A statement from Morocco's Interior Ministry says that they have dismantled two terror cells linked with al-Qaida.
One cell, the Sahrawi Jihad Front, had four members. The ministry said the cell was being led by an "extremist" who had previously lived in Italy. The ministry says a second, five-member cell had been recruiting volunteers for Iraq.
For Iraq? that strikes me as a tad quixotic... although in this case perhaps the recruits are seeing very dangerous giants as helpless windmills instead.
It says the group had been coordinating efforts with other al-Qaida networks.
The government also says one of the detainees is a Yemeni national who is wanted in his country for links to al-Qaida. The statement did not say when the arrests took place.
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Define "Dismantled", Saying "Shoo, go away" isdimantling, but shOOting the bastards is more permanent.
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VIENNA -- Former UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei blasted Egypt's "authoritarian" government and insisted political change was coming, in an interview Saturday with the Austrian daily Kurier.
"The more unpopular this regime becomes, the more it realises how much it is hated, the most authoritarian it becomes," ElBaradei told the newspaper, according to a German transcription of the interview published Saturday.
I imagine that was just as profound in Egyptian as it was in "Austrian" as it is in English. No doubt that's why they put him in charge of inspecting inanimate objects at the U.N.
"That's untenable in the long term, change will come," the Nobel Peace Prize winner promised. "The timing only depends on when people will be able to throw off this culture of fear that the regime has created."
Don't count on sonny-boy Gamal being any better than Pops Hosni ...
ElBaradei, now an opposition figure who has campaigned for constitutional reform at home, said "Egyptians have lived for so long in an authoritarian system, which tells them what they should or should not do, that they don't even know what democracy really means, what it would change."
But he saw hope in the younger generation. "They haven't made arrangements with the system yet, they have their future before them. The so-called elite let itself be corrupted by the system a long time ago. It doesn't want any change."
ElBaradei also voiced regret that the Arab world had distanced itself from democracy.
"Democracy is not like soluble coffee, where you stir it and it's done. You have to educate people and we weren't raised for democracy," he added.
ElBaradei, who stepped down as director general of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA in February, has called for constitutional amendments to allow independent candidates not affiliated to an existing party -- such as himself -- to run in Egyptian presidential elections next year.
He has also called for a boycott of next month's parliamentary polls.
You can't win if you don't run ...
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(KUNA) -- UK Prime Minister David Cameron said the device in a package sent from Yemen and found on a US-bound cargo plane was designed to go off on the aircraft.
Cameron told news hounds tonight British investigators could not yet be certain about when the device, intercepted at East Midlands Airport, was supposed to explode.
Police in Dubai, UAE, earlier confirmed that a second device, also on a US-bound cargo plane, contained explosives.
Washington suspects the devices were part of a plot by an Al-Qaeda offshoot.
They were apparently both inserted in printer cartridges and placed in packages addressed to synagogues in the Chicago area.
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) - an explosive favoured by the Yemeni-based bad turban group, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) - was discovered in the Dubai device.
The packages were found on UPS and FedEx planes, triggering alerts in the US, UK and Middle East.
The Yemeni authorities have closed down the local offices of the two US companies, who have already suspended all shipments out of the country and pledged full co-operation with investigators.
Security forces have also jugged a woman allegedly involved in sending the parcels, after surrounding a house in Sanaa. US President Barack B.O. Obama discussed the apparent terrorist plot with Cameron by phone today, expressing his "appreciation for the professionalism of American and British services involved" in disrupting it, the White House said.
Cameron said tonight the authorities had immediately banned packages coming to or through the UK from Yemen, and would be "looking extremely carefully at any further steps we have to take".
"In the end, these Islamic fascistithink that our connectedness, our openness, as modern countries is what makes us weak. They're wrong. It's a source of our strength and we will use that strength, that determination and that power to defeat them," he added.
UK Home Secretary Theresa May earlier confirmed that device was viable and could have brought an aircraft down.
"We do not believe that the perpetrators of the attack would have known the location of the device when it was planned to explode," she added.
