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According to a news paper, the state department has related that the American Govt wants to put the matters of Afghanistan in order before attacking Iraq. Regarding this matter the higher Army officials and some CIA officials deployed in Afghanistan are trying to send this message to Mullah Omar that America wants a solution for Afghanistan and they are ready to negotiate with the Taliban. "We surrender, Mullah Omar! Don't shoot!"
It is confirmed by the foreign office that this message has reached Mullah Omar but he has not replyed as yet. Still waiting for somebody to read it to him?
According to American officials America wants to be in peace of mind from Taliban and other Jihadi Movements before attacking Iraq. According to one source it has been made clear in the message that was sent to Mullah Omar that America is in severe doubt about the ability of the Karzai Govt in restoring peace and also worried about the increased influence and power of the Northern Alliance and also the increased influence of Iran and Russia in North Afghanistan and Kabul. Colin Powell has also been advised not to critisize Taliban. That makes sense. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it makes sense...
CIA has also been informed of meetings taken place between Hekmatyar and Osama Bin Laden.
Source: http://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk/daily/jan-2003/10/ak2.htm I think we knew about those meetings. The Urdu press â I assume it's Urdu â is definitely a strange and wonderful thing. More strange than wonderful, and "wonderful" in the sense you have to wonder what they're thinking, but still...
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As Lileks would say, the bullshit meter's redlining right about now...
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More Colin Powell mischief. Powell argued for military integration with the dictatorship of the terror state of Pakistan, notwithstanding their extermination of 3,000,000 Hindus and Muslim opponents in the early 'seventies. Powell agitated for Northern Alliance restraint, before they ignored him and attacked and captured Kabul. Powell coerced the Northern Alliance into making ersatz peace with the Pashto jihadis, by status quo armistice. Powell engineered the placement of Karzai's ethnocentrist Pashtos into the Pakistan Presidency. Powell engineered the restoration of Sharia perversity in Afghanistan, prior to the Saudis restoration of aid. Powell agitated for elections in Pakistan, during Islamic Revolutionary (inqilab) conditions, with predictable results. Powell engineered Paul O'Neill's November trip to Pakistan, where the then Treasury Security announced aid continuity, notwithstanding the jihadi party - MMA - control of the frontier provinces, and 19% of U.S. aid to Pigistan. Powell exhonerated the Wahabi al-Haramain Foundation after that child of the ibn Baz and the Crown Prince was caught red-handed in financing terror. Powell is arm-twisting for "containment" of Iraq, in spite of its dictators threats. Powell is a mouthpiece of all the twisted third world rhetoric that has polluted the earth since WW2. Powell is a dependent of the evil-horde, and he has to go.
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Uh...ok...what about his wife Alma? Should she be put to death too?
jeeeeez
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The tone and subject of this person's "Anonymous" post makes me think/guess that they are justifibly fed up with Pakistan's jihadi behavior in Kashmir.
Fair enough but let's not forget that Powell is the Diplomatic Face of US foreign policy and as such has to play "good cop" to Rumsfeld's "bad cop". "Good cop" has to act sympathetic and solicitous but isn't necessarily "soft on crime".
At the end of the day, the cops (I gotta believe) are on the same side and working together to put away evil doers.
Anyway, it's just a thought. Keep up your spirits, Anonymous. We're gonna win this.
RFE/RL Qutbuddin Hilal, a member of the Hizb-e Islami speaking on behalf of the party's council, issued a communique in Peshawar on 9 January outlining the party's policies in six points, Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported. Hilal refuted recent reports of a rift within the party and denied any political or structural connections between Hizb-e Islami and the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. Hilal also condemned terrorism and said his side seeks understanding with President Hamid Karzai's administration and has initiated contacts with it. Among Hizb-e Islami's policies outlined by Hilal called for the "immediate formation of a national army in accordance with the wishes of the Afghans so there is no excuse for the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan." They're already doing that, Hilal. Where you been?
