[Ynet] Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin launches campaign to raise awareness to ICC lawsuits filed by PA; video warns 'not only senior IDF officials are in danger of being sued for war crimes, but also your nephew, who was in Golani, caught during his post-IDF-service backpacking trip'
A video circulating online over the past few days features coppers in a Finland airport handcuffing a young Israeli man only for admitting he had served in the Israeli army.
The video turned out to be part of a campaign ran by Shurat HaDin, an Israeli NGO dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism. The campaign works to raise awareness to the dangers that can accompany an arrest of a former IDF soldier -- dangers pertaining to possible appeals by the Paleostinian Authority to the  International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
in The Hague.
"The video tries to exemplify what could happen to an IDF soldier in a country that is a member of the international court in The Hague, if we don't prepare and threaten with a countersuit," said Shurat HaDin chairwoman Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.
The video, which was recently released, is circulating in social networks and various media and shows a young Israeli man dressed in a t-shirt with the logo of his IDF unit and shorts, ostensibly the stereotypical Israeli backpacker, as he is incarcerated
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
and handcuffed by police in the passport control station of a foreign airport.
While he is being taken away, voices in the background can be heard as they are passing on a rumor that he was detained after he was asked if had served in the IDF.
"Call my parents," he asks those around as he is being handcuffed.
The video got thousands of hits online, but the timing of its release, only a few hours before the Beersheba bank massacre, made Shurat HaDin worry that the video may cause panic, as one of the first assessments regarding the Beersheba shooting was that it might have been nationalistically motivated. Shurat HaDin therefore issued a statement clarifying that the video was directed, and was part of a campaign promoted by the organization.
"We wanted to raise awareness in the public that nowadays, after Paleostine was recognized by the UN as an observer state, not only senior IDF officials are in danger of being sued for war crimes and have a warrant for their arrest hovering over their heads, but also your nephew, who was in Golani and was caught during his post-IDF-service backpacking trip," said PR agent Sefi Shaked, who created the campaign.
"We informed the IDF Spokesperson's Unit and the Foreign Ministry about the campaign, but the Beersheba attack changed things. We didn't want to cause gratuitous panic and we chose to disclose the fact that the video was directed," Shaked added.
According to Darshan-Leitner, the campaign was meant to encourage Israelis who are victims of terror to come forth and deliver testimonies that could be used as evidence in case the Paleostinians choose to pursue legal proceedings in the ICC.
"Ever since the authority has become a UN observer state, it is threatening to turn to The Hague in order to prosecute IDF servicemen for war crimes. It did so last year and was told that as long as it does not have a state status, it will not be able to do so.
Now that the "threat" of the ICC suit returned to haunt many Israelis who served in the IDF, Shurat HaDin decided to launch "a preemptive attack and threaten to sue the leader of the Paleostinian Authority for international crimes as part of the Intifada, in the name of thousands of terror victims," Darshan-Leitner asserted.
"That is why we ask victims of terror to deliver testimonies, which could be used as evidence in countersuits. The testimonies will only be used if the Paleostinians Authority takes action," the NGO chairwoman said. |
[Ynet] Paleostinians realize certain photos can cause more damage than anti-Israel resolutions in UN
A week ago I traveled through the Mount of Olives range, just a few meters below Hebrew University. Israeli territory, the capital city. Beside me sat former Defense Minister Moshe Arens. During our drive a young Paleostinian who had just come out of his school in Abu Tor threw a stone at our car. On the way back another stone was thrown at the windshield. No damage was caused apart from a scratch on the windshield. In Israel no one remembers scratches. Most of the incidents pass beneath our radar. The victims are anonymous.
A month before the elections, videos were posted on social networks showing our soldiers in Kafr Qaddum and in a neighborhood in Hebron fleeing from a stone attack by young Paleostinians. The images struck some exposed nerves. When soldiers run away from rocks -- it sends a problematic message. When the common interest of the Paleostinians and Israelis also runs away from rocks -- the problem is more severe. The discussion surrounding the videos quickly faded. After years of empty promises of peace, many Israelis are no longer interested in what is going on in the West Bank. The elections ended, a government was formed, but the stones and videos are still with us.
Figures presented by the security establishment indicate that the third intifada is already here. It does not have a name, headline or public interest yet, but it is taking place. Over the past few months rocks have been flying in every corner. Israeli civilians are getting hurt, soldiers are dealing with violent protests. Despite what some elements in the radical Left believe, stones are not merely a symbol of a popular struggle. They have the potential to ignite the entire region. The only difference between a stone that kills and a stone that does not cause any real harm is luck.
The settlers are right when they claim that the escalation in Judea and Samaria must not be ignored. You don't have to be a supporter of the settlement enterprise to realize the potential of this escalation. Calm, by the way, is a real asset to those who are seeking diplomatic solutions. When there is fighting, it is hard to tell the difference between warmongers and proponents of peace.
The two previous intifadas caused damage to both sides. Blood directly affects the quality of life in Ramallah and Jerusalem. The Israeli economy, despite the deficit, will survive even if the violence intensifies. The Paleostinian economy, on the other hand, will pay a price it cannot withstand.
A determined military operation is needed in order to stop the current round of violence. The not too distant past teaches us that the Paleostinians know how to launch intifadas, but not how to end them. Israel, for its part, is facing the 'strategic stone' dilemma. As far as the Paleostinian leadership is concerned, the stones are a continuation of the battle over the narrative and international public opinion. Photogenic violence. The Paleostinians are looking for the right photo. A stone thrown by a Paleostinian boy at a soldier who responds violently. In Ramallah you do not need the findings of the Israeli investigation into the Mohammed al-Dura incident to understand that certain photos cause more damage than anti-Israel resolutions in the UN.
Such a round of violence cannot be stopped with a light finger on the trigger against stone-throwing teenagers. It requires a wise finger -- not only for moral purposes, but for utilitarian purposes as well.
As the frequency of the violent incidents increases, so will the military pressure. There is no other formula.
| I vote for the skunk spray and the special, high-pitched squeal. Let their pictures show them on their knees with their hands over their ears, and their wives and mothers burning their clothes while they stand naked in the street, frantically trying to scrub off the stink. |
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[Ynet] A spokesperson for the Egyptian army said troops seized large quantities of smuggled weapons before they reached Gazoo through tunnels in the Rafah area. The shipment seized included Qassam rockets, 110 automatic rifles, eight anti-aircraft missiles, 17 surface-to-air missiles and more. This is according to a post on the spokesperson's Facebook page.
