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I suspect that this, as well as mercenary armies, are the wave of the future. National intelligence services have to deal with broad brush intel on a timetable and involving diplomacy, so there's lots of room for independent contractors to operate.
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"He is also stirred by the belief that the C.I.A. has failed to protect American troops in Afghanistan, and that the Obama administration has struck a Faustian bargain with President Karzai, according to four current and former associates. They say Mr. Clarridge thinks that the Afghan president will end up cutting deals with Pakistan or Iran and selling out the United States, making American troops the pawns in the Great Game of power politics in the region."
All we are doing is wasting lives of young men and women and treasure in Afghanistan.
We don't have the treasure to save South Asia and make it a democracy. I firmly believe the best move for National Security and to keep the USA strong is to give Afghanistan to the Chi-Coms.
We can't help people who can't help themselves. Democracy cannot exist in a country where there are more child rapists than people who can read.
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I have been preaching here for the better part of a decade that the CIA is fundamentally broken due to politicization , insularity and crony-ism (especially ivy league snobbery), rampant fiefdom building by bureaucrats, silo structure programs with no lateral visibility thus massive blind spots, over-all mismanaged and obsessed with ass covering.
The failures around 9-11 showed how broken the CIA is. The anti-Bush leaks were the epitome of the political (left) bastards pushing their liberal politics ahead of their constitutional oath and the security of the nation. And yet there were no consequences for anyone in either of these cases.
The CIA needs to be ripped apart, some of it parceled out to other agencies, and rebuilt.
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Then again, I admit to prejudice in this area: I favor O&A which is where this guy came from.
Its the desk bound paper pushers and the pencilwhipped Pentagon pampered princes who object to this guy, principally because he is doing things effectively which show just how ineffective the establishment is. Another angle is the lack of ability of bureaucrats to use this sort of intel ops as a political tool -- those DC Aeron-based Power Point REMF rangers do not like NOT having spin control nor being unable to hide info that proves their analysis and suppositions to be wrong.
But strategic intel types, and ops types whose lives depend on solid intel and as much context as you can grab... well they love stuff like this which is why this guy is getting business.
Again, the CIA is broken, and this guy is filling in where the CIA is so dysfunctional as to be completely useless.
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I still say round file the CIA and the other broken intel agencies and bring back the OSS under WWII rules.
I prefer the idea that our enemies wet themselves at the mere thought of drawing the OSS's attention. Screw the world liking us, time to inspire some fear.
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If they don't like us
Then they will respect us
If they don't respect us
Then they will fear us
We do not need to be in a popularity contest with respect to foreign relations. We look out for own interests, first. And if those interests coincide with other countries then great.
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As it sometimes says on the Burg's byline: oderint dum metuant
Relatives of Tunisia's ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali have arrived in Canada, a government official in Ottawa said on Saturday. The official confirmed, without offering details, a report in Le Journal de Quebec, which said one of Ben Ali's many brothers-in-law arrived in Montreal Friday morning aboard a private jet accompanied by his wife, their children and a governess.
They bore a card imprinted only with the image of the little scarlet pimpernel flower.
Ben Ali's wife Leila Trabelsi has several brothers, and neither source specified which one had arrived in Canada. The family reportedly checked into a hotel in Montreal.
An official at Citizenship and Immigration Canada said Ottawa was not offering asylum to Ben Ali's family.
"Mr. Ben Ali, deposed members of the former Tunisian regime and their immediate families are not welcome in Canada," said spokesman Douglas Kellam. "Anyone entering Canada must pass a number of tests. In the case of Tunisians, they must have a valid visa issued by the government of Canada."
The official added that visas "are only issued by our officers when they are satisfied that the individual will leave Canada once the visa expires. Given that members of the regime cannot return to Tunisia, that would be a challenge."
The news of the arrivals drew protests from Tunisians in Montreal, many of who had demonstrated in Canada against the former regime.
"These people need to answer for their actions before Tunisians, in Tunisia," said Sonia Djelidi, a member of a group organizing protests.
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"we have always been fans of the CFL, Hocket, and Moosehead beer. Give us asylum. We can pay"
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[Ennahar] The leader of the Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahdha, currently in exile in London, but affected by a future amnesty, hopes to return "very soon" in Tunisia, in an interview with German weekly magazine Der Spiegel to be published Monday.
