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12/11 Still no press about a reporter denied entry to Syria because he's a
Jew. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47806
\_ Frankly, I don't see why a Jew would want to enter Syria. Is
there some hot story in Syria worth your life?
\_ Isn't WND part of the press?
\_ Not according to much of the motd.
\_ Don't you think El Al has different standards for non-Jews
and deny them boarding now and then? I am not saying this
is a good thing but it reflects the state of the world we
are in in and doesn't seem exactly shocking or comparable to
the Daniel Pearl incident.
\_ I find this comment bizarre. I doubt El Al has different
standards for non-Jews. If you can prove it, I'd like to see
it.
\_ No idea what El Al's policies are, but El Al isn't a nation,
a reporter isn't a random passenger, and a plane isn't a
country. Other than that, El Al and Syria might be roughly
comparable.
\- a significant part of el al is owned by the nation of
israel. and i imagine this was even at a higher level
in the past, and i assume they tightly work with the
israeli govt. --psb
\- from Yahoo finance: --psb
The company was originally government-controlled,
but it is now 40% owned by Knafaim-Arkia
Holdings, which has an option to buy an
additional 12% by 2007. The Israeli government
has retained ownership of about 30%.
According to the israel ministry of foreign affairs,
as of 2000 it was 100% govt owned ... not sure
when it changed. see: http://csua.org/u/e9r
\_ It seems that El Al was privatized at the end of
2004. http://www.mof.gov.il/beinle/press164.pdf
\_ This doesn't prove anything but here is an anecdote
which seems believable.
http://www.latinastyle.com/currentissue/v10-6/f-facing.html
and some more discussion here (look for El Al)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/20/le.00.html
\_ It seems that El Al was privatized at the end of
2004. http://www.mof.gov.il/beinle/press164.pdf
\- G-UNIT denied entry to CANADA because he is a G-UNIT --psb
http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/7986
\_ Dude, Isreal refuses Palestinians entry into Isreal from
Gaza and West Bank all the time. I am sure they deny entry
to Syrians, too, since the two nations are still officially
at a state of war. How could this possibly be news?
\_ Because the OP is one of the "Jews are the center of the
universe" flavor of Jews. Does anybody other than some
Jewish people complain about the term "B.C." and insist on
B.C.E. ? In my experience Asians dont have a problem with B.C.
I'm sure the OP will go nuts about my anti-semitism but let me
say I am Jewish ... I am just talking about a certain flavor of
Jewish person.
\_ What? In my experience there are no Jews or non-Jews who have
a problem with "BC". And what does this have to do with Gaza
or the price of tea in China or what the moon is made of
anyway? Excuse me while I go look up non-sequiter. I hope
I spelled that right. And oh, btw, the humidity was hovering
about 28% today which is 2.4% below historic norms for this
area. |
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| www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47806 ABC's John Batchelor and WND's Aaron Klein Klein, an American citizen whose family has resided in the United States for five generations, is currently working full-time for WND in Jerusale m He and Batchelor, along with producer Lee Mason, made arrangements wi th the Syrian embassy in the US, in advance of their trip. All three w ere told Monday by Ammar al-Arsan, the press attach for the Syrian emba ssy in Washington, that the applications for the visas were approved, an d that Damascus had sent an approval letter that would permit them to en ter the country from Amman, Jordan today. However, when the trio arrived in Amman, they were told there was a probl em with the application. They met with Eyad Alarfi, assistant to consul general in Amman, who could provide no information about what was holdin g up the visa. Later, Alarfi said approval for visas were granted for Ba tchelor and Mason, but not for Klein. By telephone, Klein spoke to an official from the Ministry of Information in Damascus who declined to provide his name. At first he refused to su ggest why Klein had been singled out and prevented from entering the cou ntry. Mason, who made the initial arrangements for visas with Syrian media repr esentative al-Arsan, said a red flag was immediately raised when Klein's name was mentioned. He reportedly told her it would be better if Klein did not go. Batchelor and Mason decided to leave the Syrian embassy without their vis as. Batchelor is staying in Amman and broadcasting from the Grand Hyatt Hotel , one of three Jordan hotels hit by al-Qaida bombing attacks last month. Batchelor said he would dedicate the program tonight to the story of Sy ria's blatant racism. "It seems like it's 1938 and Czechoslovokia all over again," said Batchel or. But I told him that if I was to leave him behind, the enemy has won a victory. What we repre sent to the people of Jordan and Syria is that we don't separate people on the basis of race, color or creed." Later, another official in the Syrian embassy told Klein he didn't think he was being singled out because he's Jewish, but rather because he is a Jerusalem-based correspondent. However, Klein