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| Taman | Jun 12 2008, 08:41 AM Post #181 |
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"Marry or lose job, says Iran firm Single workers at one of Iran's major state-owned companies have been told to marry by September or face being fired, Iranian newspapers have reported. The Pars Special Economic Energy Zone Company employs thousands of people, mostly young men, on Iran's Gulf coast. Being married is a job requirement, a directive from the company is reported as saying. Correspondents say the ruling appears to be an attempt to reduce the number of prostitutes working in the area. The company controls Iran's large network of gas and petrochemical facilities around the coastal city of Assalouyeh on the Gulf coast. Its directive, according to the Etemad newspaper, says that despite requests "some of our colleagues did not fulfil their commitments and are still single". It continues: "As being married is one of the criteria of employment, we are announcing for the last time that all the female and male colleagues have until September 21 to go ahead with this important and moral religious duty." In the same vein, the governor of the eastern province of North Khorasan ruled recently that only married people would be hired for official posts in the region. Economic difficulties in Iran have led many people to postpone getting married, despite sexual relations being illegal outside marriage". From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7447227.stm |
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| Taman | Jun 12 2008, 08:41 AM Post #182 |
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I would so get fired because I have a fear of marriage and even more so when it comes to kids.
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 12 2008, 12:21 PM Post #183 |
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sexual relations are ILLEGAL outside of marriage? wtf? That country is so fucked in the head, I feel sorry for anyone born in Iran. I am surprised everyone in that country does not immigrate to other places.
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| Noname | Jun 12 2008, 02:47 PM Post #184 |
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They try dear. But we send them back.
What the hell??? Who the fuck are these people? |
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| Taman | Jun 12 2008, 04:04 PM Post #185 |
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Well of course they break that law because it is impossible. But when they find out during wedding night that the female is not virgin... ouch... where are those pidgeons and their prescious blood. Not that every female bleeds during first time |
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| Rodney | Jun 12 2008, 06:41 PM Post #186 |
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some girls bring a needle into the bedroom. If she doesn't bleed. The girl just pricks herself and they come outshowing a blood-stained white sheet. Those people are so backward |
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| Jane | Jun 12 2008, 08:07 PM Post #187 |
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I think there is an operation to have your hymen restored. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 12 2008, 10:06 PM Post #188 |
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yea my ex told me in Turkey it isnt that big of a deal anymore to not be a virgin when you get married, especially in western turkey but in the smaller villages in the north and east sometimes it is still forbidden. but he said they just still hang the bloody sheets outside for tradition, it really doesnt mean anything anymore and if the woman is not a virgin the just use red food dye on the sheets. It isnt a big deal if she isnt. |
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| Rodney | Jun 12 2008, 10:17 PM Post #189 |
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Turkey is a great example. The mosque and state are completely seperated. Women are not allowed to wear their headscarves(if they wear them at all) in offices, schools, houses of parliament etc. It's still definetley a strong muslim country but, that is where you see the difference between religion and culture. Most Turks are practicing muslims and they try to be the best Muslims they can be. each in their own way. Culturaly,Turks don't frown upon women who like to go out in a nice short skirt and a tank-top that much.Well...The older generation might furrow their brow and say things like: Can't she cover up a bit? in my day..." Then you have people who follow the rules a bit stricter. But, it isn't law in Turkey. It's just not the way they do things there. In countries like Iran they SAY that they live the true Muslim way. That's not true. The fact that Sharia law is applied in the Mosques AND the State is a cultural one. Which is why I hate when ignorant people say that Islam is a backward religion that, discriminates people In the Koran it says that the Book is full of different "realities" it is up to the individual to find out for themselves what "reality"that is. Is it following the "Five Pillars"of Islam down to a "T", Is it to immerse yourself in Sharia law or is it to adapt the rules to your own life in order to make the most of what has been given to you by God> It's up to you. THAT is what Islam is. Sadly some countries have lived under the rules of a few guys who impose their own "realities"on the populace as law. And that to me, is not real Islam. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 13 2008, 02:14 AM Post #190 |