While details of the device found in Britain were not released, photographs emerged on the US media of an ink toner cartridge covered in white powder and connected to a circuit board, which was said to have been found at East Midlands Airport.
The British government's remarks suggest the authorities in both the UK and the US remain uncertain about the precise targets and, indeed, aim of this latest apparent plot, commentators said.
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[Al Jazeera] More than 430 South Koreans have crossed the border to reunite with relatives in North Korea who were separated by the Korean War, just a day after troops exchanged gunfire in the demilitarised zone dividing the countries.
The three-day event in the resort of Diamond Mountain gave 97 South Korean families the chance to see relatives in the North for the first time in six decades.
Kim Rae-jung, 96, from the South, choked in tears as she touched the face of her 71-year-old daughter, Wu Jong-Hye, from the North.
"How are you ... I could only see you in dreams," she said.
"I've been living well here, mother," said the daughter, who was left behind in the North when other family members decamped to the South in 1951 to avoid advancing Chinese troops during the war.
Lee Moon-yeong, in his 70s, said he had spent a sleepless night in anticipation of seeing one of his brothers. He had previously suspected the brother might have been killed in action after joining the North Korean army during the Korean War.
"Brothers were fighting against brothers. What a tragedy it was," he said.
Lee's second brother died in 1952 while fighting as a South Korean soldier.
Another group of 96 South Koreans will be reunited with 207 North Koreans from Wednesday to Friday at the same place.
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More than 430 South Koreans have crossed the border to reunite with relatives in North Korea who were separated by the Korean War,
In A word "Hostages".
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[Pak Daily Times] Turkish army chiefs boycotted an official ceremony at the presidential palace because the president's wife wore hijab, the press reported on Saturday.
The army's top brass were conspicuous by their absence late Friday at a banquet thrown by President Abbdullah Gul to commemorate the creation of the modern, secular Turkey in 1923.
The military organised a separate reception at the same time to give the generals an excuse not to accept the president's invitation, the reports said. The secularist main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) also declined Gul's invitation. Turkey's First Lady has worn the hijab, which covers the head and neck. The boycott was criticised by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose wife also wears the headscarf.
The army's generals, who see themselves as custodians of the Turkish republic, regard the headscarf as a threat to the state's secular traditions and are against any relaxation of the ban on wearing them in schools and government buildings. Hayrunnisa Gul and Emine Erdogan, as well as a number of other wives of leaders of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), all wear headscarves. Erdogan, reproached the generals, saying 'the armed forces should have been present' at the presidential palace.
In the past, generals have attended the banquet to celebrate the founding of the Turkish republic but this year the president extended the invitation to wives, meaning that women wearing the veil would be present. Gul, a former AKP cadre, has been pressing for a lifting of the ban on veils since he took office. The ban on headscarves on university campuses was recently eased by the Higher Education Board, which used to be a bastion of secularism but is now headed by an Erdogan supporter.
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A return to the good old days of the 7th century?
Obama's counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that we "have to presume" there might be more mail bombs like those in recent plots. Al-Qaeda is "still at war with us and we are very much at war with them," deputy national security adviser John Brennan said. "We're trying to get a better handle on what else may be out there," he said on Meet the Press. "We're trying to understand better what we may be facing."
On CNN's State of the Union he said that "it would be very imprudent ... to presume that there are no others (packages) out there." He said the U.S. "will destroy [al-Qaeda in Yemen] as we are going to destroy the rest of al-Qaeda."
Brennan said that whether the planes were the intended targets has yet to be determined. He said the two bombs were powerful enough to bring down a plane and were "very sophisticated". "They were self-contained. They were able to be detonated at a time of the terrorists' choosing," Brennan said.
He also said that the National Transportation Safety Board was re-examining the UPS cargo jet that crashed in Dubai in September. UAE investigators said there was no evidence that an explosion caused that crash.
[Al Jazeera] A young Canadian held in Guantanamo Bay has spoken about his fears after his US captors threatened him with gang rape and death while quizzing him over his suspected involvement with al-Qaeda.
