A majority of Afghans support the presence of NATO-led troops and want them to remain in the country to fight the Taliban, a poll conducted for Canadian media said on Friday.
The survey, conducted by Environics for the Globe and Mail and La Presse newspapers and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, showed that 60 percent of respondents supported having foreign troops in their country, 16 percent opposed their presence, and 22 percent said it was equally good and bad.
In Kandahar, where 2,500 Canadian troops are based, 61 percent supported the foreign presence, while 23 percent were opposed.
43 percent: Overall, 43 percent of respondents wanted foreign troops to stay as long as it takes to defeat the Taliban, and 14 percent said they should leave immediately. Meanwhile, 11 percent said foreign troops should leave within a year, and 27 percent said they should stay from two to five years.
Earlier this week, the Canadian government said it wants its troops to stay in Afghanistan until 2011, two years longer than the planned pullout in 2009. It has promised a vote in Parliament on any extension.
In Kandahar, in a region in which the Taliban is active, 32 percent said the soldiers should leave within the year, while 18 percent said they should stay between two and five years, and 31 percent said they should stay for as long as it takes.
Overall, 60 percent of the Afghans felt they were better off now than they were five years ago, with 73 percent saying that women fare far better today. Although Canada ranked well when the respondents were asked which countries were present in Afghanistan, very few were aware that Canadian troops were actually involved in fighting the Taliban.
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And far from being condemned to solitary confinement, its occupants are free to roam the landscaped courtyard and play Ping-Pong, volleyball and video games.
And plot the next jihad thanks to our "friends" the Saudis. As they say: "With friends like the Saudis who the hell needs enemies?"
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I have read about the first batch of Saudis who were captured in Afghanistan and then handled to the Saudi authorities, that they were liberated as ssoon as they arrived but not in an ordinary place, they were liberated in Medina. Medina has a a special status in the Muslim world: it is the place where you go to lick your wounds after a defeat and plan the second round (after Muhammad did just that after a defeat).
Allegations that the CIA held al-Qaida suspects for interrogation at a secret prison on sovereign British territory are to be investigated by MPs, the Guardian has learned. The all-party foreign affairs committee is to examine long-standing suspicions that the agency has operated one of its so-called "black site" prisons on Diego Garcia, the British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean that is home to a large US military base.
Lawyers from Reprieve, a communist legal charity that represents a number of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, including several former British residents, are calling on the committee to question US and British officials about the allegations. According to the organisation's submission to the committee, the UK government is "potentially systematically complicit in the most serious crimes against humanity of disappearance, torture and prolonged incommunicado detention".
Clive Stafford Smith, the charity's legal director, said he was "absolutely and categorically certain" that prisoners have been held on the island. "If the foreign affairs committee approaches this thoroughly, they will get to the bottom of it," he said.
And if they don't, Clive will demand another investigation. And another. And another.
Andrew Tyrie, Tory MP for Chichester and a campaigner against the CIA's use of detention without trial, has also urged the committee to investigate. He said: "Time and time again the UK government has relied on US assurances on this issue, refusing to examine the truth of these allegations for themselves. It is high time our government took its head out of the sand and looked into these allegations."
Time Andy took his head out of his ass and realized that the people he's defending will kill him if they get the chance.
A member of the foreign affairs committee said the committee would pursue the allegations as part of its inquiry into Britain's overseas territories. Although Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, it is unclear whether the British government knows whether the CIA has detained prisoners there or not.
UK officials are known to have questioned their American counterparts about the allegation several times over a period of more than three years, most recently last month. Whenever MPs have attempted to press ministers in the Commons, they have met with the same response: that the US authorities "have repeatedly given us assurances" that no terrorism suspects have been held there.
Which should end up, diplomatically, but the wankers will keep pressing.
The existence of the CIA's black site prisons was acknowledged by President George Bush in September last year. He said al-Qaida suspects or members of the Taliban who "withhold information that could save American lives" have been taken "to an environment where they can be held secretly, questioned by experts".
Ice Station Zebra. I keep suggesting this only half in jest. Put the mooks on ice somewhere we control absolutely, so that this sort of nonsense can't happen.
Mr Bush did not disclose the location of any prison, but suspicion that one may have been located on Diego Garcia has been building for years. Any evidence uncovered by the foreign affairs committee pointing to the existence of a secret CIA prison on the island would be hugely embarrassing for ministers.
Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star US general who is professor of international security studies at the West Point military academy, has twice spoken publicly about the use of Diego Garcia to detain suspects. In May 2004 he said: "We're probably holding around 3,000 people, you know, Bagram air field, Diego Garcia, Guantánamo, 16 camps throughout Iraq." In December last year he repeated the claim: "They're behind bars...we've got them on Diego Garcia, in Bagram air field, in Guantánamo."
