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I believe Israel, US and Iran should be charged with crimes against humanity based on the development, support and usage of these wicked weapons.

Real shame that those who complain the most are easily the ones that will inflict the most wicked form of pain on people.

I hope the recent raid by the US troops on the Iranian consulate in Iraq won't add to the already dicey but dangerous relationship between the US and Iran.

I had thought that consulates/embassies are treated as areas where the foreign nations have total control over.

Or, is the US willing to do anything to keep the war raging or inviting new ones?

If for any reason the consulate needed to be checked for anything it should have been carried out by the Iraqis themselves not the illegal invaders and occupiers.

A forum script, someone to install it and maybe tweak or customize it, a web hosting plan with enough bandwith and diskspace that will ultimately depend on how popular your forum will be and the amount of traffic.

Get as much diskspace and bandwidth your money can buy, it is better that way.

trips:
Is there anyone good in PHP out there?
I wrote this program for a contact page i built but it doesn't work.
It doesn't get to the feedback,
can anyone there help me out?


<?php

$nam = $_REQUEST["1"];
$mail = $_REQUEST["2"];
$cel = $_REQUEST["3"];
$tel = $_REQUEST["4"];
$messag = $_REQUEST["5"];

I suggest you make use of the actual request method as in $_Get[''] or $_POST[''] as the general $_REQUEST[''] may not be parsed properly depending on the parser.

Also use names and not just numbers in naming your variable holders as pointed out by My2cents.

trips:
$to = "info@mapit.com.ng";
$subject = "Enquiry";
$body = "Name : ".$nam." \n Email Address : ".$mail." \n Cellular : ".$cel." \n Telephone : ".$tel." \n Question : ".$messag." ";
$headers = "From: info@mapit.com.ng\n";

mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
echo " Message has been sent succesfully.";


?>


please i need help ASAP,
Thanks!!!

Why do you have the dots in the variables in bold? What do you want to achieve? Take time to understand how statements are structured with proper understanding of what any feature you may want to use does before using it.

@Texazzpete,

Happy new year.

Just a quick one or advice on your web hosting needs.

Make sure you have a reasonable bandwidth with any hosting plan you may choose as that alone guarantees that your site will be up and running when you need it.

Also attempt to contact directly clients that a prospective hosting provider may have as anyone can claim anything on the internet but in most cases only when money must have changed hands will you know what's really up.

Since this is meant to be a short note/advice I will leave it here, you may contact me via YIM if need be.

Why do business owners expect web developers to call them?

This is wrong practice and I believe no serious web developer will be calling business owners for projects based on this request.

Sounds like asking GSM companies to call you so you can choose which one to buy.

Jakumo:
To the armchair conspiracy theorists who identify Saddam's gaping neck wound as being evidence of torture, remember that video footage prior to the hanging shows no evidence of such massive trauma, and also remember that hanging can result in outright decapitation if too much slack is allowed in the rope.

Could you point us to where one can verify the statement in bold? Seems suspect to me.

Jakumo:
There is apparently a science to hanging whereby the amount of slack in the rope is determined by a calculation based the body weight of the condemned person. Too little slack in the rope and the hanged person will slowly choke to death rather than die instantly from a broken neck, while too much slack may result in enough tensive shock to tear off the head when the rope snaps tight. Saddam's wound indicates that he was nearly beheaded by the rope because the slack was either deliberately or mistakenly made too long.

Well, considering the fact that the platform was shown in the video released and the shot was taken on the main floor we can state that the issue of long rope is out of it.

Up to the point of video seizure (referencing the one on TV) the nooze was properly fitted unless they loosened it when the camera wasn't focusing on Saddam.

All that is required for one to die in a hanging process is the breaking of the spinal cord which effectively cuts off any form of signals to the brain.

TayoD:
The deep wound was obviously on his throat which is not too unexpected for someone that was hanged! I actually missed the scars on his face but one thing is sure, it must have been inflicted after his death and not before. he was in the same suit we saw on him when being hanged and there was no blood stains on his body.

Don't think I agree with you on deep wound on the throat not being too unexpected for someone that was hanged, the man was not slaughtered mind you. Even if the scars were inflicted after his death does it make it right?