Omar Baby Face Khadr told a US military tribunal, which is due to sentence him after he admitted killing an US soldier in Afghanistan, that his interrogators told him about another prisoner who had been transferred to a facility that held "big black guys" because he had lied to authorities.
"They caught him in the shower ... they raped him ... We think he ended up dying," Khadr quoted the interrogators as telling him shortly after he was captured.
"I know it does not change what I did, but I hope you will think about it when you punish me," Khadr said. "This story scared me very much, and made me cry."
In April, an interrogator who testified under oath admitted doing exactly what Khadr alleges - using indirect threats of gang rape and murder while questioning him at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
The interrogator who admitted making up the threat, Joshua Claus, was later court-martialed for abusing prisoners at Bagram, including one who died.
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"They caught him in the shower ... they raped him ... We think he ended up dying,"
My sides hurt! I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!
If that don't work, threaten to send the twit up to Enumclaw, Washington where "visitors" end up being dropped of dead at the local hospital after the "inmates" take all-night revenge on jihadi-boys like him after the lights go out at night ....
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If he ends up coming back to Canada to serve out any of his sentence, the "Fruits, Nuts ands Skinners" that are serving time in the Canadian Federal Prison system will have an absolute party with him.
(KUNA) -- US President Barack B.O. Obama called on Saturday British Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the interception of explosive packages.
The White House said in a statement that Obama spoke to Cameron this morning "to discuss the terrorist plot that was disrupted yesterday at East Midlands Airport and in Dubai as a result of the close cooperation between the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as other international partners.
" "The President expressed his appreciation for the professionalism of American and British services involved in the joint effort to stop this plot. The President noted that John Brennan has spoken regularly with his British counterpart, and will continue to do so as we work together to prevent and disrupt future efforts to attack our citizens," added the White House.
Suspicious packages found yesterday in at least two locations were bound to the United States, leading to increasing searches of cargo planes and trucks in several US cities and creating worldwide fears that al-Qaeda was attempting to carry out new terror attacks.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia on Saturday urged the leaders of Iraqi political parties to meet in Riyadh after the hajj season under the Arab League umbrella to discuss the government formation dilemma.
Going to read them the riot act?
King Abdullah expressed Saudi ArabiaÂ’s readiness to extend a hand of support and help to whatever decisions reached in this meeting, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on Saturday.
The Saudi monarch “invited Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and the parties that participated in the March 7 legislative elections in Iraq and all political powers to come to their second country Saudi Arabia for consultations over the government formation crisis”.
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(KUNA) -- The Arab League denounced a statement by a UN official that the Paleostinian refugees should find another place in the Arab countries to live in.
The Arab League's Section of Paleostine and Occupied Paleostinian Territories, said the statement by Andrew Whitley, Director of New York office of UN agency for Paleostinian refugees (UNRWA), was totally contradicting with UN resolutions concerning the Paleostinian refugees specially resolution 194, which authorized UNRWA to provide assistance to refugees until their return to their homes and houses which were confiscated by the Israelis in 1948.
Whitley had said the Paleostinian refugees must not live in the illusion of achieving the right to return and that the Arab countries must search for a place for them in their lands to resettle there.
The Arab League said more than 4.5 Paleostinian refugees have the right to return to their homes.
While highly appreciating the role of UNRWA, said the Section, it rejected Whitley's statement who should defend rights of the Paleostinian refugees.
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Any bets Andrew will be submitting his resignation by tomorrow at the latest?
(Ma'an) -- Senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leader Mahmoud Zahhar described Orcs and similar vermin behind the launch of homemade projectiles from Gazoo towards Israel as "mutineers against their factions" in an interview with the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat.
Published on Saturday, Zahhar's comments focused on the point that all factions had agreed to the ceasefire with Israel following the launch of hostilities in December 2008. Israel's war on Gazoo left more than 1,400 dead and thousands of others injured.
