Sweden has withdrawn its aircraft from an international air exercise after finding out Israel was taking part. Sweden had been due to send six fighter jets to the Volcanex 2006 exercise in Italy as part of preparations for international peacekeeping operations. The government strongly denies Israeli media speculation that there was a political reason for pulling out or that it is boycotting Israel. The foreign ministry says it is down to appropriate use of limited resources. The Israeli press ran headlines of a "Swedish boycott" and the National Religious Party described the move as "anti-Semitic". Sweden traditionally sticks to a policy of neutrality, but is involved in UN peacekeeping and Nato's Partnership for Peace programme. It is nothing to do with relations with Israel, which are warm and important at this time Jan Eliasson Swedish Foreign Minister Swedish Defence Minister Leni Bjoerklund said the scenario for the exercise in May, involving 10 European countries, had initially been international peacekeeping missions. Not mentioning Israel by name, she said the armed forces were told at a late stage "that a state not belonging to the Partnership for Peace, and with which Sweden did not previously have bilateral military co-operation and which does not take part in international peacekeeping missions", was to take part. 'Practical' reason She said the government advised the armed forces that "Sweden's participation was no longer regarded as appropriate". Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson said due to the high cost of taking part and limited resources, Sweden had to focus on exercises that involved its immediate partners. "We don't see Israel as a country that we will in all probability co-operate with in peacekeeping operations for the time being," he said. He said it was in no way a boycott and was "purely practical". Mr Eliasson said his ministry would talk to the Israeli government to reassure them of their position. source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4950980.stm

^^^you wish :rolleyes: scarface you wish too, get a life you losers :rolleyes: you could not get within 30miles of me :rolleyes:

^^^loool. trouble maker!!

loool yeah about 2mins; what! them books are depressing. :rolleyes:

look at the difference between now and back then..... the people wer healthy, eating and happy.....some wer happy others werent....different situation....different times...different people.... What!!! Maybe you were happy, healthy and eating well, but there are many who will disagree with you. Situations are the product of time. The current situation is a direct result of the Siyaad’s bad rule, which has been reproduced, time and time again. I doubt you will ever get a Somali government that cares 2cents about anyone but the little town and diverting funds.

ThePoint i will try and find you a good book on the issue. Scarface :rolleyes: that’s 21years that I didn’t see, I guess it depends on where you (your family was sitting) some people are not so thankful for his crimes. As far as i am concerned, he and every single warlord are idiotic, evil people that deserve the back of my shoe. And people who have admiration for them need to be slapped into reality no disrespect. In fact i am against any Somali man over the age of 35, they are the roots of all problems, and responsibly for spreading hate and twistedness/ backwardness. Get rid of them an dyou will get peace in somalia

yes i have only ever seen one farah there and i've been a regular for 3years that i've been at uni . Heaven on earth

Ibtisam we have ourselves a date me no take no for answer any time sis. as long as you don't drag ur farahs with you. For shisha. Oxford street has many places, that are cheap and cheerful. not telling you where, don't want it backed out with SOL farahs

Firstly. I have no attachments or blinded by any tribe, someone who lacks a tribe themselves does not affiliate themselves with people that they do not share anything with. So you are wrong to assume that I am blinded by tribe etc. My pass 15yrs have been perfect, living on fish and chips is not hard at all. But as a human rights campaigner I have issues with that man. The problems Somalia is having up to till this day is an extension of his evil actions. He hired a couple of hold guys to write the alphabets, mind you, it is not necessarily a good things, not from my perspectives, because if it was not for him, Somalis would've still been using Arabic, and i would be having an easy life. In any case I think at times someone’s faults and human rights abuses can far over weigh any supposed good they did. Back to Mandela, what you have typed in one version, the popularised version. Read around and you will find his so called four by four cell looks different from m angle. Good luck with your research. Cheers

truth hurts

. You keep changing you bloody name^ are you that bored :rolleyes: People like Mandela is why Africa has not moved forward. They passive everyone. By the way. i can never be your edo, so rest your little self :rolleyes: and what is happening 2016

