[Iran Press TV] A fiery plane landing in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur has killed Six of the 38 passengers onboard.
The aircraft, chartered by a local airliner called Tarco, caught fire as it was landing at a dirt airstrip in the town of Zalengi in West Darfur state.
"The Antonov 24 left Khartoum at 1:27 pm (1027 GMT) and touched down at Zalingei at 4:18 pm (1318 GMT). Two tires burst on landing and the aircraft split in two and burst into flames," Tarco Airlines front man Issam Eddine Ibrahim told AFP.
West Darfur governor Abdel Hakim Jaafar Asam Ishaq said he could not yet provide an accurate breakdown of the casualty numbers
"There were survivors, injured and dead," AFP quoted Ishaq as saying.
Sudanese officials said no member of the crew, whose nationalities have not yet been revealed, was killed in the accident.
Accidents are common among Sudan's ageing fleet of aircraft.
Khartoum government has recently dismissed the country's aviation chief and banned several companies because of their poor safety records.
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[Al Jazeera] Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Somalia's newly appointed prime minister, has unveiled an 18-minister cabinet line-up drastically downsized from the previous 39-strong government.
The leaner cabinet was unveiled on Friday nearly a month after Mohamed was appointed to head the beleaguered Transitional Federal Government (TFG), which is fighting al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-inspired group seeking to take power.
"The Somali people and the international community were waiting for a competent and credible Somali cabinet, and I am happy to appoint this lean but capable cabinet," he said in a statement.
Sharif Sheikh Hassan, Somalia's president, welcomed the new cabinet, sayig in the same statement: "Somalia is in good hands."
"We do not have time to waste and our people deserve nothing less than this," he added, urging parliament to approve the new line-up.
Doubts on cabinet
Despite the optimism, some legislators said the new ministers may not be approved by parliament.
"I doubt we shall approve them - because they were not selected on the basis of the constitution," Ismail Ahmed told the Rooters news agency.
Only two members of the Western-backed government, which has been beset by a dispute between Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, the former prime minister, and Presedent Sharif Sheikh Hassan managed to keep their jobs.
The new line-up also sees the entry of Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa, a powerful Sufi organisation that took up arms two years ago to fight al-Shabaab.
The Sufi group was given the interior and labour portfolios.
Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa is seen as a key force if the TFG is to rein in the Islamist insurgency but had routinely complained that the outgoing government was refusing to give it its share of power.
Hussein Halane heads a consolidated finance and treasury ministry while the foreign ministry and one of the deputy prime ministerial positions was handed to Mohamed Abdullahi Omaar, who already held the post under Sharmarke's predecessor.
Somalia has been in turmoil since 1991 when Siad Barre was removed from power and is relying on an under-resourced African Union (AU) peacekeeping force to provide security in parts of Mogadishu, the capital, and the presidential palace.
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The recognized government of Somalia controls perhaps 10 city blocks throught the use of African Union troops. This is such a laughable sham even the clowns in our our White House should see it. The geographic area that is Somalia has reverted to tribal enclaves and thrives on piracy and the usual kinds of tribal based barter/trade. Add to this that these barbarians (in the literal and historicly accurate sense) are overwhelming fundamentalist muslims with strong ties to Al Shabaab and AQ, and you have a festering mess. Oh did I mention we still have a "Somali" immmigration policy that has created two wonderful centers in Minneapolis and San Diego and perhaps now Cleveland?
[Iran Press TV] Egyptian police have nabbed three Mohammedan Brotherhood candidates running for the upcoming parliamentary elections and 28 supporters in the northeast of the country.
The arrests, the latest in a crackdown on Egypt's largest opposition movement before this month's elections, were made in the port city of Ismailia on Wednesday and Thursday.
"They were taken from their homes. The candidates were jugged on the street. They were jugged along with three lawyers on Wednesday," Mohammedan Brotherhood lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsud said on Thursday.
He added that police jugged 16 Brotherhood members in a suburb of the capital Cairo on Thursday.
The Mohammedan Brotherhood's politicians, who run as independents, hold 88 seats in the 454-seat parliament.
