Mogadishu, 28 Sept. (AKI) - The leader of Somalia's Islamic courts movement, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, has signalled it wants to terminate the decades-long rule of the country by tribal warlords and create an Islamic state. "We were wrong to trust the tribal leaders who have created so many problems for Somalia," Aweys told pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat in an interview. "We need to get away from these tribal problems. We want to form a government that is unhindered by bureacracy...we intend to create an Islamic state and will take Badoia," Aweys stated.
"One turban to rule them all..."
"We will go back to rule by militias. Rule by tribal warlords is a mistaken policy. We are still in an initial phase of reorganisation," said Aweys. He described interim president Abdullah Yusuf as an Ethiopian government puppet.
Aweys appealed to Arab states not to intervene in Somalia's internal politics, asking them instead to limit themselves to involvement in the areas of health, education and humanitarian aid, projects he said could link Somalia to the "wider Arab nation."
Yusuf last week survived an assassination attempt in Badoia. No-one has claimed responsibility for the carbomb attack outside the parliament building on 18 September that killed eight people. Yusuf supports the deployment of foreign peacekeepers in Somalia - a move strongly rejected by the Islamists, who say they can manage security in the country. Somalia has been without an effective government since 1991 when dictator Siad Barre was overthrown.
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Heck...if there's gonna be any killin' round here, it's gonna be legal like. You know, islamic and stuff. That'll learn 'em.
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Actually, he is playing to Islam's strengths. One of the big reasons Islam was so popular so long ago was that it was far better than tribalism--it was the obviously better organizational choice.
However western civilization is one or two levels of organization better than Islam, which is why when given a choice, most people vie for civility.
It also shows the stakes, here. Islam is Darwinistically trying to wipe out tribalism; but in turn, if western civilization has its way, Islam as a means of organization, if not a religion, will also be wiped out. A reduction in power not unlike the decline of Catholic power since the Pope was a political-military leader.
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Actually, he is playing to Islam's strengths. One of the big reasons Islam was so popular so long ago was that it was far better than tribalism--it was the obviously better organizational choice.
What has not been mentioned is that Islam is essentially tribal rule scaled up to a quasi-federalist level. Other than that, it is still as brutal, antiquated and arbitrary as any shamanistic head-hunting cannibal chief.
President Bouteflika has put yesterday a term to the ongoing controversy regarding peace and national reconciliation charter deadline extension, announcing a war "on terrorist remnants within legitimacy and rule of law", he called for the badly need to materialize anti-corruption measures, he, however, didn't fail charging Justice with deficiency as regards citizens concerns settlement.
During the Judiciary year opening statement taking place at the Supreme Court, President Bouteflika underscored that state will carry on combating terror, "Democracy means neither visions chaos and stands' discrepancy" nor "mixing up legal actors acting within a democratic system, and illegal ones inciting for violence and undermining society security" He urged on corruption combating with all its forms namely mismanagement, public funds waste, and money laundering, embezzlement, and misuse.
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Why should I pay attention to this guy? He ain't got no steenkin ribbons and sprockets!
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I guess this means the Saudis don't realize that if they put up a 50 foot fence, the terrorists will just use a 51 foot ladder to get over it (quoting some Dem congressman).
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I loved the AP's spin on this one....they're putting it up out of fear of jihadis coming home to roost crossing the border from Iraq. It's a QUAGMIRE, I tell ya!
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They are planning it. That does not mean that they will do it. An effective fence needs more than chain link, posts, marcelled and concertina wire, plus hog rings, etc. This is just a BS line of the Saudis.
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It's not BS. They will spend another $12 billion to fortify a 900 km border. How much is the US spending on the 3100 km Mexican border?
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton waded into the debate on the future of Britain's ruling Labour Party on Wednesday, warning that its achievements could be swept away if it lost the next election.
"I think your biggest problem right now is that people take your achievements and your ideas for the future for granted," Clinton told the Labour Party's annual conference.
Prime Minister Tony Blair, a close friend of Clinton, gave an emotional farewell speech to the conference on Tuesday after announcing he would leave office within a year.
The party, in power for nine years, has been torn by infighting over when Blair should go. Blair's popularity has waned over his support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq, his policies in the Middle East and his pro-market reforms.
Finance minister Gordon Brown is favourite to succeed Blair but others could step into the race.
The party faces the biggest threat in years from the opposition Conservatives, re-energised by youthful new leader David Cameron, although the next general election is not expected until 2009.
"You have produced prosperity and social progress for so long it is easy for people to believe it's just part of the landscape . . . or (that) if you get a set of new faces in the driver's seat, surely they wouldn't change what's working?" said Clinton, watched by Blair and Brown.
"I have been there," he said, drawing laughter from the packed audience.
He contrasted the big budget deficits racked up by U.S. President George W. Bush's administration with the surplus the government had when Clinton left office in 2001.
"We were on our way to becoming debt-free as a country for the first time since 1837 . . . Now we've added trillions and trillions of dollars to the debt," Clinton said.
"I say that to remind you that it can change quickly," he told the Labour Party faithful, in a warning against complacency after its three successive election victories.
For all the beefed-up enforcement along the border, the militia-like group of drug cartel enforcers known as the Zetas appears stronger than ever, a result of better training, successful recruiting in Central America and continued desertions from the Mexican military, U.S. intelligence officials say.
The Zetas have again become entrenched in Nuevo Laredo, and they practically control the movement of people through an intricate web of spies, checkpoints and skillful use of technology, provoking an extraordinary cross-border human exodus, U.S. and Mexican authorities say.
Last year, U.S. and Mexican authorities reported that the number of Zetas was falling rapidly, the result of both government pressure and ongoing warfare with rival cartels.
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And we could always bring back the Army to greet them. Mebbe create a few new Pattons in the process. In fact, until there is a decent barrier system and the wherewithal that goes with it to secure our borders, putting some armed uniforms with an aggressive ROE sounds like a fine idea to me... It'd make a decent SF live-fire training exercise.
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The Zetas were US trained (in Fort Benning) Mexican anti-narcotics commandoes who realized where the real money was to be made. Seems to have been the only effective force in the Mexican army. Better that they be incompetent and on the other side than they be competently trained and on the other side.
Close the Neuvo Laredo border crossings to all traffic for a 10 year bridge maintenance.
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The smugglers are the ones that look serious Steve.
We didn't invent all these UAVs for nothing. Let them patrol our border until the fence is built. Have backup hellfire-armed birds ready for immediate launch against these traitorous Mexican military turds.
