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Nihad Afroun, Victim of Islamic "Teaching"
This is an electronic translation from French, so it may be a little difficult to understand...
Tetouan: a imam attacks a young girl
Nihad Afroun, a six years little angel, was violently beaten by its teacher at the school Sidi Ahmed El Bekkal, in Te'touan. A board of inquiry was diligente'e, Tuesday April 25, to draw this obscure history with light.
A scandalous business with Te'touan shakes the local public opinion and the mediums of teaching. Nihad Afroun, a six years little angel, was victim, last week, of physical violence, made by its teacher at the school Sidi Ahmed El Bekkal, located with the district Jbel Darssa. In addition to the psychological effects, this violence had serious physical consequences on the small girl. The face tumefied, Nihad present of the bruises at the eye-level and fractures at the level of the nose.
"The business goes back to Wednesday April 19. At 15 hours, the school invited me to announce to me that my daughter fell. When I arrived, it bled. I then asked him what arrived to him. She told me that at the time when the pupils entered in class at 13 hours 30 mn, the teacher made his prayer of the "Dohr". Without paying attention, it put the foot on its carpet ", affirms Fatima Ouled Abdelwahhab, mother of Nihad. And to add: "After having finished his prayer, the teacher gave a violent blow to my daughter so much so that it fell while knocking the face against the ground. One did not opinion me that nearly two hours after the incident".
>SNIP< Complete Article: Aujourd'hui ~ French Version ** Tetouan: a imam attacks a young girl
Aujourd'hui ~ English Translation ** Tetouan: a imam attacks a young girl
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Updated: Tuesday, 2 May 2006 6:32 AM EDT
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Right-to-life case goes to Europe
A man with a brain illness who wants to prevent doctors withdrawing nutrition when his condition worsens, is going to the European Court of Human Rights.
Les Burke, 45, had a landmark High Court ruling, preventing doctors withdrawing food and drink when he cannot speak, overturned last year.
The Court of Appeal upheld an appeal by the General Medical Council and he was refused leave to appeal to the Lords.
Mr Burke, from Lancaster, lodges his case in Europe next week.
"I feel really that it's one-all at the moment and we need the European Court to decide," Mr Burke told the BBC.
Public interest
Mr Burke could be left paralysed and unable to speak but with his mental faculties unimpaired.
Mr Lyons said this would be a denial of his client's human rights.
The GMC maintains doctors would be put in an impossible position if Mr Burke were to win his case.
The Department of Health has said that if the original ruling were upheld, patients would be allowed to demand other treatments, which would have serious implications for the NHS.
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Wow, this is just like Rush Limbaugh's situtation. NOT!
It appears that two of the Baldwin brothers are having a bad week. Alec Baldwin's brother Daniel Baldwin has reportedly been arrested in Los Angeles on charges of possession of cocaine reports TMZ.
The story, broken by TMZ reports that Daniel, 45 brother to Alec, Stephen and Billy, was arrested on April 22nd, after cops received a call that a woman had been threatened at the Ocean Park Motel in Santa Monica, California.
The web site reports that it has been told that the police responded to a motel room where Baldwin and man named Buddy Winston were front and center.
Cops said they found cocaine and arrested both men. Baldwin's bail was set a $10,000
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It may not be so bad though as sources tell TMZ that the Los Angeles County District Attorney has declined to prosecute the case and referred it to the Santa Monica City Attorney.
That means, at worst, Baldwin could be prosecuted for misdemeanor drug possession.
No comment yet from any PR folks for the actor.
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But Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said no Security Council resolution could make Iran give up its nuclear program.
"The Iranian nation won't give a damn about such useless resolutions," Ahmadinejad told thousands of people Friday in Khorramdareh in northwestern Iran before the IAEA report was issued.
"Today, they want to force us to give up our way through threats and sanctions but those who resort to language of coercion should know that nuclear energy is a national demand and by the grace of God, today Iran is a nuclear country," state-run television quoted him as saying.