Mandela of South Africa is not a hero; everyone knows he is pants; dig a little deeper PLZ SIYAD BARRE, SURELY HE WAS GRAET IN MANY WAYS, :mad: i didn’t read further than that. How can you even type such words!!! :mad: i think you have bigger problems than finding a hero. :rolleyes:

30 Are Killed in Sinai as Bombs Rock Egyptian Resort City: DAHAB, Egypt, Tuesday, April 25 — Three blasts tore through Dahab, a crowded resort town on the Sinai Peninsula, on Monday night, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 115. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Map: Seaside Attacks Photographs: Egyptian Resort Bombings Video Report Enlarge This Image Aleksander Rabij/Reuters Blood stained the road Monday night outside a shop in Dahab, after it was wrecked by a bomb. The Sinai resort is popular with budget travelers. More Photos » The attack, the third at a popular Sinai resort in two years, once again raised the specter of one of the United States' closest allies in the Arab world facing a homegrown terrorist threat trying to destabilize the government. There was confusion in the hours after the blasts, but what was clear was that this resort town on the Gulf of Aqaba, a quaint tourist spot frequented by back-packers and scuba divers, was awash in blood on one of the most popular holiday weekends of the Egyptian calendar. It was the third time that terrorists struck near a national holiday. It is on this day that Egypt celebrates the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from Sinai in 1982. "I do not think it is a coincidence that this attack happens amid celebration of Sinai Liberation Day," the interior minister, Habib al-Adli, said on Egyptian television. "The other two attacks in Taba and Sharm el Sheik also took place during celebration of national occasions; that raises question marks. "We will catch all those responsible very soon." Egyptian authorities at first said the bombs appeared to have been detonated by remote control. Later a local official said the explosions appeared to be the work of suicide bombers. An investigator at the scene on Tuesday morning said that the bombs were all timed explosive packs, and that there was no evidence of suicide attackers. The bombs started going off at about 7:15 p.m., in the center of the city, where the streets were packed with tourists also celebrating the Coptic observance of Easter on Sunday and the ancient Egyptian spring festival of Sham el Nessim. The commerical strip of this tiny resort center stretches along the azure waters of the bay, and those who planted the bombs set their deadly packages from one end of the walkway to the other. First hit was the Nelson Restaurant, then the Aladdin Cafe and then the Ghazala Supermarket, all within five minutes. The blasts were not huge, but large enough to spread destruction up and down the walks, which were stained with blood. As survivors ran for cover, television images showed a grisly scene with charred body parts, and merchants trying to cover the blackened boardwalk with newspaper. Ambulances rushed in a procession from Cairo, more than six hours away, to help carry the wounded to hospitals. "Bodies were everywhere," said Ahmed el Tabakh, who said he ran into the middle of the chaos moments after the blast near the supermarket. "We carried bodies until the government came." The wounded were ferried by cars to the local hospital, and then to a larger hospital in Sharm el Sheikh, two hours away. By morning, as the sun rose over the bay, people had begun to clean up the mess and sort through the rubble. The windows of shops catering to tourists with names like Lotus Flower and Mona Lisa were smashed. Investigators worked carefully scooping up forensic evidence, sweeping ashes and charred debris into bags. "With the sound of the explosion we thought it was Judgment Day," said Addal Ramadan, who was working in a mobile phone shop near the site of one of the blasts. He said he saw at least 30 people on the ground. Officials said that the bombings did not appear to be sophisticated, and that the blasts did not appear as powerful as attacks in Taba in October 2004 and in Sharm el Sheikh in July 2005. The Taba attack killed 34 people and the Sharm el Sheikh bombing left at least 60 dead. "Our initial investigation proved that this operation was not sophisticated, and the explosions were not very strong," said Mr. Adli, the interior minister. "The explosives were done in a very basic way." Dahab, which means gold in Arabic, is more out of the way than the popular Sharm el Sheik or Taba. It is effectively two villages, a Bedouin village in the south and the administrative center in the north. Like other areas in the Sinai, Dahab remains popular among Israelis. Last week, many Israelis visited during the long Passover weekend, but most had left by Wednesday. When terrorists first struck in 2004, the government said the attack appeared to be an extension of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. When bombers struck again in Sinai, the government acknowledged that the two attacks were linked, and that they had been carried out by residents of the northern Sinai. For months, Egypt's security forces chased suspected terrorists in the craggy mountains there. Now Egypt is once again acknowledging a pattern, though officials said it is far too soon to determine if the three blasts on Monday were connected with the earlier attacks. The one in Taba occurred one day after a holiday commemorating the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The one in Sharm el Sheik occurred on July 23, or Revolution Day. President Hosni Mubarak called the blasts a "sinful terrorist action" and vowed to track down those responsible. In Washington, President Bush also condemned the attacks, as did the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas, the militant group that recently won control of the Palestinian government. Early reports said that at least four foreigners had been killed in Dahab, along with many Egyptians. Amr el-Choubaki, a military analyst with the government-financed Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo, said the three bombings in two years demonstrated that there are small, liked-minded if independent cells of terrorists operating in Egypt. "Since Taba we are starting to see new clusters of cells that don't have a comprehensive project," he said. "They are cries of objection aiming to harm and pain the regime." But he also said the attacks demonstrated a failure on the part of state security, which he says has focused too much of its energy on political opposition. "The security structure is distracted and busy confronting opposition parties, judges and journalists," he said, "and is not making combating terrorist organizations its primary goal." The attack came one day after Al Jazeera television network broadcast an audiotape said to be of Osama bin Laden. There was no evidence that Mr. bin Laden or his Qaeda network was connected to the attacks. source:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/world/middleeast/25egypt.html?th&emc=th