SEOUL: North Korea hit back on Wednesday to US charges that it suppresses religion by telling Washington to stop acting as the world's "religious judge". The US State Department, in its annual International Religious Freedom Report released this month, quoted defectors and others as saying North Korea imprisoned and executed people who tried to practise religion. An article on Wednesday in Pyongyang's official Rodong Sinmun daily said:
The United States is a chief culprit in the repression and extermination of religion which should be put in the dock of a religious trial...
"The US, after the Sept. 11 incident, has murdered many Muslims in cold blood in its mainland, Afghanistan and Iraq and made no bones about insulting and overriding Islam and Islamic culture. The United States is not a 'religious judge' but a chief culprit in the repression and extermination of religion which should be put in the dock of a religious trial," Rodong Sinmun said, according to an authorised translation. Reclusive North Korea, which governments and human rights groups say has one of the worst rights record in the world, bristles at any criticism of how it treats its citizens.
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"No bones" - well, iff the accounts of Norkie defectors about rampant hunger and starvation is correct, "bones" is about all the poor anti-Chinese Chinese mainstream Norkies have left. Its Pyongyang's fault new Chicommie textbooks have formally described the Koreas as being a de facto part of China, but Beijing "forgot" to inform Pyongyang -OOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPSSSIES.
For the second night in a row, there were severe riots in the streets of Brussels on Tuesday following the death of a young Moroccan prisoner in a Belgian jail.
Youngsters ran amok in the streets around the Brussels Midi Station and set fire to several cars that were parked in the area. They also threw molotov cocktails at a hospital and caused a fire, according to a Belgian news website "Flandersnews.be."
Belgian dailies reported Wednesday that police took forty five people into custody Tuesday night.
The immediate cause for the riots was the sudden death of a young Moroccan inmate in the prison of Vorst, a Brussels municipality.
The 25-year old, who was not named, died last weekend after he'd been given a few tranquilizers.
Belgian Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx visited the deceased man's family on Tuesday.
The riots started on Monday evening following news about the prisoner's death.
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Checking the reading Belgium produces on my Give-A-Shit meter ... switching to milli .. switching to micro ... switching to nano ... switching to pico. Yup, it's reading 1.2.
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Checking the reading Belgium produces on my Give-A-Shit meter ... switching to milli .. switching to micro ... switching to nano ... switching to pico. Yup, it's reading 1.2.
Jeeze, DMFD, you'd better go get that cheapass POS DArsonval meter movement on your crappy Give-A-Shit meter recalibrated. My Frink-O-Matic Deluxe Digital Readout Incremental Excremental Concern Meter isn't even toggling in the Femto scale.
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Wednesday against bowing to fears of Islamic violence after a Berlin opera house cancelled performances of a Mozart work because of concerns some scenes could enrage Muslims. "We must take care that we do not retreat out of a fear of potentially violent radicals," Merkel was quoted as saying in Hanover's Neue Presse newspaper.
Self-censorship out of fear is not tolerable.
"Self-censorship out of fear is not tolerable."
Merkel's comments, which echoed those of other senior German politicians, fuelled a row over the cancellation of Mozart's "Idomeneo" which is overshadowing a government-sponsored conference on Wednesday to promote dialogue with the country's 3.2 million Muslims. Berlin's Deutsche Oper said on Monday it had cancelled performances of the opera, which shows the severed heads of the Prophet Mohammad (PTUI PBUH), Buddha, Jesus and Poseidon, after police warnings that it could pose a "incalculable" security risk. The row comes two weeks after Pope Benedict enraged some Muslims by quoting from a medieval text linking the spread of the Islamic faith to violence.
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Deutsche Oper Berlin
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Heute auf dem Spielplan:
19:30 Uhr La sonnambula
Spielplanänderung IDOMENEO im November
Die Deutsche Oper Berlin gibt mit großem Bedauern bekannt, dass sie die im November 2006 geplante Wiederaufnahme von Mozarts IDOMENEO aus dem Spielplan genommen hat. Stattdessen wird es am 5. Nov. und am 8. Nov. ... mehr
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...Makes you wonder what Berthold Brecht ('The Threepenny Opera' and a bunch of very biting stuff about between the wars Germany)would have done with this - he had no problem taking on the Nazis, the Muzzies would have given him enough material for a dozen musicals..
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#2 I do welcome a woman with spine.
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This is a watershed moment. This situation represents a critical choice point for all of europe.....
Produce the play and confirm western values. Not a cure, but a shot in the arm, teaching the muslim commmunity a clear lesson about the nature of western culture . . .
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Don't produce it and confirm the power and influence of islam over the west, a proposition that will undoubtedly increase the momentum toward Eurabia
It's way more than just a play. It's the canary in the coal mine.
A leak of the original police report to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa warned that the decapitations scene 'might be associated in some Muslim circles with videos made by militant Iraqi Islamists of people's heads being cut off.'
Muslim organizations in Germany have been embarrassed by the crisis, saying it makes them appear like bullies. A range of Muslim leaders appealed this week for the production to go ahead.
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there is something sad about hoping a bastardization of Mozart's Opera, complete with severed heads of Buddha, Jesus, Poseidon and mohammad will become the symbol behind which we will rally against the Islamists chilling effect on speech. Seems everyone is happy as long as there is plenty of offense to go around. Why do I suspect that Merkel et al would not have stood so tall if they had just severed Mo's head?
Heh, too bad for the director they he got cute and cut off Jesus' and Buddha's head too. Now he may have to go a-head with the play or be forced to hand in his avante guard card.
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From the man who planted the radical Islamic seed in Iran. Right.
Hey Peanut Boy, George has killed more islamic terrorists than you or Clinton ever did. That is a measure of security you, your party, and the ponies you ride in on have failed to achieve. The kind of security you offer is to go quietly into the train cars.
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He's campaigning for his kid?
Hope sonny's got another job lined up...
I remember his foreign policy. For the sake of the nation, he should be beaten everytime he offers advice on the subject.
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I probably don't need to preach to the Choir but if any of you Rantburgers have NOT read Mark Bowden's excellent Guests of the Ayatollah, get crackin'.
Carter (and Teddy "Glug Glug" Kennedy) should both have their jaws wired shut on the topic of Islamo-Fascist terror!
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Even if it were possible to ignore his Iranian fiasco (and it isn't), Carter's constant undermining of US policy and enablement of terror groups only increases the danger we face. STFU Jimmy.
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I just got Guests of the Ayatollah in the mail a couple days ago, haven't cracked it yet.
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I bought it a month or so ago, Dave D! I'ma plannin' on pickin it up as soon as I finish "The Impolitically Correct Guide to Islam and the Crusades", lol! Makes for some gooooood readin' when I ride the bus in to Atlanta (near the Carter Center, no less, PTUI!). Like the Dixie Twits, "I'm ashamed that ex-President is from the same State as I am!"
