FatB

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  1. lools thats a great idea NG somali national party getting rid of foregne scum one nation!
  2. NGONGE - man i the whole office is looking me laughing at this
  3. Jb what are u doing here when ur nearby mosk is in tarawiix Eid mubarak fellas for the concensus is eid will be tomorow insha allah
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    EID MUBARAK

    eid on friday? eid mubarak fellow nomads
  5. do what we in stralia do - get ur education then bail on the country - but 50k is heeps just for undergrad
  6. its cold in the office might need to buy funaano dhaxan duing lunch
  7. inalilaah wa inali lahi raajicuun! An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday. The soldier, who has only been identified as "Captain R", was charged with relatively minor offences for the killing of Iman al-Hams who was shot 17 times as she ventured near an Israeli army post near Rafah refugee camp in Gaza a year ago. The manner of Iman's killing, and the revelation of a tape recording in which the captain is warned that she was just a child who was "scared to death", made the shooting one of the most controversial since the Palestinian intifada erupted five years ago even though hundreds of other children have also died. After the verdict, Iman's father, Samir al-Hams, said the army never intended to hold the soldier accountable. "They did not charge him with Iman's murder, only with small offences, and now they say he is innocent of those even though he shot my daughter so many times," he said. "This was the cold-blooded murder of a girl. The soldier murdered her once and the court has murdered her again. What is the message? They are telling their soldiers to kill Palestinian children." The military court cleared the soldier of illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and perverting the course of justice by asking soldiers under his command to alter their accounts of the incident. Capt R's lawyers argued that the "confirmation of the kill" after a suspect is shot was a standard Israeli military practice to eliminate terrorist threats. Following the verdict, Capt R burst into tears, turned to the public benches and said: "I told you I was innocent." The army's official account said that Iman was shot for crossing into a security zone carrying her schoolbag which soldiers feared might contain a bomb. It is still not known why the girl ventured into the area but witnesses described her as at least 100 yards from the military post which was in any case well protected. A recording of radio exchanges between Capt R and his troops obtained by Israeli television revealed that from the beginning soldiers identified Iman as a child. In the recording, a soldier in a watchtower radioed a colleague in the army post's operations room and describes Iman as "a little girl" who was "scared to death". After soldiers first opened fire, she dropped her schoolbag which was then hit by several bullets establishing that it did not contain explosive. At that point she was no longer carrying the bag and, the tape revealed, was heading away from the army post when she was shot. Although the military speculated that Iman might have been trying to "lure" the soldiers out of their base so they could be attacked by accomplices, Capt R made the decision to lead some of his troops into the open. Shortly afterwards he can be heard on the recording saying that he has shot the girl and, believing her dead, then "confirmed the kill". "I and another soldier ... are going in a little nearer, forward, to confirm the kill ... Receive a situation report. We fired and killed her ... I also confirmed the kill. Over," he said. Palestinian witnesses said they saw the captain shoot Iman twice in the head, walk away, turn back and fire a stream of bullets into her body. On the tape, Capt R then "clarifies" to the soldiers under his command why he killed Iman: "This is commander. Anything that's mobile, that moves in the [security] zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed." At no point did the Israeli troops come under attack. The prosecution case was damaged when a soldier who initially said he had seen Capt R point his weapon at the girl's body and open fire later told the court he had fabricated the story. Capt R claimed that he had not fired the shots at the girl but near her. However, Dr Mohammed al-Hams, who inspected the child's body at Rafah hospital, counted numerous wounds. "She has at least 17 bullets in several parts of the body, all along the chest, hands, arms, legs," he told the Guardian shortly afterwards. "The bullets were large and shot from a close distance. The most serious injuries were to her head. She had three bullets in the head. One bullet was shot from the right side of the face beside the ear. It had a big impact on the whole face." The army's initial investigation concluded that the captain had "not acted unethically". But after some of the soldiers under his command went to the Israeli press to give a different version, the military police launched a separate investigation after which he was charged. Capt R claimed that the soldiers under his command were out to get him because they are Jewish and he is Druze souces
  8. so drained missed suxur last night
  9. lols @ hard rock - a touch of ironey there?
  10. 30 minutes to go and after that ifar!
  11. so draind - 5o'clock cant come fast enough!
  12. hating juggling uni and work -
  13. Mogadishu: Men are forced to grow beards. Women can't leave home without a male relative. Music, movies and watching sports on TV are banned. Limbs are chopped off as punishment, and executions by stoning have become a public spectacle. Somalia is looking more and more like Afghanistan under the Taliban — two rugged countries 2,000 miles apart, each lacking a central government, each with a Islamist militia that cows the public into submission. Al Shabab in Somalia and the Taliban in Afghanistan — their tactics increasingly mirror each other. Those tactics worked for the Taliban until the US invasion overthrew it in 2001, and now they are making a comeback. Meanwhile, Al Shabab has gained control over large swaths of this arid Horn of Africa country. In the latest adoption of tactics long used by the Afghan militants, Al Shabab is ordering households in southern Somalia to contribute a boy to the militants' ranks. Childless families have to pay Al Shabab $50 a month. That's Somalia's per capita income. An Al Shabab commander attributed the shared tactics and ideology to the fact that both groups follow a strict form of Islam. "One more thing we deeply share is the hatred of infidels," the commander, Abu Dayib, said. Some experts say the similarities are no accident. "Al Shabab is copying exactly whatever the Taliban was doing in the late 1990s, because they think the strategies the Taliban employed in Afghanistan were successful," said Vahid Mujdeh, the Afghan author of a book on the Taliban. "There is no doubt that the Taliban are like heroes for Al Shabab." A 26-year-old woman named Ubah felt Al Shabab's brutality firsthand. She was visiting a moneychanger in the southern town of Kismayo with a male cousin when two young militants accused them of engaging in an illicit relationship after they couldn't show proof they were related. Hours later the militants whipped Ubah and her cousin — 80 lashes for the man and 50 for Ubah. source
  14. ^loools sorry i just had a image of you with a celery stick on a treadmill bobbing your head to this
  15. Images of over emotional zealous indian and Pakistanis rioting on the streets of new deli and Islamabad will be splash in the screens of cnn/ bbc and co - looking forward to it
  16. so drain lols at 15 hours a day, i remember when it was that bad for us - aa the summer of '99 - paskatan and australia were playing the third day of the second test at the 'wacca' wasim akram was on fire
  17. its the cups seeker? and where do u leave the soaking rice, in the fridge?
  18. i disagree - i prefer to kick back at home asleep or something - feel so drainded at work
  19. was was driving to a uni group session yesterday i drove past 3 KFC outless before on the fourth i went through th drive by window, sat there for a minute looked at the car clock 3 hours till iftar - then drove off....
  20. 'Ummatii, ummatii, ummatii?' - 'My people, my people, my people.' incredibly powerful words these, may allah help u see the magnitude and symbolism of these words
  21. i find myself stuggling this ramadan am i alone in this?