Egypt's largest opposition movement was founded in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
The Brotherhood grew as a popular movement over the next 20 years, encompassing not only religion and education, but also politics, through the Party of the Mohammedan Brotherhood.
It blamed the Egyptian government for being passive against "Zionists" and joined the Paleostinian side in the resistance against Israel.
The religious-political organization has been banned since 1954 but has continued to operate and is Egypt's most powerful opposition movement.
The Brotherhood advocates the implementation of Islamic law but says it wants democratic reforms in Egypt, where geriatric President Hosni Mubarak has had a quarter-century of authoritarian rule.
The government accuses the group of seeking to take over the country and has passed a series of constitutional amendments in an attempt to further curtail the Brotherhood's ability to participate in politics.
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[Emirates 24/7] Iran has promised cooperation in a probe of an illegal arms shipment discovered in Lagos and sent from an Iran, Nigeria's foreign minister said Friday after meeting his Iranian counterpart.
Iran's cooperation will include granting Nigerian authorities access to an Iranian believed to have taken refuge in the Iranian embassy in Abuja, Foreign Minister Odein Ajumogobia told journalists.
"One of the individuals connected to the shipment was an Iranian national who we understand from security reports took refuge in the Iranian embassy," Ajumogobia told news hounds.
He said he held "very productive" talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Thursday night in Abuja.
After the meeting, Mottaki "immediately directed that access be given to our security agencies to interview this individual who may be able to throw more light on the circumstances of the shipment, its destination and why we have the Nigerian consignee."
"If Nigeria finds that at the conclusion of the investigation that there has been a breach of international law, a breach of UN sanctions, Nigeria is a member of the UN Security Council, we will do what is necessary," he said.
Iran is currently under UN sanctions over its nuclear programme.
Security agents last month intercepted 13 containers discharged from the vessel CMA CGM Everest at the country's busiest port of Apapa in Nigeria's economic hub of Lagos.
Shipping firm CMA CGM said the containers had been loaded and sealed in Iran by an Iranian businessman who does not appear on an international list of prohibited traders.
CMA CGM, based in France, said the containers were loaded in Bandar Abbas, a southern port city of Iran, and discharged in Lagos in July.
But some time last month the shipper sought to have the containers reloaded and sent to Gambia, a tiny west African country wedged inside Senegal, according to the firm.
Earlier this week, Nigeria's intelligence agency said it had been monitoring the shipment, which was disguised as building material, before it arrived in the country.
It also said the shipment's destination was Nigeria, and "any argument that the cargo came into the country by mistake is false."
The consignee and the clearing agent had been jugged, the agency said.
Illegal weapons are widespread in Nigeria, but the recent discovery led to major concerns, with elections set for early next year and following the independence day twin car boomings on October 1 that killed at least 12 people.
The country's most prominent turban group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, ... a confederation of bands of bandidos portraying itself of a political organization grabbing for Nigeria's oil boodle ... grabbed credit for the car boomings, which marked the first such attack in the capital Abuja.
MEND has carried out scores of attacks and kidnappings in recent years, but mostly in the oil-producing Niger Delta region and rarely with such a high number of casualties.
The group claims to be fighting for a fairer distribution of oil revenue, but it has also been seen as an umbrella group for criminal gangs.
Elections in Nigeria have often been tainted by violence.
The car booms went kaboom! near where Nigerian leaders and foreign dignitaries were attending independence day commemorations, heightening fears of a bloody campaign season.
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Another examole of why whites are moving to Us,Australia,Canada and Spain
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Hate preacher Abu Hamzas family home is having a £40,000 makeover paid for by taxpayers, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Workmen from at least three construction firms have already spent two months doing up the £700,000, five-bedroom council property in an exclusive West London street.
Astonishingly, it is the second time in only five years that council bosses have approved expensive renovations on the property where the hook-handed clerics wife and eight children live supported by benefits worth nearly £700 a week.
[Chosun Ilbo] North Korea has exported around US$100 million worth of conventional weapons and nuclear weapons technology a year despite UN sanctions, a panel of experts monitoring the implementations of UN Security Council resolutions revealed Wednesday. Their report said that North Korea has been exporting nuclear weapons and missile technology, conventional weapons, parts and materials to Burma, Iran and Syria.