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I'd become a Christian if my prayer for Carter and Friends to suddenly have a rash of serious brain aneurysms would be answered.
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I strongly request the Navy to take the new "Jimmy Carter" submarine to Georgia, and mount Jimmy (the ex-pres)on the forepart of the conning tower as a masthead prior to deep dive testing. I'm sure that would be very appropriate.
I hate Jimmy the Nothing more than I hate any politician. I have hoped that since his defeat, he would learn to go home and shut up. Now, I believe the only hope for us is to have someone (maybe from Mexico?) shoot him and the horse he rode in on. I have more respect for that bas$$$$ Bill Clinton than I do for Carter - which is like comparing bovine feces with whale feces.
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Jimmy Carter would know since he's the one that put us in this situation.
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JHC, this gawdamn fool will not shut his face and go away. Can we arrange a one way trip for Jimmah and his good buddy Shimon Peres ? These two asses can do more damage in ten minutes than the remaining citizens can repair in one year.
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I'd become a Christian if my prayer for Carter and Friends
Have you sincerely looked at Animism? It cuts you loose from the guilt and allows funk into your life. Get up from behind the soft chair of denial and answer the door-bell of heaven. Just say, Ima love tuti-fruiti and figure all the Gawds do too.
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Hey, I've got a bit of interesting news for yall. Whoopie Goldberg, only recently appearing on Broadway and hosting awards shows on TV to talk about her bush, is now hosting a moronic daily morning radio show here in Sin City. It kicks off at 5 AM each day.
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I am still unable to discern how it was ever determined that Whoopi has even a single iota of talent. I don't know what coat tail it is that she sleds through life on but acting skill and comedic timing have no part in it.
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The former president said the Bush administration made a "terrible mistake" by invading Iraq and diverting troops from Afghanistan.
Carter. I am reminded of that Star Trek episode where Kirk got split into two parts by the transporter - one half was all "do", and the other half was all "think". Carter is all "think" and very little "do". There is a good balance between the two, but Carter is nowhere near that happy medium. Always worrying about the corner cases and what-ifs and not just addressing the meat of the problem, never able to understand that unless a few people are upset, you're not making decisions, and that is bad. Especially in this day and age. I like Bush because he is a thinker and a doer both. You can't wring your hands while their are "doer" terrorists out there trying to flood NYC, knock down buildings, poison water supplies, get their hands on WMD, and God knows what else. I prefer to get moving and correct course as you go.
And what is Carter's alternative here? Wait until the terrorists go away? They won't. They'll just quietly grow until they think they own the place and then all hell will break loose. "Oh, by the way, we've got enough guns and people that we can sneak into your house when you least expect it and kill you and your family. I know you're Buddhist but convert to Islam or die. And here's a burka for your wife. See you at the mosque five times a day and don't forget to tie your donkey to the hitching post when you get there." The terrorists have been in the dark ages since their inception. Heck, some have even been through more enlightened times but reverted! Think it won't happen again? No, Carter, the time has come to get off your a$$ and do something. Or I'm pretty sure you would be one of those guys trying to explain to his family why they now need to convert to another religion and wear a burqa.
Why are there more terrorists? Because Bush has started to take down the hornet's nest hopefully before it grows into the walls of the house! He's making decisions that cause these people to reveal themselves for who they really are or would like to be! If you were to wait until you had the perfect solution figured out, it would be too late.
But wait, there's more! I can't even begin to count how many times a half-hearted attempt to pressure people to come to the right conclusion instead of blasting them has ended up costing way more lives than if they had just blasted them in the first place. You have to break their will or they will keep it up until it is slowly crushed later.
Git 'er dun. Defeatocrats: Git outta the way so we can git this over wid! Your attempts at an apology are just falling on deaf ears and costing lives on both sides. You are the perfect prey for a terrorist.
WASHINGTON - John R. Bolton's quest for a longer lease on his temporary job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations remained elusive Thursday as the Senate shied away from a vote to confirm him.
Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said the Senate likely would recess later this week without voting on his nomination. Lugar, R-Ind., said in an interview with The Associated Press that no committee meeting had been scheduled to take up the controversial nominee.
The Senate is expected to return after the congressional elections in November. Bolton has been serving as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under a recess appointment that is due to expire at the end of the year.
Won't be easier then, Chafee will be a soon-to-be ex-Senator and won't do anyone favors.
Lugar said that if one Democratic senator were to step forward and support Bolton, he might be able to set a committee vote before the recess. In the meantime, Lugar added, Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a Rhode Island Republican, is holding up the nomination with questions about the Bush administration's Middle East policy. As a result, Lugar said, "it appears very likely the committee will not act" on Bolton's nomination before recess at the end of the week. "Most probably not," Lugar said.
Remind me, what did we get in return for helping Chafee win his primary election?
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The Senate on Thursday endorsed President Bush's plans to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects, all but sealing congressional approval for legislation that Republicans intend to use on the campaign trail to assert their toughness on terrorism. The 65-34 vote means the bill could reach the president's desk by week's end. The House passed nearly identical legislation on Wednesday and was expected to approve the Senate bill on Friday, sending it on to the White House.
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Lincoln Chaffee (Dirtbag-RI) voted against it. What a Maroon.
From AP Democratic Operative Reporter Jennifer Lovin, the one Karzai spanked in the presser the other day. Smell the bias love
President Bush suggested Thursday that Democrats don't have the stomach to fight the war on terror, battling back in the election-season clamor over administration intelligence showing terrorism spreading.
"Five years after 9/11, the worst attack on the American homeland in our history, Democrats offer nothing but criticism and obstruction and endless second-guessing," Bush said at a Republican fundraiser. OK, true and accurate
"The party of FDR and the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run," Bush told a convention-center audience of over 2,000 people. The event put $2.5 million in the campaign accounts of Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and the state GOP. ouch!
Democrats immediately disputed the charge that they would hold back in the anti-terror battle. No, no! Certainly non not!
"On his watch, five years after 9/11, he not only has failed to capture Osama bin Laden, but as the (National Intelligence Estimate) indicates, his failed policies have made America less safe and spawned terrorism, not decreased it," said Karen Finney, spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee. "Democrats will be tough and smart, and will actually fight the terrorists, not leave them to plan future attacks." tough and smart. The plan!
Bush's no-holds-barred speech, one of his harshest yet on the campaign trail, came less than six weeks before midterm elections in which Democrats are seeking to strip Republicans of their control of one or both houses of Congress. and at a Rep fundraiser, driving a wedge between Rep party faithful and...um....the Democrats. Who'd a thunk it?
