interesting news article.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/ … 6820120217
It was determined in 1998 that the Swiss were not Neutral when within the remains of a Jordanian suicide bomber, a Swiss Army Knife was found embedded sideways in what had been an active orifice!
I wonder what attachment he had been using at the time!
I have a Swiss Army knife, and I'm not Swiss
Am I missing something? The article is talking about a company in Belgium, not Switzerland.
Pedantry aside, this is quite a scary development. The warmongers' jungle drums are beating again.
Yep, did you hear Hague yesterday? It feels like Iraq take two.
"bowed to international pressure on Friday"
That says it all doesn't it?
I don't believe a word of it...in fact, anything "international pressure" says...I believe the opposite!
Been searching around the web, and apparently, it was the ADL that launched this campaign to go after the Swiss.
Red flags.
"Due to the fact that Iran wants to blow Israel off the map" If I here the sentence again I'm gonna scream.
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