
April 26, 2009 05:38pm
TALIBAN militants in northwest Buner district shaved the heads and moustaches of four Pakistani men as punishment for listening to music, one of the men said.
Buner has been subject to huge US concern after hundreds of Taliban fighters advanced into the area from the neighbouring Swat, where the hardliners fought a brutal, nearly two-year insurgency to enforce Islamic law.
"I was with three other friends in my car, listening to music when armed Taliban stopped us and, after smashing cassettes and the cassette player, they shaved half our heads and moustaches,'' he said.
"The Taliban also beat us and asked us not to listen to music ever again,'' said the terrified man.
Local police said they had no information about the incident.
The victim said neither he nor his friends lodged a complaint with police, as this would have been "useless.''
"It might have annoyed the Taliban further and I fear for my life,'' the man said.
Residents in Mingora, the main town in Swat, said Taliban posters had been put up in streets and markets ordering women not to go shopping.
The posters had appeared after the Taliban's controversial agreement with the government to enforce Islamic law in the region.
"We will take action against women who go out shopping in the markets and any shopkeeper seen dealing with women shoppers will be dealt with severely,'' read the poster from the Swat branch of Tehreek-e-Taliban.
"The peace agreement does not mean that obscenity should be re-born,'' it added.
Hardline Islamists in the extremist Taliban consider it "obscene'' for women to leave their homes, and ban females from venturing out in public without an immediate male relative -- namely a father, brother, son or husband.
For years, Swat was a popular ski resort frequented by Westerners but the Pakistani government effectively lost control of the mountainous district after the violent Taliban campaign to enforce sharia law.
12 Year old caught torturing Dog on Camera
Sociopaths Inc. latest recruit demonstrates her handy work
Twelve Year Old Girl caught kicking and torturing neighbors Dog, on camera.
Yes you guessed it she will be "counceled" by the RSPCA, how long before this charmer will be caught out torturing children?
Better to take this piece of shit out of the gene pool NOW before it has the opportunity to graduate to torturing humans.I know that wont happen... too many do gooders and professional compassionista's would be out of a job.
Yes you guessed it she will be "counceled" by the RSPCA, how long before this charmer will be caught out torturing children?
Better to take this piece of shit out of the gene pool NOW before it has the opportunity to graduate to torturing humans.I know that wont happen... too many do gooders and professional compassionista's would be out of a job.
Australia: Muslim scum rob house then bash Australian
Muslims Scum rob house then bash Australian who videoed their escape
'Sic' Aussie bashing vid posted online
By Joe Hildebrand
The Daily Telegraph
April 25, 2009 12:00am
A MAN who filmed two teenagers on his phone after they allegedly robbed a house was attacked by the pair before they stole his mobile and posted the footage on the internet.
The man had warned the pair that he had just recorded them and was taking the footage to police before they sprinted across a road and attacked him.
They then posted the footage on YouTube titled "IN GREENACRE AUSSIE GUY GETS HIT FOR RECORING JOSH ND HAMAD ROLLING A HOUSE" (sic).
Running at 18 seconds and viewed 780 times, it shows two young men running out of a house bare-chested and with T-shirts over their head before slowing to a brisk walk down the street.
The man then calls out in a broad Australian accent: "Hey mate. This is going to the police mate. I've got you on video."
The two teens then charge the phone's owner, knocking him to the ground.
Subsequent comments on the YouTube site indicate the youths stole his phone and then posted the footage, in which their faces cannot be seen.
One commenter asks: "did they steal the camera off him thats how u got this on the net?" (sic)
The poster unr8bleLebo replies: "yer we taxed (stole) his phone" (sic), however he then adds "Imao", internet shorthand for "laugh my arse off".
Another video apparently filmed near a high school in November titled "leb vs aussie at blacktown" states: "the aussie was 2x the size of the leb and the aussie got bashes i think u aussies should just fuking stick to drinking" (sic).
It has been viewed by more than 22,000 people.
The Daily Telegraph has referred the videos to police. The Greenacre video was taken down yesterday after the The Daily Telegraph made inquiries to the host.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Afghanistan:100 Taliban taken by Austyralian "Combat Team Tusk"
Australians take 100 Taliban
By IAN McPHEDRAN in Tarin Kowt
The Sunday Telegraph
April 25, 2009 06:57pm
AUSTRALIAN soldiers have killed more than 100 Taliban fighters and disrupted vast enemy networks in two of the biggest and most successful operations of the six-year Afghanistan campaign.
Details of the offensive were revealed during a secret visit to Afghanistan for Anzac Day by Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon who was accompanied by News Limited.
Operation Aabitoorah or Blue Sword began on March 19 in the northern Helmand province, south of the Australian base in Oruzgan Province and involved Dutch, British, American, Australian and Afghani forces.
The second, called Operation Shak Hawel or Mysterious Area, was fought by troops from the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force between April 3 and 15 around Patrol Base Buman in the Chora Valley north of Tarin Kowt.
More than 200 diggers or almost half of the battle group led by Darwin based Lieutenant Colonel Shane Gabriel took part with an Afghan National Army battalion.
During the biggest battle on April 12 dozens of Taliban fighters perished as they attempted to defeat the diggers from Combat Team Tusk in the fertile green belt.
"They tried to stop us doing what we wanted to do and they came off second best,'' Lt Colonel Gabriel told News Limited.
