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Afghanistan
Taliban Rape Tapes: A 'Muslim Abu Ghraib'
With breaking news out of Palestine today that a top aide to President Mahmoud Abbas has been literally caught with his pants down, rape tapes seem to be popping up all over the pious Muslim world. And some are horrifically worse than others.

Last month on the FOX Business Network, Colonel Oliver North revealed a startling piece of information. Conservative mullahs and elements within the Haqqani terror network -- known as the backbone of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the Af/Pak theater -- are working to take the Haqqanis down from the inside. Their key weapon is a disturbing video that shows the serial sexual assault of several young girls.

Colonel North explained that no one in American intelligence had yet seen this video. Here it is:
Click the link for several interesting links in article. Some may be familiar to long-time readers. :-)
When I travelled to Afghanistan to research my novel, The Apostle, contacts of mine introduced me to a mid-level Taliban commander in the Haqqani network. Over tea and considerable time talking together, he provided me with some very good, inside-baseball information on the Haqqanis and how their network operates.

I soon realized that he was part a burgeoning movement of disillusioned fighters, mullahs and commanders who have lost faith in both the network's founder, Jalaluddin Haqqani and its Chief Operating Officer, Siraj Haqqani, Jalaluddin's son.

Recently, this mid-level Taliban commander shared a chilling story with me. He told me it was a scandal that would rock the Muslim world like nothing before and that it would "devastate" the Haqqani network. "What Abu Ghraib was for you Americans," he said, "this will be for the Haqqanis; only worse."

A Muslim Abu Ghraib? Considering the horrific violence that the Haqqanis had perpetrated to date, I had trouble imagining what they could have done now that would suddenly have the power to enflame the Muslim world. After all, that kind of outrage is normally reserved for terrible insults by the West, like cartoons, operas, or free speech. Then, my contact told me his story. It made me absolutely sick to my stomach.

As Siraj Haqqani moved from village to village, rounding up the sons of poor Muslim families to fight for the Taliban and Al Qaeda, he offered the villagers free medical care. He even sent his physician, Dr. Hassan Duraz to conduct the clinics. There was a horrific catch, though. Duraz was a monster.

He arrived in each village with Siraj Haqqani's uncle, Ibrahim, and Siraj's cousin, Ishak, in tow. With them, the Haqqanis brought along their own very special tools of terror -- a video camera and an eye for human flesh. You see, with Haqqani healthcare, you not only received a medical exam, if you were an attractive young girl, you also got a screen test. And heaven forbid you passed.

For those women and girls unfortunate enough to catch the good doctor's fancy, it was show time. The Haqqani uncle and cousin would be brought into the exam room, they would set up their video equipment, and Duraz would drop his trousers and go to work.

The Haqqanis and Duraz sexually assaulted poor women throughout the tribal regions and captured every moment of their degradation and humiliation on video to enjoy over and over again.

Times were good for the Haqqani pornography ring. Their enterprise thrived until someone slipped up and word leaked out. In the blink of an eye, Siraj Haqqani was in big trouble.

And what's a good and pious Muslim warrior to do when his moral authority and the very existence of his terror network are at stake? There's only one answer of course. Kill everyone involved. (Everyone that is, except for family.) And that's exactly what Siraj Haqqani did.

Haqqani not only killed the women in the video, but he also killed his own physician, Dr. Duraz. After all, dead men (and dead women for that matter) tell no tales, right?

The only thing left to do was to visit the Haqqani home theater and destroy all the evidence. With that task complete, Siraj Haqqani could sit back and relax. There was just one problem. He didn't get all of the tapes. My contact managed to rescue some.

With the help of a prominent Pakistani Mullah, he put together the video we have linked here, extolling all Muslims to condemn and abandon the Haqqanis. In Islam, there is only one thing worse than the sins the Haqqanis committed -- Siraj Haqqani's sin of trying to cover it all up.

As the video is disseminated throughout the bazaars of Pakistan and Afghanistan, I can only hope that it will result in a death sentence for the Haqqanis and their entire terror network. According to the tenets of Islam, Siraj Haqqani, his cousin, and uncle will spend an eternity roasting in hell. Anyone who supports them, now that this video has come to light, will be subject to the same fate under Islam, which will hopefully serve as a significant disincentive to join or continue working for the Haqqani network.

Siraj Haqqani, like the uncle and cousin he protects, is a monster. I can only hope that he witnesses the collapse of his organization as his followers tear him limb from limb and that the experience will be repeated daily in the afterlife, with two matinees on Sundays.

As you watch the video (or don't watch it), keep in mind one thing. None of this terrible evil would have been possible without Siraj Haqqani.

For the record, through independent sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I have confirmed that the women who appear herein, as well as Dr. Duraz, have all indeed been murdered.
Posted by: gorb || 02/13/2010 03:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I find this story unlikely for several reasons:

We have to believe that the men in ultra-conservative rural Afghanistan would allow their women to be alone with an unrelated man, in the form of a male doctor who simply appears out of the blue one day. Women in these areas generally don't walk around without a male relative or husband, so what are the men doing while their women are being forced to appear porn movies? When they discovered this outrage against their honor, wouldn't they have killed the women and the doctor too?

