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    Oh, ever seen a creature called haggis?

    Quote[/b] ]Supposedly, the Wild Haggis is a creature which roams free through the Scottish Highlands. In actuality, it is merely a fictional animal spoken of to confuse the gullible. The story goes that during Haggis Season, Wild Haggis are hunted, and their meat served up as a local delicacy.

    According to the legend, the haggis is a small four-legged Scottish Highland creature, which has the limbs on one side shorter than the other side. This means that it is well adapted to run around the hills at a steady altitude, without either ascending or descending. However a haggis can easily be caught by running around the hill in the opposite direction.

    Such stories are not entirely confined to Scotland - for example, reports tell of a small Haggis population introduced to Nevada [1] (http://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/magazine/octnov2002/haggis.htm).

    The notion of the Wild Haggis is extremely widely believed, though not always including the idea of mismatched legs. According to a survey released on 26th November 2003, one-third of US visitors to Scotland believed the haggis to be a real creature

    Wiki

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    Quote[/b] ]Although there are many recipes, it is normally made with the following ingredients: sheep's heart, liver, and lungs (or "lights"), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock and traditionally boiled in the animal's stomach for several hours. In this it somewhat resembles other stuffed intestines, otherwise known as sausages, of which it is one of the largest types. Vegetarian recipes also exist, and the best of these make an extremely tasty haggis.

    Says Wikipedia

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    Can someone tell me, why I have white box behind every pin? Thought, this was just like this, but after the pic of FW200 I start to worry about...

    Which browser do you use? wow_o.gif

    Jerusalem, Israel.

    Look at the Africa/Middle East map, the pin's there since yesterday... biggrin_o.gif

    I still see white boxes too, Using Internet Explorer 6.0

    White boxes here also..

  7. Posted

    Quote[/b] ]The hostage-takers -- a previously unknown group calling itself the Contributing Forces for the Annihilation of Agents and Spies -- claimed the officers were chasing the "mujahedeen and harassing Muqtada al-Sadr."

    Where the hell they pick the names for these groups?

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    Quote[/b] ]That's bullcrap. So what if it holds 30 compared to 5? Ever heard of "reloading"? "In a crowded place".. How many can you kill in a crowded space with a knife or a katana? Inifinite number of people?

    Why can't you admit that the weapon itself is not lethal, it's the person using it that makes the decision? And why make it easier for a lunatic by allowing him to unhindered kill people with an illegal weapon, when you can at least let the rest of the population have a fighting chance?

    Where do you draw the line? or do you? Is it ok for me to have a M-16? If M-16, then why not a minigun? Or howabout a simple missile? would you be worried if your neighbour would have a tactical nuclear device "Senator" in his house? Afterall, why shouldnt you worry, its the neighbour thats pushing the button, right?

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    Quote[/b] ]SEATTLE (Reuters) - The company that made the Bushmaster rifle used in the Washington-area sniper killings and a gun shop that lost track of the firearm agreed to pay $2.5 million to victims in what lawyers said on Thursday was an unprecedented settlement.

    The payout for eight victims of the October 2002 shootings was the first of its kind by a gun manufacturer accused of negligent distribution of firearms, said Daniel Vice, an attorney with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of the victims.

    John Muhammad and Lee Malvo were found guilty last year for a shooting spree that killed 10 and injured three. In October 2003, Malvo was sentenced to life in prison without parole and Muhammad was sentenced to death.

    Bushmaster Firearms Inc. of Windham, Maine, which makes the civilian version of the military M-16 rifle, agreed to pay $550,000 to the families of six victims and two survivors of the shootings.

    The Bull's Eye Gun Shop in Tacoma, Washington, near Seattle, also agreed to pay $2 million. Bull's Eye has said that the Bushmaster rifle used in the shootings disappeared from its shop.

    "This has now set a precedent nationwide that gunmakers and gun dealers will be held responsible if they continue to sell guns to criminals," Vice said.

    A representative of Bull's Eye was not immediately available for comment. Bushmaster did not comment beyond a statement posted on its Web site that said the settlement was not an admission of wrongdoing.