Nice going, Barry, you got them riled up.
MPs on the committee may inquire into a Gulfstream executive jet which has been linked by its registration number to several CIA prisoner operations - known as extraordinary renditions - and which flew from Washington to Diego Garcia, via Athens, on September 11 2002, soon after the capture of Ramzi Binalshibh, a suspected planner of the September 11 attacks the previous year.
Another legacy of Jamie Gorelick, who decided that it wasn't cricket to allow the CIA to change the tail numbers on its planes, something they'd been doing for years. As a result people were able to track the CIA's planes and figure out stuff they didn't need to know.
A prison of some sort is known to exist on Diego Garcia: in 1984, a review by the US government's general accounting office of construction work on the island reported that a "detention facility" had been completed the previous December. British ministers have also disclosed that a building on the island was redesignated as a prison after the September 11 attacks.
It's for the shore patrol. The bars get pretty wild on a Saturday night ...
Last June Dick Marty, a Swiss senator who investigated the CIA's use of European territory and air space during prisoner operations, concluded in a report to the Council of Europe that prisoners had been held on the island. Mr Marty, who later told the European parliament that he had received help from senior CIA officers, reported: "We have received concurring confirmations that United States agencies have used Diego Garcia, which is the international legal responsibility of the UK, in the 'processing' of high-value detainees."
Yes, him again. He won't let go, because this is how he gets his name in the international papers.
One possibility which the foreign affairs committee may explore is that suspects have been held on a prison ship off the coast of Diego Garcia. The UN special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, has said that he has heard from reliable sources that the US has held prisoners on ships in the Indian Ocean. There have also been second-hand accounts from detainees at Guantánamo of prisoners being held on US naval vessels.
Good place for them. Sail the Southern Sea for a few years. If the mooks complain drop them on an ice floe.
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Prove it. Then do something about it.
In the meantime, fuck off and die...
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If these assholes applied a minuscule fraction of their hand-wringing about this to the incredible human rights abuses being committed in the name of shari'a law, we could already have made tremendous strides in the Global War on Terror. Instead, these effete intellectual upper-class twits restrict themselves to inciting outrage over entirely reasonable measures being used to fight the most vicious genocidal psychotic bastards on earth. Far more connections need to be drawn between Islam and Nazism. It will make this sort of preening appeasement far more difficult to put over on people.
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Even if this was true, it could only be a couple at a time. Diego is a runway with a couple buildings. Really, not much of an exaggeration.
If we were going to or are doing it, it is at a much more private, remote and out of the way place.
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Putin is nothing but a Soviet-style gangster. I'd very curious to hear what Gorbachev has to say about how Vlad and his thugs have derailed so much of Russia's progress towards democratic freedom. I doubt Mikhail would be very complimentry.
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#4 Putin is nothing but a Soviet-style gangster. I'd very curious to hear what Gorbachev has to say about how Vlad and his thugs have derailed so much of Russia's progress towards democratic freedom. I doubt Mikhail would be very complimentry.
IIUC, gorbie never was a democratic reformer, he was a pure commie, handpicked to salvage the USSR, so the show could go on, with eventually, a converging of EUrope & the USSR in what he termed the "Home Europe", with the USA out. Things got out of hand, because the regime was rotten and bankrupt to the point of crumbling as soon as some openings and reforms were made without the threat of force to roll that back (unless you believe this anti-commie conspiracy theory); funnily enough, Yeltsin was the democratic reformer, though not a very effective one. gorbatchev was just a commie tasked with saving the russian empire, who failed at that, and is not much appreciated over there for that (and who is still a commie, recycled in transnational ecologism).
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As always, there are mitigating factors to Putin, that go to the heart of the purpose of government, and what the Russian people want.
To start with, they wanted a strong military, being more than a little bit distrustful of Muslims and everybody else. They also wanted and end to the rampant crime that existed during Yeltsin. However, they like the more efficient and prosperous economy.
For his part, Putin has gone back to the traditional model of government centralization, to a great extent because decentralizing power resulted in governors setting up little kingdoms and blowing off the federal government.
In turn, the Russian people went too strongly for Putin's party, making it too dominant. This is not unlike in the early days of America, which took about 25 years to develop into a two party system.
Putin seems to be using the French model for his domination of the media, or the domination of the US media by the left. And yes, it is onerous in all of those situations.
The acid test is who Putin chooses to be his successor. Right now, it could be either another FSB man, which would be a poor choice and indicate that he is reactionary; or it might be the head of Gazprom, which would stir things up a bit.
As a businessmen, not beholden to the FSB, the military, or the political party, he would be the first "corporate" president, like Calvin Coolidge in the US. This would recognize that while power comes from the people, a powerful nation is built by business.
