Voila the results of magnanimity before and without victory and mercy and reward for unrepentant evil:
Maulvi Abdulaziz Mujahed, an imam at Kabul's Takbir mosque who served as chairman of the Kabul provincial council in 2008 to 2009, said in a recent interview that the Sept. 11 attacks were a Jewish conspiracy, a view he says was reinforced by his 2009 visit to New York's Ground Zero.
"I saw the photos of all those who have been killed in the attacks, and I saw people bring flowers for their loved ones. But I couldn't find a single Jew among them," Mr. Mujahed said. "The superpowers wanted a good pretext to invade Afghanistan, and these attacks provided it." One of the first victims of 9/11 was Jewish, Mr Mujahed.
Abdul Hakim Mujahid, the deputy chairman of the Afghan government's High Peace Council, a body created to negotiate a peaceful solution to the war, was in New York when the two jets struck the Twin Towersin his capacity as the Taliban regime's semi-official envoy to the U.S. and the United Nations. Why has this islamofascist not been held accountable for holding a very high and privileged office in the Taliban regime?
Wasn't the original idea to make the likes of him sleep with the fishes share the terrorist's fate. Is this one of the moderate Taliban who was given political power per Powell's plan?
While Mr. Mujahid says he was saddened by the attacks, he says he still doesn't believe al Qaeda was responsible for "the unfortunate incident." In a sane world NATO would have been responsible for an even more "unfortunate incident" befalling you and your ilk.
"After 9/11, the whole world rushed to Afghanistan, and the people of Afghanistan were under the illusion that everything would be changed: The roads would be paved black, the houses would be painted white, the infrastructure rebuilt and the industries established," he says. "But gradually these expectations have come down, and now have reached the point of zero. The people are asking: When will the foreigners finally leave?" So the Afghans weren't complicit in 9/11 but they still deserve to be rewarded for bringing down the WTC. Did I get this right Mr Mujahid?
These two people are not ignorant or illiterate. That they feel absolutely free and fearless to voice these opinions shows that whatever "Operation Enduring Freedom" achieved in Afghanistan it did not deter our enemies.
Unlike critics of Islam in the West they're not marked men, although they should be.
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 are known to educated Afghans, and to many residents of big cities. But that isn't always the case elsewhere in a predominantly rural country where 42% of the population is under the age of 14, and 72% of adults are illiterate. With few villages reached by television or electricity, news here is largely spread by word of mouth.
Such opinions highlight
See link for the illustrative anecdotes provided by the Wall Street Journal reporter as an aid to understanding, dear Reader.
a contrast between American and Afghan perspectives on the longest foreign war in U.S. history, one that killed thousands of Afghans and, at the latest count, claimed the lives of 1,760 U.S. troops.
They also explain the Taliban's ability to rally popular support--in part by seizing the narrative to portray the war not as one triggered by America's need for self-defense, but as one of colonial aggression by infidels lusting for Afghanistan's riches.
According to a survey of 15- to 30-year-old men in the two southern provinces where President Barack Obama sent the bulk of American surge troops, 92% of respondents said they didn't know about "this event which the foreigners call 9/11" after being read a three-paragraph description of the attacks.
"Nobody explained to them the 9/11 story--and it's hard to win the hearts and minds of the fighting-age males in Helmand if they don't even know why the foreigners are here," says Norine MacDonald, president of the International Council on Security and Development, the think tank that carried out the survey of 1,000 Afghan men in eight districts of Kandahar and Helmand. "There is a vacuum--and it's being filled by al Qaeda and Taliban propaganda claiming that we are here to destroy Islam."
An opportunity for a clever independent filmmaker to create a film for Ramadan, to be trucked from village to village with a generator, film projector, and a large sheet He could save on costs by using the videos Osama bin Laden put out afterward claiming the attack, and news reports of Taliban attacking villages and blowing up schools the Westerners had built for the locals. Add a fun cartoon for the kiddies and video of some famous Pashtun singer (just make sure he isn't singing the peach bottom song, traditional though it might be) and it will be talked of for years.
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Yeah, well...when ya can't read, don't want to learn to read, don't believe what you hear, believe the world ends the other side of the mountain, this kinda thing can happen.
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Bullshit! Bagram is currently under attrack by the people who dont know about 9/11. Ya right, their staging the biggest attack of the year because they think its just a good day. ARGGGGG
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Reminds me of many an episode of '48 hours' in the neighborhoods where no one seems to know anything about the murder at hand. Then comes that mysterious 'tip' about a half hour into the story. Yep, they know nothing. /sarc off
[Tripoli Post] It is reliably understood that the new Libyan government, later on this month may export its first crude cargo since March from the country's west. It would be a great boost following efforts by the National Transitional Council to rebuild production after the ousting of the Muammar Al Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years... regime.
Quoting three people with direct knowledge of the transaction, Bloomberg reports that an 80,000 metric-ton cargo of crude is being offered for shipment from the port of Mellitah this month.
The amount of oil is equal to about 600,000 barrels, and may be loaded from September 15-17. The same sources however declined to be identified because the consignment has yet to be publicly announced.
The influential organization explains that brent crude oil gained 21 percent to $114.47 a barrel in London this year, partly because Libyan production collapsed during the conflict that began in February.
With Libya wanting to resume crude exports in two to three weeks, Thomas Zwick, an analyst at shipping consultants Lorentzen & Stemoco AS in Oslo said that the loading is likely the first from the nation's west since March,
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... Thina Saltvedt, an analyst at Nordea Bank AB in Oslo said that, "This should contribute to calming down the Brent market, but we still need to see more cargoes coming out." She also has a price forecast of $110 a barrel for the fourth quarter. She described Libya's, "an important cargo."
According to the Gay Paree-based International Energy Agency, which advises 28 industrialised nations, Libyan crude output slumped to 60,000 barrels a day in July from 1.7 million barrels in January.
Guma El-Gamaty, the U.K. coordinator for the country's National Transitional Council told Bloomberg that Libya resumed operations at its 120,000 barrel-a-day Zawiyah refinery near the capital, Tripoli, about two weeks ago.
"The plant is processing 30,000 barrels a day and will reach full capacity in six to eight weeks," adding that the crude-export facility in the eastern port city of Tobruk is undamaged.