"I am above all a Tunisian citizen who wants to go home," said Rashid Ghannouchi, adding that this return would be "very soon, I hope."
Asked about his ambitions, Mr. Ghannouchi ensures that he is "not a Khomeini (Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Theocratic Republic, ed) and Tunisia is not Iran," but wants to "make an intellectual contribution to this historic turning point that comes out of Tunisia in an era of repression to lead to democracy," he adds.
"We do not want a one-party rule, whatever it is," nor establish Shariah. "What Tunisia need today is freedom and democracy," said he,
he also calls for the departure of "members of the old guard still in the transitional institutions that want to establish" a travesty of democratic pluralist system.
Rached Ghannouchi founded in 1981 the Islamist Nahda (Renaissance), with intellectuals inspired by the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood.
Tolerated, including during the coming to power of Ben Ali in 1987, the party was suppressed after the 1989 elections, which he claimed the list had received 17% of votes.
Ghannouchi then left Tunisia to Algeria, then to London. In 1992 he was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment with other religious leaders for a plot against the president.
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It is hard to imagine Ennahdha amounting to everything, even if it joins forces with the other groups, Zillich and Bupqus.
[Ennahar] Seven copperswere maimed Saturday in festivities with supporters of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD opposition) before their headquarters in Algiers where a procession was to leave for a banned demonstration by the authorities, according to official sources.
Two copperswere maimed in a serious condition, said a police source at the Algerian agency APS.
The parliamentary leader of the RCD, Amazouz Othman, was also injured while trying to demonstrate and evacuated. The front man of the party, Mohsen Belabbes, had previously reported six maimed, without specifying whether police were involved.
The police have also jugged five people, according to police quoted by the APS.
The Algiers authorities had banned the demonstration for democracy but the RCD confirmed that it would be maintained. It should head to the National People's Assembly (parliament).
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[Ma'an] Opponents of Egypt's long-running regime should be able to follow the lead set by the toppling of Tunisia's veteran president, leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei said in comments released Saturday.
This is what the gentleman thinks constitutes leadership. God help the Egyptians if he ever gets his hands on any political power.
He rendered the IAEA harmless, he could do the same to Egypt...
"If the Tunisians have done it, Egyptians should get there too," the former UN nuclear watchdog chief told Der Spiegel for an interview to be published Monday.
After all, Egypt has Al Azhar University, the oldest one in Dar al Islam.
Protests in Tunisia against president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali led to his ouster last week after 23 years in power.
There is much debate in the region as to how contagious the Tunisian "Jasmine Revolution" will prove to be.
While Egypt is suffering social problems and has seen a number of people set themselves on fire in an echo of the protest which sparked the Tunisia unrest, ElBaradei pointed to major differences between the two north African nations.
In Egypt the discontent arises from "fundamental needs" in a country where more than 40 percent of the population earns less than a dollar a day while Tunisia can boast "a substantial middle class", he said, evoking the possibility of "a revolt by the poor and the frustrated."
The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner confirmed that he supports a national action day, scheduled for next Tuesday by the Egyptian opposition, though he would not be taking part.
"I don't want to steal their thunder," he explained, adding that he hoped the protests "will not degenerate."
He urged geriatric President Hosni Mubarak not to seek another term in office when his mandate expires in September, to lift the state of emergency which has been in place for 29 and to call "free elections".
Mubarak, 82, has not yet indicated whether he intends to stand for office again, but members of his camp say he will seek a new mandate.
ElBaradei said he is in principle ready to throw his own hat into the ring as long as the elections are "free and just".
Which they won't be. Not a good thing, except that it keeps the honourable Dr. ElBaradei far from the temptations of actual power.
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....Is this dumb s@!t actually IN Egypt when he says this stuff?
Mike
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Indeed he was, Mike. He's gunning to bring down the Mubarak regime.
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Mike, now that Dr. El Baradei is retired from his important job as head of the IAEA, he thinks that running Egypt would be a nice little job, just to keep from getting bored.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Leader of the Shiite Sadrist Trend, Young Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, had left Baghdad for Iran on Saturday, after spending two weeks in Iraq following a long stay in Iran, sources close to his Trend told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, but they did not say whether he would spend a long period there, probably to continue his religious studies in the Shiite Iranian city of Qum.