pointed out that other no n-Jewish Jerusalem-based correspondents, including Fox News Channel's Je nnifer Griffin, have recently been granted visas by Syria. Batchelor and Klein have broadcast from various Mideast hot spots all wee k Batchelor, New York City's No. Batchelor began national syn dication in March 2003, and can now be heard on over 30 affiliated stati ons, including WABC 770 in New York, WMAL 630 in Washington, WKRO 680 in Boston and WWBA 1040 in Tampa all of which provide Internet links for listening to the program online. His show covers a wide variety of topics from military battles, preside ntial campaigns, planetary exploration and Hollywood politicos, to Batch elor's own international travel. He has broadcast from all corners of th e world and regularly brings on guests from New York, Jerusalem, Des Moi nes, Kazakhstan, Manchester, Morocco, Boston, Taipei, Washington and Bag hdad. Klein and Batchelor this week broadcast from the Gaza border and conducte d live interviews with the leaders of Hamas, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade s and the Popular Resistance Committees. A regular WND reader, Batchelor has published seven political novels, as well as the best-known history of the Republican Party, "Ain't You Glad You Joined the Republicans?" Klein joins Batchelor regularly throughout the week to discuss his WND re ports and offer the latest information on events in the Middle East, wit h particular emphasis on Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. Klei n usually appears in the 10:50 pm Eastern time slot during weekdays at a rate determined by the news cycle. |
| csua.org/u/e9r -> www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2001/11/Facets%20of%20the%20Israeli%20Economy-%20Transportation by Shoshanna Solomon Series editor: David Rosenberg Although Israel is a very small country - some 470 kilometers (290 mi les) long, and only 135 kilometers (85 miles) across at its widest point - it has a well-developed network of roads and railroads, as well as mo dern ports and airports. However, infrastructure development failed to k eep pace with rapid population growth, boosted by the arrival of some on e million immigrants over the last decade, and by a surge in economic gr owth and rising affluence. In response, much greater priority was given to investment in transport during the 1990s, and the government is now s eeking to upgrade the transportation sector across the board, to introdu ce greater competition and to encourage private enterprise. Ferry boat offloading cars at Jaffa Port, 1933 Government Press Office The Road Back During the four centuries of Ottoman rule (1517-1917), a network of railw ay lines and some roads were built. Trains ran between the country's mai n cities as well as to Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. In addition, two ancien t ports - in Jaffa and Acre - continued to be used as the link between E urope, Asia and Africa. During the British Mandate (1917-1948), the road s and railways were developed further, and a modern seaport and an airpo rt were built. The 1948 War of Independence left much of the transportation infrastructu re damaged and railway lines cut off by borders. Thus in the early years of the new state, the fledgling government had to invest large sums in developing the transportation network. The needs of a population swelled by new immigrants from European and Arab countries required the financi ally pressed authorities to give infrastructure high priority. Haifa por t was expanded, and a new harbor was developed on the country's southern Mediterranean coast in the new city of Ashdod. A new north-south railwa y line was constructed from Haifa to Be'er Sheva and Dimona. In addition , highways were built in the center of the country with branches to new communities in outlying regions. In the early 1960s, rapid economic growth and the end to restrictions on importing private automobiles put a growing burden on the road network. But with especially heavy defense expenditures and the slowing of econom ic growth during the 1970s and 1980s, development in transportation infr astructure was often neglected. By the late 1980s, Israel's transportati on network was in no position to accommodate the tidal wave of immigrati on from the former Soviet Union that would increase the population by 20 percent over the next decade. Ayalon interchange Photo: Albatross Asphalt Jungle Israel's road network extends more than 16,115 kilometers, including urba n, access and non-urban roads. But road infrastructure lags far behind the growth in the number of cars. There are now more than 18 million motor vehicles on t he roads (more than one car for every four people), with a net increase of some 120,000 cars every year. As a result, an average of 105 cars cro wd every kilometer of Israel's roads, compared to some 40 cars per kilom eter in the US To help alleviate the congestion, funding for inter-urban road projects h as increased substantially since 1992, with the Ministry of Transport's Public Works Department's annual budget exceeding $450 million in 1999 a nd 2000. Israel is also undertaking its biggest ever highway project, th e Trans-Israel Highway. it is planned to ext end 300 kilometers from the northern border to the Negev. At a cost of $ 2 billion, it