Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Paul Corfield 
 typed
>On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:43:40 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
> wrote:
>
>>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, 'Hog
>> typed
>>>Ace wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:18:19 -0000, "'Hog"
>>>>>
>>>>> Well that's the problem with Sharia. It has good bits, and bad bits.
>>>>
>>>> Remind me of the good bits, would you? I'm not that familiar with
>>>> it/them.
>>>
>>>I know you don't really want an answer but....you listed one yourself
>>>;o)
>>>
>>>Plus they have the hands off folk that habitually thieve.
>>
>>All joking aside:
>>
>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8347216.stm
>>
>>"Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery
>>but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.
>>
>>Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300
>>people in the port town of Merka.
>>
>>An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed
>>after she has had her baby."
>>
>>Fuck.
>>
>>Just... Fuck.
>
>You can't really be terribly surprised about the above?

I guess not. Every now and again something just rams it down my throat.

>And to think that we're bombing the living daylights out of Afghanistan
>when all the good money is on the fact that Al Qaeda have buggered off
>to Somalia and are not terribly far off from taking over the place.  Are
>we going to send our troops to their deaths to protect the people of
>Somalia .. oh sorry protect ourselves from the threat of terrorist
>attacks?   I really don't think so.
>
>Dear Gordon - no one is listening to you any more about Afghanistan. Get
>the soldiers out please.

Actually, when I read this stuff, I lean more and more towards the "Take 
off and nuke the site from orbit" school of 'thought'.

An attempt to cauterise the wound before the infection spreads.

Too late, of course.

-- 
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

can you see the light of need shinin' in my eye?