Again, *if* this happens, it would be the best possible outcome for Russia, Putin having stabilized things, then his successor building on and maintaining prosperity.
No assurance of this in the least, though, because as the saying goes, "Russia makes no mistakes but the very worst."
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PRAVDA > US PLANS TO CONDUCT WARFARE IN WORLD'S LARGEST CITIES OVER NEXT 100 YEARS. Urban operations seen as the future - role of USDARPA is to help the US Army-Marine ground warrior survive and fight successfully despite the presence of sprawling buildings. * Must be important to RUSSIA = Russ planning becuz PRAVDA DEDIC SIX PAGES TO IT. Anyhoo, as said before, CORSICANT/OWG > RISE OF THE REGION/CONTINET-CONSUMING MEGALOPOLIS CITY OR HIGHER, aka George Jetson's SKY CITY(S). Cold War-era Suburban private homeownership is slowly but surely becoming INVALID as a benchmark of the US economy, local or global, and by extens the WORLD ECON AS WELL. FIFTH ELEMENT > MILA > MUUULLLTIIIPAASSSSSSSSSSSS.........
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IRAN-DAILY > PUTIN STRONGLY DEFENDS [RUSSIAN]IRAN TIES. Claims US can shoot, but can't impose/
establish order in Iraq; + MOUD > EUROPEANS SHOULD ACT INDEPENDENTLY, from USA. TIME IS NOW FOR EUROS, espec after Dubya's "WWIII" comment. PRAVDA > TWO MEN - ONE INSANE, ONE IS NOT [Insane - Dubya ala his Nuclear Iran = WWIII comment, NOT - Putin].
*IOW, Putin > GLOBAL COMMUNISM-SOCIALISM = TRUE GLOBAL PEACE???
Amsterdam - The Dutch government will go ahead with the sale of outdated HAWK-parts to Israel, Foreign minister Maxime Verhagen told parliament Friday.
The HAWK is a ground-based air defence system comparable with the US Patriot system, which can take down missiles and fighter aircraft. Israel says it wants the parts to maintain its air defence system.
Earlier this week all leftist parties Greens (GL), the Socialists Party (SP) and Labour said they opposed the deal. The Greens and SP are in the opposition, while Labour is a government coalition party. The leftist parties argued the Netherlands violated its earlier position not to sell any arms to parties in conflict areas, including Israel.
But Verhagen said selling parts of an air defence system was not the same as selling arms. He stressed the HAWK cannot be used in the conflict with the Palestinians, nor be used against the Palestinian population. Verhagen said a licence for the sale would be provided once the contract has been signed in November, and after the had permitted the sale of the originally American equipment.
Deputy Defence Minister Cees van der Knaap had informed parliament about the planned sale on Monday.
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The leftist parties argued the Netherlands violated its earlier position not to sell any arms to parties in conflict areas, including Israel.
Because when there is conflict all sides are equally to blame. Though usually it is safer to blame the Jews, the Americans or the British against any romantic barbarians at hand.
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The HAWK (Homing All-the-Way Killer) might be a little old, but it will still knock down anything flying in the Middle East that doesn't carry the latest US ECM.
In a previous life, I participated in a live fire exercise / ECM test against an IHAWK (Improved HAWK) battery. To prepare for the test, we watched TWO HOURS of cockpit camera footage from previous tests. Every test ended the same way, the last thing you saw before the screen went black was a big circle with 4 fins sticking out. The HAWK really doesn't need a warhead, it is good for kinetic kills.
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Every test ended the same way, the last thing you saw before the screen went black was a big circle with 4 fins sticking out. The HAWK really doesn't need a warhead, it is good for kinetic kills.
Riga - Estonia said Thursday it does not plan to extend its mission in Iraq, while fellow Baltic NATO and EU member Lithuania announced the deployment of a fresh combat unit to Iraq after a three-month break.
'For the time being, Estonia has no intention of extending the mission beyond 2008,' Estonian defence minister Jaak Aaviksoo told the Baltic News Service (BNS). 'We share the view that the military presence needs to be gradually transformed into a civilian mission, and we hope the plans that have been mapped out will also be effected at the turn of 2008- 2009 or during 2009 at the latest,' he said.
Lithuania will send 40 troops of the Iron Wolf motorized infantry brigade on Friday. The Lithuanian unit will serve a six-moth mission together with their US counterparts in al-Khut, south of Baghdad. Before the start of the mission in Iraq, the troops will undergo two weeks of training in Kuwait.
Lithuania decided not to renew its troop deployment to Iraq in August after Britain announced reduction of its military presence there and Denmark withdrew its troops. Lithuanians served in the British and Danish units.
NATO members Lithuania and Estonia have been serving in Iraq since 2003.