If, as the article claims, Siraj killed everyone involved including the rapist doctor (something that sets my BS meter ringing) how do we know such specific details of what they got up to? And the explanation of how this footage was leaked: "The only thing left to do was to visit the Haqqani home theater and destroy all the evidence. With that task complete, Siraj Haqqani could sit back and relax. There was just one problem. He didn’t get all of the tapes. My contact managed to rescue some." is pretty weak.

If I had to guess, i'd say this involves footage from a standard sex ring in either Afghanistan or Pakistan that has had the Haqqani name grafted onto it. Which is fine if those people in the bazaars believe it, it's good to have propaganda running the other way for a change.
Posted by: Grolutle Squank6928 || 02/13/2010 3:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Skepticism is fine, BUT, if that video has recognisable faces.........

Also, the women are dead now and that Dr. As far as men "letting" their women go I'd be surprised if these scum didn't have the entire area totally cowed. Think of the type of control that the drug gangs in LA have over neighborhoods.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/13/2010 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I've enjoyed Brad Thor's well researched novels, including The Apostle , and think he is very credible. The hero and his friends are loosely disguised Blackwater contractors, complete with an Asian cook/concubine, as real as the headlines lately. This is a break that could help turn the Taliban on themselves, breaking the terror network from the inside out.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 02/13/2010 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  The Haqqanis are on the CIA's target list. All it takes is one disgruntled/ambitious insider and the Reaper is on it's way.
Posted by: ed || 02/13/2010 11:37 Comments || Top||


UN sees further drop in Afghan opium production
[Al Arabiya Latest] Opium production in Afghanistan, the world's largest producer, will continue to fall this year thanks to poor weather, the U.N. office on drugs and crime predicted.

"There is a good chance that Afghanistan will produce less opium this year," UNODC chief Antonio Maria Costa said in a statement.

Last year, Afghan farmers produced some 56 kilograms (124 pounds) per hectare of opium bulbs, which are used to make heroin. But bad weather was likely to reduce that figure and thus the quantity of opium produced this year, the Vienna-based UNODC said in a new report published this week.

This would continue the drop in Afghan opium production, which already fallen from 8,200 tons in 2007 to 6,900 tons in 2009, the U.N. office noted. The area dedicated to opium cultivation, however, was expected to remain stable after decreasing by 36 percent, from a record 193,000 hectares in 2007 to 123,000 last year.

And a reversal in opium prices, which are starting to increase again after staying low for two years, could persuade farmers to pick up cultivation again, the UNODC warned.

In a country still troubled by a Taliban-led insurgency, security played an important role in farmers' thinking: "Almost 80 percent of villages with very poor security conditions grew poppy, while opium only grows in seven percent of villages unaffected by violence," the report said.

Where governance was most effective, Afghan farmers also seemed less willing to defy a ban on poppy cultivation, unlike in south-west Afghanistan, where the central government has less power.

"The message is clear: in order to further reduce the biggest source of the world's deadliest drug, there must be better security, development and governance in Afghanistan," said Costa.

"The Afghan authorities must lead and own their drug control strategy: the rest of the world has a vested interest in its success."

One of the main concerns now was to root out poppy cultivation in eight "swing" provinces where production was "negligible", the UNODC chief said.

"With appropriate local community-inspired measures, such as shura-driven (tribal council) campaigns, governor-led eradication and development assistance, three quarters of the country (25 out of 34 provinces) could become poppy-free in the near future," Costa predicted.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  It's all Bush's fault.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 02/13/2010 7:32 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Algerian inter-faith leaders call for more religious freedom
[Maghrebia] Algeria is a religiously tolerant nation that will never encroach on the rights of non-Muslims to worship, Religious Affairs Minister Bouabdellah Ghlamallah told participants at an Algiers seminar on Wednesday (February 10th).

Under the banner of "Religious Worship: A Right Ensured by Religion and by the Law", the February 10th-11th conference convened representatives of several religions and government officials to ease relations after a Christian church was attacked and desecrated in Tizi-Ouzou in December 2009.

Emphasising Algeria's long history of religious acceptance, Ghlamallah declared that the country is "receptive to all religions" and pointed to a February 2006 law that protects the right of Christians and Jews to practice their faith.

Algeria has "never closed down a single church", the minister told participants. "Rather, Christians were ensured the right to practice their religious rights freely and peacefully in the designated places, and in accordance with the act regulating the practice of religious rites issued in 2006."

The defiled Protestant church had defied orders by the government to shut down, as it was not registered properly.

Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, account for less than 1% of the Algerian population, according to recent statistics. The Ministry of Religious Affairs officially recognised Judaism in July 2009, and allowed 25 synagogues to open their doors.

Catholic Archbishop Dr. Ghaleb Bader, also at the symposium, affirmed that religious tolerance does exist in Algeria, but urged Algerian legislators to revisit the details of the February 2006 Act on religious freedom.

"It is difficult to provide a minister or an archbishop in every place," Dr. Bader told seminar participants, as he pointed out the problems in current legislation requiring registration for every religious community and barring religious meetings in halls and houses.