The shipment is the type normally carried on an aframax tanker. Charter rates for the vessels to haul cargoes across the Mediterranean Sea doubled when the conflict broke out before slumping because of reduced cargoes, according to data from the Baltic Exchange in London, which assesses freight rates on international maritime routes.
Libyan crude output increased to as much as 1.87 million barrels a day in 2008 from 1.38 million barrels in 2002, according to U.S. Energy Department data.
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Egyptian activists destroyed a wall around the Israeli embassy and set police cars on fire in Cairo on Friday after thousands demonstrated at Tahrir Square to push for a timetable for reforms and an end to military trials for civilians.
Activists who spearheaded an uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak on February 11 have been piling pressure on the ruling military council to fix a date for parliamentary and presidential elections and to get rid of senior officials who served under Mubarak.
Thousands converged on Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the pro-democracy protests that toppled Mubarak, after Friday prayers for what was billed as "Correcting the Path" protests.
Some later marched to the opposite bank of the Nile in Giza. Demonstrators used hammers, large iron bars and police barricades to tear down the wall, erected this month by Egyptian authorities after daily protests over the killing of five Egyptian border guards in Sinai.
Protesters scaled the embassy building, removed the Israeli flag for the second time in less than a month and burned it. I'm calling it now, war is coming this fall-winter to Israel. Stock up on beans and bullets, guys.
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An Egyptian-Libyan war might be tempting for the oil, but Egypt would land quickly in the international dog-house. You might say, "eh, who cares", but Egypt needs several billion dollars a year in foreign aid from the U.S. and Europe just to feed its people, and that aid would quickly be at risk in a war.
For the same reason, I don't see an Egyptian-Israeli war, at least not in the classical sense.
What could happen is that Egypt decides to fight a proxy war by letting the chain slip on Hamas and other groups on their side of the fence. Quiet aid and encouragement would allow Hamas to step up their attacks on Israel, and if coordinated with Hezbollah, etc could have the potential to provoke Israel into an 'extreme' response.
We know how the world would react to that.
So my prediction is not war, but chaos. As if there's a big difference in the end.
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"So my prediction is not war, but chaos."
In other words, same as now. :-(
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There is one, possibly two possibilities. The first being the Egyptian military occupying Libya as a "peacekeeping" force, to prevent it from decaying into another Somalia. In effect it would be under the Egyptian government, because the Libyan government would be a puppet.
But this raises an interesting possibility if northern Sudan becomes more unstable. But it would be a LOT harder to integrate them, much like if they wanted Algeria to join the mix.
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Egypt is become concerned about Arab Bedouins in the Sinai demanding autonomy or sovereignty, so IMO don't think its focii will be on waging war agz nuke-armed, US, NATO-backed Israel.
These Activists did manage to have the Israeli Embassy staff ordered to skedaddle over to the Cairo Airport back to Tel Aviv, though, for safety.
This is the fourth in a series of articles examining the claims of Kerry Kennedy of human rights abuses by the Mexican Military. You can read the last three reports here, here and here
By Chris Covert
Upon returning from her trip to Mexico, human rights activist and daughter of the late Robert F Kennedy wrote a letter presumably to her daughters, which served as a travelogue for her trip to Guerrero earlier last month. Kennedy appeared to have expended as much energy and probably money as she could in giving advance notice of her visit to an area she has repeatedly attempted to compare, absurdly to Alabama of the early 1960s.
In her letter she makes reference to two rapes which took place in southern Guerrero, each within a month of the other, and both as different in circumstances as can be detailed. The rape of Valentina Rosendo Cantu in February 2002 in Acatepec municipality has been demonstrated by the facts available by humans right organizations as being as insoluble a crime as can be in Mexico. The circumstances, the available evidence and the errors made by local government agencies in the area have rendered the case as much as a crime that may well never be solved.
The other rape, of Ines Fernandez Ortega, can be taken as a case in which better efforts were made to determine the perpetrators, however, like the Rosendo Cantu case, errors were made by civilian authorities which left the case impossible to prosecute.
It cannot be stressed enough that human rights groups such as Amnesty International to which Kerry Kennedy maintains strong ties have routinely played up the intimidation of indigenous Indians in southern Guerrero, while ignoring altogether that many of those communities had in the recent past materially supported communist insurgencies against the Mexican military, which have cost the lives of Mexican boys in the service of their country.
According to Fernandez Ortega, on March 22nd, 2002, eleven men dressed as soldiers entered her home and demanded information concerning her husband and missing food. Fernandez Ortega stated she did not know what the issue was. Instead, according to the victim, three soldiers pointed their weapons at the victim. One of them removed her bottom clothing and raped her. The victim's nine year old daughter was said to be a witness to the assault, but not to the actual rape itself, as she ran away to be with relatives when she witnessed her mother allegedly being struck.
Two days later through a lawyer and interpreter, a case was filed with the Allende Judicial District. The same day, Fernandez Ortega went to the General Hospital in Ayutla for medical care in the aftermath of the rape. The victim refused to be examined by a male physician and waited a day later to be examined by a female physician, at which point it can be presumed tissue and sperm samples were taken. Unlike the Rosendo Cantu case, no report on the examination was made available in her human rights case, although it could be she suffered no apparent injuries in the rape. However a psychological examination was performed, but the content of the report was not released.
A critical event took place in evidence collection on July 9th and on August 16th. By this time the Military prosecution Service for the Mexican 35th Military Zone was already investigating the rape.
On July 9th, a chemical forensic expert with the Guerrero state attorney general's office said that the collected swabs contained evidence of semen.
On August 16th, an unidentified agent with presumably with the 35th Military Zone was informed by the Guerrero state attorney general's office that the biological sample taken from Fernandez Ortega were not in the archive; that they had been exhausted.
On August 25th, the Guerrero state attorney general's office declined jurisdiction in favor of the 35th Military Zone, which was at the time a standard legal procedure. The grounds for the transfer of jurisdiction was that military personnel may have been involved in the crime.
As with the Rosendo Cantu case, Fernandez Ortega attempted on several occasions to make the military transfer jurisdiction to civilian court and was rebuffed, once by the Military prosecutor's office in an informal correspondence and then twice in two different court levels, district and state. Fernandez Ortega attempted to request a change of jurisdiction and again was rejected when her case was reopened in January 2007 in the Allende Judicial District, where the case was originally filed four years prior.
