Britain wants the UN to take the lead role in a "strategic plan" for Afghanistan amid growing concern about the impact of Nato and US military operations and the failure to get aid to those who need it. A call for the UN to coordinate the many largely ineffective development projects designed to improve life for Afghans was made by Des Browne, the defence secretary, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Thursday. "There is a genuine hunger for leadership among the military, among aid communities, and among the NGOs," he said.
Boy howdy, let the UN do it instead of the French and Germans in NATO. There's a sure recipe for success.
In an unusually pointed statement after a meeting with Robert Gates, his US counterpart, Mr Browne said he had stressed "just how important it is for Nato and its members to maximise our efforts in keeping the consent of the civilian population there in order to achieve our aims".
How about having the civilians do some of the heavy lifting?
"We also need to heed President [Hamid] Karzai's words and take the greatest possible care to protect civilians during military operations to defeat the Taliban."
And just as great care to nail the 'civilians' helping the Taliban.
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yes, by all means, send in the child rapists (a.k.a., UN piecekeepers)
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The blather is that Afghanistan is the 'good war'. And it's just that- blather. If the usual suspects manage to force a full retreat from Iraq, their next target is going to be Afghanistan.
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Absolutely disgraceful. It would appear that the rule of law has collapsed in the UK, since ad hoc activists can not only decide military and defense policy, including a clairvoyant judgment of intent; but take violent action to further those pro-terror policies.
The constant anti-American demonization and bigotry spewing from the British media are the cause of this. The left beasts will continue their pro-terror campaign until they are held to account. The lack of accountability is the key to these outrages and that must change.
We need a loyalist Soros to finance a campaign of legal resistance to these totalitarians. Nevertheless, some steps can be taken without millions in bribes and other under-the-table payments.
As a first step, the financial dealings of jurors in this case should be thoroughly investigated and, if warranted, fully exposed. At the very least, British terror-tools visiting the United States should face protest, exposure, and passive resistance at every step of their lucrative speaking tours and business transactions. This requires nothing more than a database and a little grassroots organization.
Finally, if sabotage in support of the Saddamite armed forces is permissible, then surely similar (though not so recklessly dangerous) action would be justified against people who are plainly war criminals under the Julius Streicher and William Joyce ("Lord Haw Haw") precedents. This should include their corporate and academic sponsors.
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As a last resort, we can fall back on international law to deal with Fairford style outrages. The Geneva Conventions permit the immediate execution of saboteurs captured while committing acts of violence on behalf of an armed enemy. Any moonbats who attempt to emulate these two Fairford bastards can be put against the nearest wall and shot.
Impossible?
Maybe, but it is definitely legal and it does not require jury nullification of common law to hold up in court, especially with the Fairford precedent demonstrating a lack of recourse.
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AC: In practice you don't make much of a formal deal out of it. You just put either a sharp or blunt object in their hand, after they are no longer in a position to resist.
"...And then, after telling them to halt in a loud, clear voice a second time, they continued to advance towards me, wielding what appeared to be weapons in a menacing fashion. I then said, halt, or I will be forced to discharge a round in self-defense..."
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Only objection to the above is "Discharge 'A' round" don't dare stop at one round, be sure.(Unless it's a beehive tank round, or shotgun. Is there any such thing as a machine shotgun?)
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The South Africans came out with a real brush sweeper automatic shotgun some years ago. Oddly enough, they managed to machine it in such a way that the recoil wouldn't tear your arm off.
However, to continue with the "testimony", then you would describe how they continued to menace you even when "And then for the tenth time, I said halt, or I may have to discharge another round, but they continued to advance on me while holding what appeared to be a weapon in a menacing fashion..."
BRNO, Czech Republic (AP) - The Czech prime minister told a summit of 15 European leaders Friday that a planned missile defense system, parts of which the United States wants to base in the Czech Republic and Poland, is vital to Europe's security. "The defense of Europe against missiles from some states and organizations is a necessary step which will significantly increase our security and also the security of our European allies and neighbors," Mirek Topolanek told the annual gathering of presidents from central, southern and eastern Europe.
