A disgusting new low for the left-devils and their pet lunatic:
Banana Republics: In Search of Peace with Cindy Sheehan
A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Cindy Sheehan
Gerald Ford, our 38th and first ever un-elected President is dead. All of the networks and cable news are rightfully filled with stories on his legacy and life. The pundits are analyzing his presidency and I have heard comments like: "great sense of humor," "gentleman," and "protector of the Constitution." The first two, are nice, but not such urgent Presidential qualities, and really are objective traits. Being someone who protects the Constitution, as every president swears to do, but few (especially the current resident of the Oval Office) actually do, should be a mandatory item in every president's job description.
First of all, I would like to extend my condolences to Mr. Ford's family. Even though he was an ex-President, he was also a husband, father, grandfather, and friend. He was a human being who had private relationships in a very public life and I am sure his loved ones will miss him deeply.
However, Mr. Ford was 93 years old. He lived a full and long life. He spent a very lengthy retirement from public life: golfing and doing whatever else former presidents do. Usually, burying a 93 year old loved one is sorrowful but, I believe his pardon of Richard Nixon is one of the factors that have led to the untimely deaths of over 3000 American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in the Middle East. I blame Warren Harding for the price of seafood, probably with more justice, since Harding's death was at first attributed to eating a bad batch of Japanese crabs. Just this month alone, 91 of our young people have met early, avoidable, unnecessary and tragic deaths in Bloody George's horrific war. Lots of concern for factuality there, Ms. Goebbels. In a month when most people picked out Christmas trees and had joy-filled celebrations in the season of lights, 91 of our nation's families went shopping for burial plots or urns and their holidays will never be the same again.
One of the talking heads on one of the cable news shows (does it matter which?) Not to you, it doesn't, you ignorant sow. said that it was a "great thing for America" that Gerald Ford pardoned the crooked war criminal, Richard Nixon. He said that we don't make public spectacles out of trying our presidents in criminal courts. After all, we are not a "banana republic." Bad Bill Clinton agreed with the talking head's assessment, so much so that he awarded Ford the Medal of Freedom for it in 1999.
No, the United States of America is not a "banana republic" Venezuela, presided over by Sheehan's buddy Chavez, is, however. Mr. Talking Head, but since Nixon got away with his blatant crimes and every President since Nixon has skated away from office after having committed overt and covert crimes, we have on our hands, here, a situation that I am forced now to call: "Bloody George." If these crimes are covert, how does she know about them? Why won't she enlighten us by citing something called "evidence"? Oh, she and her fellow moonbats are judge, jury and executioner, and to hell with any judgment that does not agree with them. Their brain-dead lockstep legions will deny to the rafters that they are authoritarians, however.
Bloody George struts around in a cloud of denial with his fake cowboy swagger, breaking our nation's laws and international blah blah blah EFL and to limit nausea and vomiting
I'd tell her to go f*ck herself, but she might enjoy it.
Worthless whiny-assed loser.
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Nice job, POS, I din't think you could sink lower. You exceeded my expectations
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[ABUSIVE COMMENT ABOUT A WORTHLESS W%@R& NOT POSTED IN AN EFFORT TO STAY OUT OF SINK TRAP!]
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Open season? Somebody pleeeessse blame Clinton and his inaction, then lack of committment during the Bosnian/Serb conflict as the precursor to this engagement.
ISLAM QALA, Afghanistan Two years ago, foreign engineers built a new highway through the desert of western Afghanistan, past this ancient trading post and on to the outside world. Nearby, they strung a high-voltage power line and laid a fiber-optic cable, marked with red posts, that provides telephone and Internet access to the region.
The modernization comes with a message. Every 5 to 10 miles, road signs offer quotations from the Koran. "Forgive us, God," declares one. "God is clear to everyone," says another. A graceful mosque rises roadside, with a green glass dome and Koranic inscriptions in blue tile. The style is unmistakably Iranian.
All of this is fruit of Iran's drive to become a bigger player in Afghanistan, as it exploits new opportunities to spread its influence and ideas farther across the Middle East.
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CAIRO, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Arab League members called on Wednesday for a ceasefire in member state Somalia and the withdrawal of all foreign forces.
The foreign jihadis landing by plane and ship aren't considered 'foreign forces', you see, so they don't have to pack and ship. But the Ethiop infidels certainly do.
In a statement issued after a meeting of permanent representatives, the Arab League Council urged the transitional government and the Islamic Courts Union to return to peace negotiations in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
Because that was going so well.
"The council called on the Somali parties and Ethiopian forces to cease fire immediately, comprehensively and completely and to spare the Somali people more victims," it said. "It called for the withdrawal of all forms of foreign presence from Somali territory, to prepare for implementation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1725."
Does anyone find humorous the Arab League calling for enforcement of a UN resolution? I don't recall them being this upset about all the ones Sammy used to violate.
The council represents the 22 members and works by consensus.
And there's one consensus, believe you me.
The U.N. resolution endorsed African peacekeepers to help prop up the interim government in Somalia and also urged the authorities to pursue peace talks with their Islamist rivals.
'African peacekeepers'? Good idea! I know where we can find some. They were just next door, but now they're closer!
The Arab League has been trying to mediate between the government and the Islamic Courts but the last rounds of talks have been postponed because of deep disagreements.
As in, they wanted to kill each other, and now they've had their chance.
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Somebody, anybody, should suggest that the Ethiopians set up large public assemblies of Somalis to convert to Christianity, and that those who convert and swear loyalty to the government get to remain in Mogadishu, and those that refuse get expelled to the countryside.
