[Iran Press TV Latest] Cholera in Somalia's capital and some other towns claims the lives of 13 children and nine women as hospitals complain about the lack of medicine to treat the patients. At least they've got lotsa olde tyme religion... As we all know, "medicine" is a Zionist plot. Makes your dinky fall off. If it isn't cholera it's polio ...
Perhaps if Al Shabab weren't enforcing the three-pebble wipe rule, they wouldn't have these little health issues.
Doctors told a Press TV correspondent that cholera was spreading in the Somali capital Mogadishu as well as the Afgooye corridor and central Shabelle and required immediate attention. According to the doctors, hundreds of people have been affected and hospitalized where the disease is spreading. So far, 13 children between the ages of three and seven have been killed as well as nine women.
The doctors said that medical services are not available in many parts of Mogadishu and other towns affected by the disease. Treatment has become very difficult as there is no medicine to treat the hospitalized patients. They further said that UN agencies and aid groups at present are stationed outside Somalia and private hospitals are not doing much to help.
Moreover, some cases of cholera have also been reported from the neighboring regions of Bay and Bakool where, reports say, some civilians have died. The latest reports indicate that the cholera outbreak might spread to other regions in south and central Somalia. Geez, that's...too bad.
Perhaps the pirates should demand medicines instead of money they next time they're bargaining for ransom.
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no mention why UN and NGO medical ops are all outside the country? Perhaps it's because the ungrateful Islamo-tards tend to kill and kidnap them in their little pious shithole?
Consequences are a bitch, aren't they?
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Kinda makes me wonder,
Are Islamics (And Islam) Going to kill themselves before the world has to?
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[Bangla Daily Star] The international conference on genocide in the capital yesterday called for a campaign for United Nations' recognition of the mass killings during the 1971 Liberation War as genocide. We'll get right on it. See you in...2071.
It wasn't genocide, merely mass killings. Definitely a war crime, but Bangladesh ought to be able to handle it on their own, with the help of international policing organizations like Interpol.
Historians, academics and international legal experts told the conference, which ended yesterday, that the government should make necessary preparations for trying the war criminals and pursue diplomatic efforts to drum up international support in favour of the move.
"The conference calls upon the media and the civil society at home and abroad to focus on the genocide in Bangladesh, and launch a campaign so that this is recognised in the UN as Genocide," says the declaration of the two-day Second International Conference on Genocide, Truth and Justice organised by the Liberation War Museum at Cirdap auditorium.
Liberation War Museum Trustee Tariq Ali read out the declaration of the conference, saying Bangladesh needs to learn from the experiences of other countries in trying war criminals to overcome the complexities of the trial process. Legal experts and academics from Germany, Vietnam, Hong Kong, UK and Canada were also present. Endorsing the government move to prosecute the perpetrators of the genocide during the 1971 Liberation War, the conference emphasised collection and processing of testimonies, addressing the victims' sufferings and recognition of their rights and broader involvement of people in the trial process.
"The issues of management of trauma, reparation, witness protection, extradition, trials in other countries need to be studied further," Tariq Ali read from the declaration.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Kashmir-based militant outfit Asif Reza Commando Force (ARCF), which works together with Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), supplied grenades to LeT Bangladesh chapter leader Moulana Tajuddin for the August 21 attack in 2004.
This was revealed by detained LeT leader Indian national Moulana Mansur Ali as the government pushes for further investigation into the grisly attack particularly to unearth if any influential quarters supplied the grenades.
Mansur, who is also an ARCF organiser, told Detective Branch (DB) during interrogation that an ARFC leader, who is also from India, directly handed over the grenades to Tajuddin, brother of detained former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu.
The investigators however did not reveal the Indian national's name for the sake of investigation.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in its charge sheet only mentioned that Tajuddin had supplied the grenades. But the CID investigators could not find out who handed over the grenades to him and how.
Chief Public Prosecutor Syed Rezaur Rahman on June 25 submitted a prayer to a Dhaka court for further investigation into the attack, which aimed to assassinate AL President Sheikh Hasina in 2004.
Rahman in his prayer argued that experts and influential people who had supplied the grenades were still untraced.