^^^ i don't think you read the article dear! have a another go; loool @boats

^^^like i have time to waste on you :rolleyes: on a serious note i think you have me confused Didi Kong :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

^^looool you were his PR you two are as bad as each other!!!! Scarface; this (IBtisam) is the independent women you use to here about and watch on MTV. Your card and you are worthless. Money cannot buy you Me; truth be told your taxi/security or even worse DSS money don't impress me. The daughter of a prince does not need to be a gold digger, especially with poor skinny farahs with yellow teeth!!! Now out of my way, I have given you more attention than you deserve. Nameless; dear what are you talking about??? :confused: Khalaf; have your tried your hands at creative writing for entertainment purposes; Felechxum; sorry for hi-jacking your thread; but it was not me; it was the farah's fighting P.s who is a "little gal" :rolleyes:

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: what :eek: I’ve never paid for anything. ever ever :rolleyes: so why on GOd earth would you think an imaginary Ibtisam will suddenly start paying :rolleyes:

^^^What :rolleyes: i think you had too much khat today :rolleyes:

Ø·ÙÙ„ مغربي يتكلم لغة غوته بالÙطرة ويحلم برئاسة ألمانيا عثمان ÙÙŠ حديث مع مواطنة ألمانية جاءت للوقو٠على حالته الغريبة (الجزيرة) لم يجد أحد تÙسيرا علميا لحالة Ø·ÙÙ„ مغربي ÙÙŠ عامه العاشر، بدأ يتكلم اللغة الألمانية بالÙطرة منذ نعومة أظاÙره ودون أن تطأ رجلاه ألمانيا أو يكون أحد Ø£Ùراد عائلته المقيمة بمكناس (وسط المغرب) يجيد لغة غوته. ÙÙŠ بداية اكتسابه لأولى المهارات اللغوية أبدت عائلته -التي لم تزر ألمانيا قط- بعض التخو٠نظرا لغرابة طريقة تلÙظه للحروÙØŒ لكن منذ بلوغه عامه الثالث اكتش٠والداه بÙضل أقارب له أن عثمان يتكلم اللغة الألمانية إلى جانب لغة الأم وهي المحكية المغربية. أمام هذا الوضع بدأت أمه تتعلم اللغة الألمانية بالاحتكاك بابنها وذلك لتسهيل التواصل معه وللتمكن من الاستجابة بسرعة لرغباته التي يعبر عنها باللغة الألمانية. ومع مرور الوقت ازداد لغز عثمان عمقا، ÙˆÙÙŠ محاولة Ù„Ùهم هذه المعجزة أخذ الوالد ابنه إلى الرباط قبل نحو عام لمقابلة سÙير ألمانيا الذي تبادل أطرا٠الحديث مع الولد المعجزة بلغة ألمانية سليمة وسأله عن كيÙية تعلمه هذه اللغة Ùرد عثمان راÙعا يده إلى السماء "غوت غوت" (الله الله). وأمام غرابة الموق٠سأل السÙير محاوره الغريب عن أمنيته ÙÙŠ المستقبل Ùرد عثمان بأنه يحلم بأن يصير رئيسا لألمانيا. ويروي أبو عثمان أنه بعد عشرة أيام من تلك المقابلة عاد مرة أخرى إلى الرباط للقاء سÙير ألمانيا