Between May, 2003 and September 2007,the Military Prosecutors Service investigated the rape allegations before closing its investigation. The reasons cited for the closure were:
the testimony of hearsay witnesses
failure of the victim to provide additional information
the contradictions in the statements of Fernandez Ortgea and her minor daughter
and the medical tests carried out.
None of the information provided by the victim, except for her initial charge, witnesses and Guerrero state officials pointed to the participation of Mexican military in the allegation.
Indeed the Military Prosecutors Service said that at the time of the rape, no Mexican Army units or personnel were reported AWOL or out of their assigned areas of operation. Unlike the Rosendo Cant case it is unclear how many personnel were interviewed or gave statements, but we can infer that at least one rifle company with the base closest to Fernandez Ortega was focused on for the investigation.
One additional factor did not weigh in Fernandez Ortega's favor and that was her amended statement. The victim returned to the Allende prosecutor's office more than a month after filing her original complaint and amended her original statement to include information of her recollection of an additional detail of the assault.
It is indeed sad that through apparent incompetence and a blatant disregard for forensic procedures that a rapist was not brought to justice, but what is sadder and indeed more pathetic that an American individual of some substance, who should know better would continue to lead a crusade without any evidentiary basis, and without any real hope of justice.
It cannot be stressed enough that human rights groups such as Amnesty International to which Kerry Kennedy maintains strong ties have routinely played up the intimidation of indigenous Indians in southern Guerrero, while ignoring altogether that many of those communities had in the recent past materially supported communist insurgencies against the Mexican military, which have cost the lives of Mexican boys in the service of their country.
In a passage in the human rights court report was a curious episode, unreferenced by a date and time, in which a rifle platoon went to Fernandez Ortega's home with a typewriter seeking a statement from her in front of the soldiers. Fernandez said she was intimidated by the presence of the soldiers and refused to come out of her home to give testimony
In her amended statement, Fernandez Ortega recalled the shoulder patch allegedly worn by the military personnel who assaulted her as being the Mexican 41st Infantry Battalion, a subordinate unit to the Mexican 35th Military Zone.
At least one other unsubstantiated, albeit informal accusation, was made against the 41st Infantry Battalion around the time of the rape. The allegation involved a rifle detachment surrounding a number of youths playing soccer, forcing them at gunpoint to lay prone and then intimidating them with their weapons for a brief period of time before releasing them. This specific report was posted by a local human rights group, so every reason exists to discount its veracity.
The report ( I do not have the link ) mentioned the specific unit of the 41st Infantry Battalion was well known for abuses against indigenous individuals in the area. Local human rights groups are known for their ties to leftist guerrilla groups and their supporters, and for their less than unbiased reporting of incidents.
Commander of the Mexican 9th Military Zone based in Acapulco, Guerrero, General Mario Lopez Gutierrez, said at the time the Mexican military is always the subject of false accusations in the area.
One more dissimilar element between the two rape cases is that the Ortega Fernandez case, despite the lack of evidence and the lack of even a suspect, was never dismissed and was indeed taken all the way to Washington, DC at the Inter American Court of Human Rights.
It is indeed sad that through apparent incompetence and a blatant disregard for forensic procedures that a rapist was not brought to justice, but what is sadder and indeed more pathetic that an American individual of some substance, who should know better would continue to lead a crusade without any evidentiary basis, and without any real hope of justice.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il appeared to be in relatively good health as he looked down on a massive military parade Friday in central Pyongyang. His son and heir apparent was also on the reviewing stand as the reclusive state celebrated the 63rd anniversary of its founding.
Thousands of members of North Korea's second-tier reserve force, the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, marched in goose-step as they carried rifles and rocket launchers while military trucks loaded with missiles paraded through Kim Il Sung Square in central Pyongyang.
North Korean television broadcast the scene live as North Korea celebrated the 63rd anniversary of its inception. The state TV announcer says the square "is filled with endless joy and everyone is immensely excited during this successful military parade honoring General Secretary of the Workers Party and Supreme Commander of the Revolutionary Force, Dear Leader Kim Jong-il."
Observers say a parade for this anniversary comes as a surprise because normally such reviews are held every fifth anniversary of an important date. Gazing down on it all were the son and grandson of the country's founder, Kim Il-sung. It was the first such father-and-son appearance since a similar parade last year on the anniversary of the founding of the countrys only political party.
Near the end of the parade, the crowd, carrying pink artificial flowers, began chanting the name of Kim Jong-il, the founder's son and current leader. Thousands shout praise toward Kim and chant "mansei" the traditional cheer for long life.
Kim, wearing his usual khaki Mao suit and sunglasses, slowly moved across the reviewing stand, pausing several times to return the applause and wave to the soldiers and civilians below. For North Korea watchers, it was a rare opportunity for an extended real-time look at the 69-year-old leader. When he entered the reviewing stand, Kim walked with a slight limp, apparently the result of the reported stroke three years ago that affected the left side of his body.
He was accompanied by his third son and presumed successor, Kim Jong-un, who is in his late 20's and spent some of his school years in Switzerland. He stood stiffly in a dark Mao suit except when applauding the troops or listening to something his father was telling him.
Neither of the Kims spoke at the ceremony. That was left to the vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, Kim Yong-chun.
In a reference to the United States and South Korea, Kim, who is also the army chief of general staff, accused the enemy of conducting "reckless new war provocation maneuvers in a highly agitated state." Any attempt to harm North Korea's dignity or sovereignty, even a bit, he warned, would be answered with a merciless crushing and achieve "without fail" the reunification of the Korean peninsula.
In South Korea, dozens of refugees who escaped from the North, marked the day by helping to launch gas-filled balloons near the heavily fortified border to float several hundred thousand leaflets towards their native country. The leaflets call on the people of North Korea to rise against their leaders, citing what has occurred recently in Libya.
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Foreign Minister Lieberman formulates series of tough moves in response to Turkish steps; Israel to cooperate with Armenian lobby in US, may offer military aid to Kurdish rebels
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I think Israel has an even bigger opportunity by courting Greece, as a "white knight", in exchange for extensive relations in the future.
While they cannot afford to bail Greece out, they could do a little, like give Greece some trading preferences, that would be worth their weight in gold to reduce the painful pressure on Greece from all directions right now.
