The tortuous path of the Afghan government's plan for a regional ulema conference that would issue a fatwa condemning suicide attacks reached a new impasse yesterday when the head of Pakistan's ulema council stated that suicide attacks are permissible. The proposed conference, originally put forward by Afghanistan's High Peace Council, was agreed to by Pakistan in November, and then hit a series of snags as it was condemned by the Taliban in late December and early January.
The conference, which had been scheduled for January, was postponed; its agenda grew murky, the venue changed from Kabul to various other locations, and its fate became uncertain. It has been termed variously a "peace conference" and a conference on the issue of suicide bombings.
In an interesting twist, last month the Taliban changed their stance from condemning the proposed conference to demanding to take part in it. Reports suggested that Pakistan's position on the proposed conference mirrored that of the Taliban, which remained steadfastly opposed to a gathering that would potentially outlaw the tactic of suicide bombing. [See LWJ report, Karzai presses for fatwa on suicide attacks.]
Afghan officials have resisted the Taliban's demand to be included in the conference, suspecting no doubt that the Taliban would subvert the original goal of obtaining a fatwa against suicide bombings, and the event has appeared to be destined for limbo. Meetings between Afghan and Pakistani religious scholars on the proposed conference have reflected division between the two groups, and as of a few weeks ago they had apparently agreed only to hold a joint conference in March on the issue of attacks on civilians, according to Xinhua.
[MAGHAREBIA] Young prison inmates are at high risk of turning to violence later on, international experts warned this week in Algiers.
The Algiers-based African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (CAERT) hosted the meeting on Wednesday (February 27th).
"The prison environment favours the spread of messages and excesses that encourage a number of young people to embrace violent extremism based on a wrong view or interpretation of religion," said Algerian presidential advisor Kamel Rezzag-Bara.
In the framework of the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation, programmes were established in prisons, Rezzag-Bara explained.
A large number of released prisoners did not re-join terrorist groups, which is a testimony to Algeria's success in the matter, he added.
Terrorists act on conviction, and that Algeria needs to continue to "effectively combat" terrorism by addressing the ideology behind these actions, Rezzag-Bara noted.
Two years ago the justice and religious affairs ministries launched a special programme in Algerian prisons. They recruited 250 imams, male and female religious guides to guide the religious ideas of 55,000 inmates and prevent the spread of takfir ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... ist ideology.
The Global Counter-Terrorism Forum "provided answers in enhancing and enforcing laws [for] rehabilitating and reintegrating terrorist prisoners", United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Inter-Regional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) Director Jonathan Lucas said.
EU Counter-terrorism Co-ordinator Gilles Kerchove stressed the need to fight terrorism by involving society.
"We have to work in co-ordination with non-governmental organizations, civil society, security agencies, prison, education and health officials because these areas are in daily and direct contact with individuals," he said.
The workshop, which was organised in co-operation with UNICRI, presented the experiences of countries which successfully prevented imprisoned violent Islamic fascistifrom returning to their former way of life.
Participants agreed on the need to study the reasons that draw young people to terrorism.
The Association of Sahel Preachers and Scholars for Renouncing Violence and Extremism seeks to get its message across by making scholars communicate with young people.
They do this in "prisons and public places, such as mosques", founding member Sheikh Abu Said Belaid Bin Ahmed Imam explained.
The association's work would continue "as long as this ideology exists", he said, adding that extremism was caused by fatwas imported from overseas.
"Prisons have become like schools for takfir. We need to change the religious speech used to reintegrate prisoners, to immunise them against takfirist ideology," he said.
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[MAGHAREBIA] UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) representatives on Thursday (February 28th) determined that former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi was not being mistreated in a Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... prison.
"He is being treated well, and although he suffers from various medical conditions, he has adequate access to medical care," Libya Herald quoted the UN mission as saying.
The visit followed claims by al-Mahmoudi's Tunisian lawyer, who said that Moamer Qadaffy's last prime minister was in "critical condition" due to torture.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Shahbagh protesters yesterday urged the people to rise up against the countrywide campaign of terror by Jamaat-Shibir men.
