Kabul: Suspected Taliban militants executed a seven-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan after accusing him of spying for the government, a provincial official said on Wednesday.
The child was captured by the militants in Sangin district of southern province of Helmand on Tuesday, said Daoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
"The militants killed the seven-year-old boy in Heratiyan village of the district, on charges of espionage for Afghan government," Ahmadi said, citing information provided to police by relatives.
Most areas of the district are controlled by Taliban militants, while Afghan and foreign troops are only present in the centre, he said.
The Taliban had not yet comment on the reported incident.
After being driven from power in late 2001, Taliban militants have killed dozens of people accused of spying. But Tuesday's incident was the first time a child was reportedly executed.
The Taliban insurgents are most active in southern Afghanistan, where US and NATO forces are planning a major offensive this year.
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Treason is considered a form of apostasy according to many Islamic sources and, if an Islamic Court says you are to die, well then, you die.
Being convicted of murder is actually less of a crime.
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...And yet, The One believes we can negotiate with these people. I am beginning to believe the only thing he truly wants to negotiate is that they come for him last.
Mike
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Bullets are too good for the taliban. Someone needs to develop tiny uavs that can track them down and inject them with stonefish venom.
Afghan ex-spy boss opposes talking to Taliban My, how the winds of critical thinking have changed (referring to 'headlines'). Oh...can't forget the obligatory 'grain of salt' (came from AP)
logi_cal, I've moved your comment here because the article is long enough to page 49. And your 'grain of salt' quip is fair.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's ousted intelligence chief told The Associated Press on Wednesday that President Hamid Karzai is pursuing a dangerous strategy in seeking peace with the Taliban because the insurgents are giving nothing in return.
Amrullah Saleh said the Taliban have only responded to Karzai's conciliatory approach with "violence, destruction and intimidation."
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At least 40 people were killed and more than 70 wounded when a suicide bomber Wednesday night struck a wedding celebration in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar attended by policemen and anti-Taliban militiamen, government officials said.
The groom at whose house in the Nagahan village the explosion occurredwas a member of the local anti-Taliban militia that U.S. Special Forces helped establish in the area in recent months, according to the local tribal chief. While the groom, who was badly injured, survived. The dead included several other members of the militia and Afghan police officers, officials said.
"I was in the hospital until late last night and the doctors had retrieved some metal parts from the bodies of victims, small metal balls usually used in suicide vests," said the governor of Kandahar province, Tooryalai Wesa, who hails from the same Arghandab district where Nagahan is located. The fatalities included 14 children, he added. Hajji Pehalawan, a tribal leader in Nagahan, put the overall death toll at 80.
Mr. Pehalawan, the former Arghandab district assembly chief, and some other Nagahan-area tribal leaders are locked in a long-running dispute with the district governor, Hajji Abdul Jabbar, and other prominent Arghandab leaders who oppose the existence of the local militia. The Nagahan militia is not recognized by the Afghan government.
The bride's celebration, in a separate house, was not attacked. Most Afghan weddings are segregated by gender.
While the U.S. Embassy has condemned the bombing, pledging that "America will continue to stand with the Afghan people against the scourge of terrorism," Afghan government officials have not explicitly blamed the Taliban for the killings. The Taliban, meanwhile, accused the U.S.-led coalition of setting off the explosion in Nagahan, citing past incidents of international troops mistakenly striking Afghan weddings. "The occupying forces are trying to terrorize our people," the Taliban statement said.
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So what happened? Did they let their guard down? Trust someone who shouldn't have been trusted? Since the CIA station thing, it just seems like special precautions need to be taken by assembled groups of people who don't consider the taliban friends...
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The Taliban have been stepping up a campaign of assassinations in recent months against officials and anyone else associated with local government in an attempt to undermine counterinsurgency operations in the south.
Government assassinations are nothing new as a Taliban tactic, but now the Taliban are taking aim at officials who are much more low-level, who often do not have the sort of bodyguards or other protection that top leaders do. Some of the victims have only the slimmest connections to the authorities. The most egregious example came Wednesday in Helmand Province, where according to Afghan officials the insurgents executed a 7-year-old boy as an informant.
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the insurgents executed a 7-year-old boy as an informant. They caught the kid talking to a GI.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The clashes come as three of a group of at least 12 Americans being detained in Yemen are being held on terrorism charges, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday.
"There are three Americans who are currently in Yemeni custody on terrorism charges. We are still seeking information... We are not aware of any new arrests of Americans," said spokesman Philip Crowley.
His comments came a day after the State Department said 12 U.S. citizens were in Yemeni custody, without offering details of why they were being held.