Earlier this week, U.S. officials traveled to Europe to discuss the proposal with their counterparts in Prague and Warsaw. The anti-missile system is also likely to be on the agenda when President Bush visits the two NATO members during a trip to Europe in June.
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like a skunk at the EU garden party
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A federal appeals court today upheld a decision giving the U.S. Military Academy authority to ban political protesters on Graduation Day.
Goshen civil rights attorney Michael Sussman and the Democratic Alliance of Orange County had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to overturn a federal judge's decision barring them from campus.
Their request would have required West Point Garrison Commander Col. Brian Crawford to open the gates to roughly 1,000 anti-war demonstrators tomorrow. But in a decision issued today, the appeals court reaffirmed the Academy's long-stated position that it is a non-public forum exempt from some forms of free-speech. "Plaintiffs' argument that the planned address of the Vice President affords them a right to express their political opinions within the confines of the West Point Cantonment is without merit," the court ruled. "Although the Vice President is a political figure, he is also an incumbent official in the United States Government, second in rank only to the Commander-in-Chief.
"As such, his mere presence on campus to address members of the United States military on their graduation day does not convert the West Point campus into a public forum."
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Nah. However, confine them between the assembled cadets and the cliff over the Hudson. A snappy "Close Ranks", "About Face", "Forward, March" and they could repeat the scene from the "300". You know, where the Spartan phalanx introduces repelling [sans ropes] to the Persian infantry.
That pretty much sums up these clowns everywhere, not just at West Point.
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I'd say let them on. It would make a target rich environment.
Sussman has been on the wrong side of nearly every suit he's brought for the last couple years.
These destructive sobs are at every main USMA event now, kept outside the gate. They overwhelm the small town that's next to West Point & cost a lot of $$ to the local taxpayers. If let onto post they would come more often & would trash what is, after all, a carefully maintained national monument as well as the graduation event itself.
I understand that a Gathering of Eagles is present to confront them today. A big HOOAH to patriots willing to call them on their crap.
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Our cadets deserve celebrating an end to years of hard work without enduring the presence odor of unappreciative scum whose lives they will end up protecting with their own.
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Zen and occasional...I of course...was being factitious. These scumbags are nothing more than the eco-terrorist, marxist, and anarchist carrying a different sign. I suspect there are a smattering of true-beleivers in the crowd. However, I would truly, TRULY like to force all those "1000" to spend a year in Iran, or the Magic Kingdom.
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However, I would truly, TRULY like to force all those "1000" to spend a year in Iran, or the Magic Kingdom.
Word, 'mouse. Slimeballs like Rosie and her ilk desperately need to sample the wonders that an Islamic utopia has on offer. It would accomplish one of three things:
1.) Wise them the fuck up.
2.) Shut them the fuck up.
3.) Get the fuck beat out of them.
PS: Votes for "all of the above" are perfectly acceptable.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush signed a bill Friday to pay for military operations in Iraq after a bitter struggle with Democrats in Congress who sought unsuccessfully to tie the money to U.S. troop withdrawals. Bush signed the bill into law at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, where he is spending part of the Memorial Day weekend. In announcing the signing, White House spokesman Tony Fratto noted that it came 109 days after Bush sent his emergency spending request to Congress.
``Rather than mandate arbitrary timetables for troop withdrawals or micromanage our military commanders, this legislation enables our servicemen and women to follow the judgment of commanders on the ground,'' Bush said in a statement. ``This important bill also provides a clear roadmap to help the Iraqis secure their country and strengthen their young democracy,'' he said. ``Iraqis need to demonstrate measurable progress on a series of benchmarks for improved security, political reconciliation and governance. These tasks will be difficult for this young democracy, but we are confident they will continue to make progress on the goals they have set for themselves.''
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A recent poll finally answered the question of how many Moslem there are in the United States. There were no reliable statistics on this before, as the government did not collect data on religion, and there is no Moslem organization doing an accurate count. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life poll found there are 2.35 million Moslems in the United States, and 36 percent of them are children. Moreover, two thirds of the adult Moslems were born in another country.
African-Americans made up twenty percent of Moslems, and tend to be more radical than the foreign born. Many of these are men who converted while in prison, and have long been seen as a major threat because of their criminal background and history of impulsive and violent behavior.