The court which has already heard the prayer on three dates has fixed August 3 for an order in this regard.
"We're expecting more important leads from Mansur on the suppliers of grenades used in the August 21 attack," said a top detective on the understanding of anonymity.
The grisly attack on Hasina's rally on Bangabandhu Avenue killed 23 AL leaders and workers and maimed over 300 others.
The investigators say both ARCF and LeT have close links to the leaders of Harkatul Jihad al Islam (Huji) Bangladesh chapter and work together in the country.
Mansur, who was living in Bangladesh for around 17 years with fake identity and serving as a madrasa teacher, also said most of the grenade throwers at the AL rally were Afghan war veterans having expertise in handling explosives, the sources add.
Quoting Mansur, DB sources say the grenades were smuggled into the country through Satkhira border.
The other detained LeT leader Mufti Obaidullah was also hiding in Bangladesh for 14 years assuming false identity and was serving as a madrasa teacher.
DB Assistant Commissioner Sanwar Hossain, who arrested the two Indian militants, told The Daily Star, "Mansur said ARCF leaders led by a moulana handed over the grenades to Tajuddin."
Quoting Mansur, Sanwar also said most of the grenade throwers were Afghan war veterans with skills in handling explosives.
He added some others who took part in the attack were not fighters but were trained up by the war veterans.
The CID submitted the charge sheet in the grenade attack case on June 11 last year accusing 22 people including Abdus Salam Pintu and Huji leader Mufti Hannan.
According to the charge sheet, apart from Pintu, all other accused are Huji leaders and activists.
Of them, 14 are now behind bars, including Pintu, Mufti Hannan and his brother Mohibullah, Moulana Abu Sayeed, Moulana Abu Taher, Mufti Moinuddin Sheikh alias Abu Zandal.
The eight absconding accused are Pintu's brothers Tajuddin and Moulana Liton, Anisul Mursalin and his brother Mahibul Muttakin, Iqbal, Moulana Abu Bakar alias Selim Howlader, Jahangir Alam Badar and Khalilur Rahman.
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Fanatics led by a sponging Islamic extremist enraged MPs yesterday by publicly demanding the Queen is prosecuted - for genocide.
Rabble-rouser Anjem Choudary's cohorts accused British troops of wiping out the civilian population in Afghanistan and said it was Her Majesty's fault because she is "the head of this country".
In an internet rant to fellow extremist Muslims, they declare: "She is the one who applauds her sons and daughters to go out and massacre hundreds and thousands of innocent people. Shouldn't she be tried for genocide and the extermination of a nation?" The fanatics insist: "Yes."
Labour MP Andrew Dismore said of the shameful attack that appeared on a website linked to Choudary: "Never mind calling for the prosecution of the Queen. "The Queen should prosecute HIM. It's about time he was busted."
Fellow MP Patrick Mercer - chairman of the Commons counter- terrorism sub-committee - branded it an "insult to our monarch." The ex-soldier stormed: "We must recognise Mr Choudary's words for what they are - weapons being wielded by al-Qaeda and the Taliban. This is the next phase of an enemy operation in our country."
Cops are currently investigating Choudary, 42 - who is on benefits and is a pal of hate preacher Omar Bakri - for demanding gays be stoned to death. Douglas Murray, of the Centre for Social Cohesion, said of the latest outrage: "It's especially offensive because the people behind it are living off handouts from the British taxpayer."
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and the UK has time to contemplate submitting conservative talk show host Michael Savage to a watch list for exposing radical Islam for its inhumanity....I guess that's easier than identifying hundreds of thousands true threats in your backyard and government.
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If he can run a website while on the dole, he can bloody well do it for pay, and get off the dole. Oh, and do let's mock him for being unable to do simple arithmatic: even several thousand killed is not genocide in a population of 33,609,937 (CIA: July 2009 est.)
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Behold the wages of appeasement and excessive tolerance resulting from white guilt. I guess it is too much to hope for, that this chap trip and fall on some scissors or something.
The potential breach occurred as the security services battled to fill an intelligence gap in the wake of the July 7 2005 bombings on London's transport network which resulted in the deaths of 52 people.