His confirmation of the detentions Monday came amid press reports of a wave of arrests of foreigners in Yemen, home of an active al-Qaeda affiliate called al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The other nine Americans are being held on non-terrorism-related charges, Crowley said, adding that US consular authorities in Sanaa had been able to meet with the Americans in detention.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Ten Yemeni soldiers were wounded in clashes with al-Qaeda suspects as they tried to arrest a militant leader over last week's murder of a top officer, tribal and medical sources said.
Yemeni government forces clashed with al-Qaeda members in the province of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa.
The troops raided the home of Hassan Abdullah Saleh al-Uqaily in al-Himma, using tank guns in an attempt to arrest him. The suspect managed to escape but clashes broke out with a group of his supporters during which 10 soldiers were wounded, a medical official said.
Uqaily's home was completely destroyed in the clashes.
Colonel Mohammed Saleh al-Shaief and two of his bodyguards were killed on Saturday when al-Qaeda militants opened fire on their convoy south of the eastern city of Marib, military and tribal sources said.
Shaief was travelling in a convoy to inspect military forces stationed in the Safar oilfield when the attack occurred south of Marib. A local source identified Uqaily -- a 28-year-old on a government wanted list -- as the one who led the attack.
Marib is one of the strongholds of al-Qaeda in Yemen, ancestral homeland of its leader Osama bin Laden.
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Yemeni army is going to have to clean out some of the scum in Yemen such as Anwar al-Awlaki and others.
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too hell with them build the biggest fence you can and use that mexican illegal labor then boot their ass back over it. No more AID of any kind and shoot a few more crossing and it just might stop.
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Rule of law vs. not rule of law.
Why is it so hard for some to choose between the two?
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Anyone that carries a gun for their job that isn't locked and loaded is acting a bit foolishly if you ask me. Who waits for trouble to load and chamber a round?
Babelfish, etc...
Criminal elements sympathetic to the drug gang Los Zetas tied up traffic with physical blocks of traffic and shootings in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Tuesday, according to the Mexican daily El Porvenir.
No one was reported hurt in any of the shootings.
National reports were that Zetas gang leader Raúl Luna Luna was arrested by elements of the Mexican Army Tuesday. By 1600 hrs in Monterrey, some crews had instituted 13 simultaneous traffic blocks during the city's rush hour. Reports were that gang members had fired firearms, although in published reports it is unclear if they were targeting anyone.
Streets blocked were: Gonzalitos, Ruiz Cortines, Lincoln, Avenida Miguel Aleman, Bernardo Reyes, Fidel Velazquez, Barragan, and Universidad, including the highway to Reynosa.
The tactic of blocking busy city roads is nothing new for Los Zetas. It is a tactic they have used before to stop or slow down security forces operations including the Mexican Army in Monterrey.
La Polaka de Juarez reported that ten murder victims were found within two hours today in Juarez, but without detailing the actual murders. I think I have in today's 3M count all but two of the murders. The two are not included in today's count of 13.
Thirteen people were killed in ongoing drug and gang violence in northern Mexico, including a report of ten murder victims within two hours Wednesday morning in Juarez.
Two boys were shot to death in Juarez Tuesday night by unidentified armed suspects, say Mexican news reports.
José Hernandez Pérez died at the scene while another unidentified boy died shortly later at a local clinic. The two were shot near the intersection of calles Rusia and Bucareli in the Campestre Virreyes district of Juarez Investigators found 20 spent cartridge casings from a 9mm weapon at the scene.
An unidentified man was shot to death Wednesday in Chihuahua,
Chihuahua, say Mexican news accounts.
The victim was found near the intersection of calles 36th and Mariano Irigoyen in the Zarco district of Chihuahua. Investigators at the scene found four spent cartridge casings from an AK-47 assault rifle.
Witnesses say the victim was shot by armed suspects in a moving car.
Two unidentified women were found dead inside a residence in an exclusive district of Juarez, indicate Mexican news reports.
Police cordoned off an area in the Rincones de San Marcos on Calle Santo Domingo following the discovery of the bodies. No other information is available.
Two unidentified men were shot to death Wednesday afternoon in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts.
Reports are the two victims were shot near the intersection of calles Pitahaya and Avena in the Granjero district of Juarez by armed suspects riding aboard a black sedan. Investigators at the scene found several spent cartridge casings from an AK-47 assault rifle.
An unidentified man in his 20s was found shot to death in Juarez Wednesday afternoon.
The victim was aboard a Jeep Cherokee by a park near the intersection of calles María Martínez and Lucas Alaman in the Infonavit Casas Grandes district.