When asked about Islamic terrorism, seven percent of all American Moslems said it was sometimes justified, and one percent said it was often justified. Other surveys indicate that the kind of attacks that are "justified" tend to be those against Israel. Moslem media and politicians have been preaching virulent anti-Semitism for over a century now, and it only got worse when Israel was established sixty years ago. This is pretty nasty stuff, and you can pick it up on al Jazeera or the Internet, although the worst of it is only available on Arab language sites. Al Qaeda, which originally did not see Israel as a primary target, has since changed its mind, and found that Moslems conditioned to hate Israel, can be converted into general purpose Islamic terrorists. Thus there are nearly 24,000 American Moslems who often find Islamic terrorism justified, and it's this group that provides nearly all the recruits Moslem terror groups have obtained so far. Rest at link
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If that's a reasonably accurate count, then it's 2 million too many. Rounding up two million won't be bad after we corral the 30 million Hispanic illegals.
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This article, plus two op-ed pieces responding to it, were in my local newspaper this morning. Both op-eds said, this is not ok -- there's a significant number of young Muslims in the US who think their religion justifies killing us all.
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"there is no Moslem organization doing an accurate count."
There are, however, several moslem organizations doing an inaccurate count.
This explains one of the mysterious aspects of that "terrorism poll" last week: The reason the support for terrorism was so high was because of US born African Americans. They were more supportive of suicide bompings vs civilians than either pakistani americans or Arab americans.
Al
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The editorial in "the Nation" is even worse. "Mr. Aziz would undoubtedly have more grace than the biography gives him credit for. And better taste"
The story of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz trying to charm the aging American beauty in the corridors of power Condoleezza Rice but ending up babbling and staring him down is nothing more than trash, a Prime Ministers Secretariat source said.
Trash, was the brief reaction of a Prime Ministers Secretariat source over what the Rice biography said about Shaukat Aziz. There is nothing more we could offer to such a nonsensical script, the source said on condition of anonymity.
The Foreign Office spokesman had earlier made a similar comment, terming Rice remarks trash, during one of her weekly press briefings. It is learnt that when the extracts of Aziz-Condis tale of charm and staring down reached the Prime Ministers office, it was taken aback.
Aziz was approached but, according to the source, the premier said this baloney does not deserve a comment from him. Let the Foreign Office react to this. The biography titled Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power by Newsweek chief of correspondents and senior editor Marcus Mabry has been recently launched in the United States.
Referring to Condis first tour to South Asia in March 2005 during which she also visited Pakistan, the author writes, Yet, when Rice sat down with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, who fancies himself as ladies man, Aziz puffed himself up and held forth in what he obviously thought was his seductive baritone (He bragged to Western diplomats, no less that he could conquer any woman in two minutes).
(He tried) this Savile Row-suited gigolo kind of charm: Pakistan is a country of rich traditions, staring in (Rices) eyes, a participant at the meeting recalled. There was this test of wills where he was trying to use all his charms on her as a woman, and she just basically stared him down. By the end of the meeting, he was babbling.
It is said that the 2005 meeting of Aziz and Condi was not one on one but was attended by many others. The source said there was no question of charming Rice in a gathering of so many people. And charming a woman like Condi would require special skills and extra guts, the source said.
At the age of 53, Condoleezza Rice is still a single and it is said that she has her own fixations. In the same biography, it is said that once she addressed President Bush as My husb-.
They point to her remark at a Washington dinner party in 2004, when she said, As I was telling my husb- before abruptly correcting herself, As I was telling President Bush... (Rice told me she doesnt think she ever made the comment; I swear I dont remember any such slip... I dont think it happened, And neither do any number of other guests at the dinner, though some swear they heard her say husband.).
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A lot of Pakistanis with their panties in a twist.. "aging" "better taste"
nothing hurts the Islamic sensibilities more than an independent and assertive woman.
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Especially an independent an assertive woman with dark skin. I believe the story. Remember how the Pakistani ministers tried to charm that actress who visited for UNICEF?
