A Lurid Crime Tale for sure:
On May 14, jihadi forum users Abu Kandahar and Roslan al-Shami posted a five-point scenario for the collapse of the United States and the rise of the Islamic ummah, entitled, "The Next Strikes in the Heart of America, When and How." It appeared on the al-ommh.net forum, although at least one other jihadi forum, alhanein.com, reposted the scenario. The posting outlines a scenario for attacking the United States, although the sheer size of the operation suggests that it is jihadi propaganda and not an actual plan that could be operationalized. The alleged operation is dedicated to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the head of the Islamic State of Iraq.
The first stage in the scenario involves multiple terrorist attacks on three major U.S. cities, preferably with nuclear weapons, using an unspecified number of trucks. Well, they better be hybrids or electrics cause President Hillary won't tolerate any global warming violations.
The scenario places priority on attacking New York City because it is the central artery of the U.S. economy and it would prove that the mujahideen are capable of recurrent attacks on the same target. We, on the other hand, would probably not nuke Tehran more than once.
The second city to attack is Los Angeles, an important West Coast "atheist" city. Au contraire, Abu and Roslan. As the epicenter of the Hollywood cult and the New Age Movement (state religion of the media-industrial complex), Lost Angels probably has more gods and goddesses than any other city on Earth.
The third "city" to be attacked is Florida because, they argue, it is an East Coast congregation city and has the Kennedy Space Center (considering the description, the statement's authors probably meant Orlando). Jihadis are obsessively jealous of our space program, probably associating it with our theoretical ability to rain nuclear fire on their pesthole cities any time we choose.
While those are the three primary cities for attack, the writers of the document suggest that if the mujahideen wish to expedite the collapse of the United States, they should also conduct attacks in Seattle since it is a strategic border city; Washington, DC, the political center of the United States; and cities in Texas, since the "biggest oil companies" are located there. I will send an evacuation order to Fluvanna at once.
According to the writers, the purpose of attacking these specific cities is to cause a sharp decline in the U.S. economy; mass amounts of casualties; the support for the mujahideen by anti-U.S. countries such as Cuba and Venezuela; a decrease in American support for their own government; the withdrawal of the "blasphemous" U.S. military from Islamic territories; mass military desertions; and the inability to fuel U.S. military fighter jets. Fuel prodcution would have to decline by about 99.99% before we would literally be unable to scrape up enough juice to send our bombers winging away for Pestholistan. Hugostan and Fidelistan already hate our guts and do everything possible to aid the jihadis so there is no advantage there. As for disabling the US military, they would still be unable to control the vigilantes who would wipe out pro-jihad sentiment in a matter of days.
The document also outlines how the fallout from such large-scale attacks would cause the U.S. military to return to the United States in order to conduct massive relief operations. They refer to the example of how Hurricane Katrina overburdened the U.S. National Guard, calling the hurricane a "Soldier of God." They believe their own propaganda, that is, the MSM and the Rodent Party.
After such attacks, they argue that the Islamic State of Iraq will seize the opportunity to launch mass strikes on the apostates in the Iraqi military and police, paving the way for the third stage of the scenario: the commencement of the golden era of the triumphant Islamic conquests that includes the implementation of Sharia, the liberation of the Arabian Peninsula, the removal from power of "the U.S. ruling family" in Jordan and, finally, the big march toward Palestine. In the end, even Washington DC will fall to the mujahideen and that will conclude the final stage of Islamic control of the globe. It is much more likely that the Iraqi military and police will take advantage of the US distraction to massacre all the remaining Sunnis.
The scenario appears less of a planned operation than a hope for the fulfillment of a prophecy. It is really a jihadist version of the Turner Diaries. Tim McVeigh saw how well that worked out.
The supposed factuality of the scenario is based on various verses in the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad's teachings. and other hash-induced fantasies.
Nevertheless, some of the users on the forums who discussed the scenario asserted that all of the details to execute the operation had already been prepared. One such user, by the alias of Abu Nedal, said, "For your knowledge, the operations are ready and awaiting the orders from our leader Osama bin Laden, God protect him, to decide what he deems appropriate either to strike now or to wait."
Islamist extremists have always fabricated factitious scenarios for victory over the West based on their own interpretations of Quranic prophecies in times of crisis and defeat. Nevertheless, al-Qaeda has shown prior interest in acquiring nuclear materials for use in an attack, and it is necessary to take such forum postings seriously as they display the mindset and the intent, although perhaps not the capability, of al-Qaeda-affiliated militants. Keep your nukes dry and your missiles fueled just in case. A good supply of hemp, not the smoking kind, might also be helpful.
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1) Get Tranzies to dominate the institutions of higher learning.
2) Get Tranzies to dominate MSM and bureaucracy.
3) Get Tranzies to dominate the judiciary.
4) Get Tranzies to dominate one of the major parties.
5) Get the above party to control both legislative and executive branches.
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Nuking Orlando would result in the slaughter of every jihad supporter in the world -- active AND passive.
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...Sounds like somebody said, "Hey the infidels aren't using that Jericho plot any more - let's try THAT!!"
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Laughable. One thing they forget is that if they did such a thing, pretty much all things would suddenly become "in-limits", up to and including the nuking of Mecca.
Remember children, we CAN drill through green glowing glass to get the oil afterwards.
"Jericho" was cancelled for lack of audience. The show ended with 2 nuke survivor towns about to go to war. That dumb internal strife plot wasted a lot of good talent.
1) It proves the world is not flat (contradicting the hadiths).
2) It proves the Earth is not the center of the solar system (contradicting the koran).
