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Erin Cunningham

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Egyptian military apologises for assaults on women protesters

Dec 21, 2011

Egyptian military apologises for assaults on women protesters

Thousands of Egyptian women march in the streets of Cairo, protesting abuse by soldiers who dragged women by the hair, stomped on them and stripped one half-naked on the street.Read article "Egyptian military apologises for assaults on women protesters"

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Three more die in Cairo protests

Dec 20, 2011

Photographs and video footage have emerged of a group of soldiers beating and stripping a veiled woman, of a soldier firing a handgun into a crowd and of unidentified men aiming rocks at the heads of protesters from the tops of buildings.Read article "Three more die in Cairo protests"

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Latest Comments

Egyptian military apologises for assaults on women protesters

Dec 21 , 2011 | 07:33AM GST

raydar878

Clinton (US foreign policy, that is) is forced to make a "statement" when a specific incident like the physical abuse of women takes place for the whole world to see. However, she remains "mum" when the very Egyptian autocratic army she (US foreign policy)helped fund and support for 30 years shows signs of crack down on everyone.

Taliban delays spring offensive to bring in poppy crop

Apr 11 , 2013 | 08:33PM GST

malcolmkyle

It's all about the market and cost/benefit analysis. Whether any particular drug is good, bad, or otherwise is irrelevant! As long as there is demand for any mind altering substance, there will be supply; the end! The only affect prohibiting it has is to drive the price up, increase the costs and profits, and where there is illegal profit to be made criminals and terrorists thrive. The cost of criminalizing citizens who are using substances no more harmful than similar things that are perfectly legal like alcohol and tobacco, is not only hypocritical and futile, but also simply not worth the incredible damage it does. Afghani farmers produce approx. 93% of the world's opium which is then, mostly, refined into street heroin then smuggled throughout Eastern and Western Europe. Both the Taliban and the terrorists of al Qaeda derive their main income from the prohibition-inflated value of this very easily grown crop, which means that Prohibition is the "Goose that laid the golden egg" and the lifeblood of terrorists as well as drug cartels. Only those opposed, or willing to ignore this fact, want things the way they are. Kindly Google: "A GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF NARCOTICS-FUNDED TERRORIST GROUPS"

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