The Lal Masjid administration on Friday announced that its students would attack audio and video shops, massage centres and brothels in Islamabad if their owners did not wind up their businesses immediately. Our students can attack these outlets anytime because the deadline given to their owners had already passed, Lal Masjid khatib Maulana Abdul Aziz said in his Friday sermon.
The deadline ended last month and the owners fear attacks from the mosque brigade anytime. We are insecure and need government protection, the owner of a CD shop in Abpara market told Dawn. He said that a group of 40 to 50 baton-wielding people, some of them covering their faces, had visited different markets two months ago and asked owners of CD, audio and video shops to switch over to other business. The CD shop-owner said he had been in the business for 30 years and had no expertise to start another business.
When contacted, Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, deputy in-charge of Lal Masjid, said the one-month ultimatum had ended last month, adding that owners of some of the shops had assured that they would wind up their business.
Two months ago some people went to various markets in the capital and issued notices, signed by slain Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah, to owners of CD and audio/video shops, asking them to wind up their businesses. However, Maulana Ghazi denied that those who had distributed the notices were students or supporters of Lal Masjid.
Our Correspondent in Kohat adds: In a telephonic address on the occasion of the inauguration of the basement of a mosque in Kohat, Maulana Abdul Aziz of Lal Masjid asked the Taliban to continue their jihad against obscenity, prostitution, video shops and other social vices and expand it to every nook and corner of the NWFP.
He said the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal secured votes in the name of Islam and Quran but failed to enforce Sharia and curb un-Islamic practices. Therefore, it is now the responsibility of all believers to support the activities of the Taliban in the province against CD shops and obscenity.
He advised the Taliban to also help the weak and helpless segments of society in getting justice. He said the government would have to enforce Islam soon because they could not stop the movement of the Taliban which had got the support of millions of people. People are fed up with the rulers and want immediate change for which time is ripe.
He regretted that the MMA government had got involved in purely political matters which resulted in social degradation. The sale of drugs and liquor has increased and dancing, prostitution and music are on the rise in the NWFP which is being ruled by graduates of seminaries, he added. He said: We have set the example of enforcing Sharia in Islamabad and, therefore, the MMA government cannot justify its inaction this regard.
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If the deadline passed last month and the shops are still open, then it means that Lal Masjid's local Mafia must be earning the protection money it receives from those shops.
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Meanwhile, across the border, a muslim couple embraces the electronic world...
Visakhapatnam, May 24: The wife of a poor pani puri vendor has become a software engineer in Infosys, thanks to her husbands support. Sheik Salar, 26, a street hawker, used every rupee he earned to help his wife Fatima Bibi Sheik, 21, achieve her academic ambitions. And it was not in vain. Fatima completed her course at Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering with high marks and was given a plum posting by the software giant in a campus selection.
In fact, she is the first student from the college to get into Infosys. Fatima and Salar stay in a slum at Rajendranagar. While Fatima went to college, Salar roamed around the city with a pushcart selling puffed rice, corn, chilli bhajjis and pani puri, earning Rs 150 per day. When she was married off to her distant relation Salar by her parents in 2001, Fatima was just 15 and felt that she would never achieve her dream of being a software engineer.
I did not want to marry since I wanted to study further and achieve something, she said. She was crestfallen since Salar merely nodded when she told him about her dreams. But his nod meant a lot and he started saving money to help her study. By living frugally, Salar somehow got together Rs 60,000 to pay Fatimas fee for the first and second year of her engineering course.
The Andhra Pradesh State Minorities Finance Corporation helped the couple pay the rest of the fee. At the time of our marriage I was not sure how serious Fatima was about her studies, said Salar. But when I realised that she got 536 marks in her SSC exams and stood first in her school, I decided to help her study. The pani puri vendor was adamant that her future should not get spoilt because she married him.
A junior college in the city provided her free intermediate education. She secured a decent rank in the Eamcet exam and opted to join the electronics and electrical engineering branch in college. We decided not to have kids till she got a good job, said Salar. For this, I took much criticism from my parents. Fatimas eyes moisten when she talks about her husband. You cant imagine the hardships he suffered to help me, she said. In the last six years, he was my strength. He sacrificed all his joys for me.
