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To: tonto who wrote (8032)	8/2/2006 11:10:01 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Hezbollah pummeled northern Israel on Wednesday with 190 rockets -- the highest single-day count of the conflict -- killing one civilian and wounding more than a dozen others, according to Israeli police. cnn.com

To: tonto who wrote (8032)	8/2/2006 1:25:33 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Alton Towers calls off "Muslim Fun Day" Reuters ^ \| 8/2/6 Britain's biggest theme park has called off the country's first "National Muslim Fun Day" because of lack of interest, the park said on Wednesday. Alton Towers in Staffordshire was to open on September 17 for Muslims -- with halal food, a strict dress code and prayer areas. Music, gambling and alcohol were to be banned for the day and theme park rides such as "Ripsaw", "Corkscrew" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" all segregated by sex. But the park said the event's organisers, Islamic Leisure, who rented the park for the day and were marketing the event, had called it off due to "insufficient ticket sales". "Alton Towers is disappointed that the planned Family Fun Day on Sunday 17th September has had to be cancelled," the park said in a statement. A park spokeswoman said Islamic Leisure would refund those who bought tickets. Islamic Leisure's phones were not being answered on Wednesday. Organisers had hoped to fill a niche for Britain's 1.7 million Muslims, some of whom may be uncomfortable with mainstream entertainment. But the fun day had caused some consternation: a non-Muslim couple scheduled to hold their wedding at the park's hotel complained to newspapers that event organisers told them the bride and female guests would have to cover up. The park promised the party would be exempt from the rules. A park spokeswoman said the wedding would take place as planned.

To: tonto who wrote (8032)	8/2/2006 1:56:49 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Muslim advisory group: Hezbollah not like terrorist al-Qaeda Sydney Morning Herald ^ \| August 2, 2006 - 7:18PM The government is on a collision course with its Muslim advisory group over its claim that Hezbollah should not be considered a terrorist organisation. The Muslim Community Reference Group is considering writing to Prime Minister John Howard asking the government to reconsider its listing of the militant arm of Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation. The group is meeting tomorrow and will decide whether to put the demand to Mr Howard. But any call for the government to change its position on Hezbollah, which has been engaged in open warfare with Israel for the past three weeks, would appear to be futile. Mr Howard made it clear today the government had no intention of removing the militant arm of Hezbollah from its official list of terrorist organisations. "No chance, full stop. No chance at all (of removing Hezbollah from the list)," Mr Howard told reporters. Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the decision to ban Hezbollah, which was first listed in 2003, had not been made lightly. "They're not decisions which are political," he said. However, the government would be willing to consider new information which may cause it to reassess the listing. "Obviously we look at these issues from time to time to see whether circumstances change," Mr Ruddock said. "I'm not aware of any information that would suggest we should reconsider proscription of the military wing of Hezbollah." But Ameer Ali, chairman of the Muslim advisory group set up last year in the wake of the London terrorist bombings, says Hezbollah should not be lumped in with groups like al-Qaeda. "They should not condemn Hezbollah as a terrorist group," he told AAP. "I don't think they should judge that they are simply a terrorist organisation like al-Qaeda. "It is part of Lebanese politics." On its national security website, the government says that Australian Security Intelligence Organisation believes Hezbollah's military wing is continuing to prepare, plan and foster the commission of acts involving threats to human life and serious damage to property. "Such acts include those made with the intention of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause and with the intention of coercing or influencing by intimidation, US, Israeli and other Western governments." Dr Ali believes the government's assessment of Hezbollah is clouded by the US and Israel. "We are of the opinion that the Australian government does not have an independent foreign policy with regard to the Middle East," he told ABC Radio. "We go along with whatever the Americans say and the Americans go along with whatever the Israeli lobby says."

To: tonto who wrote (8032)	8/2/2006 2:20:37 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9838

MEDIA CAUGHT OVER QANA PHOTOS [Liberal MSM Caught With Pants Down Alert] Boortz ^ \| Aug. 2, 2006 \| Neal Boortz boortz.com eureferendum.blogspot.com Remember those photos that have been running in the media showing a rescue worker holding a dead child following the Israeli air strike in Qana? The message of those pictures has been powerful: look at what those evil Israelis did to that poor, innocent child. Well, now we learn that all may not be what it seems. Many of those pictures were taken by the photographers for wire services like the Associated Press, Reuters and the always pro-terrorist Agence France-Presse, also known as AFP. But an enterprising British blogger decided to dig a bit deeper. He looked at the time stamp on some of the photos and noticed a discrepancy. A big one. Without getting too technical, it was noticed that one of the photos taken at 7:21 by the AP shows a dead girl in an ambulance. Then, in a picture taken at 10:25am ... 3 hours later .... it shows the same girl being loaded into an ambulance. Yet another picture shows the same girl 20 minutes later, being carried by a rescue worker ... with no ambulance around. In the ambulance ... out of the ambulance ... no ambulance at all. What does this tell us? The photos were staged. They're propaganda. Who would do such a thing? Hezbollah, of course. And why would the media be a willing accomplice in such a bold attempt to invent negative media coverage against Israel? Because they hate the United States and/or Israel, or because they're just plain on the side of the Islamofascists. Now that the wire services and their photographers have been called out on it, they're all dancing on the head of a pin trying to explain away the discrepancy. They've been nailed as willing participants in the Islamic terror propaganda efforts.

To: tonto who wrote (8032)	8/2/2006 4:16:05 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Israel: Video proves hospital was Hezbollah HQ cnn.com

To: tonto who wrote (8032)	8/3/2006 10:01:13 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Wonder if this will make the evening news tonight? /sarc friends say he was killed as he was bringing his dog into house ynetnews.com

To: tonto who wrote (8032)	8/3/2006 2:51:44 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Marine who lost arm, leg in Iraq mugged outside Washington AP ^ \| August 3 2006 whbf.com It's another bit of bad luck for a Marine who lost an arm and a leg in Iraq. Lance Corporal Mark Beyers was mugged and robbed outside a restaurant in Bethesda, Maryland, last month. The Marine from western New York was dining out with his wife, Denise, while finishing up rehabilitation at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. As they left the restaurant, five men approached them and asked for a cigarette. Denise Beyers tells The Buffalo News they gave the men a cigarette -- but the men grabbed her purse, kicked her and knocked the couple to the ground. The thieves made off with 500 dollars just wired to them by a relative.