"Therefore, it's not easy for Christians to find places of worship in Algeria that meet the conditions stipulated by the Algerian government in the act."

He urged the Algerian community to recognise churches as a "neutral place" that "will never be a spot for opposing Algerian interests". He added: "The act regarding non-Muslim worship practices is a constriction on the Church in Algeria."

Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Algiers Henri Teissier implored religious leaders at the conference to embrace inter-faith dialogue. "Establishing peace in the world hinges on representatives of the religious sects, be they Christians, Muslims or Jews."

Teissier also joined other Catholic bishops last month in denouncing the attack on the Tizi-Ouzou church and urging Algerians to follow the principles of "coexistence" and "respect".

A December 26th statement from Catholic bishops denounced the attack, while calling attention to "the obstacles hindering the practice of Christian worship" in Algeria.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  In the west we build Saudi funded Mosques galore but we struggle to build any churchs in any muslim majority country!

How is that religious freedom Obama & Co?
Posted by: Paul2 || 02/13/2010 5:18 Comments || Top||


Jailed Mauritanian Salafists declare repentance
[Maghrebia] The Mauritanian government is reporting positive results from a "spiritual dialogue" between moderate religious scholars and imprisoned Salafists, with nearly all the inmates involved declaring their "repentance".

To initiate the dialogue, Sheikh Mohamed El Hacen Ould Deddew led a panel of scholars that debated with 68 Salafists in a two-day event that began on January 18th. An earlier Nouakchott conference on tolerance set the stage for the debate, which challenged inmates to take more moderate stances.

In an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Ould Deddew said that most of the prisoners had vowed they would quit Al-Qaeda.

The prisoners included three men who declared their repentance for the 2007 killing near Aleg of a French family of tourists. "In addition, they pledged not to return to [these activities], and not to carry arms in Mauritania against either Muslims or infidels," Ould Deddew added.

Mauritania would "continue to rid its soil of Al-Qaeda and acts of violence," he said, adding that authorities have to "accelerate the arrangement of positive steps based on that dialogue".

A spokesperson for the scholars, Mohamed El Mokhtar Ould Mbale, said in a press conference on February 4th that the dialogue tackled topics including allegiance, baraa (disavowal), governance, democracy, positive laws, isteaman (pledge of security) and aggression. The scholars presented Sharia rules, "and the young men dealt so positively with them that some of them asked God for repentance and said they had previously had a confused understanding of these concepts".

"The dialogue is not just an occasion that starts and then ends; rather, it's an option and approach adopted by the state in dealing with all issues on the table in the country," added Ould Mbale. "It will be renewed on an as-needed basis."

Ould Mbale declined to comment on when or how the prisoners would be released now that they have signed declarations of regret for resorting to arms and violence as the means of achieving their goals.

"We have advised the president of the dialogue's results, which have been good," the rapporteur of the scholars committee, Abdellahi Ould Aminou, told the state media on February 3rd. "We can say that it had a 90% success rate, and that the goals set will have a good effect, not just on those who were the target of the dialogue, but also on those who may embrace these ideas, the public arena, and on all the Mauritanian people who were impatiently waiting for this dialogue".

Ould Aminou said that 90% of the Salafists involved in the dialogue had declared their "repentance".

During a February 3rd meeting with members of the scholars committee, President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz promised to continue the dialogue with the Salafists in order to resolve outstanding issues.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  Regrets for being caught, or regrets for not killing more before being caught?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2010 4:51 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Saint Evgeny Rodionov the New Martyr of Chechnya - WARNING very graphic.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2010 05:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Muslim woman's veil case represents clash of values in Cunit, Spain
But Cunit has gained a new distinction: It is famous in Spain as the town where a Moroccan-born Muslim woman with a master's degree and a head of curly hair says she was threatened by Muslim fundamentalists because she took off her veil and tried to live like a Spaniard.

The treatment of Fatima Ghailan, 31, prompted an investigating magistrate to bring charges against the sheik of the local mosque, Mohamed Benbrahim, and the head of the Islamic Association, Abderraman el-Osri, the leading figures in Cunit's Muslim community.

The case also generated demands for the resignation of Mayor Judit Alberich, a liberal Socialist who, her political opponents said, catered to her Muslim constituents at the expense of respect for the law.

In many ways, Ghailan was an unlikely champion of assimilation when she arrived in Cunit as a teenager. Her father had been the sheik of a mosque in Morocco, and until recently, she dutifully wore a scarf.

But things began to change several years ago. Ghailan received a master's degree in Barcelona, and before long she stopped wearing a scarf, letting her hair move freely. She began driving a car.

Then she got a job at City Hall, assigned to work with the town's approximately 1,000 mostly Moroccan Muslims as a "cultural mediator." Her job was to encourage Muslims, particularly cloistered women, to participate in the life of the town, to take advantage of language classes and to leave their homes to attend festivals.

Benbrahim organized a petition demanding Ghailan's firing. Ghailan said the dispute soon escalated; she lodged a formal complaint against Benbrahim in November 2008, charging that he had harassed, threatened and attacked her and her family.