Hilal's statement differed from the calls for a jihad against U.S. forces in Afghanistan by Hizb-e Islami's leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Hilal has been trying to soften his approach toward Karzai's administration, but Hekmatyar has been doing the opposite. Which is why they fired Hek, and then Hek fired them.
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Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested a man after he allegedly opened fire with a machine gun in a mosque, wounding a relative and several other worshippers. Authorities said the man, identified as 32-year-old Raja al-Arjani, became angry when his relative married his ex-wife despite being told not to. "Jerry Springer! Call your office!"
He is said to have stormed into the mosque in the al-Kharj province, shooting his relative as well as worshippers from Sudan, Yemen, Egypt and Syria, the French news agency AFP reported. "If I can't have her, ain't nobody can have her!"
The al-Kharj Governor, Prince Abdul Rahman bin Nasser, said the gunman had recently been fired from the country's National Guard for failing to turn up for duty. He added that the assailant had confessed to the shooting. "I dunnit, an' I'm glad!... Sa-a-a-ay! That ain't... That ain't... a scimitar?
Al-Kharj houses the Prince Sultan air base, where around 5,000 US troops are stationed. Makes you wonder what actually happened, doesn't it?
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Muslim legal scholars are to open a six-day meeting here Saturday on interpreting Islamic law that conference sources said would also focus on international terrorism and possibly the looming conflict in Iraq. The gathering, expected to draw representatives from more than 50 countries, will in addition debate an Islamic response to the September 2001 attacks in the United States allegedly carried out by Muslims aboard hijacked airliners. "One cannot speak of international violence without speaking of September 11," said one conference source who asked not to be named. "That is not possible." The strategy so far seems to be to wait, and then wait longer. Eventually, they'll have it in the same category as Agincourt or Pharsala â interesting, but not particularly pressing.
The discussions have been organized by the Islamic Jurisprudence Academy, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which itself is a specialized agency of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The OIC groups 57 predominantly Muslim nations from around the world. Last year they tried to come up with a definition of terrorism that didn't include the Paleos or Kashmir. That didn't work, and all the delegates went home with their turbans askew from the mental contortions that were involved...
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Defining terrorism without including the Paleostinians or Kashmir is like defining beer without including barley, hops or vats.
This is a mad hatter's tea party. These people cannot describe what they see in the mirror! At least we admit it when we see our warts and moles. Damaged minds and damaged people. They can't be fixed.
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Delegates: raise your right hands, if you have one.
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The gathering, expected to draw representatives from more than 50 countries, will in addition debate an Islamic response to the September 2001 attacks in the United States allegedly carried out by Muslims aboard hijacked airliners.
A judge in Germany has ruled that two Yemeni men suspected of being members of the al-Qaeda network should be held in custody - pending a decision on their possible extradition to the United States. The suspects were arrested in a hotel at Frankfurt airport on Friday at the request of the US authorities. A German Government spokeswoman said she was expecting an extradition request from Washington shortly. "Hi, guys! Welcome to Guantanamo!"
Yemen is also said to be asking for the men's extradition. "Hi, guys! Welcome home!"
"It that a... a gibbet?"
One of the two detainees was named by security sources as Mohammed Ali Hassan Sheik al-Mujahed - an imam at a mosque in the Yemeni capital Sanaa - is suspected of being a leading fund-raiser for al-Qaeda. The German media have identified the other man as Said Mohammed Moshen. Who's probably just a bodyguard...
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Actually, these guys can't be extradited to Gitmo. They can only be extradited to the regular US judicial system. But they can be deported to US authorities in the BRD who then might decide that as non state combatants they ought to end up in Gitmo. Subtle legal difference leads to substantial practical differences in outcome.
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The Director of the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, Dr Armand Clesse, has said hostility to and suspicion of Muslims in Europe have increased in the aftermath of 9/11. Hmmm... That's funny. I wonder why?
He was delivering a lecture at the department of international relations, University of Karachi, on Friday. The topic of his talk was: "The World after September 11: A European Perspective." "Would you like some warm milk for your mush?"