A whole bunch of little, inexpensive things on the unwritten condition that in the future, Greece remains their friend. That costs very little, and would bug the heck out of the Turks, which would make it even sweeter for the Greeks.
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Lieberman therefore decided there was no point in seeking creative formulas for apologizing, instead choosing to focus Israels efforts on punishing Turkey.
Opted out of the apology tour? The Israelis are not so naive.
Fox News investigative reporter William Lajeunesse dropped a pair of bombshells in one article Friday afternoon, revealing: the presence of a third walked gun at the scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terrys murder, an FBI cover-up of the gun, and the news that your tax dollars funded cartel weapons purchases.
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Fast and furious, gunwalker, and gangwalker keeps growing and getting more and more sleazy. BO said he and Holder did not know about these operations but then what's his word worth?
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Either Holder knows and should be impeached or he doesn't know and should resign for incompetence. As for Obama: what did he know and when did he know it, regarding the coverups. Time for a special prosecutor.
They went after Scooter Libby for far less in the Plame mess and its likely Libby was innocent all along given that sumbitch scumbag political weasel Colin Powell lied (either to the public sbout when the Presdient was told of who the real leaker was, or a lie of omission to the President) to cover the State Depts, Armitage's and his ass about Armitage being the real Plame "leaker".
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It is also almost beyond belief that the MSM is silent on this. Can you say, "In the Tank"? I think you can.
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The MSM is playing into the trunks hands. Because there will be televised congressional hearings next May or June and Baraq and Eriq will not look good. Especially if Melson or someone pulls a Butterfield and the hearings go into August. Baraq has managed to avoid a scandal thus far, but timing on this one does not look good.
[Dawn] America's response to 9/11 shows that "you don't mess" with the United States and that when attacked, "we will come and get you," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... said on Friday.
Panetta -- who as former CIA director oversaw the raid that killed Al-Qaeda criminal mastermindthe late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... on May 2 --said the hijackers underestimated the country.
"The people who attacked us on 9/11 were trying to weaken America, trying to hurt America. And instead they strengthened us," Panetta told an audience of police and emergency workers.
"Because you don't mess with this country," he said.
"And what we made clear, is that when that happens, we will come and get you." Panetta thanked the firefighters and other "first responders" who rushed to the Pentagon after it was struck by a hijacked airliner on September 11.
"For 36 exhausting hours, firefighters battled what was truly an epic blaze," he said.
Panetta, who took over as Pentagon chief in July, recounted where he was on the day of the attacks ten years ago.
Out of government at the time, Panetta was on Capitol Hill briefing members of Congress as part of an oceans commission when he was informed of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.
"Everybody in the room had kind of made the spontaneous decision, better get the hell out of there," he said.
With all commercial flights cancelled, Panetta had to rent a car to drive home to Caliphornia.
"I have to tell you what I witnessed that day driving across the country is something that's also seared into my memory," he said.
"Because I witnessed this country coming together. As I was driving across the country, there were signs coming up, 'God bless America,' there were flags people were putting up, people going to churches, people holding hands," he said. "People coming together to try to confront what had happened."
After Barack B.O. Obama was elected president in 2008, Panetta -- a veteran Democrat and Washington heavyweight -- was named chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, where his top priority was waging a shadow war against Al-Qaeda. Panetta oversaw a dramatic increase in bombing raids by robotic drone aircraft against Al-Qaeda and Talibs in Pakistain's tribal areas, as well as a concerted effort to track down Bin Laden.
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Anyway it's good to see at least one person at the table is not a namby pamby sissie boy "let's talk and maybe they'll like us" liberals.
I am beginning to think Hillarity would have been much tougher on terrorism than the empty suit under the desk in the oval office.
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Now just a doggone minute here!
This Leon Pancetta person talks big, e.g; "we will come and get you" but his own personal reaction on the day of the attack was to rent a car and run home to California.
So he talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk or however that expression has become bastardized by the likes of people who have never had to walk anything in their lifetimes.
I grant my respect to those who run towards the sound of gunfire rather than those who run away from it.
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Why oh why didn't we Nuke Riadah that afternoon, I think the world would understand.
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As Democrats go, Leon is one of the good ones. He is respected by both sides of whatever aisle we have here on the CA central coast (we keep it polite here for the most part -- latecomers from The Fey Area and Lost Angeles excepted).
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NOT HONEYNUT-CHEERIOS-OR-PRODUCT-19 WHEATIES CEREALS = "CALIFORNIA LEON"?....
versus
* DRUDGEREPORT > [Human Events] RUMSFIELD: ATTACK IMMINENT [matter of time = question of "when"?] IFF CONGRESS CUTS DEFENSE.
US Congress at risk of potentially making the US as mil = geopol vulnerable as at the end of the Cold War???
* IIRC WND.COM > {Daveed Gartenstein-Ross] US LOSING THE WAR ON TERROR DESPITE THE DEATH OF AL-QAEDA KINGPIN [OBL].
NUTSHELL = US-NATO/EU on road to insolvency as "Rogue" States + MilTerrs nuclearize + expand jihad.
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* SAME > NASA LAUNCHES TWIN SPACECRAFTS TO PROBE INSIDE THE MOON.
Good.
Not unlike "PEAK EVERYTHING", + GWCC CONTROVERSY = "MAN-MADE-VS-SUN" LACK OF SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS, AS PER DESIRED FUTURE OWG-NWO LACK OF INTERNATIONAL + UNIVERSAL/GLOBAL GOVTS, POLITICAL CONSENSUS COULD HINDER EFFECTIVE SPACE DEFENSE AGZ COMET APOPHIS = GUAM, EARTH-OBSERVED MOON EXPLOSIONS.
Not only as per OWG "POL WILL TO ACT", but also as per GROSS MISMANAGEMENT OF SPACE DEFENSE in which our future OWG's OVERPOLITICIZED PERTS + GOVT-CRITTERS SEVERELY MISCALCULATE + CAUSE THE FORESAME MOON EXPLOSIONS TO OCCUR.
A "HOLLOW MOON" could raise the stakes to dangerous levels iff an Apophis lunar impact does occur.
Knowledge is Power = "To be Forewarned is to be Forearmed", correct, i.e. among other to be able to change the future to mankind's benefit while its not too late for events, actions, + decisions, etc. to be changed???