In addition, they reported that Egyptian border officers seized two cars trying to smuggle Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
and other weapons from Libya into Egypt.
| "We'll go to war with those sons of pigs and monkeys when we're good and ready to go to war with those sons of pigs and monkeys. Until then y'all sit tight and pipe down, you hear?" |
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[Ynet] Iranian Ambassador to Leb Ghazanfar Ruknabadi met with former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud to discuss the developments in the country and in Syria.
Asked about Iran's position regarding the possibility of an Israeli attack in Syria, Ruknabadi said: "We will not stand by should Syria find itself in any sort of trouble, particularly if it emanates from the Zionist enemy."
| Y'all are getting low on spare boys to send across the mine fields carrying only plastic golden keys to open the gates of Paradise, your nuclear weapons aren't anywhere near ready yet, and you're sending ever greater numbers of IRG and Hizb'allah hard boys into the Syrian maw. Still, the are always the missiles stored under houses in southern Lebanon, the ones Israel pinpointed the location of a while ago. |
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[Al Ahram] Rights campaigners say NGOs in Egypt -- both local and foreign -- are destined to draconian constraints if new govt-drafted legislation is passed
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[Al Ahram] Islamist group claims responsibility for killing 20 people in Niger in response to country's involvement in French offensive against Death Eaters in Mali
Islamist Death Eaters staged twin suicide boom-mobileings on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and taking several trainee officers hostage in the impoverished west African state.
An Islamist group claimed the unprecedented attacks as Dire Revenge™ against the country's involvement in La Belle France's offensive against Death Eaters in neighbouring Mali.
They come just four months after Al-Qaeda linked Death Eaters seized a desert gas plant in neighbouring Algeria in a siege that left 38 hostages dead, also in retaliation against the intervention in Mali.
The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), one of the Islamist groups which seized control of northern Mali last year before being driven out by French-led troops, claimed the near simultaneous bombings at the Agadez army base and the French majority-owned uranium mine in Arlit.
"Thanks to Allah, we have carried out two operations against the enemies of Islam in Niger," MUJAO front man Abu Walid Sahraoui told AFP.
"We attacked La Belle France and Niger for its cooperation with La Belle France in the war against sharia (Islamic law)."
French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
vowed to help Niger "destroy" the Death Eaters and said La Belle France would back "all the efforts of Niger to stop the hostage situation" at the army base.
"We will not intervene in Niger as we did in Mali, but we have the same willingness to cooperate to fight against terrorism," he said.
The first boom-mobile went off at dawn at the army base in Agadez, the largest city in mostly desert northern Niger.
Eighteen soldiers and a civilian were killed along with four attackers at the army base, Interior Minister Abdou Labo said.
"A fifth bomber has locked himself up in an office with several trainee officers as hostages (at Agadez)," Labo said. "We are taking action to arrest the bomber and free the hostages."
About 30 minutes after the first attack, a jacket wallah blew up an explosives-laden four-by-four at the Somair uranium mine and processing facility as employees reported for work at the site, which is majority-owned by La Belle France's Areva.
Areva said one person was killed at the mine located some 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of Agadez, but did not identify the victim. It added that 14 others were maimed.
Labo said however that around 50 people were maimed at the mine, adding that almost all of the victims were security agents.
Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidjo described the attackers as "redskins", in a reference to members of the country's Tuareg and Arab groups.
Agadez resident Barka Sofa said he heard a strong kaboom outside the army base followed by heavy weapons fire, while a local journalist reported heavy damage inside the camp.
"All the streets of Agadez are blocked. The army is sweeping the city," Sofa added.
At the mine, an employee told AFP that "a man in military uniform driving a four-by-four packed with explosives mixed in with the Somair workers and blew up his vehicle in front of the power station at the uranium treatment facility."
"Company managers told us the suicide bomber was killed in the kaboom," he added, saying the blast had caused damage but had not stopped work at the site.
Somair is 63.6-percent-owned by Areva and 36.4-percent-owned by SOPAMIN, the agency that manages Niger's state mining interests.
Areva, the world's second-largest uranium producer, extracts more than a third of its uranium in the impoverished west African country and has operated in Niger for more than 40 years.
The attacks come some four months after the seige in neighbouring Algeria that left 38 hostages dead, including 37 foreigners.
Areva condemned the blast as a "terrorist attack" on its website and said Nigerien authorities had stepped up security measures at its facilities.
Niger is part of the African-led Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA), a regional military mission launched to help reclaim northern Mali from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM) and two allied Islamist groups that seized the vast desert territory in the chaotic aftermath of a March 2012 military coup.
French troops have so far led the operation against the Islamists, which was launched in January and has pushed the bully boyz from the territory they had brutally ruled.
Islamist groups have carried out several kidnappings in Niger in recent years, especially in the north.
Seven employees of Areva and one of its subcontractors were kidnapped in September 2010 by AQIM. Four Frenchies are still being held by their kidnappers. |
[Al Ahram] In order to reduce state budget deficit to 9.6% of GDP in compliance with IMF loan conditions, govt plans to raise taxes and cut fuel subsidies -- both of which are likely to impact Egyptians' daily expenses
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[An Nahar] Germany's foreign intelligence service believes Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's forces have gained strength, revising its prediction from last year of a quick regime collapse, a media report said.
Assad's forces are now able to keep the rebels in check, although victory remains elusive, according to a report by the service chief Gerhard Schindler, news site Spiegel Online reported.
The assessment is a reversal from last year when the service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), pointed at a wave of desertions by regime troops and predicted the regime's fall by early 2013.
Schindler reportedly told top German security officials in the secret briefing that in recent months Assad's forces had rebuilt supply lines for weapons and for fuel for tanks and airforce jets.
Assad forces had also severed many supply and retreat routes of the divided rebel forces, which include Islamist bully boys, he said according to Spiegel Online.
On current trends, Syrian forces backed by Leb's Hizbullah could, after recent advances in Damascus, secure the entire south of Syria by the end of the year, he reportedly said.
Schindler also said that there was no clear chain of command between the Syrian opposition abroad and the rebel fighters on the ground, complicating the outlook for peace talks.