Dr Clesse said there had been many instances of acts of animosity towards Muslims and xenophobia had also been on the rise in Europe after 9/11. He was of the view that the situation in France was tense, and said in Spain terrible incidents had taken place. Many of the refugees from Muslim countries, especially those from Bosnia, also faced a hostile situation. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with their own actions, of course...
He pointed out that there had been an increase in suspicion of Muslims, particularly Arabs. He maintained that Muslims faced worse hostility in the United States than in Europe. "It appears as if we still live in a colonial world." He criticized the United States for its clampdown on civil liberties and accused it of "total neglect of international laws and norms." Actually, we've brought a few of our internal security practices closer to the European norm. But, pray, tell on. My heart is breaking...
He was of the view that the United States wanted to make itself invulnerable and the rest of the world vulnerable. It was because of this that it was pursuing the missile defence and Star Wars programmes, he said. I think it's more that we'd like to make ourselves invulnerable, and the rest of the world can do whatever the hell it wants...
Dr Clesse maintained that 9/11 had heightened the predicament of Europe and that there was ambiguity in the policies of many of the European countries, such as France and Germany. They want to do the right thing, but the riots in the streets and the constant stream of turbanned thugs showing up with bombs and poison just makes them nervous...
He was of the view that the United States wanted to see a weak Europe. Oh, I think Europe can take care of that on her own...
He said after 9/11 there was a wave of solidarity in Europe towards the United States. I remember it well. Lasted almost 24 hours, it did...
He said it was a strange logic on the part of Nato that attack on one state would be considered attack on all the member states. That's why they call it an "alliance." What'd you say you were the director of, again?
"Europeans have invited reprisals by some organized terrorist network upon themselves. Above all, Britain wants this." He criticized the United States for its treatment of the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, and the Russian treatment of prisoners for dealing with the situation in Chechnya. He condemned Israel for the treatment meted out to the Palestinians. He went on to criticize Canada for its treatment of the Esquimeaux, Bolivia for its treatment of its Indian population, and his Mom for that time she grounded him for a week...
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The Director of the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, Dr Armand Clesse, has said hostility to and suspicion of Muslims in Europe have increased in the aftermath of 9/11.
If this guy listens really, really carefully, he'll hear the sound of the world's tiniest violin.
One of the two suspected Al Qaeda members, Abu Omar, is likely to be handed over to the United States authorities on Saturday. Abu Omar, hailing from Morocco, and Abu Hamza, belonging to Yemen, were arrested after a shootout in a bungalow in Gulshan-i-Maymar early Thursday. Seven other persons picked up by the law-enforcement agencies during the raid were released on Thursday night. The seven were the family members of former Olympian Shahid Ali Khan. They were also Jamaat e-Islami largewigs. I notice that in the immediate aftermath of the shootout, Abu Omar was an Egyptian, but now he's a Moroccan. 'Course, they could probably pick among a half dozen passports, and he could actually be a Lapplander and we'd never know until he began speaking in umlauts...
The wife and three sons of Abu Omar, who had been in the custody of the intelligence agency, are scheduled to be flown to their home country on Saturday, sources in the agencies said. "We are sure that in our record Abu Omar is not involved in any criminal activity in the country and we are also convinced that he should be handed over to the United States. After legal formalities, the suspect is likely to be handed over to the US authorities on Saturday," a source said, requesting not to be named. "Well, no criminal activity other than throwing a few grenades and shooting it out with the coppers, but what the hell? This is Pakland! Everybody does that!"
Investigators believe that Abu Omar was in close contact with Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, a key Al Qaeda militant who was among those 22 suspects wanted by the United States. Earlier on Sept 11, Ramzi bin Al Shibh was arrested with four of his associates following an encounter with the law enforcement agencies in which two suspects were killed. Al Shibh and his associates were later handed over to the US authorities. And we've been treating him very well ever since...
The photographs and fingerprints of Abu Hamza were dispatched to the United States to ascertain whether he was among those most wanted. During the interrogation of suspects, the FBI agents believed that Abu Hamza, 22, had been trying to conceal his identity, the intelligence sources close to the FBI said. Are there any of them that don't?
