Afghan Hunger strike - Photographs

by R. Isible Fri May 19, 2006 07:25

On Wednesday a suicide bomber rammed into a UN vehicle near the main coalition base at Kandahar airport, killing himself and injuring the driver. Col Vernon said he had tightened security on the road after similar attacks in March by "imposing Northern Ireland procedures". On Wednesday night hundreds of Taliban fighters assailed Musa Qala village in northern Helmand, sparking an eight-hour battle that officials said left 40 militants and 13 police dead.

Nice safe country to go to there. The Guardian reports on the continuing violence in Afghanistan (as it affects Western occupation forces -- no mention of the routine violence perpetrated on ordinary people). I wonder will some artist be making a nice Louis le Brocquy style tryptych to commemorate the dying Afghans? I see a neo-mediaeval theme with a devil McDowell stoking the fires of hell.

by Seán Ryan Thu May 18, 2006 22:05

The PDs are not in government because the people put them there. The vote facilitated it but did not will it.

Bertie willed it because he knew that himself and the other witless fuckwits he hangs with couldn't and weren't fit to govern the country.

Welcome to the Republic of Xenophobia.

Our Racist Nation - http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75025

by ooops Thu May 18, 2006 21:58

He stopped you all smoking legally in the pub.
He supplied dodgy radios which didn't work to the Garda - so you got away with it.
He supplied dodgy laser speed traps to the Garda - so you got away with it.
He asked for your public consultation on his laws to ban the possession with intent to supply of bangers, rockets, sparklers and anything else you could get for Halowe'en and thus banged up hald of the street vendors of Henry street.
He sort of said he thought the Iraq war was a bit legally dodgey, but sill signed unconstitutional accords with the USA:
He out-sourced Irish intelligence analysis and translation work thus saving the taxpayer no money on creating an accountable and national special security service.
He didn't give you a new prison, so if you didn't get away with it, you're on smack.
Oh! & we can't forget his "operation anvil" with its "shoot to kill" policy and the great work it has done in helping us all sleep safe & sound in our beds or go safely to the post office.

& he got away with it.................

will he get away with deporting a blind crippled Afghani?
will he get away with allowing the Gardaí not to properly keep the peace and prevent racist hecklers at the national cathedral of Ireland?
= your choice.

by psalm 23 Thu May 18, 2006 21:26

Mcdowell is the man who deported a leaving cert schoolboy in his uniform to Lagos and then under popular pressure brought him back.
McDowell is the man who took credit for the Celtic Tiger.
McDowell is the man who chose not to give police protection to Denis Donaldson, thus allowing him to be murdered and then didn't supervise a proper inquiry.
McDowell is the man who allowed the most serious riot in Dublin's history since independence to take place on February 25th, & then blamed "garda management".
McDowell is the man "garda management" won't allow speak at their conferences : the first minister of Justice in Ireland's history to be thus snubbed.
McDowell is the man who abused his power to publically slander a member of "the press corp" naming him as one of a "1000 strong terrorist state within a state" group - sparking angry editorials from every commercial newspaper & then went on Christmas holidays.
McDowell is the man who doesn't pay tax on his second holiday home in Roscommon and at a convenient time reported it had been attacked by the "1000 strong terrorist state within a state" he still refuses to name, & the Gardaí couldn't pursue the case....
McDowell is the man who exceeded his jurisdiction by passing statements on the Northern Bank robberies.
McDowell is the man who allowed the president of "the workers party" to escape an extradition order from the US government and return home to be our principle "fugitive".
mcDowell is the man who changed the law on which babies born in our state - are or can be Irish.
McDowell is the man who when he wants to :-
can break the law.
can stretch the law.
can rewrite the law.
can ignore the law.

He is the worst minister of Justice this state has ever had. & sadly he represents his party the "Progressive Democrats" so well. They have given us the worst minister of Health this state has ever had as well. & why? Why? were such pathetic self-serving individuals allowed to frame your recent past and your immediate future? Simple - Fianna Fail needed their squeeky cleanliness to oil another term of the regime and its usual slime. End this squeeky clean slime please. & then we'll dance on their graves, but I'd prefer if we just righted their intolerable wrongs and forgot about them.

by Publo Thu May 18, 2006 21:06

A report on the Guardian website states that 100 people (all but two 'officials' say were combatants) have been killed in attackes over the past day in Afgahnistan. McDowell's 'disturbances' stance is untenable; the government's stance must be immediately and widely shown to be lies.