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Funny when the ICU backed by large numbers of Foreign Jihadi's including some Entrians overran Pretty much all of Somalia short the North and Bioda the SG headquarters there was no such calls?
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Speaking of humor. Doc said: And there's one consensus, believe you me. Oh I would believe except that we both know that when you get 22 Arabs together you get 22 opinions on a matter. Those guys would drink chai and argue for days over a broken finger nail.
(SomaliNet) We are calling all the former Somali national forces to join the Jihad against the enemy Ethiopian troops that invaded our country, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the leader of executive council of Islamic Courts Union said in urgent joint news conference with former army spokesman held later on Tuesday in the Somalia capital Mogadishu. The Islamist call followed an intensive meeting with some former senior Somali national army members in the capital over to face against the Ethiopians advances in Somalia.
The Islamist leader Sheik Ahmed told reporters at the main ICU headquarter in north Mogadishu tonight that the country is in state of war and its Islamist movement would take new military strategies to face against what he called the invaders in the country. The enemy troops are more and heavier than we expected, he said. So we (ICU) officials agreed that more troops are needed and we are calling for all ex national army and reserve fighters of Islamic Courts to gear up for the defense of the country against the enemy otherwise the nation would be under Ethiopian occupation,
Sheik Ahmed warned that Somalia would slide back to lawless and chaos if Somalis do not fight the Ethiopians and their so-called Somali puppets. We are confident that we will defeat the enemy invaders, we are confident to restore the dignity and sovereignty of our country, we are certain that Somalia people would keep off its historical enemy (Ethiopia)... we trust in Allah that enemy will lose in this country but what we need is real faith and to be courageous to face any the infidels, said Sheik Ahmed. The country is in serous condition and needs to be protected from Ethiopian government.
Sheik Ahmed, who was in angry mood, accused the Ethiopian troops of committing human violations inside Somalia. I am asserting that the enemy Ethiopian troops began slaughtering around 50 innocent Somali men and raping a number women and also terrorizing the public in central Somalia, and we are responsible for the defense of our people against the intruders.
He said that Somalis are not hostile to Ethiopian society but are against the regime of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi whose plan is to harm Somalia and its people. We are telling Meles government to pull it troops out of our country; Somalia is an independent nation and would never accept to be colonized.
Colonel Hashi Hasan Fod-Adde, the former army spokesperson, among the army officials that met with Islamists, who also delivered a speech to the reporters said that all ex national forces in the capital should be ready for the defense of the religion and the land against Ethiopia. We the (army commanders) are ordering all former soldiers specially the air and ground forces to make gathering in their barracks tomorrow morning at 8:00 am. He said the former national forces with the help of Islamic Courts and Somalia society would destroy the power of the Ethiopian troops.
The latest Islamist call come as Ethiopian troops along with pro-government militia are making progress in the clashes with the Islamic Courts Union capturing many key towns in southern and central Somalia and moving towards the capital while the Islamic fighters retreated from all their positions for what the ICU officials meant it as war technique.
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Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed
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How many US resident Somalis can tear themselves away long enough from the Minnesota welfare tit to go and fight?
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the cab industry will stand still, oh my!
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"I am asserting that the enemy Ethiopian troops began slaughtering around 50 innocent Somali men and raping a number women and also terrorizing the public in central Somalia." As opposed to the Somalia force kiling and raping innocent people.
(SomaliNet) Sudan will receive the first batch of military advisers from the United Nations this week. These are meant to help the African Union (AU) peacekeepers in returning peace to Sudans war torn Darfur region. Sudan is expecting 43 advisers, who will be stationed in western Darfur during the first phase. Sudan has already received some police officials from the UN, according to AU spokesman Nourredine Mezni. "The first group of this contingent composed of nine policemen is already in place, and this week 43 military advisers and 15 police advisers will follow," Mezni told AFP.
Menzi added that the advisers uniform will also comprise UN helmets and African Union armbands.
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Oxymoron?
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(SomaliNet) Chad's President, Idriss Deby and rebel leader,Mahamat Nour Abdulkerim, signed a peace deal in the presence of Libyas president, Col. Muammar Ghadafi. However, the Chad government- rebel leader peace deal might result in nothing positive for Chad.
First of all, Nour led United Front for Change (FUC) is suffering internal wrangles and has split into several splinter groups. This has greatly undermined the groups strength. Some rebels under FUC also joined a rebel coalition led by Rally of Democratic Forces (RAFD). Timane Erdimi, a rebel leader, has told AFP that the peace accord means nothing to the rebel movement. "This accord means nothing to us. We began this struggle without Mahamat Nour and we shall finish it without Mahamat Nour. He represents nothing today," Erdimi told AFP.
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GENEVA - Fighting in Somalia may trigger a new wave ofdisplacement of civilians and further strain relief efforts in the poverty-stricken east African country, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday.
Clashes between Islamist militias and Ethiopian-aided government troops have already uprooted thousands of people in the central and southern part of the country, Guterres added in a statement. I appeal to all sides in this conflict to respect humanitarian principles and protect civilian populations, he said. Relief workers in the region are already struggling to contend with huge obstacles, including security and natural disasters.
Which they haven't been managing to do for the last, oh, thirty years, so why start now?
The unrest adds to a series of other misfortunes -- man-made and natural --plaguing Somalia in recent months. Besides internal conflict, drought and more recently heavy rain have also hit the country this year, further hindering humanitarian efforts.
