The Guardian

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At first light last Friday, in the Chardarah district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, the villagers gathered around the twisted wreckage of two fuel tankers that had been hit by a Nato airstrike. They picked their way through a heap of almost a hundred charred bodies and mangled limbs which were mixed with ash, mud and the melted plastic of jerry cans, looking for their brothers, sons and cousins. They called out their names but received no answers. By this time, everyone was dead.

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LONDON: The Iraqi journalist, who shot to instant fame for throwing his shoes at George W Bush, has been inundated with offers of cars, homes, money
and even a wife in the run up to his release from prison, a media report said.

"This is your farewell kiss, you dog. This is for the widows and orphans of Iraq," Muntazer al-Zaidi had said while throwing a pair of shoes at the then US President Bush during a press conference in Baghdad last December.

Now, in preparation for his early release next Monday, following a presidential pardon, the offers are rolling in for Zaidi who has won the adulation of millions in the Arab world, 'The Guardian' reported.

LONDON: Afghanistan has enacted a new legislation empowering men of Shia sect of Islam to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to
obey their husbands' sexual demands, a media report said on Saturday.

The new final draft of the legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers, and requires women to get permission from their husbands to work, The Guardian reported.

"It also effectively allows a rapist to avoid prosecution by paying 'blood money' to a girl who was injured when he raped her," the report said quoting US charity Human Rights Watch.

From yesterdays GDN paper...

" TEHRAN:
A hardline Iranian cleric called yesterday for the execution of leading "rioters" to teach a lesson to the tens of thousands who have protested against the result of the presidential election two weeks ago.

"I want the judiciary to ... punish leading rioters firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson," Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts, told worshippers at Tehran University.

Iran's top legislative body, the Guardian Council, said it had found no major violations in the election, which it described as the "healthiest" since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but said 10 per cent of ballot boxes would be recounted.

BARACK Obama urged Twitter to postpone a planned upgrade so that Iranians could continue to exchange their meaningless thoughts about television programmes and clothes.

(Supreme Leader of the Guardian Council, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has eight friends on Bebo but only 2 on Facebook, one of which is dead. Denies that he is bigandbouncy on Qatar Living)

The US president stepped in, fearing the country's anti-government protests could fizzle-out unless millions were able to discuss their lunch plans as dismembered limbs flew past their office windows.

Do you agree ?????? Are you a Malthusian ? :))

It's official: Malthusianism, the belief that there are too many people on the planet, has become fashionable. A-list fashionable. Alongside the grumpy old men in grey suits who have traditionally made up the Malthusian lobby, Hollywood starlets now bemoan the burden of humanity on the planet.

Cameron Diaz has come out as a population-worrier. Asked in the current issue of Cosmopolitan why she hasn't had any children, she replied: "We don't need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet." She has displayed her "Malthusian bent", says a BBC blogger, who argues: "It's all the rage at the moment … to link unchecked population growth and damage to the environment."

When they were caught and accused, the whole media world had it as BREAKING NEWS, front pages had the news when truth comes out, media does not even want to cover it. This is how the media do a systematic planned damage to spread fear and hatred against Islam and Muslims.

Trio not guilty of helping 7/7 London bombers

Jury clears men of conspiring with four bombers over London 2005 explosions that killed 52

Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil and Sadeer Saleem

From left: Waheed Ali, Sadeer Saleem, and Mohammed Shakil. Photograph: Metropolitan police

Three British Muslims were today cleared of helping the 7 July bombers choose their targets by carrying out a reconnaissance mission in London seven months before the attacks that killed 52 people and injured almost 1,000.

Here are 10 of the top April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped.

In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop.

Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home.

In 1985, Sports Illustrated magazine published a story that a rookie baseball pitcher who could reportedly throw a ball at 270 kilometers per hour (168 miles per hour) was set to join the New York Mets.

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A senior official in Turkey called Mr. Rasmussen "unacceptable," and someone who "rudely disrespected our values," because the Danish PM was unsympathetic to the 2006 outcry from the Muslim world over Danish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

On Friday, Turkish President Abdullah Gul backed away from suggestions that his country would veto Mr. Rasmussen's candidacy, saying, "We do not have any attitude against the Prime Minister or anyone else on that matter." But on the same day, Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, telephoned Mr. Rasmussen to voice his objections.