Fatima was always first in our class, said Asha Kanthi, her classmate. We did not know her story then. Now she is our inspiration. Though happy at the turn of events, the couple is a bit sad when thinking about their being apart for three months, when Fatima would go to the Infosys campus in Mysore for training. Have they ever quarrelled? When we have issues, we sit together and discuss and sort it out, said Fatima. She plans to take her husband along with her when she gets her posting. Salar too is proud, for he has proved that behind every successful woman there is a man.
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Actually, the story of the street-vender putting his wife through college/tech training is terribly sweet, and reassuring. Not all Moslem males are threatened by an intelligent, ambitions woman! Thanks for another side of the story, John.
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The Neanderthal nature of Islam is its own reward. As each non-Muslim holiday sees a peak in terrorist attacks and all forms of entertainment are banned by these sanctimonious Islamic cretins, the world gains further insight into the sterile and mute vistas that await us should a global caliphate be put in place.
This world must come to understand the tremendous loss of culture and artistic patrimony that Islamic ascendancy would precipitate. Bamiyan's giant Buddahs are only the iceberg's tip when it comes to what would be lost for all time. The dour and humorless world of Islam is exactly what Muslims deserve for their troubles. Few are more deserving of such a dull and monotonous existence.
As to the story in post #2: Salar sounds like a very decent chap. How sad that he is an anomally as opposed to being a typical specimen of Muslim manhood. It is rather heartwarming that his devotion to Fatima will now result in the vast improvement of their lives together, which is as it should be.
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"..and issued notices, signed by slain Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah," Hey, it's just an 'X', but in a couple of years it should bring at least Rs 15 on E-bay!
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ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties at a national consultative meeting under the aegis of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) on Friday announced that they would begin a civil disobedience movement if President Pervez Musharraf tries to get himself re-elected from the current assemblies or imposes martial law in the country.
The meeting, which continued till midnight here, also formed a committee to take a decision in case Musharraf tries to get himself re-elected from the current assemblies. The committee, which consists of Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Raja Zafarul Haq, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Asfandyar Wali and Imran Khan, will announce schedule for protest rallies to be organised in all four provincial capitals.
Protest rallies! We'll use peeeeeeople powwwwwer to remove the hated Perv! Who do these yokels think they are, Democrats?
The Pakistan Peoples Party did not attend the meeting due to its differences with the MMA.
The meeting in its joint declaration vowed to struggle for the restoration of the Constitution and elimination of armys role in politics. It demanded Musharrafs resignation from both offices, a caretaker government of national consensus and an independent election commission to make the upcoming elections free and fair.
Didn't wish for a pony. Too bad.
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Perv: bypass the masses and beat the crap outta the MMA leaders. Stock up on #7 truncheons and moustache wax
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KARACHI: President General Pervez Musharraf on Friday directed the Sindh government to chalk out a comprehensive strategy and campaign to make Karachi weapons-free. Addressing a high-level meeting at Chief Ministers house here, Musharraf directed the Sindh government to maintain religious harmony and improve security in the provincial capital by seizing weapons from the people at the earliest.
Gun control will work there as well as it's worked anywhere else, I suppose.
He said that previous campaigns had failed because only ordinary citizens handed over their weapons to the government, while anti-social individuals eluded the authorities.
No, reeeeeeaaallly?
He added that a successful weapons-recovery campaign was necessary to contain lawlessness in the city. Musharraf said the recent violence in Karachi over the suspension of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was the result of a conspiracy to fuel ethnic tension. He said that some individuals were trying to give ethnic colour to the Karachi carnage to create more chaos in the city.
It's not like you need much of an excuse to create carnage and chaos in Karachi.
The president said rumours that the forthcoming general elections would be postponed were baseless, adding that the elections would be held according to the schedule and presidential election would be held according to the Constitution.
Musharraf also directed Federal Water and Power Minister Liaqat Jatoi to take immediate steps to overcome the electricity crisis in Karachi.
Just snapped his fingers and poof! More electricity!
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Well, this just shows that stupidity of public officials is a universal trait, crossing cultural and religious lines like an influenza virus.