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New Europe meets the New Middle East. I wonder that when things improve to the point of new business deals will the Iraqi's remember the Estonians or the Germans, the Lithuanians or the French. There will be becoup construction once the security and politics improve which it will in time and it will be interesting to see who gets what. The only negative is that Iraq will revert to its corrupt self and that fits the French and Germans perfectly.
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Jurors reached a verdict Thursday in the trial of former members of a Muslim charity accused of funneling millions of dollars in legal aid to Middle Eastern terrorists.
Jurors had heard two months of testimony, mostly from FBI and Israeli agents who described thousands of pages of documents and hours of videotapes seized from Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, from former associates of the group, and from Palestinian charities that got money from Holy Land. Holy Land was once the nation's largest Muslim charity. The verdict was to be read Thursday afternoon.
UPDATE: A federal jury in Dallas has reached a verdict ending 19 days of deliberations in the high-stakes terrorism financing trial of a now-defunct Islamic charity. However, the decision will remain sealed until court resumes on Monday because the judge was out of town. A federal magistrate who presided over the jury's return said he was not authorized to release the verdict in the absence of U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish. "Nobody, including myself, will even glance at it," Magistrate Paul Stickney told the courtroom Thursday.
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According to latest reports, at least 132 persons -- 20 of them police officers deputed to protect former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto [Images] -- were killed in a suspected suicide attack on the convoy by which she was being taken from the Karachi airport to the mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah on the night of October 18. The suicide attack or attacks were clearly aimed to kill her on arrival in Karachi to a triumphant welcome by her supporters, but she managed to escape.
Reliable sources say one or two suicide bombers were involved. The bullet-proof vehicle by which she was being taken by her supporters was protected by two cordons of security guards. The inner cordon consisted of security guards engaged by her Pakistan People's Party parliamentarians to protect her. Many of them were former policemen and ex-servicemen enjoying her and her party's confidence. The outer cordon consisted of officers of the Sindh police and plainclothes security officers of Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau, which is now headed by Brig Ejaz Shah, a former officer of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, who is a close personal friend of Gen Pervez Musharraf [Images] and Gen (retd) Mohammad Aziz, a Kashmiri officer belonging to the Sudan tribe who orchestrated the overthrow of Nawaz Sharif as prime minister in October 1999.
Shah is also a close personal friend of many Punjabi leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League (Qaid e Azam), which is opposed to Benazir's return.
According to these sources, the suicide bomber or bombers managed to penetrate the security cordon of the police and IB officers without being frisked, but could not penetrate the inner cordon of security guards of the PPP. When stopped, they blew themselves up at a distance from her vehicle. At the time of the explosion, she had gone inside the vehicle to rest for a while. This seems to have contributed to her miraculous escape. Had she been standing on top she might have been injured, if not killed.
There are many elements in Pakistan, and in Karachi itself, which are opposed to her and are determined to prevent her return to power. These include the various jihadi terrorist groups, Al Qaeda [Images] and its allies, those involved in the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl and the supporters of Dawood Ibrahim [Images], the Indian mafia leader who has been given shelter in Karachi by the Pakistani intelligence agencies. The anger against her is due to various reasons -- the fact that she is a woman, her close proximity to the US and her open statements supporting the US on various issues. They see her as the US cat's paw. It is difficult to say at present who might have been responsible for the attack on her.
Brig Ejaz Shah has been strongly criticised by Benazir and her supporters for the security failure and they have demanded his removal and arrest. When he was in the ISI, he used to be the handling officer of Osama bin Laden and Mulla Omar, the amir of the Taliban. After Musharraf seized power in October 1999, he had Shah posted as the home secretary of Punjab. It was to him that Omar Sheikh, who orchestrated the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, surrendered because Omar Sheikh knew him before and was confident that Ejaz Shah would see that he was not tortured.
After Pearl's murder, there were many allegations regarding Shah's role. Musharraf tried to protect him by sending him as the ambassador to Australia or Indonesia. Both the countries reportedly refused to accept him. Musharraf then made him the DG of IB and he saw to it that the death sentence against Omar Sheikh for his role in the Pearl case was not executed. The courts have been repeatedly postponing hearings on the appeal filed by Omar Sheikh against the death sentence.
Ejaz Shah played an active role in the campaign to discredit Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Caudhury of the Pakistan Supreme Court after he started calling for the files of a large number of missing persons who were taken into custody by the police and the intelligence agencies. Reliable sources in Pakistan reported that Gen Pervez Kiani, who was the DG of ISI at the time of the suspension of the Chief Justice, was against the suspension but Musharraf suspended him on the advice of Ejaz Shah and Maj Gen Nadim Taj, who was at that time head of the Directorate-General of Military Intelligence. Maj Gen Taj has since been promoted as Lt Gen and has succeeded Kiyani as the DG of ISI.
