Kill Bill make a nice change from all the usual predictable stuff. I thoroughly enjoyed it, the karate/konfu/samuria action, the Manga cartoon part in the middle of the movies, the way it goes back in time to tell ones personal story! got to appreciate the directory, it different and always keeping you focused on the film, with few laughs in there aswell

sorry, wrong thread, just realised

You are in: Home > Football > Premier League KEEGAN HITS OUT AT FA Thursday 6th November 2003 More Premiership stories: Ranieri still eyeing Premiership Unsworth wants Everton stay Results Fixtures Top Scorers Sinners Tables Opta Stats Manchester City boss Kevin Keegan has hit out at The Football Association for making midfielder Christian Negouai, a devout Muslim, break his Ramadan fast to supply a urine sample. Keegan believes that The FA have been over-zealous in their nature towards drug testing, forcing Negouai into taking a test earlier this week. Negouai, who had been fined £2,000 after missing a drug test last season, had to drink water to give a urine sample when testers from UK Sport again picked the Frenchman for a test after training on Tuesday. The 28-year-old was distraught at having to break his Ramadan fast and Keegan was unhappy at how the whole situation was handled. "I don't want to make a big thing about this because I haven't spoken [to the relevant people] but, if I am being honest, Christian is very upset about this," said Keegan. "On the one hand, I am saying to him, 'If you don't take the test it will look very suspicious.' But from the other end it is his belief, his religion. "It's where the crossover comes in and we have to respect it. He was forced to drink water so he could get a urine sample, and he didn't want to do it."

By Kathy Marks in Sydney 05 November 2003 The Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi will address a Sydney audience tonight on the subject of Middle East peace, with the city deeply divided over a decision to award her its prestigious peace prize. Prominent Australian Jews have deplored the choice of Ms Ashrawi as recipient of a prize that, in the past, has honoured the South African archbishop Desmond Tutu and the former UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson. Lucy Turnbull, Sydney's Lord Mayor, has announced she will boycott tomorrow night's ceremony, despite the city being a principal sponsor. Influential Jews have been lobbying against Ms Ashrawi, provoking claims that a "powerful Jewish lobby" is attempting to intimidate the prize's organisers, the Sydney Peace Foundation. Graffiti stating "Jews the new Nazis" has appeared on pavements in the city. Mrs Turnbull's critics claim her stance is linked with a campaign waged by her husband, Malcolm, to secure selection in a Sydney parliamentary seat with a large Jewish population. Mr Turnbull, a barrister who defended the former MI5 agent Peter Wright in the Spycatcher case, has dismissed the notion as misogynistic and anti-Semitic. The Sydney peace prize is awarded annually for "significant contributions to global peace". The choice of Ms Ashrawi, who will deliver the annual City of Sydney peace prize lecture to a sell-out audience tonight, has prompted fierce debate in the media. Opponents claim Ms Ashrawi rejected the 1993 Oslo peace accords and in effect endorsed the extremist group Hamas by describing it as a political movement. Peter Wertheim, a former president of the New South Wales Board of Jewish Deputies, wrote that "hysterical references to the 'power of the Jewish lobby' are merely crude attempts to deflect attention away from the cold, hard facts of Ashrawi's public record". John Howard, the Prime Minister and a political opponent of Mr Carr, said a more deserving Palestinian recipient was Abu Mazen, for his attempts to broker peace. He was replaced recently as Prime Minister after a power struggle with Yasser Arafat. Yahuuds :mad:

lol, yes you do! they aint gonna come round neway so why worry? u have to be really unlucky for them to come round, if u watch BBC (which i'm sure u do, ie Eastenders)then u have a prob cos essentially thats what yr paying for, the BBC and its services, other channels are free due to their advertising revenues.

our TV and digital satalite are way more advanced, thats why we pay like £100 per year on TV license, not that i have ever paid. As soon they come round to the house u just say that the TV is there for decoration and u only watch DVD and video of recorded TV programs, that will confuse them, then they will leave u alone!

looooool ok sxb, yaanaynu isfashilin,xaga findicilka baryahaa maan soo marin

a small foldable gadfead aswell :cool: , init Jamal

and a Findicil,lol

the majority of us females are nagging b!tches loooool no comment

^^^lol we r nosey ppl after all, so come on, whats in yr wallet?

lol Flush

Crap flik

Muscles

Thas good news indeed, there are many very good youngsters, many get strayed, others follow other paths, but as soon it can be shown that its possible, then many will follow. If only i was younger bruv, forget Henry and RVN, i would be killing it in Prem and CL.lol

lol, very interesting

lol@Gediid, think thats what we call being late here in the UK, registration of a car u sold two years ago? yr lucky u didnt get arrested on a deception charge!

Damn 9 pages of muran! I cant bring myself to say i'm Arab even tho there is a case for it, i will always be in denial!

http://www.powerleague.co.uk/5-A-side/news.asp?cid=NEW&RID=109 i'm afraid i cant just sit idle for a long time, i need to play regular fball, so whoever is interested, i'm starting a five a side team to play in the Powerleague, if u think u can join in, let me know!