[1980's "THE COLOR OF MONEY" Movie = "ITS THE WAY THAT YOU USE IT" theme.
STAR TREK: TNG's "Q" To CAPT. Jean Luc-Picard -"ITS DANGEROUS OUT HERE ... SPACE IS NOT FOR THE TIMID"!
By extension, IMO ditto the Future of Man + Earth.
It's a sprawling piece of real estate with a dark secret: It may have been a haven for bloodthirsty terrorists. The sudden disappearance of the home's Saudi residents before September 11 prompted calls to authorities, who found links to those who orchestrated the horrific attacks of that morning. Days before the tenth anniversary of the worst terror strike on American soil, new light is being shed on the home, and its ties to the tragedy.
The Miami Herald reported the home was owned at the time by Esam Ghazzawi, a financier and interior designer, his wife Deborah, Ghazzawi's daughter Anoud, and her husband Abdulazzi al-Hiijjii. Days before September 11, 2001, the Saudi family and their small children hurriedly vacated in a white van, leaving brand new cars in the garage, a fridge full of food and closets filled with clothes.
Their sudden departure irked Larry Berberich, senior administrator and security officer of the gated community, who reported the exodus. Ironically, Mr Berberich, an advisor to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, was with the group that received President Bush during his visit to the school where he was famously told of the terror attacks on the morning of September 11.
That same morning, neighbour Patrick Gallagher emailed the FBI to report what he felt was suspicious behaviour by the family. In an investigation that began weeks after the 9/11 attacks, the FBI reportedly found several links to the hijackers who carried them out.
When authorities pulled the records of phone calls to and from the home, they discovered the numbers belonged to more than a dozen suspected terrorists, including the 9/11 hijackers. A check on the logs of those entering the gated community prior to the attacks found a car belonging to Mohammed Atta, who piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the north tower of the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11.
Another car entering was linked to Ziad Samir Jarrah, a hijacker of United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed just outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Jarrah received flight training about a block away from the house at the Florida Flight Training, the Herald reported.
Another phone number linked to the home was that of Adnan Shukrijumah, who is believed to have been with Atta in the spring of 2001. Shukrijumah, who is on the FBI's Most Wanted list, remains on the loose.
The FBI was able to trace Ghazzawi's route back to Riyadh, with a stopover at a property he owned in Arlington, Virginia, ...to pick up the Krugerrands...
before boarding a flight to Heathrow Airport on the way to Soddy Arabia. An unnamed counterterrorism agent told the paper that Ghazzawi and al-Hiijjii were on an FBI watch list and a U.S. agency tracking terrorist funds was interested in both men even before 9/11.
Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who co-chaired the inquiry into the 9/11 attacks, said he was surprised he wasn't told about the probe of the Escondito Circle home at the time - even though he was especially alert to information pertaining to Florida. Despite that, the inquiry was able to gather a massive file on the hijackers in the United States, and it was turned it over to the 9/11 Commission. But Sen Graham said the Commission 'did very little with it, and their reference to Soddy Arabia is almost cryptic sometimes. I never got a good answer as to why they did not pursue that.'
[Dawn] Pakistain is warning that the Taliban are plotting to get the late Osama bin Laden's ... who is currently taking a long nap in the dirt... urm... water... wives and children freed by kidnapping a government official and then offering to exchange him for the slain al Qaeda chief's family.
Well, bummer. Perhaps Pakistan ought to consider downsizing their Taliban divisions...and their other jihadi divisions as well, now they've all hooked up for mutual advantage.
US Navy seals killed bin Laden in a May raid on his house in northwestern Pakistain.
At least two of his wives and several children who were living with him have since been jugged by Pak authorities.
Pakistain's interior ministry warned of the purported plot in a letter marked "secret" that was sent to top security officials around the country. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named obtained a copy on Friday.
The ministry says the information that led to the warning was reliable. It doesn't say which Pak official the Taliban plan to kidnap.
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[Dawn] Foreign troops cannot restore peace in the region and the only solution to the crisis is a Pakhtun Qaumi Jirga wherein Taliban can also participate if they stop bloodshed, says veteran politician and central leader of Awami National Party, Mohammad Afzal Khan Lala.
According to him, nothing will happen if US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces withdraw from Afghanistan.
"Enough is enough. It is time that leaders of all political parties and groups join hands to stop bloodshed of innocent people," he told a 'Meet the Press' programme of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar Press Club on Thursday.
He said that Pakhtuns could resolve their disputes on their own but they were made scapegoats in the fight between two superpowers. He said that at least three million Pakhtuns were killed and as a result one superpower became the supreme
power while the other one lost its position.
"It is a matter of grave concern as to why the war is fought on the soil of Pakhtuns. The war pushed them to utter backwardness and added to their miseries," he said, adding that a liberal and democratic Pakhtun nation was deliberately branded as turban and terrorist.
Khan Lala said that it was duty of all Pakhtun leaders, belonging to different political and religious parties, to play their role in bringing an end to bloodshed in all areas of the region including Afghanistan, Fata, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and Bloody Karachi.
"For restoration of peace in the region, all the three neighbouring countries --Afghanistan, Pakistain and India -- should cooperate with each other and form a trilateral commission to monitor the situation on regular basis," he said.
The proposed Pakhtun Qaumi Jirga, he said, would be organised in near future in five cities -- Peshawar, Quetta, Kandahar, Jalalabad and Kabul -- to ensure participation of maximum stakeholders and get feedback for restoration of sustainable peace in the region.
He said that in 1893 Pakhtuns were divided in Afghanistan, Fata, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and that was why they were subjected to violence everywhere. "Different nations of the world including German reunited and broke the walls but Pakhtuns could not unite despite lapse of 118 years," he lamented.
Referring to murders in Bloody Karachi, he said that there were more than four million Pakhtuns, who were playing vital role in the development of the mega city. More than 80 per cent victims of murder in Bloody Karachi were Pakhtuns, he said.
About agreements with Taliban, he said that all agreements in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... were signed against his will and that was why none of the deals succeeded.
"Three provincial governments are responsible for Swat crisis," he said, adding that former chief minister Aftab Sherpao formed Tanzim Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi for damaging Jamaat-i-Islami in Malakand division and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal gave a free hand to faceless myrmidons in the region while the incumbent government of PPP and ANP signed agreements with Taliban and provided them a chance to establish their network.