A report by the Mexican daily La Polaka said the crime scene was unattended for nearly a half an hour because police were overwhelmed by reports of eight other murders within two hours in Juarez.
An unidentified man was found shot to death late Wednesday morning, say Mexican news reports.
Witnesses reported hearing five shots fired at about 1100 hrs near the intersection of calles 38th and Irigoyen in Juarez. Witnesses also saw a Subaru sedan speed away from the scene.
Two men in their 20s were shot to death and a third was abducted in Juarez Wednesday morning, say Mexican news accounts.
The trio were at a residence near the intersection of calles Comarca and Paraje de los Indios in the Ladrilleros district of Juarez about 1100 hrs, when armed suspects aboard two Ford pickup trucks started shooting.
Marco Osbaldo Lucero Campos, in his 20s, was dead at the scene while the other murder victim was not fully identified. Witnesses say a third individual was abducted by the armed group.
A man in a state of decomposition was found dead in Caborca, Sonora, according to Mexican police reports.
Jorge Juarez García was last seen in detention in Caborca, Sonora, May 31st. Police did not release information as to the possible cause of death. The discovery was made by an anonymous tip phoned in to police.
A man in his 60s was found shot to death in his home in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon, according to Mexican news reports.
The victim was shot seven times in his home near the intersection of Calle Plutón and Avenida Taur in the Nueva Linda Vista district of Guadalupe, according to witnesses. They also say a Chevrolet Blazer was seen leaving the house.
A young boy died from a gunshot wound inflicted in Mexicali, Baja California, according to Mexican news accounts.
Caesar Eduardo, 5, succumbed to his wounds Tuesday night. The boy was shot during a home invasion in the Los Olivos district near Mexicali June 2nd.
The parents are under investigation for any involvement in the crime.
Elements of the Mexican Army 2nd Military Zone arrested two members of the Cartel Arellano Félix in Tijuana who had three vehicles, five weapons and assorted drugs, indicate Mexican news accounts.
Arrested were: Jesús Chavez Duran,25, and Benito Diego Mejía, 28. The arrest took place in the Las Torres district of Tijuana.
Found were: one .223 assault rifle, four pistols .40 caliber and 9mm, assorted drugs, two delivery trucks and a sedan.
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Badanov: again and as always thx for your fine work. Here on the Tucson border, the leftist Arizona Daily Star joins the Mexican press in playing up the recent Border Patrol shooting of a rock throwing "youth". A good Goebbles playbook idea to change the focus of the true nature of violence in Mexico "Lindo"...
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Here on the Tucson border, the leftist Arizona Daily Star joins the Mexican press in playing up the recent Border Patrol shooting of a rock throwing "youth"
They can play it up all they want, all day long, if they want, but it doesn't change the facts: the Mexican kid's death was a "Hey, watch this!" moment which was entirely avoidable had the kid made the right decisions.
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more fun facts - T.J. Bonner - BP Union Chief was on John & Ken just now:
the yout had 6 prior arrests for smuggling (at age 15!), was no honors student. He and his group were throwing baseball-sized rocks from 35 ft at the agent. The agent fired and killed the POS in self-defense. Later surveillance video caught Mexican police crossing over to the US side to retrieve the agents cartridge case and planted it on the Mexican side by the boy's body to make it appear the agent shot him IN Mexico. When US authorities arrived to begin their investigation, the Mexican police pointed their arms at them.
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the yout had 6 prior arrests for smuggling (at age 15!),
Ooooooh, I do like it when critical facts come out! Good find, Frank G.
A two-star South Korean army general on Wednesday was arrested for allegedly leaking military secrets to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), local media quoted military sources as reporting.
The Defense Security Command (DSC), Seoul's military intelligence agency, has requested an arrest warrant for the active duty Major General, identified only as Kim, earlier in the day, according to Seoul's state-run broadcaster KBS.
Kim is accused of having handed confidential information to a former South Korean intelligence agent recruited by the DPRK, identified as Park, who was also arrested last week on charges of selling the classified information to the DPRK.
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"Aren't there only something like 8 Korean surnames?"
Lessee - Park, Lee, Kim, . . .
What else?
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Yang is one.
I think at one time they would not allow a couple who shared the same [maiden] surname to marry - on the grounds that they may be closely related (often they were not).
Rioters in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, have burned down a school building and thrown stones at police in a second night of disturbances.
The trouble began on Monday after a group of youths in a suburb with a mainly immigrant population were refused entry to a school dance.
Police say up to 100 youths went on the rampage, throwing stones and setting several cars alight. Two people were detained but later released.