While the ISI under Kiyani refused to file any affidavit against the suspended Chief Justice before the court, the IB and the DGMI filed affidavits giving details of all the information which their organisations had indicating the alleged unsuitability of the Chief Justice to head the Supreme Court.
Despite the political embarrassment caused by the case, which ended in a fiasco, Ejaz Shah continues to enjoy Musharraf's total confidence.
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How much more transparent does this have to get? This is totally surreal.
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On 9-11 Pakistan was under US sanctions for their violation of nuclear proliferation standards. After that date, the President chose Pakistan as America's number one ally in the GWOT, and after lifting sanctions has delivered over $12,000,000,000 in military aid to the Islamofascist entity (other bilateral aid not included). You get what you pay for.
How the hell did our Nation, Security Apparat, our State Dept. and the GWB Admin ever arrive at a place and time where we felt forced to embrace this bunch of Talib Supportin and Osama Coddling Bunch of Pirates?
Brig Ijaz Shah, and a very deep bench of Army Generals retd and active, including Perv...
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Is this simple stock answer correct:
Pakistan IS an Army of Talib Supportin and Osama Coddling Bunch of Butt Pirates with Nukes, ergo "we felt" [through fuzzy logic?] it was wiser to "hold 'em close" than to lose whatever influence we had over Radical Pakistan by embargoing the Army/Pakistan.
Additionally we already had a ongoing connection, an historical connection of support going back to the containment days of yore [USSR].
What Pakistan needs at this critical hour in its history is a leader, who is widely perceived as independent and not an American stooge. Neither Musharraf nor Mrs. Benazir is such a leader. Mr. Nawaz Sharif, if he is able to come back to power, could turn out to be such a leader. He has maintained a distance from the US. He does not fawn on the US like Mrs. Benazir does. Pakistan needs Mr. Nawaz Sharif more than it needs Musharraf or Benazir. --- B .RAMAN
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My question:
Will Blackwater be allowed to bid on Bhutto's security contract?
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RENSE > ESQUIRE MAGZ > THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE IMPENDING WAR WITH IRAN WHICH THE GOVT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT. Dubya + USG been intent on and secretly planning US-Iran war for yarns and yarns now. Also from RENSE > MORE ON THE SECRET HILLARY-BUSH CONNECTION.
Whewwww, such long titles - first PRAVDA now RENSE. Who's next???
Kashmiri terrorist groups conglomerate the United Jihad Council (UJC) has announced a ban on the use of anti-personnel mines in its terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir. The United Jihad Council which is an amalgam of 13 armed Kashmiri groups besides five other non-Kashmiri groups having observer status, took this decision on 16 October, said International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), a Geneva-based humanitarian organisation today. The UJC has stated it may continue to use command-detonated IEDs against military targets, but has banned use, production or trade of victim-activated mines as prohibited under the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, and ICBL press release said adding the UJC directives are binding upon all the 13 and five other terrorist groups.
The announcement came at the end of a two-week mission to Kashmir by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and was the result of a year-long series of activities carried out in partnership with the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), a Srinagar-based ICBL member. The UJCs pledge is yet another sign of the growing acceptance of the norm which prohibits antipersonnel mines because of their indiscriminate nature, said Mr Sylvie Brigot, ICBL Executive Director, in welcoming the announcement. We now encourage both India and Pakistan to consider a moratorium on new mine use and to launch comprehensive mine clearance programmes, Mr Brigot added.
Just as soon as the jihadis stop coming across the Line of Control ...
Most mines in Kashmir are situated near the Line of Control between the Indian and Pakistani administered areas.
In November 2006, the ICBL conducted its first mission to Kashmir at the invitation of the JKCCS. Throughout the following year, JKCCS and the ICBL continued to lobby and seek public statements of support for a mine ban from key political parties and opinion makers. In their declaration, the UJC stated that use of antipersonnel mines is equivalent to blind terror and that use of antipersonnel mines is prohibited under Islam. UJC members are thought to have made only limited use of antipersonnel mines in the past, the ICBL relese said.
In recent years, some of the members, particularly Hizbul Mujahideen and Laskar e Toiba, have used command-detonated improvised explosive devices (IEDs), some of which have caused civilian deaths and injuries.
Which apparently is okay under Islam.
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Jihadis frown on blind terror
Yeah, sure, yew betcha. That's why Rahman and Yassin were so thoroughly reviled by Muslim terrorists.
The UJCs pledge is yet another sign of the growing acceptance of the norm which prohibits antipersonnel mines because of their indiscriminate nature, said Mr Sylvie Brigot, ICBL Executive Director, in welcoming the announcement.