Abu Hamza was being interrogated by the local and foreign investigators. The FBI agents had also examined the laptop computers and satellite telephones recovered from the custody of Abu Omar and Abu Hamza, the sources said. Anything on there besides dirty pictures?
The suspects were kept at an undisclosed location. However, a senior intelligence officer said the two were still in Karachi. But he wouldn't say where in Karachi, which is why it's undisclosed. (Where do they get these people?)
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The spiritual leader of Malaysia's main Islamist opposition party, Pas, has called for people convicted of sex crimes to be stoned to death in public. Yep. There isn't anything more Islamic than a good, old-fashioned stoning...
On Friday Malaysia announced that it would not bring in the death penalty for those convicted of rape and incest involving children, as had originally been proposed. Pas has welcomed moves by the government to bring in tougher sentencing for sex offenders but says they don't go far enough. "If they ain't dead, it ain't far enough!"
The new penalties unveiled on Friday did not include the death sentence originally proposed for sex crimes involving children. Instead those found guilty of rape or incest will face whipping and up to 30 years in jail. Actually, that sounds like it goes pretty far...
But Pas' spiritual leader, Nik Aziz Nik Mat, says the new laws are not in accordance with Islam and he wants rapists to be publicly stoned to death. He says it is important that the people see the pain of those being stoned so that they can learn from it. He believes stoning in private would not act as a deterrent. "Abdul, that's a rapist. Bash his head in with a rock, but don't let anybody see you..."
Pas' leaders have garnered a colourful reputation. Nik Aziz, who is also chief minister of the state of Kelantan, once decreed that the state should only employ ugly women because pretty ones could find husbands. Is he the guy who once tried to speak the words "Islamic civilization" and his lips fell off?
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The local Malays have a lot of gall. Whatever prosperity Malaysia benefits, is attributable entirely to its Chinese and Hindu minorities. The rumored secret agreements viz protection of Singapore - ie ethnic Chinese - are probably true. The mentality reflected in the article, could warrant a big slap if it goes any farther.
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Some 1,000 Muslim activists from the Hizbut Tahrir (Party of Liberation) marched through Indonesian city of Surabaya on Saturday to demand the government to overturn recent hikes in fuel and utility prices, exit the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and impose sharia, agencies reported. They claimed its application would prevent prices from rising beyond the reach of the country's legions of poor. "Y'see, it's simple: Somebody raises prices, you cut their heads off."
The government hiked fuel, electricity and telephone prices by up to 22 percent last week to meet demands by the country's international lenders, mainly the IMF, to reduce budget deficits and increase economic growth. The increases have sparked several days of demonstrations by workers and students in several cites across the country, but by Indonesian standards the protests have been small. Protest organizer Fakih Syarid said the government should run the economy according to Islamic principles. "We must apply a strong system to solve the problem of price hikes, and the answer is in sharia," he said without elaborating. That's because there was nothing to elaborate on. If the only tool you own is a hammer, it's amazing the number of things that need whacked.
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The problem is, they're right as far as the IMF is concerned. The IMF suggested, and Indonesia complied, with raising the prices on government controlled energy and telephone products and services. I believe this is in lieu of a tax increase but since these industries are state-run, it's the same thing. Nearly every IMF 'reform' offered to countries that are in debt to them include two things: 1) massive tax increases and 2) a currency devaluation. If and when the latter happens, all freakin' hell will break loose with the Jihadis.
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In spite of a ceasefire agreement, the Philippines government forces launched a vicious ground, air and artillery attack on various positions of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the boundary of Columbio, Sultan Kudarat and Datu Paglas in the Muslim heartlands in the south. "Yeah! We wuz just standin' around, mindin' our own bidnid, an' these guys, they attacks us for no reason!"
The report disclosed that army troops supported by air and artillery power attacked the MILF in at least two isolated villages despite the ceasefire agreement between the MILF and the government. Four government soldiers were reported slain during the two-day fighting, while the MILF suffered three casualties. Hundreds of families fled to safer areas to escape the fighting. "Artillery, is it? Where's my turban? Where's my gun? Fatimah! Head out for your mother's house!"
