I reccomend that everyone reads this.
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable...OSCOW9533.html
It will brighten up your monday, and its in general one awesome leak.
Instead of pasting the whole god damn thing I'll just link to it.
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Dagestani weddings are serious business
I reccomend that everyone reads this.
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable...OSCOW9533.html
It will brighten up your monday, and its in general one awesome leak.
Instead of pasting the whole god damn thing I'll just link to it.
lol
Re: Dagestani weddings are serious business
Summary please. Why should I care?
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Re: Dagestani weddings are serious business
Because you just have to get on the invite list. Take the Volga Cruise down to Astrakhan and then the ferry from there to Makhachkala. (The drive through Chechnya is no fun.)Originally Posted by Ferrets54
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I dont care whether you care or not. Either you read it or you dont. If you are unable or unwilling to read things that dont contain large pictures and bolded text then thats your problem.
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Not political, should be moved.
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au contraire:
Dagestani weddings are serious business
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Then it should go in a business forum.
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Re: Dagestani weddings are serious business
Well, there are political elements to the cable.
and a happily married Dagestani couple blew up some stuff in Moscow earlier this year, so I guess it's worth checking out the weddings.
(yes, I know. It was a totally disappointing link to follow but hey - it is what it is.)
Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, who is believed to have carried out one of the Moscow metro bombings, poses with her late husband Umalat Magomedov. Photograph: Newsteam/AFP/Getty Images
One of the suicide bombers believed to be responsible for Monday's deadly attacks on the Moscow subway was the 17-year-old widow of a Muslim insurgent leader from the Caucasus mountains of Dagestan, a Russian newspaper reported today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/02/moscow-metro-bomber-named-russian
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Its an interesting view on caucasian politics. And its funny.
I'll ignore Ferrets whining and negativity, and paste some lines from the cable.
After Ramzan sped off, the dinner and drinking --
especially the latter -- continued. An Avar FSB colonel
sitting next to us, dead drunk, was highly insulted that we
would not allow him to add “cognac” to our wine. “It’s
practically the same thing,” he insisted, until a Russian FSB
general sitting opposite told him to drop it. We were
inclined to cut the Colonel some slack, though: he is head
of the unit to combat terrorism in Dagestan, and Gadzhi told
us that extremists have sooner or later assassinated everyone
who has joined that unit. We were more worried when an
Afghan war buddy of the Colonel’s, Rector of the Dagestan
University Law School and too drunk to sit, let alone stand,
pulled out his automatic and asked if we needed any
protection. At this point Gadzhi and his people came over,
propped the rector between their shoulders, and let us get
out of range.
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Re: Dagestani weddings are serious business
As old as the first Chechnyan War itself.
Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.
Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.
Jajem ssoref is m'n korewE goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtompWer niks is, hot kawsones
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Man, this is funny. It's the sole place on earth were two cultures meet: Russia, which worship alcohol, and Islam which prohibit it's consumsen.
Russia'n culture 1 - Islam 0
~Wille
Thorolf was thus armed. Then Thorolf became so furious that he cast his shield on his back, and, grasping his halberd with both hands, bounded forward dealing cut and thrust on either side. Men sprang away from him both ways, but he slew many. Thus he cleared the way forward to earl Hring's standard, and then nothing could stop him. He slew the man who bore the earl's standard, and cut down the standard-pole. After that he lunged with his halberd at the earl's breast, driving it right through mail and body, so that it came out at the shoulders; and he lifted him up on the halberd over his head, and planted the butt-end in the ground. There on the weapon the earl breathed out his life in sight of all, both friends and foes. [...] 53, Egil's Saga- The pranks played on the knight Jean de Joinville, 1249, 7th crusade.I must tell you here of some amusing tricks the Comte d'Eu played on us. I had made a sort of house for myself in which my knights and I used to eat, sitting so as to get the light from the door, which, as it happened, faced the Comte d'Eu's quarters. The count, who was a very ingenious fellow, had rigged up a miniature ballistic machine with which he could throw stones into my tent. He would watch us as we were having our meal, adjust his machine to suit the length of our table, and then let fly at us, breaking our pots and glasses.
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