Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out once again at his supposed ally, Pakistan, saying Monday that a statement by a Pakistani cleric endorsing suicide bombings in Afghanistan shows the neighboring country is not sincere in efforts to fight terrorism.
"Afghanistan wants a real struggle against terrorism and wants the Pakistani government to realize that both our nations are burning in the same fire," the Afghan leader said, speaking at a press conference with visiting NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
"The Pakistani government has an essential and important role in putting out this fire," Karzai added.
Karzai made the comment in response to a question about a statement last week by the head of the Pakistani clerics' council who had been scheduled to travel to Afghanistan for a meeting of the two countries' religious leaders.
The cleric, Tahir Ashrafi, said in a television interview that suicide attacks in Afghanistan are lawful because NATO troops are invaders that have occupied the country.
Karzai noted that Ashrafi was appointed to the delegation by the Pakistani government, implying that the government in Islamabad was backing his views.
"We see that practical steps are not being taken to fight terrorism," Karzai said, and added that a series of recent attacks in Pakistan show that the neighboring country is falling into chaos.
Neither Ashrafi nor Pakistani officials could be immediately reached for comment.
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I read an interesting book called "confessions of a mullah warrior" -- described the fight against the russkies and then the arab radicalization after. Author claimed that Bin Laden was among a small group of arabs involved (they only had 1 arab unit) and trying to say the mujahadeen turned into the talaban and were thus created by the U.S. is a farce.
Protesters descended on the Foreign Ministry in Cairo on Saturday, as US Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Egyptian counterpart Mohammed Kamel Amr inside. The protesters carried placards with anti-US slogans, and burned a cartoon of Kerry.
Saturday's demonstrations came as several opposition leaders turned down an invitation to a meeting with Kerry, saying Washington favoured the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated government in the country's on-going political turmoil.
During the past few months, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has seized absolute power over his country.
The Muslim Brotherhood leader enjoys support from the Obama administration, but his opponents call him a dictator who wants to turn Egypt into an Islamic state. Some have even called him Egypt's "new Pharoah."
He is the most powerful man in the Arab world's most influential country. He's referred to America as an enemy. And as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, he denies al Qaeda was behind that attack.
Yet he's due to receive sixteen F-16 fighter jets and 200 Abrams tanks from the Obama administration this year. A majority of Republican senators signed off on the deal.
So who is this questionable ally that America is helping to arm?
"He's a rough personality. He's quite hostile -- he doesn't like to answer questions," Eric Trager, with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said.
Trager studies the Muslim Brotherhood and has interviewed Mohammed Morsi face-to-face.
"He was considered within the Brotherhood as a hardliner -- somebody who was there to enforce the Brotherhood's most hardline ideas whether it came to saying that women and Christians can't even run for the presidency of Egypt, whether it was their foreign policy ideas, their hostility toward Israel," he said.
Morsi put that hostility on full display in a series of interviews before he became Egypt's president.
In one, he called Israelis "bloodsuckers" and "warmongers" and referred to Israel and America as "enemies." He also quoted from the Koran, calling Jews "the descendants of apes and pigs."
In another interview, Morsi called on the Muslim world to confront Israel and boycott goods from any nation that does business with it, including America.
[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] US 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... on Sunday rewarded Egypt for president Mohammed Morsi's pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250m in American aid to support the country's "future as a democracy". Sequester? What sequester?
Isn't that the money that the House Foreign Affairs Committee forbade disbursing, so long as Egypt's new government insisted on being so Islamist?
Yet Kerry also served notice that the B.O. regime will keep close watch on how Morsi, who came to power in June as Egypt's first freely elected president, honors his commitment and that additional assistance would depend on it.
"The path to that future has clearly been difficult and much work remains," Kerry said in a statement after wrapping up two days of meetings in Egypt, a deeply divided country in the wake of the revolution that ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
Egypt is trying to meet conditions to close on a $4.8bn loan package from the International Monetary Fund. An agreement would unlock more of the $1bn in US assistance promised by President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... last year and set to begin flowing with Kerry's announcement.
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The retrial of former Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak on charges related to the killing of protesters during the uprising against his nearly three-decade rule will begin on April 13, state television reported Sunday.
He's gonna die of old age before he gets executed...
Mubarak, 84, was toppled in February 2011 after an 18-day revolt and sentenced to life in prison in June 2012, dpa reported. In January, a top court granted Murbarak's appeal and ordered a retrial. He is staying at a military court near Cairo for medical treatment.