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The report formally served notice that Tehran had shrugged off a 30-day deadline to meet council demands. As such, it opened the way for further council steps, including the potential threat of sanctions and military action if Iran continues to defy the international community.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won broad support from NATO allies for a tough diplomatic line on Iran.
However,
NATO foreign ministers meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, did not offer any specific threat of sanctions against Iran, in part to avoid a rift with Russia and China. While Russia and China have been reluctant to endorse sanctions, the council's three other veto-wielding members say a strong response is in order.
"On Iran, there was unanimity," Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told reporters. "Although the clear message to the Iranian authorities is one of firmness, we have to continue with the diplomatic path."
Rice said it was time for the Security Council to act if the world body wished to remain credible.
"The Security Council is the primary and most important institution for the maintenance of peace and stability and security and it cannot have its word and its will simply ignored by a member state," Rice said.
Iran's U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, said Thursday that Tehran will refuse to comply even if the council request is turned into a demand through a resolution because its activities are legal and peaceful. Enrichment can be used to generate fuel or make the fissile core of nuclear weapons.
"If the Security Council decides to take decisions that are not within its competence, then Iran does not feel obliged to obey," he said in New York.
As late as Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the primacy of the council, insisting the U.N. nuclear watchdog should continue to play a central role in the dispute. "It mustn't shrug this role from its shoulders and pass it on to the U.N. Security Council," Putin said.
But a top French diplomat laid out a starkly contrasting position that also reflects U.S. and British views: The Security Council should not only have the main say in dealing with Iran but also should start considering how to increase the pressure. But, the diplomat said, a U.N. resolution enforceable by military action would not automatically mean resorting to such action.
The Security Council statement a month ago gave Iran until Friday to suspend all activities linked to enrichment because it can be used to make the highly enriched uranium used in the core of nuclear warheads.
Instead of complying, Iran - which says it seeks the technology only to generate electric power - has upped the ante in recent weeks, announcing it had for the first time successfully enriched uranium and was doing research on advanced centrifuges that would let it produce more of the material in less time.
Western concern has grown in the more than three years since when Iran was found to be working on large-scale plans to enrich uranium.
While the IAEA has found no "smoking gun" proving Iran wants nuclear arms, a series of reports have revealed worrying clandestine activities - like plutonium processing - and documents, including drawings of how to mold weapons-grade uranium metal into the shape of a warhead.
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Palm Beach County prosecutors rejected an overture in 2004 from Rush Limbaugh's attorneys that would have allowed the nation's top talkshow host to enter drug rehabilitation, rather than face criminal charges for prescription drug abuse.
Prosecutors, at the time, claimed they had evidence that Limbaugh committed at least 10 felonies!
It now appears James Martz, the prosecutor who headed the investigation into Limbaugh's prescription drug use, was bluffing when he said that medical records "indicate evidence that would support in excess of 10 felony counts for violations."
Prosecutors said Limbaugh, in any deal, would have to plead guilty to doctor shopping, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
[Prosecutors also suggested at the time that Limbaugh 
and in 18 months the charge will be dropped and the record expunged.
The case of the vanishing evidence... 
Limbaugh reaches settlement in Florida drug case
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Rush Limbaugh reached a settlement with prosecutors Friday in a fraud case involving prescription painkillers, though the conservative radio commentator maintains his innocence.
Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities about 4 p.m. on a warrant for fraud to conceal information to obtain a prescription, the first charge in the nearly 3-year-old case, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the state attorney. He was released an hour later on $3,000 bail.
Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, said his client and prosecutors reached a settlement on a charge of doctor shopping.
Under the deal, Limbaugh would eventually see the charge dismissed in 18 months if he continues treatment for drug addiction, Black said.
Limbaugh also must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past 2 1/2 years, Black said.
Limbaugh entered a plea of not guilty in court Friday.
"Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position," Black said in an e-mailed statement.
Prosecutors began investigating Limbaugh in 2003 after a tabloid newspaper reported that his housekeeper said he had used her to illegally buy painkillers. He soon took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter a rehabilitation program.
Prosecutors seized Limbaugh's records after learning that he received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion. They contended that Limbaugh engaged in "doctor shopping," or illegally deceived multiple doctors to receive overlapping prescriptions.