Al
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Fantasy or not, the Koran also teaches them to warn their enemies first and blowhards that believe their own lies might act out on it, with or without Uncle Binnys's call. Newsmax claims they are planning nukes in seven US cities. I'd add Houston, representing oil refineries, Bush, AND the space program and Las Vegas is definitely un-Islamic. I hope if they target NY again, they at least aim for the UN.
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Jihadis are obsessively jealous of our space program, probably associating it with our theoretical ability to rain nuclear fire on their pesthole cities any time we choose.
Except that kind of thing's usually launched from Vandenberg, not Florida.
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These guys don't listen to Sen. Tancredo or other like minded politicians very often or they would know that any kind of attack on the continental U.S. with weapons of mass destruction would likely result in the elimination of any religious site associated with Islam. Then the elimination of any country or countries associated with terrorists.
If Fred Thomson were ever to become president and this happened on his watch. The line for the 72 virgins would be so long, that they will be waiting for the next 100 centuries before they get any action.
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AC said, As for disabling the US military, they would still be unable to control the vigilantes who would wipe out pro-jihad sentiment in a matter of days.
Amen, AC. What these idiots don't realize is that there's a lot more to this country than our major metropoli - and there's an awful lot of guns out there in the outlands.
Muslims in this country would not last a week after the initial shock before the backlash that would descend on them.
As Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell?) said in the movie Tombstone, "You tell I'm comin', and hell's comin' with me!"
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The jihadis would go after Las Vegas last, I suspect. The need to leave the one place where they can live out their permitted pre-martyrdom perversions to the max.
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Angie, I am perfectly aware that Cape Canaveral and the space complex have almost nothing to do with operational strategic nuclear capability.
I am talking about a perceived association with the overall technical capability of this country. My hypothesis is that jihadis, like leftists, are inclined to emphasize that space and strategic nulcear technologies are related, as they undeniably are.
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Angie, are you a junior officer of the armed forces, or married to one, by any chance?
For many years, one of my complaints about the military was a cultural one: the tendency of junior officers to use strawmen in argumentation or to justify a false contradiction, that is, to pretend to contradict something that actually wasn't said.
Frankly, I am troubled that there are any college graduates in this country who do not know better than this, let alone thousands of them in responsible positions.
Falsely attributing a false statement, and then contradicting it (which is what a strawman is) might intimidate very junior enlisted personnel at the cost of prestige and respect, but I am O-6, not E-2.
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Mohammedans be skeered America will annex the moon and declare it a muslim free zone.
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Atomic Conspiracy dear, I b'lieve Angie Schultz is a research scientist. She blogs at http://darkblogules.blogspot.com/. As an academic yourself, you might find her May 19th entry amusing. I did, but then Mr. Wife quite enjoyed his p-chem experience. (Angie, it's ok -- while he started out in chemistry, he morphed into chemical engineering before falling for the lure of playing with his company's money.)
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Falsely attributing a false statement, and then contradicting it (which is what a strawman is) might intimidate very junior enlisted personnel at the cost of prestige and respect, but I am O-6, not E-2.
Relax O-6 dude. It could have been a simple misunderstanding. I've always been surprised that Zero's, junior or otherwise are so quick to attribute malice where none exists. Just an observation from a retired E-9 Gold striper.
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Never attribute any situation to malice where ignorance, stupidity, or indolence can also be blamed.
(SomaliNet) The security forces in Mogadishu, Somalia capital began on Wednesday investigating organized killings against the government officials including regional heads and security officers.
Security sources say today that unknown armed men killed a former security officer overnight. Mohamed Mohamud Sheik Orfane was gunned down as he came out of a mosque in Wahar-adde village near SOS hospital in north of Mogadishu. Reports say that the killing was carried out by two men dressed in a government soldiers uniform who escaped unharmed.
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(SomaliNet) The traditional elders of Hawiye tribe in Mogadishu, Somalia capital have on Wednesday condemned the acts of killings and bombings against the interim government officials urging the people in the capital to work for the peace and stability.
Ahmed Dirie Ali, the spokesman for the Hawiye elders told today the local media that they (the elders) had special meeting over the escalation of the level of insecurity in the capital like the organized killings, ambush attacks and bombings.
After the meeting which was held in Mogadishu, Mr. Dirie said they jointly condemned the continuing killings and bombings as meaningless as inhuman.
We Hawiye leaders are against the brutal acts of killing and explosions in Mogadishu and we are very sorry about that... we are saying those responsible for these actions must stop and fear of their almighty Allah, said Dirie.
Ahmed Dirie stressed that it is not a time of violence and to create destabilization but a time of introducing peace and stability and working for reconciliation.
At this time, the country does not need a war but needs peace... we are appealing all the residents in Mogadishu to stand for making peace to reach social and economical development, the people in fact were tired of problems and civil war, added Dirie.
We are trying he said to minimize the level of insecurity in the capital which is now experiencing daily acts of killing, kidnapping and bombings.
Five people mostly government members were separately killed in Mogadishu in the last 48 hours as the interim government continues efforts to curb the acts of violence.
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I've always liked "Astrix"
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Being a Clan Elder sounds like a better gig job than a Judge. Is their like an Associate Degree in Clanology? Ima mature student, don't have much time to waste. Ifn there AP tests that would help, remember Ima also a people person with good typin and listener skills.
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Is that how good typing skills are defined, then? I think you'd make a wonderful clan elder, Shipman dear. You do the subtly cryptic, wise pronouncement thingy better than anyone.
(SomaliNet) The Mayor of Mogadishu, the Somalia capital Mohamed Omar Habeb better known as Mohamed Dhere vowed on Wednesday to act quickly on the escalation of violence in the capital as killings, ambush attacks, bombings, and robbing are rampant for the last three weeks.