In a related development, The Los Angeles Times quoted two of Sadr's assistants to have told them that Sadr had left Iraq for Iran, where he would stay for an unlimited period, adding that he "had abolished most of his armed militias," but a close member of Sadr's Trend had expressed expectation that he ould return for Iraq soon.
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"He was ineffective. He'll continue his programming til the time is right"
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I would suggest he visit a dentist in Iran and get his choppers in order. Yeah I think he is giving you the finger Iraq.
#2
Yeah, yeah. If I recall, the Palestinians have seven times turned down straightforward offers of sovereignty since the beginning of the past century (two before 1948, I believe), not including interim negotiating positions. The leaked documents detail interim negotiating positions, when the Palestinians had committed to their own people to accept nothing less than everything from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
Interestingly, between a significant drop in birth rate and serious emigration since 1967, there may soon not be enough Palestinians left to make an actual country. The Institute for Zionist Strategies pulled together a nicely readable little report back in 2009.
#3
According to the Jerusalem Post, the WikiLeaks cache only shows the Palestinian side of things. It's terribly odd -- almost looks like Julian Assange is trying to sway public opinion.
#6
I suuppose this Artic should be no surprise given the well-reported lack of support the Paleos receive from their regional Brothers in Islam. They get assistance when it comes to violently attacking Israel vee Terrstrikes, but not much of anything else.
IOW, HISTORY > suggests that even iff the Paleos get their State, MORE LIKELY THAN NOT THEY'LL HAVE TO ENGAGE IN BILATERAL COOPERATION WID THEIR DESPISED ISRAELI ENEMY FOR THEIR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
GREATER IRONY > even iff ISRAEL is indeed per se destroyed one day in the future, REGIONAL MUSLIM HISTORY = IT DOES NOT MEAN THE MUSLIM PALEOS WILL NOW GET TO RULE PALESTINE = THEIR LAND.
#7
Leaks will come from the Paleo side, not the Israeli side, as Israel will only "leak" with is useful to them. Israeli OPSEC is better than that of the US dept of State. Anybodys is.
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As it was The Guardian that talked Wikileaks into releasing this information in the first place (took 6 consecutive hours of persuasion as I hear the story), it seems that The Guardian is the where we should be focusing our anger.
They are staffed with anti-American political activists posing as journalists.
[Arab News] Jordan's opposition has vowed continual protests over price increases and inflation until resignation of the prime minister and his government.
More than 5,000 people from across the political spectrum, including the powerful Mohammedan Brotherhood, the left wing groups and the trade unions staged Friday what they called a "Day of Rage" in the Jordanian capital of Amman and in the northern town of Irbid. They demanded Prime Minister Samir Rifai step down and for Jordanians to be able to elect their prime minister and other ministers rather than having them appointed by King Abdallah.
Streets protests have mounted over the past week, spurred on by Tunisia's example, and despite government moves to lower the prices on basic goods and fuel. "(Prime Minister Samir) Rifai, out, out! People of Jordan will not bow," protesters chanted as they marched from Al-Hussein Mosque in central Amman to the nearby municipality building. "Our demands are legitimate. We want bread and freedom."
Police handed out bottles of water and juice to the demonstrators, who carried banners reading, "We demand social justice and freedom," "No to oppression, yes to change" and, "We need a national salvation government."
Police front man Mohammad Khatib said about 4,000 people took part in the capital's peaceful protest, organized by the powerful Mohammedan Brotherhood and its political arm the Islamic Action Front.
"What we urgently need is real political and socioeconomic reforms," IAF secretary general Hamzeh Mansur told the crowds.
About 1,400 people demonstrated in other parts of Jordan, mainly the northern cities of Zarqa and Irbid.
Rifai on Thursday announced a $283 million plan to raise salaries of government staff as well as the pensions of retired government employees and servicemen in the face of popular discontent.
The $28 a month raise came nine days after a $169 million plan to improve living conditions. The current minimum wage is $211 a month.
But the opposition and others say the new measures are not enough as poverty levels are running at 25% in the desert kingdom, whose capital is the most expensive city in the Arab world, according to several independent studies. "These measures are designed to drug people, nothing more. We need comprehensive reforms," said prominent unionist Maisarah Malas.