The Security Service was desperate to understand why and how four men from Leeds had plotted the attacks to give them a better chance of identifying future threats.
The Daily Telegraph has learned that six new Muslim recruits were thrown out of the service because of serious concerns about their pasts.
Two of the six were said to have attended training camps in Pakistan where they could have come into contact with al-Qaeda recruiters. The remainder had unexplained gaps of up to three months in their curricula vitae.
Patrick Mercer MP, the chairman of the Home Affairs sub-committee on terrorism, said the two who had allegedly been on al-Qaeda training camps were given "several weeks" training before they were ejected from the service. The remaining four were identified before they entered training.
Mr Mercer, the chairman of the House of Commons' Home Affairs sub-committee on terrorism, said he was now writing to Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary urging an investigation.
Mr Mercer told The Daily Telegraph: "The attacks of September 2001 should have prompted the Government to seek ways to seek drastic measures for the expansion of our security services.
"In fact it took an attack on this country for such measures to be started. But at this point it was an unseemly rush at which our enemies, not unsurprisingly, took advantage."
Mr Mercer said he was worried that the Security Services might not have rooted out all al-Qaeda sympathisers because of the urgency to build up knowledge about the Muslim community.
He added: "The corollary of this is that we have to ask ourselves if we have discovered all of these individuals and do others remain."
The suggestion was firmly denied by senior security sources last night. One said: "MI5 take vetting really, really seriously and it is not unusual for people to fail.
"They have had tens of thousands of people applying - many have been sifted out before vetting and others didn't pass vetting or dropped out.
"It is difficult to say categorically, but given the diversity of their work force it is entirely possible that some may have had a questionable past.
"It is certainly not the case that anyone was asked to leave after starting work or training."
New recruits are subjected to months of vetting before they are allowed access to MI5's headquarters and sources denied that anyone had been sacked after gaining access to secret intelligence or techniques.
The recruitment drive was signalled in January 2006 - seven months after the attacks - when MI5 announced plans to hire another 200 officers as their budget expanded, more than 70 per cent of these would be devoted to counter-terrorism.
In May 2007 adverts started to appear on the London Underground, while MI5 - together with MI6 - organised for agents to give interviews on the BBC's Asian Network radio service to boost recruitment.
Some al-Qaeda terrorists have claimed that they were approached by MI5 to act as informants.
Although there is no proof of what they say, security sources admit they would not be doing their job if they failed to approach those on the fringes of extremist groups.
However these informants or "agents" are very different from the "officers" who handle them and work within MI5 because they have no access to classified information or techniques.
The allegations are that MI5 had accidentally recruited officers who had al-Qaeda sympathies, leaving them open to a potential security breach.
Last year the security services warned that Islamist extremists had infiltrated Government and key public utilities to pass sensitive information to terrorists.
Counter-terrorism officials were reported to be worried that 'insiders' or their associates are almost certainly working undetected in sensitive posts and are actively supporting extremists.
The London Underground, Gatwick airport and BT are cited as examples of organisations which have been targeted by individuals linked to terrorists.
In 2007 it emerged that up to eight police officers and civilian staff were suspected of links to extremist groups including al-Qaeda. Some are even believed to have attended terror training camps in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Their names featured on a secret list of alleged radicals said to be working in the Metropolitan and other forces.
The dossier was drawn up with the help of MI5 amid fears that individuals linked to Islamic extremism are taking advantage of police attempts to increase the proportion of ethnic staff.
SEOUL, July 31 (Yonhap) North Korea condemned Friday what it claimed was "aerial espionage" conducted by the United States and South Korea, accusing Seoul and Washington of remaining unchanged in their attempts to stifle the communist nation by force. Stifle, Kimmie! Stifle!
The United States and South Korea conducted around 180 aerial surveillance missions in July alone, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, citing an unidentified military source.
Pyongyang regularly accuses Seoul and Washington of conducting reconnaissance missions in preparation for a supposed preemptive strike against the communist nation.
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Notice that's there's not much that they can do about it. Say "cheese", commies...