Drought, floods, hailstorms, locusts -- none of these things cripple a country full of Lutherans.
The last thing we and the people of Somalia need is yet another round of massive displacement, Guterres said.
It's the last thing the people need but the first thing you need, else you wouldn't have a job.
Regional staff monitoring the situation from nearby Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen have yet to detect massive cross-border migration, but several thousand people appear to be on the move within Somalia, the UN said.
This is in a country of about 8.5 million people. The UN couldn't handle a busload of kids headed to a pep rally.
Roughly 34,000 Somalis fled earlier this year to neighboring Kenya because of internal unrest, estimates the UN, which operates three refugee camps in northeastern Kenya sheltering 160,000 mostly Somalian refugees.
And the UN is paralyzed by that too.
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"Full of Lutherans" > good one.
YEMEN is one of several ME-Afrique areas where AL-Qaeda is actively engaged in terror-and political/national destabilization.
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Translation: the UN wants to create another phony refugee circus, from which employees can siphon off cash for themselves.
Warning: our Somalis are supporting the Islamonazis; let's not compound the problem of their presence by allowing their fanatic and useless brethren into Western Civilization.
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Well, well. Just when Sudan and ZimBOBwe were "starting" to get attention, no less. Some sadistic part of me wonders if these goons have each other on speed-dial in their latest round of "Look at me! Look at me!" games. Sad that innocent civilians get killed/displaced in the process.
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By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | December 26, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The armed forces, already struggling to meet recruiting goals,
This story is posted solely to feature this lie.
are considering expanding the number of noncitizens in the ranks -- including disputed proposals to open recruiting stations overseas and putting more immigrants on a faster track to US citizenship if they volunteer -- according to Pentagon officials.
As for the rest of the article, who fucking cares. It's the Boston Butt Probe. I can save you a lot of trouble by noting that there is not one single quote from a non-partisan source to corroborate the assertion.
The Boston Butt Probe is struggling to catch up with the Star Tribune in the "quality and value delivered" dept, methinks. I wish them luck, too.
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Recruit foreigners for a percentage of the spoils. The looting is much better in Riyadh than the Congo.
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Actually, I think it is a superb idea to recruit foreigners for a LOT of the bullshit missions that our citizen-soldiers are wasted on.
When Madelyn Albright was Secretary of State, her solution to any international problem anywhere was to send a small handful of US soldiers there, with no clear mission, without support, and without any idea what their mission was or when it would be over. One of the first major orders of the Bush administration was to issue recall orders to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of these soldiers spread all over the planet.
Well, for pennies on the dollar, the US should create an offshore foreign legion, which the buffoons in Washington could use as their little tin soldiers and leave our soldiers alone.
Trained as light infantry on some leased Caribbean island (important, so they would be under Gitmo rules, away from the influence of US leftist attorneys), foreigners would line up just for the chance to get in.
I'm sure we could recruit thousands of Ghurkas alone, and some of the highest quality foreign fighters available.
We could have part of them for just humanitarian missions, so they would just be lightly armed and be medical heavy. However, the combat side would be ferocious enough so that nobody in their right mind would attack them.
And all their officers would have to be US forces regulars.
We could pay them what amounts to minimum wage, with few of the other perks given to our soldiers, but with a big jump in pay for combat situations, especially if they are sent in to augment our personnel in some mission.
We could send them on all the UN missions and crap like that. Send them on peacekeeping missions to Africa, and crap like that. You see the value.
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If it was up to the Globe, we wouldn't have a military. They would use the money instead to make sure every home gets a mandatory copy of "Heather Has Two Mommies"...
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Point of order, the U.S. has always allowed allies to serve in our military. I attended technical training with an Aussie and Canadian that were serving in our Air Force. During the Vietnam Conflict there were thousands of Canadian, Brits, and Aussies that served in the U.S. military. Also remember we had a draft back then, so it wasn't becuase we lacked man power.
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Lol, xbalanke. When they lies in the very first sentence I sees all red... I 'spects dinner, flowers, candy, etc. before someone tries to stick me. I'm sorta picky that way.
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It might work out. Many Yankee turned out to be fair soliders after a couple of years.
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tu3031... er huh, would it be too much of an inconvenience to forward an old man a copy? Whahahahaa.
Besoeker, knowing how P.C. many school districts are, I'm not thinking Heather's two mommies are exactly .com's standard fare. Think more along the lines of Hitlery and Rosie O'Donnell. Of course, it's for the chilluns(tm).
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yep: less hot girl on girl - more flannel shirts, short butch hair cuts, Snap-On Tools, and wallet chains. You DON'T wanna see the illustrations
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It is a long-standing tradition for non-citizens to serve in the US armed forces. The great Rick Rescorla, hero of Ia Drang Valley and the World Trade Center, was not a US citizen when he served as a junior officer in Vietnam.
Abraham Lincoln could not have waged the Civil War without the hordes of Irish and German immigrants, many of them just off the boat, who filled the ranks of the northeastern volunteer regiments.
The Irish or German frontier soldier is so much a fixture of Hollywood westerns for a very good reason: There were thousands of them in real life.
The sole survivor of Custer's detachment at Little Big Horn, the messenger Giovanni Martini, was a recent arrival who barely spoke English.
As I have mentioned a time or two here, I first came to the US in 1969, and contrived to stay through the admittedly imprudent device of enlisting in the US Army. At the time, the Army was losing 200 soldiers a week in Vietnam and they were glad to see me. There were five other non-citizens in my basic training platoon of 42, 3 Mexicans, a Dominican, and a Czech refugee who had sneaked into Austria and made his way to the West.