A local court issued a restraining order, barring the sheik from going near Ghailan or her family, and launched a formal investigation in which procedure dictated that Benbrahim be taken into custody. But, Ghailan said later, the mayor, Alberich, intervened to prevent the arrest, saying that it would disrupt relations with Cunit's Muslim community. At the same time, Alberich undertook to mediate directly with Benbrahim. In her mind, she said, the issue was a personal dispute, not a clash of values.

"There is no coexistence problem in Cunit," she said. "We have never had that."

The situation remained tense but quiet until the magistrate announced two weeks ago that his investigation was finished and that Benbrahim should be jailed for five years on charges of harassment, defamation and threats and that Osri should be sentenced to four years for harassment and defamation.

Spain's national newspapers took notice, and TV crews arrived. Soon afterward, Ghailan's friends said, she was threatened in the street again, this time by some of Benbrahim's followers.

Ghailan, who was briefly hospitalized for anxiety attacks, was unavailable to relate what happened, as was Benbrahim. But Ghailan told local reporters last week that she had been approached by Alberich after the magistrate's announcement with a suggestion that she withdraw her complaint to foster improved relations with the Muslim community and get the problem behind her.

Allegations that Alberich had sought to exempt the Islamic leadership from the legal system were the main issue that generated the calls for her resignation.
Posted by: Gleresh Thamp8214 || 02/13/2010 05:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  good job , the spanish nipped the culprits in the bud but it sounds like there's a festering issue at large in Cunlit with the remaining Muslims monkeys. She at least had the balls to tell them to get Fuqued, good for her!
Posted by: 746 || 02/13/2010 14:27 Comments || Top||

#2  One thing about her doing this is to be under accordence not to be singled out by the underlining current malcontent miscreants from the debacle about : 911 ! The people would feel the veil is a discomfiture from the : Decadent West ! She could resolve this by wearing the : Appropriate Wardrobe : Not Having : Francophile Probelmo : Style ! Si , Senorita : Si ! Lest Relax & : Take It , Easy ! Allah O Akbar ! She'll wear it : Safely : Health Reasons : Assilimate : Wastern Style : Stay Good : Muslim : Never Lead : Wastern : Tempation : She Does ! Smart lady : Good Muslim : Allah O Akbar !
Posted by: Unoluting Prince of the Leprechauns7471 || 02/13/2010 16:34 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 - Huh?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 02/13/2010 17:28 Comments || Top||

#4  A fancy form of spam, Barbara dear. I pooplisted it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/13/2010 17:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Media Darling Soldier Mom is Out
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A single-mom soldier who says she refused to deploy to Afghanistan because she had no family able to care for her young son will be discharged from the military instead of facing a court-martial, the Army said Thursday...

The decision still carries consequences for Hutchinson. She is being demoted in rank to private and will lose benefits afforded to military service members and veterans, Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson said...

Larson said the Army had evidence that Hutchinson, regardless of her family situation, would have resisted deploying "by any means."..."This case wasn't about a soldier having to choose between her duty to the nation and her family," Larson said. "There is evidence both from Pvt. Hutchinson and her fellow soldiers to indicate she had no intentions of deploying."
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/13/2010 11:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  good riddance
Posted by: Frank G || 02/13/2010 12:36 Comments || Top||

#2  And from the mother:

Ms. Hughes has heard some of that criticism firsthand. “People have said to me: ‘She signed this contract. She’s supposed to go. That’s her first priority,’ ” Ms. Hughes said. “My response is: ‘I don’t think so. This is her child. This is her family. This is her priority. The military is a job.’ ”

NY Times article.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2010 13:19 Comments || Top||

#3  now she can draw regular welfare benefits instead of whining and bitching. how many soldiers had too leave their kids too serve and never came back. too hell with the bitch
Posted by: CHRIS || 02/13/2010 16:08 Comments || Top||

#4  BESOEKER, HOW YA BEEN ? DID YALL GET SNOW DOWN YOU WAY BY THE WAY THIS FUNKY SKUNK OR RABID WHAITETAIL FELLOW ga boy
Posted by: chris || 02/13/2010 16:09 Comments || Top||

#5  trailing wife dont ban me again i leannt my lesson and will behave
Posted by: chris || 02/13/2010 16:11 Comments || Top||

#6  chris dear, as long as you behave I won't feel even the slightest temptation to ban you, I promise. On the contrary, it makes me proud when someone chooses to learn from experience. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/13/2010 18:08 Comments || Top||

#7  *sigh* As heart-wrenching as it is ... being a professional military person means that you have to leave your family. For months, and (historically) sometimes years at a time. How mothers work this equation? It really is up to the mother. I took a year-long tour in Greenland when my daughter was 2 years old. Lucky me - I had already had a one-year suspension from an unaccompanied tour of duty, starting from the birth of my daughter in January of 1980. IIRC the AF personnel center allowed this routinely, citing the special bond between a mother and child. After that period - sorry, if I couldn't care for my child (or arrange care) and still fulfill my military duties - then the AF would have no more need of my services, thank you very much.
The military may be a "job," and one of those which offers adventure, honor, bennies and a nice pension at the end of it - but it is also one of those "jobs" which require one to take every effort to get your life and personal responsibilities in order before you embark upon it. Ms. Hughes has failed to live up to her side of the bargain. Good f***ing riddance.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 02/13/2010 20:37 Comments || Top||

#8  i leannt my lesson and will behave

Meh. I give it three months.