    "Our choice was to continue spending it on trial lawyers or turn it over directly to the victims' families with no funds going to the Brady Group for their legal fees," Bushmaster said.

    "The Brady Group's attempt at claiming a victory over firearms manufacturers is a hollow one... Their attempt to eliminate gun rights of citizens has failed legislatively and will continue to fail with these frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers."

    'LETHAL WEAPONS'

    "It wasn't about money. It was about making a statement that you have to be responsible in the way you carry on your business, if you are going to sell such lethal weapons to the general public," said Victoria Snider, whose brother, James "Sonny" Buchanan, was killed in the sniper shootings.

    The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would limit lawsuits against the gun industry. The bill was backed by the National Rifle Association, the powerful gun lobby. Some critics of the legislation contended it would block lawsuits such as the sniper case.

    But companion legislation was defeated in the Senate after it was modified to include an extension of the assault weapons ban, set to expire on Monday. The NRA also strongly opposed any extension of the assault weapons ban.

    Snider, who spoke at a news conference at the Brady Center in Washington, D.C., said her "biggest fear" was that now-banned automatic weapons would become available to the public.

    "I'm appalled at that and I hope President Bush is listening and I hope that he changes that, he doesn't let it expire, that he continues the ban on assault weapons," she said.

    The Brady Center said 238 guns had disappeared from the Bull's Eye gun shop, near where Muhammad and Malvo lived for a brief time, and that more than 50 guns from the shop were traced to criminal acts between 1997 and 2001.

    Reuters

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    U.S. Deaths in Iraq Top 1,000; Aid Groups Eye Exit

    Quote[/b] ]BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Dozens of international aid agencies considered quitting Iraq Wednesday following the abduction of two Italian women, and as the U.S. military death toll rose above 1,000.

    A coordinator for foreign aid groups said he expected most of the remaining 50 or so organizations to pull out following the kidnapping of the Italians, in Iraq to help child victims of war, from their Baghdad office Tuesday.

    Aid groups met to discuss the issue Wednesday but broke off the meeting early for security reasons. Jean-Dominique Bunel, a French aid worker, said all organizations were reviewing their security and considering withdrawing.

    The Pentagon announced that the death toll in Iraq had topped 1,000 Wednesday, equivalent to around two deaths a day since U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq in March 2003.

    U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a report to the U.N. Security Council Tuesday, said violence in Iraq may threaten elections scheduled for January 2005. Postponing the vote would be a severe blow for the U.S.-backed interim government.

    The politically sensitive benchmark of 1,000 U.S. deaths, which could play a role in the U.S. presidential campaign, was surpassed after a surge of fighting in Muslim Sunni areas and Shi'ite enclaves.

    In May last year, President Bush declared major combat operations over. Since then more than 800 U.S. soldiers have been killed in action.

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    Quote[/b] ]WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, intelligence committee chairman in the run-up to the Iraq war, said on Sunday the Bush administration had "taken every step" to shield Saudi Arabia from links to the Sept. 11 attacks.

    The Florida Democrat in 2002 helped launch a joint inquiry with the House Intelligence Committee that produced a report on intelligence failures related to the Sept. 11 attacks.

    He told NBC's "Meet the Press" that his new book, "Intelligence Matters," makes the case on "the extent to which Saudi Arabia was a key part of making 9/11 happen."

    "Yet this administration has taken every step to obfuscate, avoid and cover up Saudi Arabia's actions," he added.

    Link to the article (Reuters)

    Now this is quite a statement, lets see how he can back it up..

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    Quote[/b] ]The evening after the the Russian army stormed the building, civilians formed millitia's to maintain security themselves (still a lot of terrrorist where running arround). That explains the handkerchief, it was used for millitia's to indentify themselves

    I wonder how many FF insidents happened there, all the idegriedents for ff were there..

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    Quote[/b] ]My point is, the only attention this is going to get them is more brutal Russian attacks on Chechnya

    My point is that any publicity is good publicity to them. This way people from all over the world remember again that there is this place called tchetchenia, and they are having a war in there. By getting the world to look to tchetchenia serves their purpous.

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