I completed my own tour in Vietnam two years before I took the oath of citizenship.
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...The thing that bothers me is that this nonsense is being mooted when there are plenty of able Americans who can't get BACK in or in in the first place.
For instance, me. I retired as a USAF E5 in 1998. I'm a diabetic, but there is NO reason I couldn't fill a non-frontline slot in order to let somebody else go. In addition, I've got a BA and an AS, both with honors - I could run a bomb dump or maintenance flight here as an officer, and again let somebody else get to the frontline.
Mike
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Despite its reputation for toughness, the French Foreign Legion and other units was not enuff to stave off the Germans andor loss of its empire around the globe. The Japanese Navy was hard-pressed throughout WW2 to replace its highly trained cadres of pre-war naval pilots after their loss at Midway. As for the USA + WOT, b y most accounts US mil recruiters are turning away large numbers of qualified, non-US citizens.
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This thing bothers me for good reason. While many an immigrant or foreigner has served honorably and well in the US armed forces, it has been, by and large, due to their volunteering and not their being recruited.
Recruiting of foreign citizens into the US armed forces smacks of Rome recruiting barbarians to defend its frontiers towards the end of the Empire's days. The Romans neither could nor wanted to fund the recruitment and training of additional legions to defend its far-flung borders so they started paying off barbarian tribes and mercenaries to do their fightiung for them.
That worked out real well for the Empire - for a time - until the barbarians figured out they could make just as much money by raiding and taking Rome's money (Byzantium, it could be said, also tried this and it worked well for them for about 2 centuries or so as I recall (the recruitment of foreign fighters, not the raiding and bribe-taking though they did that too).
This is, to me at least, a sign of an empire in decline.
We were left with so many unpublished letters about the U.S. military that we thought we'd take the opportunity of the holiday-shortened Christmas week to publish some more of them. We begin with one from Robert Eleazer, who tells us about a bit of recent history of which we'd been unaware:
I spent 25 years in the U.S. Air Force from 1974 to 1999 (not counting 4 years of ROTC from 1970-74). Although my family could not afford to send me to college without financial aid, and although I did not get a military scholarship, I joined because I wanted to serve my country--and the urgency to do so seemed greater to me at a time when the military was unpopular in some circles.
We need to recall that we would know about the attitudes of some leaders towards the quality of people who serve in the military even if the Vietnam War had never occurred, and if we did not have Kerrys and Rangles to remind us.
Robert Strange McNamara's attitude toward the U.S. military was well illustrated by an experiment he imposed on the armed services in the 1960s. Project 100,000 was a plan to place 100,000 retarded people and other mental cases in the military. Presumably, McNamara thought that these people had mental abilities compatible with military service.
Some of the senior officers I served under had the misfortune of having to deal with McNamara's experiment. A decade later they still shook their heads in dismay.
This sounded too crazy to be true, but sure enough, we found a February op-ed piece by Kelly Greenhill of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government that describes the program:
Four decades ago, during the Vietnam War, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara created Project 100,000, a program intended to help the approximately 300,000 men who annually failed the Armed Forces Qualification Test for reasons of aptitude. The idea behind Mr. McNamara's scheme was that the military would annually absorb 100,000 of the country's "subterranean poor"--people who would otherwise be rejected.
Using a variety of "educational and medical techniques," the Pentagon would "salvage" these Category IV recruits first for military careers and later for more productive roles in society. Project 100,000 recruits--known as New Standards Men--would then return to civilian life with new skills and aptitudes that would allow them to "reverse the downward spiral of human decay."
Mr. McNamara further concluded that the best way to demonstrate that the induction of New Standards Men would prove beneficial was to keep their status hidden from their commanders. In other words, Project 100,000 was a blind experiment run on the military amid the escalation of hostilities in Southeast Asia.
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again: F*ck Charlie Rangel. Lying race-baiting whore
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I spent the next 25 or so years working for the Postal Service and raising a family, I'm a blue collar kinda guy, but I'm no dummy. Upon my retirement from the Postal Service after 9/11, I was too old to go back in the service and help out with the terrorist problem so I did the next best thing I could. I secured a job with the state of Pennsylvania and became a police officer--that's right, a first responder in homeland security--and I graduated 16th in my State Police Academy class. I'm no rocket scientist, but I'll serve this country till my dying day if need be.
War-Winner Hit 'em Again, Bucktail kinda guy, somethings don't change.
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LOL that project 100,000 explains a lot! Are we sure taht is not when Rangel was recuited? I still would like to see his military record and his citation(s).
By JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun - December 27, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO The FBI is missing nearly a quarter of its files relating to investigations of recent leaks of classified information, according to a court filing the bureau made last week.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the FBI said it identified 94 leak investigations since 2001, but that the investigative files in 22 of those cases "are missing" and cannot be located. "There is no physical slip of paper on the shelf which indicates that the file has been charged out to a particular FBI employee, so therefore there is no way of knowing where the file may actually be," an official in the bureau's records division, Peggy Bellando, wrote in a December 22 declaration.
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Glad to see they didn't lose these very important documents.
FBI to release last of its John Lennon files
Los Angeles Times
By Henry Weinstein
December 19, 2006
The FBI agreed Tuesday to make public the final 10 documents about the surveillance of John Lennon that it had withheld for 25 years from a UC Irvine historian on the grounds that releasing them could cause 'military retaliation against the United States.
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Better check under any nearbye construction trailers.