They called upon the nation to imbue itself with the spirit of March -- the month the Liberation War began in 1971 -- and resist "the evil force that Jamaat and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... are".
Addressing a huge rally at Shahbagh intersection, the youths said they would be on the streets to foil the hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... s called by Jamaat and its ally BNP.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... in the same breath, they asked all not to take the law into their own hands. People, they added, should rather turn the troublemakers in to the law enforcers.
Yesterday was the 25th day of the demonstration for capital punishment to all war criminals and a ban on Jamaat-Shibir.
Imran H Sarker, spokesperson and one of the organisers, said, "Our enemy today are the same collaborators who joined forces with the Pakistain occupation army to kill the Bangalees. But we are awake. We will not let an inch of our soil be blooded by the evil force."
He said Jamaat had been unleashing violence like it did 42 years back.
The war criminals and their cohorts had brainwashed a section of youths into shedding blood on the streets, he observed. "We urge them to shun the company of war criminals and get back on the right track."
The crowds let out a deafening roar, as he asked, "Our forefathers defeated the Pak force in 1971. Now can we not defeat and eliminate the collaborators in 2013?"
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[Bangla Daily Star] Both the main opposition BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... yesterday claimed that the government had launched Thursday's attacks on the country's religious minorities.
The claims came a day after Jamaat-Shibir men had torched and vandalised temples and houses of the minority communities in different districts.
Speaking at a press briefing in the city yesterday afternoon, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... claimed that the government in a planned way had attacked the houses of the minority communities to divert focus from the democratic movement.
Issuing a statement, Jamaat also claimed that the ruling party men had launched the attacks on the temples, pagodas and houses of Hindus and Buddhists to divert the Islamists' movement for trial of "atheist" bloggers.
The statement issued by Jamaat central committee member Hamidur Rahman Azad also denied Jamaat-Shibir's involvement in such attacks as reported by different media.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif yesterday said it was crystal clear that Jamaat-Shibir men had attacked the temples and houses of the religious minorities.
He termed the claim by BNP and Jamaat a blatant lie.
"They have been resorting to lies since 1971 and this time they have shown their faces again," he said.
The AL leader said the anti-liberation forces wanted to take political benefit as they did in the past by attacking on the religious minorities.
At least 33 people were killed on Thursday as Jamaat-Shibir men went on the rampage across the country soon after the International Crimes Tribunal-1 awarded capital punishment to their leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... .
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[Bangla Daily Star] BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... yesterday called a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... for Tuesday to protest what she said was "genocide" during Thursday's violence over death sentence for Jamaat leader Sayeedi.
At a presser, she also announced her party would bring out processions in the capital and other cities and district headquarters around 3:00pm today.
On Thursday, Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and its student wing unleashed a countrywide terror and clashed with law enforcers soon after Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... received the sentence for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War, 1971.
Jamaat-Shibir men were already out on the streets to enforce a shutdown when the International Crimes Tribunal-1 pronounced the verdict.
The violence claimed at least 33 lives.
In a press statement later that night, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir termed the incident the "cruellest genocide in the history and worse than the genocide by the [Pakistain] occupation army during the Liberation War in 1971".
Yesterday, Khaleda Zia at the presser said, "I am stunned. I am outraged. I am deeply hurt. I have no words to condemn and protest. Heinous genocide is taking place again in our country. People are being killed like birds.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin laid flowers at a memorial Friday for 84 soldiers killed in Chechnya on March 1, 2000.
The memorial was for members of the 6th Company, based in the western Russian city of Pskov, who died after they were cut off by retreating Chechen separatist fighters in the North Caucasus republic's Argun Gorge. Only six paratroopers from the company survived the attack in the Second Chechen War.
"These soldiers from the 6th Company showed the whole world that it is impossible to defeat Russia, that at a critical moment its valiant sons will fight until the death for their motherland," Putin said during a meeting with relatives of the deceased in Pskov.
Twenty-one members of the company were awarded the Hero of Russia award posthumously. The remaining 63 recieved the Order of Courage.