Troops from the task force have been engaged in numerous heavy fire fights during offensive patrols to mentor and instruct their Afghan comrades.
Mr Fitzgibbon received full details of the operations and spoke to the troops during a secret two-day tour of Australian bases in the lead up to Anzac Day at Tarin Kowt where Vietnam war hero and Victoria Cross holder Keith Payne was the guest of honour.
Mr Fitzgibbon became the first Australian minister to venture "outside the wire'' flying in a Chinook chopper low along the fertile valleys to forward operating bases framed by snow capped peaks, to judge the progress for himself.
Australian commander Major General Mark Kelly said Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) troops from the Perth based SAS Regiment and Sydney based Commando Regiment operated deep inside a Taliban stronghold for 26 days during "Blue Sword".
He said the number of enemy dead was not a measure of success, but he told News Limited that the tally was in excess of 80.
"It is a significant achievement by our soldiers over an extended combat mission.
"It has really disrupted the insurgent network in this part of regional command south,'' General Kelly said.
The specialist diggers were attacked by roadside bombs, rocket propelled grenades, mortars and small arms fire and despite the intensity of the action just one Australian, Sydney based bomb disposal expert Sergeant Brett Till, was killed and four others wounded including one who lost his legs.
In addition to the number of enemy casualties, including bomb maker and leader Mullah Abdul Bari, the Australians uncovered numerous weapons caches and up to 14 improvised explosive devices in a day.
Mr Fitzgibbon, who toured Australian built hospitals and schools as well as fighting bases, said the latest operations were a major setback for the Taliban.
He said it was vital for the Australian people to understand these intense and deadly operations and just how dangerous and challenging the job was for the diggers.
"We are making real progress in Afghanistan.
"I wish to thank every man and woman in the Australian Defence Force who is making a contribution to what is a very important campaign,'' Mr Fitzgibbon said.
Commander of Regional Command South Dutch Major-General Mart de Kraif said the operation had disrupted insurgent activities including the drugs trade.
He said Australian special-forces troops had applied massive pressure to the insurgent leadership.
By IAN McPHEDRAN in Tarin Kowt
The Sunday Telegraph
April 25, 2009 06:57pm
AUSTRALIAN soldiers have killed more than 100 Taliban fighters and disrupted vast enemy networks in two of the biggest and most successful operations of the six-year Afghanistan campaign.
Details of the offensive were revealed during a secret visit to Afghanistan for Anzac Day by Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon who was accompanied by News Limited.
Operation Aabitoorah or Blue Sword began on March 19 in the northern Helmand province, south of the Australian base in Oruzgan Province and involved Dutch, British, American, Australian and Afghani forces.
The second, called Operation Shak Hawel or Mysterious Area, was fought by troops from the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force between April 3 and 15 around Patrol Base Buman in the Chora Valley north of Tarin Kowt.
More than 200 diggers or almost half of the battle group led by Darwin based Lieutenant Colonel Shane Gabriel took part with an Afghan National Army battalion.
During the biggest battle on April 12 dozens of Taliban fighters perished as they attempted to defeat the diggers from Combat Team Tusk in the fertile green belt.
"They tried to stop us doing what we wanted to do and they came off second best,'' Lt Colonel Gabriel told News Limited.
Troops from the task force have been engaged in numerous heavy fire fights during offensive patrols to mentor and instruct their Afghan comrades.
Mr Fitzgibbon received full details of the operations and spoke to the troops during a secret two-day tour of Australian bases in the lead up to Anzac Day at Tarin Kowt where Vietnam war hero and Victoria Cross holder Keith Payne was the guest of honour.
Mr Fitzgibbon became the first Australian minister to venture "outside the wire'' flying in a Chinook chopper low along the fertile valleys to forward operating bases framed by snow capped peaks, to judge the progress for himself.
Australian commander Major General Mark Kelly said Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) troops from the Perth based SAS Regiment and Sydney based Commando Regiment operated deep inside a Taliban stronghold for 26 days during "Blue Sword".
He said the number of enemy dead was not a measure of success, but he told News Limited that the tally was in excess of 80.
"It is a significant achievement by our soldiers over an extended combat mission.
"It has really disrupted the insurgent network in this part of regional command south,'' General Kelly said.
The specialist diggers were attacked by roadside bombs, rocket propelled grenades, mortars and small arms fire and despite the intensity of the action just one Australian, Sydney based bomb disposal expert Sergeant Brett Till, was killed and four others wounded including one who lost his legs.
In addition to the number of enemy casualties, including bomb maker and leader Mullah Abdul Bari, the Australians uncovered numerous weapons caches and up to 14 improvised explosive devices in a day.
Mr Fitzgibbon, who toured Australian built hospitals and schools as well as fighting bases, said the latest operations were a major setback for the Taliban.
He said it was vital for the Australian people to understand these intense and deadly operations and just how dangerous and challenging the job was for the diggers.
"We are making real progress in Afghanistan.
"I wish to thank every man and woman in the Australian Defence Force who is making a contribution to what is a very important campaign,'' Mr Fitzgibbon said.
Commander of Regional Command South Dutch Major-General Mart de Kraif said the operation had disrupted insurgent activities including the drugs trade.
He said Australian special-forces troops had applied massive pressure to the insurgent leadership.
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