I swear to Christ, we have the least secure intel on the planet. It's a disgrace. Some of these treasonous bastards need to be hung. Publicly. An example should be seen and the precedent should be set. It's the only way to slow down this runaway train.
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Drag out the lie detector. Everybody form a line, everybody ! We will find the missing files, and when we do, everyone involved with their disappearence will be hanged.
I am so sick of this shit. Instead of useless oaths of office, we should have every elected, appointed, and employed G-ment worker sign a contract explaining how they can and will take any lie detector whenever requested, and that they immediately lose employment and forfeit any and all retirement benefits upon being found guilty of comission of any felony.
Most democrats would get screwed by that, no ?
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So, did they lose the records because they have a crappy records management system? Or, do they have a crappy records management system so they can have a convenient excuse when they lose records?
Our WHOLE Gubmint needs a complete overhaul. If for profit private enterprise can do a much better job of...just about everything, then the government should hire someone to clean their crap up.
A good start would be to abolish all Public Employee Unions, and a complete redo of the Civil Service regulations. Our Gubmint is a monstrous joke, and not a funny one either.
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So, did they lose the records because they have a crappy records management system? Or, do they have a crappy records management system so they can have a convenient excuse when they lose records?
Gotta figure the first, not enough foresight for the 2nd.
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Tuesday criticised the Jamaat-e-Islami for exploiting the religious sentiments of people over the Bajaur Agency by-poll scheduled for January 10. The JIs Sahibzada Haroonur Rashid quit his National Assembly seat in protest at the October 30 airstrike on a madrassa in Bajaur, and is now leading a campaign against the January 10 by-polls.
Senator Abdur Rashid from Bajaur Agency told a press conference that the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal would not accept responsibility for any incident. Some parties are trying to score political points over the issue, and they are using the MMA platform for this purpose, said the senator in an indirect reference to the JI-led campaign.
Rashid said that participation in the January 10 poll was a democratic and constitutional right of the people of Bajaur. The polls had nothing to do with the deaths of the innocent people killed in the strike, he added.
The JUI-F senator also criticised the JI for branding opponents of the by-poll friends of martyrs and supporters friend of the US. If the by-poll takes place, it will not hurt the families who lost their relatives in the airstrike, he said.
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The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) would not allow the government to hold by-elections on seats vacated by the partys parliamentarians, declared MMA chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed while referring to possible en bloc resignations in protest against the Womens Protection Act, at an ulema convention held at the JI office Tuesday.
The en bloc resignations of MMA parliamentarians have been deferred due to differences of opinion in the MMAs parliamentary committee. The issue would be discussed by the MMA supreme council and those who want to resign should be allowed to, but those who did not want to should register their protest against the Womens Protection Act in parliament. Qazi Hussain said that the government would have to quit. He also urged religious scholars to mobilise public opinion for resistance to imperialist and colonialist powers and their agents.
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Qazi: the MMA received 10% of the national vote. Few of the majority ethnic group - Punjabis - support you. You are nothing but a parasite, and a minor league protest entity. Die soon, you cockroach.
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vacate the seats and they need to be filled....by someone else's asses...buh-bye!
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These birds are scared because if there are elections right now, they will get their clocks cleaned. Perv maneuvered them into supporting a repulsive law, abhored by most women in the country.
And if they are booted from parliament, there goes the front line defense for the madrassas, who we have been pressuring Perv to crack down on for a long time, but the MMA has protected.
Some 5,000 people Monday participated in the funeral prayers of four Sunni Muslims who were killed in suspected sectarian attacks in a northwestern Pakistani city, police and witnesses said. The burial was held amid severe tension in Dera Ismail Khan city where unidentified gunmen opened fire on mourners engaged in the burial of a Sunni Muslim late Sunday.
The attack, which came a day after the murder of Shiite scholar Nazakat Ali Imrani, left the four dead and five injured, senior police officer Hamad Abid told AFP. Three of the dead, who belonged to the citys influential Patiban clan, were close relatives, residents said. Imrani was shot dead by unknown assailants in suspected sectarian violence on Saturday. The second firing took place when people were returning from his burial in another graveyard, the officer said.
Abid said police chased and arrested two suspects who were seen fleeing after the attack. A search is also underway to track down two other shooters who fled on a motorbike, he added. Witnesses said police beefed up security at places of worship and troops were patrolling the city after Sunni protesters attacked shops and also shattered windows and damaged some equipment at a hospital overnight. The situation was slowly returning to normal and the minority Christian community celebrated Christmas with traditional fervour, an administration official said.
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Speculation around the Net had begun on whether Saddam will survive past swearing-in day for the 2007 Dem Congress. *FOX + CNN(S) > Saddam says will proudly die in name of Iraq, urges Iraqis to attack and resist in name of country + Allah, yet also says not to hate their enemies.
AMMAN - The defence team of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein said Tuesday they were not surprised by the Iraqi Court of Cassations decision to uphold the death penalty passed on the former dictator and two of his aides.
I'm not surprised either.
We have not been surprised by either the first death verdict nor by the Court of Cassations decision, the head of Saddams defence panel Khalil Duleimi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. These are political courts that have nothing do with legality, because they have been set up by invaders and people who came from Iran and their agendas met on the destruction of Iraq and its people, he said.
Which was reserved to Sammy!
The death sentence passed on Saddam Hussein was upheld Tuesday. A tribunal handed down the verdicts on November 5 after finding Saddam and other two former officials guilty of the murder of 148 Iraqi Shias following a failed attempt on Saddams life in the village of Dujail in 1982. Saddams death by hanging must now be carried out within 30 days.