"Why do they criticize us for respecting what we agreed on along with Fatah and other factions?" Zahhar asked, referring to a post-Gazoo war agreement between factions to halt the flow of projectiles toward Israel.
Israeli air strikes on Gazoo began on the eve of the expiration of an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Gazoo, and ended with a unilateral declaration of ceasefire by the Israeli military. During the following week, factions in Gazoo agreed to a second unilateral ceasefire, with some small factions pledging to continue sending projectiles toward Israel.
Zahhar said he considered those who continued to launch projectiles toward Israel as committing mutiny against their factions, and criticized the Orcs and similar vermin who he said failed to claim the acts.
"Do they expect us to applaud someone who commits mutiny against his faction. Opening the door for mutiny will result in chaos. Some [of the] factions [currently firing projectiles] did not fire one single shot during the war, and now they want to propagandize," he added.
Addressing questions about a split in opinion within the ranks of Hamas as to the validity of a ceasefire, Zahhar said, "Hamas is not a perfect model, there are disagreements but there is not conflict, and we have never heard of such a split in the movement."
Released a day after the Kuwait-based paper Al-Jarida published claims that Hamas officials were meeting with Israeli counterparts over a possible prisoner-exchange and renewed ceasefire agreement, Zahhar told Al-Hayat that Hamas was "ready to establish our state on a small part in Paleostine," which he said would occur without recognizing Israel. "We do not repeat unsuccessful experiences," he added.
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Soon Alan will have an opportunity to sort you all out.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat condemned on Friday the international investigators' "unethical behavior", voicing his "understanding of the political, security, and moral objections issued by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah" over the Dahiyeh incident.
He wondered in a statement whether the international investigation "serves justice and stability or aims at sabotaging Saudi-Syrian rapprochement."
The MP reiterated his position towards U.N. Security Council resolution 1559, which he described as a "political and security mandate over Leb," adding that the various developments "confirm that Leb, more than ever, is being exposed on the political and security scenes."
The "infamous" resolution brought tragedies upon Leb and paved the way for political liquidations, Jumblat stated.
Addressing Nasrallah's recent speech, he said: "If the information is true that the West, and therefore, Israel, acquired files on all the Lebanese, and it seems likely, then that completes their total security and political control over upcoming Lebanese generations."
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[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah stressed on Friday that Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassasn Nasrallah's position towards the Special Tribunal for Leb falls in line with the stand he made in his letter to U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon in 2007.
He told al-Manar television: "The government did not resort to constitutional means, as it should have, but it instead sent a letter to the U.N. Security Council asking it to approve the tribunal in a way it sees fit."
"It approved it through Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter against the Lebanese' wishes and mine, an MP who represents the people," he said.
"Therefore the tribunal's formation is illegitimate and a major violation of the Lebanese constitution that preserves the Lebanese' legal immunity as the government and the justice minister cannot abandon the immunity before any world power," Aoun added.
"The Lebanese' legal immunity has fallen," the MP continued.
"I did not approve the formation of the tribunal because the agreement related to it was not approved by parliament or the president, and therefore, legally, it does not exist to us and we have no problem not cooperating with it," he said.
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[An Nahar] The United States on Friday vowed support for the Special Tribunal for Leb, accusing Hizbullah of "intimidation" in urging a boycott.
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday warned all Lebanese not to help investigators probing the 2005 killing of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, saying that such cooperation "contributes to the assault on the Resistance." That'd be the Hezbullies, natch...
"Nasrallah's remarks are an indication of how Hizbullah does not have the interest of all the Lebanese people in mind," U.S. State Department front man Philip Crowley told news hounds.
"It has a narrow agenda and we will do everything that we can to help the Lebanese government and Lebanese people resist this obvious intimidation," he said.
Crowley called the Special Tribunal for Leb "vitally important" for the country's future, but rejected accusations that the United States wanted to affect its findings.
"We are committed to support the work of the tribunal and will do everything that we can, not to influence it, just to give it the opportunity to continue its work," Crowley said.
