[Note: What follows is the funny stuff. For something more serious, click here:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/update-to-azawad.html ]
Speaking in Touareg through an interpreter, the Azawadi Minister of Tourism, Dr Justice, issued the following announcement on behalf of the People’s Freedom-Loving Welcoming Committee:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/update-to-azawad.html ]
Speaking in Touareg through an interpreter, the Azawadi Minister of Tourism, Dr Justice, issued the following announcement on behalf of the People’s Freedom-Loving Welcoming Committee:
Free and independent Popular
People’s Azawad welcomes its newest Western guest. Gilberto, vous êtes le bienvenu! We here in people’s freedom-loving Azawad love freedom --
and you will too, Gilberto, when you regain yours, just as soon as your loving
government (“Uncle Sugar”, we call him) pays the ransom, as they always do!
The French Ministère du Tourisme et du Rapt issued the following appreciative
statement:
La victime s'appelle Gilberto
Rodriguez Léal. Il a été enlevé mardi soir dans la région de
Kayes, à l'ouest du Mali. Le Français, dont la profession reste inconnue,
circulait à bord d'un véhicule Peugeot immatriculé en France. Selon des sources
sécuritaires et administratives maliennes, il aurait été enlevé «par au moins
six hommes armés à la peau claire».
Azawadi Minister of Free Enterprise, Abu-Mitt ag-Romney, who
has taken up asylum in freely independent Azawad after a spot of bother back in
the States, praised the arrangement.
“This is small business at its best. We look forward to doing much more such commerce with our
French friends in the future.”
[Update 27 November 2012] Turns out his name is (as pronounced by himself) Rodriguez
Leal Gilberto. You can see
him here thanking his captors hosts for their hospitality. “Je suis bien traité,” he reveals --
which is saying a lot, since the same thing cannot be said, for instance, by
diners at Denny’s, or folks standing in queues at the Department of Motor
Vehicles.
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| Here I am housed and fed for free, and catered-to by an attentive staff |
[Update 24 December 2012]
Repercussions and bavures
from the Islamist/jihadi takeover of northern Mali:
Ansaru justifie le kidnapping de
mercredi soir par le rôle de la France dans la préparation d'une intervention
militaire au Mali.
[Update 26 Dec 2012] A good summary here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/al-qaeda-group-france-is-endangering-hostages-by-agreeing-to-train-malis-soldiers/2012/12/26/40513506-4f4b-11e2-8b49-64675006147f_allComments.html?ctab=all_&
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| Abu El Hamid Abu Zeid: "I offer you my friendship..." |
[Update 28 December 2012] From the NYTimes:
Moctar Touré was strapped to a
chair, blindfolded, his right hand bound tight to the armrest with a rubber
tube. A doctor came and administered a shot. Then Mr. Touré’s own brother
wielded a knife, the kind used to slaughter sheep, and methodically carried out
the sentence.
“I myself cut off my brother’s
hand,” said Aliou Touré, a police chief in the Islamist-held north of this
divided nation. “We had no choice but to practice the justice of God.”
Such amputations are designed to
shock — residents are often summoned to watch — and even as the world makes
plans to recapture northern Mali by force, the Islamists who control it show no
qualms about carrying them out.
After the United Nations Security
Council authorized a military campaign to retake the region last week,
Islamists in Gao, Mr. Touré’s town, cut the hands off two more people accused
of being thieves the very next day, a leading local official said, describing
it as a brazen response to the United Nations resolution. Then the Islamists,
undeterred by the international threats against them, warned reporters that
eight others “will soon share the same fate.”
This harsh application of Shariah
law, with people accused of being thieves sometimes having their feet amputated
as well, has occurred at least 14 times since the Islamist takeover last
spring, not including the recent vow of more to come, according to Human Rights
Watch and independent observers.
But those are just the known cases,
and dozens of other residents have been
publicly flogged with camel-hair whips or tree branches for offenses like
smoking, or even for playing music on the radio. Several were whipped in
Gao on Monday for smoking in public, an official said, while others said that
anything other than Koranic verses were proscribed as cellphone ringtones. A
jaunty tune is punishable by flogging.
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| Thank you for not smoking |
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