Mubarak's interior minister, Habib al-Adly, and six former security officials will also face retrials over the killings of protesters, according to the broadcaster.
A fact-finding mission found that at least 846 people were killed and more than 6,000 wounded during the state's crackdown on the uprising.
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Egyptian protesters blocked the road to Cairo's airport on Sunday, delaying US Secretary of State John Kerry's departure for around two hours after his two-day visit to Egypt, DPA reported. Football fans, known as the Ultras, burnt tyres and blocked the road for almost half an hour before security forces pushed them to another street.
Kerry was due to leave to Saudi Arabia at 1400 GMT, but his flight was delayed for around two hours, airport officials said. Security forces secured Kerry's motorcade, which included 16 vehicles, and changed its course to let him into the airport through another entry.
As protesters brought traffic in both directions to a standstill, passengers were seen leaving cars and walking to the airport in order to catch their flights.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Three top 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... leaders yesterday failed to show up before International Crimes Tribunal-2 for the third time in connection with a contempt of court rule issued against them.
Even though the prosecution had again sought arrest warrants against them, the tribunal gave the Jamaat leaders another chance to appear before the court on Wednesday.
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Waving Venezuelan flags, the protesters rallied to a street where some 50 university students have staged a week-long sit-in to demand more transparency about Chavez's condition.
"We want to know what is going with Chavez's health, if he is alive or dead, and we want elections," said Dario Alberici, 55, a public accountant who was blowing on a plastic trumpet in the yellow, red and blue colors of Venezuela.
Government supporters held their own rally for Chavez in another part of the capital, chanting "Uh, ah! Chavez won't go!"
Vice President Nicolas Maduro revealed Friday that the leftist leader is undergoing embalming chemotherapy in a Caracas military hospital, but he says Chavez remains in charge.
In power for 14 years, the once omnipresent president has not emerged in public since undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba on December 11. Chavez was first diagnosed with cancer in the pelvic region in June 2011, but the government has never disclosed its exact nature, severity or location.
Sarcoma of some kind, not curable, last-ditch chemo now...
"Nobody knows where he is," said Hector Gonzalez, a 70-year-old engineer. "If he is recovering, they should show him. The country cannot continue in this uncertainty."
Others said Venezuela was now under a "de facto" government as Chavez, who was re-elected in October, missed his January 10 swearing-in ceremony. The Supreme Court backed the inauguration's delay. When he left for Cuba on December 8, Chavez told Venezuelans to vote for Maduro if he became incapacitated and an election was called.
Across town, a few hundred pro-government students gathered in front of a stage featuring a huge photo of Chavez with one of his daughters and the phrase "Now with Chavez more than ever."
The government has only released one set of photos of Chavez, showing him bedridden and smiling with his two daughters in a Havana hospital on February 15, three days before he returned to Caracas.
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Mr. Rodman now has more foreign policy experience than Mr. Zero had <2008. 2016 is on the way...!
An elderly Muslim cleric was convicted Monday of funneling thousands of dollars to support the Pakistani Taliban terror organization, which is blamed for suicide bombings and other attacks that have killed both Americans and Pakistanis.
The jury returned its verdict on its fifth day of deliberations after the two-month trial of Hafiz Khan, the 77-year-old imam at a downtown Miami mosque. Khan was found guilty of two conspiracy counts and two counts of providing material support to terrorists.
Each charge carries a potential 15-year prison sentence.
Prosecutors built their case largely around hundreds of FBI recordings of conversations in which Khan expressed support for Taliban attacks and discussed sending about $50,000 to Pakistan. There were also recordings in which Khan appeared to back the overthrow of Pakistan's government in favor of strict Islamic law, praised the killing of American military personnel and lauded the failed 2010 attempt to detonate a bomb in New York's Times Square.
"He said these things. He admitted these things. He did all of these things," Assistant U.S. Attorney John Shipley said during closing arguments.
Khan, who testified over four combative days in his own defense, insisted the money he sent overseas was for family, charity and business reasons - above all, his religious school, known as a madrassa, in Pakistan's Swat Valley. Khan also said he repeatedly lied about harboring extremist views to obtain $1 million from a man who turned out to be an FBI informant wearing a wire to record their talk.
"That is not supporting terrorism," said Khan attorney Khurrum Wahid in a closing argument. "That is an old guy running a scam, who got scammed."