"Being residents of the area and victims of militancy, the government never bothered to take us into confidence before striking deals with faceless myrmidons otherwise we would have never allowed it to do so as it was not in the interests of people," the ANP leader said.
He said that government's decision to establish an Islamic university was also wrong because the area people had never demanded setting up of institutions with such names.
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[Dawn] The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan is resisting Islamabad's pressure for a big push against Orcs and similar vermin in eastern Afghan provinces, where most of Pak Taliban have set up sanctuaries and have launched multiple attacks from there on Pakistain's border checkposts.
The differences could result in another rough patch in military and intelligence ties between Pakistain and the US, which leads the NATO mission in Afghanistan. The relations were gradually improving after months of friction.
Isaf Commander Gen John Allen, who was on his first visit to Pakistain on Wednesday after taking over the coalition command in Afghanistan, had to listen to protests by Pak generals upset over the ease with which Pak Taliban who, after fleeing military operations in the country, launched attacks in Dir and Chitral from their sanctuaries in Kunar and Nuristan.
A day earlier, Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... had visited Chitral and adjoining areas that witnessed Taliban attacks and the issue was also discussed on Thursday at the Corps Commanders conference, underscoring the seriousness being attached by the army to the issue.
Gen Allen, according to one source, was categorically told that it was the responsibility of Isaf and Afghan National Army to prevent future incursions. Pak military has avoided threatening hot pursuit of raiding cut-thoats; however, Gen Allen was told that further attacks would not be tolerated.
Pak forces in the past hit back at fleeing forces of Evil by firing rockets that strayed across the border, riling up Afghans. The strategy was later changed and use of "excessive force was avoided to prevent civilian casualties on Afghan side".
Military officials suggest that the policy may be reversed if Isaf and the Afghan army did not act against sanctuaries of Pak Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Isaf command had earlier announced that it would expand its operations eastwards to regions it had vacated a year ago, including Kunar and Nuristan, for interdicting bad boy operations along the Pak-Afghan border, but it is reluctant to launch another major operation.
The reduced troop number because of the drawdown has further complicated prospects of a major offensive in eastern provinces.
The NATO-led forces are now relying more on the Afghan army and special operations as they shift the focus back to the east.
Gen Allen in his meetings appeared to be confident that the new combination was working well, despite the fact that August saw the highest number of American fatalities since the war began in 2001 and the downing of Chinook helicopter by Taliban in eastern province of Wardak.
At the corps commanders' conference, the army top brass agreed to augment paramilitary deployment in areas bordering Nuristan and Kunar to counter any attacks in future.
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The United States and declared ally of Hamas
Turkey are launching a new effort to combat terrorism in countries emerging from authoritarian rule in the wake of the Arab Spring, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.
The new effort, dubbed the Global Counterterrorism Forum, will bring together "traditional allies, emerging powers and Muslim-majority countries," Clinton said in a speech in New York. IOW islamofascists won't need terrorism because the West will preemptively give in to their political demands.
"The US opposes a move in New York by the Paleostinians to try to establish a state that can only be achieved by negotiations," US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told news hounds at hPer daily briefing. "So, yes, if something comes to a vote in the UN Security Council, the US will veto."
Nuland's comments marked the first explicit veto threat by the United States.
(Ma'an) -- Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leader Mahmoud Zahhar said Friday that the Islamist movement was considering moving its headquarters from the Syrian capital to Cairo.
Zahhar said several possibilities were being considered in light of the security situation in Syria, which is "dangerous for all Paleostinians -- not just for Hamas." He added: "There are a number of options and Egypt is one of them."
But Egypt's ambassador to the Paleostinian Authority said Zahhar's remarks did not reflect official policy. Yasser Othman told Ma'an that communications between Egypt and political factions did not include opening Hamas' headquarters in Cairo, especially as the PLO embassy represents the Paleostinians. Egypt will not take any steps that deepen Paleostinian division, he said.
Paleostinians have been repeatedly targeted and dozens have been killed amid the Assad regime's crackdown on pro-democracy protests that began in mid-March.
Until now, however, Hamas has denied plans to move its headquarters from Syria, which is thought to be among the Islamist movement's key supporters in the region.
[Dawn] The United States appealed to Israel and Turkey Friday to refrain from "provocative action" after Ankara threatened to deploy warships to escort aid vessels to Gazoo in defiance of an Israeli naval blockade.
"We're urging both sides to refrain from provocative action... to keep the rhetoric and keep the actions in a constructive and productive tone," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
Her comments came after Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Thursday night that Turkish warships would escort any aid ships trying to reach Gazoo.
An Israeli cabinet member, Dan Meridor, called the remarks "grave and serious" and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said his cabinet discussed "various theoretical options in the event of escalation."
The dispute stems from an Israeli commando raid on a Turkish vessel that left nine dead in May 2010 as it was attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gazoo in defiance of a naval blockade by Israel.
A UN report concluded that the blockade was valid under international law and that Israel had the legal right to stop Gazoo-bound ships in international waters, a decision which deeply angered Turkey and the Paleostinians.
But it also said Israeli troops used "excessive and unreasonable" force in stopping the vessels and described the loss of life as unacceptable.
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"...said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland"
From Hudson Institute, by a Palestinian Journalist
If anyone is to be held responsible for the Palestinian Authority leadership's decision to ask the UN to recognize a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 lines, it is US President Barack Obama and his Middle East advisors.
When and if violence erupts in the Palestinian territories after the UN vote later this month, it will be the direct result of Obama's failed Middle East policy, which is likely to see a dramatic rise in anti-American sentiments not only among the Palestinians, but also throughout the Arab and Islamic world.
Through their statements over the past three years, the Americans
The White House and the State Department, anyway. A great many members of Congress have said things in various public venues to make it very clear they disagree with the stance of the current administration.
gave the Palestinian Authority and many Arabs the impression that Washington is in favor of a Palestinian state at all costs.
The Juices drew the same conclusion, even though the stereotype about them is very different.
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[Strategy Page] - A recent opinion poll of American Moslems indicated they are getting less enthusiastic about Islamic terrorism.
Or at least that they're willing to admit to pollsters. Still, good to know that they're at least seeing it as socially unacceptable...