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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday directed the cellular phone companies to ensure proper documentation and verification of the antecedents of their respective customers. The PTA issued the direction during a meeting chaired by PTA Chairman Shahzada Alam Malik and attended by the representatives of the cellular mobile operators here Friday.
According to a press release, Malik said it had been witnessed that proper procedure is not being adopted with regard to acquiring the particulars of the customer intending to have a mobile connection. He said that a large number of SIM cards were being used with fictitious documentation. He said that the Authority had received a number of complaints in this regard.
The PTA chairman directed the representatives of the mobile phone companies to ensure that a copy of computerised National Identification Card (CNIC) is demanded from the customer at the time of issuance of SIM besides electronically maintaining the particulars of every subscriber as given in the customer agreement from. Malik said that this policy would be implemented immediately and strict action would be taken against those franchises that would be found in violation. PTA teams would be visiting various franchises of all the cellular mobile operators across the country to check whether proper procedure was being adopted while issuing the respective mobile connections.
Senator Nilofar Bakhtiar has said that she has not withdrawn her resignation. Talking to NNI here Friday, she said she is committed to her decision and will not withdraw her resignation. She said the reasons for her resignation are still intact. She said she has not issued, and will not issue any statement against the government and her partys (PML) leadership.
A prominent separatist in Indian Kashmir on Friday voiced anger over an Indian army hearts and minds effort involving the renovation of Muslim shrines.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a moderate campaigner for Kashmirs independence and chief priest at Kashmirs main mosque, dismissed the programme as loaded with political motives. He said the soldiers, the vast majority of whom are Hindus, should keep their hands off Islamic sites. A mosque or a shrine cannot be renovated with donations from non-Muslims. It is unacceptable, he told AFP. The fact remains that every Kashmiri wants the Indian army out of the state.
The Indian army says it has renovated at least a dozen Sufi shrines as a goodwill gesture for a public that views Indian soldiers as trigger-happy occupiers, rather than social workers. Most Kashmiris follow the traditionally apolitical Sufi branch of Islam, and some clerics have urged a boycott of mosques and shrines renovated by the army.
Mirwaiz, who inherited his title and job from his father, frequently meets with the separatists responsible for assassinating his father. Other leaders have mocked him for cowardice, for keeping silent while the killers of his father openly denounce him in his presence.
A mosque or a shrine cannot be renovated with donations from non-Muslims
Interesting. He should also call for the Haj subsidy, paid for by the Indian government, to be removed.
Can't have Muslims going to Mecca on Hindoo money...
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(Looks at his hat and realizes he finally knows what happened to Grandma's davenport....)
Mike
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"davenport" - do youngsters even use that term nowadays? Off to wikipedia for research.
lol.
ps - headwear may actually be leftover antimacassar.
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wouldn't it be sweet if secret surveillance equipment was installed with this renovation.
Just a happy thought. That the right folks would get this info and put it to some good use.
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Hey dumbf**k, in case you didn't catch the news, resupply of arty ammo and other various supplies have arrived. Your complete elimination is imminent. Buh bye.
Some Security Council members, led by Russia and Qatar, on Friday said they have difficulty accepting the draft resolution seeking to establish the Hariri Tribunal under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter as it stands now and urged the co-sponsors to redraft it and come back after the weekend with a new text. The co-sponsors - France, UK and the US - tabled their draft resolution officially on Friday. Russia, Qatar, Indonesia and South Africa voiced opposition to the draft as it stands and made suggestions on how to improve it.
Qatari envoy Nassir A. Al-Nasser told KUNA "we want a draft resolution that brings peace to Lebanon and not to affect the situation there. They took all suggestions and said they will examine them and come back with a redrafted text". He said his country is still trying with Lebanon to have the tribunal approved constitutionally.