It is illegal to run a financial scam. It is, in fact, the kind of thing for which people go to jail.
Prosecutors, however, said the purported $1 million offer is never heard on any tapes and no other witnesses testified about its existence. The informant, identified in court papers as Mahmood Siddiqui, did not testify.
"That is an absurd story," Shipley said. "This whole defense is a lie."
[Dawn] A key prosecution witness in the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... murder case did not testify in the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) of Rawalpindi on Saturday after receiving threats from Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
The witness is a police officer, Sub Inspector (SI) Ashfaq Ahmed. He is at present working in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Lahore.
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[Dawn] A ban on armed wings of political parties, deweaponisation and political tolerance are essential to restore peace to the city, said speakers on the opening day of a two-day peace conference on Saturday.
Representatives of political parties, civil society, lawyers, labour unions and minority communities attending the conference held at the Arts Council also called for implementation of the apex court order, which was handed down in the suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... case related to frequent assassinations in the city, in letter and spirit.
The event was organised by the Sindh High Court, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Malir bar associations.
Anis Haroon of the Aurat Foundation said that absence of war did not mean peace. But peace could be established through social justice and protecting the rights of all segments of society, she said.
"The level of tolerance against violence is growing in society, which is one of the main factors behind violent incidents," she observed, adding that violence and injustice must not be tolerated at any cost.
She was of the opinion that the law and order situation of the city was a political issue and recommended that political parties should ban their armed wings for the sake of peace.
Lawmaker Iqbal Qadiri of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... said that some elements had weakened state institutions for their vested interests. It was an international conspiracy to destroy the peace of Karachi, he said.
He appealed to the judiciary to convict the culprits instead of going into technicalities as its key to keep peace.
Bashir Jan of the Awami National Party suggested that free and fair election in accordance with the orders of the apex court, indiscriminate operation against criminals, deweaponisation and amendments to the anti-terror law for witness protection were necessary to pave the way for establishing an abiding peace.
MQM's Muqeem Alam said local government and local policing systems besides acceptance of public mandate could improve law and order.
Zia Abbas of the National People's Party said there was a need to develop political tolerance in order to keep peace and improve governance.
He added that armed wings of political parties must be banned. He also believed that foreign elements were involved in the breakdown of law and order in Karachi and Quetta.
Mehfooz Yar Khan of the Awami Mohammedan League said that ethnic and sectarian elements were behind the violence. He called for deweaponisation of the city. He also said that strict action should be taken against those involved in pre-poll rigging and land encroachment.
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A United Nations investigator called on the United States on Monday to publish its findings on the CIA's Bush-era program of rendition and secret detention of terrorism suspects.
Ben Emmerson, U.N. special wrapper rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, voiced concern that while President Barack Obama's administration has rejected Central Intelligence Agency practices conducted under his predecessor George W. Bush, there have been no prosecutions.
Haven't had any under our current Nobel-prize winning LightWalker™ either...
"Despite this clear repudiation of the unlawful actions carried out by the Bush-era CIA, many of the facts remain classified, and no public official has so far been brought to justice in the United States," Emmerson said in a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, which he will address on Tuesday.
Emmerson, an international lawyer from Britain, has served since forever as a progressive mouthpiece August 2011 in the independent post set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2005 to probe human rights violations committed during counter-terrorism operations worldwide.
The "war on terror" waged by Bush after al Qaeda attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 led to "gross or systematic" violations involving secret prisons for Islamic militant suspects, clandestine transfers and torture, Emmerson said.
Life rather sucked for the people in the World Trade Center too, though Emmerson rather predictably didn't comment on that...
[An Nahar] A key Syrian opposition group on Sunday accused the government in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... of intervening in the country and "attacking the Syrian people," a day after festivities were reported near the border.
"After the Iraqi government headed by (premier) Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.... gave political and intelligence support to the Syrian regime... the Storied Baghdad regime has moved on to a new level of intervention in Syrian affairs," the Syrian National Council said.
It charged that Storied Baghdad was "attacking the Syrian people, their basic rights and their territorial illusory sovereignty."
An Iraqi official said on Sunday that one Iraqi soldier was killed and three people including a soldier were maimed inside northern Iraq during a shootout near a border post the day before.
The casualties were caused by "fighting at the Yaarubiyeh border crossing inside Syria" between regime forces and rebels on Saturday, defense ministry front man Mohammed al-Askari told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Four Syrian soldiers were also treated at an Iraqi hospital after the clash, Askari added.
