Posts Tagged ‘Brother’

Large percentage of children work in Yemen

A large percentage of Yemeni children have to find jobs to support their family. Some children are even smuggled across the border into Saudi Arabia because the jobs are better paying there.

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Looking for link exchanges, while on vacation

Your humble blogger is about to go on vacation. Again this year, we are heading to the far north, beyond the reach of the internet.

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An Afghan Mission That Went All Bad

Child relatives at the gravesite of five people killed, including three women, during a joint US-Afghan night raid in Paktia province

UN Report Criticises Covert Troops Who Committed Afghan Killings — Times Online

Covert troops who killed two pregnant women and a teenage girl in eastern Afghanistan went on to inflict “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” on the survivors of a botched night raid, a report by the UN said.

The family of the victims in Paktiya province have accused Nato of trying to cover up the atrocity after an investigation by The Times revealed that two men, who were also killed, were not the intended targets of the raid.

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Michael Yon: New IED’s In Afghanistan Only Use Liquids And Non-Metal Parts.

Michael Yon

WNU Editor: I found the following entry in Michael Yon’s Facebook Page.

Michael Yon Am told the enemy has started using IEDs that use no metal.

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Cuba’s Raúl Castro As Ruthless As Fidel

The Castro Brothers

From Miami Herald:

A report by Human Rights Watch paints Raúl Castro’s regime in Cuba as little more than a continuation of his brother’s `abusive laws and institutions.’

Cuba’s government remains as repressive under Raúl Castro as it was under his brother Fidel, according to the first in-depth report on the island’s human rights since the younger Castro took power.

Titled “New Castro, Same Cuba,” the report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) details a skein of cruel pressures on dissidents, relatives and friends that belie initial hopes Raúl Castro would be different.

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My Comment: Fidel had many of his opponents executed or thrown in prison, and the rest (about 3 million) kicked out …. and his brother is worse?!?!?!

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