In a recent poll, five percent of American Moslems had a favorable attitude towards Islamic terrorism. Four years ago, it was seven percent. Currently, 81 percent are hostile to Islamic terrorism, versus 68 percent four years ago.
Do we have a definition of terrorism yet? How about Islamic terrorism?
Of those favorable to Islamic terrorism, 40 percent of them (two percent of all U.S. Moslems) were very favorable. That's nearly 50,000 people. But less than one percent of those were found involved, to one degree or another, in Islamic terrorism.
Eh? That isn't the kind of thing people usually confess to total strangers...
That's under 500 people, and only about a quarter of those have been arrested, or identified as going overseas to engage in Islamic terrorism. Currently, eight percent of American Moslems believe suicide bombing, and similar violence against civilians can sometimes be justified to defend Islam. Worse yet, 21 percent of American Moslems have witnessed other Moslems expressing, or calling for, support of Islamic radicalism. Some 60 percent of American Moslems (and 67 percent of Americans in general) are concerned about the rise of Islamic radicalism among American Moslems.
These polls are useful for other reasons. One poll four years ago finally answered the question of how many Moslem there are in the United States. There were no reliable statistics on this before, as the government did not collect data on religion, and there was no Moslem organization doing an accurate count. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life poll found there were 2.35 million Moslems in the United States,
Not six million, as CAIR, et al were so fond of claiming before that came out.
and 36 percent of them were children.
In other words, not voters.
Moreover, two thirds of the adult Moslems were born in another country. African-Americans made up twenty percent of Moslems, and tend to be more radical than the foreign born. Many of these are men who converted while in prison, and have long been seen as a major threat because of their criminal background and history of impulsive and violent behavior.
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I wonder how well a rumor would circulate that, in cooperation with Planned Parenthood, the US government was to begin putting sterilization drugs into the food of male felony prisoners.
Like the Progesterex hoax of some years ago, but instead targeted at males, it would likely catch on as a major deterrent to crime.
Call it "Antiscion", and say it works by scarring the vas deferens, thus permanently blocking the passage of sperm into the seminal vesicle. Just one pill, and no mo' babies.
[An Nahar] A number of March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... MPs and officials on Friday criticized the latest stances voiced by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi about the Syrian crisis and Hizbullah's arms.
"To give or not to give Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... a chance is something to be decided by the Syrian people, not anyone else," Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... bloc MP Antoine Zahra told MTV.
On Wednesday al-Rahi said "Assad must be given a chance because he is implementing reforms in Syria."
Zahra also said the patriarch's remarks on Hizbullah's weapons "contradict with the principle of keenness on building the State and its authority, as liberating Leb and supporting the Paleostinian rights should be done by the State, not by an armed party that is breaching the State's jurisdiction and contesting its authority over the Lebanese territory."
For his part, Zahra's colleague in the LF bloc MP George Adwan told LBC television: "All of our sacrifices are for the sake of the rise of a strong State that should be in charge of liberating and defending Lebanese land and supporting the Paleostinian right to return through its capabilities and international relations."
"So we can't now justify the rise of a mini-state outside state control and provide cover for the presence of weapons other than those of the army and security forces," Adwan added.
"Approaching the issue of weapons in this manner undermines all the foundations of the Lebanese state," Adwan noted, stressing that the LF will remain committed to "Bkirki's historic principles" and that it will "always distinguish between its stance and its relation with Bkirki."
Al-Rahi told Al-Arabiya television on Thursday that sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites may emerge if the Syrian government is tossed.
"If the regime changes in Syria, and the Sunnis take over, they will form an alliance with the Sunnis in Leb, which will worsen the situation between the Shiites and the Sunnis," al-Rahi said.
He warned that the Christians will pay the price if the Moslem Brüderbund succeeded Syrian President Assad.
Asked about Hizbullah's arms, he responded: "The international community must pressure Israel to withdraw from the occupied Lebanese territories ... and fulfill the Paleostinians' right of return, and consequently Hizbullah will have to lay down its arms."
March 14 General-Secretariat Coordinator Fares Soaid told MTV that al-Rahi's remarks "contradict with all of the church's historic principles, especially that he took part in drafting the text of the Synod for the Middle East which only mentions the support of the State."
"Linking the Paleostinians' arms to Hizbullah's arms is usually something done by Syria's allies in Leb, not the patriarch," Soaid noted.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc MP Khaled al-Daher claimed that the Syrian president "has dispatched envoys to meet with al-Rahi in Leb in order to rally the support of Lebanese minorities for his regime."
He accused the Syrian regime of "intimidating minorities in a bid to remain in power."
Daher voiced surprise over the patriarch's statements, saying they "contradict with the history of Christians and Bkirki, which has always supported freedom and stood by people and their rights."
He also lamented "the remarks in which he (al-Rahi) called for giving a chance to the regime that has left no less than 3,000 people dead, according to the International Red Thingy, and more than 70,000 tossed in the clink or missing."
Al-Rahi's stances "stem from fear of the practices of the (Syrian) regime, which has sent the minorities in Leb bloody messages containing a carrot-and-stick approach," Daher charged.
Daher's colleague in the Mustaqbal bloc, MP Nidal Tohme, for his part stressed "the need that Christians support the will of the neighboring peoples ... and overcome the complex of the minority that is in constant need of protection," noting that "a strong, just State is the solution."
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[An Nahar] Turkish Prime Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered a blistering attack on the Syrian regime, saying President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... had lost his legitimacy and could lose power over his bloody crackdown on dissent.
Syria's crackdown has infuriated world powers, some of which imposed sanctions on the Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... regime, with fresh pressure piled on Assad from neighboring Turkey.
"He who bases his power on bloodshed will end up leaving in a trail of blood," the Turkish premier told al-Jazeera television on Thursday.
"Shadows loom over the legitimacy of President Bashir al-Assad and his regime," Erdogan said.
Turkey has been angered at Syria's indifference to its repeated pleas to end months of bloodshed and has been edging closer to calling on former ally Assad to quit, following appeals by Western powers.
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[An Nahar] Iran Thursday warned it would "not hesitate" to hit back following a foreign strike on its soil in a formal complaint to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... over a warning from French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... Sarkozy said last week that Iran's "military, nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventive attack against Iranian sites that would provoke a major crisis that La Belle France wants to avoid at all costs."
