Danish embassy invaded

[VetLegion]

I've been playing colonisation to 5am

Here we have an intro to World War III happening in Syria and our correspondent there is playing a computer game from 1994. till 5 AM

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by laurentius
So Where are the Danish Rapid Deployment Forces? Why dont the Danes protect their terriotory?

They're busy occupying Iraq?

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by VetLegion

I've been playing colonisation to 5am

Here we have an intro to World War III happening in Syria and our correspondent there is playing a computer game from 1994. till 5 AM

"Bah, what World War thing are you talking about, I played Colonization!"

*EMP*

"Damn, seems I have to play the boardgame now."

[Dinner]

OK, it is the SCotUS building and not the Capital building.

The friezes which adorn the north and south walls of the courtroom in the Supreme Court building (also designed by Adolph Weinman) depict a procession of 18 great lawgivers: Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius and Octavian (south wall); Justinian, Mohammed, Charlemagne, King John, Louis IX, Hugo Grotius, Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall and Napoleon (north wall):

[Pekka]

So a AQ group in Iraq is encouraging for fighters to kill Danes and chop them to pieces, where ever they are and around the world.

Since we're not getting much response from the US and Russia, what is EU response to this? When do we start bombing?

[Chemical Ollie]

The first fatality has been claimed. One of the protestors in Beirut has died of injuries he got from the fire at the embassy.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Oerdin
OK, it is the SCotUS building and not the Capital building.

[Elok]

Originally posted by VetLegion

I've been playing colonisation to 5am

Here we have an intro to World War III happening in Syria and our correspondent there is playing a computer game from 1994. till 5 AM

WWIII? You'd better hope not. All of our soldiers are already committed in Iraq, and Russia's army is a disgrace. Neither of us will be stepping in to save your butts this time. Might I suggest China?

[laurentius]

Originally posted by VetLegion


They're busy occupying Iraq?

Ok, so whats that? A couple hours helicopter ride to Damascus and Beyrouth? Bring on the machine guns!

[Gangerolf]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
The first fatality has been claimed. One of the protestors in Beirut has died of injuries he got from the fire at the embassy.

Darwin award?

[Odin]

Originally posted by Gangerolf


Darwin award?

[Bill3000]

Anyone else finding it funny that people are setting an embassy on fire as a form of protest of being portrayed as terrorists in a cartoon?

[Winston]

Another point which has been brought up a couple of times during the course of this, namely, "why don't the Danes beef up security around their embassies?". It is my understanding that the security and enforcement of sovereignty around foreign embassies is normally the responsibility of the host nation.

Hence the repeated calls from the Danish ambassador to Syria on Thurday and Friday to the authorities there for more security guards in view of the heated situation - which went unanswered. Hence the Lebanese police and military effort to hinder the raiding of the Danish consulate today - in vain. And hence the unanimous international condemnation of the Syrian authorities for not doing anything to prevent yesterday's burning.

And you have to remember that these are small diplomatic representations, since we're a small country. The Syrian embassy had a permanent staff of 6, none of whom had any security functions.

Perhaps what is causing confusion in some as to whose responsibility it is to keep embassies safe, is that the U.S. has a tradition of bring their own security and escorts to embassies in troubled areas. At least that's the impression I have. But this approach should be seen as just an extra measure taken by the Americans beyond the traditional obligation of the host country to ensure embassy safety.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Bill3000
Anyone else finding it funny that people are setting an embassy on fire as a form of protest of being portrayed as terrorists in a cartoon?

Oh, that observation's been made many times by now. Most notably by a French journalist, or official, or somebody like that.

[Winston]

Media reports say that a Catholic Priest has been gunned down in Turkey. The gunman yelled "Allah is great!" Police will not comment on whether the killing is connected to the case of the Muhammed drawings.

Turkish police say that an Italian, Catholic Priest was shot and killed Sunday in the yard outside his church in Trabzon by the Black Sea.

Police will not say whether there is a connection to the publication of the Muhammed drawings in several European newspapers, which has caused outrage across the Muslim world, including in predominantly Muslim Turkey. Earlier on Sunday, hundreds of Turks protested the drawings in the streets of Istanbul.

An eyewitness told police she heard the killer shouting "God is great!" as he made his escape. Police are searching for a teenage boy who committed the murder, according to the witness.

"Whether the murder is connected to the drawings will be revealed when the killer is apprehended", the local Governor, Huseyin Yavuzdemir, told AP.

The murdered Priest, 60 year old Andrea Santoro, was shot in his chest a few hours after Sunday's mass.

The Turkish government has condemned the killing.