The SNC called on the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... and the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aim of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... to condemn Storied Baghdad for what it called an attack "on Syrian illusory sovereignty," saying the international community should "at the very least condemn this aggressive behavior."
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U.S. President Barack Obama has demanded a timetable for an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, according to an unconfirmed report by World Tribune.
The report quotes anonymous "Israeli sources."
According to the report, Obama, who is scheduled to arrive in Israel on March 20, wants Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to present him with a detailed Israeli withdrawal plan during his visit to Israel. The sources said the Israeli plan "would be considered in what could be an imminent U.S. initiative to establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank in 2014."
“Obama has made it clear to Netanyahu that his visit is not about photo-ops, but the business of Iran and a Palestinian state,” a source said. “The implication is that if Israel won’t give him something he can work with, then he’ll act on his own.”
The sources noted that "Obama aides" have stressed that Congress supports the establishment of a Palestinian state as a U.S. priority.
“The Obama people are making this a litmus test of Netanyahu’s leadership and credibility,” the Israeli sources said. “Obama supporters in Congress have sent Netanyahu a similar message.”
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Pffft. Like Obozo even knows where Judea and Samaria are. All tucked down there by Denmark or something. His jooo-hating staffers, OTOH, now that I'd believe.
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TW, I hope I did not cause you any discomfort. It's just that, a man who speaks of "the Austrian language" and cheerfully confuses Maldives with Malvinas, probably could not find his own ass with a mirror and a flashlight.
While Secretary of State John Kerry will not travel to Israel during his first tour of the Middle East since assuming the top U.S. diplomatic post, he will be meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas in Riyadh on Monday, a state department official told reporters.
Kerry, who is on his first trip to the region since succeeding Hillary Rodham Clinton as the top United States diplomat, will have lunch with the PA leader, who arrived unexpectedly in Riyadh on Sunday, AFP reported.
Kerry's tour does not include Israel, but he will reportedly accompany President Barack Obama when he meets Israeli and Arab leaders in Jerusalem and Ramallah during a visit on March 20-22.
Abbas "will present the Palestinian point of view to the new US administration ahead of Obama's visit," PA envoy in Riyadh Jamal al-Shawbaki told the "Voice of Palestine" radio station.
Abbas, in his first meeting with Kerry, will also highlight the so-called "Israeli violations" in Jerusalem, "settlements", and the issue of "Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike," said Shawbaki.
The issue of Arab prisoners in Israeli jails once again made headlines as the PA accused the Israeli Shin Ben of assassinating Arafat Juradat, a terrorist detainee who died while in Israeli custody in his Megiddo prison cell.
[Times of Israel] The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, government has begun imposing new restrictions on residents of the Gazoo Strip, forcing them to apply for exit permits to enter Israel or the West Bank.
The Ministry of Interior issued a statement on February 27 insisting that all Gazoo residents wishing to leave the Strip through the Erez Crossing with Israel submit an application to the Interior Ministry in advance.
Hamas's decision came a day after Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the closing of the commercial Kerem Shalom crossing following the firing of a Grad rocket from Gazoo at the city of Ashkelon. The passage of residents through Erez was limited by Israel to humanitarian cases only and to Gazooks whose have registered addresses in the West Bank.
The crossing was expected to reopen Monday.
According to Israel's Foreign Ministry, 5,219 citizens crossed into Israel through the Erez crossing during the month of January, and 120 permits are given to Gazoo businessmen on a daily basis.
The Paleostinian Center for Human Rights, a Gazoo-based watchdog, expressed "grave concerns" regarding the new Hamas procedures.
"This decision increases the suffering of the already limited groups of people who are permitted to travel via the crossing by the Israeli forces," read a statement published by the group.
Since Israel usually issues entry permits for Gazoo residents on the day of travel, Hamas's new restriction would gravely impede their ability to leave the Strip, PCHR said.
Human rights organizations in Gazoo told The Times of Israel that they were not informed by the government in Gazoo about the reasons for the decision.
Khalil Abu-Shammala, director of the local human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organization A-Dameer, said that in the past individuals were prevented by Hamas from leaving the Gazoo Strip on suspicion of maintaining ties with the Israeli intelligence.
"Most decisions of this kind have a security pretext," Abu-Shammala said, noting that Hamas has also prevented members of Fatah from leaving Gazoo as a punitive measure. Just last week, he said, Hamas prevented Fatah Central Committee member Amal Hamad from leaving the Gazoo Strip and traveling to the West Bank.