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[An Nahar] Seventy-five fighters from Hizbullah have been killed in Syria since late last year, a source close to the group said on Thursday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave a higher corpse count, saying 104 Hizbullah members had been killed in Syria since last autumn, but a Hizbullah front man denied the figures.
"!, !! ∴ !!"
"There have been 57 killed and 18 others who have died of their wounds since the start of its participation in the war in Syria," the source close to Hizbullah told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said 104 Hizbullah fighters had been killed in all in fighting in central Homs province, which borders Leb, and around a revered Shiite pilgrimage site just south of Damascus.
"In the past five days, 46 were killed in Qusayr, 20 more died in the same area earlier this month, and 38 have died since the autumn in Homs province and at the Sayyeda Zeinab shrine," the Britannia-based watchdog chief said.
Hizbullah front man Ibrahim Moussawi told AFP: "I deny these figures. When we decide to give any information, we'll be in touch."
Hizbullah combatants have become increasingly involved in Syria's conflict, fighting alongside Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's forces against an insurgency that flared after a brutal regime crackdown on democracy protests.
Initially Hizbullah said it wanted only to defend 13 Syrian villages along the border where Lebanese Shiites live, and the Sayyeda Zeinab shrine, revered by Shiites around the world.
However its elite fighters later encircled the rebel-held central town of Qusayr with regime troops before the launch on Sunday of a withering assault on the strategic border town that is home to 25,000 people. |
[An Nahar] At least nine people were killed on Thursday in ongoing festivities between the rival 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...
neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, as different caliber mortars in addition to flare bombs were introduced to the battle for the first time.
The fighting intensified as the night fell on the city after intermittent festivities throughout the day, amid several futile attempts to reach a ceasefire.
"We're about to reach a ceasefire decision to which everyone would commit and which would allow the implementation of a comprehensive security plan and a broader deployment by the Lebanese army on the frontier between the two districts and on all fighting frontiers, in order to restore security and stability in the city," MP Mohammed Kabbara announced in the afternoon.
MTV reported that caretaker Prime Minister  Najib Miqati had invited the leaders of the fighting frontiers to a meeting at his residence and that they refused to attend it, but the premier's office denied the report.
The National News Agency said two people were killed in the evening in Jabal Mohsen, identifying them as Ali al-Ali and Suleiman al-Ali.
"Stray bullets reached al-Tal, Abi Samra and al-Qobbeh, sparking a major state of fear among citizens," NNA said.
Later, Voice of Leb radio (100.5) said Milad Hadshiti was killed when a sniper shot struck him in the head at the Hariri Project area in al-Qobbeh.
The security forces will take the necessary measures to restore clam in Tripoli within the coming few hours, NNA said.
Earlier, the army said three troops were maimed when an army base in the Dahr al-Mughr area came under gunfire. Two other soldiers were also injured, one critically, when their civilian car came under gunfire outside the entrance of the North's military hospital.
"Army units responded to the sources of gunfire and launched a major crackdown to arrest the perpetrators while the maimed were transported to hospital for treatment," said a statement issued by the Army Command.
A security source had told Agence La Belle France Presse: "Very violent fighting took place last night until 5:00 am that killed six people and maimed 40. The festivities and shelling affected several areas of the city, including the center,"
NNA said the gunbattles witnessed for the first time the use of 60 and 81 mm caliber mortar shells.
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[An Nahar] The Syrian army on Thursday opened fire on a vehicle for the Lebanese joint border security force that was staging a patrol in the Wadi Khaled border town of al-Nabi Berri, state-run National News Agency reported.
The incident did not cause any casualties although it created an uproar in the region, NNA said.
The vehicle was taken to a nearby base belonging to the joint force, the agency added.
Earlier on Thursday, Future TV said "Hizbullah members clashed with a patrol for the Lebanese joint border security force in the Hawik-al-Nabi Berri area."
"Hizbullah encircled a patrol for the Lebanese joint border security force, but one of its members managed to reach Akroum to seek its residents' assistance," it added.
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[An Nahar]  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
told a Tunisian delegation on Thursday he was determined to crush the rebellion against his regime and to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria, SANA news agency reported.
"Syria is determined to tackle terrorism and those who support it regionally and globally, and to find a political solution to the crisis," Assad was quoted as telling the delegation, the official agency said.
Damascus officials refer to rebels fighting Assad's rule as "terrorists".
Assad also said that the "Syrians appreciate the positions of Tunisian people and are aware that some Tunisians came to fight in Syria, but they represent only themselves."
Tunisian Foreign Minister Othmane Jarandi estimated 10 days ago that some 800 Tunisians were fighting alongside Salafist tough guys against the regime in strife-torn Syria.
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[An Nahar] Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said on Thursday that Tunisia is making progress in its bid to dismantle "terrorist" cells despite the presence in the country of gangs and recent festivities with Islamists.
"There is progress in dismantling the terrorist networks. We are confronted by small groups who practice terrorism and have links to terrorist parties," Larayedh told a news conference.
"We will continue to pursue them and all people who practice violence or have links with the terrorists."
But Larayedh acknowledged that the hunt for an gang linked to al-Qaeda along the Algerian border, which began in late April, was still taking place.
"Our units continue their search operations at Mount Chaambi and there is nothing new about this," he said.
Larayedh declined to label as "terrorists" the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia
...a north African Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends...
that has been linked with al-Qaeda and with which police clashed last week.
"This is an illegal organization, and some of its leaders are involved in terrorism," said the premier, a member of Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda.
"I have not yet said that Ansar al-Sharia is a terrorist organization... it must quickly issue a statement clearly condemning violence and terrorism," he added.
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[An Nahar] Tehran on Thursday denied a Bahraini claim it had found an Iranian drone in the sea near Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, and urged Manama to refrain from making "baseless accusations", the ISNA news agency reported.
It cited an unnamed foreign ministry source as denying Bahrain's assertion that the downed aircraft was Iranian.
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"Instead of making baseless claims, it would be better to respond to the legitimate demands of its people," the source said of the Shiite-majority kingdom across the Gulf that is ruled by a Sunni Mohammedan dynasty.
On Wednesday, Bahrain government spokeswoman Samira Rajab said the unmanned aircraft "was found in the sea in north Bahrain, mainly between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, two weeks ago".
"It has been proved that this is a drone used by Iran and could be linked to the Iranian spy cells discovered in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain," she added.