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From time to time we've experienced a bit of trouble reading vehicle bumper numbers and markings from altitude. Hope it wouldn't be too much to ask if you would kindly touch the faded ones up just a bit please?
The U.S. has imposed fresh financial sanctions on a North Korean firm in light of its alleged role in the North's missile activities.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, Korea Hyoksin Trading Corporation is controlled by another North Korean entity, Korea Ryonbong General, which is involved in the development of weapons of mass destruction.
Under the latest sanctions, all bank accounts and financial assets in the U.S. that belong to the company will be frozen. Americans are also banned from engaging in any form of business venture with the firm.
Young Mr. Kim -- "the pretty", I think is his descriptor -- isn't going to be ready to take on this new annoyance.
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Chaudhry's revenge, or more of the Pakistani version of 'waging law' ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 31 -- Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled Friday that former president Pervez Musharraf violated the constitution by declaring emergency rule in 2007, a verdict widely viewed as a rebuke to the retired general's military regime.
The ruling, which prompted jubilant chants by the crowd in the packed courtroom, raises the possibility that the federal government could bring treason charges against Musharraf and further volatility to this unstable nation. The decision also invalidated judicial appointments made by Musharraf under a provisional constitution during the six weeks of emergency rule.
"I think this is a decision that has established independence for the judiciary in Pakistan," said Hamid Khan, former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, who represented the group that filed a petition against the emergency order. "It will certainly be a boost for our democracy and will block the way for any future military adventurer."
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, an opponent of Musharraf, described the verdict in a statement as "most welcome" and "a triumph of the democratic principles, a stinging negation of dictatorship."
The verdict was delivered by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, who was sacked for the second time in November 2007, along with dozens of other judges, when Musharraf declared emergency rule, suspended the constitution, shut down television stations and imprisoned opponents. At the time, Musharraf justified his actions by citing growing extremism in the country, but many saw the actions as an attempt to ensure his political survival, given that court was deliberating whether to disqualify him from proceeding with a second five-year term.
Musharraf's moves fueled a protest movement of lawyers and civil society advocates that swept the country and brought about the reinstatement of the chief justice and other judges in March.
"After these two years of the movement, there's a change in the mindset of Pakistan. They do not want any military intervention. They want matters to be moving according to the constitution," said Athar Minallah, a leader of the lawyers' movement. "This will have far-reaching consequences," he added, referring to the decision.
Chaudhry delivered the verdict Friday evening in a 45-minute speech that the assembled crowd strained to hear over the rain that hammered down on the Supreme Court building's vaulted roof. But the words "illegal" and "unconstitutional" were heard frequently enough that the result was clear, and the crowd celebrated with chants of "long live the Supreme Court!" Television news footage showed people reveling in the streets in Pakistani cities.
The court did not invalidate the decisions made by the judges Musharraf appointed, but said their jobs no longer exist. It also said that Parliament should decide which laws passed under emergency rule would stand.
Musharraf, who now lives in London, stepped down in August 2008 after nearly nine years in power, facing the threat of impeachment. The Supreme Court summoned him to discuss the case this week, but neither he nor an attorney attended.
The federal government could now prosecute Musharraf, according to lawyers at the courthouse. Nazir Ahmed, a member of Britain's House of Lords who was present for Friday's verdict, said that evidence was being gathered in London on possible breaches of international law "relating to abductions, torture and war crimes committed by the former dictator."
Minallah, the activist lawyer, said, "If the people of this country want the prosecution of Musharraf, the entire pressure will shift to the Parliament and the federal government. So that will be the first impact of this decision."
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[The News (Pak)] Qazis, as envisaged in the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation (NAR) 2009, promulgated before the launch of the military operation in the Malakand Division, are now in place, performing their usual judicial duties, in six out of the seven districts of the region.
"All tiers of Qazis have started working in the districts of Buner, Shangla, Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Chitral and Malakand Agency," a senior official of the NWFP government told The News. However, he said the Qazis were yet to take up their assignments in the Swat district. The process of sending them there is in progress, he said, adding that there was no ambiguity anywhere that the NAR would remain in place and it was the law of the land in Malakand Division.