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preach on brotha Rodney! so true you are! Hasan respected that I am an atheist, but occasionally he would sublty try to convert me, well not really convert me to Islam more like subtly try to convince me that god does exist. Now we are friends, we dont talk that often anymore but when we do, every now and then he still tries. Bless his heart, he wont ever give up on me! But I tell him to not waste his breath on the subject. I would love to try to get him to see that god probably doesnt exist but I already know that will never happen so I dont even bother trying. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 13 2008, 03:14 AM Post #191 |
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The World's Best Places to Live 2008 by Carl Winfield Thursday, June 12, 2008provided byBusinessWeek Mercer Consulting's annual roundup of the global cities with the best quality of life is here, and Zurich once again comes out on top. The best place in the U.S.? Honolulu at No. 28. New York, London, and Paris are internationally renowned cities but consultants at Mercer Consulting have picked Zurich, Switzerland, as the best place to live in the company's annual survey. More from BusinessWeek.com: • World's Most Expensive Real Estate Markets • World's Most Affordable Housing Markets • Countries With Most Millionaire Households Consultants rated each city on a variety of factors including the level of traffic congestion, air quality, and personal safety reported by expatriates living in more than 600 cities worldwide. In the top 25, U.S. cities such as San Francisco, Boston, and Chicago were all edged out by Geneva, Switzerland, Vancouver, B.C., and Auckland, New Zealand. The highest-scoring U.S. city is Honolulu, which came in at No. 28. Still, Mercer acknowledges that cities with a high quality of life are not necessarily the most exciting. "There are a lot of 'sleepy' towns that got high ratings," said Rebecca Powers, a principal consultant in human capital for the company. "But if you were to judge them on something like nightlife, there are some that probably wouldn't have rated as high." Credit: Getty Images No. 1: Zurich, Switzerland Mercer score: 108* 2007 rank: No. 1 GDP: $300.9 billion (2007 est.)** Population: 7,581,520 (total country); 347,517 (total city) Life expectancy: 80.74 years No. 2 (tie): Vienna, Austria Mercer score: 107.9 2007 rank: No. 3 GDP: $319.7 billion (2007 est.) Population: 8,205,533 (total country); 1,825,287 (total city) Life expectancy: 79.36 years Credit: Getty Images No. 2 (tie): Geneva, Switzerland Mercer score: 107.9 2007 rank: No. 2 GDP: $300.9 billion (2007 est.) Population: 7,581,520 (total country); 185,000 (total city) Life expectancy: 80.74 years No. 4: Vancouver, Canada Mercer score: 107.6 2007 rank: No. 3 GDP: $1.274 trillion (2007 est.) Population: 33,212,696 (total country); 560,000 (total city) Life expectancy: 81.16 years Credit: Getty Images No. 5: Auckland, New Zealand Mercer score: 107.3 2007 rank: No. 5 GDP: $112.6 billion (2007 est.) Population: 4,173,460 (total country); 1.18 million (total city) Life expectancy: 80.24 years No. 6: Dusseldorf, Germany Mercer score: 107.2 2007 rank: No. 6 GDP: $2.833 trillion (2007 est.) Population: 82,369,548 (total country); 581,858 (total city) Life expectancy: 79.1 years Credit: Getty Images No. 7 (tie): Munich, Germany Mercer score: 107 2007 rank: No. 8 GDP: $2.833 trillion (2007 est.) Population: 82,369,548 (total country); 1,332,650 (total city) Life expectancy: 79.1 years No. 7 (tie): Frankfurt, Germany Mercer score: 107 2007 rank: No. 7 GDP: $2.833 trillion (2007 est.) Population: 82,369,548 (total country); 3,700,000 (total city) Life expectancy: 79.1 years Credit: Getty Images No. 9: Bern, Switzerland Mercer score: 106.5 2007 rank: No. 9 GDP: $319.7 billion (2007 est.) Population: 8,205,533 (total country); 122,178 (total city) Life expectancy: 79.36 years No. 10: Sydney, Australia Mercer score: 106.3 2007 rank: No. 9 GDP: $766.8 billion (2007 est.) Population: 20,600,856 (total country); 4,297,100 (total city) Life expectancy: 80.73 years not at all surprising that the US is not on there at all. We all need to be living in Europe!