The war of words continued a nearly weeklong tussle by both parties over the spin implications of a newly revealed estimate, an analysis of terror trends put together by the nation's top intelligence analysts in 16 spy agencies. and highly different than the cherry-picked quotes from teh NYT, AP, WaPo, LAT....
The document concluded that Iraq has become a "cause celebre" for jihadists worldwide, whom it said have grown in number and geographic reach. The report said the factors, such as the Iraq war, that are fueling the jihadist movement's growth outweigh its vulnerabilities and that, if the current trend continues, risks to the U.S. interests at home and abroad will grow.
Portions of the five-month-old report were leaked over the weekend, and Bush ordered the key judgments - four of its 30 pages - declassified on Tuesday in hopes that wider availability of most conclusions would quell the criticism. actually, it was to stop the lying spin, like yours, Jennifer
Democrats continued to point to the report to argue that the 2003 Iraq invasion, by fanning anti-U.S. sentiments and helping terrorists recruit, is one reason to change leadership in Congress.
On Thursday, Bush accused the opposition party of cherrypicking pieces of the report "for partisan political gain" and "to mislead the American people and justify their policy of withdrawal from Iraq." yep
"The greatest danger is not that America's presence in the war in Iraq is drawing new recruits to the terrorist cause," Bush said. "The greatest danger is that an American withdrawal from Iraq would embolden the terrorists and help them find new recruits to carry out even more destructive attacks."
Though not by name, he quoted Rep. Jane Harman of California, top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, as saying that because of the Iraq war "it may become more likely" that the U.S. will have to contend with terrorists on its own soil again, rather than less likely as the president argues. And he quoted Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, as saying the world would be better off without the Iraq war and if former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein were still in power. Harman and Rockefeller: AKA Curly and Shemp
"Some in Washington, some decent people, patriotic people, feel like we should not be on the offensive in this war on terror," the president said. "We will fight them wherever they make a stand."
The president also criticized House Democrats, including their leadership, who voted this week against a White House plan for interrogating, detaining and trying terrorists. "We must give our professionals the tools they need to protect the American people in this war on terror and those in the House of Representatives were wrong to vote against this bill," he said.
Democrats, joined by some Republicans, say the legislation would give the president too much latitude when deciding whether aggressive interrogations cross the line and violate international standards of prisoner treatment.
Bush headed from Alabama to Ohio to raise $600,000 for the Ohio GOP and Rep. Deborah Pryce, who is struggling to hold on to her seat in an evenly split district and stressing her independence from the president.
That fundraiser was held behind closed doors - like most that Bush does lately.
By Thursday's end, the president had headlined 68 political events - all fundraisers - benefiting 37 candidates, the national GOP, several state counterparts and the campaign arms of House and Senate Republicans. Half of them overall have been closed to media coverage, with the percentage going up to nearly two-thirds in recent months.
The only one of the president's six political events this week that was open was the fundraiser for Riley, who is favored for re-election over his challenger, Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley. Drudge has this as "Gloves Off". I smell Rovian musk
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Yup. And five weeks to go. It's going to get mighty rough this time. And after it's over, I suspect the target will be MSM, leakers and Tehran, not necessarily in that order.
Fox News chief Roger Ailes says former President Clinton's response to Chris Wallace's question about going after Osama bin Laden represents "an assault on all journalists."
Ailes said Clinton had a "wild overreaction" in the interview, broadcast on "Fox News Sunday." Hundreds of thousands of people subsequently watched clips over the Internet, with Fox foes rallying behind Clinton.
"If you can't sit there and answer a question from a professional, mild-mannered, respectful reporter like Chris Wallace, then the hatred for journalists is showing," Ailes said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday. "All journalists need to raise their eyebrows and say, `hold on a second.'"
Wallace has said he asked Clinton about bin Laden partly because of ABC's recent docudrama "The Path to 9/11," widely criticized as full of falsehoods by former Clinton administration officials for depicting a bungling effort at going after the terrorist leader.
Wallace asked: "I understand that hindsight is always 20/20, but the question is, why didn't you connect the dots and put him out of business?"
Clinton said his administration did more than President Bush to go after bin Laden before the terrorist attacks. While Clinton said Wallace's question was legitimate, he called it a "conservative hit job" and accused Fox of not being similarly tough on Bush.
Clinton aides later said they considered the question an attack.
"They're out there saying (Wallace) was savage, he sandbagged (Clinton), he was taking orders on the question," Ailes said. "Chris Wallace has never taken orders on questions in his life. There's never been a discussion of that. I frankly think the assault on Chris Wallace is an assault on all journalists."
Barbara Cochran, president of the Radio and Television News Directors Association, said she worked with Wallace at NBC's "Meet the Press," where she was once executive producer. Wallace, who left ABC News to become "Fox News Sunday" host in 2003, was always a professional who asked tough questions and was not partisan, she said.
But Cochran said she would not comment on the larger question of what this meant for all journalists.
The liberal media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, which has repeatedly criticized Fox News Channel for favoring Republican and conservative points of view, said it could see why Clinton got frustrated. Steve Rendell, FAIR senior media analyst, said it appeared Wallace was trying to cut off Clinton's answer.
"I would dismiss Roger Ailes' complaint as simply whining in an attempt to make Fox News appear the victim in this fight," Rendell said.
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*snicker* DhimmiWatch.
The more I think about it, the more I accept that it was a set piece. The anger was genuine, since he's a gutless turd who wants history to buy into the Camelot-II BS, but he had to expect the questions because of the kerfuffle over the docu-drama and the Dhimmi mewling.
Re: Camelot-II: Nobody with a brain believes he had fuck-all to do with the economic good times and the fall of communism which temporarily cleared the world stage - both just dropped in his lap... Others did the heavy lifting while he was waving his sausage in Paula Jones' face.
Since he opened his can o' worms himself, I hope critics come out of the woodwork to bitch-slap fantasy-boy around. Thank you, Mr Ailes. More, please.
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I call BS on the "assault on all journalists" crap. Leaving aside the validity of Clinton's argument (no heavy lifting there), he isn't required to to meekly say "yes Mr. Wallace" to every question.
Let him make his case. He probably won't like the results anyway.
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Britt Hume should have done the interview. Would have paid to see them in an old fashioned fist fight.
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His answer was prepared. But Wallace threw him off.
Recall that Clinton tried to interrupt Wallace's question to give his prepared response but Wallace pushed back and finished his question. Clinton didn't like that one bit. But he had his canned answer ready. Note that in the first or second sentence Clinton said he wanted to talk about Path to 9/11 and the "three things asserted against me directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report." But then he never did a 1, 2, 3 thing enumerating the false assertions.