Urgent matters like those relating to bails of the residents of the Swat district are being dealt with as a stopgap by the designated additional district and sessions judges, stationed in Peshawar.
The official said that the district & sessions judges in the six districts have been designated as Zila Qazis as per the NAR. He said executive magisterial courts are yet to be put in place in the Malakand Division. Under the NAR, apart from the Qazis, executive magistrates, who would perform judicial duties, are to be appointed.
They will try all offences under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) punishable with imprisonment up to three years with or without fine; all offences punishable under local and special laws punishable up to three years with or without fine; all cases for prevention of breach of peace and public nuisances under the PPC and the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the cases pertaining to deviations of licences and permits under relevant laws applicable to the Malakand Division.
He said that there was no shortage of judicial officers for appointment as Qazis in the Malakand Division. According to the NAR, Qazis were required to be duly appointed judicial officers, possessing degrees from the International Islamic University Islamabad or any other institution imparting training in Uloom-e-Shariah and recognised as such by the government.
The official said the fact that the judicial system as provided in the NAR had begun functioning in six out of seven districts of the troubled area shows the impact of the Army operation resulting in the elimination of miscreants.
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[ADN Kronos] In a major strategy shift, the United States military has moved away the focus of its drone strikes from Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to the Taliban on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, US media reported late on Thursday.
To turn up the heat on the Taliban, the US Central Command, which oversees US military operations in the region, is sending a dozen more drones to Afghanistan, according to the Los Angeles Times.
These include some currently used in Iraq and represent a 25 per cent increase in the Predator drone fleet in Afghanistan.
A preliminary review by the US military has concluded that the command in Afghanistan requires up to four times as many Predators as it currently has to beat the militants.
The aircraft redeployment means Afghan insurgents that have launched deadly attacks against the US will for the first time be hunted down by "dozens of drones capable of remaining over a target for hours undetected, identifying key individuals, and firing missiles within a matter of seconds," the Times reported.
The change comes after US military commanders concluded their efforts were too focussed on tracking down Al-Qaeda targets, rather than strengthening Afghanistan and Pakistan in fighting the militants.
But officials said defeating the terror group responsible for the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, still remained America's top priority, the report added.
The US - frustrated by a resurgent Taliban which is drawing support from northwest Pakistan - has launched dozens of drone attacks since August 2008, mostly targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan's tribal regions.
The attacks have provoked fierce opposition in Pakistan even though the US military routinely does not confirm drone attacks.
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[The News (Pak)] President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed serious concern over the reported torching of houses of some Christians in village Korian in district Toba Tek Singh and sought a report from the provincial government.
Spokesperson for the president Farhatullah Babar on Friday said the president took a serious note of the media reports of the incident and asked the provincial government to send him a report about the incident and also to ensure the security of life and property of the villagers.
The president also advised the federal government to send Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti to express sympathy with the victims. He said there were laws of the land to deal with complaints and accusations against anyone and no one should be allowed to take the law into his own hands to settle scores.
"It is against the spirit of Islam and the norms of a civilised society when laws are taken into one's own hands and members of the minority community are vandalised for real or imagined crimes," he said.
The president asked for a thorough investigation into the incident and to bring the culprits to justice in accordance with the law.
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Germany: keep the hospitals and air transport in operation - its strategically well places. Pull all but one heavy and one Stryker brigade out, and colocate everything at Landstuhl along with a single USAF transport + fighter + tac strike unit. Everything else comes home.
Japan: not nearly as much to be done here. secure the missile defense and intelligence gathering bases, and keep the Airbase open in N Japan (for Korea), keep the naval base open, keep Oki.
Korea: pull EVERYTHING back to Pusan. Then pull it all out excepting a "REFORGER" type pre-positioned skeleton crew heavy division, an active cav regiment to screen the whole thing, and a heavy brigade to defend it. Keep just as much USAF as we need to maintain local air superiority (see above, Japan Air Bases) and defend the perimeter for reinforcments entry. Put a naval base at the port there with the capability to RO/RO units in, in a hurry. The 2nd ID comes home as do all the border units, DMZ infrastructure units (give it to the SKors) etc.
