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Algerians Naming Their Daughters “Gaza Strip”

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Firas Press reports that an Algerian town has started naming daughters “Gaza” in solidarity with Palestinian Arabs who live there.

Given the sewage problems there, let’s hope that the babies don’t suffer from severe diarrhea.

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Tags: Africa, Middle East Conflict

Channeling the Scoob

Monday, October 29th, 2007

I couldn’t resist cracking a smile at this (hat tip: Elder of Ziyon)

The Zionist lobby and its meddling in the Darfur crisis is a major problem facing the war-torn province, a Sudanese official has said.

The Secretary General of the Council of Foreign Media at the Sudanese Ministry of Information, Bakri Mallah, told Alalam on Thursday the reports indicate that former US assistant director for aid in Sudan, Roger Winter, who is also a member of the Zionist lobby, had a hand in the Darfur crisis.

“The Zionist lobby’s interventions, despite the denial of some parties, are obviously clear. They formed a coalition of Zionist parties under the name of “save Darfur” to undermine peace and stability in the region,” Mallah said.

Also in year 1998 an EIR (Executive Intelligence Review) team probing the causes behind the genocidal wars that had been ravaging East and Central Africa since 1994, uncovered a covert arms and logistical supply network run out of the US State Department, which mirrored precisely the Zionists’ hand in widespread illegal narcotics and arms trafficking into Central Africa for the “rebels” fighting the government of Sudan.

One of the two leading operatives who had been caught red-handed in such dirty operations toward Central Africa was Roger Winter, former assistant director for aid in Sudan.

Winter has been appointed by President Bush in 2001 to a senior post in the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

And to think they would have gotten away with peace in Darfur had it not been for those meddling yids.

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Tags: Africa, Anti-Semitism

Getting Lucky

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
This couple really got lucky…in more ways than one.
A couple caught having sex in a Kenyan mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan have been sentenced to 18 months jail for what the judge called an “abominable” affront to religion.
 
Peter Kimani and Jennifer Wairimu pleaded guilty to the charge of having sex in a place of worship after being caught on October 3 at the Abubakar mosque in Gilgil, about 60 miles north of Nairobi. Neither is a Muslim.
 
A worshipper heading for evening prayers found the couple having sex after investigating what the prosecution described as strange noises emanating from a dark corner of the mosque.
 
Kimani and Wairimu both pleaded for clemency at Monday’s hearing, saying they were too drunk to know where they were. Kimani told the court he thought he was in a lodging house.
 
John King’ori, senior magistrate in nearby Naivasha, dismissed their plea.
 
“Having sex in a mosque is a most abominable thing to religion and only a custodial sentence can add justice to this,” he said.
Having sex in public…in a mosque…during Ramadan…and offering the excuse that they were drunk. These people are a Darwin Award waiting to happen. They’re just lucky that Islam is not the official religion of Kenya.

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Tags: Africa

The Ghanan and the Flag

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Israellycool reader Joseph writes to me about a curious incident at the World Cup:

…..when Ghana won, one of the Ghanian players pulled out an Israeli flag and waved it all around on his victory run…I did not see this game due to the Jewish Sabbath, so I did some detective work, and managed to find proof of what Joseph was referring to, in the form of the following picture and caption:
 
Ghana’s Sulley Ali Muntari (C) celebrates after scoring his team’s second goal against the Czech Republic with team mates as Ghana’s John Painstil (R) holds an Israeli flag during their Group E World Cup 2006 soccer match in Cologne June 17, 2006. Painstil plays for Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. REUTERS/Albert Gea
I like how the Reuters man added in an explanation for the flag - in case you G-d forbid thought that Painstil was displaying it in a sign of solidarity with Israel.

Update: More reader power! Brian from London notes that 3 Ghanan players play club football in Israel. Golda would be proud.

 
Update: Now the Jerusalem Post have a story on Painstil’s gesture, but do not really shed any light as to whether he did it as a sign of solidarity with Israel, or just for his Hapoel Tel Aviv teammates.
Sources at Hapoel Tel Aviv disclosed later that the Ghanaian international had promised to perform the act if his team scored in the World Cup.

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Tags: Africa, Soccer

Why I Wouldn’t Lend Money to Nigeria

Friday, April 21st, 2006

The BBC reports:

Nigeria is due to pay off its billion-dollar Paris Club debt on Friday, becoming the first African nation to settle with its lenders.

Any creditor country wanting to receive their money need only send their bank’s name, telephone, account and fax numbers, and the transfer should be completed at latest seven banking days from receipt of the above.

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Tags: Africa

Double Whammy

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
It’s been a tragic day for Nigeria.
 
A Nigerian airliner with 116 people on board including some senior officials crashed shortly after taking off from Lagos en route to the capital Abuja, the Government said.
 
The Nigerian Red Cross said yesterday the crash site had been located in Lissa, about 30 kilometres north of Lagos in Ogun state, and the aircraft appeared to have been destroyed.
 
“There were no traces of any survivors. The rescuers saw charred bodies,” said the Red Cross general secretary, Abiodun Orebiyi.
Stella Obasanjo, wife of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, died Sunday at a hospital in Spain, officials said.
 
She had traveled to Spain to undergo surgery and died from complications resulting from that surgery, authorities said.
 
Obasanjo, 59, was “rushed to the hospital late Saturday and the condition became critical,” an official at the Nigerian Embassy in Madrid told CNN.
Unless you are a scammer. Can you imagine how many different Nigerian scam emails will be born from this?

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Tags: Africa