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Liverpool King of Europe

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Liverpool and Milan play in the final of the Champions League 2004/2005 at Istanbul (Turkey) on the 25th of May 2005 and LIVERPOOL WINS ON PENALTIES !!!

AC Milan: Dida, Cafu, Maldini, Stam, Nesta, Gattuso (Rui Costa 112), Seedorf (Serginho 86), Pirlo, Kaka, Shevchenko, Crespo (Tomasson 85). Subs Not Used: Abbiati, Kaladze, Costacurta, Dhorasoo.

Goals: Maldini 1, Crespo 39, 44.

Liverpool: Dudek, Finnan (Hamann 46), Traore, Hyypia, Carragher, Riise, Gerrard, Luis Garcia, Alonso, Kewell (Smicer 23), Baros (Cisse 85). Subs Not Used: Carson, Josemi, Nunez, Biscan.

Booked: Carragher, Baros.

Goals: Gerrard 54, Smicer 56, Alonso 59.

At end of 90 minutes, the score was 3-3. As no goals in extra-time, the game went to penalties. Milan starts:

  • 0-0 – Serginho (Milan) misses from the penalty spot. The Brazilian playmaker blasts his effort over the bar.
  • 1-0 – Hamann (Liverpool) scores from the penalty spot.
  • 1-0 – Pirlo (Milan) missed the penalty saved by Dudek.
  • 2-0 – Cissé (Liverpool) scores from the penalty spot.
  • 2-1 – Tomasson (Milan) scores from the penalty spot.
  • 2-1 – Riise (Liverpool) missed the penalty saved by the goalkeeper.
  • 2-2 – Kaka (Milan) scores from the penalty spot.
  • 3-2 – Smicer (Liverpool) scores from the penalty spot.
  • 3-2 – Shevchenko (Milan) missed the penalty saved by the goalkeeper. Another terrific save from Dudek.

Liverpool has won the Champions League Cup for the 5th time and the Cup is ours to keep!

No Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq

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… according to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency and/or Club of International Amateurs)

“[I]nvestigation into Saddam Hussein’s purported arsenal, the CIA[…] said his search for weapons of mass destruction “has been exhausted” without finding any.”

“The Bush administration justified its 2003 invasion of Iraq as necessary to eliminate Hussein’s purported stockpile of [Weapons of Mass Destruction]”

So, basically, the invasion of Iraq by British and US-led troops and the subsequent war, is based on a political lie (with the only objective, IMHO, of getting Bush re-elected). From some sources, “[Iraqi] oil infrastructure was secured for financial reasons as well as strategic”.

Being a cynic, I must say that during this illegal war, only few civilians died…

Only 24,000…

And, frankly, who cares?

They were only Iraqis after all…

Same as 15 years ago…

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Last night, we were at La Cuvette near Grand Baie until midnight. Of course, we had our usual “corne” party, drank a lot of Phoenix, sang segas and mari koz kaka (+ politik).

Here’s the those who were present : Prema & Ashvin ; Nyeshka & Jeneeta & Nirish ; Heishta & Neeta & Sanjeev ; Kyan & Anya & Christina & Avinash.

What was fantastic about this event is the atmosphere… It was exactly the same as what we had 10-15 years ago when we did our feu de camp at Flic en Flac.

(For those interested: the initial plan was to go to Choisy, but they because of lack of lighting (and some other more serious matters), we decided to go to La Cuvette. On the road, we bought some KFC in Grand Baie and drank 2 bottles of beer. Arriving at La Cuvette, the police told us that we couldn’t do a “foyer” so we were prepared to go to Ajeev’s place. But then, after negociations by yours truely :-), we finaly could light our fire at a very specific spot under a fantastic moonlight…)

Photo courtesy ilemaurice.org