President Saddam has been tried by his political foes and the verdict represents the justice of the victorious, Duleimi said. He issued an appeal to all international legal organizations to intervene not for the sake of rescuing persons but for salvaging Iraq which is heading to destruction, thanks to the policies of its crazy government.
He'll keep talking big right up to the moment Sammy swings, and then it will be 'Saddam who'?
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Duleimi's very dirty, very connected to very bad people of current interest, and very well paid for his (farcical) efforts. Presumably No. 1 will be gone from the Anfal case soon, so I suspect Duleimi and the other 2,335 would-be defenders of SH will disappear, as Steve says. The $$$$ from Amman and elsewhere will presumably dry up once it's just the likes of Chemical Ali and General Ahmad on trial.
I actually am a bit surprised at how quickly the appeals chamber delivered their decision. I wasn't well versed on that chamber's tendencies (then again, almost nobody was, as it hadn't had to deal with much before this), but I was quite close to the overall process. Haven't been able to establish commo with any of my colleagues still on the scene - imagine they're experiencing a Cat 5 s**t-storm at the moment.
While the process had its warts (like most trials everywhere), it was in fact the opposite of what Duleimi claims. I know many here preferred that SH be quickly dispatched, but I don't think the generally dysfunctional media coverage in the west will change the impact on Iraq and neighboring areas of seeing a former strongman on open trial, with evidence presented and contested.
The evidence in the current Anfal case has been dramatic - but of course there's no oxygen in our media or political discourse for such things at the moment. But it's a worthy effort and one that will probably have an impact over time. Under the bravado and superficial bellicosity of many Sunnis there's a realization that their former leader has been shown to be a thug and maniacal killer - proven to be one. Preposterous stuff about Iran and "victor's justice" is cheap defensive talk (much like the substantively weak critiques of intl. "human rights" organizations who irrationally oppose anything connected with the US, esp. anything connected with Iraq).
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Saddam admits to gassing the Kurds and others, ergo must be shocked like the ACLU-HRW-AMNESTY INTERN + MOVEON.org that he will be executed, and executed despite their oposition to said execution. "JUST BECUZ SADDAM ADMITS TO KILLING + GENOCIDIN' DOESN'T MEAN HE SHOULD BE KILLED, ESPEC WHEN WAR CRIMINAL DUBYA = ENRON, etc. ISN'T"???
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We have not been surprised by either the first death verdict nor by the Court of Casstrations decision, the head of Saddams defence panel Khalil Duleimi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Paging Lorena Bobbitt, paging "Dr." Bobbitt!
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An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Husseins death sentence for crimes against humanity and said he should hang within 30 days. Human rights groups condemned his trial as seriously flawed and called on the government not to carry out the sentence. The White House called the courts decision a milestone in replacing tyranny with rule of law.
Sunni Arab leaders reacted angrily to the ruling, saying it was politically motivated by Saddams former enemies now in power. The appeal court has approved the death sentence. They (the government) have the right to choose the date starting from tomorrow up to 30 days. After 30 days it will be an obligation to implement the sentence, Iraqi High Tribunal head Aref Abdul-Razzaq al-Shahin told a news conference.
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Tu Bishvat? All will share the blessings of his long awaited departure.
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Tu Bishvat? The Jewish New Year for the Trees is on February 2, 2007 this year, according to this link, Besoeker. But I'm sure the trees, too, will be happy he's gone before their year starts. ;-)
At the conclusion of an emergency security meeting in the PM's office this morning, a contradictory decision was reached: The ceasefire will continue, but Israel will act militarily when necessary. Define "necessary".
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert consulted and decided: The ceasefire is still officially in effect, but the IDF will take specific military action against Kassam rocket launching cells.
Such action may be misinterpreted by the enemy, however. Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group that fired several Kassams into Israel yesterday, said its rocket attacks were a response to Israel's ceasefire violations. Chutzpah, thee name is islamic jihad.
Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz decided as well that Israel will also demand that the Palestinian Authority and its chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, take stronger measures to stop the Kassams.
Shortly afterwards, another Kassam came crashing down into Sderot. No one was hurt and no damage was caused.
The official government announcement reads as follows:
"Over the past days, terrorist cells in Gaza have increased their firing of Kassam rockets towards Israeli population centers - despite the fact that Israel agreed to a ceasefire and was careful over the past month not to respond to ceasefire violations. Under these circumstances, instructions have been given to the security forces to take pinpointed action against the launching cells. Simultaneously, Israel
will continue to preserve the ceasefire and will act vis-a-vis the Palestinian Authority in order for them to take immediate action to stop the shooting of Kassams."
Olmert's decision was likely influenced by his desire not to destabilize his scheduled meetings in the coming days with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abu Al-Gheit, and with Chinese leaders in Beijing. This, despite the fact that several government ministers have called, over the past days, to end the policy of restraint.
MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union) was infuriated by Olmert's decision. "It's not enough for Olmert that the two boys were seriously injured; in order for him to take action, they had to have been killed!"
His party colleague MK Aryeh Eldad said that just like 19-year-old Margalit Har-Shefi was imprisoned a few years ago for allegedly knowing yet not stopping Yigal Amir from planning to kill Yitzchak Rabin, "so too, Olmert must be convicted of not stopping the crime of Kassam attacks against Israeli citizens."
