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remind
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posted 27 March 2008 06:40 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Has there been any public outcry in PQ, over this that has prompted Day to take action?

And what is Day doing on a ME junket, that appears to be lacking any information from his Ministry? Or indeed did he just go to Israel for Easter on our dime and this action is a cover for his personal trip??

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Day spoke with Mohamed Kohail, 23, his father Ali and Kohail's lawyer Saleh Al Jhamdi after meeting senior Saudi officials to ask them to overturn the death sentence.

"They felt it was as if (Day) was reading from a paper," said the friend, who spoke with the elder Kohail about his conversation with Day and asked not to be identified.

Day is on the final leg of a Middle East visit which took him to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Saudi Arabia for talks on security and public safety issues.

His final stop will be in Egypt.

Few details have come out of the trip. Day's officials say his schedule is too full to allow even a conference call to journalists back home and the only official information from his trip has come from departmental news releases.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/03/26/5110556-cp.html


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posted 27 March 2008 06:58 AM      Profile for pogge   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by remind:
And what is Day doing on a ME junket

Among other things, he's meeting with his opposite number in the Israeli government to further discussions to "enhance co-operation in the area of public safety."

quote:
that appears to be lacking any information from his Ministry?

The lack of detail about his activities appears to be by design, as the article I linked to suggests.

Oops. Forgot the link.

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posted 27 March 2008 07:04 AM      Profile for N.Beltov   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I understand Minister Day will be visiting Mount Megiddo to open his new dinosaur/human friendship museum and for an advance look at the end of the world.

Har-megiddo (Armageddon), Israel.


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posted 27 March 2008 07:13 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Let's hope Doris is taken in the rapture.
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posted 27 March 2008 07:31 AM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by pogge:
Among other things, he's meeting with his opposite number in the Israeli government to further discussions to "enhance co-operation in the area of public safety."

Hmmm, I would say that he did more than discuss, your article says he actually signed some unknown document on behalf of Canadians.

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While in Israel on the weekend, Day signed a declaration of intent to "enhance co-operation in the area of public safety," but no details were made public.

Unbelievable actually that this minority government feels they can do such things.


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posted 27 March 2008 08:33 AM      Profile for Politics101   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Day is on the final leg of a Middle East visit which took him to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Saudi Arabia for talks on security and public safety issues.

His final stop will be in Egypt.


Not just an Israel trip.


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posted 27 March 2008 09:54 AM      Profile for contrarianna     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by remind:

Unbelievable actually that this minority government feels they can do such things.


This government is a series of private deals with foreign governments, the actual texts of which are kept secret from the unworthy herd who fantasize that it is their country.


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posted 27 March 2008 10:23 AM      Profile for Toby Fourre        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
And what is Day doing on a ME junket . . .

Wasn't Cheney over there? Any connection?


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posted 27 March 2008 03:18 PM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I wish someone would do a parody of "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee" except using Stockwell Day.
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posted 27 March 2008 06:08 PM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Toby Fourre:
Wasn't Cheney over there? Any connection?
Yes, he was actually, good catch Toby. Maybe Stockwell sat on his knee, like the good puppet he is? Just nodding and saying; "yep, Canada too!" I was wondering hoe Harper would have let Stockwell out in the world unaccompanied, it makes much more sense now.

Try imagining Stockwell speaking for you, as a Canadian, on the world stage, but make sure you have a bucket close by, cause it is scarey stuff, when you get right down to thinking about it.

Oops, forgot the snippet and link to Cheney's trip, and one should be really concerned exactly what Day was saying in this context.

quote:
Certainly high oil prices, the state of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Arab-Israeli conflict were high on the agenda of Vice President Dick Cheney's recent tour of the Middle East. But the subject of Iran was never far from the surface of the trip, which is now wrapping up.

Cheney alleged in an interview Monday that Iran was trying to develop weapons-grade uranium, even though international inspectors have never found such evidence.

According to a White House transcript of an interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz, Cheney said:

Obviously, they're also heavily involved in trying to develop nuclear weapons enrichment, the enrichment of uranium to weapons grade levels.

Iran is currently enriching uranium at its plant in Natanz in central Iran. Weapons-grade uranium is enriched or concentrated at 80% or 90%. According to the latest International Atomic Energy Agency report, Iran currently enriches uranium at concentrations of less than 3.8%, which is the amount necessary for creating fuel for a reactor. Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful energy production, but the U.S. and other Western countries have cast suspicion


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Mohamed Kohail's 17-year-old brother, Sultan, has just been sentenced to one year in prison and 200 lashes for his involvement in the fight which has put Mohamed on death row.

Nice little regime the U.S. and its allies are propping up there.


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Bad news. The younger brother has had his "lenient" youth court sentence rescinded (200 lashes and 1 year in prison), and may now be subject to beheading, like his older brother. Meantime, the Canadian government appears to be doing nothing. They got Brenda Martin back, didn't they?

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A West Island family's ordeal with Saudi Arabian justice has taken a turn for the worse after a Saudi judge's ruling this week that an 18-year-old Canadian may be beheaded for his role in a Syrian teen's death last year.

Sultan Kohail, 18, must be judged under the same terms as his older brother Mohamed, a Saudi court ruled Tuesday.

Mohamed, 23, has been sentenced to be beheaded for his role in a schoolyard brawl in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, in January 2007 that left a 19-year-old man dead. Mohamed has been in prison for 18 months.


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From what I've heard the brothers have made their situation worse by going to trial instead of paying Diya (blood money). The brothers wanted to prove their innocence.

I wonder if the media mixed things up when this was first reported. I'm seeing conflicting information about Diya being offered after a conviction or before a trail. Does anyone know the finer points of Diya?


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posted 15 August 2008 10:45 AM      Profile for kropotkin1951   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by scooter:
From what I've heard the brothers have made their situation worse by going to trial instead of paying Diya (blood money). The brothers wanted to prove their innocence.

Is this "blood money" similar to what you would pay in Canada if sued for wrongful death and then decided to setle out of court? You know the type of money OJ had to pay?

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Hah!

That sounds about right.


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posted 15 August 2008 05:52 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by unionist:
Meantime, the Canadian government appears to be doing nothing. They got Brenda Martin back, didn't they?[/URL]

Imperial Saudi Arabia is an old operation Cyclone-Islamic gladio ally of the USA's from the 1980's. We can understand why that country leaves a lot to be desired in terms of just about everything.

Meanwhile, Mexico has only just been sending thousands more of its military members for Skool of Americas training in the black art of torture and terror than any other Latin American country. There was still a certain amount of time and reason to believe that our own colonial administrators could appeal to plutocrats and embedded stoogeocrats there before the govmint in sunny Maico had totally gone bad. Er, ya!

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Canadian a step closer to execution in Saudi Arabia

The written appeal court decision upholding the death sentence is expected within a few days.


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"He's paid what he's owed. He's square with the house again," -- Brutus Howell, The Green Mile
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