will form the eastern backbone of the country's transporta tion network, thereby reducing congestion and air pollution in the cente r of the country. The first phase of the highway - a 90-kilometer toll r oad running parallel to the greater Tel Aviv metropolitan area - is bein g constructed by an Israeli-Canadian consortium under a build-operate-tr ansfer (BOT) method, in which the government appoints a private company to build and operate a project for a period of time, after which it tran sfers the assets back to the government. The second phase will expand the highway by 48 ki lometers north and south of phase one. Another major BOT project is the Carmel Tunnel, a 16-kilometer undergroun d road below Haifa's city center, linking the northern and southern side of the city. Like the Trans-Israel Highway, the Carmel Tunnel is aimed at alleviating congestion in the city center. Construction has been delayed due to difficult ies in attaining necessary statutory building permits for the project. Together with the building of new roads, the Ministry of Transport is als o trying to coax Israelis out of their cars and onto buses. Israel's lea ding bus operator, Egged, carries one million passengers a day (see box) . However, a 1998 study concluded that by 2020, it will be impossible to meet the growing demand on the roads by private cars. In response, the Ministry is increasing the number of bus-only routes within cities, toug hening parking regulations in urban areas and encouraging residential an d commercial construction close to major transport routes, so that worke rs can walk from public transportation to their houses and/or places of employment. El Al Israel Airlines made its inaugural flight in Se ptember 1948, bringing home the country's first president, Chaim Weizman n, from Geneva. El Al was formally established as the country's national airline the following year; since then, it has developed into a major i nternational carrier with an all-Boeing fleet of 31 planes, including 10 Boeing 747s, three 777s, six 767s, seven 757s and five 737s. On order i s another Boeing 777, due to be delivered in June 2002. In 1999, El Al made a profit of $16 million, carrying over three million passengers on scheduled and charter flights. By the end of 2000, the air line had a permanent staff of 3,400 employees, but recorded a deficit of $109 million. The government currently owns 100 per cent of the company , but is planning its privatization. In addition to the main operation, El Al's Teshet subsidiary operates catering companies, cargo handling se rvices at Ben Gurion International Airport, and the Laromme Hotel Chain. El Al's Sun D'or subsidiary operates charter flights between Israel and Europe. Arkia Israel Airlines Limited - was jointl y founded in 1950 by El Al Israel Airlines Ltd and Hevrat Haovdim of the Histadrut Labor Federation in order to provide an air link between the southernmost tourist town of Eilat and central Israel. In 1980 the compa ny was privatized and purchased by Knaf Arkia Airlines. The parent compa ny of Knaf Arkia, Knafaim, which was incorporated as the Arkia Group hol ding company, started trading in 1993 on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Arkia serves many destinations around the country, as well as operating c harter flights to a number of European cities (including London, Paris, Berlin) and Mediterranean countries such as Corfu, Crete and Rhodes. Ark ia also markets tour packages including flights, hotel accommodation, an d excursions in Israel and to Jordan and Egypt. Zim Israel Navigation, owned jointly by the government and Israel Cor p, is the world's 10th-largest container shipping company. Zim was esta blished in 1945 with a single passenger ship. The main task of the early years was to bring thousands of refugee- immigrants to Israel. In the l ate 1960s, as air travel grew and passenger lines were no activities but expanded its cargo lines. Today, Zim operates a fleet of over 81 vessels, reaching every continent and calling at 265 ports worldwide. The company offers combined sea, lan d and air transportation services along most major international trading routes throughout the world. Haifa port Courtesy: Israel Ports and Railways Authority Port of Call For the first three decades of its existence, the State of Israel had no diplomatic or trade relations with its Arab neighbors. Even today, trade volumes with Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority are relatively small; almost 99 percent of exports are transported through three main seaports to countries abroad. The port is located on the southern shore of Haifa Bay protected by t... |