Former National Security Advisor Gen. (ret.) Uzi Dayan said, "Those who think that military might will solve everything are wrong - but those who think that you can achieve anything in the Middle East without any military action are also wrong. Right now, what the government must do is to end its policy of restraint, and activate our
ground forces in northern and southern Gaza - otherwise Hamas will
turn into Hizbullah."
In Sderot
Meanwhile, some Sderot residents, feeling they have been abandoned by their government, are exploring the option of a "mass evacuation." A proponent of the idea told Voice of Israel Radio this morning, "If the government would provide us with some hope, or would tell us that there is value to our suffering because actions are being taken to end the threat, then OK. But the government is promising us nothing, and is doing nothing. I believe that if 20,000 of us leave, the government will not be able to withstand this pressure, and would make sure to come up with a solution - whether it be diplomatic or military."
Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal does not agree. "When buses blew up in Jerusalem every few days, and when the early pioneering towns were constantly shot at, people didn't leave - and we also have to hold on as well," Moyal said. "I didn't support this government, but I can tell you that I am not at all jealous of Olmert right now."
Alon Davidi, a leader of the local Sderot struggle for protection against Kassam rockets, said as well that the the evacuation plan is not serious. However, he has biting criticism for Prime Minister Olmert: "Why do two fine boys have to nearly pay with their lives just because Olmert has granted diplomatic immunity to terrorists in Gaza?"
Davidi added that the fact that the army was prevented until now from protecting its citizens by firing at Kassam launching cells "represents the lowest point that the State of Israel has ever reached."
Dec 26, 12:51 PM (ET) - AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - A former Iraqi Cabinet minister who escaped from a Baghdad prison this month has arrived in Jordan on a U.S. plane, Jordan's prime minister said Tuesday. Ayham al-Samaraie, a former minister of electricity with dual U.S. and Iraqi citizenship, had been serving time for corruption when he escaped mid-December.
Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit told reporters Tuesday that al-Samaraie "arrived in Amman as an American and on an American plane," an apparent reference to a U.S. military plane. He did not elaborate on the former official's escape. "Jordan did not receive any demand from the Iraqi authorities" for al-Samaraie's extradition, al-Bakhit said.
Lou Fintor, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, said the U.S. government was not involved in al-Samaraie's escape "in any way." He also denied in "unequivocal terms" the claim that al-Samaraie flew out of Iraq on an American plane.
"There is absolutely no truth to this," Fintor said. "This is absolutely incorrect, absolutely false." He's a lying sack of Arab shit.
So, Fintor and al-Bakhit, tomorrow at dawn.
Fintor said U.S. was supporting the Iraqi government's investigation into al-Samaraie's escape. He declined to say whether al-Samaraie, who has a home in the Chicago area, would be allowed to return to the United States.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet on Wednesday morning with the security cabinet and various security officials to discuss the continuing threat of Kassam attacks on southern Israel, Israel Radio reported.
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Iran's parliament has passed a bill obliging the government to "revise" the level of its cooperation with the IAEA nuclear watchdog after the United Nations approved sanctions on Tehran over its atomic program.
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology, in an attempt to stop uranium enrichment work that could produce material that could be used in bombs.
"The government is obliged to revise its cooperation level with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," said the bill, which was read out during a parliament session broadcast live on state radio.
The bill also obliges President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government to "accelerate Iran's nuclear activities", in defiance of the council's calls to halt nuclear enrichment, which the West fears is a cover to build atomic weapons.
The hardline Guardian Council, a watchdog body, swiftly approved the bill. Deputy Parliament Speaker Mohammad Reza Bahonar said it was the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution that the council approved a bill in 5 minutes.
The bill will take effect 15 days after being signed by the president, who indicated on Sunday that the resolution, which he called a "piece of torn paper", would alter Iran's relationship with the IAEA.
The bill stopped short of approving demands by some conservative parliamentarians who wanted a tougher line against the IAEA and an end to inspections of atomic facilities.
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, played down the possibility of Iran adopting tough measures, insisting that Tehran still "wanted to resolve the issue peacefully."
"We do not want to adopt radical behaviours ... our policy is to continue our atomic work based on international laws," the ISNA students news agency quoted Larijani as saying.
Parliament Speaker Gholamali Haddadadel said the bill gave the government authority to decide if it wanted the nuclear standoff to be resolved through political means in the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
"This bill is a warning to the government not to put the fate of Iran totally in the hands of the IAEA and react in proportion with imposed pressures," he said.
"The government's reaction to international pressures could also be pulling out of the NPT," Haddadadel said.
Some analysts disagreed, saying under Iran's system of clerical rule, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the last say on state matters, not the president.
"This law does not give any additional power to the government than what it already has ... ," political analyst Saeed Leylaz said.
Khamenei has previously said Iran would not yield to pressure. He has issued a religious decree, saying that making, stockpiling or using nuclear weapons was against Islamic beliefs, the official IRNA news agency reported in August 2005.
However, some politicians say the conservative-dominated parliament wanted to send a message to the world that hardliners in Iran could force the government to adopt a tougher line.
Iran in February ended voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol to the NPT that allowed for short notice IAEA inspections of its nuclear sites, after being referred to the UN Security Council.
Some hardline commentators have suggested that Iran should pull out of the NPT. "Iran's membership in the NPT is ridiculous now," said Hussein Shariatmadari, chief editor of Kayhan daily.
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Why do I have the very strong feeling that 2007 is going to be a damned interesting year? "Interesting" in the sense of the Chinese curse about living in that sort of time...
