UN chief Ban Ki-moon said in a report issued Tuesday that he was prepared to recommend sending UN peacekeepers to strife-torn Somalia if some key conditions are met.
Send in the mighty Uruguayans!
The conditions include "a viable and inclusive political process and an agreement on the cessation of hostilities," he noted in a report detailing possible alternatives to the African Union (AU) peace force known as AMISOM currently in Somalia. Under this scenario, the Ethiopian troops currently propping up the Somali government in its battle with Islamist insurgents "would have withdrawn or would be in the process of doing so."
Boy howdy that Ban is a military sooper genius, isn't he? Let's withdraw the one military unit that is keeping the lid on things, and replace them with a bunch of under-equipped, under-trained guys with a hallowed UN mandate. Sure-fire recipe for success.
"A military technical agreement in support of peace would have been signed by the major clans and factions, which would list security arrangements, such as certain certain to achieve disarmament, in respect of heavy weapons as a minimum, and non-violent settlement of disputes," the report said.
Ban released the report in response to calls for greater UN involvement in Somalia made by the AU and some members of the Security Council.
The deployment of up to 28,500 UN troops and police was one of four scenarios worked out by UN planners who sent a fact-finding team to the volatile Horn of Africa country which has been wracked by civil war for more than 16 years. The team conducted a thorough analysis of the security situation there.
Very thorough except for the part about where the 28,500 UN troops come from ...
Last month, the UN Security Council voted to extend for another six months the mandate of AMISOM. AMISOM, which currently consists of roughly 2,300 troops from Uganda and Burundi according to Ban, is ultimately to number around 8,000 soldiers tasked with stabilizing Somalia. The Somali capital, Mogadishu, has seen almost daily gun battles between Islamist insurgents and Somali and Ethiopian security forces.
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Hey, didn't they try this...awhile back?
How'd that work out for everybody?
Representatives of Morocco and the Polisario Front ended their fourth round of UN-sponsored talks late Tuesday outside New York City without any progress reported on their Western Sahara conflict, but agreed to continue to talk sometime in the future but without setting a fixed date. The fourth round took place in Manhasset, outside New York City, on Monday and Tuesday under the auspices of the UN personal envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum.
"The parties reiterated their commitment to continue the negotiations at Manhasset at a date to be determined by common agreement," Walsum said in a communique, adding that the parties discussed thematic subjects such as administration, justice and resources. "Among a number of proposals I made to expand confidence building measures, " he said, "there was agreement among the parties to explore the establishment of family visits by land, which would be in addition to the existing programme by air".
The fourth round of talks was attended by Algeria and Mauritania as observers. The previous talks took place last June 18-19, August 10-11 and January 8-9.
A UN organized referendum was first scheduled in 1992 to decide whether the former Spanish colony should be incorporated into Moroccan territory or become independent. The referendum has been postponed ever since because of differences between the two sides over who should be eligible to vote.
In the meantime, Morocco offered last year a broad autonomy for the province. The Polisario Front rejected it insisting on a UN organized referendum.
The Saudi Arabian parliament on Monday rejected a recommendation to adopt an international agreement that forbids insulting religions, prophets and clerics, the Saudi daily Al-Watan reported.
Seventy-seven members of parliament rejected the recommendation, claiming that if they adopted the agreement, they would have had to recognize the legitimacy of idolatrous religions, such as Buddhism.
The recommendation was put forward by MP Muhammad Al-Quweiha's. He wrote that the Saudi Foreign Ministry should cooperate with the Arab and Islamic bloc in the United Nations to adopt the agreement. "The concept of religions varies from one country to the other and from one culture to the other. Buddhism and Bahaism are considered religions in some countries, but must Muslims respect these sects and not condemn them," said MP Khalil Al-Khalil, who rejected the recommendation.
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Said without a grain of irony. Plus it would shorten by 90% islamic cult rites.
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Irony on all sides, Ed.
We accept wrong stuff like this for all the right reasons.
They are right to reject it - for all the wrong reasons.
Good to know that we're not the only civilisation that contains the seeds of our own destruction.
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AL-QAEDA leader Osama bin Laden has threatened the European Union with grave punishment over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
In an audio recording posted on the internet, Bin Laden said the cartoons were part of a "crusade" in which he said the Catholic Pope Benedict was involved.
The message was released on the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
The cartoons were first published by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in September 2005 but a furore erupted only after other papers reprinted them in 2006.
At least 50 people were killed in the protests against the publication of the cartoons, which Muslims say are an affront to Islam. Newspapers which have reprinted the cartoons argue they are defending the right to media freedom.