Speaking to the reporters after having talks with Mogadishu district commissioners, Mohamed Dhere said his authority will immediately bring effective change to the situation in the city launching daily security operations.
we will not give a second chance to the plotters hiding in the capital to carry out their missions... we are trying to hold the city in hard fist and we will find those responsible for the bombings and killings, said Mohamed Dhere giving condolence to families of all government officials killed by what he called 'the desperate remnants' of the defeated Islamists.
Mohamed Dhere, former warlord confirmed that the forces have already taken control of the security in Mogadishu replacing the military forces on 15 May.
We have installed several checkpoints inside and outside of the capital to keep an eye on the activities of the peace killers, the police will try to find those who plant the bombs and carry out the killings against the government officials... we are still pursuing them, added Dhere.
He promised that the military forces will be withdrawn from the capital within 48 hours after receiving many complaints from the local residents over looting and robbing.
we will take every path to crush all sources of the Islamist remnants which I do believe are hiding in the capital, we will simply take them out, said the mayor
Mohamed Dhere, who was known for his past security role in Jowhar Township as he was the ruler of middle Shabele region many years ago, now seeking ways to crack down the insurgency in the capital. Mogadishu violence is attributed as a result of the drive out of the Islamic Courts who controlled much of southern and central Somalia for six months.
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Sidi Mehamed criminal court pronounced yesterday the final verdict providing for the French Le Figaro and Ouest France correspondent Arezki Aït Larbi innocence after ten years of judiciary prosecution for slander charges after the
... after ten years of judiciary prosecution for slander charges after the former director in charge of pain application at justice ministry Mr. Abdelkader Salat complaint...
former director in charge of pain application at justice ministry Mr. Abdelkader Salat complaint after which he was sentenced to six months prison with no remission.
Arezki Aït Larbi case has been closed down yesterday after Sidi Mehamed criminal court verdict dismissed the case for no ground of evidence. The case remotes back to 1997, when former director in charge of pain application at justice ministry Mr. Abdelkader Salat lodged a complaint indicting Arezki Aït Larbi with slander after he published a write-up on prisoner torture in the Algerian prisons in a national weakly in 1995, as his article included testimonies of prisoners who experienced the worst forms of torture some of whom have been among last Wednesdays hearing attendance in their capacity of witnesses.
On another side, Arezki Aït Larbi support commission aired a communiqué just after the verdict was pronounced in which it called justice minister to open an investigation on the issue which tarnished justice system reputation as it dithered the decision about Arezki Aït Larbi case, who unveiled to the public opinion abuses and inhuman practices to which are submitted prisoners in state jails, in addition to the incrimination of the crime against humanity revealed during the trial.
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former director in charge of pain application at justice ministry
You guessed it. Time for new business cards. And come to think of it, we haven't heard much from John Ashcroft lately, now have we?
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"Director of Pain Application" - where do I apply? If it's an elected position, I promise to only use it on jihadis, child molestors, pedophiles (but I repeat myself), and other such assorted vermin.
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Al-Fateh The Hamas Children's Magazine From London
Al-Fateh is the Hamas' magazine for children, which comes out in London twice a month, and is posted on the website www.al-fateh.net. Since the publication of the first issue in September 2002, a hundred issues have been published, the most recent in May 2007.
The magazine, which features materials for children (stories, poems, riddles, puzzles, etc.), includes inciting and violent contents: encouragement of terrorist operations, characterization of their planners and perpetrators as heroes, characterization of Jews as "murderers of the prophets," calls to kidnap soldiers, and descriptions of mothers who encourage their sons to kill Jews. There is a regular section titled "The Story of a Martyr," with each installment describing the "heroic deeds" of a mujahid from one of the organizations who died while carrying out a suicide operation (including operations against civilians) or was killed by the IDF.
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"An escapee tells of life and death in North Korea's labor camps"
The MSM and Western far-left liberals (but I repeat myself) don't care about this.
Because they haven't figured out a way to blame Americans.
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Kim needs to be tried for crimes against humanity. China also has more than a small share of the blame for perpetuating North Korea's filthy regime. As always, Russia's rebirth is the same old totalitarian shit. Their return of the escapees should be a cause for sanctions against them.
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Why are the Menonites trying to inject themselves into this? I think that they have very little to gain from a "conference", just some free propaganda for the iranian regime.
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The only bigger pain in the ass peacetards in Waterloo, Ontario than the Menonites are the Lutherans at the other local university. And all the draft-dodging traitors on faculty, obviously.
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Important to remember, these are hijacked religious organizations being used as fronts by the preacetards...
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Sounds like the Persian and Afghan exiles know something that the Mennonite "peace experts" don't.
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Mennonites are not too bright. Not enough of their "Peace Teams" have been murdered by muslims for the message to pierce their shield of self righteousness.
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The public meeting, a discussion dubbed Two Peoples, Two Faiths in Dialogue, was part of a nine-year peace-building project between the Mennonite Central Committee and the religious institute in Iran.
Exactly just how effing stupid do you have to be in order to desire "Dialogue" with a "faith" that would just as soon stone you to death for being an Infidel?
The conference has drawn criticism from groups and individuals who vehemently oppose contacts with the institute because it's director, Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi, is considered to be an anti-democratic, ultra-conservative cleric who promotes human rights violations in Iran.
Which means exactly nothing to those who are uncontaminated by reason or logic.
Yazdi is reputed to be the lead spiritual adviser to Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has outraged many people by calling the Holocaust a myth and declaring that Israel must be wiped off the map.
But still allowed to sally forth from his Islamic cesspit. Why does the world community permit these psychotic terrorist vermin to set foot outside of their theocratic hell holes?
As protesters revelled in shutting down the meeting, members of the audience lamented the disruption.
How can these blithering morons fool themselves into believing that this terrorist wingnut has anything of value to say? These useful idiots are serving as enablers of global jihad.