His remarks come a day after the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, Susan Rice, accused Hizbullah's main supporters Syria and Iran of fuelling tensions in Leb through illicit arms supplies.
Crowley said the United States was "concerned by the increase of tension" in Leb and accused unnamed other forces of "trying to undermine the Lebanese government and Lebanese illusory sovereignty."
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the daily An Nahar reported on Saturday that Washington had demanded that the U.N. Security Council hold an urgent meeting in order to tackle developments related to the tribunal.
STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare is expected to head to the U.N. next week in order to discuss the tribunal's administrative matters and its funding given the growing demand in Leb for the funding to stop.
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40000 missiles targeting Israeli civilians are nothing, but "disrespect to UN" requires U.N. Security Council to Convene?
[Pak Daily Times] Iran is taking legal action in The Hague against global oil majors who are refusing to refuel its Europe-bound flights under US pressure, a top aviation official said on Saturday.
'Iran, through appropriate channels, is taking legal measures and the issue has been raised in The Hague tribunal and lawyers have been appointed to pursue the issue,' Farhad Parvaresh, chief executive of state carrier Iran Air, was quoted as saying on official news agency IRNA. He did not specify before which court in the Netherlands the suit was being lodged. Iran warned on October 19 that it would 'confront' Western companies for refusing to refuel its planes in Europe, which it deemed illegal under international law.
Parvaresh said the United States was forcing the companies to refuse fuel to the aircraft. 'The companies, who have been forced under American pressure to refuse fuel to Iranian airplanes, are the real losers as they are incurring losses and asking for these restrictions to be lifted,' he said. European authorities and airports have been silent about the reported measures which are separate to unilateral action the EU imposed soon after the UN Security Council adopted a fourth set of sanctions against Tehran on June 9.
Unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States, however, target gasoline and jet fuel supplies to Iran. A European diplomat said it was US pressure was behind the action taken by the major oil companies. 'The US is using pressure, threats and confusion. We are (operating) outside of any legal framework,' the official said on condition of anonymity.
Separately, Iranian officials are acknowledging that international sanctions imposed on the country over its nuclear program have dramatically increased the cost of living, but they say the penalties will ultimately prove futile.
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > US: IRAN CAN PRODUCE ENOUGH HEU FOR NUKE BOMB IN ONE YEAR, ASSEMBLE COMPLETE BOMB IN 3-5 YEARS.
IOW, Iran may have a Uranium NucBomb 2013-2015.
Lest we fergit, MSM-NET > IRAN is also repor working on dev POST-URANIUM NUCMAT TECH = PRODUC PROCESSES [Hydrogen, Plutonium, etc].
IMO ARTIC also read, NORTH KOREA NUKES. LR MISSLES; + PAKISTAN TECHS COLLUSION = TRANSFERS.
[An Nahar] Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir stressed on Friday that the Special Tribunal for Leb should be explicit in naming the suspects involved in the liquidations that have taken place in Leb.
He told Al-Jazeera television in an interview to be broadcast on Saturday: "If we want to put an end to political liquidations then the international tribunal should issue its indictment and specifically names those in Leb who committed the crime."
"If we want matters to continue as they are, then the liquidations will continue, which would harm Leb and other nations as well," he added.
Furthermore, he noted that it would be "worrisome" if Hizbullah were to take control of Leb, saying: "Leb should remain as it was, for all its sects ... and if one were to overpower the others, then that would oppose the foundations upon which Leb is built."
Asked whether he believes that Hizbullah wants to control Leb, Sfeir responded with a denial, but noted: "Its methods are forceful and of course, force leads to power."
Addressing the possibility of paying a visit to Iran, the patriarch said: "The conditions are not suitable yet to allow us to make the trip."
As for visiting Syria, Sfeir said that if the conditions are appropriate then he would head to Damascus.
"So far it has not appeared that relations between Leb and Syria are sound because one country possibly seeks to gain interests in the other, which the Lebanese oppose," he continued.
"If Syria wants to befriend Leb in order to control it as it wishes, then we do not want this friendship," he added.