| www.latinastyle.com/currentissue/v10-6/f-facing.html Facing Racial Profiling After an hour of interrogation by El Als airline security, I learned I w as being denied boarding access to my flight to Israel. My mind scramble d through images from films in which American tourists are detained at f oreign airports and end up locked in nightmarish prisons. But then I rem embered that I was still only at Newark International Airport. I was born and bred in the United States, and my roots are undeniably tie d to my parents native Durango and Guadalajara, Mexico, but strangers h ave frequently mistaken my dark hair and skin coloring for that of a Mid dle-Eastern woman. No one, however, had ever labeled me a terrorist susp ect before. My security trial began long before I reached the airport metal detector. I was traveling alone from Los Angeles to connect with my tour group. L ike the rest of the group, I waited in line to be interviewed by El Als security before approaching the ticket counter. Following the typical line of questioning about who packed my bags and wh ether they had been with me at all times, the security agent began an in tense probing. Even though I repeatedly said no, she continued to press with determinati on. Surely there was a reason for their exhaustive probing, I thought. Maybe they were privy to research that revealed that women traveling alone blo w up planes. Since 9/11, people who previously were able to glide through security lin es without a problem have become suspect even families. According to L aurie Jaghlitt, a civil rights attorney for the Council on American-Isla mic Relations (CAIR), Arab-looking families have been asked to leave a p lane if other passengers or flight crew feel uncomfortable or suspicious of them. Together, they co ntinued their interrogation as I watched my group leave the ticket count er and head onto their boarding gate. The drill of questioning scanned topics that seemed unrelated to security issues. One of the seemingly important points of this questioning was my employme nt and financial status. The agents wanted to know how I got the money t o pay for the trip and my method of payment. Security asked for a busine ss card, checks and other credentials. I learned the hard way that its important to know your itinerary, have your hotel confirmations, and hav e all documentation ready for scrutinizing whenever you travel. My interrogating agents had summoned the supervisors supervisor, and the verdict was in. I would not be allowed on my flight to Israel with my t ravel group. Despite my tears and pleading, they insisted that I should return the fol lowing morning to JFK for a thorough inspection of my luggage before bei ng allowed to fly to Tel Aviv. With a hotel voucher in hand that identif ied my reason for the overnight stay as a security reason, they checke d me into a New York City hotel. The following morning, I spent more than two hours watching El Als inspe ctors carefully scrutinize my luggage and its contents with laparoscopic eyes. Since they wer e unable to do the same with my travel iron, they had it shipped to my h ome address at their expense. I was intrigued by the technology used to examine my papers, books and Bi ble. It was like watching TV detectives use I-Spy high-tech gear, exce pt this time they were using it to probe through my lingerie and paper c opies of articles on archeological digs in Israel. A packing tip to keep in mind, I know now, is to separate batteries from your camera and walkman or CD player so you can expedite the searching p rocess. Be sure to remove all film from your camera before going through security, or you risk having it exposed. After an exhaustive process that culminated with a body search and with s ecurity escorting me to a new flight to Tel Aviv, I finally connected wi th my tour group already in progress. Out of the 150 people on the tour, only a few others were questioned for one hour. We all had one common denominator: We were all either dark-skinned or dar k-haired. There was the Puerto Rican priest, the Italian-American busine ssman, and the college student with a dark, bushy beard. El Al boasts of being one of the most secure airlines in the world. After 9/11, it was the first airline to fly because it already had in place t he Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) new stringent standards requi rements. Indeed, my extreme security encounter happened before 9/11, but since the subsequent security increases such experiences have only become more co mmon. Today there are several groups monitoring reports on alleged racia l profiling and other airline security mishaps. Racial profiling would be more subtle with American airlines than Israel is picking out the dark-skinned travelers, says Barry Steinhard, direct or of the American Civil Liberties Unions (ACLU) Technology and Liberty Program. He and other civil rights and privacy groups have been debating the US Department of Homeland Security and its Transportation Security Administ ration (TSA) on its next generation of Computer Assisted Passenger Presc reening System (CAPPS II). They are concerned that it may use screening factors that would single out minorities and thwart privacy rights. Under the proposed system, the TSA would attempt to authenticate a passen gers identity and perform a risk assessment on every airline passenger. Travelers information would be checked against commercial and governme nt databases to assign each passenger a threat index. If you feel you have been or might be singled out or treated unfairly by airport security/airline personnel because of your religion, skin color or nationality, here are some steps to take: 1 Be prepared. Know and abide by airline/airport security requirements b efore packing. Check out the Transportation Security Administrations we bsite which lists items you can take on your carry-on and checked baggag e as well as tips on how to dress to reduce your wait time at the securi ty checkpoint. Compare how