Maybe.
Posted by: Pappy || 02/13/2010 20:58 Comments || Top||

#9  The military is a job.’ ”

No, working for Burger King or Walmart is a job - being in the military is a commitment. If you're not up to that commitment, don't join.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/13/2010 21:10 Comments || Top||

#10  Any other 'job', to include our police and firemen, can walk in tomorrow and turn in their papers. The Constitution, Article 1 Section 8, grants Congress the power and authority to make a separate law for those who serve in the military. You can not 'quit'. You can not go on strike. You do not retain the 'rights' of other citizens. And as the paper you sign and the oath you swear before others you do so "without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion".
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/13/2010 21:51 Comments || Top||

#11  The Army goes rolling along. Theres many who don't complete their entire commitment for a huge variety of reasons. Death, illness, mental incapacity, injury, winning the lottery. Next!
Posted by: Marilyn Thrineper8949 || 02/13/2010 22:20 Comments || Top||


Under plan, intelligence agencies would be consulted before reading of rights
The Justice Department and the FBI will consult with the intelligence community on information about terrorism suspects arrested in the United States before deciding whether to read them their Miranda rights under a plan now under review in the White House, according to senior administration officials.

The proposal follows a controversy over the handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is accused in the attempted Christmas Day bombing and who was read his constitutional rights 10 hours after his arrest.

Some law enforcement officials have expressed concern that public pressure is pushing the White House to establish new standards based on the Detroit incident, even though the nature of the case might be unique. One senior law enforcement official pointed out that authorities had immediate access to Abdulmutallab's passport and to background information on him that had only recently been entered into the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center.

"But what if that person has a false passport and fingerprints are not in our files?" the official said, adding that it takes time just to get an identification, and U.S. law sets tight time rules for when someone who has been arrested must appear before a judge. "How can you have meaningful consultation [within government agencies] when you don't have a good handle on facts and when the clock is ticking?"

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, said he does not think new administration protocols will solve the problem of the treatment of terrorism suspects. "This attempt to finesse it is not going to fix it," he said. "A captured high-value al-Qaeda member should be immediately placed in military custody and should be immediately interrogated vigorously in a sustained interrogation."

Although Sessions and others have recommended that terrorism suspects arrested on U.S. soil be immediately put into military custody, such an action could take place only if the suspects are found to be enemy combatants.
Senator Sessions has the right of it. Are terrorists criminals or enemy agents/combatants? If the latter, the only right they have is to be treated as spies, ie interrogated and shot. If the former, Miranda is the least of it.
Posted by: Gleresh Thamp8214 || 02/13/2010 05:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Surrendered Maoist tells tale of sex torture
Bhubaneswar: Hardcore Maoist Sabita Munda, 24, surrendered before police in Keonjhar, northern Orissa, on Thursday, alleging sexual exploitation by seniors.

After the surrender, she narrated her sordid tale to the media in the presence of police. She said she joined Maoist ranks in 2005 and participated in a number of successful attacks, but soon became frustrated due to sustained sexual harassment by seniors.

“My repeated pleas to stop the harassment fell on deaf as seniors in my camp continued to exploit me. I was so frustrated, I decided to surrender,' Munda said. “Most women cadres face sexual harassment at nights,' she added.

Keonjhar SP Asish Kumar Singh said he never expected Sabita to level such allegations. He said Maoists from Chhattisgarh, Andhra and Jharkhand had sneaked into Orissa and were bullying cadres in the state.

“They are exploiting innocent tribal women who have joined Maoist ranks,' Singh said.

“When I was posted in Maoists-affected districts, I seized a number of condoms from the jungles,' he said, adding that Sabitas surrender would throw more light on sexual exploitation by Maoists.
Posted by: john frum || 02/13/2010 12:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Mao Zedong himself heartily approves of this story.
Posted by: gromky || 02/13/2010 13:36 Comments || Top||

#2  "I don't mind killing innocent civilians, women and children to advance the cause, but the sexual harrassment was too much"

hokay
Posted by: Frank G || 02/13/2010 13:41 Comments || Top||

#3  It's all about her. What about the needs of the Commie bigwigs?
Posted by: ed || 02/13/2010 13:58 Comments || Top||

#4  I suspect translator delicacy. Did Ms Munda actually say "sexual harassment", with its implications of naughty jokes and girlie pictures, or did she speak about sex for favours or rape?
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/13/2010 18:17 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess they interpreted "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" a little differently than Ms Munda, eh?

(Good thing I read beyond the first sentence, or I would have thought "seniors" meant retirees who were randy ol' goats....)
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 02/13/2010 18:49 Comments || Top||

#6  "Just lie back and think of England China."
Posted by: Pappy || 02/13/2010 21:00 Comments || Top||


Pakistani militants say Mehsud still alive
[Iran Press TV Latest] Members of Tehrik-e Taliban group reject Pakistan's announcement that Hakimullah Mehsud was dead, saying their leader is still alive.

