It seems quite likely that he'll be the next of the Arab spring (autumn?) topplers, but will he suffer the same fate as Saddam and Gaddafi or that of Ben Ali? Saleh's in a similar position, but could step down before he's brought down. I suppose Mubarak's somewhere in the middle for now.
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Posted 24 October 2011 - 10:57 PM
Gaddafi's fate is definitely making me consider putting fellow Arabian dictators Bashar al-Assad, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and maybe even Abdelaziz Bouteflika on next year's DDP.
Al-Assad in particular is begging for a bullet to the head and Saleh already has had an attempt on his life.
Only thing I'm worried about is the possibility bastards being taking alive and executed, robbing me of points.
Al-Assad in particular is begging for a bullet to the head and Saleh already has had an attempt on his life.
Only thing I'm worried about is the possibility bastards being taking alive and executed, robbing me of points.
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Posted 30 January 2012 - 11:13 PM
It appears his downfall is nigh (unless Russia can save his sorry arse):
http://www.bbc.co.uk...e-east-16796616
http://www.bbc.co.uk...e-east-16796616
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Posted 30 January 2012 - 11:21 PM
As time goes on, I grow more and more convinced that 2012 really will lead to the end of the world.
This is just an attempt to pick a fight with Iran.
This is just an attempt to pick a fight with Iran.
Shadow List 2013.
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2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
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Posted 31 January 2012 - 03:32 PM
Only a species as fucked up and self-centered as humanity would equate it's own destruction with the end of the world. The planet will survive us, even if we nuke ourselves into oblivion. But we warned, Cumbrians have been messing with nuclear power longer than any other corner of the planet. I'm fairly convinced my cousin and a few of his mates, who've been at Sellafield since anyone can remember, would survive the so-called apolcalypse and if we're reliant on those head-bangers to re-populate the planet you could safely assume that movies like The Road have under-estimated the bestial nature of the survivors.
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Posted 31 January 2012 - 08:07 PM
maryportfuncity, on 31 January 2012 - 03:32 PM, said:
Only a species as fucked up and self-centered as humanity would equate it's own destruction with the end of the world. The planet will survive us, even if we nuke ourselves into oblivion. But we warned, Cumbrians have been messing with nuclear power longer than any other corner of the planet. I'm fairly convinced my cousin and a few of his mates, who've been at Sellafield since anyone can remember, would survive the so-called apolcalypse and if we're reliant on those head-bangers to re-populate the planet you could safely assume that movies like The Road have under-estimated the bestial nature of the survivors.
From which we learn that what God has united, human beings must not divide.
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DDP 2013 team The Grey Horde:
Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud,Giulio Andreotti, Hugo Chávez, Jacques Chirac, Felix Dennis, Bonnie Franklin
, Damon Harris, Clive James, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Jiroemon Kimura, Helmut Kohl, Manisha Koirala, Nelson Mandela, Bruno Metsu, Rochus Misch, Robert Mugabe, Julie Newmar, Chopper Read, Sister Wendy, Tito Vilanova
DDP 2013 theme team Minions of Xuleneb:
Theo Bos, Albert II of Belgium, Beatrix of the Netherlands, Corry Brokken, Dick Bruna, Raymond Ceulemans, Godfried Cardinal Danneels, Mark Eyskens, Fabiola of Belgium, John Fentener van Vlissingen, Gerard Helders, Jacky Ickx, Jan Janssen, Jean of Luxembourg, Piet de Jong, Kees Rijvers, Wim Ruska, "Toots" Thielemans, Martinus Veltman, Geert Wilders
Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud,
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Posted 05 March 2012 - 10:14 PM
Really upset at the BBC news reports coming out of Syria tonight. How can we let ordinary people from this area just be be murdered like this? Shooting orders going out to kill anything that moves even down to 12 year old boys. Just unreal.
Mine's a lemonade!
