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So how many does it take to capture and hold half of Iraq, Syria and Libya in the face of those country's armed forces?

I think the problem there is like the old copied video tapes. Every time you copy the image deteriorates. Those old porn videos had been copied so many times you had no idea who was doing what to who, or what with.

I have loads of digital photos that were downloaded onto CDs several years ago. The computers that the images were downloaded to from the camera were long since consigned to land fill. Now quite a lot of the images have corrupted on the discs. It seems there is a great deal more stability in a CD or DVD that was recorded in a factory and a reusable CD that was recorded on a home PC.

There seems to be enough of them to pin down the armies of several countries.

I just spotted this this morning. You couldn't make it up. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268395/Adil-Rashid-Paedophile-claimed-Muslim-upbringing-meant-didnt-know-illegal-sex-girl-13.html#ixzz2J5r3bRX4 He said he had been taught 'women are no more worthy than a lollipop that has been dropped on the ground' A muslim who raped a 13-year-old girl he groomed on Facebook has been spared a prison sentence after a judge heard he went to an Islamic faith school where he was taught that women are worthless. Adil Rashid, 18, claimed he was not aware that it was illegal for him to have sex with the girl because his education left him ignorant of British law. Yesterday Judge Michael Stokes handed Rashid a suspended sentence, saying: ‘Although chronologically 18, it is quite clear from the reports that you are very naive and immature when it comes to sexual matters.’ Earlier Nottingham Crown Court heard that such crimes usually result in a four to seven-year prison sentence.

Funnily enough the more Scotland looked like it might pull out of the union the more politicians at Westminster panicked and made concessions. I'm thinking that a referendum on EU membership is a good idea. We have nothing to lose but membership of an increasingly expensive club that allows in riff raff through the back door, and rather a lot to gain.

Didn't the government make a lot of money from the cigs folk smoked in offices, pubs and restaurants before they banned that?

I see that someone has been charged with killing the girl on Normanton Hill. It is said he had no insurance etc etc... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-29349896 A man has been charged with causing the death of a teenage girl by dangerous driving in a hit-and-run crash. Naseeb Ellahi, of St Ronan's Road, Sheffield, is due to appear before magistrates next month in connection with the death of Jasmyn Chan. Jasmyn, 14, was killed while crossing Normanton Hill, Sheffield, on 9 May. Mr Ellahi, 32, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident, South Yorkshire Police said. He is also charged with causing death by driving while uninsured, causing death by driving while unlicensed, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and failing to report an accident. He will appear at Sheffield Magistrates' Court on 7 October.

http://conservativetribune.com/muslim-beheads-woman/ An Oklahoma woman, Colleen Hufford, was beheaded at Vaughan Foods, her place of employment by a Muslim who had repeatedly been attempting to convert co-workers to Islam, once again proving this is no religion of peace. Oh dear not again.

The treasury doesn't pay anything. The tax payer does. The question is "who should pay to use the railways? Should it be the folk who use them or the folk who don't?" If I lived on the Shetland Islands tending sheep I'd wonder why I needed to pay more tax so a banker from Gilford could get a cheaper fare into the city of London to pick up his £million bonus.

You seem to have missed that Israel is a secular country where the muslim population co-exists with the other faith groups. It is often difficult to imaging a multifaith country in a region where not being muslim often carries a death sentence. ---------- Post added 01-08-2014 at 12:57 ---------- I don't think anyone claimed Hamas started confict previous to 1987. But they were established to create the current one.

Because Israel is a civilized country. It is a respected member of the UN. It is a proper secular democracy that respects the rights of all faiths to be citizens and vote in its elections. They are capable of trading with most nations on the planet, have ambasadors in most countries and meet their financial obligations. Hamas is a terror organisation, with little credibility in the world, even amongst Islamic nations. Their stated primary aim is the destruction of another sovereign nation and will do whatever it takes to achieve that. That includes lying through their back teeth, faking film footage and staging attrocities for the media.

Hamas are the elected government of Gaza so they act in the name of the people. The missiles that rain down on Israel aren't fired by a bunch of terrorists in Gaza. They are fired by the elected government who must bare the responsibility for the response from another country for the attacks they make upon it.

I'm not sure that there is a great deal that we could do except to stop direct flights.

You clearly aren't doing a very good job of it.