[POL-SC #948] Free Fidel

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 12:46 schreef pberends het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 12:53 schreef Drugshond het volgende:

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Tegenwerken van de Nederlandse cultuur tradities.

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 12:57 schreef Autodidact het volgende:
FP is kapot (in Firefox), leve de FP .

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 13:01 schreef Yildiz het volgende:

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In IE zie ik de reacties niet meer. De foto's ook al weken niet meer.

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Sat. 06 May 2006

The Guardian

Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor

Jack Straw made two crucial mistakes in his dealings with Tony Blair: one involved the prime minister's relationship with Gordon Brown and the other Iran. Mr Straw has said repeatedly that it is "inconceivable" that there will be a military strike on Iran and last month dismissed as "nuts" a report that George Bush was keeping on the table the option of using tactical nuclear weapons against Tehran's nuclear plants.

But Mr Blair, who sees Iran as the world's biggest threat, does not agree with his former foreign secretary. The prime minister argues that, at the very least, nothing should be ruled out in order to keep Iran guessing. Downing Street phoned the Foreign Office several times to suggest Mr Straw stop going on the BBC Today programme and ruling it out so categorically.

His fate was sealed when the White House called Mr Blair and asked why the foreign secretary kept saying these things. In any case, Mr Straw had boxed himself in on Iran to the extent that he would have had to resign if a military strike became a reality.

Mr Blair was also irritated by what he saw as Mr Straw's opportunism in shifting his loyalty towards Mr Brown with unseemly haste in expectation that he would be the next prime minister.

Iran is one of the issues consuming the Foreign Office and Downing Street. Iraq is the other, and between them they will take up most of Margaret Beckett's time. Mrs Beckett will fly to New York on Monday for a meeting with Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, with whom Mr Straw had established a close rapport, and counterparts from France, Germany, Russia and China to discuss a new UN security council resolution on Iran.

Among the first questions the media will ask is whether she too regards the military option as "inconceivable".

The Foreign Office has taken a battering under Labour. Part of its portfolio, international development, was hived off in 1997 to become a separate department, with its own cabinet minister. And now Mr Blair has created a twin power structure in the Foreign Office by appointing a former cabinet member to what had previously been a relatively junior post, minister for Europe.

Despite the importance placed on relations with Washington, the bulk of British trade is with Europe as is the country's political future. Britain's presidency of the EU, though there was a deal in the end, was fraught.

There is a potential for friction in making the European post more high-profile, but the personalities of Mrs Beckett and Geoff Hoon, both government loyalists, do not suggest conflict.

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WC: United States team bus to show no flag

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The official team bus to be used by the United States during the World Cup will not bear a flag for security reasons.

The 32 official buses were presented Thursday in Frankfurt and the other 31 buses have large national flags of the their teams painted on rear sides.

German and U.S. security officials came to the conclusion to leave the flag off the U.S. team bus, an official of the German organizing committee said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the topic.

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The makers of combat video games have unwittingly become part of a global propaganda campaign by Islamic militants to exhort Muslim youths to take up arms against the United States, officials said on Thursday.

Tech-savvy militants from al Qaida and other groups have modified video war games so that U.S. troops play the role of bad guys in running gunfights against heavily armed Islamic heroes, a Defense Department official and contractors told Congress.

The games appear on militant websites, where youths as young as 7 can play at being troop-killing urban guerillas after registering with the site's sponsors.

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 14:40 schreef Autodidact het volgende:
Het zijn trouwens natuurlijk Al Qaida-leden en andere turrists .

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Nederland zit nu midden in een repressieve golf zoals in de jaren 30 van de vorige eeuw.''

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 14:48 schreef Autodidact het volgende:
Staat toch in die tekst: Tech-savvy militants from al Qaida and other groups have modified video war games

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 14:52 schreef NightH4wk het volgende:

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Dan krijg je het wel druk op internet met gejank om al die articles op miljoenen sites. Veel is idd bullshit of niet significant, maar sla het dan over en besteed je tijd beter.

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 14:53 schreef Autodidact het volgende:

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Gejank? Het viel me gewoon op hoor.

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 14:54 schreef NightH4wk het volgende:

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Ok, zeker doen als je het leuk vindt. [afbeelding]

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Flanaghan may lose the little sleep still left to him when he learns that sales of pencils in Britain are reported to have risen 700% on the back of the Sudoku boom. Or that, in November, British Airways issued a memo to its 13 000 cabin staff, forbidding them from attempting the puzzles during take-off and landing. Or that the craze - until recently the preserve of Japan and Britain - has been embraced by the US in the past 12 months to the extent that no US newspaper is complete without a piece about how it is sweeping the nation.

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 16:01 schreef Autodidact het volgende:
Sudoku: puzzling craze now a global pandemic
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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 16:31 schreef George-Butters het volgende:

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Ik vind er echt geen hol aan.

Geneuzel met cijfers.

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 16:33 schreef Johan_de_With het volgende:

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Wat studeerde je ook alweer?