Limbaugh acknowledged he became addicted to pain medication, blaming it on severe back pain.
According to Black, Limbaugh also has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the state to defray the public cost of the investigation. The agreement also provides that he must refrain from violating the law during this 18 months, must pay $30 per month for the cost of supervision and comply with other similar provisions of the agreement.
Palm Beach, FL - In response to media and other inquiries, Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, released the following statement today concerning a settlement agreement with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office to end the investigation of Mr. Limbaugh:
"I am pleased to announce that the State Attorney's Office and Mr. Limbaugh have reached an agreement whereby a single count charge of doctor shopping filed today by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months. As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.
"Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position. Accordingly, we filed today with the Court a plea of 'Not Guilty' to the charge filed by the State.
"As part of this agreement, Mr. Limbaugh also has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation. The agreement also provides that he must refrain from violating the law during this 18 months, must pay $30 per month for the cost of "supervision" and comply with other similar provisions of the agreement.
"Mr. Limbaugh had intended to remain in treatment. Thus, we believe the outcome for him personally will be much as if he had fought the charge and won."
The actions taken today are as follows:
♠ The State Attorney has filed a single charge of doctor shopping with the Court. The charge is being held in abeyance under the terms of an agreement between the State and Mr. Limbaugh.
♠ Mr. Limbaugh has filed a plea of "Not Guilty" with the Court.
The formal agreement between Mr. Limbaugh and the State Attorney will be filed with the Court on Monday. The terms of the agreement are substantively as follows:
♠ Mr. Limbaugh will continue in treatment with the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years.
♠ After Mr. Limbaugh completes an additional 18 months of treatment, the State Attorney has agreed to drop the charge.
♠ Mr. Limbaugh has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation.
Monday is May Day, the great communist holiday, and the illegal alien movement says it's going to stick it to you in force...
Illegals & Democrats In Your Face Again
And from California. (
This is going to be an amazing year, because we've got some of the most ludicrous, ridiculous, embarrassing, pandering behavior by politicians I have ever seen on a host of issues, from this gasoline business, to illegal immigration, to the ports deal, it's not stopping. It's only going to get worse. It's a constant barrage, daytime insult to our intelligence, and it's all made to order for the Drive-By Media. There have been a bunch of drive-bys happening here at the same time. Oh, and let's not forget this. This got people roiled today. (
Now, we hear all this talk that they're a little bit worried about a backlash. They can't possibly be worried about a backlash. All this talk that some people are worried? There might be a few them worried about a backlash, but this is in-your-face just like the first one was. "We demand to be exempt from your laws or else, and we have the power behind us because the Democrats are with us."
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In case you haven't heard 
Well, interesting for you to say that. Try it in Mexico and see what happens. You do just that, and you are in jail. Now for some of politics of this. Here are some things that you will not see in the Drive-By Media. There's a 
So Rasmussen went out there and just did a generic poll and made up a third party candidate who had immigration border security and a fence as his number one priority, and that candidate beats the generic Republican nominee by nine points and scores practically even with the Democrat in the generic poll. So we'll see if the word of this Rasmussen poll spreads to both political parties and see, if it does, how it affects them, since they're all so poll-driven, particularly in an election year. Darren, 
CALLER: Correct.
RUSH: Well, it's hard to really know. I know that it's not just that. The Republican base is upset about a lot of things, and if you combine them, you have some real concern. They're upset about immigration. They are upset over the spending, of course. They're upset over a couple of other things. It's still early. And I think predicting vote turnout based on what's happening now is risky because there are going to be profound things that happen between now and November, things that will make what's happening today be forgotten. It's an election year, and whatever politicians figure out are their big problems, they'll try to fix it, somehow, some way,
like they're trying to with gasoline prices, like they're trying to with illegal immigration. They're trying to just come up with words and phrases that satisfy everybody but don't actually accomplish anything. You talk about that bill. There's an aspect of that bill that upset me more than the $15 billion because we knew that's going to happen, these guys are who they are.