Retired serviceman Faruq Abbadi, 54, agreed. "The government should change its economic policies and mentality. We are protesting today because we want to protect ourselves and our nation. We have gone 50 years backwards," he said.
Official unemployment is about 14% in the country of six million people, 70% of them under the age of 30. But other estimates put the jobless figure at 30%.
"The new government measures are not enough. Prices and taxes are still high, while our income is still low," Marwan Malihi, a 52-year-old engineer, said.
A $1.5 billion deficit, equivalent to 5% of gross domestic product, is expected on this year's $8.8 billion budget.
Thousands of Jordanians erupted into the streets of the kingdom in a similar protest on Friday last week.
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ION TOPIX > TUNISIA-STYLE RIOTS IN YEMEN, + EGYPTIANS LOOK [hope?]FOR MORE TUNISIA-STYPE PROTESTS.
[Arab News] Talks meant to nudge Iran toward meeting UN Security Council demands to stop uranium enrichment collapsed Saturday, with Tehran shrugging off calls by six world powers to cease the activity that could be harnessed to make nuclear weapons.
Announcing the failure of two days of negotiations, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said no new date for another meeting had been set. She blamed what the six consider unrealistic demands by Iran -- an end to UN sanctions and agreement that Iran can continue to enrich -- for the disappointing results.
Proposals by the six for improved UN monitoring of Iran's nuclear activities were rejected by Tehran, as were attempts to kickstart dialogue by reviving discussions on Iran's shipping out a limited amount of its enriched uranium in exchange for fuel for its research reactor, Ashton said.
"We had hoped to have a detailed and constructive discussion of those ideas," she said. "But it became clear that the Iranian side was not ready for this unless we agree to preconditions related to enrichment and sanctions.
"Both these preconditions are not the way to proceed," she told news hounds.
While no new talks were planned, Ashton said "our proposals remain on the table. Our door remains open. Our telephone lines remain open." Iranian chief negotiator Saeed Jalili in turn suggested the six powers were the ones who had imposed preconditions, saying his negotiating team had gone "far and beyond what was expected of us" to reach agreement and accusing the other side of pushing not "dialogue but dictation." Tehran denies that it wants nuclear arms, insisting it wants only to provide peaceful nuclear energy for its rising population and noting that the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty allows for enrichment as a source of fuel.
But international concerns have grown -- because its uranium enrichment program could also make fissile warhead material, because of its nuclear secrecy and also because Iran refuses to cooperate with UN investigations of suspicions that it ran experiments related to making nuclear weapons.
A senior US administration official said Iranian negotiators had sought to split the six during "long and difficult" talks to extract concessions, but delegates from the world powers remained unified.
A diplomat from a permanent member nation of the UN
Security Council -- one of the six powers at the talks -- said no new UN sanctions were planned in response to Iran's defiance. Instead, he said there would be stricter enforcement of existing penalties. Both he and the US
official asked for anonymity because their information was confidential.
Tehran has repeatedly said freezing the uranium enrichment program is not up for discussion. Instead, Iranian officials came to the table with an agenda that covered just about everything except its nuclear program: global disarmament, Israel's suspected nuclear arsenal, and Tehran's concerns about US military bases in Iraq and elsewhere.
When talks resumed Saturday, Iranian delegate Abolfazl Zohrevand said the atmosphere was "positive." "Both sides showed the willingness that a solution can be achieved to reach active cooperation on various issues," he told AP Television News.
With Britain, Germany and China standing by, Ashton said the US, Russia and La Belle France had talked with Iran on Saturday about reviving an offer to exchange some of Iran's enriched uranium for fuel rods for Tehran's research reactor.
First made in late 2009, that offer involved Iran and those three powers and was supported by all six as a way of reducing Iran's enriched stockpile, thereby potentially delaying its ability to manufacture a nuclear weapon. But the offer lapsed amid Iranian conditions and later the realization by the six powers that it no longer made sense to discuss shipping out the original amount as Iran continued adding to its enriched uranium trove.
Separate from its main enrichment program which is churning out low-enriched uranium, Iran started enriching to 20 percent after the fuel exchange deal was stalled, saying it would use the material to manufacture its own fuel rods for the research reactor.