Police said the rioters threw stones at the fire engines, preventing them from reaching the school building before it burned to the ground. The youths also attacked a police station.
Rinkeby is home to a large number of first- and second-generation immigrants. Many of them are from Somalia, so the area is sometimes nicknamed Little Mogadishu.
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youths my ass sounds like they even have the media scared too say what they relly are. OH yeah lets get rid of guns here so they can do the same thing
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Just a note, that outside of intercollegiate sports celebrations, no universities burned after Kent State.
Turkish police have rounded up 17 people for suspected links to the al Qaeda extremist network in an operation in four provinces, the Anatolia news agency reported on Wednesday. The operation began on Tuesday in the central province of Konya, a militant stronghold, and then spread to three other provinces, the agency said. The Turkish police regularly target al Qaeda cells since the group was blamed for a series of deadly bombings in the country's biggest city Istanbul.In January, 120 suspects were detained in a massive dawn sweep across the country.
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They missed one. Whatshisname...Tayyip (Erdogan). Almost sounds like taqiyya.
Anti Terrorist Court-I (ATC-1) on Wednesday acquitted 5 accused in the Islamabad district courts and the Aabpara Market suicide bombing cases for want of incriminating evidence. Unless they actually explode there's never enough evidence.
It is pertinent to mention here that during the lawyers' movement for the restoration of judiciary, terrorists carried out a suicide attack on Islamabad district courts just before the arrival of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Later the law-enforcement agencies apprehended Fasihullah, Imdad Hussain and Qasim Mushtaq for their alleged involvement in the attack. The Capital Territory Police also arrested two other accused Tehseen Abbas and Faisal Mushtaq regarding a bomb that went off at Aabpara Chowk.
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Dozens of militants attacked a security convoy in an area near Afghanistan where Pakistan declared the Taliban defeated, sparking a battle that killed six soldiers and 40 militants, an official said Wednesday.
The clash in Orakzai tribal region illustrated the challenge facing Pakistan as it tries to oust insurgents hiding along the Afghan border. Pakistan's declarations of success in some parts have often been premature.
Fifteen soldiers were also wounded in the late Tuesday fighting, government administration official Samiullah Khan said.
The army's offensive in Orakzai came on the heels of an operation against the Pakistani Taliban in the South Waziristan tribal area. Many militants in South Waziristan were believed to have fled to Orakzai, though the top Pakistani Taliban leaders are believed to be in North Waziristan, an area the Pakistani army has resisted attacking.
For months, the military pounded Orakzai with airstrikes, eventually staging a ground operation as well. The offensive intensified in March, with the reported daily death tolls of suspected militants sometimes in the dozens.
Information from the region has been nearly impossible to verify independently because Orakzai is remote, dangerous and access to it is severely restricted.
The army said on June 1 that Orakzai had been cleared of militants and that fleeing civilians could expect to return home soon. More than 200,000 people are believed to have poured out of the area since the end of last year.
Also Wednesday, government official Maqsood Khan said militants attacked two security checkpoints in Mohmand, another part of the tribal belt that has endured army operations. The overnight attack sparked gunbattles that killed two soldiers and six insurgents and wounded several from both sides.
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You all miss the point. Look up:
(i) Where from, beside USA, the Turks been importing their high tech weapons.
(ii) Who been maintaining their American equipment.
Video with Hebrew voiceover, but the pictures are worth a million words. Those IHH thugs had good reason to attack the IDF soldiers, and it wasn't the innocent enthusiasm of peaceful activists.
[Ma'an] Israel has offered a range of amnesty deals to 73 Palestinian fighters from the West Bank, largely affiliated with Fatah's armed wing, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, which it delivered to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday.
The list follows an agreement between Israel and the PA to clear its list of "wanted" Palestinians, in exchange for either a full pardon or partial custody in a PA administered prison. Fighters are asked to turn in their arms and renounce all acts of resistance against Israel.
The categories of amnesty include full pardon; partial pardon; partial pardon requiring nights spent at their home address; and partial pardon but with movement restricted to a single West Bank district.