Bin Laden's message was entitled The Response Will Be What You See, Not What You Hear, according to the password-protected Ekhlaas Web, which carries messages and statements from al-Qaeda-affiliated groups around the world.
The banner message appeared in bright red, labeled "urgent" with plain Arabic text. It carried no picture of the Saudi-born militant leader nor the insignia of al-Qaeda's media arm As-Sahab, which usually releases his videos and audio tapes.
The message apparently is the first by bin Laden since November 29 when he urged European countries to end military participation with US forces in the Afghan conflict.
US presidential hopeful John McCain received a celebrity welcome in Jerusalem Tuesday, with American tourists scrambling to shake his hand and get a souvenir snapshot. McCain began a two-day visit with a stop at Israel's national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem. As his motorcade pulled up, dozens of tourists greeted him and chanted "Mac is back," while he shook their hands and posed for photographs.
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Personally I find a notion of US president who's neither a Tranzi, nor Jacobin, enchanting.
Sen. John McCain, traveling in the Middle East to promote his foreign policy expertise, misidentified in remarks Tuesday which broad category of Iraqi extremists are allegedly receiving support from Iran.
He said several times that Iran, a predominately Shiite country, was supplying the mostly Sunni militant group, al-Qaeda. In fact, officials have said they believe Iran is helping Shiite extremists in Iraq.
Speaking to reporters in Amman, the Jordanian capital, McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian operatives "taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back."
Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was "common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that's well known. And it's unfortunate." A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate's ear. McCain then said: "I'm sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda." Perhaps what Joe whispered was; "John, that's still classified!"
The mistake threatened to undermine McCain's argument that his decades of foreign policy experience make him the natural choice to lead a country at war with terrorists. In recent days, McCain has repeatedly said his intimate knowledge of foreign policy make him the best equipped to answer a phone ringing in the White House late at night.
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Not a gaffe at all. Iran does both.
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As Michael Kinsley wrote, A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
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Standard answer: Iran can cooperate with Al Quaida just like Soviet Union cooperated with Nazi Germany,
the aryan supremacit Nazis with the Jaopanese (who were declared honorary aryand) and later the predominatly capitalist US and Uk cooperated with Soviet Union.
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) will get three ministries at the Centre on a basis of an agreement reached by the four partners of the national coalition government on Tuesday.
The four coalition parties the Awami National Party (ANP), the Pakistan Peoplees Party (PPP), the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and the JUI-F held a meeting here to discuss the formula for ministriess distribution at the Centre.
A source privy to the meeting told Daily Times that the JUI-F would be given at least three ministries, as the party enjoys more representation in the Senate as compared to its would-be partners. The JUI-F only had six members in the National Assembly, which qualifies it for only one ministry under the formula agreed upon between the PPP, the ANP and the PML-N.
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An appeal preferred by Anwarul Haque, convicted and sentenced by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC-III) for a bomb attack on the US consulate, was admitted for regular hearing by an Anti-Terrorism Appellate (ATA) bench of the Sindh High Court Tuesday.
The bench of Justice Qaiser Iqbal and Justice Syed Mehmood Alam Rizvi ordered for the appeal to be fixed after three months. The appellant/accused has assailed the death sentence on four counts of murder, life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 500,000. If he defaults on the payment he is liable to serve another three years in prison. Usman Ghani, a co-accused, was exonerated. Accused Zafar is absconding while the suicide bomber was identified as Muhammad Tahir. According to the prosecution, based on a complaint filed by SHO Artillery Maidan police station, SIP Farooq Umar, a blast was heard at 09:05 a.m. at the back of the Marriot hotel. The suicide bomber targeted a station wagon of the US Consulate at Karachi, killing the driver and diplomat David Foy, a security official and a worker at a makeshift canteen.
Dozens of vehicles were damaged. The appeal was filed through counsel M. Ilyas Khan and Muhammad Farooq advocates. The appellant maintains that the trial court erred in convicting the appellant on the basis of the most unreliable, unconvincing, untrustworthy chance witnesses who claimed to be available at the scene of the crime while dozens who were genuinely present were not examined as witnesses.
The confession by the accused was also not admissible under law and the mandatory requirements for a confession were not fulfilled, maintains the appeal, adding that the most important eyewitness, Ali Zaman, who claimed to be a waiter at the makeshift hotel failed to prove employment at the outlet. The prosecution also failed to prove conspiracy and common intention of the accused/appellant and alleged suicide bomber, the appeal maintains.