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 13 2008, 01:09 PM Post #192 |
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107-year-old NH man to lead Andover alumni parade Thu Jun 12, 7:39 PM ET CONCORD, N.H. - A 107-year-old man who once turned down a job offer from Thomas Edison has been chosen to lead a parade at the Massachusetts prep school he graduated from 90 years ago. C. Yardley Chittick of Concord is the last surviving member of the class of 1918 at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. ADVERTISEMENT "I'm honored a lot these days," said Chittick, who is scheduled to lead the alumni parade Saturday for the third year. "It's only taken me this long to be recognized." An uncle sent Chittick, who grew up in New Jersey, to Andover to prepare him to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After MIT, Chittick became a patent lawyer and at one point refused a job from Edison. He said Edison gave him a 150-question test before offering him the job. Chittick took a job in the golf club industry instead because it sounded like more fun. A few years ago, he said he asked for a copy of the test from the Thomas Edison Museum and was shown the original with Edison's handwriting in the margins. While at Andover, Chittick got into a scuffle with fellow student and future actor Humphrey Bogart after he refused to polish Bogart's shoes. "Somehow or other I didn't like him. He didn't like me," Chittick said. "I polished all the shoes on the floor, but I wouldn't shine Bogie's." |
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| Auntie Maine | Jun 15 2008, 05:05 PM Post #193 |
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London bishop to investigate gay church ceremony By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer LONDON - The bishop of London said Sunday he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines. The priests walked down the aisle in a May 31 service at one of London's oldest churches marked by a fanfare of trumpets and capped by a shower of confetti, Britain's Sunday Telegraph reported. The bishop, the Right Rev. Richard Chartres, said such services are not authorized in the Church of England. He said he would ask the archdeacon of London to investigate. A call placed with the archdeacon was not immediately returned. Britain officially recognizes civil partnerships but the Church of England's guidelines say clergy should not bless such unions. The wedding-like ceremony is likely to anger conservative members of the Anglican Communion, a loose-knit worldwide Christian grouping that includes the Episcopal Church in the U.S. Conservatives are fiercely opposed to both same-sex partnerships and the ordaining of gay priests, and the issue threatens to tear the Anglicans apart. The archbishop of Uganda, the Most Rev. Henry Orombi, was quoted by the Telegraph as calling the ceremony "blasphemous." The ceremony took place at St. Bartholomew the Great, according to the report. The Rev. Peter Cowell and the Rev. David Lord exchanged rings, read each other poetry and took part in communion, the paper said. While not technically a marriage, the ceremony's liturgy, including the introductory "Dearly beloved," closely matched the wording used for weddings. Telephone and e-mail messages to St. Bartholomew the Great were not immediately returned Sunday. The Sunday Times quoted the Rev. Martin Dudley, who presided over the service, as saying he had no regrets. "'Unrepentant' would be the right word," Dudley was quoted as saying. "I have made no secret about this. I have done something that was a very nice pastoral, godly occasion. ... I certainly didn't do it to defy anyone. I have done what I believe is right." Church of England spokesman Lou Henderson said the archbishop of Canterbury, the Anglican Communion's spiritual leader, was unlikely to make any public comment about the controversy.