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[An Nahar] Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh on Saturday voiced his support for Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's recent call for boycotting U.N. investigators, describing it as "rightful."
In an interview with Hizbullah's mouthpiece Al-Manar television, Franjieh called on Premier Saad Hariri to declare that the Special Tribunal for Leb is "politicized and rejected," stressing that the premier must seek the bringing of the so-called "false witnesses" to justice.
Tackling the highly-anticipated upcoming cabinet session and the dispute about referring the false witnesses issue to the Judicial Council, Franjieh said: "I trust the stances of President Michel Suleiman and Head of Democratic Gathering MP Walid Jumblat."
He noted that Hariri should be the first one to back referring the case to the Judicial Council.
Franjieh accused the Lebanese Judiciary of taking orders from politicians, stressing that State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza "takes his orders from Saad Hariri."
The Marada leader voiced his regret that "the blood of late premier Rafik Hariri is being used to harm the Resistance." That'd be the Hezbullies, natch...
Franjieh also voiced his regret that the stance of Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir "reflects the viewpoint of only one group of Christians."
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[An Nahar] Phalange Party leader former president Amin Gemayel noted on Saturday that Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah "is mistaken in his calculations and his current line of action of relying on the party's weapons".
He told Free Leb radio that no one in the world can eliminate Hizbullah, stressing the need to reach an understanding over its arms.
Furthermore, he said that the indictment in the liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will reveal several matters, adding that President Michel Suleiman should defend the Special Tribunal for Leb in line with his presidential oath.
The current developments in Leb are a gradual takeover of the system where intellectual and political terrorism is being exercised on the country's political class, Gemayel stated.
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[An Nahar] Mustaqbal bloc MP Mohammed Kabbara on Saturday lashed out at Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah over the latter's speech on Thursday, in which he called on "every official and every citizen to boycott the work of U.N. investigators" probing the murder of ex-PM Rafik Hariri.
"The open war Sayyed Nasrallah has declared on international justice puts him in a confrontation with the international community and the vast majority of Lebanese, who reject this militia-like approach," Kabbara said.
"Hizbullah has finally revealed its cards and real goals to openly declare that it wants to topple the Special Tribunal for Leb," added Kabbara.
Mustaqbal's MP noted that Hizbullah was trying to "incite dignities and honor over the probe international investigators wanted to conduct at a medical clinic, so it resorted to distorting the facts related to this investigation, after it had set up an ambush for U.N. investigators."
"Sayyed Nasrallah is speaking of STL's violation of Leb, does he prefer that the lives of people be violated through distorting facts and concealing the criminals who had spilled the blood of the martyrs," Kabbara went on to say.
He added: "Sayyed Nasrallah says he has reached a sensitive point, we also tell him that things have reached a sensitive point, for the termination policy you're using won't manage to terminate us or change our beliefs, and things have reached a critical point. We are adhered to unveiling the truth, achieving justice and building the State."
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[An Nahar] A leading Hizbullah source told As Safir on Saturday that the party "has been provoked on the organizational and popular levels after the international investigation's latest activity."
It said that the "suspicious investigations" are aimed at "tightening the noose around Hizbullah, under American and Israeli wishes."
Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah sought in his latest speech to reveal the international investigation's cards, which is working on convincing the public that it seeks the truth in the liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the source continued.
"Hizbullah is aware that the international committee and those behind it are preparing the appropriate atmosphere to issue the indictment and we believe that they made a mistake in their assessment of the party," it added.
"They were wrong to provoke it and this mistake has heightened their crisis and the Americans' crisis in Leb," the source remarked.
"They should understand that they may set up their courts and committees, but they do not concern us," it concluded.
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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.
A statement from Morocco's Interior Ministry says that they have dismantled two terror cells linked with al-Qaida.
[Pak Daily Times] Turkish army chiefs boycotted an official ceremony at the presidential palace because the president's wife wore hijab, the press reported on Saturday.
(Ma'an) -- Senior 