The North Korea dodged the sanctions in ways reminiscent of spy films, switching boats and airplanes, establishing paper companies and forging cargo documents to transport its deadly freight. The 75-page UN report presents evidence directly or indirectly linking North Korea to the arms exports.
In February this year, South African authorities in Durban discovered T54 and T55 tank components in a cargo container labeled "bulldozer spare parts" that was headed for the Congo. An investigation revealed that the tank parts were shipped from North Korea and transferred at Dalian port in China to a French fat merchantman chartered to the U.K. It was then packed together with containers full of grain bags and transferred to Port Klang in Malaysia, where it was loaded on a Liberian ship.
Behind the ruse was a North Korean trading company which is on the list of businesses subject to UN sanctions. The tank parts were transferred in different cargo containers and were assembled at the port of destination. This is known as the "knock-down kit" method.
According to UN statistics on the trade of goods, North Korea has exported weapons and weapons-related materials over the last 30 years, but official statistics show that it exported only $22.9 million worth of weapons between 2000 and 2009. But the UN report collates data compiled by various governments and experts and estimates that North Korea exports around $100 million worth of weapons annually.
Data compiled by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency and various governments, as well as media reports show North Korea involved in nuclear-related activities in Burma, Iran and Syria, according to the report. The panel of experts said they looked at a government report showing evidence that North Korea supported the design and construction of a nuclear reactor in Syria's Deir al Zur region. In his memoir "Decision Points," former U.S. President George W. Bush wrote that in 2007, U.S. intelligence officials reached the conclusion that Syria was building a nuclear plant with the help of North Korea.
The panel of experts also mentioned suspicious activities by North Korea's Namchongang Trading, including the suspected sale of gyroscopes that could be used to manufacture missile guidance systems to Burma.
In order to hide records of its financial transactions, the report said North Korea used either foreign companies, paper companies or cash couriers and even turned to unofficial methods of transferring money and even bartering to avoid detection. It criticized the UNSC for limiting sanctions to only eight North Korean entities and five individuals. Instead of the [North] Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation, which is the target of the UN sanctions, Green Pine Associated Corporation handles about half of North Korea's arms shipments, it added.
The report was made in May but was buried for six months because of China's opposition to revealing it at a time when North Korea was being cornered for attacking the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan.
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Fabulous. We started with a military process but the civilians didn't like that, so we corrupted the system with a leagal process - our governement of laws, not men.
But now, the One has overridden that, and decided the process will be governed by an individual's tin-pot dictator process.
Nice work, Obama! Subverting two perfectly good, long-standing policies!
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Justice held hostage by politics. The book was much, much better than the movie.
(KUNA) -- Pak Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi Friday said that the country has been taking various steps and measures with sincerity for ensuring peace and security in the region.
"Pakistain is sincere to the development, progress, peace and prosperity in the region and taking adequate measures in this regard," said the Minister in his inaugural address at the two-day conference on (Pakistain-Afghanistan towards mutual security, stability and trade.) The Minister said that a strong, stable, peaceful and developed Afghanistan is in the interest of Pakistain. Therefore, he added, Pakistain could not even think about any destablization in Afghanistan.
He said one of the cardinal principles of Pakistains foreign policy is based on neutrality and non-interference in Afghanistans internal affairs. "We are engaged with Afghanistan bilaterally and through trilateral and quadrilateral mechanisms with the involvement of countries like Iran, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey and the United States." He said further that Pakistain is contributing to Afghanistans economic and social development despite resource constraints. "We have undertaken reconstruction projects worth 320 million dollars in that country," he said.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the heads of intelligence agencies seeking their explanation over 11 missing prisoners of the Adiala Jail, allegedly kidnapped by the intelligence agencies.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court consisting of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Ghulam Rabbani issued notices to the heads of the Inter-Services Intelligence, Military Intelligence and the Intelligence Bureau.
Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq apprised the court that he had approached the authorities concerned but they had denied having any information about the whereabouts of the missing prisoners.
He said that some officials concerned of the intelligence agencies wanted to meet the CJ in his chamber to share some information on the issue. The court rejected it and directed him to himself meet them and inform the court about the information.