Basically, this leaves us with an Air Wing in Germany along with logisitics and a brigade and the hospital, then an Air Wing, a Cav Regiment and a heavy brigade in Korea, and and air wing and some garrison troops in Japan.
It means we hold onto 3 air wings, and at mos a division of permanently based troops overseas, plus a couple of brigades in Iraq with the air wing at Balad.
Everything else is stateside (ready to go), or else in trashcanistan.
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Excellent analysis,Col. Timothy R. Reese. If there is one good thing that comes out of that ungrateful hole called Iraq, it is that a new generation of intelligent, dedicated leaders have been produced in the furnace of that war that will hurl the Islamic menace back into its cage wherever it raises its monstrous head, in the future.
Release the boars, Moshe!
Salfit Maan More than 100 wild boars descended on a farming area west of Salfit Saturday, destroying several small agricultural structures and crops, locals said.
Local butcher Nuzhat Ishtayeiyah from the Al- Maslakh Al-Baladi area, where most of the destruction was registered, said the boars have been coming by the slaughterhouse more and more frequently, and gathering in the valley to the west of the area. Whatever is behind these attacks must be stopped, he said. Here's an idea. You're a BUTCHER! Kill the damn things!
For years locals have attributed the boar attacks to the machinations of hostile nearby Israeli settler groups. One resident, Mahmoud Bani Namera, said he was sure that was the root of the most recent attack. Of course it's the Jooos! They use their Zionist wild boar psychic powers!
Local witnesses said the boars came from the Al-Frez area of Salfit municipality, running through unfenced gardens and destroying vegetable crops in the area. Head of the Union of Agricultural Workers in Salfit Khalil Imran said he would request aid for the farmers unable to access their lands due to the repeated boar attacks. So...are they bulletproof? And it's not like there's not any guns over there. I think they leave them alive just so they got something else to whine about.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The spokesman of a parliamentary special committee probing the disputed presidential election says that a disabled detained opposition figure has been moved out from prison to a house.
Kazem Jalali was quoting Tehran's Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi who was responding to concerns about the health of Saeed Hajjarian, an advisor to the opposition presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, reported Mehr news agency.
Hajjarian was arrested shortly after the disputed June 12 presidential election.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned his political rivals on Friday that their efforts to drive a wedge between him and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would come to nothing. "Yer schemes will come to naught!"
In a speech in the holy Shiite city of Mashhad, Ahmadinejad denied the latest political unrest following the June 12 elections caused any rifts among the leaders of the world's fifth biggest oil exporter. "This is not a political relationship... our relationship is based on kindness. It is like a relationship between a father and his son," Ahmadinejad said. "Your efforts will bear no fruit. This road is closed for those devils who dream about harming our relationship. Their dream will be buried along with them," state television reported.
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What happened? I thought we were courting Syria to separate them from Iran.
[Al Arabiya Latest] United States President Barack Obama late on Thursday extended sanctions against Syrian or pro-Syrian personalities, days after the White House said it would ease trade sanctions imposed on the Arab state.
Obama said the sanctions were gainst those who allegedly were provoking instability in neighboring Lebanon. "In the past six months, the United States has used dialogue with the Syrian government to address concerns and identify areas of mutual interest, including support for Lebanese sovereignty," Obama said in a statement.
He said there have been "some positive developments in the past year, including the establishment of diplomatic relations and an exchange of ambassadors between Lebanon and Syria." But he said "the actions of certain persons continue to contribute to political and economic instability in Lebanon and the region and constitute a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."
I read all that and I'm still confused.
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Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has turned into the "most competent military power" in the Middle East. Lieutenant General Reza Mohammad-Soleimani said that IRGC is fully capable of defending the Islamic Revolution against "any kind of threats".
"The IRGC is a living phenomenon which is rooted in the Islamic Revolution and which defends the Islamic Republic of Iran against 'hard', 'semi-hard' and 'soft' threats," he was quoted by IRNA as saying.