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| Rodney | Jun 15 2008, 07:17 PM Post #194 |
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Those Anglicans are a bunch of weirdo's anyway. Like, if your religion states that you can't "marry" two people of the same sex, so be it. As far as I see it. You can marry in your own way. Perhaps in a different setting with a Priest who's willing to do it the way you ant it to go. Something like that would'nt be possible in either a Protestant or Catholic Chrurch, or a mosque or a synagogue. And I respect that. I't's something that those people just don't do. It's their way. And If I can live my life the way I want to. Well, so can they. Thing with the Anglicans is, that they're not a real church anyway. The only reason for it's existence is Catholic King Henry VII, who wanted to divorce is wife.A mortal sin and not acceptable in those days. The Pope said: Do that and I won't accept your second marriage as a proper sanctified union. Henry said: "Fine, I'll make up my own version of the Catholic church. I call it Anglican, with my rules. Hence the fact that, the King or Queen of England is always the head of the Anglican church. A branch of Christianity who's rules are based on the whims of politicians from the old days. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 16 2008, 12:57 AM Post #195 |
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just more proof that religion is a bunch of BULLSHIT! It means nothing and should be abolished. All religions! We would be better off without their "authority" |
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| Julesy | Jun 16 2008, 02:26 AM Post #196 |
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I think you and your partner should agree on whatever, whether it be religion, superstion,experience, whatever floats your boat. Just go about your own business. I DO think that whatever you choose should be recognized by the state or whatever and you get to benifit from you or your partners living or benefits from work. As far as religion being bullshit...to each his own. I think you should believe in what you want, for what you want. |
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| Taman | Jun 16 2008, 07:04 AM Post #197 |
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In Finland gays can get married but not in the Church unless they (religious leaders) happen to change their minds. We also have female priests which has taken a bit of a tumble down lately because some of the males refuse to work with female priests (still after 20 years or so) To me Church is, first of all, a workplace. A kind of soul factory and while you are in Finland, you will follow the Finnish law! And it says that gays can marry so Church should just shut the fuck up and allow gays to get married where they want to and let women be priests if they want to! I am so sick of religion being treated better than what it is. A cult started by power-lusting corrupt men. Personilize faith I say, Church law destroys all that is sacred about having faith and relationship with spirituality and God!
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 16 2008, 07:09 PM Post #198 |
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exactly Anne! You said it much better than me. I just simply said it was bullshit but that is exactly what I meant! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 20 2008, 12:17 AM Post #199 |
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McClatchy Newspapers Washington Bureau Militants found recruits among Guantanamo's wrongly detained By Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers Wed Jun 18, 5:24 PM ET (This is the third installment of McClatchy's Guantanamo: Beyond the Law series, which can be viewed in full at www.mcclatchydc.com) ADVERTISEMENT GARDEZ, Afghanistan - Mohammed Naim Farouq was a thug in the lawless Zormat district of eastern Afghanistan . He ran a kidnapping and extortion racket, and he controlled his turf with a band of gunmen who rode around in trucks with AK-47 rifles. U.S. troops detained him in 2002, although he had no clear ties to the Taliban or al Qaida. By the time Farouq was released from Guantanamo the next year, however - after more than 12 months of what he described as abuse and humiliation at the hands of American soldiers - he'd made connections to high-level militants. In fact, he'd become a Taliban leader. When the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency released a stack of 20 "most wanted" playing cards in 2006 identifying militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan - with Osama bin Laden at the top - Farouq was 16 cards into the deck. A McClatchy investigation found that instead of confining terrorists, Guantanamo often produced more of them by rounding up common criminals, conscripts, low-level foot soldiers and men with no allegiance to radical Islam - thus inspiring a deep hatred of the United States in them - and then housing them in cells next to radical Islamists. The radicals were quick to exploit the flaws in the U.S. detention system. Soldiers, guards or interrogators at the U.S. bases at Bagram or Kandahar in Afghanistan had abused many of the detainees, and they arrived at Guantanamo enraged at America. The Taliban and al Qaida leaders in the cells around them were ready to preach their firebrand interpretation of Islam and the need to wage jihad, Islamic holy war, against the West. Guantanamo became a school for jihad, complete with a council of elders who issued fatwas, binding religious instructions, to the other detainees. Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby , until recently the commanding officer at Guantanamo, acknowledged that senior militant leaders gained influence and control in his prison. "We have that full range of (Taliban and al Qaida) leadership here, why would they not continue to be functional as an organization?" he said in a telephone interview. "I must make the assumption that there's a fully functional al Qaida cell here at Guantanamo." Afghan and Pakistani officials also said they were aware that Guantanamo was churning out new militant leaders. In a classified 2005 review of 35 detainees released from Guantanamo, Pakistani police intelligence concluded that the men - the majority of whom had been subjected to "severe mental and physical torture," according to the report - had "extreme feelings of resentment and hatred against USA ." The report warned that unless steps were taken to rehabilitate the men, they had the potential of "becoming another Abdullah Mehsud," a former Guantanamo detainee who became a high-ranking Taliban commander in the Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan . Mehsud killed himself with a grenade last July to avoid being taken prisoner by Pakistani troops. "A lot of our friends are working against the Americans now, because if you torture someone without any reason, what do you expect?" Issa Khan , a Pakistani former detainee, said in an interview in Islamabad . "Many people who were in Guantanamo are now working with the Taliban." According to Afghan authorities, Mohammed Naim Farouq was a rural gangster, not a terrorist. "He was with a group that was kidnapping people. It was a criminal group. It did a lot of extortion," said Attorney General Abdul Jabar Sabit , who interviewed Farouq in Guantanamo. But, Sabit found, Farouq wasn't linked to the Taliban or al Qaida when the Americans arrested him. No more. Since Farouq was released from Guantanamo, the Defense Intelligence Agency said, he's had a relationship with al Qaida and the Taliban and heads a group of Taliban militiamen. "Naim was a very, very small guy before, but now that he's been released, he's a very big problem," said Taj Mohammed Wardak , a former Afghan interior minister who also served as the governor of Farouq's province. "It has a really bad effect when these men return to their communities." Discussing the effect that Guantanamo had on him, Farouq measured his words. "Why did the Americans treat me this way?" he said during an interview with McClatchy in Gardez. "I wanted to keep my district peaceful." A NETWORK FOR RADICALIZING In interviews, former U.S. Defense Department officials acknowledged the problem, but none of them would speak about it openly because of its implications: U.S. officials mistakenly sent a lot of men who weren't hardened terrorists to Guantanamo, but by the time they were released, some of them had become just that. Requests for comment from senior Defense Department officials went unanswered. The Pentagon official in charge of detainee affairs, Sandra Hodgkinson , declined interview requests even after she was given a list of questions. However, dozens of former detainees, many of whom were reluctant to talk for fear of being branded as spies by the militants, described a network - at times fragmented, and at times startling in its sophistication - that allowed Islamist radicals to gain power inside Guantanamo: -- Militants recruited new detainees by offering to help them memorize the Quran and study Arabic. They conducted the lessons, infused with firebrand theology, between the mesh walls of cells, from the other side of a fence during exercise time or, in lower-security blocks, during group meetings. -- Taliban and al Qaida leaders appointed cellblock leaders. When there was a problem with the guards, such as allegations of Quran abuse or rough searches of detainees, these "local" leaders reported up their chains of command whether the men in their block had fought back with hunger strikes or by throwing cups of urine and feces at guards. The senior leaders then decided whether to call for large-scale hunger strikes or other protests. -- Al Qaida and Taliban leaders at Guantanamo issued rulings that governed detainees' behavior. Shaking hands with female guards was haram - forbidden - men should pray five times a day and talking with American soldiers should be kept to a minimum. -- The recruiting and organizing don't end at Guantanamo. After detainees are released, they're visited by militants who try to cement the relationships formed in prison. "When I was released, they (Taliban officials) told me to come join them, to fight," said Alif Khan , an Afghan former detainee whom McClatchy interviewed in Kabul . "They told me I should move to Waziristan," a Taliban hotbed in Pakistan . Most of the 66 former Guantanamo detainees whom McClatchy interviewed were hesitant to talk about their religious and political transformations in prison. Ilkham Batayev, a Kazakh, described his stay at Guantanamo in bitter, angry terms. "I learned the traditions of many people," he said. "Of course it changed me inside, but this is something private." He said that Arab detainees spent a lot of time teaching him Arabic and giving him lessons about the Quran. Others said that fellow detainees showed them the path of fundamentalist Islam. Taj Mohammed , an Afghan detainee, said that the time he spent at Guantanamo studying the Quran and discussing Islam with radicals helped him see the world more clearly. "There were detainees who did not pray or who spoke with female soldiers," Mohammed said. "We stopped speaking with these men. Sometimes we beat them." The U.S. government accused Mohammed of being a member of two insurgent