Russian envoy Vitaly Churkin told reporters "we clearly identified fundamental differences which exist between us and we believe that until and unless those fundamental differences are resolved, there is no point in working on other less important elements of that resolution". His main objection, he stressed, is the mention of Chapter 7 of the UN Charter which makes the establishment of the tribunal mandatory. Churkin said all Security Council resolutions are binding and therefore there is no point of mentioning Chapter 7. He said his delegation expressed some concern on the legal ground and made some suggestions of how those concerns can be dealt with, describing some paragraphs of the draft as "very awkward, legally". The other main objection, he said, is the clause in the draft which puts the agreement between Lebanon and the UN into force. He said Russia also made the suggestion that "we are dealing with the republic of Lebanon, not just the government of Lebanon". He said Russia also proposed a "grace period" after which the resolution is adopted and enters into force "in the hope and expectation that before that period ends the Lebanese will be able to ratify it in Lebanon." He did not specify how long the period would be.
China is also opposed to the text as it stands.
Council president US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters following the informal meeting that the draft's co-sponsors will meet later today to examine the suggestions proposed by council members, with a view to a vote may be early next week. French envoy Jean Marc de la Sabliere told reporters that the draft is gaining more support with Slovakia joining the co-sponsors and Belgium is waiting for instructions to also join the four.
Have you ever noticed that national sovereignty is a nusiance to the Tranzis right up to the moment they can obstruct and obfuscate in the UN? Of course you've noticed. You read Rantburg.
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Does Qatar speak for all the Arab countries on this matter? It feels like the Soviet and Chinese automatic rejection of anything that smacks of impinging on national sovereignty, lest the outside world think of doing the same to them.
The visiting foreign minister of France said on Thursday that the international community was determined to set up an international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. "France, along with the international community, is determined to establish the tribunal to try the assassins," Bernard Kouchner told a news conference at the Grand Serail. On Thursday, Kouchner met Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Speaker Nabih Berri, parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri and Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani. Kouchner concluded his first day in Lebanon by visiting Hariri's grave.
"In addition to pressing for the formation of the international tribunal, France is keen on having UN Resolution 1701 fully implemented and we are also thinking of increasing the number of French soldiers operating as part of the UNIFIL troops in Lebanon." Resolution 1701, which marked the end of the summer 2006 war with Israel, calls for the disarmament of militias and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, among other provisions. Asked how Sarkozy's Lebanon policy might differ from that of his predecessor, Jacques Chirac, Kouchner said that Sarkozy and Chirac had "two different mentalities" and came from "two different generations."
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Rafik Hariri used his own ability to make Lebanon function. He was a good man. Had I not had him, Lebanon would still have both wings in war and death. This was a good man by measure, and this assination proved beyond mayrters of the evil that is faced on a daily basis everywhere. Bless you Lebanon. Become strong and give me what we all know you all deserve please.
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BRNO, Czech Republic (AP) - The Czech prime minister told a summit of 15 European leaders Friday that a planned missile defense system, parts of which the United States wants to base in the Czech Republic and Poland, is vital to Europe's security. "The defense of Europe against missiles from some states and organizations is a necessary step which will significantly increase our security and also the security of our European allies and neighbors," Mirek Topolanek told the annual gathering of presidents from central, southern and eastern Europe.
A federal appeals court today upheld a decision giving the U.S. Military Academy authority to ban political protesters on Graduation Day.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush signed a bill Friday to pay for military operations in Iraq after a bitter struggle with Democrats in Congress who sought unsuccessfully to tie the money to U.S. troop withdrawals. Bush signed the bill into law at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, where he is spending part of the Memorial Day weekend. In announcing the signing, White House spokesman Tony Fratto noted that it came 109 days after Bush sent his emergency spending request to Congress.
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties at a national consultative meeting under the aegis of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) on Friday announced that they would begin a civil disobedience movement if President Pervez Musharraf tries to get himself re-elected from the current assemblies or imposes martial law in the country. 
KARACHI: President General Pervez Musharraf on Friday directed the Sindh government to chalk out a comprehensive strategy and campaign to make Karachi weapons-free. Addressing a high-level meeting at Chief Ministers house here, Musharraf directed the Sindh government to maintain religious harmony and improve security in the provincial capital by seizing weapons from the people at the earliest. 
Senator Nilofar Bakhtiar has said that she has not withdrawn her resignation. Talking to NNI here Friday, she said she is committed to her decision and will not withdraw her resignation. She said the reasons for her resignation are still intact. She said she has not issued, and will not issue any statement against the government and her partys (PML) leadership.