But seriously folks, all this represents is an indication that jihadis are for shit at detecting and clearing mines. Obviously, they want to eliminate something that decreases their advantage in the situation. After all, since frickin' when has terrorism not been indiscriminate or has jihad ever been about humanitarian concerns?
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I guess you're not supposed to bury indiscriminate anti-personnel explosives, you're supposed to wear them. Must be in the hadiths somewhere...
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"Blind" terror is bad. Good terror is that committed with cold blooded, malice afore-thought, and designed to kill innocents in order to secure political goals through violence and intimidation.
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Lal Masjid students said on Thursday their movement was peaceful and they did not believe in terrorism and political assassinations.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
Responding to former prime minister Benazir Bhuttos statement that militants had threatened to assassinate her, Tehreek-e-Talaba-o-Talibat, an informal body of students who have been attached to the mosque, issued a statement saying that they did not believe in terrorism and political assassinations as a means to bring about an Islamic revolution.
Not even a single opponent of the movement (of Lal Masjid clerics to impose Sharia in the country) was physically attacked before or after the infamous operation against the mosque, said Abu Hafs, a spokesman for Lal Masjid. He said an attack on a leader as insignificant as Mohtarma (Benazir) would be a sign of desperation, disorganisation and demoralisation of his organisation. On the contrary, we are even more organised and disciplined than before the demolition of Jamia Hafsa. Our morale is high and we are hopeful about the supremacy of Sharia in our country, he said.
Hafs said the Lal Masjid movement would gain nothing from attacking Ms Bhutto. However, there are some hidden hands who might attack her and put the blame on us. The neo-fascist organisation, the MQM, might try to sabotage her rally, he said.
He said the MQM was in the habit of wiping off political opponents. The nation has not yet forgotten the Nishtar Park bloodbath, Hafs said, speculating that the president could also try to cash in on an attack on Ms Bhutto. He (the president) might have a justification to impose martial law and extend his rule for a few more years. After all Musharraf is fond of South American right wing military dictators, he said. Maulana Muhammad Amir, the Lal Masjid deputy cleric and Ghazi Abdul Rashids nephew, was not available for comment.
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Mushy was 'elected' but hasn't been emplaced by a popular vote yet. I wonder if Benazir hasn't returned to a favorable climate for a takeover and the mushy boys tried to blow her away??
TAIMARGARA: Al Badr Mujahideen Commander Bakht Zameen has said Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto has returned to Pakistan with a foreign agenda of eliminating mujahideen and closing down madrassas.
The PPP leader would implement the foreign agenda to end the concept of jihad and hand over Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan to the same foreign country, said Zameen at an Al-Badr Mujahideen Eid party. He said the mujahideen will continue their jihad to drive the allied forces out of Afghanistan.
The government has failed to protect the country and is siding with the allied forces in their war against the mujahideen, he added. Zameen said that the government is branding mujahideen as terrorists, arresting them and putting them in torture cells. The Al Badr commander condemned the bombing in Waziristan, saying it had killed a large number of civilians. He said the government did this to please the US, adding that it was also destroying madrassas at Americas behest.
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CANADA > OSAMA BIN LADEN IN NEW VIDEO DECLARES WAR ON MUSHARAFF, PAKISTAN.
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As Joe says OBL has declared jihad on Musharraf and called him a polytheist (which is meant to be actually worse than calling him an infidel I think).
It will probably be less than a week or so before he (or his #2 or some other subcommander) charges BBhutto with this same epithet.
Former premier Nawaz Sharif telephoned Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto and condemned explosions that hit her convoy late on Thursday, ARY reported. Nawaz expressed solidarity with those who were killed and injured in the blasts. He said the government must have taken enough security measures. He said the government didnt pay any heed to suicide attack threats to Benazir Bhutto. He said no one in Pakistan was happy over law and order. He said Pakistan would have reached a better national reconciliation if he had been allowed to stay in Pakistan.
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Hello? Hello? Benazir! I just heard the news! Are you dead?You're sure you're not?
Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan telephoned Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairwoman and former premier Benazir Bhutto at Bilawal House and inquired about her after blasts that hit her convoy late on Thursday. Benazir thanked the governor for his call. Earlier, he condemned the explosions, calling them a heinous and beastly act.
Expressing his grief over the incident, the governor prayed for eternal peace for those who had lost their lives and grant of patience to bereaved families and early recovery of injured. He said the incident was a conspiracy to sabotage the democratic process in the country and that the government would use all means and resources to unearth those involved in the blasts and bring them to justice. He directed law enforcement agencies to further tighten the security arrangements throughout the province and keep round the clock vigil. The governor directed the officials concerned to provide all possible health care facilities to the injured and also appealed to the people to exercise utmost restraint and cooperate with the government in thwarting the nefarious designs of anti-state and anti-democracy forces. He declared that the government would show no relaxation in promoting democratic process in the country. Meanwhile, the governor announced that all educational institutions in Karachi would remain closed on Friday.