That heightened international concerns, because it takes much less time to turn 20-percent enriched material into use for weapons than low-enriched uranium.
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Talking has never ever worked with Iran.
Just ask that fool Carter.
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Surprise, surprise, surprise. Talking works when there is a stick held in the other hand. Obama is perceived as too weak to do anything about Iran's refusal.
Time to turn off the gasoline spigot and to get those F-22 bomber crews back from leave....
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More Stuxnet mischief for Bushehr reactor and any refineries and pumping stations would be nice. Oil and gasoline infrastructure coming to a standstill could stir up a hornet's nest of discontent.
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Macarana/Macarena, or the Menudo???
Iran is repor blaming the US, WEST for the failure of the Instanbul Talks.
[MTV "SAFETY DANCE" Video here].
* ION HAARETZ > [FAS] REPORT: IRAN NUCLEAR CAPACITY [espec for future Nucweapons] UNHARMED, CONTRARY TO US ASSESSMENT.
* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > [Iran FM Spokesperson RAMIN MEHMANPARAST] SENIOR DIPLOMAT: IRAN DOES NOT OPPOSE NORTH KOREA'S PEACEFUL USE OF NUCLEAR POWER.
TOPIX > RELATED > [Same] BANK OF MELLAT DIDN'T PAY FOR WEAPONS FROM NORTH KOREA.
* TOPIX > SEVAK SARUKHANYAN: THERE WILL BE NO WAR BETWEEN IRAN + AZERBAIJAN [ + likely no war either between IRAN + US].
ARTIC > SARUKHANYAN - IRAN supports the SHITE MOVEMENT IN AZERBAIJAN, + will never allow Azerbaijan to grow into a REGIONAL POWER. AZERBAIJAN SUPPORTS US NEUTRALITY = NEUTRALIST POLICIES as per the Nagorno-Karabakh Issue + Caucasus - IFF A US-IRAN WAR DOES INDEED OCCUR, AZERBAIJAN WILL LIKELY SUPPORT THE US AGZ IRAN + OFFER THE US USE OF ITS AIRDOMES [military airfields].
[Asharq al-Aswat] The scene in Leb is still unclear after Druze MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... who's been on every side in Leb at least four times... t, and his Progressive Socialist Party threw their support behind "Syria and the resistance." A last-minute agreement could still be reached between the Lebanese parties that would ensure a national unity government in Leb, rather than a government made up of one colour or party, which is something that many people would prefer to avoid.
A prominent Turkish source informed Asharq Al-Awsat that the announcement of the end of the Turkish -- Qatari mediation attempts does not mean that Ankara will stop its efforts in this regard. The source also clarified that Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu left Leb for Istanbul due to a prior engagement, and that he is set to return to Beirut in order to monitor the "details" of the Lebanese file. The Turkish source added that "ideas are currently being circulated within the Turkish Foreign Ministry [with regards to Leb]" and that these ideas will be revealed to the relevant parties in due course. The source added that Turkey is in direct communication with the countries involved in the Lebanese file, including Syria, Soddy Arabia, and Qatar, as well as the USA.
The senior Turkish source also stressed to Asharq Al-Awsat that "stability is a very important factor for Leb" warning against any negative developments in this regard, particularly during this critical period, "as this could lead to serious complications, not just for Leb, but for the region as a whole."
The source added that Turkey has good relations with Syria, and that "the Syrians listen to us very well." The Turkish source also made clear that Ankara had been prevented from achieving "positive and immediate results" due to complications. The source stressed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to be concerned with bridging the gap between the Lebanese leaders, and that he had been supportive of the "Saudi -- Syrian" efforts in this regard. The Turkish source told Asharq Al-Awsat that after Soddy Arabia announced it was halting its efforts in this regard, Ankara -- along with Qatar -- sought to "secure communication between the [Lebanese] leaders, however the conservative position of Hezbullies with regards to the return of Prime Minister Saad Hariri was a huge obstacle that was difficult to circumvent, especially as the Hezbullies Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah held an extreme position [with regards to this]."