"They acted violently in a very barbaric fashion," Idrisa Pandit said of the protesters. Pandit, a Muslim woman wearing a black head scarf, said the protesters were not fighting for her rights as a woman.
Pot -> Kettle -> Black. Calling people who are righteously offended by this sniveling Iranian murderer violent or barbaric and then proceding to whinge about women's rights pegs the old cognitive dissonance meter right off of the scale.
"They hate Islam and that surely speaks about why they would try to prevent dialogue," she said. "There is absolutely nothing in any of their intentions to promote dialogue and peace-building."
Only a total idiot could pretend that Islam has sincere intentions of establishing anything but a global caliphate.
Nejati, one of the protesters said the Iranian clerics don't deserve to have free speech because their ideology supports terrorism.
Wow, someone who has more than two synapses to rub together!
Arli Klassen, executive director of Mennonite Central Committee Ontario which is co-hosting the conference, said she wasn't surprised at the outcome of the meeting. "I'm disappointed that we couldn't talk civilly and peacefully."
About what!?! How you're going to be murdered by these slavering fanatics? About how you'll be raped and defiled by their lunatic minions if they only had their way? Who are these brain-dead morons and how did they get in a position to enable this Iranian thug?
DETROIT - Immigration aid workers here expect that as many as half of the nearly 7,000 Iraqi refugees who will be brought into the United States by the end of September will settle in the area. The Bush administration announced in February it would allow up to 7,000 Iraqis into the U.S. by the end of September up from 202 in 2006. It would be the largest Iraqi influx since the 2003 invasion.
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Debbie Schlussel has written than most of those "Iraqis" are actually "Palestinians".
This has already been posted about here at Rantburg. If these are indeed the Iraqi Palestinian contingent, we are importing some of the most violent and mercenary thugs that Saddam could scrape out of the Middle East's cesspool.
Our State Department is rapidly becoming the worst enemy imaginable. My personal recommendations for their staff who are responsible would get me sinktrapped, so I'll leave it at that. I'll put it this way: Lamp posts.
Unlike the reporter of this story, who feigns neutrality
An Arab captive found dead inside a steel and cement cell at Guantánamo Bay this week was a Saudi Arabian army veteran who reportedly admitted to being a holy warrior in defense of Afghanistan but was not seeking to kill American soldiers.
Guards discovered the body of Abdul Rahman al Amri, 34, at about 1 p.m. Wednesday inside Camp 5 -- a maximum-security building equipped with interrogation rooms outfitted with video monitors, faux Persian carpets and reclining chairs and an ankle shackle.
But on Thursday, the detention center's new commander, Rear Adm. Mark Buzby, and his staff were exceptionally tight-lipped about what went wrong. ''I can't describe the circumstances,'' said Navy Cmdr. Rick Haupt, a Guantánamo spokesman. ``We will seek to understand what happened and prevent it from happening in the future.''
A check of military documents and court records indicates that -- like the three Arab men who committed suicide in simultaneous hangings a year ago -- Amri was part of the detainee population who had never met with a U.S. attorney across five years in U.S. detention. But, in a statement to a military panel at Guantánamo, he cast himself as a mere Islamic foot soldier who answered a call to jihad, or holy war, from Muslim Afghanistan.
A native of Taif, Saudi Arabia, he said he joined the movement after the 9/11 attacks, six months after his discharge from the Saudi military. As a Saudi soldier, he said, he served nine years and four months and sometimes trained alongside U.S. troops.
''His intent was to go and fight for a cause that he believed in as a Muslim toward jihad, not to go and fight against the Americans,'' according to a report written by the U.S. military officer for the Pentagon review panel that subsequently confirmed his status as an ``enemy combatant.'' ''Had he wanted to kill Americans,'' the officer wrote, quoting Amri, he could have done it during his military service ``while he was side by side with them in Saudi Arabia.''
In Afghanistan, he said, he saw al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, from afar; attended a ''school for jihad'' near Kandahar; then took up an AK-47 but was behind the lines at Tora Bora.
A statement from Guantánamo gave a slightly different account Thursday night. ''By his own account, al Amri volunteered to fight with local Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Al Hanan, and fought on the front lines north of Kabul,'' the statement said. ``In November 2001, he engaged in combat with U.S. forces in the Tora Bora Mountains.'' It called him a ''mid-level al Qaeda operative.'' It said he ran al Qaeda safe houses.
Amri was captured while surrendering to Pakistani police, presumably fleeing the war zone. He arrived at Guantánamo in February 2002, where he began his U.S. detention in the crude chain-linked-fence prison camp known as X-Ray. Agents with the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service were at Guantánamo on Thursday investigating the circumstances of the man's death -- and the American Civil Liberties Union in New York urged an independent investigation.
The NCIS is still investigating the triple suicides from last year, the first deaths of detainees in five years of Guantánamo detention and interrogation operations. ''Guantánamo Bay has operated for far too long under a shroud of secrecy,'' said ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero. ``The global community and the American public have rightfully lost their trust in the U.S. government after countless reports of abuses and injustices at Guantánamo.''
In perhaps a nod to the distrust, the military said it was bringing in an observer from the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's office to watch a military pathologist conduct an autopsy. It was not immediately known Thursday which medical examiner was making the 500-mile trip from Miami to southeast Cuba.
In Riyadh, the Saudi Ministry of Interior issued a statement confirming that Amri's family had been told of his death and saying plans were underway to repatriate his remains to the kingdom. A Saudi team was also visiting the isolated island base, at the invitation of the U.S. government, ``to see the conditions of the Saudi detainees and bolster efforts to return them home as soon as possible.'' There are about 80 Saudi captives at Guantánamo.