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DL Shadow List: King Abdullah, Muhammad Ali, Patty Andrews, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bob Barker, Ronnie Biggs, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Ian Brady, George HW Bush, Lord Carrington, Fidel Castro, Henry Cecil, Hugo Chavez, Van Cliburn, Bob Dole, Kirk Douglas, Jean Claude Duvalier, Annette Funicello, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Billy Graham, Damon Harris, Stephen Hawking, John Hume, Clive James, Yahya Jammeh, General Jaruzelski, Ed Koch, Helmut Kohl, Phil Lesh, Nelson Mandela, Penny Marshall, Teodoro Obiang Nquema Mbasogo, Shih Ming-Teh, Hosni Mubarak, Robert Mugabe, Jim Nabors, John Nkomo, Bernie Nolan, Manuel Noriega,, Jack Pardee, James Prior, Nancy Reagan, Ariel Sharon, Margaret Thatcher, Jeremy Thorpe, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Gough Whitlam, Michael Winner and Jiang Zemin, 10/50
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Posted 05 March 2012 - 10:55 PM
Rotten Ali, on 05 March 2012 - 10:14 PM, said:
Really upset at the BBC news reports coming out of Syria tonight. How can we let ordinary people from this area just be be murdered like this? Shooting orders going out to kill anything that moves even down to 12 year old boys. Just unreal.
There's not much we can do. With these countries you seem to remove one set of murderers to let another set in.
Shadow List 2013.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
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Posted 05 March 2012 - 11:50 PM
Windsor, on 05 March 2012 - 10:55 PM, said:
Rotten Ali, on 05 March 2012 - 10:14 PM, said:
Really upset at the BBC news reports coming out of Syria tonight. How can we let ordinary people from this area just be be murdered like this? Shooting orders going out to kill anything that moves even down to 12 year old boys. Just unreal.
There's not much we can do. With these countries you seem to remove one set of murderers to let another set in.
If Syria had oil, then something would be done...
Derby Dead Pool showrunner...
"We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature
Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell
It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of press men
Bent on getting hung and buried
And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt
Who sucks you while you're sleeping
It's the theatre of financiers
Count them, fifty 'round a table
White and dressed to kill."
David Bowie - We Are The Dead (1974)
"We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature
Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell
It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of press men
Bent on getting hung and buried
And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt
Who sucks you while you're sleeping
It's the theatre of financiers
Count them, fifty 'round a table
White and dressed to kill."
David Bowie - We Are The Dead (1974)
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Posted 06 March 2012 - 12:17 AM
themaninblack, on 05 March 2012 - 11:50 PM, said:
Windsor, on 05 March 2012 - 10:55 PM, said:
Rotten Ali, on 05 March 2012 - 10:14 PM, said:
Really upset at the BBC news reports coming out of Syria tonight. How can we let ordinary people from this area just be be murdered like this? Shooting orders going out to kill anything that moves even down to 12 year old boys. Just unreal.
There's not much we can do. With these countries you seem to remove one set of murderers to let another set in.
If Syria had oil, then something would be done...
If they had oil we'd be doing even less. Better the evil you know...
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Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
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Posted 18 July 2012 - 10:25 AM
Dawoud Rajiha, the Syrian defense minister is reported to have been killed according to AlJazeera's twitter account.
EDIT: Assad's brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat is now reported dead by Reuters India.
EDIT: Assad's brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat is now reported dead by Reuters India.
Shadow List: Jiroemon Kimura, George H.W. Bush, Bashar al-Assad, Ralph Klein, Beverly Cleary, Kenneth Kaunda, Hugo Chávez, Princess Lilian, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, Bunny Mellon, Fidel Castro, João Havelange, Giulio Andreotti, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Jack Pardee, John Nkomo, I.M. Pei, Olivia de Havilland, Scott Thorson, Bonnie Franklin, David Rockefeller, Tyrus Wong, Roberta McCain, Van Cliburn, Gough Whitlam, Miguel Obando y Bravo, Kirk Douglas, Harry F. Byrd Jr., Rochus Misch, Prince Mikasa, Vo Nguyen Giap, Damon Harris, Rev. Billy Graham, C. Everett Koop, Doug Finley, Francis George, Bob Dole, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Bill Rosendahl, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Superstar Billy Graham, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Run Run Shaw, George Rosenkranz, Nelson Mandela, Annette Funicello, Nancy Reagan, Robert Mugabe, Clive James, Patty Andrews
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Posted 18 July 2012 - 04:27 PM
Basically h alf the inner circle of Assad have been wiped out in the attack http://www.bbc.co.uk...e-east-18882149 . lets hope they get the main man himself next time!
