China said on Saturday that it will work with Afghanistan to fight terrorism, after it blamed a deadly train station attack on extremists from its western Xinjiang region, which shares a short border with the war-torn nation.
Beijing has become increasingly concerned about security in restive Xinjiang, where it says Muslim extremists receive help from militants in neighboring countries. I hope they've learned from both Russian & American mistakes.
Egypt deported Friday dozens of women activists, who had flown in to Cairo but been barred from entering the country in their bid to reach the neighboring Gaza Strip, an airport official said.
Prison wasn't an option?
Who'd want to keep them around for years?
Good point...
About 100 women, most of them from Europe and the United States, had hoped to enter the Palestinian enclave through Egypt's Rafah border crossing to celebrate International Women's Day on Saturday.
Eleven women were sent back to Istanbul, another 22 to Paris and six to Frankfurt, the official said. They were among 65 activists deported over the past 24 hours, some from the United States, France, Belgium and Switzerland, the official added.
Northern Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire and the odious American anti-war activist Medea Benjamin were deported earlier this week.
Egypt controls the Rafah border crossing into Gaza, the only one that bypasses Israel, and is cooperating colluding with the Israeli occupation authorities in blockading the territory.
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The height of new morality---working toward another Holocaust.
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Getting an education in what a real male dominated and police state is about rather than the one's they've accused of being. Reality bites their fantasy world.
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From Sisi's surveillance squads' cameras,
someone published some footage unglamorous.
Western wymyn ran riot!
How could they keep quiet?
'Twas "Innocence of Broads" made them clamorous.
[THEPENINSULAQATAR] Most Moslems have been driven out of the western half of conflict-torn Central African Republic, where thousands of civilians risk being killed "right before our eyes," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has said.
The bleak warning came as the country's foreign minister pleaded with the UN Security Council to urgently approve a UN peacekeeping force to stop the killing.
Widespread violence in the former French colony has claimed thousands of lives since Seleka, a coalition of mostly Moslem northern rebels, seized power a year ago. Attacks intensified in December when "anti-Balaka" militias drawn from the majority Christian population stepped up reprisals on Moslems.
"Since early December we have effectively witnessed a 'cleansing' of the majority of the Moslem population in western CAR," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres told a meeting of the 15-nation UN Security Council on the crisis in the impoverished and landlocked country.
"Tens of thousands of them (Moslems) have left the country, the second refugee outflow of the current crisis, and most of those remaining are under permanent threat," he said.
The council is considering a UN proposal for a nearly 12,000-strong peacekeeping force to stop the country from sliding toward what a top UN rights official called "ethnic-religious cleansing."
"Just last week, there were about 15,000 people trapped in 18 locations in western CAR, surrounded by anti-Balaka elements and at very high risk of attack," Guterres said.
"International forces are present in some of these sites, but if more security is not made available immediately, many of these civilians risk being killed right before our eyes."
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Somebody shows the capacity for long term planning.
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Muslim fundamentalist terrorists set themselves up among a lot of non-Muslims, reek terror among the kaffir, and generate a backlash from the majority of the population. There's something about as ye sow...
[IRISHTIMES] The Chinese government has told North Korea of its "deep concern" after an aircraft from China Southern Airlines crossed the trajectory of a North Korean missile launched by Pyongyang this week.
The aircraft was flying from Tokyo's Narita airport to the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said. While it passed over the trajectory some minutes after the missile, the incident was a reminder of the fraught nature of international relations around the Korean peninsula.
"On this issue, we have already contacted the North Korean side to convey our deep concern," Chinese foreign ministry front man Qin Gang told a daily news briefing.
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an aircraft from China Southern Airlines crossed the trajectory of a North Korean missile
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Possibly the Chinese have been worried about the wrong airplane.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-missing-flight-sends-search-teams-to-air-sea/
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[DAWN] Within a minute after a text message circulated in Lyari's Singhu Lane asking people to close shops and schools or "else we would not be responsible for what happens", there was chaos with shopkeepers, transporters and school administration quickly trying to get out of the way of whatever that was about to happen.
They did not want to take chances as just a few days back, on the occasion of Baloch Culture Day, they were witness to an 'Aiwan Bomb' attack targeting an empty plot in Singhu Lane killing two and injuring dozens. An 'Aiwan Bomb' is similar to a hand grenade in terms of its impact and is attached to the base of a Kalashnikov, according to a resident.
A local leader of the Pakistain Peoples Party was quickly informed and asked to speak to the group. When he inquired, nobody from the group took responsibility for sending the text messages. "But there are shops in Chakiwara and adjoining Rexar Lane that decided to remain close for the day," he said, adding after a pause, "we have been left to die here."
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[DAWN] The district courts attack case took another twist on Friday when the gunman of the slain additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) denied allegations of shooting him.
ADSJ Rafaqat Ahmed Khan Awan and 11 other people were killed during the attack on the district courts premises on March 3.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday told the National Assembly that the ADSJ was killed from the bullets accidentally fired by his own gunman, Babar Hussain.
The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) constituted to probe the March 3 terror attack has already taken Hussain into custody and on Friday produced him before Special Judge Anti-Terrorism Court Atiqur Rehman to obtain his physical remand.
As judge Rehman has banned the entry of mediapersons into his courtroom since August last year, the media could not cover the proceedings. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... sources close to the development said the gunman contradicted the statement of the interior minister and pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." .
The sources said Hussain informed the ATC judge that he was with the ADSJ Awan when the bully boyz stormed the courtroom and tried to enter his chamber.
The bully boyz broke the door of the chamber and shot ADSJ Awan in the chest, the sources quoted the gunman as saying.
When contacted, Naseer Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... , the president of the Islamabad Bar Association, said the statement of the interior minister was highly condemnable. He said the minister had tried to divert the case to some other directions by giving such a misleading statement.
Mr Kayani expressed the possibility that the police might have pressured Hussain to make a fake confession in order to save their skin.
"The bar will file an application with the Supreme Court of Pakistain against the irresponsible statement of the interior minister, implicating an innocent man in the crime," he added.
Dr Arif Alvi, Member National Assembly (MNA) of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI), while talking to Dawn said the interior minister had on Thursday expressed the possibility that bullets accidentally fired by the gunman might have hit and killed the ADSJ.
He said when the case was under investigation, it was premature to comment on the matter.
When contacted, Danial Gillani, a front man for the interior ministry, said the case was under investigation. "The exact detail of the tragic incident can only be given after the JIT submits its report," he added.
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[DAWN] Opposition leaders and a representative of the Taliban negotiating committee have expressed displeasure over the remarks of Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif that a military operation can be launched against forces of Evil in the current month if they violate the ceasefire.
Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... , who is representing the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) in peace talks with the government, urged the defence minister to avoid giving statements that may spoil the dialogue process. "His [Asif's] leader [Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... ] is talking about negotiations while the defence minister is warning of a military operation," the maulana regretted.
Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah said that even "cabinet members are not on the same page on the issue of the Taliban".
Mr Asif in an interview to a foreign news agency on Friday said a full-scale military operation could be launched against the Taliban in the tribal areas as early as this month, warning Death Eaters against violating a ceasefire they announced last week.
Senator Raza Rabbani of PPP demanded that an in-camera session of parliament should be called so that parliamentary parties could be taken into confidence on the government-Taliban talks or any other decision taken by the government on the issue.
When contacted, Special Adviser to Prime Minister Irfan Siddiqui, who heads the government's committee in talks with the TTP, told Dawn that Maulana Sami had not yet informed the government when the Taliban's committee would go to the tribal areas to convey to the TTP leaders Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's demand that Taliban should not only disassociate themselves from splinter groups who had carried out recent terrorist attacks but also condemn such assaults and expose such groups.
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[DAWN] Pakistain could launch a full-scale military operation against Pak Taliban hard boyz in the tribal areas near the Afghan border as early as this month, the defence minister said, warning hard boyz against violating a ceasefire.
Dashing chances of a peace deal with the Pak Taliban, gunnies burst into a courtroom in Islamabad on Monday, killing 11 people in a broad daylight attack in the heart of the heavily guarded capital.
The Pak Taliban denied any role in the assault and a splinter group claimed the credit.
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif told Rooters in an interview that the government would not hesitate to bomb krazed killer hideouts or send forces into the tribal areas if the Taliban did not abide by the ceasefire announced last weekend.
"It will not take months now. We'll have to march in the month of March," Asif said, describing the government's response if krazed killer attacks continued.
"If there is a ceasefire, it has to be complete. Without that, we just can't afford to have talks with the Taliban."
Asif, long considered a pro-talks politician, is now one of a growing number of members of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's cabinet who believe it is time for tougher military action against Pak Taliban strongholds.
Sharif has been under pressure from the United States and hawks within the Mighty Pak Army to send troops into North Wazoo, a tribal region along the Afghan border that is home to a complex web of al Qaeda-linked krazed killer groups.
Since 2007, the military has mounted a number of offensives against krazed killer strongholds in the northwest, largely clearing several areas, including their bastion of South Waziristan.
But North Waziristan has not been tackled, even though Pak Taliban members have taken refuge with allied Afghan factions based there that are not fighting the Pak state.
In February, Pakistain launched talks with the Taliban to find a negotiated settlement. But hopes of a peace deal have been crushed by a series of attacks and counter-attacks by both sides.