They include Mohammed al Qahtani, made famous as the suspected so-called 20th 9/11 hijacker who was subjected to such severe interrogation techniques that FBI agents protested, and a hunger striker whose attorneys say he has been fed through a tube tethered through his nose and into his stomach since 2005.
A U.S. veteran who served in the Iraq war could lose his honorable discharge status after being photographed wearing fatigues at an anti-war protest. Marine Cpl. Adam Kokesh and other veterans marked the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq in March by wearing their uniforms with military insignia removed and roaming around the nation's capital on a mock patrol.
After Kokesh was identified in a photo caption in The Washington Post, a superior officer sent him a letter saying he might have violated a rule prohibiting troops from wearing uniforms without authorization. Kokesh, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, responded with an obscenity.
A military panel has been scheduled to meet with Kokesh on Monday to decide whether his discharge status should be changed from "honorable" to "other than honorable." "This is clearly a case of selective prosecution and intimidation of veterans who speak out against the war," Kokesh said. "To suggest that while as a veteran you don't have freedom of speech is absurd."
Kokesh is part of the Individual Ready Reserve, a segment of the reserves that consists mainly of those who have left active duty but still have time remaining on their eight-year military obligations. His attorney, Mike Lebowitz, said Kokesh's IRR status ends June 18. He said at least three other veterans have been investigated because of their involvement at demonstrations.
Kokesh, 25, enlisted in the Marines while still attending high school in New Mexico. He was a reservist in an artillery unit, assigned to the November Battery, 5th Battalion, 14th Regiment of the 4th Division based out of Pico Rivera, Calif., near Los Angeles.
Kokesh said he had reservations about Iraq even before the United States invaded, but wanted to go there to help rebuild schools and mosques after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled. He even learned Arabic. He said he grew disillusioned with the war during his first tour and now believes there is no way for the country to achieve the rule of law with a foreign military imposing martial law.
He was supposed to go to Iraq a second time, but was demoted from sergeant to corporal and not allowed to return after it was learned that he brought a pistol back after his first tour in 2004.
Kokesh argues that he was not representing the military at the protest in Washington, and he made that clear by removing his name tag and other military insignia from his uniform.
Lebowitz said Kokesh technically is a civilian unless recalled to active duty and had the right to be disrespectful in his response to the officer. He called the proceedings against Kokesh highly unusual and said the military usually seeks to change a veteran's discharge status only if a crime has been committed.
If his discharge status is changed, Kokesh said he could lose some health benefits and be forced to repay about $10,800 he received to obtain his undergraduate degree on veterans benefits.
Kokesh said he holds no ill will toward the Marines. "I love the Marine Corps," he said. "I always have loved the Marine Corps, and that is why I'm particularly offended to see it being used for political ends."
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Kokesh said he holds no ill will toward the Marines. "I love the Marine Corps," he said. "I always have loved the Marine Corps, and that is why I'm particularly offended to see it being used for political ends."
Then why'd you do it?
It sounds to me like he got caught looting (bringing back that pistol) and is pissed over that.
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The rules have been pretty clear for a long time. That is, anyone can wear military uniforms as long as their have no insignia, have just the "US Army" tag, etc., *or* insignia with no "US Army" tag.
Variances were liberally permitted. That is, decorated combat veterans could wear their complete uniform or jacket alone, with all of the above, to indicate their status, and they are "hands off" because of that status.
(I saw a Major get reamed for ragging on a VERY decorated Vietnam Vet he got huffy about, when he saw him teaching a class while wearing a field jacket.)
The primary reason for allowing civilians to wear an undecorated military uniform was because a huge number of such uniforms were sold off as surplus.
Therefore, the law is pretty much on the side of these protesters. If they got in trouble, it should only be for disturbing the peace, if their patrolling in public created such a disturbance.
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Youre confusing some of be basics here. One, the lad was still under contract and not yet discharged. He may have been a veteran of Iraq, but he wasnt yet a veteran of the service. Therefore as demonstrated, still subject to the UCMJ. Two, there is a standing military rule about not appearing in uniform in a political environment for partisan purposes. Three, the uniform is the blouse, pants, coat, etc all the other doodads are accouterments. If he had just worn the accouterments, hed probably be ok, unless he pinned on unauthorized decorations. He didnt. He got it backwards. Probably from a s**t house lawyer. The old saying applies. If youre a lightning rod, youd better expect to be hit by lightning.
And Moose, the law, Title 10 is clear about the uniform. Its just like the speed limit. Most of the time its not enforced within variance. However, if you get hammered by it, you really cant defend yourself by saying everyone else is doing it.
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He's not being prosecuted for protesting, he's being prosecuted for wearing his uniform. That rule is very clear to any one serving in the military and he chose to disregard it while still on active duty reserve. Too bad, so sad. I hope he is dihonorably discharged.
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There are rules about wearing the uniform after being discharged or transferring to the IRR. If Kokesh violated those rules, he's open to prosecution. I only wish the biggest a$$hole that ever did this had been prosecuted - one john f(#$$%$^%%) kerry, senior dipsh$$.
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Kashmir's top Muslim clergy said on Friday they would launch a massive campaign against the Indian army renovating mosques and shrines in the region if the prime minister and president did not stop it.
Muslim leaders in the revolt-torn region have taken offence to an Indian army programme to repair Islamic holy places as part of a campaign that aims to win the "hearts and minds" of the local population. They say only Muslims could carry out such work and an influential Muslim cleric issued a fatwa this week against using money from the army.
"We ask Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to instruct the army not to interfere in the religious affairs of Kashmiri Muslims under the garb of 'Operation Sadbhavna'," said a joint statement issued by more than 70 leading clerics in the country's only Muslim-majority state. The statement said a resolution was passed late on Thursday after a meeting of Muslim priests led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Kashmir's chief cleric and head of the moderate separatist political alliance, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference. "We will go to any extent for safeguarding Islam," the statement added.