Mohammad-Soleimani noted that an IRGC initiative to organize 31 provincial corps across Iran has considerably enhanced the country's defense capabilities. The Iranian commander stated that the IRGC has made great achievements in defense industry to a point that it uses indigenous military hardware. Iran fought an eight year war to a draw against Saddam's Iraq. Sammy's financial shortskies after that war were why he invaded Kuwait. The U.S. fought the 4th Largest Army in the World™ and threw its sorry ass out of Kuwait in 100 hours flat. When Sammy managed to convince himself that he musta been seeing things and we actually ended up invading Iraq, we whupped him in 14 days.
Admittedly there have been a few years since the Iran-Iraq war. Iran does in fact produce quite a bit of its own armament. They've been concentrating on missile technology, that didn't turn out to be a war winner in 1989. And they've still got the IRGC, the main purpose of which seems to have been to burn off extra population. They haven't actually fought a war and won it, and some of the "triumphs" they've hooted about have been proven to be faked.
If you're actually that good, you don't have to fake it.
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Isn't the US the "most competent" Military in the Mideast? (I know we are not a MidEast nation but there is no doubt our military is in action there.)
Wouldn't that be followed by the Israel and then Turkey and Iraq?
(as the Iraqis are a not green troops)
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The purpose of militaries in the ME is to keep the population under control. SA has the most competent military in the ME, followed by Syria, Egypt and then Iran.
Amid lingering controversy over his first vice presidential pick, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects reports of having fallen out of favor with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution. "No, really! We're like dat!"
In a Friday address to academics in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Ahmadinejad criticized efforts that have questioned his allegiance to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution. President Ahmadinejad said that his relationship with the Leader goes beyond the realms of politics and is similar to that between a father and son. "In the past few days, several attempts were made to cause discord and friction between the government and the Leader," Ahmadinejad said. He said that such conflict-ridden efforts would not succeed in driving a wedge between the Leader and himself.
Tensions within Iran's political circles came to public view after Ahmadinejad appointed Esfandyar Rahim-Masha'i as his first vice president. The appointment came as a shock to Iranian officials, who had long disapproved of Masha'i for describing Iranians as "friends of the Israeli people".
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Watch those headlines... It sounded like he was blowing Kim Jung Il!
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says Western countries - especially Britain - interfered in Iran's affairs and share the blame for the post-vote casualties in Iran. "Britain's policies towards Iran have been hostile and meddlesome, and of course they were defeated in the face the Iranian nation's resistance," Mottaki said during a pre-sermon address to worshippers gathered for the Friday Prayers at Tehran University. "In these [post-election] events, not all Western countries behaved the same, and it is Britain that has the worst record. It interferes the most in the internal affairs of other countries and it still entertains fantasies of the Great British Empire," Mottaki elaborated, as reported by ILNA.
In an apparent reference to the BBC, Mottaki alleged that Britain interfered in Iran in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election, "through television channels, which taught ways of creating disturbance, and preparing explosives, and this means that they share the responsibility for the post-election events and killings."
He said that he had spoken on the telephone with Carl Bildt, the Foreign Minister of Sweden, which is the current holder of the rotating European Union (EU) presidency. "I said that the EU is going through a transitory period. After following US policies unilaterally, it has now adopted certain anti-Iran policies and it must reconsider these," Mottaki described his telephone discussion.
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One day after thousands of Iranians showed no sign of compliance with June's disputed presidential election, a top official chastises the opposition for "not seeing that people are rejoicing" over the vote result.
"Somehow, some are unable to see that the people are rejoicing [over the election result]," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said during his Friday prayers sermon.
"Somehow, some are unable to see that the people are rejoicing [over the election result]," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said during his Friday prayers sermon.
His remarks came after tens of thousands of Iranians on Thursday defied a government ban and gathered in Tehran's main cemetery to mourn some 30 people killed in the aftermath of the election. At least 50 protesters were arrested in the protests.
Former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi, one of the public symbols of the opposition, claims that the June 12 vote was stolen from him in a widespread fraud. He and his supporters, as well as former candidate Mehdi Karroubi, demand a re-run of the vote.
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Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has turned into the "most competent military power" in the Middle East. Lieutenant General Reza Mohammad-Soleimani said that IRGC is fully capable of defending the Islamic Revolution against "any kind of threats". 