security treats other people, and if you feel yo u are being singled out for race, religion or nationality, ask why. Ask for the supervisor and document names and details of incident. Become familiar with the airlines policies on anti-discr imination to cite in your complaint. Write a letter to the appropriate airline/organization and copy your local elected representative. Where to Report Racial Profiling Non-profit, civil rights organizations monitoring airport racial profilin g complaints: National Council of La Raza 1111 19th Street, NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20036 Tel. org/profiling Complaints alleging discriminatory treatment by air carrier personnel (e. g, pilots, flight attendants, gate agents or check-in counter personnel ) should go to the US Department of Transportations Aviation Consumer Protection Division, 400 7th Street, SW, Room 4107, Washington, DC 20 590. Complaints alleging discriminatory treatment by Immigration and Naturaliz ation Service (INS) personnel of the Department of Justice, including Bo rder Patrol personnel, should be directed to the Department of Justices Office of the Inspector General and/or the Immigration and Naturalizati on Services Office of Internal Audit. gov, via phone at (800) 869-4499 or via fax to (202) 616-9881 as well as via mail. Complaints alleging discriminatory treatment by customs service officials should be directed to the Department of Treasurys Office of Internal A ffairs. |
| transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/20/le.00.html Click here for our advertiser CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER Ashcroft Discusses War Against al Qaeda; Baer Gives Insight Into CIA Aired January 20, 2002 - 12:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Wherever you're w atching from around the world, thanks for joining us for LATE EDITION. We'll get to my interview with the US Attorney General John Ashcroft in just a few minutes, but first, this hour's latest developments. The president meeting some friends, some people over at the rope line that's just outside the White House, a s he prepares to go inside in the south entrance. Meanwhile, all of this is taking place as a new warning came this week fr om the Bush administration that key members of al Qaeda may still be at large. The warning comes with the Justice Department's release of new ph otographs of five suspected terrorists. Earlier today, I spoke with the Attorney General John Ashcroft about the US war against terrorism. You're in Salt Lake City, in advance of the Winter Olympics, which begin next month. Can you assure all of the world leaders, the athletes, the s pectators, when they get there, it's going to be safe? JOHN ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL: We're working very hard. I have never se en an effort to secure an area that is so well integrated that includes, state, federal, the local, national officials, the armed forces, the in telligence agencies, every one from the Secret Service to the FBI. We are going to have 20 heads of state, approximate ly, come here from foreign lands. There is a 900-square- mile area that will encompass the Olympics. ASHCROFT: When you have to have mountains involved, we were out at the sn ow basin which -- where the grand slalom, the downhill races will be hel d We've been at the bob sled and luge forum. So there are just event after event after event that will require securit y and they've been working on it for years now. Th e operations are integrated, the communications are integrated, there's an interoperability between the different security forces. And I believe this will be the best-planned security arrangements in the history of m ankind. We're going to do everything possible to make this the very best Olympic setting. America is a place where people have come from all over the world to be recognized for doin g well and for their productivity and their merit. And in a way, this Ol ympic games will mirror what America has been. People will come from all over the world and into this environment, this Olympic environment. And we hope that people do well here and that records are set. But we want it to be done in a setting of peace and security that represents what Am erica stands for. Attorney General, the five terrorist suspects, the videotape that you released earlier this we ek, do you have reason to believe that any of them are currently in the United States? ASHCROFT: We do not have any special reason to believe that they're in th e United States. We don't have the kind of information that gives us a f ix on any of their locations. Al-Shib (ph), for instance, w ho was an unindicted co-conspirator listed in the indictment against Mou ssaoui, three times tried to get into the United States. It's our belief that he tried to get in to be a part of the suicide bombings on Septemb er 11. And these kinds of statements by way of last will and testament or good-b yes to families, in which individuals indicate that they're willing to d estroy themselves as they attempt to destroy America and as they attempt to destroy the values of freedom and tolerance and religious freedom an d opportunity and free speech that America stands for, these are dangero us individuals. And frankly, while we've had a tremendous effort that's been an