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The appellant maintains that the trial court erred in convicting the appellant on the basis of the most unreliable, unconvincing, untrustworthy chance witnesses who claimed,,,
BAGHDAD - A conference to reconcile Iraqs warring political groups began to unravel even before it got under way on Tuesday, with the main Sunni Muslim Arab bloc pulling out and protesting it had not been properly invited. The boycott by the Sunni Arab Accordance Front, a Shia bloc and smaller groups underlined that while Iraq is no longer on the verge of a sectarian civil war, there are still deep divisions between Shias and Sunnis, Iraqs main Muslim sects.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gave an upbeat assessment despite Tuesdays setbacks, saying the nation was now healed after sectarian violence that threatened civil war. Peace has been achieved between Sunni and Shia ... the crisis when people were being killed because of their religious identity is over, Maliki told the conference.
On Tuesday, Front spokesman Salim al-Jubouri complained that the bloc had not been properly invited to the reconciliation conference at a convention centre in Baghdads heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the government and the US embassy.
He also said the Front decided not to attend because resolutions from other past conferences had not been acted upon. How can we now arrange new proposals? Jubouri said.
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Who the F do they think they are? Berkeley high school students?
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government said on Tuesday it wanted to execute together three former aides of Saddam Hussein, including Chemical Ali, who face the gallows for a genocidal campaign against Kurds.
Ali Hassan al-Majid, widely known as Chemical Ali, was sentenced to death last June for genocide, along with former defence minister Sultan Hashim al-Tai and Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti, once armed forces deputy chief of operations. The three were convicted of overseeing a brutal military campaign known as Anfal against Kurdish villagers in 1988 that left 180,000 people dead, and of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Iraqi cabinet calls for the three Saddam aides to be executed together at one time in order to implement the sentence issued by the court against them, a cabinet statement said.
The executions have been delayed by legal wranglings. On February 29, Iraqs three-member presidency endorsed the execution of Majid, but gave no information about the fate of the other two men. Under Iraqi law the three men should have been executed by October 4 last year, 30 days after the sentences were upheld by the Supreme Court. But Iraq decided to postpone them until after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, because of the outcry over Saddams hanging during another Muslim holiday in December 2006. The hangings were further put off because President Jalal Talabani and his Sunni deputy, Tareq al-Hashemi, refused to sign the three execution orders.
The three men are in the custody of the US military, which has refused to hand them over to the Iraqi authorities unless the legal hitches are resolved.
A source close to the Iraqi High Tribunal, which sentenced the three, said the executions were delayed because the US authorities were under pressure from Hashemi. Hashemi is the obstacle in the executions, he said, adding that the Sunni leader and the US authorities believe the three executions could trigger fresh chaos in the country. We dont understand how it can trigger chaos. None of them is like Saddam.
He said Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was determined to carry out the hangings. The prime minister just wants to implement the sentences as per law."
He said the legal advisors of the government said it no longer had to adhere to the 30 days period. That deadline was only for the first time. We have already passed that deadline, he added.
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I'm partial to one a day.. but that's just me...
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Always was fond of a hat trick...
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Do they have any more on death row? I say do 'em all at once, just as long as they all DIE. I have no sympathy with anyone who deliberately kills children. They should all hang.
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Ten on one noose, right? [Purim is tomorrow night.]
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Security forces are on high alert in Israel and at Israeli and Jewish institutions abroad before the end of the 40-day mourning period for Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyah, who was assassinated in Damascus last month. A full closure was imposed on the West Bank as of last night.
Iran and Hezbollah blame Israel for the February 12 assassination, and Hezbollah has threatened revenge attacks in Israel. The mourning period ends on Sunday. In the past, extremist Islamic organizations have launched revenge attacks at the end of the mourning period.
Israeli military officials are particularly concerned about possible simultaneous attacks in Israel and on Israeli diplomatic offices and Jewish institutions abroad. Security at many Israeli diplomatic missions has been tightened in response.
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Security officials say that Hezbollah wants to "reset the balance of terror vis-a-vis Israel to zero" in the wake of Mughniyah's death, to deter Israel from future attacks on Hezbollah's leaders. To do this, the organization would have to carry out a major attack that would draw international attention.
Israel's intelligence community has gained possession of fragments of information hinting at plans for a Hezbollah revenge attack in coordination with Iran and Syria. Although this intelligence is partial and unfocused, it was enough to send into high alert troops of the Israel Defense Forces at the northern border.