Pakistan's interior minister, Rehman Malik, announced on Wednesday that there was "credible information" that pro-Taliban leader Hakimullah Meshud had died of wounds inflicted in a US drone attack in January.

According to the local media, high-profile members of the group have met and decided to release a video of Mehsud on Friday or Saturday to confirm that Mehsud is alive.

The rumors about his fate began last Tuesday after another Taliban official, requesting anonymity, told journalists that Mehsud had died of wounds.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  "He was at the opening of the Winter Olympics last night. Surely you saw him?"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/13/2010 7:23 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Election campaign officially kicks off in Iraq
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iraq has officially kicked off the election season ahead of the March nationwide vote.

Campaign posters were plastered across Baghdad and other cities on Friday, urging people to the polls. In Basra, one poster read: "Your city needs someone who knows what Basra needs."

But in a move likely to raise tensions between the Shiite-led government and Sunnis who claim they are politically undermined, an Iraqi panel on Thursday barred two prominent Sunni politicians from running in the March 7 election.

The announcement came after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that judges would resolve a simmering row over who can stand in the elections before official campaigning starts on Feb. 12.

"Evidence"
The back-and-forth over a decision to blacklist hundreds of candidates from the March 7 vote because of ties to Saddam Hussein's former Baathist regime has threatened to mar the balloting process, which U.S. officials hope could be a milestone in reconciliation among Iraq's rival religious groups.

Sunni lawmakers Saleh al-Mutlaq and Dhafir al-Ani, who are members of Iraq's parliament, were disqualified from the vote because of "overwhelming" evidence of their Baathist loyalty, according to the panel.

Al-Mutlaq and al-Ani are the most prominent Sunni lawmakers to be disqualified. Their initial rejection weeks ago was seen by many Iraqis as proof of a campaign against Sunnis, even though many Shiites also are on the blacklist.

Al-Mutlaq, a fierce critic of Shiite Prime Minister Maliki, has acknowledged he was a Baathist until the late 1970s but quit the party.

Al-Ani took the helm of the largest Sunni bloc in parliament after its moderate leader Harith al-Obeidi was assassinated in June 2009. He said he had not yet been officially informed about the decision but said it was politically motivated and called it "a gift to the Iranian government" -- a jab accusing the panel of being influenced by Tehran's Shiite leadership.

The judicial panel issued the order as part of its review of 177 candidates who have appealed a decision to exclude them from the ballot. More than 200 other candidates have either failed to appeal or were replaced by with other hopefuls by their party alliances.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


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Ultraconservative jihadists challenge Hamas rule in Gaza
Posted by: ryuge || 02/13/2010 06:41 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Hamas conducts own probe after Dubai murder
[Al Arabiya Latest] Hamas is conducting its own internal inquiry into the killing in Dubai last month of one of its top militants, the Palestinian Islamist group's exiled head said in an interview published Friday.

"We are carrying out an internal investigation, within our own procedures," Khaled Meshaal, whose movement accuses Israeli agents of having assassinated Mahmud al-Mabhuh, told the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat.

"We are in contact with our brothers in Dubai ... but we have not yet been able to reach a formula for cooperation" with authorities in the Gulf emirate, Meshaal said.

"We respect the sovereignty of the (United Arab) Emirates and of Dubai, and we will not interfere in the affairs of others. But this issue concerns us ... and requires a high level of cooperation," he said.

Dubai police have said Israel's spy agency Mossad may have been behind the murder of Mabhuh, whose body was found in a luxury hotel room on January 20, having apparently been strangled.

The killing was carried out by a seven-member hit team, including three Irish passport-holders, according to news reports. But there has been no confirmation from police.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Gosh, I wonder what their conclusion will be?
Posted by: mojo || 02/13/2010 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  needs the Columbo graphic :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 02/13/2010 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  "We are in contact with our brothers in Dubai....Meshaal said.

I hope their communications are being tracked ; )
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 02/13/2010 11:54 Comments || Top||


Israel rejects UN demands over Gaza war report
Israel has rejected United Nations demands of an independent probe into its last year war on the Gaza Strip which claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians.

A senior official in the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Friday that the report Israel gave UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the investigations it is conducting into Operation Cast Lead earlier this month is sufficient.

"Israel feels the report it gave was a serious, comprehensive, credible and complete answer to the UN secretary-general," the official said.

"We believe that we conduct credible investigations and that we have procedures in place to investigate these types of matters that are as good as exist in any country in the world," he added.

Israel's rejection comes as Ban Ki-moon has repeatedly urged Tel Aviv to allow an independent inquiry into the Gaza war.

The United Nations blasted Israel last week for what it called Israel's un-reliable report.

The UN report led by former South African judge Richard Goldstone concluded last September that Israel carried out "deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects" in January-December war on Gaza.

The 575-page UN-ordered report asserts seven incidents in which Palestinian civilians were shot while leaving their homes, trying to run for safety or waving white flags.