I think the other camera would show that Wallace was engaged in sub-orbital eye rotation and barely suppressed belly laughing in addition to the smirk. That caused Clinton to lose it and go into uncontrolled outrage mode. At that point it would be a good 30 minutes before Clinton's adrenaline level returned to normal and the interview was out of his control. Then as Clinton would calm down just a bit, Wallace would eyeroll and smirk and pow, Clinton would hit escape velocity for another 10 minutes.
Clinton never got another hard ball interview in his Presidential career except the Hillary stand by your man interview. When he got grilled he wilted. What would he do if he had to put up with the shit Rumsfeld does? The world now knows we were run for 8 years by a guy as crazy as Ahmedinajihad.
tribute to Clintoon's set piece, like a rubber biscuit LOL!
Bow bow bow...
(Um, do that again)
Bow bow bow...
Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich? A wish sandwich is the kind of a sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you, hee hee hee, wish you had some meat...
Bow bow bow...
Ummm... the other day I had a ricochet biscuit. A ricochet biscuit is the kind of a biscuit that's supposed to bounce back off the wall into your mouth. If it don't bounce back... you go hungry!
Bow bow bow...
Umm, umm, umm... the other day I had a cool water sandwich and a Sunday-go-to-meetin' bun...
Bow bow bow...
Hee hee hee hee... What da ya want for nothing? ... a rubber biscuit?
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I think you've nailed him, NS. Once the adrenal kicks in, there are no rails, lol. You have to be thoroughly trained to overcome it - and President Pussy had none.
Smarmy little stage whore. I enjoyed the interview immensely, myownself.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani characterized Bill and Hillary Clinton's recent criticism of President Bush's efforts to stop Osama bin Laden before 9/11 as a "mistake" and said it's time to "stop this blame thing" over who is responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.
"I think the comparison is the mistake," Giuliani told NewsMax and other media during a luncheon Wednesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., while on a campaign stop for Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., who is seeking re-election.
"I don't think the Clinton people should be saying somehow it's more President Bush's responsibility," Giuliani said when asked about Hillary's recent statements about Sept. 11.
On Monday, Sen. Clinton said she defended her husband's outburst on Fox News over criticism he has received for his handling of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.
"I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States,'" Sen. Clinton said, "he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team."
The remark was a direct swipe at President Bush, because in August of 2001 he was given such a report prepared by the CIA. The CIA report, however, never indicated how al-Qaida might strike U.S. targets.
"I know President Bush doesn't say that about President Clinton," said Giuliani. "I think the reality is that any American president, if they had known about an attack, would have done everything they could to stop it."
The real fault for 9/11, Giuliani says, lies squarely with the Islamic terrorists. He added, "I think we should stop trying to blame our presidents for 9/11."
Frequently mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for president in 2008, Giuliani characterized the latest war of words over who is responsible for 9/11 as a distraction. "We should stop this blame thing," he said. "There's no blame to be cast on President Bush or President Clinton."
Giuliani added that he thinks we should stop getting distracted by trying to figure out what American is responsible for the terrorist attacks, saying "Americans didn't do Sept. 11, the Islamic terrorists did."
In his remarks during the campaign stop, Giuliani credited President Bush's aggressive anti-terror policy for the fact the U.S. has not been attacked since 9/11.
"The reality is, thank God, we haven't been attacked in five years," Giuliani said. "None of us thought that was possible. We all thought that after 9/11 we would be attacked. I personally thought that many times."
Before they sat down with President Bush for a peacemaking dinner at the White House, the bickering leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan shook hands with their host but not with each other. If the head of Waziristan had been there they might have broken the ice with a game of bridge.
Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom Bush considers key bulwarks against Islamic radicalism in a volatile region, barely looked at one another as Bush appealed for cooperation against the common enemy of terrorism. At least they're more open and honest than the French.
"I look forward to having dinner with friends of mine who don't happen to share the same faith I do but nevertheless share the same outlook for a more hopeful world," Bush said in a brief Rose Garden appearance before Wednesday's light dinner of soup, sea bass and salad. Soup and salad. Yum. W must have thought he was in Crawford.
After the private meal, the White House issued a bland statement that called the session a "constructive exchange" but outlined no new agreements or initiatives. The White House did not make any officials available for questions. I guess that means no food was thrown. But it's hard to have a food fight with soup and salad. Maybe that explains the menu.
"They committed to supporting moderation and defeating extremism through greater intelligence sharing, coordinated action against terrorists, and common efforts to enhance the prosperity of the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan," the statement from press secretary Tony Snow said. That Tony is such a card.
Karzai says Musharraf turns a blind eye to hatred and extremism being bred at Islamic schools in Pakistan. At one point, Musharraf said Karzai is behaving "like an ostrich," refusing to acknowledge the truth and trying to shore up his political standing at home. Just one big, happy family. Maybe we should start calling W Captain Andy.
The heated accusations had put the White House in the middle, and Bush clearly thought it was time to clear the air. We'll have no more of this bickering or you'll both be sent to your rooms right now with nothing more to eat.
Standing between the pair, Bush emphasized "the need to cooperate, to make sure that people have got a hopeful future" in both countries. He stole that line from Big Bird
The Afghan and Pakistani leaders stood stiffly on either side of Bush as he spoke without notes or a lectern. Musharraf was tightlipped, hands clasped awkwardly before him. Karzai nodded agreeably as Bush spoke. Neither of the foreign leaders spoke. Mushariff wants to be somewhere else checking out how the book is doing on Amazon. Karzai knows he has to keep up the Eddie Haskell act if he's going to keep getting his allowance.
"Today's dinner is a chance for us to strategize together" and find common solutions, Bush said. Riiight. I wonder if they used those plastic place mats with maps of the border area so they could draw invasion plans with grease pencils between courses. This is arguably the most important event that occurred yesterday. That this is all the news released about it seems ominous to me.
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Today's dinner is a chance for us to strategize together" and find common solutions, Bush said.
I swear that when I first read that sentence, I thought it said "strategerize"
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A little poker night? The article in WOT re the increase in attacks in Afghanistan since the little Waziristan ceasefire never mentioned? No CIA home videos? Couple of brandys and cigars? What?
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Karzai is great. Perv(ert) is a bullshit merchant. End of story
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Who's this Judge Lodge? I don't see his legal logic here. But then I don't see the Supreme Court's legal logic on the M-F Incumbent Protection Act either. I guess I must be the one with a reading comprehension problem.
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I see the logic. I'd like to see the same thing happen to the prosecutor persecuting Rush or DeLay or the Duke Lax team. Prosecutors make mistakes. Sometimes they are human error and sometimes they are malicious witch hunts. The witch hunters should not go unpunished. Was Ashcroft being a witch hunter in this case? Beats me, but I don't object to a trial to find out if the judge has seen enough evidence to proceed with one.