The court said it was not appropriate for judges to meet them in chambers and observed that everyone should respect the court and avoid disharmony. Later, the court adjourned the hearing until November 25.
The prisoners who went missing from the Adiala Jail after the Lahore High Court (LHC) had ordered their release include Dr Niaz Ahmed, Mazharul Haq, Shafiqur Rehman, Muhammad Aamir, Abdul Majid, Abdul Basit, Abdul Saboor, Shafique Ahmed, Said Arab, Gul Roze and Tehseenullah.
These prisoners were acquitted by an Anti-Terrorism Court in April in four different cases, including rocket firing on the Pakistain Aeronautical Complex, Kamra, rocket firing on the plane of former president Pervez Perv Musharraf, suicide kaboom on the bus of personnel of an intelligence agency in Rawalpindi and the suicide kaboom on the main entrance of the military headquarters.
Even after acquittal, these prisoners were nabbed in the jail by the Punjab Home Department.
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Expect an assault by 'militants' on the Pak Supreme Court by the end of the year.
[Iran Press TV] The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society has become a tool in the hands of US government as Washington "egregiously" uses its veto power in the UN, an American journalist tells Press TV.
"The US was instrumental in setting up the UN in the 1940s after the World War II. And of course we have a Security Council with a veto. America can veto all the other countries of the world combined," Chicago-based writer and radio host Stephen Lendman, told Press TV on Wednesday. The view from rense.com...
"It could be the whole world going one way and America going the other way. And as long as you have a UN run like that, the UN is literally a tool of US policy," he added.
"America has egregiously used the veto power. So the UN can do absolutely nothing to stop America," he went on to say.
In his recently released memoir Decision Points, former US president George W. Bush has admitted that he authorized the use of torture against detainees held in secret US custody.
Exactly six days after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Bush authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to set up secret detention facilities outside the US.
This is while Washington is a signatory to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
While human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... groups such as the London-based Amnesty International (AI) have called for a criminal investigation into Bush's admission of torture, the UN has not taken any action against the former US president.
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Oh, rats! They're on to us! Better stop paying for the oufit straightaway.
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...By all means, read this gentleman's blog. All kinds of fascinating opinions, most of which will have decent 'Burgers reaching for a blunt object in order to correct him.
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/
Mike
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Modest middle class background my ass! A Harvard degree? That's modest? Damn, I must be a poor boy! This guy is just plain angry and hates everyone. I wonder why he is so angry, oh, wait, not I don't. Delete! Now I'm happy...
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Sounds like a bored trust fund baby with too much time on his hands. Writes books nobody reads, hosts a radio show nobody listens too, has a blog nobody looks at. A perfect Iran Press TV "expert" on America.
[Emirates 24/7] A power-sharing pact that saw Nuri Al Maliki named as prime minister-designate looked frayed on Friday after parliament ended in disarray over claims the deal was broken just hours after being sealed.
The dispute sparked a dramatic walk-out by a group of 60 MPs from a Sunni-backed bloc, underscoring the fragility of the agreement, which seeks to finally end Iraq's political impasse eight months after elections.
As part of the deal, brokered during three days of intense talks, President Jalal Talabani, re-elected by MPs, named Maliki as the country's prime minister on Thursday evening.
That was overshadowed, however, by a dispute that prompted angry members of the Iraqiya bloc to storm out of the Council of Representatives chamber.
The support of Iraqiya, which narrowly won the March 7 poll and garnered most of its seats in Sunni areas, is seen as vital to preventing a resurgence of violence. The Sunni Arab minority that dominated Saddam Hussein's regime was the bedrock of the anti-US insurgency after the 2003 invasion.
"Last night, it was clear, there are a lot of disagreements," independent Kurdish politician Mahmud Othman told AFP on Friday.
"Last night showed that the agreement is shaky -- maybe it was signed behind closed doors, and when it came into the open, one side did not support it. If this means Iraqiya will not be participating in the government, that will create problems."
Senior Iraqiya MP Hassan Alawi, who did not walk out of the session, told AFP he expected "the Iraqiya MPs (who left) will be back in parliament and the agreement will be approved" by parliament.
