An Irishman Goes To A Bar

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Mar 172012
 

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US President Barack Obama speaks with the bartenders at The Dubliner pub on March 17, 2012 in Washington. Obama went to the bar to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

President Barack Obama drinks a Guinness with his ancestral cousin from Moneygall Ireland Henry Healy, center, and the owner of the pub in Moneygall Ireland, Ollie Hayes, right, at The Dubliner Restaurant and Pub and Restaurant on St. Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17, 2012, in Washington.

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More pics at DU.

 Posted by at 2:13 pm

Aw, My Heart Just Bleeds

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Mar 172012
 

From Huffington Post:

NAIROBI, Kenya — American-born jihadi Omar Hammami says in a new video that he fears members of his own Somali militia group may kill him over differences of opinion.

Hammami, known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, or “the American,” appears in a video saying he has disagreed with his comrades in the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militia on Islam’s Sharia law and strategy. The authenticity of the video could not be independently verified.

Hammami is the most visible of foreign fighters in the ranks of the al-Shabab, Somalia’s most dangerous militant group, that is trying to topple the country’s weak U.N.-backed government.

There was speculation last year the bastard was killed, but no such luck.

 Posted by at 12:44 pm