In November 2009, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution that accuses Israel of war crimes and criminal acts against humanity during the weeks-long onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Shove it, Moon."
Posted by: mojo || 02/13/2010 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  One day Banki will find that his numbered Swiss accounts have been hacked empty.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2010 4:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Have the Twits Of Many Nations ever said anything about Israel that wasn't totally barking mad?
Posted by: SteveS || 02/13/2010 9:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course, SteveS. Sometimes they were howling mad, sometimes spitting mad...
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/13/2010 11:48 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Airborne Laser ABM Test successful
Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/13/2010 16:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Chinese Shut Down "Hacker School"
Amazing to me this story was not posted anywhere, not just not on rantburg.com
What is believed to be the country's biggest hacker training site has been shut down by police in Central China's Hubei province.

Three people were also arrested, local media reported yesterday.

The three, who ran Black Hawk Safety Net, are suspected of offering others online attacking programs and software, a crime recently added to the Criminal Law. A total of 1.7 million yuan ($249,000) in assets were also frozen.

According to the provincial public security department of Hubei, the closure of the website had its roots in a previous Web attack and virus dissemination case in the city of Macheng in 2007, when police found some of the suspects caught were members of Black Hawk Safety Net.

Hubei province named Black Hawk Safety Net as the largest hacker training site in China, which openly recruited members and disseminated hacker techniques through lessons, trojan software and online forum communications.

Since it was established in 2005, the site had recruited more than 12,000 VIP members and collected more than 7 million yuan in membership fees. More than 170,000 people registered for free membership.

Police said more than 50 officers had been investigating the case.
Posted by: badanov || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I posted something on this a couple of days or so ago, but it didn't have this kind of detail. I wouldn't be overly surprised if the guys who run this operation end up getting government jobs.
Posted by: gorb || 02/13/2010 2:44 Comments || Top||

#2  chinese lip service for the west.
Posted by: 746 || 02/13/2010 14:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe this will cut down on the spam I get 1 millionths of one percent?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/13/2010 14:25 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran accused of Jamming Western broadcasters
[Al Arabiya Latest] Three international broadcasters on Friday accused Iran of deliberately jamming their output as Tehran marked the 31st anniversary of 1979 Islamic revolution.

Britain's BBC, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and the Voice of America said the interference began on Thursday.

They accused Iran of broadcasting freely around the world while denying the Iranian people programs coming from outside the country.

BBC World News was the latest TV channel to be jammed this week.

"We condemn any jamming of these channels," said a joint statement by Peter Horrocks, Director of BBC World Service, Erik Bettermann, Director of Deutsche Welle and Dan Austin, Director of Voice of America.

"It contravenes international agreements and is interfering with the free and open flow of international transmissions that are protected by international treaties."

"The jamming violates article 45 of the constitution of the International Telecommunication Union that prohibits signal interference and we look to the international regulatory community to take a firmer stance on this deliberate act of jamming."

The broadcasters called on satellite operators and regulators to take "urgent action to put pressure on Iran to stop this activity."

"The Iranian authorities are using the same satellite services to broadcast freely around the world including broadcasts in English and Arabic; at the same time they are denying their own people programs coming from the same satellites from the rest of the world," they added.

BBC Persian, the corporation's London-based Farsi-language TV channel, has angered Iranian authorities by broadcasting interviews and comment from opposition supporters.

The contested re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June sparked the most serious unrest in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Cleric thankful for Iran march turnout
An Iranian cleric on Friday hailed the high turnout in the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution as an "epic" manifestation of "national unity."

"The epic [turnout] of the highly dignified Iranian nation [in 22 Bahman rallies] was a manifestation of power, solidarity and national unity," Tehran's Interim Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi said.

He said that the "fervent participation" of the Iranian nation had once again disappointed the enemies of the Islamic Republic.

Millions of people, some carrying Iranian flags, pictures of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and banners in support of the revolution, took to the streets Thursday to celebrate the overthrowing of the US-backed Pahlavi monarchy.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed a crowd in Tehran's Azadi square, disclosing latest updates on country's nuclear drive.

Ayatollah Khamenei also praised the high turnout of the Iranians in the rallies.

"The friends and enemies of the Iranian nation should know that this nation has found its way and made the decision to reach the peak of development and welfare, and will overcome any obstacle in their path," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


US dismissive of Iran nuclear announcement
The White House on Thursday said Iran's declaration of producing first stock of enriched uranium for a research reactor was based "on politics", and "not on physics."

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Iran had produced the first stock of 20 percent enriched uranium at the Natanz enrichment facility.

But White House spokesman Robert Gibbs cast doubt on Ahmadinejad's announcement.

"The Iranian nuclear program has undergone a series of problems throughout the year," Gibbs said. "We do not believe they have the capability to enrich to the degree to which they now say they are enriching."

After potential suppliers failed to provide fuel for Tehran's research reactor, which produces medical isotopes for cancer patients, Iran announced Tuesday it had started enriching uranium to the level of less than 20 percent.

The announcement prompted President Barack Obama to threaten Iran with "significant regime of sanctions."

