Archive for March 6th, 2008
Crybaby Favre makes it clear he’s officially retired: ‘It’s over’
Straight from ESPN: “GREEN BAY, Wis. — Brett Favre made it clear Thursday that he’s finished with football.
“I know I can play but I don’t think I want to,” a teary Favre said in a news conference at Lambeau Field two days after he announced his retirement. “It’s been a great career for me, but it’s over.”
“As they say, all good things must come to an end. I look forward to whatever the future may hold for me.”
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Favre also holds the more dubious mark of 288 interceptions — an indication of the wild streak that only made him more human to the fans who adored him. The same was true of Favre’s highly publicized struggles with an addiction to prescription painkillers.
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Favre’s exit comes after a remarkable 2007 season, but his final pass was one to forget: An interception in overtime of the NFC Championship Game, a mistake that set up the New York Giants’ field goal that sent the Packers home instead of to the Super Bowl.”
Human Shields
Perhaps the BBC News and Reuters, the bastion of truth should take a look at this information:
Straight from Terrorism Info: “19. During the IDF activity in the Gaza Strip both Hamas and the PIJ called upon Palestinian civilians to gather in places where, they claimed, the IDF was about to attack. That was done to have them serve as human shields, exploiting the fact that the IDF avoids deliberately harming Palestinian civilians. The terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip have used the tactic before. 8
20. The following are examples of calls in the Palestinian media for Palestinians civilians to serve as human shields:
1) Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV and PalMedia Website called upon civilians to form a human shield at the home of Abu al-Hatal in the Sajaiya neighborhood (in Al-Sha’af according to other version) because the IDF had threatened to blow it up (March 1).
to the house of Abu al-Hatal in al-Sha’af [neighborhood] to act
as human shields” (Al-Aqsa TV, March 1).
2) Al-Aqsa TV called upon the Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip to go to the house of shaheed Othman al-Ruziana to protect it because the IDF was threatening to blow it up (February 29).
3) Al-Aqsa TV called upon the residents of Khan Yunis to gather at the house of Ma’amoun Abu ‘Amer because the IDF was threatening to blow it up (February 28). An hour later dozens of Palestinians from Khan Yunis were reported to have gathered on the roof of Abu ‘Amer’s house to serve as human shields to prevent the house from being hit (Pal-today Website, February 28) .
4) Al-Aqsa TV called upon Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip to go to the house of shaheed Musab al-Ja’abir to protect it because Israel was threatening to blow it up (February 29).
5) The PIJ’s Radio Sawt al-Quds called upon civilian to gather around the house of Fawzi Abu al-Hamed in the Absan al-Kabira region to prevent it from being blown up by the IDF (March 1).
21. Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya boasted to Al-Jazeera TV of the “firm stance” of the Palestinians. As an example he said that the “occupation” had threatened to blow up buildings but nevertheless hundreds and thousands of Palestinians had left their homes “in the middle of the night” and gone up on the roofs of the houses the Israelis had threatened to blow up (Al-Jazeera TV, February 29).
