Libya - A Great Investment
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They are too enthralled in the Olympics and getting gongs for that.
Plus you need a functioning Gov't to make a complaint to !
Plus you need a functioning Gov't to make a complaint to !
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Our political masters call it democratic freedom. These were ''freedom fighters'' against the evils of the Libyan, Iraqi, wherever, regimes that the West did not like.
The scenes are shocking, but frankly should we surprised?
The future should be interesting.
Be very careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
The scenes are shocking, but frankly should we surprised?
The future should be interesting.
Be very careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
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Absolutely disgusting. And as for the idiot cameraman chanting 'God is great' as he films people desecrating the headstones of men who died to liberate his country from the Germans & Italians....
I note that they reserved special 'attention' for those headstones belonging to Jews. We should have removed our ex-pats and left the country in the hands of Gaddaffi for him to administer his own form of 'justice' to these vermin.
I note that they reserved special 'attention' for those headstones belonging to Jews. We should have removed our ex-pats and left the country in the hands of Gaddaffi for him to administer his own form of 'justice' to these vermin.
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I felt sick watching that.
So apart from the Mail Online and LiveLeak, has this been reported anywhere else? Was it actually in the printed version of the Daily Mail. Why has the Sun not reported anything about it (they allegedly support our troops - past and present). Has any politician or Foreign Office diplomat condemned it or even made a statement. Has there been any form of statement of condemnation made by the CWGC, the British Legion or anybody else that supports our Fallen Heroes.
The problem is that anybody in a position of authority in the Western World is scared sh!tle$$ that they might offend them. I find it sick that our politicians grovel to apologise when any incident that offends their religion occurs but they say nothing when an incident like this occurs. This will never work out and rest assured it will only get worse.
So apart from the Mail Online and LiveLeak, has this been reported anywhere else? Was it actually in the printed version of the Daily Mail. Why has the Sun not reported anything about it (they allegedly support our troops - past and present). Has any politician or Foreign Office diplomat condemned it or even made a statement. Has there been any form of statement of condemnation made by the CWGC, the British Legion or anybody else that supports our Fallen Heroes.
The problem is that anybody in a position of authority in the Western World is scared sh!tle$$ that they might offend them. I find it sick that our politicians grovel to apologise when any incident that offends their religion occurs but they say nothing when an incident like this occurs. This will never work out and rest assured it will only get worse.
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We should stop giving them money and aid.
The money would be better spent and bringing them to a place where they can rest in peace.
I find the whole thing very sad and an insukt to their service
Regards
Col
The money would be better spent and bringing them to a place where they can rest in peace.
I find the whole thing very sad and an insukt to their service
Regards
Col
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SRENNAPS,
I was so sickened when I saw the footage that I was moved to write to my MP - coincidentally the Right Honourable Philip Hammond MP, asking those very points.
Bluntie
I was so sickened when I saw the footage that I was moved to write to my MP - coincidentally the Right Honourable Philip Hammond MP, asking those very points.
Bluntie
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We could solve it the Taliban way....re-colonise, appoint a new Gaddhafi as our man in charge, take off the gloves ....and hang long lines of dissenters, publicly from lamp posts in the streets of Benghazi.
Of course some might see that as a little extreme .......
Of course some might see that as a little extreme .......
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
these people have been the subject of foreign (white man) intervention and rule for centuries, they know whats happened.
Barbary corsairs
The Barbary Corsairs, sometimes called Ottoman Corsairs or Berber Pirates, were pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, a term derived from the name of its Berber inhabitants. Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard and even South America,[1] and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland, but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean. In addition to seizing ships, they engaged in Razzias, raids on European coastal towns and villages, mainly in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, but also in England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Ireland, and as far away as Iceland. The main purpose of their attacks was to capture Christian slaves for the Islamic market in North Africa and the Middle East.[2]
While such raids had occurred since soon after the Muslim conquest of the region, the terms Barbary Pirates and Barbary Corsairs are normally applied to the raiders active from the 16th century onwards, when the frequency and range of the slavers' attacks increased and Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli came under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire, either as directly administered provinces or as autonomous dependencies known as the Barbary States. Similar raids were undertaken from Bou Regreg and Salé and other ports in Morocco, but strictly speaking Morocco, which never came under Ottoman dominance, was not one of the Barbary States.
Göke (1495) was the flagship of Kemal Reis at the Battle of Zonchio
Corsairs captured thousands of ships, and long stretches of coast in Spain and Italy were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants, discouraging settlement until the 19th century. From the 16th to 19th century, corsairs captured an estimated 800,000 to 1.25 million people as slaves.[2] Some corsairs were European outcasts such as John Ward, Zymen Danseker and Henry Mainwaring.[3] Hayreddin Barbarossa and Oruç Reis, the Barbarossa brothers, who took control of Algiers on behalf of the Ottomans in the early 16th century, were also famous corsairs. The European pirates brought state-of-the-art sailing and shipbuilding techniques to the Barbary Coast around 1600, which enabled the corsairs to extend their activities into the Atlantic Ocean,[3] and the impact of Barbary raids peaked in the early to mid-17th century.........
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Just watched the review of newspapers on the BBC News and I see that the Mail on Sunday has made it front page news. Well done to them. The BBC mentioned that there was also “some video footage” on line somewhere. So why don’t they show it on their News as a proper report ???
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Shall we have a "Day of Rage", or storm and burn a few Embassies ? The excuse is the irreverent disposal of the Korans in Afghanistan of course - why are they so much better at propaganda than us ? Could it be that they are not suffocated by liberal dogma and Political Correctness
I wonder what the Saudis do with all the confiscated Bibles and Christian symbols ?
I wonder what the Saudis do with all the confiscated Bibles and Christian symbols ?
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Given how the BBC just loves to regurgitate online footage already posted elsewhere and then signpost it as "news", one can only assume that its vague reference to footage means that they haven't yet visited Liveleak.
Or maybe it's that the BBC is so keen not to do anything that might cast a minority in a bad light that actually they're going to conveniently forgo the opportunity to recycle this little bit of film.
Which one could it be, I wonder.
Or maybe it's that the BBC is so keen not to do anything that might cast a minority in a bad light that actually they're going to conveniently forgo the opportunity to recycle this little bit of film.
Which one could it be, I wonder.
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In the Aussie media (The Age) it says the Libya's National Transitional Council has apologised and vowed to find those responsible.
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And if they do find those responsible, what are they going to do? Congratulate them?
The NTC is already blocking any extradition attempt by the British Government to try those responsible for the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1986, so I very much doubt that they'll do anything much at all to this bunch of idiots.
The NTC is already blocking any extradition attempt by the British Government to try those responsible for the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1986, so I very much doubt that they'll do anything much at all to this bunch of idiots.