The military offensive, according to the BINA report, was using, as usual, the 'Pentagon' kidnap-for-ransom group as pretext for launching the offensive. Tahir Alonto, who surrendered to the government twice, leads the group. The Pentagon Gang is what Milfies do when they're not trying to run a parallel Moro government. It's kind of like a hobby that makes them a few bucks on the side...
There has been no MILF actions that violated the existing ceasefire between the government and MILF that warranted the Army's offensive. The MILF has already prepared a complaint against the government for the latest breach. "Y'see, just because the Pentagon Gang thugs are members of MILF, that doesn't mean they're the same thing as MILF. We'd catch 'em ourselves, but we have more important things to do."
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The United States has issued a warning about a possible attack against visitors to the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. The State Department in Washington said it had received information that a terrorist group may be planning an attack on an unspecified location frequented by Westerners. It said the targets might include restaurants, night clubs or hotels in Zanzibar. "American citizens visiting Zanzibar or other nearby coastal locations in Tanzania are cautioned to take appropriate measures and carefully evaluate their security posture," the statement said. "Honey, I'm gonna walk down to the beach."
"Okay dear. He's your flak jacket and helmet..."
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North Korea called for a ``holy war against the United States'' Saturday and declared it was ready to resume missile tests and may start reprocessing spent fuel rods from its nuclear reactor to make atomic bombs. Nope. I'd say that crisis isn't defused yet...
Meanwhile, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said in Santa Fe that North Korea's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Han Song Ryol, told him that ``North Korea has no intentions of building nuclear weapons.'' Then why'd they say they do?
Richardson said he briefed Secretary of State Colin Powell on the nine hours of talks that stretched over three days but insisted he's not an agent of the Bush administration. Powell couldn't make any sense of the NKor position, either...
One day after the communist North announced it was quitting an anti-nuclear pact, government leaders staged a rally in Pyongyang to declare they would seek ``revenge with blood'' toward any country that violates their sovereignty. Is Rantissi in Pyongyang this week? That sounds awful familiar...
A crowd of 1 million people - neatly packed into the capital's main plaza, adorned with anti-American banners and huge portraits of President Kim Jong Il - erupted in chants and pumped fists toward the winter sky, shouting in unison, ``We wholeheartedly support it!'' "Hello? Joe's Psycho Gear?... Yeah. We'd like to order a million of those coats with the real long sleeves, please... Uhuh. And a million doses of sedative..."
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No Fred, not sedatives. Haloperidol. And I'd have plenty of extra doses on hand for when the first doses wear off.
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Don't ya have to be religious to have a 'holy' war? I thought NK was atheistic except for its worship of Dear Leader.
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I think one member of the Axis of Evil has been chatting with the others a little too long. "Holy war" is straight outta Riyadh, G.
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Bill Richardson, gov. of New Mexico, was on CNN-I after he spoke to North Korean officials today.
It was a long interview, but basically it boiled down to two points: 1) they want attention like the smallest of a family of 8; 2) they're nutty as a loon ...
But that's not really news, is it?
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I saw that timeburner interview on CNN also this afternoon at the gym. I began to get pissed and frustrated, so I turned the grade on the treadmill up to 15% and kept upping the speed. Time passed by quite quickly. Got a good workout. I hope that Bush's plan is to have Richardson or whoever "dialogue" with them ad infinitum to satisfy those noisy elements while we make plans. We have been dealing with these inhuman murdering psychopaths for over 50 years now and nothing has changed. This regime has to go to make any human progress north of the 38th. They need a sugardaddy to keep from imploding and our aid is not helping. Put the monkey on China's back. They are the ones that have kept the NKors going for all these years. Like Lincoln said "One war at a time." (if possible). N Korea, the ultimate zen koan. Now I feel better......