I just came accross this, a tourny i played in in July, just wanted to boast a little and give u guys an idea of how good Sheff ppl r at the beautiful game, The Somaliland Blades, representing FURD, came within a whisker of being the inaugural winners of the Mel Rees Memorial Tournament, played at the Blades Academy ground on 5 July 2003. After topping their group following wins over Junior Blades (1-0), Internet Owls (3-1), plus a 2-2 draw with Crewe Alexandra fans, the team thrashed the SUFC backroom staff 6-1 to move into the final, where they again met the Junior Blades. In a game of few chances, the Somalilanders went down by the odd goal in a keenly-contested final. However they won many admirers by their skills and trickery, and have already been invited back to next year´s rerun, whilst Abdullah Ahmed was the player of the tournament. 07/07/2003

^^^^^lol lol@bush lol@u make us head ache

lol, that was a while ago!

By Declan Walsh in Nairobi 04 November 2003 A year after Al Qa'ida terrorists bombed a Kenyan tourist hotel, a new investigation has highlighted the pivotal role played by Somalia in the attack, and raised fears that a fresh atrocity could be launched from the war-torn country. Somalia served as a training base, weapons supermarket and hideout for the Al Qa'ida cell that carried out last November's twin attacks near Mombasa, according to UN investigators. In a report due to come before the UN Security Council next week, the investigators describe how the terrorists used the country as a base - training under cover of a lobster-fishing business, buying Soviet-made missiles locally, and stealing across the Kenyan border in speedboats and traditional wooden boats. The investigation shows how breaches of a 1992 arms embargo have made Somalia a terrorist haven. The four-man panel says it has information about new weapons consignments believed to be "solely for the purpose of carrying out further terrorist attacks in neighbouring states". Ancient trading routes, particularly across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, provide the backbone of Somalia's thriving arms trade. Every month thousands of dhows - traditional wooden boats - cross the pirate-infested waters with cargoes of goats, milk, crates of Coca-Cola and weapons. According to one Somalia analyst, this dispersed smuggling fleet passes literally "under the radar" of American warships patrolling the Gulf in search of Al Qa'ida suspects. Many weapons end up in the arms market of Mogadishu, a city carved up into zones of control by rival warlords. Recently, Al Qa'ida has joined the list of customers. After the 1998 bombings of US embassies in east Africa, a cell led by the wanted Comoran national Fazul Abdullah Mohamed set up in Kenya and Somalia. Posing as lobster fishermen, the team first assembled in Mogadishu in November 2001 for "ideological orientation and arms training" with locally purchased guns, according to the UN report. Later "sleeper" agents were sent to Kenya to identify potential targets. When they found them they returned to Mogadishu to buy weapons - the "Strela 2" surface-to-air missiles which narrowly failed to shoot down an Israeli jet departing Mombasa airport last November. The explosives used in the Paradise hotel bombing, which killed 15 people, may also have been bought in Somalia. Forensic investigators found traces of TNT and plastic explosives on a gas cylinder used by the bombers. Al Qa'ida may be looking to buy more. The UN team said it learnt of "recent attempts by extremist groups to procure explosives on the Mogadishu arms market, as well as ongoing militia training in the use of explosives". After the Mombasa attack, the surviving cell members returned to Somalia, where they lived on allowances provided by a Sudanese financial controller. One alleged terrorist, Suleiman Ahmed Hemed, was plucked from Somalia in a joint US-Kenyan "snatch and grab" operation in April. He is currently standing trial with five other Kenyan suspects. But investigators believe at least four other cell members are still lying low in Somalia. Since 11 September, US Special Forces and spies have engaged in covert operations in an attempt to contain the terrorist threat. Hussein Aideed, a warlord, told investigators he sold 41 surface-to-air missiles to the US last May. Other Somali sources - unconnected to the report - said there were rumours that the US has paid substantial sums of money to warlords for handing over Al Qa'ida suspects. They said US agents were believed to operate from a house in Bossasso, in the northern breakaway state of Puntland. The sanctions report highlights the chaos and lawlessness of Somalia, where there has been no central government since the dictator Said Barre was toppled in 1991. The country is awash with counterfeit currency. Local dealers and politicians, pretending to be the president or central bank governor, have had millions of pounds worth of currency printed in Malaysia, Indonesia and even Canada. One local businessman, Abdinur Ahmed Darman, declared himself president on Al Jazeera television and even opened an email account with the address "somalipresidency@yahoo.com". A web of warlord-controlled airstrips offers a smuggler's paradise. Planes change their registration numbers mid-flight to confuse what air traffic control exists, and two charter companies have been caught using the livery of UN agencies. Another charter company, Air Bas, is linked to Victor Bout, Africa's most notorious gun-runner. The weapons freeflow is helped by supplies from neighbouring Ethiopia, which is sponsoring some warlords. According to the panel, an AK-47 goes for $190 (£113) in Mogadishu while a 12.7mm machine gun costs up to $10,000. Peace talks are taking place in Nairobi but hopes for success are not high. In September shouting delegates punched each other during a debate, and one splinter group returned to Somalia to set up a rival peace process. Ever since the disastrous peacekeeping mission of the early 1990s, the outside world has mostly left Somalia to its own devices. Islamic groups from the Middle East have rushed into the vacuum. Islamic charities have built schools, mosques and hospitals, and many Somalis have abandoned traditional garments for Arabic-style dress.

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i see nothing changes, ah well, its falling on deaf ears as usual!