This was not the first time Hamas has tried to implement this measure, said Sari Bashi, director of Gisha, an Israeli NGO dealing with Paleostinian freedom of movement. A year and a half ago Hamas tried to impose a travel restriction, but popular protests forced the government to back down.
Ali Abu-Shahla, a Gazoo-based businessman who travels to Israel every two to three weeks, said that according to his understanding, the new decision does not apply to merchants who frequent the Erez Crossing on a regular basis.
"This only applies to people who leave on a one-time basis, like the sick who need treatment," he told The Times of Israel. Abu-Shahla said that under Israeli regulations, merchants leaving Gazoo must inform the PA ministry for civil affairs two days before the intended date of travel and gain Israeli approval to exit the Strip.
[Ynet] Egyptian paper says Islamist terror group recently refused to accept shipment of long-range missiles from Libya after preliminary examination allegedly found spy gear inside
*snicker* Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition Mossad!
The Egyptian daily Al-Youm Al-Sabea reported Sunday that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, had recently refused to accepted an arms shipment faring it may contain Israeli tracking devices.
According to the report, the shipment, which originated in Libya, was meant to arrive in Gazoo Strip via the Sinai Peninsula.
Hamas turned it down, alleging that the shipment was harboring "Israeli tracking devices and spy gear" that the IDF would be able to use to locate both the shipment and its handlers.
The report quoted a source "closely affiliate with arms traffickers in Sinai" as saying that the shipment contained 28 long-range missiles. The missiles were supposed to make their way into Gazoo via one of the underground smuggling tunnels running between Rafah and the Strip, but a Hamas weapons expert, who rendezvoused with the smugglers in Egypt decided to refuse it.
Al-Youm Al-Sabea quoted its source as saying that the expert -- a senior operative of Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing, found tracking devices hidden in it.
Hamas, the reported added, recently severed its ties with a large number of arms traffickers based in Sinai, after finding that they had "divulged details of their ties with Hamas to the authorities." The report did not name the authorities in question.
Most likely Egyptian...
The report stressed that despite Hamas assumption in the matter, the origin of the spy gear found on the shipment is unknown.
Other sources quoted by the Egyptian daily expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that the leaks found in Hamas' weapons acquisition operation may place the lives of Egyptian smugglers at risk, should the Islamist terror group decide that they are trying to spy on its operations or infiltrate their networks in Libya and Sudan.
The report further said that senior commanders in Hamas vowed that "the incident will not remain unpunished."
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Damn, they caught us. Or did they??? I thought it was all in the shipment before? Or is it one of the ones coming up?
Whaddya mean the records burned up in a fire?
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As violence spread in Sabah, the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) were urged yesterday to intervene and initiate negotiations between Malaysia and the Sultanate of Sulu. The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which made the request, however, said the Philippine government should be excluded from the negotiations.
MNLF leader Nur Misuari also urged Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to stop sending more troops to Sabah and "tone down your voice."
Misuari said he and his clan are the true owners of Sabah and the Malaysian state of Sarawak. He said history would bear out that Sabah and Sarawak were the original properties of his great, great grandfather.
Any wars between then and now? Poland used to be about half a country over before the second World War, and Russia used to own the entire Soviet Union -- plus satellites -- before they lost the Cold War.
Habib Mujahab Hashim, chairman of the MNLF'S Islamic Command Council, said their organization could serve as mediator between the Sulu sultanate's army and Malaysian forces. He said OIC members Brunei or Indonesia could mediate on behalf of the organization of Islamic states.
Hashim urged the UN, through its committee on human rights and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to send representatives to Sabah to observe measures being carried out by Malaysian forces against Filipinos.
The sultanate of Sulu claims much of Sabah, as ancestral land, and receives an annual payment from Malaysia. The sultanate wants the payment to be increased.
Misuari arrived in Davao City Saturday night for a meeting with Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. He said, "The blood of our brothers in Sabah is sacred. I hope Najib will not persecute our civilians in Sabah as it will trigger bigger trouble and it will drag us into war, and I don't like that. I am calling on Najib to please tone down your voice. All of us want peace. We do not want war."
He said the Sabah conflict could be settled in a "brotherly way... to the best interest of everybody."
The MNLF chief said his grandnephew is a relative of the Malaysian prime minister, whom he considered a friend.