After consulting with security officials, Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued a total closure on the West Bank that went into effect at midnight last night and will remain in place until Sunday night. In addition to fears of an attempt to avenge Mughniyah's death, Barak cited the large number of terror attacks and attempted attacks in recent years around the Purim holiday.
The Israel Police are to go on heightened alert from tomorrow. On Monday, when schools reopen after the Purim vacation, the alert level is expected to return to normal levels.
National Police Commissioner David Cohen ordered the threat level raised to three, one below the highest level, with special attention given to places of entertainment and public gathering spots.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned Israel on Tuesday that history shows no occupation lasts forever. "Your people's security cannot be attained by exercising a policy of collective punishment, aggression, siege, walls and building settlements," he said in comments broadcast live on state television.
Mubarak added that for their part, the Palestinians needed to unify their ranks and consider their actions for the sake of their suffering children.
"Resistance is a legitimate right for any people under occupation, but it should be examined according to the principle of profit and loss... Give peace a chance and don't give excuses to those who want to derail its march."
In a speech in honor of the Prophet Muhammad's birthday, Mubarak said continued insults to the prophet would just make the situation worse for everyone, while at the same time criticizing the extremists using these insults to justify their actions.
"With the Prophet's birthday anniversary, the falsifications and insults have surfaced again hiding behind the freedom of expression and the press," he said in comments broadcast live on state television. "We tell them it is enough now talking about the dialogue between cultures, civilizations and religions and be aware of following the path that will take you and us into a dangerous abyss."
The Egyptian president did not say who his remarks were directed at, but they came amid renewed controversy over the reprinting by Western newspapers of a Danish cartoon deemed insulting to the prophet to show their commitment to freedom of speech.
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Hey Mubarak, when are going to throw off the shackles of your Arab oppressors?
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Yeah, the Paleostinians ought to be deported to Egypt.
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For a given value of forever short of infinity that does not take into account the possible assimilation of the subject population. F'r example, when would savant President Mubarek project the European occupation of the Americas to end?
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I actually agree with Mubarak, and think the Israelis should push the Palestinians into Egypt, and thus begin the Palestinian occupation of that country.
I'll bet that the religious zealots thought the same thing in Jerusalem when Titus was just outside the walls too. A couple hundred years is forever in human life spans.
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He's right - maybe one day, the Egyptians will throw the Arabs out of their country and relearn their ancient language, much as the Israelis rediscovered Hebrew.
A top Hamas official said on Tuesday his group was ready to accept a Yemeni initiative for reconciliation with the rival Fatah, but did not say if that means it accepts to relinquish its grip over the Gaza strip.
The Yemeni initiative calls for the situation in Gaza to return to the way it was before Hamas seized control of the territory last June and for early Palestinian elections to be held, conditions endorsed by Abbas and so far rejected by Hamas. "The visit is to meet (Yemeni) President Ali Abdullah Saleh ... and inform him of the movement's acceptance of the Yemeni initiative," Hamas deputy politburo chief Moussa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera television in Sanaa where Fatah officials were due to meet Saleh.
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Fatah officials said on Tuesday they were ready to begin a Palestinian national dialogue if the rival Hamas faction accepts the terms of a Yemeni initiative to end hostilities between them.
Delegations from the rival factions will meet separately with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh but a breakthrough seems unlikely in the absence of Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah.
Hamas Islamists routed Fatah forces to seize control of the Gaza Strip in June. After the takeover, Abbas dismissed a Hamas-led government and appointed a new Western-backed cabinet in the occupied West Bank. The two sides have been at loggerheads ever since. "If the brothers in Hamas accept the Yemeni initiative completely in all its clauses, we are ready to immediately begin a Palestinian national dialogue, not just between Fatah and Hamas but all the national factions," senior Abbas aide Azzam al-Ahmed told reporters in Yemen. "The dispute is not between Fatah and Hamas... it is between all the national action factions... and Hamas. Hamas has been singled out ... from the start when it used armed force."
The Yemeni initiative calls for the situation in Gaza to return to the way it was before Hamas seized control and for early Palestinian elections to be held, conditions endorsed by Abbas and so far rejected by Hamas.
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It is Debka & probably wishful thinking, yet
DEBKAfiles military, Washington and Gulf sources report that US V ice President Dick Cheney is again talking about possible US military action to shut down Irans covert nuclear program.
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Why not 9/11/08?
The election will be in full swing until November.
Launch something in January and the dhimocrats won't even have time to ink anything resembling a complaint or an impeachment before the next guy is sworn in.