Republicans in the Senate decided from the Iraq funding bill, to take 1.9 billion of it and send it to Hurricane Katrina relief. It set up an either/or situation. I'm scratching my head, folks, we can't do both? We can't do both at the same time? We're funding the war in Iraq, the war on terror. We gotta take from that in order to -- now why do that? I'll tell you why do that, because this is a bunch of Republicans trying to appeal to these mythical moderates and liberals
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RUSH: Mark, 
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: And now, I only wonder, what would Theodore Roosevelt have said, and I've heard the quote and read the quote over and over, it seems like they don't want to become Americans. I would not have a problem however, I'm not saying to them give up their culture if they wanted to play first the American national anthem in English and if they wanted to play the Mexican national anthem, that's fine. That's still part of their culture.
RUSH: Yeah. Well, you hit the nail on the head here with something, Mark, and it's this. Immigration has always been a specific thing, and there's a formula, and it is this. People come here from far-away lands for whatever reasons, to seek a better life. In seeking a better life, they seek to become Americans, which means assimilating and acculturating into the great American culture. They have not come here just for jobs, to send the money home. They have come here to become Americans. The problem here is that, as these protests indicate, and as the Star-Spangled Banner indicates in Spanish and there's a number of other indications that are obvious, this aspect, this wave of illegal immigrants do not really indicate they want to become Americans. They don't want to be immigrants; they want to be legal so they can get jobs. The country is just a job market to them. It's a big distinction, because without the acculturation and the assimilation, we're just going to end up Balkanizing the society. And when they choose May 1, Soviet May Day, to go out and protest and basically shout and get in our faces and then purposely try to cause a backlash
and demand to be exempted from our laws, this is not immigration that's going on here. I think we do this a disservice by referring to it as an immigration issue. It's not that.
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White House scribe asks for the remote
Reporter asks to watch CNN on Air Force One
WASHINGTON -- It wasn't the price of gasoline, Darfur or the rebuilding effort in New Orleans that preoccupied the White House press corps Thursday aboard a flight on Air Force One.
It was what channel they could watch on the White House televisions, Fox or CNN.
During a briefing led by White House spokesman Scott McClellan as President Bush was traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana, the Washington Post's Jim VandeHei asked why the White House televisions always seemed to be tuned to Fox News and if it was possible to have them tuned instead to CNN.
"It's come to my attention that there's been requests -- this is a serious question -- to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied," VandeHei told McClellan, who is soon to be replaced by former Fox anchor and self-described conservative Tony Snow.
"My question would be, is there a White House policy that all government TVs have to be tuned to Fox?" VandeHei asked.
McClellan said it was the first he had heard such a claim, and that it was not true.
"In fact, I've watched other channels on here," he said.
"I've never known anyone that's raised a complaint about a request from back here to watch a different channel," McClellan added.
VandeHei replied, "I'm officially raising it, and officially complaining about it.
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McClellan then asked whether VandeHei had tried to have the change made.
"I was told -- the quote was, 'No,' when I asked for CNN," the reporter said.
McClellan asked him with whom he had spoken, but VandeHei said he did not know.
"Well, the magic people at the other end of the phone ... I was told,
'We don't watch CNN here, you can only watch Fox,'" VandeHei said.
McClellan said he found the question "quite amusing," and left to see about making the change.
Eighteen minutes after VandeHei raised the issue, McClellan had resolved it.
"We just called up. They're going to be changing it, at your all's request, to the channel that you requested, which is CNN -- from the press corps."
Fox News is popular with at least one highly placed person in the White House. According to the Web site "The Smoking Gun," whenever Vice President Dick Cheney stays in a hotel room, he requests extra lights, copies of five newspapers and the television tuned to Fox. (
Kennedy faces fight on Cape Wind
wind farm comes up for a vote in the Senate, they will object on procedural grounds. They say they'll argue that a renewable energy project shouldn't be lumped in with a bill governing the Coast Guard.
Meanwhile, a group of rank-and-file House members, worried about the political ramifications of rejecting alternative energy sources while motorists pay $3 a gallon at the gas station, have persuaded House leaders to sidetrack the entire bill for at least several weeks, even though it was slated for action this week. The delay could give supporters of the wind farm time to make their case to members of Congress.