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Come 'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Kim
Poor Stalinist, barely kept his country in famin
And then one day, he was shootin' for some nukes
And Bubba said stop will give ya bubblin' crude Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea
Well the first thing you know, Il's a vissionaire
Kimâs folk said, Jong, your our Dear Leader
Said, Pyongyang is the place you we want to be
So they loaded up the Reactors and they threatened South Korea Seoul, that is, seas of fire, World War III
Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Il and all his kin
Dubbya would like to thank you folks for kindly giving' in
You're all invited back again to this locality
To have your arse handed to you Diplomaticly No Oil, that is, set a spell, no soup for you, take your shoes off
Y'all come back now, hear?
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North Korea's official "religion", outlined by Big Daddy Kim back in the 1950's, is "Juche".
Juche boils down basically to "self-reliance" and is essentially only a justification to maintain the Stalinist cult of personality.
Kim used it to liquidate "revisionists" who got uppity after Stalin's 1953 death and, inspired by Kruschev's Stalin bashing, asked uncomfortable questions about why NoKo lost the "War To Liberate The Fatherland" (1950-1953).
Another great paradox--Just as the "Religion of Peace" murders thousands, "Juche" (self-reliance) means threatening the world with nuclear armegeddon if the government can't (and it can't) supply it's people with the basic essentials of life.
What a world, eh?
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Just another way of saying, "If we can't have our way, we're going to do terrible things to other people."
The willingness of True Believers® in one thing or another to help others depart this vale of tears is somehow simultaneously breath-taking and tedious.
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Also in Gaza, a 17-year-old Palestinian died from injuries he sustained a day earlier in an explosion at his home, hospital officials said. Zeid Baisi was a member of the militant Islamic Jihad group, and sources in the camp said he was putting together explosives when he was injured. "Was it white wire to red, black to green? Or the other way around?... Ooops."
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I LOVE these! Darwin's law in action
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In a violent incident Saturday, Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians throwing stones and firebombs at their armored vehicles in the Askar refugee camp next to the city of Nablus. Basman Shanir, 20, was killed and nine other people were wounded, witnesses said. The army said Shanir threw a firebomb at troops. Soldiers have permission to fire at Palestinians throwing firebombs, considered lethal weapons by the Israeli military. And by most other people with a lick of sense...
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Toss a Molotov Coctail; get shot. Good idea. When American governments (read: the State Department) were pressuring British restraint in Northern Ireland, the I.R.A. took that as a license to toss fire-bombs with impunity. It got to be a sick joke. GO IDF!
At least one Palestinian entered a house in the settlement of Netzarim, and was shot at by the resident inside, said a spokesman for Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported, and two knife-wielding Palestinian infiltrators were captured by security forces, the military officials said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. Great minds of the 21st Century, at work! He brought a knife to a gunfight...
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I read this story off the wire service and the sad thing is the stoopit fool was a 13 year old kid accompanied by a frickin' 8 year old!
They came in tooled up with knives to attack Israeli families in their own homes.
I swear these Paleoparents ought to be locked up for war crimes.
Jussi passes this along...
Iraqi scientists whose evidence could provide Washington with a trigger for war are to be whisked out of the country soon to a neutral venue, Cyprus.
The foreign minister of Cyprus, Ioannis Cassoulides, told the Guardian: "It seems they will be coming." Well... ain't... that... a... surprise.
A tug-of-war between the US and Baghdad over the scientists is shaping up as the crunch issue. The dilemma for the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, is that if he allows a scientist out to blow the whistle on a banned weapons programme, it could lead to war, but if Iraq were to block their departure, that too could be the cause of all-out conflict. Hmmm... Lemme see here. Rock... Hard place... Yep. That's about right.
Ominously, the Iraqi government, which claims it has destroyed all banned weapons, insisted yesterday it did not expect any scientist would volunteer to leave. They were supposed to volunteer? Where's it say that?
The UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, who briefed the security council yesterday on the work of his inspectors in Iraq, appears to be bowing to US pressure to make use of his powers to take inspectors out of the country. The US ambassador to the UN, John Negroponte, said the US expected inspectors to begin out-of-country interviews. Before Christmas, Mr Blix had been scornful of the idea, stressing the impracticalities of taking out not only the scientists and their immediate families but their extended families, who could be used as a lever if left behind. That's the diffo between "difficult" and "impossible," isn't it, Hansie?