The army has built schools, bus stations and organised medical camps under "Operation Sadbhavna", or goodwill, in Kashmir, where officials say more than 42,000 people have been killed in the 17-year insurgency against Indian rule. The army says it has spent about 5.2 million rupees in the past three years to renovate mosques and Muslim shrines but it is currently not undertaking any work. Army officers say the renovation was done only after a request from the people of Kashmir.
Imam-e-Kaaba Sheikh Abdul Rehman Bin Abdul Aziz said Pakistan is a nuclear power and the entire Muslim world is proud of it. He met Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz at Prime Ministers House here on Thursday and led Maghrib prayers in the mosque there. The prime minister, federal ministers and PM House staff members joined the prayers. Welcoming the Imam-e-Kaaba, the prime minister said it was an honour to greet him. Pakistan highly values its relations with Saudi Arabia and the governments and people of both countries are close to each other. Saudi Arabia is a symbol of peace and harmony among the Muslim Ummah, he said. Together, we can counter the challenges confronting the Muslim Ummah, the PM added. He said Pakistan and Saudi Arabia had unanimity on all regional and international issues, adding that the visit of the Imam-e-Kaaba to Pakistan would further strengthen bilateral ties. The Imam-e-Kaaba thanked the government and people of Pakistan for according a warm welcome to him.
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Muslims proud of nuclear Pakistan
They'd better be. Pakistan should stand as the first, last and only Muslim power to EVER obtain nuclear weapons. For the West to countenance anything beyond this collection of deceitful Islamic bastards having more than a popgun should be an eternal shame.
There is a province-wide onslaught on girls schools, video stores and barber shops in the NWFP by the resurgent radicals, their supporters and sympathisers, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor on Thursday.
These three, viewed as symbols of Western-oriented life are being destroyed by religious extremists in a growing wave of violence. Islamist militants have a new target, and if they are successful, it could be disastrous for Pakistans future. Four girls schools have been bombed and violent threats have been circulated that girls should stay home. While no girls or school staff have been killed, girls in some areas have stopped attending classes, marking a direct blow to Pakistans national enterprise of enlightened moderation, which posits female education as a central pillar, the report points out.
According to the Monitor correspondent, Pakistan finds itself at a precarious tipping point: tremendous gains have been made in female education in recent years, but a considerable gender gap remains. Extremists efforts to undermine education for women, who are historically one of Pakistans most potent forces of moderation, could further empower Pakistans growing ranks of Islamist militants. The continuing wave of attacks could tilt Pakistans sensitive political balance and hurt crucial economic development efforts. As female education improves, infant mortality rates tend to decrease, family health improves, national incomes rise, and female citizens become more politically active and aware of their rights, say development experts.
The report notes that entrenched tribal, religious, and economic imperatives in conservative areas regard the schooling of girls as either improper, since girls should not venture outside the purview of the family home, or unnecessary, since girls are often needed for work.
As a result, Pakistan has one of the highest rates of female illiteracy in South Asia, at about 60 percent, and the lowest rate of primary school enrolment for girls, at somewhere between 42 and 48 percent. Those shortcomings are particularly pronounced in the NWFP, which, as of 2004, had the lowest ratio of female enrolment of any province in Pakistan, according to the International Crisis Group (ICG). In areas like FATA, only 1 percent of women and girls are literate. The issue has become even more of a battleground in recent years, as resurgent Islamic extremism bumps heads with the governments recent efforts to expand girls education.
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Pervs fault for encouraging Taleban expansion.He wants a mass Taliban revolution to keep him in power.I hope they return to bite him!
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Independent cells on the pattern of al-Qaeda inspired by the Taliban are actively spreading Talibanisation across the NWFP, and Tank district is the litmus test for these cells to prove how serious a threat they pose to the state, officials said on Thursday. These independent cells are proving their point in Tank district, said counter-terrorism officials.
NWFP Information Minister Asif Iqbal said the people attacking Tank represented small independent groups operating under the Taliban name.
When the strongest arm of the government, the army, was neutralised it gave the cells hope that they could take on the relatively less equipped administration of a settled district.
When the strongest arm of the government, the army, was neutralised it gave the cells hope that they could take on the relatively less equipped administration of a settled district, officials said. The people in Swat have no link to Baitullah Mehsud but are doing something the Taliban in Pakistan or Afghanistan would take pride in.
Brig (r) Mehmood Shah, former FATA home secretary, told Daily Times, I think the MMA is paying the price for its policy of opposing military operations in tribal areas as the same people it was supporting are attacking Tank.
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazlur Rehmans group) is the political face of Islamic militancy in Pakistan, he said.
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazlur Rehmans group) is the political face of Islamic militancy in Pakistan, he said. If the MMA helped us crush tribal militancy, they would not have faced the Tank situation today, Shah said. The MMA government in Peshawar regards the bomb blasts, suicide attacks and Tank situation as a continuation of attempts by the federal government to weaken it before general elections. Hence, the alleged Talibanisation process had divided the NWFP and Islamabad although they would otherwise have joined hands to tackle the issue.
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And what exactly is our Mushy doing about this?
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Shoot everyone with a beard - islamonuts, sikhs, momma, the two twin two-year-olds, whatever. That will go a long way toward putting an end to this. If anybody complains, shoot them, also. It's not "democratic", but it'll work.
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Lal Masjid mullah Maulana Abdul Aziz on Wednesday warned the government of suicide attacks if it launched an operation against the mosque. Addressing reporters during a consultative meeting at Lal Masjid, Aziz said thousands of students were ready to carry out suicide attacks, adding that the mosque administration was preventing them from doing so.