It was unclear if the aircraft had crashed into the sea or was brought down.
The U.S. navy's Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain, and the Islamic republic, Washington's arch-foe, has fleets of drones which it says can be used for attacks as well as for surveillance.
On Tuesday, Iran's main rival across the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, said its authorities have tossed in the calaboose
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
10 more suspects in an alleged Iranian spy ring unveiled two months ago. Tehran has denied links to the cell.
Bahraini Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid al-Khalifa on Wednesday urged "further cooperation and collaboration between security services in the region and with friendly states to face these threats" by Iran. |
[An Nahar] Attacks in Iraq on Thursday killed 11 people, including four soldiers, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence that has left 420 people dead so far this month.
Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Taji, north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, killing the four soldiers and wounding five others, security and medical officials said.
Near Baquba, also north of the capital, a roadside kaboom in a market killed four people and maimed two, while gunnies killed two police and maimed two others in another attack.
Gunmen also killed a civilian in the north Iraq city of djinn-infested Mosul, police and a doctor said.
And in Tikrit, another city north of Storied Baghdad, a roadside kaboom went kaboom! near a police patrol, wounding two coppers.
Thursday's attacks come a day after 22 people were killed in violence, among them were 12 rubbed out at a Storied Baghdad brothel and eight Death Eaters killed by security forces.
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[An Nahar] A military court in the Gazoo Strip has sentenced a Paleostinian to death for collaborating with Israel and another to life with hard labor,
| That'd be digging new tunnels to Egypt with a spork? |
the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, interior ministry said on Thursday.
The 43-year-old, identified only by his initials AH, "has been sentenced to capital punishment for acts of collaboration wit the occupation", a ministry statement said.
It said the life term was handed down to the second man, a 53-year-old identified as FM.
It was the third death sentence announced this year by the Islamist Hamas movement that controls the Paleostinian territory.
Two Paleostinians were hanged in April 2010 for collaboration with Israel in the first executions carried out by Hamas which seized Gazoo in June 2007 from the secular Paleostinian Fatah movement. |
[An Nahar] Syria's outgoing opposition chief published an initiative for his war-torn country on Thursday that would grant  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
a safe exit, and urged dissident factions to adopt his plan.
Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib published his initiative on Facebook, as the main National Coalition he headed until March gathered in Istanbul to choose a new leader and discuss a U.S.-Russian peace initiative dubbed Geneva 2.
Under Khatib's initiative, Assad would have 20 days from Thursday to give "his acceptance of a peaceful transition of authority".
After accepting, Assad would have one month to hand over power to either Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi or Vice President Faruq al-Sharaa, who would then govern Syria for a transitional period of 100 days.
As part of the transition Khatib envisages, Assad would "leave the country along with five hundred people whom he will select, along with their families and children, to any other country that may choose to host them".
This is the first time one of Syria's opposition chiefs has made an offer of political immunity to Assad and key members of his regime.
Khatib's proposal is an effort to pull Syria "out from the catastrophe that has struck our nation", said the former Omayyad mosque imam and controversial opposition figure on Facebook.
It is also "a practical response to the need of a political settlement ensuring a peaceful transition of authority", Khatib added.
"This initiative is a product of Syria and its goal is Syria," he said.
While calling on dissident groups to adopt the initiative "as a way out from the catastrophe that has struck our nation", Khatib also said the international community should "oversee it and ensure that it is implemented".
This would be accompanied by the release of all political prisoners in Syria, Khatib wrote.
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[NationalReview] 'The misconduct had stopped in May of 2012," White House press secretary Jay Carney told news hounds on Monday about the IRS's improper targeting of conservative groups. Not so, say two D.C. attorneys, each representing a number of conservative groups that -- after years of waiting and countless rounds of invasive questions -- have yet to receive recognition from the IRS.
The American Center for Law and Justice, headed by chief counsel Jay Sekulow, plans to file suit in federal court in the coming weeks on behalf of more than two dozen conservative groups that claim their harassment at the hands of the nation's tax authority continued long past the White House's purported end date -- and, for a number of them, continues still. Of the 27 organizations the ACLJ has represented to date, ten still have not received approval, two years after applying. Two others gave up. |
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[BETA.DAWN] Chief of the Pakistain Moslem League - Nawaz (PML-N), Mian Muhammad  Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
, formally announced on Thursday the nomination of his younger brother, Shahbaz Sharif, as chief minister of Punjab, DawnNews reported.
A parliamentary committee would finalise the nomination before the commencement of the Punjab Assembly session which has been summoned for May 29.
If elected, it would be Shahbaz's third term as chief minister of the province.
The Pakistain Moslem League - Nawaz (PML-N) is leading in the provincial assembly with a two-third majority.
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[Dawn] The Afghan government is reluctant to hand over Roohullah, the alleged murderer of the advocate general of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
High Court, to the Islamabad police, Dawn has learnt.
The Kabul police and its foreign office declared Roohullah an Afghan national a claim, which was contested by the investigating team.
The Sherlocks told them that he was Pak. Though his wife is an Afghan national, she also uses Pak documents, including CNIC and traveling (passport).
Besides, the Sherlocks also informed the Afghan authorities that the alleged killer was using the Afghan passport of his paternal cousin, Fazal Ahmad Khan, as both were identical. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
the authorities response is awaited, the officers added.
"An Afghan parliamentarian is providing protection ever since he beat feet from District Headquarters Hospital Rawalpindi on July 29, 2012," they added.
The Sherlocks are still in touch with the Afghan police and keep informing them about the locations of the alleged killer during the last two months, which changed twice, but action is not taken against him yet, the officers said.
Although there is no extradition treaty between the two countries, the Sherlocks acted on the assurance of Afghan ambassador in Islamabad that his government would assist the police in arresting the alleged killer.
After the assurance, a team dashed to Afghanistan and met governor and police chief of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province. Besides, it also met the senior officer of Afghan Foreign Office and representative of Interpol (international police) there.
The police team informed the location of the killer and also visited the area along with the local law enforces where Roohullah was hiding. The local police of the area -- a rural area located few kilometers away from Jalalabad -- was also gave guidelines over the action against the killer which led to his arrest.
In March, the alleged killer was hiding at a residence of an Afghan Senator from Kabul, located few kilometers away in a rural area near the city of Jalalabad.
