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Afghans want Obama dead
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British MP’s wife a prostitute!
Rice ‘ordered’ Bush to stay out
of Washington after 9/11
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Afghans want Obama dead
Kabul, September 6 The crowd in Kabul, numbering as many as 500, chanted “Long live Islam” and “Death to America” as they listened to fiery speeches from members of parliament, provincial council deputies, and Islamic clerics who criticised the US and demanded the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country. Some threw rocks when a US military convoy passed by, but speakers shouted at them to stop and told the police to arrest anyone who disobeyed them. The Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Center, announced plans to burn copies of the Quran on church grounds to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but has been denied a permit to set a bonfire. The church, which made headlines last year after distributing T-shirts that said, “Islam is of the Devil,” has vowed to proceed with the burning. “We know this is not just the decision of a church. It is the decision of the president and the entire United States,” said Abdul Shakoor, an 18-year-old high school student who said he joined the protest after hearing neighbourhood gossip about the Quran burning. The US Embassy in Kabul issued a statement condemning Dove World Outreach Center’s plans, saying Washington was “deeply concerned about deliberate attempts to offend members of religious or ethnic groups.” In 2005, 15 persons died and scores were wounded in riots in Afghanistan sparked by a story in Newsweek magazine alleging that interrogators at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay placed copies of the Quran in washrooms and had flushed one down the toilet to get inmates to talk. Newsweek later retracted from the story. — AP
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Kathmandu, September 6 The Madhesi People’s Rights Forum, which has 25 lawmakers in Parliament, said it had split from the regional block as it did not want to remain neutral and allow the country to be held hostage to political uncertainty. “A government should be formed in the seventh round of election, whether it would be under the Maoist leadership or that of the Nepali Congress, though our party is yet to decide whom to support in the election,” MPRF chief Upendra Yadav said. The split comes in the backdrop of reports of massive horse trading, with the media claiming that the Maoists had got a ‘war chest’ of Rs 50 crore from China to lure away smaller Madhesi parties’ lawmakers. “We will try our best to make it a decisive election. The country should not be made hostage of political uncertainty for a long time,” Yadav said. Yadav’s comments came as the Maoists led by Prachanda scrambled for fresh support ahead of tomorrow’s run-off with Nepali Congress candidate Ramchandra Poudyal. A split in the 82-member strong Madhesi alliance appeared imminent with the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum chief Upendra Yadav claiming that tomorrow’s poll “would be decisive”.
— PTI
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British MP’s wife a prostitute!
London, September 6 Carla Weatherley, 39, wife of Tory MP Mike Weatherley, who came to power with Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this year, was caught on camera performing a sexy striptease for an undercover reporter. Carla, who allegedly worked as a prostitute in her native Brazil before marrying Weatherley, was also running three different ‘massage parlours’, under the names Bea, Adriana and Bianca, The Daily Mail reported. “I like it here, nice clients, nice people, nice place and good money,” she said. The shocking revelation is bound to prove an embarrassment to Cameron also, who is pictured smiling at Weatherley’s side on the MP’s personal website. The couple are understood to have met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while business executive Weatherley was on a work trip. They married in Brighton in 2003. It was the MP’s second marriage and, at the time, the new Mrs Weatherley’s occupation was listed as ‘housewife’. She is reported to have gone home to Brazil in 2007, returning two years later when her husband asked her to assist him ahead of his election campaign. The MP, who insists that he has been separated from his wife since February this year, wept when approached at his home in Brighton yesterday. — PTI
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Rice ‘ordered’ Bush to stay out
of Washington after 9/11
London, September 6 In a heated exchange, Rice had to argue with President Bush in Florida, who wanted to “be at the helm of ship”, not to return to the White House as it was a “potential terrorist target”. “The President got on the phone and he said: ‘I’m coming back’. I said: ‘You cannot come back here. The United States of America is under attack, you have to go to safety. We don’t know what is going on here’. “He said: ‘I’m coming back’. I said: ‘You can’t’. I said to him in a raised voice, and I had never raised my voice to the President before, I said: ‘You cannot come back here’. I hung up. “The President was quite annoyed with me to say the least. I’ve known the President a long time and I knew that he wanted nothing more than to be there at the helm of the ship,” ‘The Daily Telegraph’ quoted Rice as saying in the ‘Channel 4’ documentary. Rice, who later became the US Secretary of State, has also revealed that the bunker beneath the White House, where she was sheltering with the then Vice-President Dick Cheney, began to run out of air. “There were so many people in the bunker that the oxygen levels started dropping and the secret service came in and said we’ve got to get some people out of here. They literally went around telling people that they weren’t essential and they had to leave,” she said.
— PTI
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Hundreds of Afghans rallied against the United States and called for President Barack Obama’s death at a rally in the capital today to denounce an American church’s plans to burn the Islamic holy book on 9/11.
London, September 6