Islamabad, Sept 27: Blaming the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto regime for 1971 dismemberment of Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf says he along with his fellow soldiers wept when East Pakistan was separated to become Bangladesh and the capture of 90,000 Pakistani troops by Indian Army.
"I broke down and cried. All my brave soldiers cried with me. It remains most sad and most painful day of my life. My anger..at the General who had taken charge of government and at some of the politicians of the time, still makes me see red," he wrote in his book 'In the Line of Fire'.
"It was nexus between Bhutto and small coterie of rulers that destroyed Pakistan. The myopic rigid attitude of (Bangladeshi leader) Sheikh Mujibur Rehman did not help matters and he played into Bhutto's (Gen) Yahya (Khan's) hand by remaining rooted in East Pakistan", he said.
Musharraf said he along with a company of Special Security Group (SSG) commandoes were tasked to go East Pakistan before it fell.
"My troops were brimming with confidence and we were all set to go when the ceasefire was announced and East Pakistan was forcibly torn away from us to form the separate state of Bangladesh. It was terrible day.
"When I was telling my troops about the ceasefire the surrender of our 90,000 personnel, (military and civilian) came about," the Pakistani leader said.
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He didn't weep or feel shame about the mass rapes and murders perpetrated by those 90 thousand.
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It seems like every day there's a new story about Pervez Musharraf's personal reminisence of some event or the other. Today it's the fall of East Pakistan; yesterday it was something about Kargil, the other day it was A.Q. Khan. What's next?
Musharraf remembers the Kennedy assasination
Musharraf's Summer of Love at Woodstock
"I cried when Kurt Cobain died," says Musharraf
Musharraf's Top Ten iPod Classic Rock Tracks #7 -- "Slow Ride" by Foghat
Page Six: Joyce Maynard Reveals Affair with Pervez Musharraf -- "He was more fun than J.D. Salinger"
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His autobiography is about to be released.
Needs to convert himself into a saint and a father of his country to maximize sales.
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It's the president of Pakistan, next time on Oprah!
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If he says he remembers where he was when he heard Sam Kinnison died, I'll buy his book.
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Seriously, I'm glad that Paki-Waki and BANGladesh are separate. Could you imagine a single Islamic nation with both nukes and the Shutter gun (with 3 round of bullets, of course)? They'd be Invincible(tm)!
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Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end...
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I'll buy it if he tells me how he felt when the Red Sox finally won it all in 2004. And he just might because his daughter lives around here someplace...
President Pervez Musharraf has angrily rejected allegations that Pakistan's intelligence service has indirectly helped the Taleban and al-Qaeda. In a BBC TV interview, Gen Musharraf said his intelligence services were doing an "excellent job" in tracking down and apprehending militants.
The claims are in a document written by a UK intelligence official, which says Pakistan is on the edge of chaos. The paper also said that the Iraq war had helped extremists recruit people.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) paper says Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, indirectly backs terrorism by supporting religious parties in the country. An MoD spokesman said "the academic research notes quoted in no way represent the views of either the MoD or the government".
Gen Musharraf spoke to the BBC's Newsnight programme ahead of a meeting in Washington with US President George W Bush and Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. He said that he was "fully satisfied" with Pakistan's co-operation in the fight against terrorism. "There is perfect co-ordination going on - intelligence and operational co-ordination at the strategic level, at the tactical level," he said.
And he rejected the suggestion in the report that the ISI should be dismantled. "I totally, 200% reject it. I reject it from anybody - MoD or anyone who tells me to dismantle ISI. "ISI is a disciplined force, breaking the back of al-Qaeda. Getting 680 people would not have been possible if our ISI was not doing an excellent job."
"And it's also very useful to us in Kashmir and North Wazoo," he added softly.
The Pakistani president rejected allegations by the Afghan leader that Pakistan was not doing enough to fight extremism in its border region, calling Mr Karzai someone who "can't even get out of his office".
That sounds like a challenge ...
He also refused to withdraw his statement that then US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" unless it co-operated with America in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks. "I don't withdraw the claim at all," he said. "Why should I withdraw it now that Mr Armitage is denying it?"
The research paper is understood to have been written by a man with a military background who is linked to the UK's Secret Intelligence Service.
On Afghanistan, the paper said the UK went in "with its eyes closed", and revealed that a secret deal to extricate UK troops from Iraq so they could focus on Afghanistan failed when British military leaders were overruled. The paper also said that the Iraq war had "acted as a recruiting sergeant for extremists across the Muslim world".
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That is not what Perv told the Judges of the Sindh High Court...
No operational control over ISI and MI, defence ministry tells court
KARACHI, July 11: The ministry of defence exercises only administrative control over Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) and it does not have any operational control or jurisdiction to enforce the courts direction on these agencies, an official of the ministry informed the Sindh High Court on Tuesday.
The court was hearing six petitions against illegal detention of people belonging to political and religious organisations.
ISI is disciplined? When the Pak Defence Minisrty has no operational control over them? As filed in a brief to the Court?
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ISI is a disciplined force, breaking the back of al-Qaeda
Why does this sentence causes me to think about overenthusiatic sexual intercorse?
Iraqi Kurds would like to add more territory to their current borders, according to a draft constitution before the Kurdish parliament.
The proposed constitution will grab more land that will see the current Kurdish borders expanded close to Baghdad. The new map includes several districts which are currently within the provincial borders of Nineveh, of which the northern city of Mosul is the capital. If added, the current borders will stretch from close to Baghdad on the Iranian borders to Iraqs international frontier with Syria.
The total area of the current semi-independent Kurdish zone will grow substantially as the draft sees the whole of the oil-rich Province of Kirkuk as part of Kurdistan.
Currently, the Kurdish region includes three provinces Dahouk, Arbil, Sulaimaniya. But the map accompanying the draft redraws the provincial borders of the three provinces to include large chunks of the Provinces of Nineveh and Diyala as well as the whole of Kirkuk.
Many in Iraq will see the Kurdish move as a land grab but the timing of the draft may work to their favor. Kurds are part of the ruling Shiite coalition which is seeking to set up a semi-independent Shiite entity in the oil rich region of southern Iraq. Kurds are reported to have made their agreement for the Shiite move conditional on the government accepting their new borders.
The Kurdish territorial move, if passed, is certain to further anger and alienate Muslim Sunnis who are waging a ferocious battle to oust U.S. occupation troops and topple the Shiite-dominated government. Sunni Arabs couldn't survive in an environment of stability and prosperity, no room for Jihad.