Thursday evening's parliament session, only the second since the election, had begun optimistically with Maliki and Iraqiya leader Iyad Allawi sitting side-by-side in the parliament chamber.
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(KUNA) -- The United States affirmed on Friday that direct negotiations were the only way to accommodate the Paleostinian aspirations for a state and the desire of Israelis for security.
"Direct negotiations are the only way to accommodate both the desire of the Israelis for security and the desires of the Paleostinian people for a state," said Assistant Secretary of State for public diplomacy Philip Crowley in a press briefing.
"But in order to make progress, we have to assure the leaders on both sides that this negotiation and ultimately this agreement can meet the needs of both sides," he added.
Crowley described the meeting between US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill... and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York last Thursday as "productive, useful, lengthy and substantive" and expanded meetings "went through the issues that we think are central to this effort and designed to try to help overcome the current stalemate and get the parties back into negotiations." "A core concern of the Israeli government and understandably so is security, in order to advance to an agreement, an Israeli prime minister has to be confident that an agreement will make his people more secure," he added.
Crowley further noted that "on the other side of the coin, obviously territory is central to the Paleostinian aspiration, for a state. And any progress has to take into account the aspirations of the Paleostinians to have a state of their own, that can live in peace with Israel and other countries in the region." "As to the issue of settlements, our policy is well-known. The concern of the Paleostinian people and others in the region are well-known. This is something that we discuss as part of any meeting we have with the parties," he added.
In addition to the Paleostinian Israeli track, Crowley also reiterated US commitment to progress on the Syrian and Lebanese track.
"We continue to talk to various parties in the region, including Syria and including Leb about their ideas on how to proceed," he concluded.
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I'd agree. The US only won our free state and security in direct negotiations in Paris. After we had established governments and defended them against our former masters. Time for the Paleostinians to do the same. Or STFU.
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My goodness! Whatever happened to the "indigenous" system they were going to throw together overnight?
They'll probably announce that in the morning.
Mike
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The Russians have a totally different take on diplomacy than the west. In some ways worse, and in other ways better. But these are formal doctrines, not whimsical at all.
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I believe I read 2-3 Days ago on the Net that Itan is threatening to withdraw or otherwise stop supporting BILATERAL [International?] ANTI-TERROR AGREEMENTS/INITIATIVES made wid Russia, UNLESS MOSCOW DELIVERS THE S-300'S.
IIUC, IOW Tehran will TURN A BLIND EYE to any Islamist MilTerr activity undertaken by same agz Russia, + not do anything to stop or obstruct same???
MP Nadim Gemayel noted on Friday that Leb was not victorious in the July 2006 war, but Hizbullah considered it a victory because it destroyed Leb, while its funding and weapons have been restored by Syria and Iran.
He told MTV that several Lebanese view the war as a defeat seeing as their economy and infrastructure were completely destroyed.
He said that Hizbullah is directing its battle against international justice and its Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's reading of the situation in his speech on Thursday was wrong.
"Hizbullah's weapons are illegitimate ... the false witnesses file is nonexistent as it is aimed at thwarting the international tribunal before it can try Hizbullah," Gemayel stated.
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[An Nahar] Former Prime Minister Fouad Saniora called on Friday Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to present the documents in his possession that prove that his government had taken its time in agreeing to a ceasefire in the July 2006 war.
He said that he should present such documents and evidence before the public, stressing: "The Lebanese people and all Arab and foreign officials knew that the government's main goal was to reach a ceasefire and lift the blockade, while Israel and the United States opposed it."
Furthermore, Saniora said: "The final draft of U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 was reached after exhaustive negotiations during which the Lebanese government rejected several plans, including issuing it under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter."
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[An Nahar] An indictment to be issued by the Special Tribunal for Leb was reportedly based on testimonies made by a new "king witness" -- former Iranian Brig. Gen. Ali-Reza Asgari.
Asgari, a retired general of the Islamic theocracyary Guards Corps, was former deputy defense minister and former Cabinet member of Iran's diminutive President Mohammad Khatami.
Ad-Diyar newspaper, which carried the report, said Asgari was close to Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh who was assassinated in Damascus in February 2008.
