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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (44547)	1/15/2006 9:25:37 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

Pakistani police tear-gassed tribesmen who burned down a US-funded aid agency office after the deaths of 18 villagers in an airstrike targeting Al-Qaeda's number 2, witnesses said. Pakistani tribesmen march on a street in Inayat Killi village near Damadola, 200 km (124 miles) northwest of Islamabad, to protest against an airstrike in Damadola, January 14, 2006. A U.S. airstrike in Pakistan targeted al Qaeda's second-in-command, U.S. sources said, but Ayman al-Zawahri was away at the time, according to a senior Pakistani official on Saturday. The strike on Friday killed at least 18 people, including women and children, and three houses were destroyed in a village near the Afghan border, residents said. Pakistan condemned the airstrike and would summon the U.S. ambassador to protest the attack, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said. He had no information about Zawahri. An estimated 5,000 people had gathered at a stadium near Khar, the main town in the Bajur tribal zone, close to the village of Damadola where Friday's attack happened, an AFP reporter said on Saturday. Some demonstrators set fire to the offices of Associated Development Construction, a non-governmental organisation funded by the US Agency for International Development, an official at the aid group said. ------ Earlier Haroon Rasheed, a legislator from Pakistan's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party, condemned the airstrike as a "slap on the face of the country's sovereignty" as the crowd chanted anti-US slogans, witnesses said. "It is shameful that innocent people of Pakistan are being killed by a foreign country with total impunity towards the state of Pakistan," he told the protesters. The crowd chanted slogans including, "A friend of the Americans is a traitor" and "We will launch jihad against the aggressor". Residents said they had heard missiles being fired from aircraft, adding that there were women and children among the dead and that there were no foreigners in the village at the time. "Those killed were all innocent tribesmen, there were women and children among the dead," Rasheed said. "There was no Arab and no foreigners." commondreams.org

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (44547)	1/15/2006 9:28:45 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

Plan B news.yahoo.com

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (44547)	1/15/2006 9:30:42 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

The domino theory in action: Tony Blair is preparing to scrap a 40-year ban on tapping MPs’ telephones, despite fierce Cabinet opposition, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. He is expected to formally announce to the Commons within weeks that MPs can no longer be sure that the security services and others will not intercept their communications. susiemadrak.com

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (44547)	1/16/2006 3:29:39 AM
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Globalism and socialism from the finnish perspective - isn't gerrymander from that part of the world - what a silly rap video - it made me laugh. tarjahalonen.fi Posted on: 2006-01-15 15:41:27 Social Democrats release embarrassing rap video to appeal to "the kids" Finland's voters went to the polls today to determine the next President. Center-left incumbent Tarja Halonen is expected to easily win against a field of seven other hopefuls, the fifth Presidential win in a row for the "soft Marxist" Social Democrats. Ms. Halonen is the Nordic nation's first female President, originally elected to the largely-ceremonial post in 2000. As in all of the Nordic nations, Finnish political life is fairly colorless, with little real programmatic difference between the major parties. In a wincingly embarrassing attempt to make the election "interesting" a number of "cool" Social Democratic politicians participated in a pathetic rap music video. Calling themselves Nine for 9 (9 is the electoral list number for Halonen), the grey apparatchiks made wooden gang gestures and marched around in cornball dance steps at the Eduskuntatalo, the Finnish parliament. Less amusing is the chorus, which uses the tune of the Internationale, the anthem of Marxism. The video may be seen here. Immigration is a growing problem for Finland, which takes in 10,000 immigrants every year, as it is for all of Europe, but stable economic conditions have meant that there has been fairly muted opposition until recently. However, with 400,000 now unemployed -- the European Union's second highest unemployment level -- voices are finally be raised. Patriot: "Why is the Finnish government taking in about 10,000 immigrants every year, even as Finland has already about 400,000 unemployed and the second highest unemployment rate in the EU? Taking in even more only makes the unemployment situation even worse in Finland. Isn't taking in more immigrants unwise?" Foreign Minister: "Well, the immigrants create also a lot of jobs. They don't just take jobs, and the Finnish economy benefits from the highly educated immigrants." Patriot: "But aren't the majority of the immigrants poorly educated -- and don't they mainly only go into low income jobs?" Foreign Minister: "But Finns don't want to do those jobs." Patriot: "Finns want to do these jobs, but with a salary you can live on. The immigrants from poorer nations are willing to do the jobs cheaper than Finns -- but every foreigner who gets a job means some Finn will not get the job, and so the unemployment level rises even higher and the Finnish economy loses." Foreign Minister: "The majority of the people who are unemployed now will be unemployed their entire life till they retire." [The Foreign Minister begins walking away. Patriot goes with him and continues to speak.] Patriot: "But taking in more immigrants only makes the unemployment rate worse. There is no reason to take in more immigrants."