Nearly 20 years after the fighting stopped in Bosnia-Herzegovnia, a growing number of the country's Muslims have become frustrated with the democratic path their country has taken. And Islamists are exploiting that frustration.
Helped along by the weapons depots mosques the Saoodis funded during and after the civil war...
Unlike ethnic Croats and Serbs in Bosnia, Muslim Bosniaks do not receive economic, political, or moral support from neighboring countries. Many Bosniaks feel alone in their effort to create and maintain their own identity and political institutions. And increasingly, the argument that Shari'a law -- and not democracy -- is the answer for Bosnia.
If you're going to be independent, do you need help from neighboring countries?
Nusret Imamovic, the leader of Bosnia's radical Wahhabi community, told a standing-room-only crowd of some 500 people in Tuzla, "Unlike secularism and democracy, we say there is only one truth -- law of Allah and Shari'a. And it wants the people to accept that truth and surrender to that truth. Does Allah have right to request that? Well, He is the holder and the owner of everything."
The event at which he spoke, "The Advantage Shari'a And The Failure Of Democracy", was billed as a "summit". Although no resolutions or statements were adopted, the well-attended and highly visible meeting was a troubling sign for some in Tuzla, which has generally been known for moderation and tolerance. Residents are proud that the city's Serbian Orthodox church was unscathed during the war.
But surprisingly, only about 30 people gathered outside the hotel to protest the meeting. One young protester said, "My point of view is that democracy died in Germany [in the 1930s] when they allowed the extremists to rule. And this is pure extremism. This has nothing to do with Islam or religion."
At the event in Tuzla, Imamovic was joined by Bilal Bosnic, an equally hard-line Islamist and critic of democracy. He said, "In a democracy, one only has the right to say, 'Yes, I agree' -- the right to approve of whatever is served up to you. But, you know, a human being should not bow his head before anybody but the creator -- our Allah."
Mevlid Jasarevic, who is serving an 18-year prison sentence for firing shots at the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo in 2011, spent time before the attack in Imamovic's Islamist community of Gornja Maoca in northeastern Bosnia.
Only a few years ago, their kind of extremism was truly a fringe phenomenon with little traction among Bosnia's Muslims. The official Islamic Community was led by respected moderate Mustafa Ceric until he stepped down in the summer of 2012. While the loss of Ceric's prestige has weakened the Islamic Community's authority, some analysts argue that his advocacy of Bosniak nationalism and his criticism of the post-Dayton system in Bosnia also created a potential foothold for more radical views.
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... held talks with Turkey's leaders on the Syria crisis Friday amid a row over controversial comments by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan branding Zionism a "crime against humanity."
"Obviously we disagree with that, we find it objectionable," Kerry said at a joint presser in Ankara, referring to a speech delivered by Erdogan that likened Zionism to fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... and anti-Semitism.
Kerry said he would raise the issue "very directly" with Erdogan and express Washington's hopes to see the two "vital allies" work together.
The top U.S. diplomat's visit came a day after Washington announced that it would for the first time provide direct aid to Syrian rebels in the form of food and medical supplies as well as $60 million in extra assistance to the political opposition.
But the discussions were overshadowed by renewed tension between Turkey and Israel, two major Washington allies, following comments Erdogan made earlier this week at a U.N.-sponsored forum in Vienna.
"As is the case for Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism, it is inevitable that Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... be considered a crime against humanity," Erdogan said on Wednesday.
Kerry said it was essential for Turkey and Israel to rekindle their "historic cooperation" but the situation got more complicated "in the aftermath of the speech that we heard in Vienna."
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[Dawn] Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. said on Friday that the outlawed outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LeJ) was involved in 80 per cent of terrorism incidents in Pakistain, DawnNews reported.
During an informal talk with media persons the federal interior minister said that all information regarding the LeJ was provided to the Punjab government and that the Punjab government should tell why it had not taken any action against the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization.
He further expressed hope that the Punjab government would now act against the proscribed beturbanned goon organization.
Malik added that the media would soon be informed about the apprehended members of the LeJ.
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[Dawn] JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... late Friday said that formation of an authoritative grand tribal "Jirga" has passed a message to world community that serious peace initiatives has got underway for bringing durable peace in FATA and KP by holding talks with the thug leadership.
The Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl chief was briefing media representatives along with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Governor Engineer Shaukatullah after chairing a meeting of the 87 members grand tribal Jirga at the governor house.
Fazlur Rehman said the national leadership has given unanimous mandate to the tribal Jirga for holding talks with the Pak Taliban leadership, who according to him have welcomed the declaration of the JUI-F sponsored All Parties Conference (APC), held in Islamabad on Thursday.
He thanked the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) leadership for giving positive response to the peace efforts and said that the Taliban leaders demonstrated sagacity by welcoming formation of the grand tribal Jirga.
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[Dawn] Pak Talibs have welcomed the five-point declaration of an All Parties Conference (APC) called by the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -- Fazl (JUI-F) for steps to restore peace in Pakistain's restive tribal areas.
Mainstream political and religious parties and civil society groups agreed at the moot on Thursday to negotiate peace with thug elements through a broadened tribal jirga earlier formed by JUI-F.
"The political parties have sent a positive message by excluding the word terrorism from the joint declaration. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) shura (council) gives it high regards," Ehsanullah Ehsan, spokesmen for the banned thug outfit, told Dawn.com on Friday via telephone from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
The front man, however, said that Pak Taliban was still waiting for a "positive response" from the Pak military on the offer of peace talks with the thugs.
Ehsan said that Taliban council also respected the gesture of all the political and non-political forces which have shown confidence in the members of the tribal jirga and have tasked them for holding peace talks. "We welcome and respect this decision," he said.
The Taliban front man said a serious sitting for peace would help assess the seriousness of the government, the army and other stakeholders in moving ahead with the grinding of the peace processor. He said that such a step would also help judge "the powers of the jirga for holding such talks independently."
Asked if the gunnies were willing to endorse a ceasefire and seize attacks on Pak security forces, the front man said: "It will only begin when we are on the table (for peace talks)."
"Ceasefire and such modalities can be discussed when we kick start the grinding of the peace processor," he said.
To another query about announcing the TTP jirga team, which will be coming forward for the peace talks, he said:
"If most of the country's forces can agree and build consensus on some figures to be part of the jirga, the Taliban will also propose their own names," he said when asked about members of the team which may engage in peace negotiations. He, however, declined to disclose any names.
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[Dawn] Top World Health Organisation officials and Islamic leaders will meet in Egypt next week in an effort to stop attacks on polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... workers, which are hampering the eradication of the virus in some countries with large Moslem populations.
"Shooting health workers who are protecting kids from this crippling disease is against the Koran and everything Islam stands for," WHO's Assistant Director-General Bruce Aylward told Rooters in Canberra said on Friday.
Gunmen in Pakistain and Nigeria have killed more than 20 health workers in the past three months in a series of attacks linked to a backlash against the immunisation programme against the crippling virus.
"Moslem leaders have been great advocates of immunisation and generally the support has always been there. In Cairo, we are meeting senior Islamic leaders to get a sense of what we can do, and ask them how can you help us," said Aylward.
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[An Nahar] The U.N.'s refugee agency voiced "deep concern" Friday for the security of Iranian opposition members at a camp in Iraq, which is facing new threats of attack after a recent assault killed seven people.
"This population is entitled to international protection according to international law," the agency said in a statement.
On February 9, mortar rounds and rockets slammed into Camp Liberty, a former U.S. military base near Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... that now houses some 3,000 members of the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, killing seven people and injuring dozens more.
The camp had received more threats since then, UNHCR said, stressing its "deep concern about the safety" of the camp residents.
"The UNHCR strongly calls on all countries to redouble their efforts to find humanitarian solutions for this population outside Iraq," it said, also urging Storied Baghdad "to do everything possible in the meantime to guarantee a safe and secure environment for this population."
The Mujahedeen was founded in the 1960s to oppose the shah of Iran, and after the 1979 Islamic revolution that ousted him it took up arms against Iran's holy manal rulers.
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein gave the group a safe haven, but after he was tossed in the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the group faced antipathy from pro-Iranian elements in Iraq.