Misuari admitted that some of those who went to Lahad Datu were his relatives and members of his group, but denied instigating the trip to Sabah. He said, "How can that be? I was in Africa for more than a month with my wife and I have nothing to do with the move of the sultan."
He emphasized that sending "only 200" men to Sabah "is not my style."
Philippine president Aquino was reportedly furious and suspected that certain quarters instigated the Lahad Datu incident to sabotage the peace process with the MNLF's breakaway group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Misuari said, "I pity the President. He does not know what he is talking about. He will become a laughingstock in the whole world."
Misuari noted reports that he would be arrested for the Sabah incident. He said, "They blame me for it. Why am I being blamed for this? They said I financed it. But where would I get the money to finance a takeover?"
Vice Mayor Duterte said there was no evidence linking Misuari to the incident in Sabah. He said, "I'm very sure that Nur Misuari would not do that."
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The sultanate of Sulu claims much of Sabah, as ancestral land, and receives an annual payment from Malaysia. The sultanate wants the payment to be increased.
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IMO the MNLF is still at odds wid the MILF + other Mindanao-based Moro opposition groups.
Personally, at this time I'd to know iff AQ-linked ABU SAYYAFF + Malay-Indonesian, etc. foreign Islamist Milterr Groups are planning like MNLF to militarily intervene in the crisis???
[Dawn] Syria and Iran joined forces on Saturday to condemn moves by Western powers to aid rebels fighting against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , with the Syrian leader singling out Britannia as a "shallow and immature" power.
In an television interview with The Sunday Times newspaper shown in London late on Saturday, Assad said Britannia's involvement in the Syria crisis had been naive and unrealistic.
"I think they (Britannia) are working against us, and they are working against the interests of the UK itself," Assad said in English-language remarks broadcast by Britannia's Sky TV.
"This government is acting in a naive, confused and unrealistic manner. If they want to play a role they have to change this, they have to act in a more reasonable and responsible way."
Assad added: "How can you ask them to play a role in making the situation better, more stable, how can we expect them to make the violence less when they want to send the military supply to the terrorist?"
Backed by the United States, Britannia and much of Western Europe, Syria's opposition has made plain that Assad can play no role in a future Syrian government.
But as the situation deteriorates on the ground, the opposition is increasingly frustrated with the West's reluctance to get directly involved in the fighting, and wants foreign powers to send weapons to help its fighters.
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[An Nahar] British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday that Syrian President Bashar Assad was "delusional" for failing to see that the bloodshed in his country was at his own hands.
Hague said that he would this week announce more assistance to the Syrian opposition in the form of non-lethal equipment and refused to rule out the possibility of arming them in the future.
In an interview with British newspaper The Sunday Times, Assad accused London of wanting to arm terrorists in his country.
Britain has been pushing to lift a ban on the sale of arms to Syria's rebels, but at a meeting last month European Union foreign ministers ruled that only "non-lethal" aid and "technical assistance" could be given to the opposition.
"How can we expect them to make the violence less while they want to send military supplies to the terrorists and don't try to ease the dialogue between the Syrians?" Assad said in a rare interview with Western media.
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[An Nahar] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... said he is ready to negotiate with the country's opposition but refuses to consider stepping down, in a rare interview with a UK newspaper.
Assad offered to hold talks with rebels in a bid to end the crisis on the condition they lay down their arms, but made the distinction between the "political entities" he would talk with and "armed terrorists".
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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.
[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] US Secretary of State 
EVIL al-Qaeda warlord Mokhtar Belmokhtar -- known as Mr Marlboro for smuggling cigs to fund terrorism -- is believed to have died.
Waving Venezuelan flags, the protesters rallied to a street where some 50 university students have staged a week-long sit-in to demand more transparency about Chavez's condition.
[Dawn] A ban on armed wings of political parties, deweaponisation and political tolerance are essential to restore peace to the city, said speakers on the opening day of a two-day peace conference on Saturday.
Anis Haroon of the Aurat Foundation said that absence of war did not mean peace. But peace could be established through social justice and protecting the rights of all segments of society, she said.
Nouri al-Maliki
While Secretary of State John Kerry will not travel to Israel during his first tour of the Middle East since assuming the top U.S. diplomatic post, he will be meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas in Riyadh on Monday, a state department official told reporters.
[Times of Israel] The 
[Ynet] Egyptian paper says Islamist terror group recently refused to accept shipment of long-range missiles from Libya after preliminary examination allegedly found spy gear inside
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