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[Dawn] Shan Masih, a resident of Dawood Nagar, was passing through the Main Bazaar's Street No 7 (Bilal Town) by his cycle of violence when an kaboom took place. Critically injured, Shan was taken to the District Headquarters Hospital where he died.
City Police Officer Raja Riffat Mukhtar told a presser on Wednesday that the police had constituted different teams to ascertain the facts of the blast. He said during overnight raids the police placed in durance vile
Please don't kill me!
Sheraz of Dawood Nagar and Sohail Sarfraz of Warispura.
He said the arrested men revealed that three days ago they had talked to Qaiser, a priest of Bilal Town, and demanded Rs1 million ransom.
The suspects, he said, claimed themselves to be activists of the banned 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 ...
. He said they also threatened Qasier with blowing up his house if he failed to pay ransom.
The three boys were carrying some kaboom to Qaiser's house by two cycle of violences when an kaboom took place, claiming Shan's life.
The CPO said the search operation was carried out at different places, which led to the arrest of Sheraz and Sohail.
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[Dawn] The MNA-elect from NA-47, Darra Adamkhel, Qaiser Jamal Afridi has said that Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem , each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) will approach the Taliban and security forces to reopen and rebuild educational institutions in tribal areas and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
.
He said that people of Federally Administered Tribal Areas, in particular, had suffered a lot during the ongoing wave of terrorism. He was speaking as chief guest at a gathering held at Khyber Union Hall of Islamia College, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, on Wednesday.
The young MNA-elect said that in the beginning his party leadership was not even willing to award him election ticket because of his young age, but PTI chief Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan , who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
trusted him and his people gifted him an unprecedented victory.
"I ran my campaign in the most dangerous area in just 23 days. My party will not let the nation down and will deliver. When I was the student of Islamia College, Peshawar, I had made a blood donation club and used to collect blood for the needy patients. I used to donate blood to even those patients whom I never knew. This was the spirit I got from this great seat of learning. I shall contribute a considerable amount to the Senior Alumni Association (SAA) annual fund in future," Mr Afridi recalled and pledged.
He said that the youth was an asset and the PTI had pinned high hopes on them to work for the betterment and development of the country.
He maintained that young people had risen for bringing about a remarkable change in the country and if he could not make it possible for his poor people he would not be part of any such setup in the power corridors.
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[Dawn] A writ petition was filed before the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
High Court on Wednesday against the statement of former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
that he would hold talks with the myrmidons, requesting the court to declare that no person could engage in negotiations with any private army.
The petition, filed by freelance journalist Shahid Orakzai, requested the court to declare that Mr Sharif's inclination to come to table with a private army belied his allegiance to Pakistain.
The petitioner stated that immediately after his party's election victory, Mr Sharif invited the Indian prime minister to attend his oath-taking ceremony and did so without the approval of the President of Pakistain who was to conduct the oath. He contended that the promotion of good neighbourly relations was not a higher constitutional priority than the preservation of Islamic ideology of Pakistain.
The petitioner requested the court to instruct the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) to inquire into Nawaz Sharif's relationship with the private army at war with Pakistain and give a ruling on his qualification to be elected as an MNA.
He has also requested the court to allow him interim relief by restraining the ECP from notifying the return of Mr Sharif or suspend such a notification until decision on this petition. The respondents in the case are Mian Nawaz Sharif and the ECP through its secretary.
The petitioner has raised several points asking whether any member of the National Assembly can review or revise any state policy without taking any oath under the Constitution. He questioned whether any member-elect of the National Assembly could assume control and command of the armed forces or dictate a ceasefire before assuming the office of prime minister. He asked whether any member-elect of the National Assembly could hold talks with a private army in contravention of Article 256 of the Constitution.
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[An Nahar] Al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
Movement leader MP Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
on Thursday warned against the "conspiracy" targeting the northern city of 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...
, considering that the battles aim at diverting the attention from Hizbullah's participation in the Syrian war alongside  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
's forces.
"The ongoing killing in Tripoli aims at providing a cover for the war of Hizbullah and the Syrian regime against (Syria's border town of) al-Qusayr," Hariri said in a released statement.
He added: "These battles, that are causing destruction and the fall of many victims, only serve in keeping Leb under the mercy of Hizbullah's arms, which is being distributed in Tripoli and in other cities."
"The killing machine plans to change Tripoli's national and Arab identities and to weaken its position in the political equation in Leb."
Hariri confirmed, however, that the Syrian regime's attempts "will not succeed in transforming Tripoli into a submissive city."
Addressing the residence of the northern city, Hariri urged them "not to confront arms with the use of arms".
"Illegal weapons that are used to serve foreign projects will never triumph over the people," he stressed. |
[An Nahar] Prime Minister  David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
said on Thursday the brutal murder of a soldier by two suspected Islamists on a London street was an attack on Britannia and a betrayal of Islam.
Britain and Islam are not the same thing. Yes, it was an attack on Britain. No, it was not a betrayal of Islam. It was part of the price of being colonized by Moslems.
"This was not just an attack on Britannia and on the British way of life. It was also a betrayal of Islam and of the Mohammedan communities who give so much to our country," he said.
"Things like no-go areas, violence-prone cultural islands, and a continuing influx of new first cousins from Pakistain.
"There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act."
Most of Salafism, on the other hand, does.
In a video taken shortly after Wednesday's brutal attack near a barracks in Woolwich, southeast London, one of the suspects says that "we swear by the almighty Allah we will never stop fighting unless you leave us alone" and demands British troops are brought back from "our lands".
Good idea. And send every man with a beard and every woman in a sack back to "their lands," never to return.
Speaking outside his Downing Street office following a meeting with national security chiefs, Cameron said Britannia was "absolutely resolute in its stand against violent extremism and terror".
Sounds like they're still resolutely ignoring what the Moslem population says regularly, and acts upon nearly as regularly.
"We will never give in to terror or terrorism in any of its forms," he said, adding that this view was shared by every community in Britannia.
Nor, on the other hand, will they resist. That's not what Henry V would have stood for. And the first Queen Elizabeth would have had row upon row of the little suckers' heads dangling by their beards, with everything from the neck down someplace else.
"We will defeat violent extremism by standing together, by backing our police and security services and above all by challenging the poisonous narrative of extremism."
"We certainly wouldn't meet violence with violence, would we? I mean, what would Winnie say?"