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Posted 18 July 2012 - 11:37 PM
I have a feeling he won't stay and die in syria like gaddafi. If he is killed it will be with an attack similar to the one that killed half his inner circle. he will probably flee to Iran or russia when the net starts to tighten in.
Lychees don't know about my deathwish 2!!
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Posted 19 July 2012 - 12:17 AM
the_engineer, on 18 July 2012 - 11:37 PM, said:
I have a feeling he won't stay and die in syria like gaddafi. If he is killed it will be with an attack similar to the one that killed half his inner circle. he will probably flee to Iran or russia when the net starts to tighten in.
If he has any sense
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Posted 20 July 2012 - 09:45 AM
Here's a run down from Wikipedia on who's died and who might be on the verge of dying. Syrian State TV just confirmed a few minutes ago that the Intelligence Chief had carked it; I believe the interior minister is not far behind.
- General Dawoud Rajiha (Syrian Defense Minister) - deceased.
- Assef Shawkat (President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law and deputy defense minister) - deceased.
- General Hasan Turkmani (assistant to the vice president )- deceased.
- Hafez Makhlouf (President Bashar al-Assad's cousin and head of investigations at the Syrian Intelligence Agency) - deceased.
- Hisham Bekhityar (Syria's intelligence chief) - deceased.
- Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar (Interior minister) - conflicting reports of being deceased or seriously wounded.
- Mohammad Said Bakhtian (national secretary of the Ba'ath Party) - wounded.
- Rami Makhlouf (maternal cousin of President Bashar Assad) - wounded.
Shadow List: Jiroemon Kimura, George H.W. Bush, Bashar al-Assad, Ralph Klein, Beverly Cleary, Kenneth Kaunda, Hugo Chávez, Princess Lilian, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, Bunny Mellon, Fidel Castro, João Havelange, Giulio Andreotti, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Jack Pardee, John Nkomo, I.M. Pei, Olivia de Havilland, Scott Thorson, Bonnie Franklin, David Rockefeller, Tyrus Wong, Roberta McCain, Van Cliburn, Gough Whitlam, Miguel Obando y Bravo, Kirk Douglas, Harry F. Byrd Jr., Rochus Misch, Prince Mikasa, Vo Nguyen Giap, Damon Harris, Rev. Billy Graham, C. Everett Koop, Doug Finley, Francis George, Bob Dole, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Bill Rosendahl, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Superstar Billy Graham, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Run Run Shaw, George Rosenkranz, Nelson Mandela, Annette Funicello, Nancy Reagan, Robert Mugabe, Clive James, Patty Andrews
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Posted 20 July 2012 - 11:06 AM
adrian0719, on 20 July 2012 - 09:45 AM, said:
Here's a run down from Wikipedia on who's died and who might be on the verge of dying. Syrian State just confirmed a few minutes ago that the Intelligence Chief had carked it; I believe the interior minister is not far behind.
- General Dawoud Rajiha (Syrian Defense Minister) - deceased.
- Assef Shawkat (President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law and deputy defense minister) - deceased.
- General Hasan Turkmani (assistant to the vice president )- deceased.
- Hafez Makhlouf (President Bashar al-Assad's cousin and head of investigations at the Syrian Intelligence Agency) - deceased.
- Hisham Bekhityar (Syria's intelligence chief) - deceased.
- Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar (Interior minister) - conflicting reports of being deceased or seriously wounded.
- Mohammad Said Bakhtian (national secretary of the Ba'ath Party) - wounded.
- Rami Makhlouf (maternal cousin of President Bashar Assad) - wounded.
Now that's what you call a cabinet shake-up
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Posted 20 July 2012 - 11:31 AM
Speculation on the Today programme this morning that the whole thing was a failed coup attempt, which might explain the tonnage of death given that those loyal would tend to dispense summary justice and leave the coupsters silent. Either way; I don't think Assad is as stupid as Gadaffi and reckon he'll get the hell out of there in time to save his own skin. Next stop (almost certainly) Russia.
Maryport is a disappointment for which there is no cure, but the annual Deathrace thread hereabouts provides welcome distraction.
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