TayoD:
And by the way, bruising a dead body is not called torture, it is called mutilation. In this regard, credit must be given to the United States for not handing him over soon enough to have him tourtured and neither leaving his corpse too long with the Iraqis to have him mutilated beyond recognition.

Credit must be given to the US for the reasons you stated? Na wah.

Don't worry the Iraqis are already giving the US enough credit on the streets of Baghdad.

TayoD:
Of course we know the position of these people about abortion. How many have been done today without them batting an eye. Yet the lawful killing of a mass murderer is what they focus on because it gives them some political clout.

Still, there is no way of showing that those that complain about the execution do support abortion until a poll or survey is carried out.

TayoD:
@Donzman,

How did you come to this conclusion? Is it from that same video or you have been fed with more propaganda from another source? the last I know, hanging is a constitutional provision in iraq. That it hurst your sensibilities does not make you right. If you don't like it, pressure the Iraw people to change that law and not express sentiments to him who does not deserve it.

Hanging someone will not bruise the face neither will it cause a deep wound on the person.

TayoD:
The hyposcrisy around the world about this hanging just pisses me off! Obviosuly t is politically motivated. Those who are shoutimg loudest about this killing are in the forefront of the mas killing we call abortion. Arent those lives sacred too?

First, it is either the world is seeing what you don't see or that you are seeing what the world don't see.

Abortion ke? How do you know the position of people complaining about the execution on abortion? Maybe I missed the poll or survey.

I guess that leaves only the US, Iran & Kuwait as the countries that do not see anything wrong with the blunder called execution.

I really pity the US as it allowed itself to be messed up by a president that seems not to understand anything around him but oil, bombs and wars not forgetting lies.

@Big B1,

If you like you can swear by your tooth brush its your kettle of fish.

I may be too sensitive, have a big mouth and have an answer for everything just as you an expert in dribbling around issues and sticking to them when it suits you.

Take the advice that you are freely giving to others, you really need it more than I do.

@Big B1,

Don't start your games with words with me. I am sure the topic is clear enough for all to see.

If you cannot advice the people that resort to insults when they disagree with others then you certainly lack every moral authority to advice those that respond to such insults.

Maybe you are comfortable with people pretending, I am not.

@Big B1,

I'll advice you to judge objectively or keep silent.

I respond to posts as they come. If you did not see anything wrong in the specific posts I responded to but saw something wrong in my responses then something must be wrong with your sense of objective judgement.

Johnny:
Mr Afam, do you have manners at all? Be civilized for once my brother. I came accross the quote above and I got pissed off. Your posts have always been hostile and insultive. I hope you are not the Afam I served with in IITA, Ibadan.
I didn't mean to hurt you anyway.

Another slowpoke on rampage here. Go and look for the person you served with in Ibadan. It seems you are seeking attention, don't worry you will get more than enough silly thing.

chidichris:
Mr. afam, u said that iran president is your role model and u are here to condem the killing of sadam which the iranian president comended.

I never stated that the president of Iran was my role model.

As usual, when some pigs find it difficult to make sense they resort to all forms of lies and shameless misinformation.

This forum is not a substitute for real education, get yourself one and help yourself.

scribe:
He is no longer running for presidency. I learnt he is now running from EFCC

Interesting - instead of running for presidency, he is now running from EFCC

@Big B1,

Just take ice scream and forget the food.

What this goes to show is that there is a world of difference between what the media sells to us and what actually takes place, thanks to the internet.

I refused to watch the video because the taunting is enough to show what those guys could do to the man, even at the point of death.

It seems Gordon Brown is doing a U-Turn and I guess only the US and Iran will be the unlikely partners in the support for the rubbish that took place that they call justice.

Well, the Shia led, US Teleguided puppet government in Iraq is at the centre of another clearly avoidable blunder.


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(CNN) -- A new video apparently showing Saddam Hussein after his execution with a gaping neck wound and facial bruising is posted on the Internet.

The footage, which appeared Monday, shows the former Iraqi dictator, apparently still wearing the white shirt and black coat he was hanged in, lying on a gurney covered with a white sheet.

The 27-second videotape, posted on www.liveleak.com, shows the camera approaching the gurney and someone pulling back the sheet to reveal the left side of Hussein's head.