He added: "There is absolutely no justification for these acts and the fault for them lies solely and purely with the sickening individuals who carried out this appalling attack."
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[Pak Daily Times] Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
said on Wednesday he had given a "wish list" of military equipment to India during a visit this week, presenting a conundrum for New Delhi as it weighs whether arming the Afghan army is in its interests.
India wants to stabilise Afghanistan and is concerned about the resurgence of bad boy groups after foreign combat troops leave in 2014. But arming Afghanistan would alarm Pakistain. It takes issue with the influence of its old rival in Afghanistan. India does not want to get drawn into a proxy war with Pakistain, which has ties to the Taliban. India and Afghanistan signed a strategic partnership agreement in 2011 under which New Delhi agreed to assist in the training and equipping of Afghan cops.
India has trained Afghan security force personnel in its military academies, but it has provided little military equipment, according to Indian officials. India's Afghan strategy has centred on boosting its influence through economic reconstruction projects.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem , each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) Chairman Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan , who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
left hospital on Wednesday, two weeks after getting injured in a fall at a rally for the general election.
The 60-year-old politician was ordered to remain immobile in bed after he fractured vertebrae and a rib in a dramatic tumble from a hoist lifting him to a stage just days before the May 11 general election. Khwaja Nazir, a front man for the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital, where Imran was being treated, told AFP that he had been discharged on Wednesday and returned to his home in the city. "He would stay in his Lahore home for three days and then would be shifted to his home in Islamabad," Nazir said. "Doctors have advised him rest, for two more weeks."
On Tuesday Imran took his first steps since the injury and a video on the hospital's Facebook page on Wednesday showed him walking gingerly but unaided from his third-floor room to the exit. According to the hospital front man, Imran Khan walked from his room on the third floor of the hospital to the exit on the ground floor. He added that Imran will continue to receive regular physiotherapy and will need to wear a spinal support for some weeks to come. The PTI chairman will gradually increase physical activity over the next few weeks with a return to his full functional capacity expected in approximately six to eight weeks, he said.
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[Pak Daily Times] A court on Wednesday refused bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the detention of judges during his 1999-2008 rule, the state prosecutor said.
The ruling came two days after a court granted bail to Musharraf over the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a gun and bomb attack in 2007. The retired general has been detained in his farmhouse on the edge of the capital Islamabad since April 19 on charges of conspiracy to murder Benazir and over the judges' detention case. "Judge of the anti-terrorism court rejected Pervez Musharraf's bail application after listening to defence and prosecution," public prosecutor Aamir Nadeem Tabish told AFP, adding that Musharraf can appeal to the high court.
Court official Mohammad Aslam Joya confirmed bail was refused in the case which relates to the sacking and detention of judges when Musharraf imposed emergency rule in 2007. In his arguments, Tabish added that judges and their family members had been detained in their homes for months, their children were not allowed to appear in examinations and that the charges against the former army strongman were of a serious nature, and therefore he should not be granted bail. He further said that the emergency imposed by Musharraf in the country on November 3, 2007 was detrimental not only to the judges but for the public at large. |
| [Pak Daily Times] Unknown gunnies kidnapped two people including a driver from Dhadar area of Kachhi district, Levies force said here on Wednesday. A Quetta-bound vehicle carrying vegetables from Shikarpur was intercepted by gunnies who took away the driver, Gul Hassan and Javed along with their vehicle to an unknown location. Levies force officials say a case has been registered and efforts are underway to recover the kidnapped men. |
[Pak Daily Times] A tractor driver was injured when his vehicle hit a landmine in Turbat. As per official sources, they said the landmine was planted along the roadside by unknown men. The tractor was damaged completely and injured driver was shifted to a nearby hospital.
Every time I see the name Turbat, I think "turbot." The exploding fish thing just seems to fit right in... |
[Pak Daily Times] Former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
law minister and Awami National Party leader Barrister Arshad Abdullah was nabbed
You have the right to remain silent...
moments after his pre-arrest bail application was rejected in Charsadda district. Arshad Abdullah was charged along with others with "attacking" a police checkpost to free his associate who was arrested with unlicensed weapon before the May 11 general polls in Charsadda district. Local police had lodged an FIR against the former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa law minister and 18 others who were accused of attacking the police checkpost in Utmanzai area on April 26 and freeing an associate who was apprehended by the security personnel at the checkpost for carrying an unlicensed weapon. "The former minister and his accomplice were arrested on the court premises and handed over to the city cop shoppe," police sources in Charsadda district, hometown of ANP President Asfandyar Wali Khan. |
[Pak Daily Times] Unidentified armed snuffies kidnapped four doctors in the Ghazni Khel Police Station jurisdiction. According to police sources, the doctors were going to Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
. Police said that it has laid a siege on all the entry and exit points to prevent the snuffies to shift the doctors to tribal agencies. |
[Pak Daily Times] The police have placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
eleven outlaws from various areas of the city and recovered a stolen car, cycle of violence, weapons and gold ornament from their possession.
According to police front man, Golra Police Station's Sub-Inspector Fayyaz Khan arrested a thief identified as Yaseen and recovered gold ornaments from him. Margalla Police Station's Sub-Inspector Abdul Jabbar and ASI Abdul Hafeez nabbed two menfor their involvement in decanting gas into cylinders illegally. Women Police Station's ASI Asif Khan nabbed a man and recovered three wine bottles from him. Industrial area Police Station's ASI Habib Ullah arrested a suspect and recovered a stolen car from him.
CIA Police Sub-Inspector Shams Akbar and ASI Darya Khan arrested two men, and recovered two 30-bore pistols from them. Bani Gala Police Station's Sub-Inspector Abdul Sattar arrested the accused in a property dispute.
The accused decamped after seeing the police team and left their weapons on the spot. Police impounded Kalashnikov, one 12-bore, one 9MM pistol and 76 cartridges. Sihala Police Station's ASI Aurangzeb arrested a suspect and recovered one 30-bore pistol from him. Sabzi Mandi Police Station's ASI Fayyaz akbar apprehended Darya Khan and recovered a stolen motorbike from him. He also arrested another man for having one 30-bore pistol. Loi Bher Police Station's Sub-Inspector Muhammad Ishaq arrested a thief Naeem Hassan and recovered stolen items from him. Cases have been registered against these nabbed persons. inp |
[Pak Daily Times] All the unnecessary ministries in the centre will be abolished after June 3, Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Malik Rafiq Rajwana told the Senate Standing Committee on National Regulations & Services on Wednesday.
