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- lowimpakt0
The above article was written a few days before Sultan Munadi was killed in a raid to free him from the Taliban
- flashbender0
Sound like a nice guy - do you think got the 76 virgins in heaven?
- TheBlueOne0
http://www.theaustralian.news.co…
"INDIAN villagers have gone on the rampage after police tried to enforce a ban on an annual stone-pelting ritual that often leaves people dead or injured.
Officers trying to uphold the ban in two villages in Madhya Pradesh were subjected to a hail of stones themselves and were forced to withdraw, Nikunj Srivastava, a district civil servant, said.
The angry mob then got their way and the centuries-old ritual went ahead as usual, causing at least two serious injuries."
- utopian0
Lockerbie bomber get a hero's welcome!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/eu…
- GeorgesII0
First news ever.
Bolivia just opened the World's first Cocaine bar.
"Tonight we have two types of cocaine; normal for 100 Bolivianos a gram, and strong cocaine for 150 [Bolivianos] a gram."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/…
- GeorgesII0
^ follow up story (vid)
Doctor Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, has praised the Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill for his ''brave'' decision in releasing Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi from jail on compassionate grounds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne…
- GeorgesII0
fuck lets do it right
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Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for drug dependency free of charge.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/2…...
- BattleAxe0
^ I can see this as redirecting much needed man power , but not sure it will do much to curve the violence
- i_monk0
inb4 mod hammer
- Shaney0
but was he the Lockerbie bomber? all stinks a bit
- GeorgesII0
I hope so,
at least they are taking the right steps to solve, maybe they finally realized they can't honestly combat it.
- ribit0
Shouldn't the 'Politics' thread be for world politics?
and make a 'US politics' thread for US politics?- QBN's an American site, so ... ?detritus
- this is a good point...styleplus_amillion
- styleplus_amillion0
haha.
It seems to me that the drug mafia got big enough that it has engulfed the traditional "government" keeping the drugs illegal would only be inhibiting, at this point.
- lowimpakt0
Hell? No. I Won’t Go.
Sultan M. Munadi is an Afghan journalist with The New York Times in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is studying for a masters degree in Germany. On a brief visit home he tells why he would never leave Afghanistan permanently.
KABUL, Afghanistan – I grew up in the Panjshir Valley, in a place that is a three-hour walk from the nearest road. We don’t have a lot of iron there, we don’t have concrete, we don’t have these artificial things. It’s a completely natural place.
I grew up there, and when I went to Germany to study for a master’s degree in public policy I saw concrete everywhere, a lot of glass, asphalt and artificial things. It was depressing, very boring for me. I was dreaming of the dust, I was dreaming of nature in my country, of the mountains. It’s really nice to be back for a while, it’s very hard to be away for two years.
If I were a teenager, it would be easier to be integrated into the society in Germany, but now at the age of 34, it is difficult to be away from my country. I would not leave Afghanistan. I have passed the very darkest times of my country, when there was war and insecurity. I was maybe four or five years old when we went from my village into the mountains and the caves to hide, because the Soviets were bombing. I have passed those times, and the time of the Taliban when I could not even go to Kabul, inside my country. It was like being in a prison.
Those times are past now. Now I am hopeful of a better situation. And if I leave this country, if other people like me leave this country, who will come to Afghanistan? Will it be the Taliban who come to govern this country? That is why I want to come back, even if it means cleaning the streets of Kabul. That would be a better job for me, rather than working, for example, in a restaurant in Germany.
Being a journalist is not enough; it will not solve the problems of Afghanistan. I want to work for the education of the country, because the majority of people are illiterate. That is the main problem facing many Afghans. I am really committed to come back and work for my country.