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Iran could not wait for Western countries to "waste time" as the Tehran research reactor ran out of fuel.

He said a fuel swap with Western countries did not require Iran to relinquish other ways of supplying the fuel.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I say smack them for even saying it.
Posted by: gorb || 02/13/2010 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Ostrich.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2010 4:52 Comments || Top||


Iran will 'quicken nuclear work if US threats continue'
Iran's Parliament Speaker says his country will 'speed up' its nuclear work if the Obama administration continues to threaten the country with a new round of sanctions.

"Even if US President Barack Obama dares to repeat threats of tougher sanction against us as much as ten times, we will still be determined to pursue our enrichment program, but with a much faster pace," said Ali Larijani on Thursday.

Only hours after Iran announced a decision to domestically produce higher-enriched uranium under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog, Obama warned that the US is preparing a "significant regime of sanctions" against the Tehran government.

The US president, who was speaking to reporters on Tuesday, went on to accuse Iran of spurning his offer of engagement in order to continue what he called Iran's nuclear weapons program.

Larijani responded to the US allegations, warning that if continued, the threats will have heavy consequences in both Iran and the US.

"Whenever we make a significant breakthrough, whether it is launching a satellite into space or any other technological or scientific achievement, they quickly demonize it and claim that it is aimed at military or spying purposes," said Larijani.

"But their problem really lies with the fact that our status in the international scene is changing for the better," added the Iranian Parliament Speaker. "They can not bear to see our progress, which is why they want to keep us as an underdeveloped country."

Larijani noted that Western superpowers have ceaselessly sought to sow discord among Iranians in order to "fish in troubled waters."

The Iranian official made the comments in a large crowd marking the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Iran's Parliament Speaker says his country will 'speed up' its nuclear work if the Obama administration continues to threaten the country with a new round of sanctions.

If their "nuclear work" is for peaceful purposes as they have time and time indicated, why should a 'speed up' be a concern or threat to anyone?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2010 5:00 Comments || Top||


Scott Ritter: Iran truth overcomes US mendacity
Former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter says the truth about Iran's nuclear program is prevailing over the hype the western media is creating against the country.

The former UN official took aim at the existing western media hype against the Iranian nuclear program and some personalities who are very good at marring the image of Iran, including David Albright, whose "commentary and analysis is more colored by the opinions of his US and Israeli contacts and connections than it is by his first hand experience."

"I see the truth about Iran's nuclear program prevailing over the fictions David Albright and others are putting out there," Ritter told Press TV.

Ritter made the remarks after Albright, who is the head of a nuclear think-tank close to the White House, claimed that Iran is on course to produce enough highly-enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons.

Ritter ruled out any likely military offensive against Iran, as he said Iran had law and facts on his side.

Albright was described by Ritter as a person who "can not be seen as an unbiased personality" regarding Iran's nuclear program and a person who relies on other people's information.

"He is specialized in exploiting the preconceived notions that exist in the West, in the United States and elsewhere about the evil intent of Iran. It is not a fact based analysis. This is faith-based analysis," the ex-UN official added.

"When it comes to Iran, the truth does not matter. What matters is that the public has been conditioned by the media and the media uses personalities like David Albright to create hype, to create a mythology of wrong-doing that does not focus on the facts of the situation," he maintained.

"Albright, definitely has an agenda and he is somebody who is not willing to put the facts on the table and let the facts drive you towards conclusion. He is obviously a person who has a bias against Iran. It's a built-in bias that presumes guilt on the part of Iran; therefore he interprets every piece of data that is coming out of Iran as being evidence of wrong doing on the part of Iran."

He accused Albright of taking advantage of Iran's nuclear dispute to get his name and his organization's name in the spot light on a frequent basis through the "fantastic quotes" he provides for reporters to use in their articles.

"It's all about image as opposed to substance. That's unfortunately where we are today when it comes to mainstream western media analysis of Iran and Iran's nuclear program. It's not about the substance. It's not about the reality, it's about the image," he opined.

Prior to the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter publicly argued that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). He became a popular anti-war figure and talk show commentator as a result of his stance.
Posted by: Fred || 02/13/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  No mention of Ritter's "little girl" problem.

Surprised?
Posted by: mojo || 02/13/2010 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  mojo, Mohammed liked 'em young, too. I'm sure they don't think Scotty has a problem as long as the pretty young thing is at least 9.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 02/13/2010 4:16 Comments || Top||

#3  isn't this lying pedophile in prison yet?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/13/2010 7:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Always the compensator that Scottie. High-speed, low-drag, fast track to publicity. I might suggest he try Olympic Luge racing. I hear they've got a very 'fast track' at Whistler.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2010 8:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Prior to the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter publicly argued that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

They must be referring to these WMDs.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/13/2010 9:52 Comments || Top||

#6  well thats a relief, nothing to worry about then, their on the up and up, sure is a load off my mind.
Posted by: 746 || 02/13/2010 14:30 Comments || Top||

#7  And Iran doesn't have to worry about us attacking them, because Scott Ritter ruled it out.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/13/2010 15:28 Comments || Top||



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