In an accompanying audio track, one man appears to be urging the other to take a quick look and then leave.

The first man appears to be in charge, having just allowed a second man to enter the room with a video camera, which he may have mistaken for a still camera:

Man 1: "Quickly, quickly please, take one picture."

Man 2: "Yes, I hear you."

Man 1 (raising his voice when the video continues longer than a still shot would have required): "Come on, what's the matter?"

Man 2: "I hear you, I hear you."

Man 1 (to a third man): "Abu Ali, come on and deal with this."

Man 1 (apparently irritated over the length of time Man 2 is taking): "Come on, habibi , I'll say this one time politely otherwise I'm going to get real angry."

Man 2: "I hear you."

Habibi is a term of endearment used by men for each other.

The video is the second related to the hanging, which took place December 30.

A previous video of the hanging itself, apparently shot with a hand-held cell-phone camera, shows Hussein's executioners placing the noose behind his left ear, as called for in hanging protocols to ensure the spinal cord is severed. (Read full story)

Meanwhile, since the hanging protests against the death penalty have been staged from Italy to Jordan. (Watch people around the world denounce Hussein's hanging )

A protester in Rome told CNN she viewed Hussein's hanging the same as she would anyone else's -- saying the form of punishment is "below the international standard" of human rights.

Even in Iraq, mourners chanted, "By God, the president Saddam Hussein didn't bow to the Americans even in the last days of his life."

In Jordan, Hussein's eldest daughter Raghad told a crowd, "God bless you for honoring Saddam, the martyr."

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has previously defended the execution.

"The execution of the tyrant was not a political decision as the enemies of the Iraqi people say," said al-Maliki. "The verdict was implemented after a fair and transparent trial which the dictator never deserved."

Bradonfly:
Am not for anyone in this case, But am here to put some points on the floor.justice must prevail.

The quote above is 180 degrees apart from the points and statements you made on the issue.

It is like telling someone - "God bless you" before preparing to swindle the person.

Make your points without trying to tell people whether you support one or the other, your post is filled with enough information for people to know who you support.

@Panafrican,

It seems you are ok with the erronous belief that might is right, I do not believe so.

My dear, the countries you mentioned will certainly have agreements that favour them and that is what you cannot find in agreements reached between these mulitnationals and developing nations.

I worked in the oil and gas in the past so I can tell you categorically that Nigeria is losing massively based on the current agreements between the FG and the mulitnationals.

There are no cash flow into Nigeria as regards the venture itself, everything is run from proceeds from oil sold, you see them on paper, these companies are just operators of the joint ventures and they use the oil servicing firms like Schlumberger or Harliburton to milk the venture dry as the sharing formula does not apply when oil servicing firms quote for jobs, that is why you will never have indegenious oil servicing firms doing any serious work in the oil sector.

Let the US attempt using the military and watch Venezuela turn off the tap and see the US experience problems in no time.

Countries like Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Venezuela are important to the US, it is just that Nigeria is not using its position to get a better deal for Nigerians and Nigeria in the scheme of things.

I support Chavez full time, afterall the oil in question belongs to Venezuela.

I do not see what the white man has to do with what the hotel charges in Lagos or in any city for that matter.

The hotel is a business entity not a charity.

And come to think of it, it is not compulsory for people to use the hotel, is it?

streetcyph:
Afam,

I am of the opinion that Pedro's campaign team are focusing more on Pedro as an individual, not necessarily on the labour party. but unfortunately, there are many nigerians who still vote party lines, when, as buluti mentioned, our parties don't take certain positions on certain issues. it is because of these people that they have decided to discuss more about the party.

pedro is trying to run an issue-oriented campaign, i think the problem is the media. they are not bringing to the forefront the things that should really matter.instead of focusing on where each candidate stands on certain issues (medicare, abortion, crime, etc) they are glorifying pdp vs AC battle. Not once has either party come out to tell us their position on critical issues. WHAT IS IRONIC IS THAT TILL TODAY, LABOUR PARTY IS THE ONLY PARTY THAT HAS AT LEAST MENTIONED WHERE IT STANDS ON CERTAIN ISSUES. mr pedro was on radio last week, talking about where he stood on healthcare, education, pension, etc. i mean he was dolling out statistics like a chatter-box, i was so amazed that his team took the time and patience to do a thorough research on these issues.