Under a 2011 U.N.-brokered deal, the Mujahedeen were moved from their longstanding base at Camp Ashraf near the Iranian border to another site named Camp Liberty.
The goal of the transfer to Camp Liberty was to pave the way for the Mujahedeen to leave Iraq outright, with a view to resettling them in the United States and Europe.
The Mujahedeen meanwhile argue that Camp Ashraf is safer for them because the site is larger and has concrete buildings, while those at Camp Liberty are wooden.
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Have they started digging tunnels yet?
And what is that funny smell from the building with the windows painted black?
I am more concerned about the safety of the Iraqis with this many Iranians, probably heavily infiltrated with Quds Brigade, around. Get them sent home and things will quiet down in beautiful downtown Baghdad.
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[Ynet] A senior Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... source in Gazoo says Israel prevented Islamic Jihad Deputy Secretary-General Ziad Nakhleh from entering the Gazoo Strip to attend his son's wedding on Friday.
According to the source, Nafez Azam, Egypt appealed to Israel on the matter, but the Jewish state refused and said that it could not gurantee that Nakhleh would not be the target of an liquidation.
"Stand down, Ari. He didn't take the bait this time."
"Dammit, Yossi -- they've got to stop pushing his macho pride!."
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According to the source, Nafez Azam, Egypt appealed to Israel on the matter, but the Jewish state refused and said that it could not gurantee that Nakhleh would not be the target of an liquidation.
[MEMRI.ORG] Question: "I Want To Assassinate The U.S. President, The French President, The British PM, Or Their Ministers."
Answer: "...It is easy, if you ask Allah and be true to Him. These people have many weak points, especially during ceremonies, parties, and election campaigns. Bare in mind, they come to and leave from these parties. Therefore, there must be some means of transport, which is a chance for surveillance or even action.
"If you think you are unable, then you have easy targets like [G.W.] Bush, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, or Condoleezza Rice. Of course, you can also kill Sarkozy and Tony Blair. It is now easy to reach these guys, especially [now] that they aren't in office anymore."
Question: "I Want To Carry Out A Big Jihad Operation To Support The Religion. Guide Me."
In its answer, Inspire congratulates the inquirer on his great determination, and reiterates that jihad is a form of 'ibadah (worship), like any other type of worship. It also emphasizes the importance of preoccupying the enemy by conducting such operations in his own "backyard," and thereby "driving him crazy". Therefore, it says: "These small operations of today are the stepping stone of tomorrow's victory... Rely on Allah, and answer His call: Jihad."
Inspire Calls On Experienced Doctors To "Create A Lethal Poison... [And] Manufacture Anthrax"; Asks Journalists To Act As AQAP's Eyes In The Field By Spying On The Enemy
Answering one query from an "experienced doctor" who asks for advice on how he can wage jihad, Inspire writes: "Create a lethal poison (gaseous), manufacture anthrax, and give the mujahideen medical advice in their blogs -- or you can contact us directly."
Answering a similar query from "an active journalist," Inspire says that journalism is a "useful profession to the mujahideen," as journalists' wide knowledge of current affairs, along with their "access to many areas as a media personnel," can provide AQAP with valuable intelligence about the enemy, adding that journalists themselves can exploit their positions to execute attacks themselves.
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One hopes that someone is noting who explores the website... and follows them home.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[MAGHAREBIA] Young prison inmates are at high risk of turning to violence later on, international experts warned this week in Algiers.
[MAGHAREBIA] UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) representatives on Thursday (February 28th) determined that former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi was not being mistreated in a 
Khaleda Zia
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State 
[Dawn] Federal Interior Minister 
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
[Dawn] Top World Health Organisation officials and Islamic leaders will meet in Egypt next week in an effort to stop attacks on 
[An Nahar] The U.N.'s refugee agency voiced "deep concern" Friday for the security of Iranian opposition members at a camp in Iraq, which is facing new threats of attack after a recent assault killed seven people.
[MEMRI.ORG] Question: "I Want To Assassinate The U.S. President, The French President, The British PM, Or Their Ministers."