The National Regulations & Services (NRS) should be the first one to be eliminated, 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...
(MQM)'s Senator Abdul Haseeb Khan said in the committee, chaired by PML-N Senator Syed Zafar Ali Shah at Parliament House.
It may be recalled that NRS was created after 18th constitutional amendment when various subjects were devolved to the provinces.
The committee held its meeting to review the affairs related to policy on revision of drug prices in the country. Abdul Haseeb Khan pointed out that bureaucracy has been deceiving the parliamentarians on drug prices and parliamentarians are being defamed for their misdeeds.
"This committee directed the officials to fix the drug prices but they committed massive corruption by using the name of parliamentarians in this regard," Khan told the committee.
He said if the recommendations of the committee were acted upon, the poor people would not have been compelled to spend Rs.20 billion on excessive prices of drugs.
The committee was told that the concerned ministry could not devise a formula to revise the drug prices and could not even constitute policy board on it as per the constitution.
The policy board is comprised of technocrats and technical people but it has been filled with the blue-eyed boys by flouting the relevant rules and procedures, MQM's senator informed the committee.
It was pointed out that there are 450 drug manufacturing companies operating in the country and out of these 200 are carrying out operations with the support of bureaucracy.
Committee members also expressed annoyance over conduct of Pakistain Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association chairman for writing letter to Chairman Senate Nayyer Hussain Bokhari that Senator Abdul Haseeb Khan got the prices of drugs raised for his personal interests. Committee decided to move a privilege motion against Chairman of PPMA for his misconduct.
Secretary Ministry National Regulations & Services clarified that Abdul Haseeb Khan never used his influence to raise the drug prices.
He told the committee the cases of 37 companies which jacked up the prices of drugs are under investigation by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Senators Farah Aqil, Almas Perveen, Farhat Abbas, Suriya Ameeruddin, Khalida Perveen, Rafiq Rajwana, Heman Das, Dr. Karim Khawja and officials of NRS ministry attended the meeting. |
[Pak Daily Times] Seven members of the Egyptian security forces kidnapped by Islamist snuffies in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Morsi announced a new crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula.
Their abduction underlined the threat posed by jihadists who became active in a security vacuum that opened up in the isolated Sinai after the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
. The state has struggled to restore order there since.
The snuffies have launched attacks on Israel and targets in North Sinai, where security problems have been exacerbated by a flow of weaponry smuggled from Libya. An Israeli defence official, speaking after the release of the seven, said it was vital that Egypt succeed in crushing terrorism.
"I call on everyone in Sinai who has weapons to turn them in. This nation is bigger than all of us and weapons can only be in the hands of the government," Morsi said after greeting the ex-hostages on their arrival at a military airport in Cairo.
"This is not a short-term operation that ends, and (the release of) our sons without a drop of blood being spilt is the first part of it," added Morsi, an Islamist elected last June who faced intense domestic pressure to resolve the crisis.
Security sources said the men - six coppers and an army border guard - were freed after talks mediated by Bedouin tribal leaders. They were released in an area south of Rafah, a town straddling the border with the Gazoo Strip.
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[Pak Daily Times] Iran denied on Wednesday any link to members of a spying ring tossed in the slammer
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
by its Sunni Mohammedan regional rival Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, according to Iranian media.
Saudi state media reported on Tuesday that officials had detained 10 people accused of spying for Iran after arresting 18 people in the same case in March.
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, accuses the Islamic Theocratic Republic of stirring up unrest among minority Saudi Shi'ites. Tehran rejects that charge and has repeatedly denied any involvement in espionage in Saudi Arabia. Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi repeated that denial on Wednesday, in comments to the ISNA news agency. "We expect the Saudi government to pursue the issue through correct channels rather than creating an atmosphere through the media," Araqchi said, according to ISNA. Saudi officials said the 10 most recently tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
included eight Saudis, a Turk and a Lebanese citizen. Those arrested in March included 16 Saudis and an Iranian. |
[Dawn]Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, President Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it ...
on Thursday revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the US military, while leaving key details of the controversial program secret.
Remember that scene in that first movie about Obama, where they were gonna bomb this factory whatever it was, and Michael Douglas didn't want to kill a whole lot of innocent people, so they changed the time on the strike and he still felt bad about the night watchman getting killed, and everybody was all goopy and wished we had that kind of humane-spirited president? (I think the president at the time was George H.W. Bush, who was way too bloody-minded for the humane-spirited among us.) You know, the kind of guy who would bomb a building rather than the activity that went on inside it. And then Bill Clinton did the same thing, because he'd seen the movie, and the Sudanese said he'd destroyed an aspirin factory and umpty-nine people were out of work because of it, and the guy that owned it was ruined financially, and the night watchman's family were howling for American blood. Nobody mentioned the movie where Michael Douglas played Barack Obama much after that.
The president also announced a renewed push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, including lifting a moratorium on prisoner transfers to Yemen.
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
shutting the prison will still require help from Republicans reluctant to back Obama's call to move some detainees to US prisons and try them in civilian courts.
Obama framed his address as an attempt to redefine the nature and scope of terror threats facing the US, noting the weakening of al-Qaeda and the impending end of the US war in Afghanistan.
"Neither I, nor any president, can promise the total defeat of terror," Obama said in remarks at the National Defense University.
"What we can do, what we must do, is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger, and make it less likely for new groups to gain a foothold, all while maintaining the freedoms and ideals that we defend."
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[Dawn] THERE could not have been anything as distressing a sight as watching the Titanic, its hull ruptured by an iceberg, sink slowly into the Atlantic Ocean. Until now, that is.
This month, another multi-tiered vessel -- the Pakistain Peoples Party -- has gradually begun its descent into deeper waters. Nature is not to blame; the iceberg upon which the PPP has foundered is of its own making. Like the Mohammedan League, it is no longer the party envisioned by its leader.
The Pakistain Peoples Party was launched on Nov 30, 1967 in the drawing room of Dr Mubashir Hasan, a professor in Lahore's University of Engineering & Technology. Its manifesto was drafted by Mr J. Rahim, a former bureaucrat. In that small room, Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
[Dawn] A second child has contracted 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...
in a restive Pak tribal region near the Afghan border after the Taliban banned vaccinations there nearly a year ago, a UN official said Thursday.