A military court on Wednesday ordered the release of Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser Shaer, a defense lawyer said. Shaer was freed and headed back to the West Bank, said the lawyer, Osama al-Saadi. Shaer, who was arrested Aug. 19, had been the most senior Hamas official arrested in an Israeli crackdown against the group following the kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit in June.
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"And if we don't see Galit soon, were coming back for you and we won't be so nice next time. Shalom."
Vice premier Shimon Peres responded to Syrian president Bashar Assad's claims of wanting to make peace with his country by saying Wednesday Israel would welcome talks if Damascus offered a realistic offer.
Assad was quoted in German weekly news magazine Der Spiegal as saying, "We want to make peace - peace with Israel." But Peres said the Syrian leadership's offers to talk peace are not realistic. "Now again, Assad is saying he wants peace," Peres told an audience at the Chatham House think tank in London. "How? That Israel give back the Golan Heights, that Israel will settle the Palestinian problem and then he will deal with us. What sort of a proposal is that? He wants to negotiate - let him come with his opening positions, we shall offer counter positions and we shall negotiate."
Peres added it is a "little bit out of proportion" to tell Israel to make all the concessions before any negotiations can begin.
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Remind me that Peres isn't Jimmy Carter
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Which peace of Israel will it take to temporarily mollify the Syrians? Who will stand up to take the next peace?
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Nope, this is clever. He deflates Baby Assad's claim to peace and refuses to cede to the Syrians the 'moral high ground' of being for 'peace'. Yup, we'll negotiate as soon as you're realistic -- gotta love that.
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Poor Shimon haven't been the same since he lost his hand puppet.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said at the meeting that the dramatic increase in arms smuggling along the Gaza-Egyptian border would force Israel to reopen last November's US-brokered Rafah understandings that led to the full IDF pullout from the area. Olmert told the cabinet, which met this week on Wednesday rather than Sunday because of Rosh Hashana, that he would discuss the matter with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is expected to arrive here for a visit next week.
The prime minister said there had been a substantial increase in arms smuggling from Sinai, and it now included the types of weaponry - antitank and antiaircraft missiles - that could limit Israel's military maneuverability in Gaza. Olmert said the Defense Ministry was drawing up proposals on how to deal with the situation, and that these proposals would be brought to the cabinet in the near future.
The Rafah understandings, hammered out by Rice last November, established a border crossing at Rafah that is run by the Palestinians and the Egyptians, but which is monitored by the EU. This crossing, together with an Egyptian-Israeli military protocol that was drawn up three months earlier and allowed for an enhanced Egyptian security presence in Egypt to fight the smuggling, enabled the IDF withdrawal last September from the Philadelphi corridor that separates Egypt from Gaza.
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COLOMBO: The leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels told the Sri Lankan government that he is committed to resuming talks on ending decades of ethnic bloodshed, a minister said on Wednesday.
The message from rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran could boost efforts by peace-broker Norway to arrange a meeting next month in Oslo and bring a halt to 10 months of violence that has claimed over 1,500 lives despite a 2002 truce. "We needed concrete positive commitments from the leader of the LTTE to resume talks. He has given that," Policy Planning Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, who is also the government's chief spokesman on defence matters, told reporters.
There was no immediate reaction from the LTTE. Asked if the 51-year-old LTTE leader had given the assurance in writing or verbally through Norway, Rambukwella said: "I will tell you after I discuss it with the president." President Mahinda Rajapakse had insisted that any resumption of talks, following an aborted meeting in June, should come after Prabhakaran gives a guarantee that he is serious about negotiations and that violence must stop.
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MARJAYOUN, Lebanon - Six weeks after the end of the Lebanon war, the terrorist militant Hezbollah group is facing little on-the-ground pressure to give up its weapons and disarm despite a U.N. cease-fire resolution demanding just that. U.N. Resolutions are as effective as a screen door on a submarine.
The leaders of a United Nothing U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon say the job is not theirs. And Lebanon's ill-equipped army, some of whose soldiers wear tin-pot helmets and carry outdated M-16 rifles, shows no signs of diving into a confrontation with battle-hardened Hezbollah fighters. Not my yob!
For now, all sides say it's likely full disarmament will happen only in the future as part of a political solution despite the U.N. resolution that ended the 34-day war on Aug. 14 and required disarmament. The Lebanese Army will probably disarm first.
The commanders of the U.N. force say that under the resolution, their job is merely to assist the Lebanese army in regaining control of southern Lebanon and to ensure the area cannot be used for launching rocket attacks into Turtle Bay northern Israel. How can you regain something you never had in the first place.
Meanwhile, Lebanese security officials say the army's mission in the south is based on what they call surrender an "understanding" with Hezbollah that the army will not search for and seize weapons, but only confiscate those shown in public. Don't ask, don't tell!
(KUNA) -- A force of 139 Belgian barbers troops arrived in Beirut on Wednesday to join a U.N. peacekeeping force working in South Lebanon in implementation of U.N. resolution 1701 which ended a 34-day war between Israel and Hizbollah. The contingent arrived on board a Belgian airforce aircraft to be deployed in South Lebanon, boosting the number of the peacekeepers to around 5,100 international soldiers.
The U.N. resolution authorised the beefing up of a 2,000-strong U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) by up to 13,000 more troops. Belgian Defense Minister Andre Flahaut last Sunday said in Beirut that the force is assigned with mine-dismantling and reconstruction of roads duties.
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"Here I come to save the day"
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If Hizbollah doesn't surrender its weapons they will drown it in chocolate.
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Why that's nearly half the Belgian Barber Corps!
Actually I'm in favor of this. If the Belgian troops whack a lot of muzzies when the shooting starts, the home folks might think, "Let's do the same thing in Brussels."
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Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday Iran won't give up "one iota" of its right to pursue a peaceful nuclear program. Ahmadinejad reiterated his uncompromising stance as Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani held talks with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Berlin, described by an EU official as "very intense."
"In negotiations, they tell us to suspend (uranium) enrichment even for a day on the pretext of a technical problem so that they continue talks," state-run television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying Wednesday. "Our response to them is that no one has the right to give up the rights of the Iranian nation."
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Ahmadinejad: Iran won't give up nuclear rights
You will when we force you, so shaddup already.
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Faud Saniora on Wednesday called on Israel to withdraw all its forces from his country so as not to put the cease-fire at risk. "In order for the cessation of present hostilities to be effective, Israel needs to withdraw all of its forces without further delay from the posts it is occupying in Lebanon and to put an end to violating [Lebanon's] sovereignty," said Saniora. "We have to put an end to (Lebanon's) occupation ... then there won't be any arguments for weapons in the hands of Hizbullah," he continued.