Ùأخبروه أن الدبلوماسي الألماني اعتنق الإسلام وعاد إلى بلاده. وقد زار عدة مهتمين باللغة الألمانية إلى جانب مواطنين ألمان الطÙÙ„ عثمان لمحاولة استجلاء حالته المحيرة بكل المقاييس. ولم يجد أحد التربويين المغاربة أي تÙسير منطقي للحالة إلا الإقرار بأنها معجزة إلهية. وأظهرت الجزيرة ÙÙŠ تقرير ضمن برنامج "مراسلو الجزيرة" الطÙÙ„ عثمان وهو يتبادل أطرا٠الحديث مع ضيو٠ألمان جاؤوا إلى مدنية مكناس للوقو٠على هذه الحالة الغريبة source: http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3F355501-8F37-4E72-B196-415EF29E2923.htm

huh ???? :confused: :confused: i think you have me confused in your old age

Originally posted by ScarFace: ^^^^^hahhaaa I see I got a fan base on SOL Iby & Yahoo_uk son daddy's back I see you been tryin to go behind daddies back........ well dont worry son I WONT BEAT YOU with my bakoorad i will just step out of the way for you i know you madly fallen for Ibtisam but she dont know you been secreetly sending her the flowers and the box of choco's ME & IBY wouldnt work out she keeps moaning about how i dont show HER enough attention and always bothering me about me KHAT...... woman leave me and my khat in peace........ :cool: what names????? and dont get it twisted you mean the damn sexy battle scar ...... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: someone is geeting a big head. i'm so sick of being thrown from one farah to another. leave me in peace. you are all grass eating good for nothing farahs what battle scare. you mean when you got your *** kicked in edgeware road? :confused: can't remember the names now. maybe it will come to me later

yeah how did you know :cool: stop spreading rumours and trashing people's reputation.

IT is very very easy to get into university in the UK :confused: some of the foreign students in my university i wonder why on God's earth they got in and why they would waste £13000 a year for three years to get a fail or a 3rd madness.

okay i take it all back. me and scarface are twins just kidding Yahoo. I think you are miss informed. Are you telling me that beautiful people normally go for ugly partners? Sometimes it does not work. if it was always true then i could see a potential hazards environment between me and you. After all we are opposite. I’m female and you are supposedly male hhhm better rethink that one. Oh and you best run before scareface arrives with his walking stick and beats you silly.

what do you mean exactly; i share none of those characteristics; :confused: