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Afghanistan
Gen. Zahir Talks of Conspiracy To Release Farkhunda's Killers
[Tolo News] Criminal Investigation Department (CID) chief Gen. Zahir Zahir reveals a number of groups are trying to release the suspects held on the charges of killing Farkhunda.

He announced Saturday that the interior ministry has dispatched the cases of 44 suspects involved in killing and burning of 27-year-old woman to the Attorney General's Office (AGO).

He added that 27 of the suspects were civilians and 17 others were police.

"Today we completed Farkhunda's case and sent it to the Attorney General's Office," Gen. Zahir said. "The case includes all the documents and evidences about the suspects."

Expressing concerns about groups trying to get acquaintance for the suspects, Gen. Zahir assured that he would not let such a thing happen.

"I assure you that I will personally follow the case, and in case of any interference into the case, I will let the president know about it," Gen. Zahir said.

The AGO officials, meanwhile, urge that they would transparently and fairly investigate the case.

"Today we received the case of Farkhunda's death. I assure you that our attorneys will investigate the case transparently," AGO front man Basir Azizi told a presser on Saturday.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Afghan Govt. Agencies May Have Wasted Billions in US Aid: Pentagon
[Tolo News] Highlighting the Afghan government's money-management weakness, the U.S. Defense Department officials have been reported by Washington Examiner as saying that the Afghan government agencies may have wasted billions of dollars in direct U.S. aid.

The source revealed that the officials with the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) told the Pentagon's Inspector General that they felt "pressure to maintain hard-fought gains" in the development of Afghan cops and as a result, were willing to "overlook" troubled contracts made possible by U.S. and coalition funds.

"The Pentagon watchdog found that Afghan agencies enforced no formal spending requirements to protect the flood of funding the U.S. and other nations poured into the country to support the developing national security forces," it added.

The inspector general, according to Washington Examiner, has warned that Afghanistan would not be able to continue functioning without uninterrupted support of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
contributions if it didn't address the contracting problems.

"Until it mitigates these challenges, [the government of Afghanistan] will continue to depend on coalition-provided capabilities," the report said. "Future direct assistance funds are vulnerable to fraud and abuse."
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't doubt it a bit. We are trying to build countries while ours falls apart.
Posted by: chris || 04/01/2015 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm surenothing wasted---it's all in numbered Swiss accounts
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/01/2015 0:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Pikers. We waste that every day.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 04/01/2015 4:56 Comments || Top||

#4  The objection is they get no vote in the next election. Don't they know money is for 'our' graft.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/01/2015 9:51 Comments || Top||


Muslimyar Says Pakistan Won't Bring Taliban to Negotiation Table
[Tolo News] Still distrusting Pakistain's commitments to Afghan grinding of the peace processor, the Senate Chairman Fazl Hadi Moslemyar says Pakistain would not bring the Taliban leaders to the negotiation table.

"Bringing the Taliban to the negotiation table is just an imagination; it's impossible; it's insanity," Moslemyar said.

Criticizing the government for hurrying in trusting Pakistain's commitments, Moslemyar expressed that Afghanistan's hope regarding Pakistain's honesty was pointless.

His remarks came as the peace talks with the Taliban were expected to be initiated in the early March, but now that the month has finished, there has been so sign of progress so far in this respect.

But the High Peace Council (HPC) members blame the delay on Pakistain, saying the Afghan government's premature deadlines for dialogues were as a result of its optimism to the process.

"Those who set deadlines were just optimistic about the process," HPC member Mohammad Akbari said.

The politicians, meanwhile, criticize the Pak government for what they believe dishonesty to Afghanistan, saying Islamabad sought its interests in continuity of war in Afghanistan.

"The neighboring countries seek their benefit in Afghanistan's insecurity, therefore, they are not happy with peace in Afghanistan," secretary of House of Representatives Abdul Raouf Enami said.

The government officials, however, still express optimism about the initiation of peace talks, saying the process, which Ghani has emphasized would be Afghan-led, will begin in near future.

"So far, the date and location of the dialogues are unknown, but efforts are underway to clear these all," foreign ministry Ahmad Shekib Moshtaghni said.

But the HPC foreign affairs adviser Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar said on Sunday that the peace talks would begin soon and that in Afghanistan.

He hoped that the Afghan government and the Taliban would to come to the negotiation table "without any preconditions."
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Farkhunda Protesters Demand Dismissal of Kabul Police Chief
[Tolo News] Continuing their protests for the second week, the civil society groups have called on the government to dismiss the Kabul Police Chief from his position over what they said neglecting the brutal death of Farkhunda.

In a gathering on Tuesday in Kabul, the activists accused the Kabul police of neglecting the brutal killing of 27-year-old woman, and asked for the trial of locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
suspects that include about 17 police officials.

Farkhunda was beaten to death and burnt nearly two weeks ago ‎by a mob in the center of capital city and that in the presence of several coppers that remained inaction and kept watching the horrific scene quietly.

The protesting activists warned that they would not stop their movement unless the police chief and other security officials are removed from their positions and brought to justice.

"We want the government to remove all those security officials including the police chief who neglected Farkhunda's death," a protester Mohammad Abdullah said.

Transparent trial of the suspects, end of arbitrary Fatwas (religious decrees) by the religious leaders and thorough and responsible investigation of the case were among the other demands of the protesters.

"Our demand is that the Attorney General's Office should share it's findings with the media and civil society groups before submitting them to the Supreme Court," another activist Seddiqullah Tawhidi mentioned.

A number of women activists who were also present at the event called on the Parliament to approve the law eliminating violence against women.

"If the Parliament members [really] want to put an end to violence against women, they need to approve the law on elimination of violence against women," a female rights activist Alema said.

Farkhunda was falsely accused of burning Holy Koran by a Mullah in Shah-Do-Shamshera Mosque, an allegation strongly rejected by the interior ministry and other investigation teams as baseless.

Since then, the rallies and protests are being staged, not only in Afghanistan but in most parts of the world, demanding harsh punishment to the killers.

The interior ministry, however, has arrested over 40 people including about 17 police in connection to the death of Farkhunda, who was killed for her movement to stop Mullahs from deceiving people by writing false Tawiz, a folded piece of paper containing religious words which is worn by the people for better luck or remove evil affliction. ‎
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of all April Fools, the Rasul's
Are the stubbornest, rule-ridden mules,
For they trail him in herds
Bending ears to his words
Which they cherish as if they were jewels.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 04/01/2015 23:37 Comments || Top||


Ghani Seeks to Consolidate Power
[Tolo News] President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
has reportedly issued an order directing government institutions that all executive decrees and orders will from now on be overseen and executed by the Presidential Palace's Office of Administrative Affairs. The move could mark an unprecedented step to consolidate power to the president.

Afghan political commentators have expressed shock and outrage at the news, calling it an obvious step toward authoritarianism. Others suggested the move exposed obvious tensions between the president and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
News of the order came in the form of a letter received by TOLOnews. In the first and second articles of the five paragraph order, it is stated that all ministries and government institutions are obliged to process all recommendations and documents included in the president's authority through the Office of Administrative Affairs.

The Office of Administrative Affairs is then directed to assess the received documents in accordance to the prevailing laws and regulations and refer the draft of the order and decrees issued by the president and his VPs and submit them to the president.

"If decisions are made separately without consulting the opposing side, in the first step, they come out of national unity government and the national unity government moves toward segregation and this would further weaken the government," university professor Tahir Hashimi said in response to the order.

Other commentators have expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
s that the consolidation of executive power could be a major turning point for the Afghan government. "The history reveals that authoritarianism never succeeds in Afghanistan, but rather it causes fights; therefore, authoritarianism isn't supposed to have aplace in Afghanistan's political history," Civil Society Association head Aziz Rafaee said.

The Office of Administrative Affairs and the office of the Chief Executive have yet to comment on the order.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Fleeing violence in Yemen, refugees arrive in Somalia
That's a headline I thought I'd never see...
MOGADISHU -- Somali officials and the U.N. say dozens of Yemeni refugees fleeing the Saudi-led airstrikes and fighting in Yemen have arrived in the northern parts of Somalia.
Devil, meet Deep Blue Sea.
The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday that at least 32 Yemenis arrived by sea in the northern breakaway region of Somaliland and the semiautonomous Puntland region on Saturday. Local officials in Somaliland said that 12 Yemeni families arrived at the Berbera port along the Gulf of Aden after traveling from Yemeni’s third largest city of Taiz, where warplanes had carried out strikes targeting the Houthi rebels.

The arrival of the Yemenis is in stark contrast to the usual flight to Yemen of hundreds of Somalis escaping violence and poverty in their country. The U.N. says Yemen hosts more than 238,000 Somali refugees.
How long before they're moved to either Mogadishu or Minneapolis?
Posted by: Steve White || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Frying pan to fire.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/01/2015 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  JQC, I think it's more like wood stove to fire place.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/01/2015 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  In the Ummah, where women wear sheets!
Where the bad guys hold hands with the police!
Where children are grateful
It's not (like here!) hateful
And bless the Religion of Peace.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 04/01/2015 8:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life for me.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/01/2015 14:16 Comments || Top||

#5  There's plenty of gold,
In the Banks of the Sacramento.


/Fetch my Triumph, that I might ride around the great walls of Rantburg in same.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/01/2015 17:47 Comments || Top||


Another Shaboob #3 surrenders to Federal Govt
HUDUR, Somalia -- Amidst bitter dissension and severe setbacks on the frontline, another number three senior Al Shabaab official gave himself up in Bakool region of southern Somalia on Sunday afternoon.

Somali National Army (SNA) commander, Abdirahman Mohamed Osman (Tima Adde) said on Mogadishu-based station on Monday that Al Shabaab intelligence official and terror attacks mastermind Mohamed Ali Hassan surrendered to the army units in Bakool.

“Al Shabaab emir and amniyat member who had since been operating in Lower Shabelle region has surrendered to the government forces,” said Tima Adde, adding that the terror official initially contacted government soldiers for discussions on his surrender.

Hassan is believed to have coordinated suicide bombings and ambushes along Mogadishu-Afgoye road. The man conceded launching an attack on Lower Shabelle Governor Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur Siidi near Ambarreso village.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Africa North
Dar Al-Ifta calls for the return of Benghazi's displaced as clashes continue
[Libya Herald] The Council for Research and Studies at Dar Al-Ifta has called on Sunday for the return of those displaced by fighting to Benghazi.
Dar al-Ifta is an Islamic university in Egypt, but I think this is the native Libyan ulema council headed by the Grand Mufti, who favors the Tripoli antigovernment.
The group pointed out that services had all but shut down in the city for lack of personnel and therefore residents were needed to come back and perform their jobs.
Have you ever wondered what comes out of all those test tubes in Islamic Research? How do you handle an angry genie? If he grants you three wishes, what's to prevent you from asking for money, a harem full of beautiful babes, and three more wishes? What happens when you lose control of your prayer rug and it flies you into the side of a mountain?
The call has come after repeated pleas for help from civil society organizations within Benghazi.
"Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!"
In addition to the return of Benghazi residents, Dar Al-Ifta has also requested that the antigovernment based in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, respond to the needs in the East by sending both humanitarian and security personnel.

"Do not allow the forces of the 'counter-revolution' to dismantle the social fabric of Benghazi," the group warned.
... if any...
Meanwhile,
...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often......
there are no signs that festivities will stop soon, as the Libyan News Ageny (LANA) has reported that military reinforcements have arrived in Benghazi on Sunday from Ajdabiya and Brega to aid the Libyan National Army (LNA) in its war against forces of Evil in the city.

According to a source from within the army, they received 40 armed vehicles, as well as ammunition and weapons.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


HoR to choose new intelligence chief
[Libya Herald] The National Security Committee of the House of Representatives (HoR) is to decide next week on a new head of Libyan intelligence.

According to Saleh Hashem, one of the HoR members for Tobruk, there are seven candidates for the post and they come from across the country.

One of the candidates, he said, was former Interior Minister Ashour Shuwail. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
there were two other leading contenders for the job.

"The most powerful CVs that have come to us from the seven interms of experience in in the work of the General Intelligence are Abdullah Drissi and Mustafa Almaqran," he said.

He did not mention any other names.

The head of intelligence is one of the "most important and the most prominent positions in the country", Hashem said, adding that making the choice next week was a "very positive step".
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Pentagon backing for Arab military force
[ARABNEWS] The US has announced its support for Arab plans to create a unified military force to counter growing security threats in the Middle East.

"The Pentagon will cooperate where US and Arab interests coincide," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said.

Carter told news hounds during a visit to Fort Drum in New York that US military leaders who met him abroad thought that regional members of the coalition fighting ISIS should be encouraged to do more if they were able to.

"So, I think if they are willing to do more, in this case with respect to Yemen, then that is a good thing because ultimately it is their region. The willingness of the parties there to step up and do more for stability in the Middle East is a good thing,' Carter said.

Asked if the US military would cooperate with the new force, he said it would.

"There are partners and security allies of ours, and when they act in a way that we regard as in our interests as well as theirs, we will continue to partner with them as we have been in other matters," Carter added.

Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Cha-ching
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/01/2015 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  IIRC SHIA IRAN has been a long-time member of the Arab League since the days of the former Shah, albeit not always as a participant.

The Sunnis have made it clear that that iff Iran gets Nukes, they want their own as well.

Can the Sunni-majority Arab League, OPEC, OIC, etc. = future Islamic-Muslim, ME, andor Persian Gulf OWG "Union(s)" accept Shia Iran's Nuclear + MilPol/Geopol leadership???

ONCE AGAIN, 'TIS A SIMPLE QUESTION BUT A BIGGIE.

Have I said "Biggie"???

OH YEAH!

YUUUP.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/01/2015 22:11 Comments || Top||


Kuwait pledges $500 mn in Syria humanitarian aid
[Gulf News] Kuwait City: Kuwait's emir announced Tuesday $500 million to help alleviate war-torn Syria's humanitarian crisis, which he called the worst in "modern history."

Stressing the gravity of the situation, the UN chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
told participants at a Tuesday meeting to raise $8.4 billion (7.9 billion euros) this year for Syrian aid efforts, that four out of five Syrians are living in poverty.

"I am pleased to announce the pledging of $500 million from Kuwait's government and private sectors to support the humanitarian efforts in Syria," Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah said as he opened the conference.

"We are meeting here to face the biggest humanitarian catastrophe in the modern history of mankind," the emir said, calling on global powers to find a political solution to a civil war now in its fifth year.

He urged the UN Security Council, especially the five permanent members, to "abandon differences and find a political solution to the destructive conflict".
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
2 Oyasiqur murder suspects remanded
[Dhaka Tribune] Dhaka court has granted eight-day remand for each of the two accused in the murder of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yunus Khan passed the order on Tuuesday afternoon after the IO of the case Md Mizanur Rahman produced the suspects--Zikrullah and Ariful--before the court with a 10-day remand plea.

During the hearing, Zikrullah told the court: "Although we had our involvement in Oyasiqur murder, we do not know anything about Avijit killing. But, We did not hack him. The person, who directly attacked the blogger[Oyasiqur] expeditiously departed at a goodly pace immediately."

"Oyasiqur was killed for making defamatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad on Facebook."

The secular blogger was hacked to death on Monday morning in Tejgaon, Dhaka.

A travel agency executive, Oyasiqur's murder was premeditated. Three assailants swooped on Oyasiqur, 27, armed with machetes around 9am on Dipika Mosque Lane of Begunbari, close to Tejgaon Textile Engineering University, when he was going to office in Motijheel.

Zikrullah and Ariful, two madrasa students, were captured by two transgendered persons from the spot immediately after the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Grand Turk
Turkey dismisses claims of support for fall of Syria's Idlib
[Hurriyet Daily News] Ankara has strictly refuted charges by neighboring Syria that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
assisted Salafist tough guys staging an assault on Idlib, a lovely provincial capital that opposition fighters seized over the weekend.

Any intervention into Idlib by Turkey is "untrue," said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgic said at a presser on March 31.

Bilgic described the charges as "groundless claims originating from the Syrian regime."

A wide range of opposition groups, including the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, staged the assault in Idlib, he added.

Turkey is continuing to beef up security measures on Syrian border, Bilgic stressed, adding that Ankara does not expect a new influx of refugees.

A Syrian military source accused Turkey on March 31 of helping Salafist tough guys stage an assault on Idlib, a lovely provincial capital that fighters seized over the weekend. The fall of Idlib, 30 km (20 miles) from the Turkish border, marks only the second time in the Syrian civil war that Damascus has lost control of a lovely provincial capital.

The al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front, which is linked to al-Qaeda, was joined by groups including the hardline Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
in seizing Idlib
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


India-Pakistan
Saulat Mirza was in touch with MQM chief before arrest, claims wife
[DAWN] The wife of condemned prisoner Saulat Mirza claimed on Monday that the former Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM) worker was in touch with party chief Altaf Hussain
...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu...
and the big shotship prior to his arrest on Dec 10, 1998.

In an interview aired on Geo News on Monday, Nikhat Mirza, the wife of the death row prisoner, claimed that senior MQM leader Farooq Sattar had informed her during her last visit to the party's Nine Zero headquarters in February this year that the party's role in connection with Mirza's case was over and that Mirza's family was now on its own.

She termed the MQM's severing of what she called their once strong ties "a brutal joke" and added that "since then we were not even allowed to move beyond Mukka Chowk."

The famous Mukka Chowk -- decorated with the coal-black sculpture of a clenched fist that rests atop an inverted funnel on the roundabout, lies about half-a-kilometre from MQM headquarters Nine Zero.

Mirza's wife said her husband would not have made any revelations had the MQM not disowned him. She said her husband was shocked by the party's move and regretted his association with MQM.

One of the reasons given by the MQM for disowning Saulat was that his family had misbehaved with senior party members, according to Saulat's wife.

She elaborated that Saulat's sister had slapped a member of the MQM Rabita Committee when the mercy appeal of the condemned prisoner was rejected in January this year.

She said Saulat's statement, which had not been given under any pressure, needed to be probed and investigated. She added that the former MQM worker had not made the statement expecting any reprieve but only to warn others from treading the same path as he did.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Zardari orders removal of barriers outside Bilawal House
[DAWN] KARACHI: Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has given orders to remove barriers and barricades outside Bilawal House despite security threats.

PPP Vice-Chairman Sherry Rehman said "necessary directives have been issued to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah in this regard."

"Despite security threats, we are removing the barriers in front of Bilawal House, Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, on the directives of Asif Ali Zardari," she added.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


PTI leader's convoy attacked in Karachi's Azizabad, FIR registered
[DAWN] KARACHI: Unidentified men wielding bats and bricks attacked the convoy of 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) founding member Imran Ismail near Jinnah Ground in the Azizabad area.

TV footage showed men attacking the convoy and smashing the windows of a white Land Cruiser with cricket bats as it drove off. The windows of another car were also smashed and jeering people were seen kicking the vehicles.
Sounds like a wonderful time was had by all, except for the politician.
While addressing a presser, Ismail said "Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM) activists manhandled and injured PTI workers, they also smashed the windows of our vehicles. PTI will lodge an FIR against the people responsible for this vandalism."

Acting on the request of PTI member Uzair Afridi, Azizabad police have registered an FIR against unidentified people for attacking PTI convoy near Jinnah Ground. Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache...
MQM has also lodged a complain against PTI activists in Azizabad cop shoppe.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Paleostine joins International Criminal Court today
[ARABNEWS] Palestine will raise the stakes in a legal battle with Israel on Wednesday when it joins the International Criminal Court, but any case over alleged crimes in the occupied territories is unlikely to come to trial for some years — if ever.

With the court swamped with investigations in Africa and prosecutors already struggling to secure convictions, legal experts say they need to be absolutely certain before proceeding with a highly politicized case against Israel.

Practical problems will also need to be overcome. As a non-member of the ICC, Israel is under no obligation to cooperate, even if it comes under international pressure to do so.

Fatou Bensouda, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, opened a preliminary examination in January into alleged crimes committed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. This pro-forma step followed the Palestinians’ acceptance of the court’s jurisdiction on Jan. 1, a prelude to membership on April 1.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  A 40-member committee of Palestinians has spent the past three months looking at two areas where they believe the Israelis have violated international law. Of course, they are the sweet voice of reason (sarc). We will take up the Palestinian violations...like never.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/01/2015 7:15 Comments || Top||

#2  What about the Hammas ? have they joined the ICC too yet ?
If so, maybe Abu-Maazen can start criminal proceedings against the Hammas Hulligans for shooting the pro-Fatah Gazan Paleo's in the knee-caps and then throwing them from the fifth floor of buildings right after Hammas gained power in Gazza
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 04/01/2015 13:23 Comments || Top||

#3  With the court swamped with investigations in Africa and prosecutors already struggling to secure convictions, legal experts say they need to be absolutely certain before proceeding with a highly politicized case against Israel.

Nahhhh I bet they can move those Juice trials right up front
Posted by: Frank G || 04/01/2015 16:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Committee of 40. Now that committee is doomed. Too large.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/01/2015 17:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Yeah, but they only have to buy 20 pairs of shoes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/01/2015 18:02 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Security firm says new spy software in 10 countries came from Lebanon
[Ynet] A security company has discovered a computer spying campaign that it said "likely" originated with a government agency or political group in Leb, underscoring how far the capability for sophisticated computer espionage is spreading beyond the world's top powers.

Israeli-based computer security firm Check Point Software Technologies said its researchers ruled out any financial motive for the effort that targeted telecommunications and networking companies, military contractors, media organizations and other institutions in Leb, Israel, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and seven other countries. Researchers also found computers infected with spyware in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. The campaign, which Check Point dubbed Volatile Cedar, dates back at least three years and deploys hand-crafted software with some of the hallmarks of state-sponsored computer espionage.
Hizb'allah with Iranian training?
Twice, after software elements were detected as malicious by anti-virus programs, the campaign paused and then began distributing newer versions that escaped scrutiny, said Check Point researcher Shahar Tal.
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Southeast Asia
Malaysia Unveils Terrorism Bill amid Islamic State Fears
[AnNahar] Malaysia's government on Monday unveiled a new anti-terrorism bill that allows lengthy detentions without trial, as worries grow in the Moslem-majority country over the appeal of the myrmidon Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group.

Authorities have expressed increasing alarm as scores of Malaysians have either gone abroad to join the IS jihadists, or have been nabbed
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
for seeking to travel to Syria or on suspicion of supporting the group.

The political opposition, which is reeling under a government crackdown on its opponents, immediately denounced the proposed Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota), saying this would give the government another tool to suppress peaceful dissent.

According to the bill, suspects can be detained for two years without judicial review. The detentions can be extended by a board to be set up under the law.

The government made no public comment about the bill on Monday, but Home Minister Zahid Hamidi was earlier quoted by Malaysian media as saying it would "only be used to curb terrorism" and not against government critics.

It is highly likely the bill will be passed due to the government's control of parliament.

A previous draconian internal security law that allowed detention without trial was scrapped in 2012 amid public pressure for political reform.

The law was used repeatedly over the decades to detain opposition politicians for lengthy periods.

The government of Prime Minister Najib Razak has launched a crackdown on dissent since a poor showing in 2013 elections.

Dozens of people, including several top opposition figures, have been incarcerated
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or are under investigation on a range of charges, mostly sedition.

"There are severe restrictions of civil liberties under Pota. We see this as a threat to the very fragile fundamental liberties that we have in this country," opposition parliamentarian Wong Chen was quoted as saying by news portal Malaysiakini.

In February opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was incarcerated
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
for five years on charges that he sodomised a former male aide -- which he denies. The trial fuelled international concern about the rule of law in Malaysia.

Malaysia said in January it was holding 120 people with suspected IS links or sympathies and 67 of its nationals were known to have gone to Syria and Iraq. Five had died fighting for the cause.

Malaysia is a moderate Islamic nation but conservative attitudes are gaining ground.

Malaysian legal activist group Lawyers for Liberty expressed "extreme concern" over Pota, adding that the government should reform its security apparatus to focus on "genuine security threats like extremism and militancy rather than being misused to suppress legitimate dissent".
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2015 10:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
U.S. Blacklists Syrian Central Banker, 'Front Companies'
[AnNahar] The U.S. Treasury placed a senior Syrian central banker and three alleged front companies for an arms agency on its sanctions blacklist Tuesday, stepping up pressure on the Assad government.
New York based 'front foundations' still good-to-go.
The Treasury said Batoul Rida, an official at the Central Bank of Syria since 2010, has helped organize cash transfers with the already-sanctioned Tempbank.

It said she is also involved in fuel deals for the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
, working closely with CBoS Governor Adib Myaleh, already on the sanctions list. Her actions provide support to the government "that enable its military campaign against the Syrian people," the department said in a statement.

Three companies, meanwhile, were placed on the blacklist for acting for or on behalf of the Syrian arms agency, the Scientific Studies and Research Center: Leb-based Shadi for Cars Trading and Denise Company, and Syria-based Sigma Tech Company.

Meanwhile the Treasury said that CBoS chief Myaleh had taken a new alias, Andre Mayard, which was being added to the blacklist.

Americans and U.S. entities are forbidden to do business with anyone on the sanctions blacklist, and any assets they have in the United States are frozen.

The Treasury said the new sanctions aimed "to further increase pressure on the Assad regime and to inhibit its weapons programs, consistent with the United States' objective of advancing a negotiated political transition in Syria."
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2015 10:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Canada Votes for Air Strikes on Islamic State in Syria
[AnNahar] Canadian politicians voted Monday to extend a campaign of Arclight airstrikes against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and for the first time strike at them in Syria as well as in Iraq.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives, wielding a majority in the House of Commons, pushed through a motion on enlarging the mission in a vote 142 to 129, despite opposition parties' vigorous objections.

"Our Government believes that we must act to protect Canadians against the threat of terrorism at home and abroad," he said.

Canada first joined the U.S.-led Arclight airstrikes on the IS group in November.

Its expanded air campaign was authorized until March 30, 2016.

Harper has defended the need for sorties into Syria, saying the IS group "must cease to have any safe haven in Syria."

He pointed to its movement of heavy equipment across the Iraqi border into Syria.

The prime minister also noted that IS fighters have threatened Canada in propaganda videos.

"As a result of ISIL's specific threats against Canada and Canadians, our Government has worked closely for the past six months as part of a broad international Coalition, including our closest allies, to help degrade and disrupt ISIL's ability to inflict harm.

At least six Canadians have died over the last two years fighting alongside gunnies in Syria and Iraq.

In the aftermath of two jihadist-inspired attacks in Ottawa and rural Quebec last October, a majority of Canadians have told pollsters they support the military mission against the IS group.

Opposition parties, however, warned that Arclight airstrikes against the IS group in Syria may implicitly aid Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
, and embroil Canada in a regional conflict that could drag on for decades.

New Democratic Party Leader Thomas Mulcair decried the move "expanding a misguided war in Iraq to a dangerous new phase in Syria."

"This is simply not Canada's war to fight," he said.

Canadian Arclight airstrikes in Syria are not authorized by the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
, nor is it a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
mission.

Canada has also deployed about 70 special forces soldiers to train Kurds in northern Iraq.

They came under mortar and machine gun fire while training Iraqi troops near the frontlines in mid-January, and a Canadian soldier was killed by friendly fire on March 6.

Harper said that militarily, the "mission will remain focused on targeting ISIL from the air and advising and assisting Iraqi Forces to fight ISIL more effectively on the ground."
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2015 10:12 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


France 'pulls pitch' on US-led nuclear talks, saying it will return when it is 'useful.'
[JP] French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius is leaving the marathon negotiations that have gone into overtime led by the United States between world powers and Tehran over Iran's nuclear technology activities.

A French official told France 24 today (Wednesday, April 1) that Fabius was leaving the talks and would return from France when it was "useful."

Speaking at a joint news conference with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, French President Francois Hollande said it would be better to have no deal than a bad deal -- the same opinion expressed last month by Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu while speaking to the U.S. Congress.

And yet, talks are continuing in a marathon effort to reach a deal which by all accounts other than those of the negotiators themselves, appears to be a bad deal, at least for everyone other than Iran.

The deadline for talks had been set for March 31 -- a supposed "hard" red line that U.S. President Barack Obama vowed would not be crossed.

Today that line was crossed with ease, in Obama's desperation to reach a deal with Tehran -- as was the "red line" set by Obama over the use of chemical weapons against Syrian citizens by President Bashar al-Assad.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2015 07:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, sure, but what does The New York Times think about the deal? We need some Pro-Champ cheerleading to be fair and balanced!

Somebody wake me up when the Slimes says it's a bad deal for everyone except Iran.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/01/2015 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  The only possible downside, with France out of the room we may lose a reliable reporting source.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2015 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Singes capitulars bouffeurs de hamburgers. Hamburger eating surrendering monkeys. That is how the French will call you if you reelect a Democrat. You have been warned.
Posted by: JFM || 04/01/2015 12:21 Comments || Top||

#4  capitularDs
Posted by: JFM || 04/01/2015 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Touchè, JFM
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/01/2015 12:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Close JFM but these surrender monkeys wouldn't be caught dead eating a hamburger.

Arugula and quinoa salad eating surrender monkeys I'll give you.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/01/2015 15:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Well damn, Marianne wakes up and walks out on Barry.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/01/2015 17:51 Comments || Top||

#8  OOOOOOOO, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG - wid a name like "Fabius"???

lol.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/01/2015 22:03 Comments || Top||


Champ Adviser on Iran Worked for Pro-Regime Lobby
[Breitbart] The White House released a list of its high-ranking officials who took part in a video conference with President Obama late Tuesday. Among them appears Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, who apparently has formerly worked for the National Iranian-American Council.

The White House brief, which was disclosed by The Daily Beast, listed Sahar Nowrouzzadeh as the National Security Council Director for Iran. Nowrouzzadeh appears to be a former employee of the alleged pro-Tehran regime lobbying group, NIAC (National Iranian-American Council).

Breitbart News has found that a person with the same name has previously written several publications on behalf of NIAC. According to what appears to be her LinkedIn account, Nowrouzzadeh became an analyst for the Department of Defense in 2005 before moving her way up to the National Security Council in 2014.

A NIAC profile from 2007 reveals that Sahar Nowrouzzadeh appears to be the same person as the one who is currently the NSC Director for Iran. The profiles indicate that she had the same double major and attended the same university (George Washington).

Critics have alleged that NIAC is a lobby for the current Iranian dictatorship under Ayatollah Khamenei. A dissident journalist revealed recently that NIAC's president and founder, Trita Parsi, has maintained a years-long relationship with Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2015 02:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is that where our Winter Soldier, Kerry learned the word "Inshallah?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/01/2015 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  John,
Since Kerry is such a magnificent polyglot, I offer him an interesting idiom : " When negotiating with a Farsi- speak softly but Kerry a big stick" ( Pun intended).

P.S. - Kerry will be outwitted for sure by the Farsis. They are very smart negotiators confronted by an eager, deluded and naive left wing democrat.
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 04/01/2015 13:04 Comments || Top||

#3  ValJar stacking the NSC with Teheran's agents. How obvious does this have to be before someone calls treason?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/01/2015 13:29 Comments || Top||


'Inshallah,' Kerry says on possible nuclear deal with Iran
[Hurriyet Daily News] A nuclear deal with Iran is possible 'If Allah wills," U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
has reportedly said.

The chief U.S. negotiator at the Iran nuclear talks used the term "Inshallah," an Arabic term which translates as "If Allah wills," when asked by an Iranian student about the future of the talks when he was shopping for chocolates, IRN news agency reported on March 31, citing Al-Monitor news hound Laura Rozen.

With a deadline hours away, Iran and six world powers ramped up the pace on March 31 in negotiations over a preliminary deal on Tehran's nuclear program, while officials cautioned that any agreement would likely be fragile and incomplete, Rooters reported.

For nearly a week, the United States, Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, Russia and China have been trying to break an impasse in the talks, which are aimed at stopping Iran from gaining the capacity to develop a nuclear bomb in exchange for easing international sanctions that are crippling its economy.

But disagreements on enrichment research and the pace of lifting sanctions threatened to scupper a deal that could end a 12-year standoff between Iran and the West over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and reduce the risk of another Middle East war.

"The two sticking points are the duration and the lifting of sanctions," an Iranian official said. "The two sides are arguing about the content of the text. Generally, progress has been made."
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Very revealing......!.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/01/2015 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Very revealing: US elites just can't avoid giving offense---especially when they try.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/01/2015 0:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Allah apparently willed that the March 31 deadline be missed.

and apparently, per various State Dept hacks, the deal could be verbal rather than written -- this makes it hard to stage a photo op Chamberlain style
Posted by: lord garth || 04/01/2015 5:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Temp red line ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2015 6:15 Comments || Top||

#5  “The two sticking points are the duration and the lifting of sanctions,” an Iranian official said. “The two sides are arguing about the content of the text.

Content of text? Still negotiating about the size and shape of the conference table?

Is JFnK going to have his Neville Chamberlain moment when he comes back to the U.S.? Peace in our time kind of thingee?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/01/2015 7:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Will there at least be a written document?
Posted by: Steve White || 04/01/2015 8:49 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 Will there at least be a written document?
Posted by Steve White



yes but it's covered by Executive Privilege, so you won't get to see it.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/01/2015 9:07 Comments || Top||

#8  ..yeah, they exempted themselves from FOIA requests.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/01/2015 9:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Transparent R Us.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/01/2015 10:31 Comments || Top||

#10  But.... But... I thought that Obama was the Moslem fluent in arabic. Has Kerry Secretly converted to Islam ?
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 04/01/2015 13:34 Comments || Top||

#11  "Inshallah" this asshole falls off his boat this summer.
Posted by: tu3031 || 04/01/2015 14:01 Comments || Top||

#12  they have quit negotiating for the day (its 10 pm in Switzerland) so Allah's will will have to wait until Apr 2
Posted by: lord garth || 04/01/2015 16:02 Comments || Top||

#13  I thought he had already ordered his insalata couple days ago, did find a reference to a 3/27 insalata de merde, so this is a second time. Be funny if the mushrooms made him say it as part of continuing handouts.

Hard Red is a krylon color used to paint sand.

Arguing over the text huh. Mind if we see what the argument is about?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/01/2015 16:47 Comments || Top||


Minor issues remain on Iran bans in nuclear talks: Iran negotiator
[Iran Press TV] A senior member of Iran's nuclear negotiating team says Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries have reached an agreement on the removal of anti-Tehran sanctions, but minor issues still remain.

Hamid Baeidinejad, who is the director general for political and international security affairs at Iran's Foreign Ministry, told the Press TV correspondent in Lausanne that Tehran and the six states - Russia, China, La Belle France, Britannia, the US and Germany - are working to minimize the difference on the remaining minor issues regarding the bans.

"Sanctions have many aspects, there are unilateral sanctions, US sanctions, EU sanctions, UNSC sanctions... I should say that many of these aspects have been resolved, but still there are some limited areas that also need to be resolved, and we are now concentrating on those remaining technical aspects with regard to the sanctions." Baeidinejad told Press TV.

He added that oil, gas, and banking sanctions will be lifted as soon as a comprehensive deal is implemented, noting, "The termination of oil sanctions, gas sanctions, financial banking... many of them have been resolved... But still there are a limited number of areas that are still under negotiations, which we hope we can resolve them and then we can admit that the whole issue of sanctions is resolved."

"We are now concentrating on some limited aspects of issues related to the overall sanctions, particularly sanctions of the UNSC, and only we are concentrating on those limited aspects now," Baeidinejad added.
So they've sold the farm and now they're discussing the mineral rights.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Don't you really love reliving parts of history such as 1938?

My good friends, this is the second time there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Now I recommend you go home, and sleep quietly in your beds.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/01/2015 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Do I need to post (sarc) above?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/01/2015 7:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Bought time to finish Chain Home at least.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/01/2015 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The Iranians have agreed to stop their nuclear program on two conditions:
1) Immediate lifting of all sanctions by the west.
2) The delivery by the US army of 3,000 Kg weapon grade plutonium to the Iranian "peaceful nuclear program"
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 04/01/2015 13:14 Comments || Top||

#5  If we aren't careful, Iran will insist that we "deliver" the nuke directly to Tel Aviv. Obama would probably agree.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/01/2015 15:24 Comments || Top||



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