Yes, of course. And I found out that "Qaida" transliteration is used a lot, too, so this makes the whole point moot. Back to the point... I really wonder if Sweden would *actually* hand JA over to USA. They did something like that before (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_and_Muhammad_al-Zer... ) On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Collin Anderson <collin@averysmallbird.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Karel Bmlek <kb@karelbilek.com> wrote:
they spelled al-Qaeda wrong, lol.
The pretentious beauty of not having a transliteration standard.
Anyway, I won't be convinced that this analogy is government policy until Assange ends up on the SDN list.
(non that it matters because it uses ayn which is a letter that no westerner ever can say right.)
....sorry, back to important US bashing.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> wrote:
"The U.S. Defense Department has formally declared WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange an enemy on par with al-Qaida, according to documents that an Australian newspaper said Wednesday it had obtained under freedom of information laws."
Hilarious.
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