Saniora claimed that the Lebanese were doing "all they can" to ensure the government had authority over the entire territory of the country and no armed group other than the Lebanese army held weapons. The Lebanese prime minister added that a process was needed to end Israel's "occupation" of the Shaba Farms region and urged the United Nations Security Council to offer its assistance on the matter.
Saniora thanked European countries for helping to end the conflict with Israel and Hizbullah, as well as for sending troops to contribute to the UNIFIL force. He also emphasized that while "fulfilling its threat to set Lebanon back twenty years," Israel had killed over 1100 civilians, a third of whom were children, wounded over 4000 others, and displaced one million people. "Lebanon, which only seven weeks ago was full of hope and promise, has been torn to shreds by destruction, displacement, dispossession, desolation, and death," he said.
Meanwhile, Lebanese army officials said that IDF forces entered a southern Lebanese village on Wednesday to carry out security checks. Reportedly, IDF soldiers arrived in three jeeps and a tank, stationing themselves on a main road where they stopped cars and checked the drivers. The officials said that the IDF had carried out the checks for about an hour and had performed a similar operation on Tuesday.
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"Won't be any arguments for weapons in the hands of Hizbullah" > Iranian Hizzies that is. Does not apply [as often does and did not] to Syrian Hezzies, the Hamas-ies, the Jihadies/Jihis, Popular Fronties, Islamies, and other assorted Jiglies and Intifadies.
CAIRO: Al Qaeda No 2 Ayman al-Zawahri will soon release a new message about the pope, US President George W Bush and Sudan's troubled Darfur region, an Islamic website said on Wednesday. A banner warning of the upcoming message was posted on an Islamic website that frequently airs Al Qaeda videos. Wednesday's notice did not specify whether the new message was a video, audiotape or text, but Zawahri usually releases videos. His latest came earlier this month, to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Al Qaeda released a string of videos for the anniversary, showing increasingly sophisticated production techniques in a likely effort to demonstrate that it remains a powerful, confident force five years into the US-led war on terror.
The red stylised banner posted on Wednesday flashes a small headshot of al-Zawahri, next to a short text: "As-Sahab production institute presents: Ayman al-Zawahri. Bush... Vatican pope... Darfur... Crusader wars." The graphic is stamped with the emblem of As-Sahab, Qaeda's media production arm. It did not specify a timeframe for the tape's release, saying only that it would come out "soon, God willing."
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"Deep Thoughts" by Ayman al-Zawahiri:
"You always know when you've seen the first robin of Spring, but you never know when you've seen the last robin of Fall."
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Zawahir's Comments:
"Thank you, thank you...hey, what is it with that Pope guy?, I mean, really, with the hat and stick and everything? Thank you, you've been a great audience - I'll be here until Eid, and try the hummus, infidel!! "
Mike
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no Binny video? "He's dead, Jim"
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E's not dead you stunned him, beautiful plumage.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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President Bouteflika has put yesterday a term to the ongoing controversy regarding peace and national reconciliation charter deadline extension, announcing a war "on terrorist remnants within legitimacy and rule of law", he called for the badly need to materialize anti-corruption measures, he, however, didn't fail charging Justice with deficiency as regards citizens concerns settlement.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton waded into the debate on the future of Britain's ruling Labour Party on Wednesday, warning that its achievements could be swept away if it lost the next election.
SEOUL: North Korea hit back on Wednesday to US charges that it suppresses religion by telling Washington to stop acting as the world's "religious judge". The US State Department, in its annual International Religious Freedom Report released this month, quoted defectors and others as saying North Korea imprisoned and executed people who tried to practise religion. An article on Wednesday in Pyongyang's official Rodong Sinmun daily said: 
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Wednesday against bowing to fears of Islamic violence after a Berlin opera house cancelled performances of a Mozart work because of concerns some scenes could enrage Muslims. "We must take care that we do not retreat out of a fear of potentially violent radicals," Merkel was quoted as saying in Hanover's Neue Presse newspaper. 
WASHINGTON - John R. Bolton's quest for a longer lease on his temporary job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations remained elusive Thursday as the Senate shied away from a vote to confirm him.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani characterized Bill and Hillary Clinton's recent criticism of President Bush's efforts to stop Osama bin Laden before 9/11 as a "mistake" and said it's time to "stop this blame thing" over who is responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.
Iraqi Kurds would like to add more territory to their current borders, according to a draft constitution before the Kurdish parliament.
A military court on Wednesday ordered the release of Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser Shaer, a defense lawyer said. Shaer was freed and headed back to the West Bank, said the lawyer, Osama al-Saadi. Shaer, who was arrested Aug. 19, had been the most senior Hamas official arrested in an Israeli crackdown against the group following the kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit in June.
Vice premier Shimon Peres responded to Syrian president Bashar Assad's claims of wanting to make peace with his country by saying Wednesday Israel would welcome talks if Damascus offered a realistic offer. 
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said at the meeting that the dramatic increase in arms smuggling along the Gaza-Egyptian border would force Israel to reopen last November's US-brokered Rafah understandings that led to the full IDF pullout from the area. Olmert told the cabinet, which met this week on Wednesday rather than Sunday because of Rosh Hashana, that he would discuss the matter with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is expected to arrive here for a visit next week. 
COLOMBO: The leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels told the Sri Lankan government that he is committed to resuming talks on ending decades of ethnic bloodshed, a minister said on Wednesday.
MARJAYOUN, Lebanon - Six weeks after the end of the Lebanon war, the 
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Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday Iran won't give up "one iota" of its right to pursue a peaceful nuclear program. Ahmadinejad reiterated his uncompromising stance as Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani held talks with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Berlin, described by an EU official as "very intense." 
Lebanon's Prime Minister Faud Saniora on Wednesday called on Israel to withdraw all its forces from his country so as not to put the cease-fire at risk. "In order for the cessation of present hostilities to be effective, Israel needs to withdraw all of its forces without further delay from the posts it is occupying in Lebanon and to put an end to violating [Lebanon's] sovereignty," said Saniora. "We have to put an end to (Lebanon's) occupation ... then there won't be any arguments for weapons in the hands of Hizbullah," he continued. 
CAIRO: Al Qaeda No 2 Ayman al-Zawahri will soon release a new message about the pope, US President George W Bush and Sudan's troubled Darfur region, an Islamic website said on Wednesday. A banner warning of the upcoming message was posted on an Islamic website that frequently airs Al Qaeda videos. Wednesday's notice did not specify whether the new message was a video, audiotape or text, but Zawahri usually releases videos. His latest came earlier this month, to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Al Qaeda released a string of videos for the anniversary, showing increasingly sophisticated production techniques in a likely effort to demonstrate that it remains a powerful, confident force five years into the US-led war on terror.
