KABUL, Afghanistan – The mother and brother of a 14-year-old girl who was raped are facing prosecution for allegedly performing an abortion on her in a cattle shed in central Afghanistan, officials said (...) The abortion was performed about nine days ago, using no anesthesia. The incisions were stitched up with a thick string usually used to sew up potato sacks (...)

Nader said the girl told him that she had not known her mother and brother´s plan when they took her into the cattle shed. She said the two of them wrestled her to the ground and held her down while they cut her stomach open. She blacked out for much of the ordeal, but she said she remembered seeing her brother hold up the fetus.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090109/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan_backyard_abortion

I have no words to comment on this.

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Wanting to see the new movie Valkyrie.  Has anyone seen it yet?

Trudy´s pictures from South Africa! I wish she posted more though..

Where? I´d love to see them too!

 I´m only allowed to post 4 pictures. The other 2 I like to keep for a while. Sorry.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/three-arrested-as-gaza-marchers-clash-with-police-1299670.html

The Israeli embassy in central London turned into a battleground yesterday evening as police and demonstrators clashed following a pro-Palestinian rally.

Organisers estimated that at the peak of the protest up to 100,000 people had braved snow and sub-zero temperatures to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, but police believe the figure was closer to 20,000.

In London, 13 people were taken to hospital following increasingly violent scuffles between police and protesters, and scores more were treated at the scene. The trouble began when protesters hurled shoes at the US embassy, in the spirit of Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at George Bush in protest at his "war crimes".

the reason for my clothing choices yesterday!!

 But what really caught my eye was number  5 6  5 in the "most viewed" list

 ha ha it´s moved up to number 3  lady in red you only need to look once

 You´ve lost me! - must be my age!!