Iran's U.N. ambassador said in a letter to U.N. leaders that his country would "not hesitate to act in self-defense to respond to any attack against the Iranian nation."
Iran would "take appropriate defensive measures to protect itself," ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... and the Security Council, of which La Belle France is one of the five permanent members.
Sarkozy had made "inflammatory remarks and baseless allegations," the envoy added.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran expresses its deep concern over, and strong condemnation of such a provocative, unwarranted and irresponsible statement against Iran," Khazaee said.
The French leader has been one of the most outspoken critics of Iran in the western alliance, which has accused Iran of seeking a nuclear bomb.
In an August 31 speech to French ambassadors, Sarkozy did not say which country might carry out the preventive attack.
But he said "Iran refuses to negotiate seriously" and declared that La Belle France would work with its allies to build support for tougher international sanctions. The UN Security Council has already passed four rounds of sanctions against Iran over its enrichment program.
The Iranian ambassador again denied the charge that his country was seeking a nuclear weapon.
"Iran is a leading nation in rejecting and opposing all kinds of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons," said Khazaee.
"Moreover I wish to reiterate my government's position that the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran has no intention to attack any other nations."
The Security Council's Iran sanctions committee has reported several violations of the arms embargo on Iran in recent months.
The United States and other western nations have called for a tighter application of the sanctions.
La Belle France, Britannia, Germany and the United States reported Iran's firing of a satellite in June to the U.N. sanctions committee as a potential violation. They say the launcher could also be used to carry missiles.
The Western powers say Iran's move in August to transfer centrifuge production to a secretive plant inside a mountain near Qom, south of Tehran, is a new sign that its nuclear program is not peaceful.
Arms flows have been carried out through Syria, envoys say, and U.S. ambassador Susan Rice said this week that more Security Council action could not be ruled out.
Western diplomats have highlighted however that, with the 15-nation Security Council already battling over resolutions on Syria and Libya, more action on Iran could not be envisaged in the next two or three months.
Russia and China are in general both strong opponents of sanctions measures. Both called this week for greater diplomatic efforts to settle the nuclear standoff with Iran.
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Iran is counting on the post-Jasmine/Arab Spring US = US-NATO losing many or most of its Cold War + post-Cold War vital staging areas between Europe + the Persian Gulf, wid any remainder [e.g. Israel] proving untenable or highly risque' for NATO/EU Govts to employ, vee threat from Iran's own LRBMS [Nukulaar?] + proxy MilTerrs.
THE ABOVE BEING SAID, I STILL HOLD AS TIMES BEFORE THAT IRAN WILL STILL PREFER TO STAY ON THE GEOPOL/STRATEGIC "DEFENSIVE", + WAIT FOR ANY EXTERNAL AIR ATTACK(S) OR GROUND INVASION BY THE US-ISRAEL, US-NATO/ALLIED UNO TO OCCUR AGZ ITS SOIL.
It has taken nearly ten years, but the real story of Iran's direct, material involvement in the 9/11 conspiracy is finally coming to light. And it's being revealed not by the U.S. government or by Congressional investigators but by private attorneys representing families of the 9/11 victims in U.S. District Court.
Just one week before the 9/11 Commission sent its final report to the printers in July 2004, diligent staffers discovered a six-page classified National Security Agency analysis summarizing what the U.S. intelligence community had learned about Iran's assistance to the 9/11 hijackers.
They happened upon the document by chance. It had been tucked away at the bottom of the last box in the last stack of classified documents they were reviewing.
A typical bureaucrat's trick. "I put it in there; it's not my fault you were too busy/tired/lazy to look closely at every document."
But it was so explosive that several Commissioners pushed hard to make sure the information it contained was included in the final report, despite intense push back from the intelligence community.
The page and a half section that made the final cut details repeated trips to Iran by 8-10 of the "muscle" hijackers between October 2000 and February 2001. Flying in from Saudi Arabia, Damascus, and Beirut, the future hijackers were accompanied by "senior Hezbollah operatives" who were in fact agents of the Iranian regime.
The information was so explosive that the CIA lobbied hard to get it expunged from the final report, in part because they had detected some of the movements as they were occurring but failed to appreciate their import. "They saw them as travel through Iran, not travel to Iran," a senior 9/11 Commission staffer told me at the time.
By the time the staffers had read into the 75 source documents on a Sunday morning out at NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, MD, the Commission was pushing up against the end of its mandate and could not do any additional work. The information was so serious and had such clear geopolitical import that it "requires further investigation by the U.S. government," they concluded. Many of the Commissions and senior staff who were aware of the document find assumed someone else would pick up the ball.
But as attorney Thomas Mellon, Jr. and his colleagues representing Fiona Havlish and other 9/11 widows and family members discovered, no such investigation was ever carried out. Not even the Congressional intelligence committees would go near the subject, despite direct appeals from the Havlish plaintiffs and a review of many of the original still-classified documents cited in the report.
Chapter and verse at the link, with links. Very lawyerly, in the best sense. Iran is guilty as hell -- Sunni jihadi group Al Qaeda working hand in glove with the Shiite jihadi Mullahcracy of Iran. And not only did the CIA completely miss it, but they worked like frantic beavers on crack to cover up the results, so their miss wouldn't be noticed. It wasn't just their Bush-destroying National Intelligence Estimate saying Iran had given up the pursuit of nuclear weapons. General Petraeus has some serious work ahead of him, clearing out the the blind and the maleficent from his new organization.
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.
Egyptian activists destroyed a wall around the Israeli embassy and set police cars on fire in Cairo on Friday after thousands demonstrated at Tahrir Square to push for a timetable for reforms and an end to military trials for civilians.
It's a sprawling piece of real estate with a dark secret: It may have been a haven for bloodthirsty terrorists. The sudden disappearance of the home's Saudi residents before September 11 prompted calls to authorities, who found links to those who orchestrated the horrific attacks of that morning. Days before the tenth anniversary of the worst terror strike on American soil, new light is being shed on the home, and its ties to the tragedy.
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
The United States and 
"The US opposes a move in New York by the Paleostinians to try to establish a state that can only be achieved by negotiations," US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told 
President-for-Life Bashir 
President-for-Life Bashir 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