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Fatah and Hamas representatives are scheduled to meet in Cairo under Egyptian auspices on Saturday to discuss announcing a new truce with Israel and defusing tensions between the two parties. Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah told The Jerusalem Post the Egyptians had been exerting heavy pressure on the factions to stop firing rockets from the Gaza Strip. Three other Palestinian factions have also sent representatives to the Cairo talks.
But since we've been watching this show for a long time we know that at least one faction won't have a representative there, won't adhere to the "agreement" the others enter into, will go for the biggest atrocity they can think of, and then they'll all blame the Jooze when corpse counter kicks in again.
"The Egyptians don't want the Palestinian groups to give Israel an excuse to launch a massive military operation in the Gaza Strip," said one official. "They are employing immense pressure on all the Palestinian factions to agree to a truce with Israel."
Another PA official said the head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service, Omar Suleiman, had proposed a plan that called for a one-month halt of rocket attacks as a first step toward a comprehensive cease-fire that would include the West Bank.
According to the plan, the Palestinians would halt rocket attacks for one month, after which Egypt would try to persuade Israel to stop its crackdown on Palestinian armed groups and Hamas figures in the West Bank.
Egypt sez: "The two sides have asked for our help in ending the violence in the Gaza Strip"
Burhan Hammad, head of the Egyptian security delegation in the Gaza Strip, said the main topic at Saturday's discussions would be a truce with Israel and the Hamas-Fatah rivalry. He said Hamas and Fatah leaders had sought Egypt's assistance in resolving their differences. "The two sides have asked for our help in ending the violence in the Gaza Strip," he said. "Egypt has always been willing to help in this regard."
Fatah sez: "We have also agreed on the need to implement the security plan that was agreed upon between President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh."
Samir Mashharawi, a member of the Fatah delegation at the talks, said he and his colleagues had agreed with the Egyptians on ways of consolidating the latest cease-fire with Hamas. He said the agreement called for the establishment of a special jobs program committee to supervise the truce between Fatah and Hamas. The Fatah team, which has been holding talks in Cairo with Suleiman and other senior Egyptian government officials since the beginning of the week, is expected to meet with Hamas representatives on Saturday to lay the final touches on an agreement. "We have agreed to hold a strategic dialogue with Hamas and other Palestinian factions to implement the Mecca Agreement [on a national unity government]," he said. "We have also agreed on the need to implement the security plan that was agreed upon between President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh." Mashharawi said the talks with Hamas would also focus on the need to achieve a mutual and comprehensive truce with Israel and to resolve the case of kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit. "We want to end this case as soon as possible to avoid a disaster for the Gaza Strip," he said.
Hamas sez: "Neither Hamas nor Fatah can win this battle"
Musa Abu Marzuk, a member of the Hamas delegation to the talks, said his movement and Fatah had not choice but to continue working together. "Neither Hamas nor Fatah can win this battle," he said. "We are one bird with two wings." Abu Marzuk denied that Hamas's Executive Force was involved in the firing of Kassam rockets at Israel. "The Executive Force is a police force entrusted with enforcing law and order," he said. "The force belongs to the Interior Ministry, not Hamas."
And the People's Front of Judea sez: "Death to the Judean People's Front!Death! Death! Death!"
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I suspect they will half ass this as everything else. They are far, far behind on the release date for those captives.
How about an OLD TESTAMENT answer?
All of Gush Katif belongs to Israel, Also Judea and Sumaria, and especially the Golan Heights.
Everything else belongs to Jordan.
End of Problem.
Lebanon's pro-Syrian president said on Thursday a U.N. tribunal on the killing of a former prime minister could divide Lebanese, echoing broad fears of sectarian strife in a country still haunted by a civil war.
The U.N Security Council moved on Wednesday to set up the court unilaterally after failed efforts to approve tribunal statutes through constitutional channels in Lebanon, where normal government has been paralyzed by political crisis. "What we hope for is that the tribunal of international character will not be, in the way in which its statutes have been approved, a reason for more distance between the Lebanese," President Emile Lahoud said.
The tribunal into the assassination of Rafik al-Hariri has been at the heart of a deep political split between Lebanese politicians allied to Damascus and others who see it as a means to curb Syrian influence in Lebanon.
The governing coalition, including Saad al-Hariri, son and political heir of the former premier, had made establishment of the tribunal a priority and welcomed the Security Council vote as a victory for Lebanon. Hariri and his allies accuse Syria of orchestrating the February 14, 2005 bombing which killed Hariri and 22 others in Beirut. They also say Damascus was behind a string of other attacks on anti-Syrian figures. Syria rejects the accusations. Damascus has warned that the Security Council's move could plunge Lebanon into more instability, a view that was echoed in Lebanese newspapers across the spectrum on Thursday.
Writing in the pro-government An-Nahar newspaper, columnist Ali Hamadeh said "the rope was tightening around the neck of the murderers". But he warned that the court "may not bring immediate security. It may push those harmed (by it) to threaten, intimidate and sabotage".
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, another Syria ally, had refused to call the chamber to vote on the court statutes because he contests the legitimacy of the government, which is controlled by anti-Syrian leaders and backed by Western states. Berri said the Security Council vote had ignored Lebanon's constitution and the need for Lebanese consensus. "You have picked internationalization instead of the state," Berri, a leading member of the opposition, said in a brief statement.
Allies of Damascus in Lebanon, including Hezbollah, have claimed the tribunal will be used as a political tool by the United States. Hezbollah has yet to comment on the Security Council vote but has been highly critical of calls for unilateral U.N. action to set up the court.
Critics of the tribunal's unilateral establishment also saw trouble ahead. Omar Neshabi, writing in the pro-opposition al-Akhbar newspaper, said setting up the court without consensus "raises serious concern for security and stability".