Asgari, who made his statements before the U.N. investigation committee some eight months ago, said Hizbullah "carried out" Hariri's liquidation.
According to Ad-Diyar, Asgari is also suspected of giving information about Mughnieyh to Israeli and US intelligence that facilitated his liquidation.
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[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... on Friday noted that Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech on Thursday "included an amount of contradictions, especially regarding the facts he demonstrated, such as (former U.S. secretary of state Henry) Kissinger's letter, which was created by a journalist who had outlined his vision for a possible reply to a letter addressed by (late National Bloc leader) Raymond Edde" to Kissinger.
"Is it appropriate to demonstrate the role and stance of ex-PM Fouad Saniora's government during the July War" the way Nasrallah did, Geagea wondered during a chat with news hounds in Maarab.
Commenting on Nasrallah's remarks that France was behind a suggestion about tripartite power-sharing in Leb, Geagea said: "Is the Lebanese Constitution in the pocket of the French? Are they concerned with the issue of tripartite power-sharing? We will ask them for clarifications about this issue."
Geagea addressed Nasrallah saying: "Why would you pour oil (on fire) if you believe that a civil strife is being plotted?"
"I suggest performing all the necessary steps to fend off civil strife and avoid giving the Israelis the context to ignite it," Geagea added.
The LF leader called on Hizbullah's chief "not to publicly raise these issues," asking him to discuss them at the national dialogue table and with the officials concerned "to avoid negative popular reactions."
Geagea warned that "the chances of civil strife have become higher after Sayyed Nasrallah's speech," advising Hizbullah's number one not to pave the way for discord.
As to the anticipated indictment in the murder case of ex-PM Rafik Hariri and his lover companions, Geagea vowed not to back any indictment that would be marred by gaps.
On the other hand, he noted that "there are no Saudi-Syrian negotiations, but rather contacts demanding Hizbullah to keep the situation stable in Leb."
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[Pak Daily Times] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill... warned Hezbullies against resorting to violence, saying the jihad boy group cannot stop a UN court investigating the liquidation of a former Lebanese prime minister.
Clinton's remarks came in an interview with Leb's An-Nahar newspaper, published on Friday. It followed a threat by Hezbullies's leader Hassan Nasrallah who on Thursday said his group will 'cut the hand' of anyone who tries to arrest its members for the 2005 liquidation of Rafik Hariri.
The Netherlands-based tribunal is expected to issue indictments soon, and speculation that members of the Iranian-backed Hezbullies could be targeted has fuelled fears of violence and a political crisis in the country. Nasrallah, who claims the court is biased, has said he expects members of his group to be indicted.
'Hezbullies should know that resorting once again to violence in Leb runs completely counter to the interests of the Lebanese people, the interests of the region, and of the United States,' Clinton said. 'They should also know that if the goal of violence is to stop the tribunal, it won't work,' she added.
Hariri, Leb's most prominent politician after a 15-year civil war ended in 1990, was killed by a truck bombing that ushered in major political upheaval in the country. Immediately after the liquidation, suspicion fell on Damascus - leading to massive protests that ushered in the end of Syria's nearly 30-year military presence and domination in Leb.
Damascus and Hezbullies have denied having any role in the killing. Nasrallah has also urged Lebanese not to cooperate with the probe. He says the court is an 'Israeli project' and poisoned by 'false witnesses' who misled the investigation. On Thursday, he said the group will defend itself against any accusation. 'Those who imagine that we will allow the arrest or detention of any of our fighters are mistaken,' he told thousands of supporters in south Beirut, a Hezbullies stronghold, speaking through a video link. 'We will cut the hand that reaches out for any one of them.'
Hezbullies's warning puts more pressure on the Western-backed administration of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the son of the slain leader.
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AQ CAN be beaten. Whether UK has the necessary will to do it is doubtful. Whether even the US has the will right now seems seriously questionable to me. I don't think it can be done without significant collateral damage, which is 'unacceptable.'
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A fiery plane landing in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur has killed Six of the 38 passengers onboard.
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Somalia's newly appointed prime minister, has unveiled an 18-minister cabinet line-up drastically downsized from the previous 39-strong government.
(KUNA) -- Pak Foreign Minister Shah 