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A two-member SC bench on Thursday directed the government to cancel the appointments of the temporary clerics of Lal Masjid if they or the mosques old administration created any disturbance.
On October 2, the SC ordered the opening of Lal Masjid and endorsed government-proposed Maulana Abdul Ghaffar as temporary cleric and Maualana Abdul Azizs nephew Maulana Aamer Siddique as Ghaffars deputy. Siddique was appointed on an undertaking that he would not create any disturbance in the mosques affairs.
The bench said that permanent clerics would not be appointed until the appointment dispute was settled permanently. It ordered the government to compensate the legal heirs of all those killed during the operation against the mosque. The court directed Jamia Fareedia to offer its facilities to the students if the government failed to provide them with an opportunity to continue their studies by October 30. It said Umme Hassan, the wife of Maulana Aziz, would be the principal of the girls madrassa.
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Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has demanded that the government sack Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Brig (r) Ijaz Shah, PPP spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar quoted her as saying after the late night blasts on Thursday in Karachi that killed dozens of people. Ms Bhuttos husband Gomez Asif Zardari told Geo TV that he did not think that extremist elements were behind these blasts, adding that some elements within the government, including some ministers, were responsible for the blasts. He said the PPP was a democratic party and was not a threat to jihadi elements. He said some ministers were also on the hit list of jihadi elements. He said he knew some people sitting in the government who could possibly be behind these blasts. But, he said, he would not disclose their names as only Ms Bhutto would reveal these names. Zardari said Ms Bhutto would talk to the media on Friday (today).
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Icerigger: You're not alone. I've always thought she was way better looking than your average prime minister. :-)
HYDERABAD, India - An aggressive push by Indian state security forces over the past two years has blunted the Maoist insurgency in the state of Andhra Pradesh, a long-time guerrilla hotbed, but many have regrouped in remote parts of neighboring states where police remain ill-equipped to combat a surge in violence.
"There is a lull in Andhra Pradesh," said K Srinavas Reddy, a Hyderabad-based expert on the Maoist movement in India. "Police intrusion, the use of informant networks and coordination with
locals have weakened the Naxalites here." Maoist insurgents are also known as Naxalites after the West Bengal town of Naxalbari where a communist armed rebellion began 40 years ago.
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Maoists need new certification as terrorists and then be treated as such, also the Chinese need to be dragged out into the light as the obvious string pullers/financiers of these scum.
BAGHDAD - Kurds in northern Iraq warned on Friday that they will defend themselves against any Turkish incursion, and Iraqi leaders called on Ankara to engage in dialogue instead of threats.
Massoud Barzani, the president of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, urged Turkey to hold direct talks with his regional government but vowed to fight "any aggression."
Turkish officials, who have long battled Kurdish separatist sentiment at home, have balked at such talks with the Kurdish regional government in Iraq.
The strong comments from Iraq's senior Kurdish statesman came two days after the Turkish parliament voted to authorize a cross-border incursion to root out the rebels from their bases in the mountains on the frontier. There has been no sign of imminent military strikes, and the United States and the Iraqi government have urged restraint.
"The experiences of the past years have shown that this issue cannot be solved through the course of war," Barzani said. "But at the same time we declare to all: if the region or the Kurdistan experiment faces any aggression under any pretext whatsoever, than we are fully prepared to defend our democratic experience and the dignity of our people and the sanctity of our homeland."
He said Iraqi Kurds were not responsible for the fighting between Turkey and the rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known by its Kurdish acronym PKK.
"Kurdistan is not responsible for the war between Turkey and the PKK," he said. "And we have not supported the war or the violence and bloodletting or been dragged into this war."
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The Turks gave up ANY rights to do anything other than negotiate with the Kurds when they refused to allow us to open the Northern Front through their territoriy with the 4th ID. They had the opportunity to come in and "secure" those areas but were too busy figuratively flipping us the bird.
So Tuks, too friggen bad. You made the mess, now deal with it- the Kurds are our friends and we will help them. You neter their sovereign terriroty and we will arm them to chase you out.
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Hopefully Spook.
However, the US and several administrations have a nasty habit of abandoning our allies at the pivotal moment. I can see us cutting the Kurds loose to keep the bases and to give for hopeful future favors. It will be the final nail in any peaceful future dealings with the Middle East and doom us to a future long and bloody war to the ultimate end.
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commie Kurds. It will be a plus for the Kurd nation if they let the Turks lance a PKK boil..trick is to push them to the Turk hammer/anvil
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Uniformed, armed Turkeys on the march!!!
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From what I've heard, the Turkish army is pretty tough and competant. Kurds have an advantage in small encounters in the mountains. A Turkish force over the border might be a different matter.