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Interesting that the ayatollahs allow The Midget to write his epistles, while they keep their snowy white hands free from the contaminating paws of the infidels.
The Vatican did not release details of the content of Ahmadinejad's letter, but Iran's state-run IRNA news agency said the note focused on Saturday's Security Council vote approving sanctions against Iran in the standoff over its nuclear program.
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No doubt a final invitation to submit or convert... Pope's choice.
End of story, tw. Merely following the forms so no one can complain afterwards. We really, really need to take these maggots seriously. No one quite gets that yet.
The West somehow remains immune to the fact that only a massive convergence of pro-Western institutions will summon forth the popular perception and participation level needed to thwart Islam.
Some examples:
A.) The Pope rallies all Catholics to begin pressuring their governments to demand freedom of religion in Muslim Majority nations, backed by threats of restricting Islam's practice if such freedoms are not put in place.
B.) Human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch must refocus on how Sharia law is a direct violation of women's rights and constitutes a fundamental violation of human rights in general. They must urge economic and political sanctions against nations that practice Sharia law.
C.) Animal rights groups must press for the banning of halal slaughter methods as being inhumane treatment of livestock.
D.) Regular citizens must urge lawmakers to ban the burqa and niqab as direct breaches of public security. Elimination of halal lunch menus at schools are another measure of preferential treatment that must be ended as well.
The above are examples of how the West needs to adopt a more coherent wavefront of various religious, political and economic positions designed to constrain Islam and discourage its continued colonization of our lands.
It is sad commentary that there currently exists little chance of all these disparate groups adopting one voice against Islam. Only such concerted efforts will have any hope of generating the broadbased public support for those measures which will ensure our survival. Otherwise, Islam will continue to present such a comparitively monolithic front to its incursion upon Western society that little will stop it short of total war.
The confusion among Israeli diplomatic and intelligence officials on how to handle Syrian peace overtures continued Tuesday when, in a briefing at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni questioned whether Syrian President Bashar Assad was truly interested in peace or merely in negotiations.
At the same briefing, Foreign Ministry Diplomatic Research Department head Nimrod Barkan said that Syria was "interested in entering negotiations in order to alleviate international pressure."
But Foreign Ministry officials said Barkan was not endorsing the view of Military Intelligence Research Division head Yossi Baidatz, who told the same panel on Monday that he believes Assad is sincere. Mossad chief Meir Dagan told them the opposite last week, saying the Syrian leader should not be taken seriously because his country was preparing for war with Israel.
"Syria is sending signals it wants negotiations and we are obligated to ask ourselves whether Assad wants only negotiations or if he wants peace at the end of the process," Livni said.
"The Syrians want to negotiate because it helps their situation and aids their effort to overcome the international threats against them, but we have to ask ourselves what we would get at the end of a diplomatic process," she said.
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Iff Radical Iran, and only Radical Iran, goes nuke full monty afore early summer 2007 as per Russian 'Perts, Syria's Shias will be far behind the curve vv nuclear Iran. Lebanese Muslims already know it - THE ENEMY OF ISRAEL IS NOT THEIR FRIEND.
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ISLAM QALA, Afghanistan Two years ago, foreign engineers built a new highway through the desert of western Afghanistan, past this ancient trading post and on to the outside world. Nearby, they strung a high-voltage power line and laid a fiber-optic cable, marked with red posts, that provides telephone and Internet access to the region. 
CAIRO, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Arab League members called on Wednesday for a ceasefire in member state Somalia and the withdrawal of all foreign forces.
oint news conference with former army spokesman held later on Tuesday in the Somalia capital Mogadishu. The Islamist call followed an intensive meeting with some former senior Somali national army members in the capital over to face against the Ethiopians advances in Somalia. 
(SomaliNet) Sudan will receive the first batch of military advisers from the United Nations this week. These are meant to help the African Union (AU) peacekeepers in returning peace to Sudans war torn Darfur region. Sudan is expecting 43 advisers, who will be stationed in western Darfur during the first phase. Sudan has already received some police officials from the UN, according to AU spokesman Nourredine Mezni. "The first group of this contingent composed of nine policemen is already in place, and this week 43 military advisers and 15 police advisers will follow," Mezni told AFP. 
(SomaliNet) Chad's President, Idriss Deby and rebel leader,Mahamat Nour Abdulkerim, signed a peace deal in the presence of Libyas president, Col. Muammar Ghadafi. However, the Chad government- rebel leader peace deal might result in nothing positive for Chad. 
By JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun - December 27, 2006
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Tuesday criticised the Jamaat-e-Islami for exploiting the religious sentiments of people over the Bajaur Agency by-poll scheduled for January 10. The JIs Sahibzada Haroonur Rashid quit his National Assembly seat in protest at the October 30 airstrike on a madrassa in Bajaur, and is now leading a campaign against the January 10 by-polls. 
The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) would not allow the government to hold by-elections on seats vacated by the partys parliamentarians, declared MMA chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed while referring to possible en bloc resignations in protest against the Womens Protection Act, at an ulema convention held at the JI office Tuesday. 
An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Husseins death sentence for crimes against humanity and said he should hang within 30 days. Human rights groups condemned his trial as seriously flawed and called on the government not to carry out the sentence. The White House called the courts decision a milestone in replacing tyranny with rule of law. 
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The confusion among Israeli diplomatic and intelligence officials on how to handle Syrian peace overtures continued Tuesday when, in a briefing at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni questioned whether Syrian President Bashar Assad was truly interested in peace or merely in negotiations. 