"Are we going to be for developing alternative energy or not?" said Representative Charles Bass, a New Hampshire Republican who helped persuade House leaders to table the bill until at least mid-May. "The longer you delay it, the longer there is for people to examine the issue, and to determine what's going on here."
The efforts to move the wind farm
forward occur amid growing attention to Kennedy's role in the secret, behind-the-scenes maneuvering to stop it. Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, the senator who inserted the wind-farm provision into the Coast Guard bill, has acknowledged discussing the matter privately with the Massachusetts Democrat.
Environmental groups have launched an aggressive advertising and lobbying campaign to persuade Democrats to abandon Kennedy and back a promising source of renewable energy. If the wind farm becomes a reality, advocates say, it could provide three-fourths of the Cape and Islands' energy needs and could set an example for the nation.
The maneuver to stop the wind farm "is clearly a backroom deal, and they're going to get called publicly on it," said John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace USA. "The Democrats are going to kill the first big offshore wind farm in the United States because of their relationship with Ted Kennedy."
The 130-turbine, 24-square-mile cluster of windmills would be about 8 miles from Kennedy's home in Hyannis Port, and he has long opposed it. The Coast Guard bill would give Governor Mitt Romney, another wind farm opponent, the power to veto it, even if the project clears all other hurdles.
Kennedy rejected suggestions that he doesn't like the wind farm because it would be near his Cape home, and said the project probably wouldn't be visible from the Kennedy compound. He said he's against the project because it would create a range of environmental and navigational problems and would hurt tourism, one of the area's key industries.
The Cape Wind developers, he said, want to erect a sprawling, for-profit field of giant windmills on public, state-owned territory. Kennedy noted that the project was the beneficiary of more lenient regulations included in last year's energy bill, which could have put it on a faster track to construction; therefore, a special deal was warranted to stop it.
Ultimately, Kennedy said, Massachusetts and its governor should get to decide yes or no on the site for the farm, Kennedy said.
"We had an opportunity to right a wrong," he said of the provision in the Coast Guard bill. "The people who ought to be irate ought to be the citizens of Massachusetts. I don't shrink from my advocacy for them. I welcome it. I'm going to continue to make sure that ... a wealthy developer is not going to ride roughshod over the state's interests."
Kennedy said the effort to block the wind farm started in the House, where Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young, another Alaska Republican, originally inserted it in the House version of the Coast Guard bill. Young and Stevens maintain that states should have a say in energy projects off their coastlines.
"I just believe it's a state's right," Stevens said yesterday. "If that were in Puget Sound, don't you think people in Washington would want to say something about it? If it's off our coast, we'd want to know."
Stevens said he "conferred" with Kennedy about adding a provision to the bill that would allow the state to veto the Cape Cod project. He said Kennedy agreed with that idea, an account that Kennedy confirmed.
But the project's supporters don't like the manner in which the provision was included in the bill, an argument that appears to be catching on with some lawmakers. The final language was hashed out in secret by a small handful of lawmakers -- a group that included Young and Stevens.
Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, the ranking Democrat on the Senate energy committee, said it's important to encourage development of renewable energy sources like wind power.
Bingaman and Chairman Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, will try to round up enough senators to strip the provision from the Coast Guard bill. That would send the bill back to the conference committee -- with the Senate on record against interference with the Cape Wind project.
The Kennedy-backed provision "would short-circuit the process and kill the project, which I think would be a mistake," Bingaman said.
"If there are problems with the project, they ought to come out and be discussed. But they shouldn't be dealt with this way."
Bass said the Cape Wind project
has been treated differently in Congress because powerful lawmakers and special interest lobbyists vacation on Cape Cod and treasure the ocean views.
"It's odd that the people who are against it are the people who have [scenic] views," Bass said. "I'm sorry about that, but the project ought to rise or fall on its merits."
Kennedy dismissed such talk as "their response to any kind of raising of questions" about the project's problems. "It's just an easy response to an argument that has merit."
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