Ma'an obtained a copy of those granted amnesty from the Nablus district, which include 22 pardons, detailed below:
Full pardon
1- Thaer Mashi
2- Lu'ai A'klik
3- Nael Khaled
Partial pardon
4- A'la' Hanun
5- I'mad Sawalha
6- Istefan A'nabtawi
7- Ahmad Shanteer
8- Mohammad Sharqawi
Partial pardon; required to sleep at home address
9- Hamza Qandil
10 -- Abdallah Hejazi
11 -- Hasen Abu Al-A'des
12 -- Rashad I'beid
13 -- Yasmin Ihmeid
14- Nafeth Asmar
15 -- Ghassan A'ta
Partial pardon with movement restricted to Nablus district
16 -- Naser Khatib
17 -- A'llam Ra'ee
18 -- Ja'far As-Samhan
19 -- Raed Dweikat
20 -- Lu'ai Al-Madani
21- Fathi Mena
22 -- Ahmad Ramadan
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Hope the Israelis do a better job of dissuading these folks from returning to terrorism than the Americans did with the muslim terrorists at Guantanamo. But I doubt it. >50% back to old tricks within a year.
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[Ma'an] The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, said Wednesday that combatants detonated an explosive device toward an Israeli military tank east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
A statement issued by the group said the tank was patrolling east of the Abasan area when the blast occurred, with members filming the assault.
The attack, the statement read, was an "assurance that the Al-Quds Brigades will always continue jihad against the occupation."
The Israeli army said "militants detonated an explosive device against IDF [Israeli army] soldiers near the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip," with a representative confirming that a tank was targeted, causing damage.
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An explosive device went off near IDF soldiers operating in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Army Radio reported.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Israel is easing its Gaza embargo to allow snack food and beverages into the Palestinian enclave, Palestinian officials said on Wednesday, following an international outcry over Israel's raid on an aid flotilla.
An Israeli government official said the decision, announced hours before U.S. President Barack Obama was to host Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington, was unrelated to Israel's May 31 takeover of the convoy that challenged its Gaza blockade.
The talks between Obama and Abbas are expected to focus on ways to ease the embargo, which has drawn mounting international criticism since Israeli commandos, who met violent resistance on a Turkish-flagged ship, killed nine pro-Palestinian activists.
The Palestinian officials, based in the West Bank, said that as of next week, Israel will allow a wider variety of food, such as potato crisps, biscuits, canned fruit and packaged humus, as well as soft drinks and juice, into the Gaza Strip.
"They will send the first course. We are waiting for the main course," Palestinian Economy Minister Hassan Abu Libdeh said in Ramallah. "We are waiting for this unjust siege to end."
Israel says its blockade of Gaza is necessary to choke off weapons supplies to Hamas Islamists who run the enclave and are opposed to Abbas's peace efforts with the Jewish state.
The United Nations says the Israeli blockade has caused a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, an allegation Israel denies.
Raed Fattouh, head of a West Bank-based Palestinian government committee that coordinates entry of goods into the Gaza Strip from Israel, said it was unclear whether Hamas would let the Israeli-made drinks and snack food in.
A Palestinian merchant, who spoke to Reuters in the Gaza Strip on condition of anonymity, said Hamas officials ordered businessmen in the enclave not to import most of the items from Israel. A variety of goods come into the Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt via smuggling tunnels.
There was no immediate comment from Hamas.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] World powers slapped the fourth set of U.N. sanctions on Iran Wednesday hoping to persuade the Islamic republic to curb its suspect nuclear program by widening military and financial restrictions.
The vote in the 15-member council was 12 in favor of the U.S.-drafted resolution, with Lebanon abstaining and Brazil and Turkey voting against.
Iran will not halt its contested uranium enrichment activities in spite of the new UN sanctions, Tehran's envoy to the UN atomic watchdog responded.
Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told state-owned Al-Alam Television that "the move towards the resolution was an incorrect step. It was neither constructive nor efficient in solving the issue. We think it will complicate the situation more."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened to suspend nuclear negotiations in response to what U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said are "the most significant sanctions that Iran has ever faced."
The resolution, co-sponsored by Britain and France with the backing of Russia and China, expands an arms embargo and bans the country from sensitive activities like uranium mining.
It authorizes states to conduct high-sea inspections of vessels believed to be ferrying banned items for Iran and adds 40 entities to a list of people and groups subject to travel restrictions and financial sanctions.
The vote had been delayed for more than an hour after hold-outs Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon awaited instructions from their governments. The three countries finally decided to attend the meeting but insisted on speaking before the vote to register their opposition.
The Security Council resolution was approved despite the sustained efforts of Brazil and Turkey to head off the measures and promote a nuclear fuel swap deal they reached with Tehran last month.
The West has cold-shouldered that proposal, saying it did not allay fears that Tehran is using its contested nuclear drive as a cover to produce nuclear weapons. Iran insists its nuclear program is for civilian purposes only.
Four rounds of U.N. sanctions have now been imposed on Iran since December 2006. The third round was adopted on March 3, 2008.
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Thanks to Brazil's Lula for selling out the Americas in favor of old world Persian Islamic tyranny.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