As for Beirut, the scene returned to uncertainty after MP Walid Jumblatt announced his support for "Syria and the resistance", which is something that sources within the Progressive Socialist Party confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat was "an announcement that he would vote in support of the March 8 Alliance."
Ministerial sources also informed Asharq Al-Awsat that Lebanese President Michel Suleiman may accept proposals for the formation of a single-party government "in order to make room for the democratic game, after the experience of a unity government failed to achieve results." The source also told Asharq Al-Awsat that President Suleiman will accept the parliamentary consultation results as being, and that the final say with regards to the acceptance or rejection of a government will reside with them.
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[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Lebanese Christian leader pledges support for Hariri; says gov't led by Shi'ite group would lead Leb to be isolated and ostracized by the int'l community and Arab world like Gazoo Strip after Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, takeover.
Lebanese Christian leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... on Saturday warned that if the country's new cabinet is led by Hizbullah candidate Omar Karami the situation "will be similar to Gazoo."
Geagea said Leb, like the Gazoo Strip after it was taken over by Hamas in 2007, would be isolated and ostracized by the international community and Arab world, with the exception of Syria.
Geagea stated that the Lebanese economy would suffer greatly from a Hizbullah-led government.
"Is anyone wondering what the situation of the Lebanese lira will be if the other team comes to power?" Geagea said during a presser.
Geagea said that not only Hizbullah, but also Syria was behind the push to make Karami premier.
The Christian leader accused Hizbullah and its allies of rejecting Saad Hariri as prime minister, not because he is Sunni or allegedly corrupt, but rather because he is independent and rejected pressure to denounce the UN tribunal into the liquidation of Rafik Hariri.
Geagea expressed his support of Hariri's push for the premiership of Leb, saying "we will do everything possible to bring back Hariri as prime minister."
On Friday, Druse leader Walid Wally Jumblat ... who's been on every side in Leb at least four times... t, a potential kingmaker in Leb, threw his support behind Hizbullah, a major boost to the Shi'ite group that brought down the country's Western-backed government last week.
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Hizbullah rule will turn Lebanon into Gaza
How long until Israel smashes the hizbullies in Gazoo? Just one rocket too many ....
Lebanon has to rise to occasion and kick the foreigners (Syria and Iran) out, yet again.
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If the Hezzies do take over I assume there will be a mass exodus of non-Hezzie supporters.
Where will they go? Turkey? Jordan? Egypt? Europe?
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Where will they go?
Lots of Lebanese immigrants in Canada and Australia. The ones in the U.S. are mostly Christians who came a generation or two ago.
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My feeling on how to deal with Hizb'Allah goes through Syria. If Hizb'Allah gets frisky, Syria gets it. There are costs to be paid by enabling the level of terrorism and murder that the Hizbullies practice.
Syria has suffered no consequences for their accessory to terrorism and murder. Whether Lebanon or Iraq. It is time that Pencil Neck needs to understand that there are consequences for his actions.
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Technically speaking, IMO both ISRAEL + IRAN are on the diplomatic defensive - Israel will prefer to wait until the last second to militarily attack Iran, while Nuclearizing Iran on its part prefers to let the various Militant-Terror Groups be in the forefront of confrontation agz Israel.
HOWEVER, THE MONGER ISRAEL [US?] PUT OFF STRIKING IRAN'S NUCPROGS THE MORE TIME REGIONAL MILTERRS HAVE TO ENGAGE IN "GOVT/POWER-SHARING" [Political Jihad] + PROCUREMENT OF NUCTECHS [Nukes-WMDS], LEGALLY ANDOR ILLEGALLY.
ISRAEL may find itself surrounded not only by OVERTLY HOSTILE, PRO-ISLAMIST, DEATH-TO-ISRAEL-BY-ANY-MEANS, NUKE-ARMED MUSLIM GOVTS-STATES, BUT ALSO DITTO NUKE-ARMED MILTERR GROUPS INDEPENDENT OF SAID OR ANY MUSLIM GOVTS-STATES.
And remember, MSM-NET PERTS = the US is supposed to be in STEADY GEOPOL DECLINE - IOW, THE US "CAN'T" OR "WON'T" BE THERE TO SUPPORT ISRAEL ANYMORE???
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[Arab News] Jordan's opposition has vowed continual protests over price increases and inflation until resignation of the prime minister and his government.
