| UAE team to begin training camp today
UAE coach Bruno Metsu has selected 21 players for the matches against Iraq and Kuwait. Meanwhile, the UAE Football Association technical committee has sought to close the disciplinary issue against the national team players who allegedly went out of the training camp on the night before their friendly against AC Milan on January 8. Mohammad Bin Dokhan, the head of the FA technical committee, said in a press conference the team will play very important matches in the coming days and the players need to concentrate on that. .
No more singing policemen
I have been emailed your article in Australia and whilst I agree fully with the sentiments, the problem is the restrictions placed upon modern policing by the vocal civil rights minority. Until we get back to the stage where the Police are allowed and encouraged to do as you suggest and not suspended or charged then nothing will change. The silent majority needs to stand up and be counted. I served for 15 yrs in the Met and was stabbed 3 times, 2 crushed vertebrae and a broken leg were just some of the injuries I received in that time. Most coppers are willing to risk their lives and bodily injury provided they get the full support of the law and their Force especially the Chief Constables! .
'What we did was crazy and brutal'
The 2006 Lebanon war, known locally as the July War and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War, was a 34-day battle between, primarily, Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli Defence Force. The fighting started on July 12, 2006, and continued until a ceasefire brokered by the United Nations went into effect a month later. The brief conflict – brought to the public by 24-hour satellite news channels and the internet – killed more than a thousand people, most of them Lebanese civilians, and severely damaged the nation's infrastructure. Nearly one million Lebanese were displaced from their homes – as were between 300,000 and 500,000 Israelis across the border.Though the fighting ceased after 34 days and the war ended for the politicians, Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah, 18 months on it continues to cast a dark shadow over the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon.The UN estimates that during the conflict, Israel dropped four million bombs.
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