The first polio case was detected in the North  Wazoo region, also known as the strong bastion of Taliban and al Qaeda linked bad turbans, earlier this month, with officials expecting a "bigger outbreak" of the disease.
"This is the second child, a 36-month-old boy getting paralysed after contracting polio," the World Health Organisation's senior coordinator for polio eradication in Pakistain, Elias Durry, told AFP.
Tribesmen in North Waziristan had endorsed the Taliban ban and stopped authorities from vaccinating children under a nationwide campaign in June last year.
"The problem is that it is just a tip of the iceberg," Durry said, adding, "This is what will happen if we have children without polio vaccination."
He said: "We fear there will be more cases in North Waziristan, its neighbourhood and other tribal regions and northwestern districts if the vaccine is not administered to the children." He said there were approximately 161,000 children in North Waziristan district alone who have not been administered with a polio vaccine since June last year.
The Taliban have alleged that the vaccination campaign is a cover for espionage.
Efforts to tackle the highly infectious disease have been hampered over the years by local suspicion about vaccines being a plot to sterilise Musselmens, particularly in Pakistain's conservative and poorly educated northwest.
Pakistain, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the only three countries in the world where the highly infectious, crippling disease remains endemic. Infections shot up from a low of 28 in 2005 to almost 200 last year. |
[BETA.DAWN] Pak authorities once placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
an American citizen now known to have been killed in a US drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail.
The B.O. regime revealed Wednesday that Jude Kenan Mohammad died in a US drone strike in Pakistain's tribal region, making him the fourth American citizen killed by unmanned aircraft in Pakistain and Yemen.
Mohammad was indicted by federal authorities in 2009 as part of an alleged plot to attack the US Marine Corps base in Quantico, VA.
Before he could be arrested, Mohammad fled to Pakistain.
Pak officials said in 2008 that Mohammad was arrested when he tried to enter the Mohmand tribal area without permission.
He was released on bail and failed to show up at a 2009 court hearing.
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[BEFOREITSNEWS] Barack Hussein Obama had served 14-State Governors in the United States, National Security Letters (NSLs) warning that the Governor's actions in attempting to form "State Defense Forces" needs to be halted "immediately" or they will face arrest for the crime of treason. The employment of NSLs was authorized by the Patriot Act introduced by George W. Bush. Contained within the section related to these letters, it is forbidden for anyone receiving a NSL warning to even acknowledge the existence of said communication.
Obama is angered by the several State Governors who have reestablished "State Defense Forces." These forces are described as: "State Defense Forces (also known as State Guards, State Military Reserves, State Militias) in the United States are military units that operate under the sole authority of a state government; they are not regulated by the National Guard Bureau nor are they part of the Army National Guard of the United States. State Defense Forces are authorized by state and federal law and are under the command of the governor of each state. State Defense Forces are distinct from their state's National Guard in that they cannot become federal entities."
Mr. Obama is fearful of these State Defense Forces, in that he does not have control of said forces, and with the U.S. Military stretched to near breaking from multiple deployments and theatre actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, these State military forces would be under the direct command and authority of the Governors in which states have said forces. In essence, the Governors would have "de facto control" of the United States. |
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 [AFP] Algerian commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar "supervised" twin suicide bombings that killed at least 20 people in Niger, the Mauritanian news agency Al-Akhbar reported.
"It was Belmokhtar who himself supervised the operational plans of attacks" on the Agadez army base and a French-run uranium mine, El-Hassen Ould Khalil, spokesman for Belmokhtar's "Signatories in Blood" group, was quoted as saying.
He said the near-simultaneous bombings "targeted elite French forces" who were providing security at the uranium mine in northern Arlit that is majority-owned by France's Areva.
"More than 10 fighters took part in these attacks," the spokesman told the online press agency, adding that they were jointly led with the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa.
MUJAO, one of the extremist groups that seized control of northern Mali last year before being driven out by French-led troops, had earlier claimed the bombings.
"Thanks to Allah, we have carried out two operations against the enemies of Islam in Niger," MUJAO spokesman Abu Walid Sahraoui told AFP.
The "Signatories in Blood" spokesman, who also goes by the alias "Julaibib," said the deadly operations were carried out in the name of top Al-Qaeda operative Abou Zeid, killed in fighting led by the French army in the Ifoghas mountains in northern Mali in late February.
Belmokhtar, a former leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, left that group late last year to create "Signatories in Blood."
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The Justice Department did more than seize a Fox News reporter's emails while suggesting he was a criminal "co-conspirator" in a leak case -- it did so under one of the most serious wartime laws in America, the Espionage Act.
It's the same law used by the Nixon administration to go after The New York Times and Daniel Ellsberg over the leak of the Pentagon Papers. It's the law used to charge the Rosenbergs, American communists, for allegedly passing secret information to the Soviet Union -- they were executed for the offense in 1953.
One Washington attorney, who represents two defendants recently charged under that World War I-era law, told FoxNews.com that the decision by the Justice Department to invoke it in the current case is "beyond chilling" -- and could set a dangerous precedent for going after reporters.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday that he doesn’t trust members of his own party to negotiate a budget conference report.
Cruz's remark came after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he thought it was “bizarre” that a member of his own party was objecting to forming a conference committee with the House to work out a budget.
McCain said the objections suggested Senate Republicans didn’t trust House Republicans to hold the party line in negotiations.
“Isn’t it a little bizarre, this whole exercise?” McCain said after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) objected to going to conference. “What we’re saying is that we don’t trust our colleagues on the other side of the Capitol.”
Cruz responded that he doesn't trust Republicans.
“The senior senator of Arizona urged senators to trust House Republicans ... and frankly, I don’t trust Republicans,” Cruz said. “It’s the leaders of both parties that got us in this mess. ... A lot of Republicans were complicit in this spending spree.”
McCain said a “small minority of the minority” was blocking progress on the budget and a return to regular order.
But Rubio and Cruz argued that Democrats are trying to use budget reconciliation rules as a back-door way to raise the debt ceiling with just 51 votes, essentially giving "Democrats a blank check." The federal government is expected to reach the debt ceiling this fall.
Senate Democrats have asked to go to conference on the budgets 10 times, and Republicans have objected to each request. |
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