(La Repubblica) 15.25 - Il comunicato di Saraya al Mujaheddin (Brigate Mujaheddin) è durissimo. "Vogliamo comunicarvi che tre dei vostri figli sono nostri prigionieri e vi diamo due possibilità: ritirate le vostre forze dal nostro paese e andate a casa oppure li bruceremo vivi e li daremo in pasto ai combattenti", hanno detto i rapitori.

(Aljazeera) Doctors in Falluja want the siege on the town lifted for shifting patients with serious injuries even as brutal street battles rage. Two hundred and eighty people have been killed since the start of the siege and 400 more injured, said Tahr al-Issawi, the director of Falluja's hospital on Thursday. (...) Clinics in the town, 65km west of Baghdad, are struggling to treat victims of the US attacks, said Aljazeera's correspondent Ahmad Mansur. US helicopters and snipers are firing on ambulances and civilian vehicles trying to take the wounded to clinics or the hospital, the correspondent said.

Aljazeera television has aired a videotape showing three Japanese citizens it said were captured by a previously unknown Iraqi group that vowed to kill them if Tokyo does not withdraw its troops.

Das hatten wir doch eben...

US-Truppen in Fallujah. chin. Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua

"Einen Strich durch die Rechnung machte den Veranstaltern das Internet. Es hatte den Geist aufgegeben." Der heutige "Baslerstab" über Anlaufprobleme bei der grossen Basler Tutanchamun-Ausstellung.

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Das ist laut der BBC in Kanada vom Gesundheitsminister Pierre Pettigrew höchstselbst verboten worden. Grund: "The most common accident occurs when babies fall down stairs. There have also been reports of infants being able to reach dangerous objects that would otherwise have been out of their reach, said the minister." Da wüsst ich aber auch noch die eine oder andere zusätzliche Sache, die diese Kriterien erfüllt und also verboten gehört. Vielleicht wär's einfacher, gleich Treppen zu verbieten?

(BBC) A woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy after performing a Caesarean on herself with a kitchen knife. It is thought to be the first known case of a self-inflicted Caesarean in which both the mother and baby survived. The unidentified 40-year-old, lived in a rural area of Mexico without electricity or running water, and eight hours from the nearest hospital. The International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics reported the case.

Capitalismo o muerte? Jedenfalls meint dies das "Capitalism Defense Project".
"Wir sind keine Konservativen - wir sind Radikale für den Kapitalismus. " Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Philosophin und Schriftstellerin, Verfasserin der Romane "Atlas Shrugged" und "The Fountainhead", Vordenkerin des CapDefPro.
Morally, America has been disarmed by altruism, the idea that sacrifice for the sake of others is the moral ideal. Our leaders think it is wrong to defend, by whatever force is necessary, America's self-interest. And the moral relativism and egalitarianism flowing from our universities causes our leaders to identify our enemies simply as men who have different but equally valid values. Our enemies are not seen as the evil they are.

Sie warten bis es endlich Sommer wird und sie von dort abhauen können, meldet La Repubblica: La repubblica ex sovietica del Kazakhstan, uno dei partner minori della coalizione schierata in Iraq, ha annunciato oggi l'intenzione di non rinnovare dall'estate prossima la presenza nel Paese del suo piccolo contingente militare. Lo ha detto il ministro della difesa, Mukhtar Altynbaiev, citato stasera dall'agenzia russa Interfax. Il contingente kazako è di fatto simbolico (27 uomini) ed è attualmente dislocato nella regione di Kut, città che proprio oggi è stata sgomberata dai reparti sotto comando ucraino che la controllavano, su pressione delle milizie sciite.