groups in Afghanistan's Konar province and taking part in an attack on a U.S. military base. Mohammed maintained that he was a shepherd. Mohammed Roze , an official with the Afghan government's peace commission in Konar province, said Mohammed was set up by a cousin with whom he was feuding. U.S. ATTEMPTS AT SEPARATION BACKFIRE American officials tried to stop detainees from turning Guantanamo into what some former U.S. officials have since called an "American madrassa" - an Islamic religious school - but some of their efforts backfired. The original Guantanamo camp, Camp X-Ray, was little more than a collection of wire mesh cells in which detainees were grouped together without much concern for their backgrounds. In April 2002 , U.S. officials shifted the detainees to Camp Delta, which grew to include a series of camps organized by security level. For example: -- Camp One was for better-behaved detainees, who were given toiletry items such as toothpaste and shampoo and more time for outdoor exercise. -- Camp Two was set up for cooperative detainees - especially those who helped interrogators - who still posed a high security threat to guards. They were given time in exercise areas, but were watched carefully. -- Camp Three was a high-security facility where detainees spent most of their time in cells with steel mesh walls and little more than mattresses and copies of the Quran. -- Camp Four was for the best-behaved detainees, and featured communal living spaces, librarian visits and lawns for soccer. -- Camp Five resembled a U.S. maximum-security prison, with automatic sliding cell doors and a central guard station. The idea was that detainees who presented graver threats and were uncooperative would be separated from those with looser ties to international terrorism. What the plan overlooked - according to several detainees and a former U.S. defense official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject - is that even midlevel al Qaida members had been trained in resistance techniques, and that one of them was to avoid calling attention to yourself. An angry cabdriver from Kabul , in other words, may have been more likely to attack a guard and end up in Camp Three than an al Qaida militant was. As a result, some senior radicals ended up in Camp Four, free to preach their message of international jihad to petty criminals, Taliban conscripts and detainees who had little or no previous affiliation with Islamic militancy. At times, detainee leaders would order other men to break camp rules so that the guards would send them to higher-security blocks, where they could carry messages from their leaders, said Charles "Cully" Stimson , who was the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs from January 2006 to February 2007 . "The communications network there is like the communications network in any jail," Stimson said. "When Americans are in captivity, they respect rank. ... I suspect it's no different down there." Buzby, the Guantanamo commander, said that he, too, suspected that information flowed freely between militant leaders and their men at Guantanamo's camps. "It would be foolish to not believe that there is a hierarchy of information being passed up and down the chain of command," Buzby said. Abdul Zuhoor, an Afghan detainee who spent time in Camp Four, said that radical detainees used the system to their full advantage. Zuhoor said he remembered watching groups of senior Taliban and Arab detainees meet in the exercise yard. "They considered themselves the elders of Guantanamo," Zuhoor said in an interview in the Afghan town of Charikar. "They met as a shura (religious) council." The group, Zuhoor said, acted in concert with others across Guantanamo to issue fatwas, which then were disseminated by detainees who were being moved to other areas for medical checkups, interrogations or transfers to higher-security blocks. An attorney for one Arab detainee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared implicating his client, said his client told him at one point that he couldn't meet with his legal team anymore. "He said there were five or six detainees who had assumed positions of leadership in the camp, and that he had to deal with them," the attorney said. "And they said that he would need a fatwa to continue speaking with us, to continue speaking with Americans." The fatwa, the shura council told the attorney's client, couldn't come from just any imam; it had to be from a senior cleric in Saudi Arabia , a hotbed of fundamentalist Sunni Islam . In June 2006 , Zuhoor said, a Taliban member at Guantanamo bragged to him that there soon would be three "martyrs." "The Arabs and some Taliban sat together and issued a verdict," Zuhoor said. "Three of the men volunteered to kill themselves to get more freedom for the other detainees." The next morning, Zuhoor said, the news spread across Guantanamo: Three Arabs had committed suicide. The Guantanamo commander at the time, Rear Adm. Harry Harris , called the suicides acts of "asymmetric warfare." |
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| Julesy | Jun 20 2008, 12:59 AM Post #200 |
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summarize. Im too lazy |
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wtf? That country is so fucked in the head, I feel sorry for anyone born in Iran. I am surprised everyone in that country does not immigrate to other places.
so true you are! Hasan respected that I am an atheist, but occasionally he would sublty try to convert me, well not really convert me to Islam more like subtly try to convince me that god does exist. 

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