integrate d effort between the intelligence communities and the military community and the law enforcement community and the -- all of these efforts worki ng together so that you get things out of the theater of war in Afghanis tan that becomes a part of the information that we can use for preventio n in the United States of America, we need that kind of integrated effor t And the people can help be part of that effort, just like the people have helped in the apprehension and prevention of additional terrorists acts . Obviously we saw that on Flight 63 out of Paris destined for Miami whe n the people became a part of preventing terrorism in a very significant way. BLITZER: The fact, though, is Osama bin Laden is on the run, his al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan are on the way. The Taliban supporters have b een effectively destroyed in Afghanistan but does al Qaeda, that network , still have the capability of launching terrorist attacks against the U nited States? ASHCROFT: You know, when individuals are willing to destroy themselves in the process of trying to destroy you, they're very dangerous. And we've seen just in the last several weeks with an individual who, Mr Reid, that we have charged now, boarded an airplane with the intention of blowing up the airplane and blowing up himself. It doesn't appear that the threat has abated in that respect. And it was the very alert and vigilant action of citizens who are a part of this ne twork, this seamless resistance to terrorism, that resulted in his appre hension. So I think we have to understand that those threats still exist and that it's very meaningful for the effort we make to be seamless, to be integr ated, to get information from perhaps one part of the world, but even th e individual citizen to be sensitive and alert to helping to prevent or stop a terrorist from carrying out a threatened activity. BLITZER: You mentioned the case of Richard Reid, the suspected shoe-bombe r Was this a case -- you said earlier in the week that he was Al-Qaeda- trained. Was he part of an al Qaeda mission in the United States on that flight fr om Paris to Miami to blow up that plane as part of an Al- Qaeda-sponsore d operation? ASHCROFT: Well, I can't exactly -- I don't want to discuss the evidence a ny further than we discussed it previously. But here's an individual who wants to destroy Americans and wants to destroy people by blowing up an airplane. ASHCROFT: Here is an individual who was trained in al Qaeda camp who, obv iously, has the intention of -- whose objectives are the same as the al Qaeda organization. And I believe that they spent a lot of time over the last several years, training individuals like this. The five tapes that we released are tape s of individuals who appear to be saying to their relatives, "We're prep ared to give our lives away in an effort to destroy the values of Americ a -- its freedom, its tolerance and its opportunity." So I believe that the threat is very real, very significant, and that ind ividual citizens can play a big role in making sure that threat doesn't become a reality. BLITZER: Do you believe there are a lot of -- there ar e many other Richard Reids out there right now? ASHCROFT: I don't -- I can't say how many, but we just released the tapes of five individuals who appear to be willing, in every respect, to put their own lives -- well, to literally destroy their own lives, if they c an destroy a part of the American value frame that they hate so desperat ely. And given the fact that we've got five of them on videotape, it wouldn't surprise me if there are substantially greater number of individuals som ewhere who have been through these camps, who maintain the same animus a nd malice toward what we believe to be important in the world and what f reedom-people respect around the world. It is important to note that the apprehension on Flight 63 was not done b y some sort of American effort. These were freedom-loving people of a va riety of nationalities who understood that the threat of terrorism is a threat that is worldwide and it threatens people worldwide. And it happe ns to be focused on America, I think, because the kind of freedom and to lerance, religious liberty and opportunity that's expressed in America, is unique and has been a symbol for freedom and opportunity arou... |
| www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/7986 Daily Hip-Hop News RSS Daily Hip-Hop News: G-Unit Blocked At Canadian Border Thursday - December 8, 2005 by Carl "HD" Chery G-Unit While 50 Cent obtained a temporary resident's permit to go on his Canadia n tour, the majority of G-Unit's artists were recently turned down at th e border. com, rising gun violence in Toronto ha s caused Canadian authorities to be cautious regarding the admission of rappers into the country. Reports say rappers with criminal records now need to obtain a special permit to cross the border. The aforementioned artists were likely refused access into the country du e to past legal trouble. Though undermanned, Fiddy still took the stage and told fans he had a hard time making it to the venue. "Somebody got shot the other day and they said it was my fault and didn't want to let me in the country," he told the crowd. "I was in immigratio n for about two hours today and I thought about turning back. |