Kinda a "Ha-ha fuck you" type of action as you leave.
And no, I never fish, I could enjoy the zen-aspect of the experience, but, catching food and then setting it free again goes against everything I believe in ;)
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Braise in a red wine sauce... or white, depending on taste. ;-)
Mr. Wife had a colleague who always brought his scuba gear when he went to the plant in Saudi Arabia. Apparently the diving around there is incredible.
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I voted for Bush twice. I'd do it again were he facing the same challengers.
But he's not going to do anything to make the world safer. Its not in him. Iraq should have been a mere "staging area" to promote further restructuring of the Middle East. It didn't happen in 2003 and its not happening as he walks out the door.
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FOX NEWS this AM > BREAKING - IIRC/IIHC, OSAMA BIN LADEN has reportedly just threatened? the Pope = Vatican over these Toons?
OSAMA, etc + Radical Islam may not had needed a de facto HIDDEN IMAM-MAHDI to initiate their Regional-Global Jihad, or start a War(s), BUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME TO STOP US = US-LED ENTRENCHMENT THEY'LL NEED AN IMAM-NAHDI TO SALVAGE THEIR IDEO + OWG AGENDA, AND TO KICK GLOBAL NON/ANTI-ISLAMIST = WESTERN HINIES.
Iff the above FOX NEWS report is true, it again tells me that my old/former Aghan War cohort OSAMA, etc REALIZES THE JIHAD IS REACHING A DECISIVE TURNING POINT-APEX = POINT OF NO RETURN, AS TO INEVITABLE VICTORY VERSUS INEVITABLE DEFEAT, TO INCLUDE THE POSSIB INVALIDATION OF ISLAM AS A DIVINE FAITH.
Lebanese sources have revealed that the Syrian army is reinforcing its military presence along the Lebanese-Syrian borders point from the western Bekaa valley area to Deir Al Ashaer.
The sources linked the military reinforcement to increased speculation inside and outside Lebanon about the possibility that Lebanon will be lured into a war with Israel, which could be triggered by Hezbollah in retaliation for the assassination of its commander Imad Mughniyeh.
The sources said Damascus action is aimed at preventing Israel from attacking the Syrian territory .
According to war analysts, any action by Israel will be in response to Hezbollah's attack on it or any place in the world. Israeli response the analysts say will have specific objectives in quality and quantity ... stressing that such operations will target all Hezbollah bases in the Western Bekaa, which have been strengthened after the war of July 2006.
The analysts said that the western Bekaa contains the main operations of the party, which were established with Iranian funds and include educational and medical institutions and service facilities , all of which will be the targeted by Israeli .
According to Lebanese sources, Hezbollah chief sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is reviewing carefully all the security an military organs of the party after the assassination of Mughniyeh , in preparation for the next battle with Israel . All of this is preparation is being done in coordination with Iran communication with Iran.
Lebanese experts believe that the options of war and peace are equal. Tipped one over another depends on the type of retaliation by Hezbollah for the assassination of Mughniyeh . The experts noted that the citizens of the south of Lebanon are now living in a state of panic and many have renewed their passports to flee if a new war breaks out.
According to Israeli intelligence sources Hezbollah has completed its military preparations in order to execute its retaliatory action against Israel and the countdown for such an operation has already started .
This is why the Israeli sources have pointed out is the reason why Tel Aviv has issued a warning to Damascus in which it holds the Syrian leadership responsible if Hezbollah launched any attacks on its territory or its interests around the world. The sources stresses this warning is a direct threat that Syria will be attacked if Israel is attacked from the Lebanese territory.
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HMMMM, and at roughly the same time that ABBAS has reportedly called for up to 3.0Milyuhn Palestinians to mass on the borders wid Israel and prepare to rush the border security; + while also threatening to revive Terror strikes agz Israel, ala DEBKA.
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The history of the region seems to indicate that Hezbollah is actually more of a threat to Israel than Syria. Every time the Syrians have tried to confront Israel they have gotten their butts kicked in no uncertain terms.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government said on Tuesday it wanted to execute together three former aides of Saddam Hussein, including Chemical Ali, who face the gallows for a genocidal campaign against Kurds.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned Israel on Tuesday that history shows no occupation lasts forever. "Your people's security cannot be attained by exercising a policy of collective punishment, aggression, siege, walls and building settlements," he said in comments broadcast live on state television. 
Lebanese sources have revealed that the Syrian army is reinforcing its military presence along the Lebanese-Syrian borders point from the western Bekaa valley area to Deir Al Ashaer.