@Streetcyph,

I agree that people especially the media are wasting our time focusing on non issues.

Maybe more and more Nigerians are beginning to realise that the politician as a human being is far more important than the political party he belongs to.

@Buluti,

No, I wanted to explain the extent to which I can support the man as against the party switching stuff.

He did what a lot of politicians are too afraid of doing and he earns my respect for that but the time is now for him to tell Lagosians how he intends to fix Lagos.

@Buluti,

I respect Pedro's decision to leave AC for another party the moment he felt things were not being done properly.

I have used this singular bold move in arguements to show that Atiku should have resigned his post/the PDP before joining another party as one cannot belong to 2 political parties at the same time unless the person is criminally minded.

I would prefer a Femi Pedro that will even run as an Independent Candidate to those that will try to live or die in a political party as if there is no life outside the party.

My problem with his letter is the way he was trying to tell Lagosians that Labout Party is this or that.

He has switched to another party, fine, let him tell us what he wants to do and leave the praises being given to the party because he would never have said anything about the Labour Party if he had his way while still in AC.

Sometimes, Nigerians have a way of wasting time on irrelevant issues whereas a lot of issues are begging for attention.

People make the party and not the other way round.

Maybe I paid too much attention to his comments on the party but such things tend to make it seem as if Nigerians are being taken for a ride.

Thanks for your time.

saintchux:
One thing with us is that we talk with alot of sentiment

A governor left ANPP and decamped to PDP nothing happend
Some senator left AD decamped to PDP nothing happend

because Atiku decamped to A/C PDP remember joint ticket. But when other where decamping joining them, they did not tell them to resign b/4 joining them.

I don't believe in cheating. since PDP accepted others without them resigning from their party they should accept Atiku's decamping to A/c in good faith.

It is not the duty of PDP to ask other politicians that left their parties to join it to resign, it is the responsibilty of the political parties that were dumped.

You started by blaming people for talking based on sentiments but in reality you have failed to even understand whose responsibility it is to ask politicians to vacate their seats if they dump political parties.

panafrican:
People who are frequently defying the US do not really take in to account the ability of this country to overcome adversities. Chavez is about to nationalize US companies. I hope him and his people understand clearly that no one can intimidate the united states.

It is a shame that you are seeing this the way you are seeing it. The natural resources belong to the people of Venezuela and if any foreign company does not like the terms and conditions for doing business there, they should leave the country.

Here we have a president who is willing to protect his people, the natural resources and you are talking about defying the US.

I hope every leader will learn to do what's best for the people and not taking care of the interests of foreigners.

panafrican:
Nationalizing foreign companies can lead to a very destructive war. We still remember France ,UK and Isreal planned to attack Nasser who nationalized the canal of Suez.The plan collapsed when the soviet Union backed Egypt.

Russia has been doing it of late and no one is attacking it, why? The idea of foreigners taking the centre stage in developing economies even when the natural resources being exploited belongs to the developing nations is bad and leaders that are bold enough to fight for the people should be encouraged.

panafrican:
You don't take action just because you are mad at somebody.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/01/08/chavez.media.ap/index.html

Yes, taking actions that protect the interest of your people is the best because when you protect the people as against foreigners you have a base to fall back on and should the foreigners choose to wage war they will realise that you can never defeat the Peoples' Army.

I wish the man good luck but as far as I am concerned I prefer people that are consistent in whatever they do.

I do not have any problem with any political party but it is nonsensical for people to suddenly realise the best party after being schemed out of the party of their choice.

Same problem we have in Nigeria today where over 80% of the opposition were members of PDP until they lost out in the power game.

Education does not equal knowledge. That people knowingly or unknowingly twist issues and facts even in the face of well documented events and evidences goes to show that there is no limit to the extent some people are willing to go to lie and misinform the general public.

The good thing is that these people have effectively put themselves in a position that suits them - a state of complete irrelevance as far as issues are concerned.

Interesting responses from people that support Israel blindly, very interesting indeed!