"We won't just take this lying down," the defence minister said. "If we are attacked, the state is attacked, civilians are attacked, military personal are attacked, we will retaliate. We will retaliate in kind."
For a government long considered soft for pursuing peace talks, Asif said there were now very few takers for the argument that the Taliban are truly committed to dialogue.
"The Taliban have not even condemned this so-called splinter group four days after the attack. They are saying, 'We have not violated a ceasefire, these are peripheral groups, they are not under our control,'" Asif said. "But we cannot believe this."
When asked about reports that talks may be re-launched, this time with Pakistain's powerful military in the driving seat, he said: "The army's input is very valuable. They are the people on the front lines. They have to execute our decisions."
Nightmare scenario
The Sharif government's insistence on pushing for talks with the Pak Taliban is driven to a large extent by the fear that the end of the US combat mission in 2014 could energise a resilient insurgency straddling the shared frontier.
"If in the post-withdrawal period, the Afghan Taliban become stronger and carve out an area of influence in the south and east of Afghanistan, which is next to our border, that's a scenario we should even avoid thinking of," Asif said. "Because then the Pak Taliban will have a powerhouse behind them, to support them. This option is there and everyone should try to avoid it."
For sceptics, there is another scenario Pakistain wants to avoid at all costs: an unfriendly Afghanistan backed by India.
Pakistain and India, nuclear-armed neighbours, have long suspected each other's motives in Afghanistan.
As NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... 's presence fades, President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has turned to India.
The countries have signed a wide-ranging strategic partnership and India has pledged billions in development aid.
Pakistain has for years been suspicious of the help, going as far as to say Indian consulates are surveillance posts.
But Asif said Pakistain, and particularly its army which has for decades jealously guarded the right to dictate policy on Afghanistan, had evolved.
"We have evidence that India is meddling in Afghanistan, no doubt," Asif said. "But I'm a believer that if the conditions in the four walls of your own house are stable, nobody from outside will try to enter. We give India the opportunity."
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The Ineffectual Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said there is "no way" he will recognize Israel as a Jewish state and accept a Palestinian capital in just a portion of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, rejecting what some Palestinians believe will be key parts of a forthcoming U.S. peace proposal, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
Abbas, who was speaking to youth activists of his Fatah party, in comments carried on Friday by the Palestinian news agency WAFA, said he had previously withstood international pressure when he sought U.N. recognition of a state of Palestine over Washington's objections.
And we all saw how well that worked.
Abbas' comments suggested the extent of the difference in stances between him and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after seven months of pointless mediation efforts by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
The president suggested he would stand firm again -- especially over the demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
"They are pressing and saying, 'No peace without the Jewish state,'" he said, though not saying who applying the pressure. "There is no way. We will not accept."
"Next they'll want us to admit juices are human, just like us Muslim Arabs."
Netanyahu, meanwhile, gave interviews to Israeli TV stations, excerpts of which were broadcast Friday night.
"I am ready to proceed, I am ready to reach the end of the conflict, but it must be the end of the conflict," Netanyahu said on Channel 10 TV. "We won't allow the establishment of a Palestinian state so that it will continue the conflict, so it needs to recognize the state of the Jews just like they are demanding from us that we recognize the state of the Palestinians."
Thus recognizing that the 'moderate' Palestinians would be willing to kill all the Joooz in two steps, not just one...
Netanyahu insisted Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty -- such recognition being required as evidence that Palestinians are serious about peace.
Abbas has noted that the Palestine Liberation Organization recognized the state of Israel in 1993 and said this is sufficient.
But that recognition was conditioned on "right of return", etc., and so wasn't serious.
Palestinians fear the demand is an Israel attempt to restrict possible return options of refugees and the rights of Israel's large Arab minority.
As in, no "right of return", meaning the Paleos can't flood the zone...
Kerry is expected to present his ideas for the contours of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal soon, but it remains unseen that he can get Abbas and Netanyahu to agree on a framework before by the April 29 deadline.
Remains unseen? I can see it clearly and I don't even live in Alaska...
Abbas is set to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on March 17, as part of U.S. efforts to press both sides towards a peace process. Netanyahu met with Obama earlier this week.
The current round of talks began in late July, but was plagued from the start by disagreement between Abbas and Netanyahu on the ground rules. The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in 1967, and said talks about that state should use the 1967 lines as a starting point, a position backed by the U.S. but rejected by Netanyahu.
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I am ready to reach the end of the conflict, but it must be the end of the conflict,"
"But, but can't we have peace AND continue the conflict?" Call me a cynic, but I don't see why anyone even bothers with this rotten charade anymore.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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