Cypriot officials said it was likely the scientists would be interviewed in the Larnaca hotel where the inspectors have set up their main field and administrative centre. The scientists and their families would be put up in the hotel. "Hello, room service? Send up some bomb-sniffing dogs, please."
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I've always thought that UN inspectors, no matter how hardworking and aggressive, would not succeed in Iraq. But I thought it a useful experiment to the UNthem prove they could prevent a shooting war by facilitating disarmament.
The lazy attitide about moving the scientists and their families, the failure to inspect one freaking weapons depot and the lethargic deployment of inspectors proves I was right.
I hate Blix more than Sammy. He wants a peace prize for preventing the imperialist Americans from beating up on poor Iraq. He could have pursued this goal by recruiting a strong team (someone like Richard Butler could have been invited to consult) and being assertive with the Iraqis as authorized in the latest UN resolution. Instead, he's taking the easy way out by providing Sammy with the good housekeeping seal of approval. Say what you want about Sammy, he works hard to run the best police state he possible can. Blix just phones it in.
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Actually Hans Blix's bumbling cowardice could prove to be a good thing. A noncompliance message from Hans is more credible to the Euroappearsl than one from Richard Butler.
Middle East Online
A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire Friday in the Aida refugee camp of Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank, as he was throwing stones at soldiers, Palestinian medical sources said. Tareq Abu Jaber was hit in the abdomen, the sources said, adding that two other youngsters had been lightly wounded in the same incident. My sympathy meter's still busted. If he'd been in school, learning something, then he wouldn't have been out playing at jihad, where he could stop a bullet. Those nails are very tough, ain't they?
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In the article, it's amusing how it refers to Palestinian suicide attacks as "martyrdom bombings".
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Something that the news media never mention when discussing "stone-throwers" is that these kids are throwing bricks. Scroll down through this article (sorry, it was a really long fisking of Reuters)for a photo of the kids throwing those "rocks."
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The problem with the Palestinian economy is that these young thugs used to be rented out as mercenary slingers two millenia ago. Now they are stupid enough to do the rock throwing for free, with IDF infantry as targets no less.
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In Ramallah, Israel's army arrested two officials of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an Israeli military source said. The army had been looking for Hassan Fatafta, 42, for several months, the source said. He was arrested along with fellow PFLP member Ishaq Amin Khader Younes, 56, who formed part of the PFLP leadership based in Damascus, the military source said. Oooh! That's a nice catch!
Their arrests - not immediately confirmed by Palestinian security sources - came as Israeli security forces dismantled a PFLP cell charged with directing the group's operations in Jerusalem, he added. The army also nabbed 17-year-old Hussein Hanani in Ramallah, although it did not give a date for his arrest. The source said Hanani was a would-be suicide bomber plotting to attack a Jerusalem bus station for the PFLP. Hussein's almost an afterthought, a bit of cannon fodder that won't get the opportunity to explode...
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The commander of a U.S. task force in the Horn of Africa said Friday, January 10, arrangements have been worked out with governments in the region so that U.S. forces can respond swiftly to fleeting "terrorist" targets. "We'll try not to whack anybody who's not a real Bad Guy..."
Major General John Sattler said he had discussed the procedures for timely approval of military actions in their countries in meetings with leaders of Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia. Liaison officers will be posted aboard the USS Mount Whitney, Sattler's command ship, to provide a direct link to their governments, he said. Sattler commands a 1,300-strong force that has been assembled in the Horn of Africa to pursue, disrupt and capture or kill "terrorists". As well all know, "terrorists" like to "kill" people...
So far, it has engaged in no known actions. He said the mission is to go after all kinds of transnational terrorists, not just Al-Qaeda, which is believed to have strongholds in Yemen and ties to like-minded groups in Somalia. They probably won't find many ETA or IRA in the Horn, but if they do, they're toast...
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The Cape Muslims of South Africa are the hardest ass jihadis, outside of Pakistan. In fact, most originate there.
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