Hariri, a Sunni Muslim who leads the governing coalition, also said on Wednesday that it was time to put aside political differences and promised steps towards reconciliation to end Lebanon's worst political crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.
Together, Berri's Amal movement and Hezbollah represent most of Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslims, giving the standoff a sectarian dimension and fuelling tension between Sunnis and Shi'ites. Hezbollah and its allies have always said they support the idea of the tribunal but wanted to discuss its mandate. Hariri was killed by a suicide truck bomb attack on his motorcade as it was passing along Beirut's seafront corniche. The road was opened on Thursday for the first time since the attack.
Ahmad Yaseen, a Lebanon political observer put the blame squarely on Berri for the approval of the tribunal under chapter 7. " Berri decided to lose the keys of the parliament . He has no right to blame anyone but himself. If Berri convened the parliament as the parliament majority urged him so many times , the tribunal would have been ratified in accordance with Lebanon's constitution. If Berri wants to follow the constitution he can still ratify the agreement , but he has to hurry and find the keys of the parliament because June 10 is his final deadline"". He told Ya Libnan. Yaseen said " it is time for everyone to put the issue of the tribunal behind them and think of Lebanon's future. Time to stop bickering about this issue and think of how we can help Lebanon get out of the crises before the summer tourist season starts . Lebanon cannot afford another summer like last year's."
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They said "God forbid Truth and Justice."
"We are moslems fond of power and cash, let's bury it ."
Syria is digging its heels in for a long confrontation with the United Nations after the Security Council voted to set up a special court to try suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik al-Hariri.
The Security Council passed the resolution on Wednesday, invoking Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter to enforce the court's establishment; this despite Syrian warnings the tribunal could destabilize Lebanon further and violate Syrian sovereignty if it indicted Syrian officials.
"Syria has made clear it would not hand over any suspects. We are looking at a clash that could result in the United Nations seeking to deprive Syria of legitimacy, just like Iraq," Ayman Abdel-Nour, publisher of the All4Syria newsletter, said.
"There is one view that a political deal between Syria and America over the court is still possible, but I doubt it," he told Reuters. "This court will have international judges who won't risk their reputation. Once the court starts, no one can predict an ending."
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WASHINGTON Boeing has been sued by suspected Al Qaida operatives transported by the CIA to Arab countries for interrogation and torture.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan on behalf of three Al Qaida suspects transported by the CIA under the so-called "extraordinary rendition program."
The suit charged that Jeppesen helped the CIA transport the three plaintiffs to secret locations in Egypt and Morocco, where the company knew they would undergo torture, Middle East Newsline reported.
The plaintiffs named in the suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, were Binyam Mohamed, Abou Elkassim Britel and Ahmed Agiza. Britel and Mohamed were said to have been flown by the CIA to Morocco. Agiza was taken to Egypt.
The suit said Jeppesen, based in San Jose, Calif., has been a key provider of flight and logistical support services for CIA aircraft in the rendition program. Since December 2001, the suit said, Jeppesen provided flight and logistical support to at least 15 CIA aircraft that conducted 70 rendition flights.
Jeppesen was said to have provided aircraft crew and flight planning services for the CIA program. The subsidiary also ensured customs clearance and security for CIA aircraft and crew.
The suit was filed under the Alien Tort Statute, which permits aliens to bring claims in the United States for alleged violations that involve American citizens or assets. The statute accounts for torture.
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Boeing does enough biz with gov't types to have the financial incentive to combat this shit, hard, in court, and ask for atty's fees from the ACLU and the assholes they represent (how unusual?)
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All Boeing has to do is to hire private investigator Paul Drake and get some dirt on the ACLU state director and the lawyer and they will go away like the Virginia ACLU child pr0n guy, who got arrested recently.
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The ACLU needs lined up against a wall and shot for treason.
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Sounds like a job for the discovery process. Argue that their role as unlawful combatants means they have no standing, or that they're not entitled to civil damages from the consequences of their war crimes, and demand every piece of paper ever created about them.
Counter-sue the ACLU for unlawfully attempting to restrict a legal business transaction.
It's time to fight lawfare with lawfare.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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(SomaliNet) The security forces in Mogadishu, Somalia capital began on Wednesday investigating organized killings against the government officials including regional heads and security officers. 
(SomaliNet) The traditional elders of Hawiye tribe in Mogadishu, Somalia capital have on Wednesday condemned the acts of killings and bombings against the interim government officials urging the people in the capital to work for the peace and stability. 
Kashmir's top Muslim clergy said on Friday they would launch a massive campaign against the Indian army renovating mosques and shrines in the region if the prime minister and president did not stop it.
Independent cells on the pattern of al-Qaeda inspired by the Taliban are actively spreading Talibanisation across the NWFP, and Tank district is the litmus test for these cells to prove how serious a threat they pose to the state, officials said on Thursday. These independent cells are proving their point in Tank district, said counter-terrorism officials.
Fatah and Hamas representatives are scheduled to meet in Cairo under Egyptian auspices on Saturday to discuss announcing a new truce with Israel and defusing tensions between the two parties. Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah told The Jerusalem Post the Egyptians had been exerting heavy pressure on the factions to stop firing rockets from the Gaza Strip. Three other Palestinian factions have also sent representatives to the Cairo talks. 
"We have agreed to hold a strategic dialogue with Hamas and other Palestinian factions to implement the Mecca Agreement [on a national unity government]," he said. "We have also agreed on the need to implement the security plan that was agreed upon between President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh." Mashharawi said the talks with Hamas would also focus on the need to achieve a mutual and comprehensive truce with Israel and to resolve the case of kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit. "We want to end this case as soon as possible to avoid a disaster for the Gaza Strip," he said. 