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Problem is if they do come over the border in force, the Peshmerga will be on them like ugly on a monkey. And then the body bags go back to Ankara. The Turks need to concentrate on their side of the border, and realize the PKK is the price they are paying for not taking thier part up when asked. Sometimes you have to just suck it up and Go - and the Turks are only now realizing it.
They toss us from Incirlik, they will NEVER get in the the EU, and the US will side with Greece in all those disputes, and that will only embolden Romania as well as the former Soviet states in the area. We can replace the bases here and there, not well, but effectively enough. They, on the other hand, will be unable to stop enthnic violence as those whom they have brutally repressed will not back donw once they get started.
"Sucks to be you" would be my diplomatic response, along with pictures of US Army SF trainers with the Kurds near the border, directing AC-130 fire on practice targets.
Unlike the picture some paint, this is not a good spot for the Turks *IF* Bush has the courage. WHat they are betting on is that he will be a wimp and sell out the Kurds. Time to see if George is what I suspect he is - a spineless frat boy who will sell out an ally instead of standing strong and forcing the issue from all sides.
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For an example of a modern armored force getting hammered by well trainined locals, just look at the Russians and Chechnya. And consider the Turks are not as good as the Russians, and the Kurds are far better armed and trained an experienced than the Chechens.
Some 40,000-strong Turkish troops with helicopter, artillery and special forces units are ready to launch a full-scale operation against Kurdish militants on the Iraqi border, Turkish media reported. Turkey's parliament sanctioned military cross-border operations against around 3,500 Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq Wednesday following a government request earlier this week. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday parliamentary approval did not mean that the operation would begin immediately.
"It will be conducted when the time is right, when necessary," he said.
Troops have been involved in operations against Kurdish militants in the Kato mountains in Turkey's southwest province of Sirnak, according to the Sabah newspaper.
The US urged Turkey not to launch a cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels. "We are making it very clear to Turkey that we don't think it is in their interest to send troops into Iraq," President George Bush said.
Iraq has protested Turkish military actions on its territory, calling them "aggression against Iraq and its territorial integrity." Erdogan responded that Ankara was not after Iraq's territory or sovereignty, but sought to counter the mounting terrorism threat emanating from the country.
Local media said the Turkish leadership was considering imposing sanctions against Massoud Barzani, president of the Autonomous Kurdish Government in Iraq and leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Turkey accused him of supporting the Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK. The party has been fighting for autonomy status in southeast Turkey for nearly 25 years. The conflict has claimed about 40,000 lives.
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government said on Thursday that the execution of Saddam Husseins notorious hatchet man Chemical Ali, which has been delayed for weeks due to Muslim holidays and legal hitches, will happen in the coming days.
Asked in a rare appearance at the White House whether Ali Hassan al-Majid would be hanged soon for genocide, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told reporters: I think so, yes, in the coming days.
The Iraqi supreme court upheld Majids death sentence on September 4 following his conviction for presiding over the mass killings of Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s and ordered that he be executed within 30 days. But Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was reluctant to hang him until after the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Fitr, which ended on Monday, because of the outcry that followed Saddam Husseins execution during another Muslim holiday.
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When nobody's looking, let him know how he's going to be buried up to his neck next to a fireant hill, stoned for a while, then Kurdish widows and ex-mothers will get a turn at him with round toothpicks, and then getting small doses of what he used to gas the Kurds until dead, and that the whole process should take about a day. Or two at the most.
Then shove a bootlace up his @$$, leave, and let him take care of the rest.
Kurds will be happy that he's dead, and Sunnis couldn't take too much offense if there is a surveillance video of the guy hanging himself.
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What does it mean to say "diplomacy" is still on the table. Turkey must want something that can be addressed by diplomacy as opposed to Turkish incursions into northern Iraq. The dhimmirat resolution in the U.S. Congress to embarass Bush did not have enough votes so that is not an issue right now. The U.S. does not need a another foreign force in Iraq waging war while we are trying to keep the lid on things in the middle and south of iraq.
Thousands of Kurds and supporters took to the streets in northern Iraq Thursday to protest the Turkish parliament's decision to authorize the government to send troops across the border to root out Kurdish rebels.
The vote in Turkey on Wednesday removed the last legal obstacle to an offensive, but there was no sign of imminent action as the United States and the Iraqi government urged restraint.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd, said the government was willing to act against the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is known by its Kurdish acronym PKK, but it doesn't currently have the forces to push the separatist group out of the country. "The Iraqi government is not running away from its responsibilities. It's just a question of time," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
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The turks mobilized their forces on the Syrian border years ago and demanded that Syria give up the PKK terrorist leader, abdullah Ocalan. A terrified Syria closed the PKK headquarters and expelled Ocalan. I think the descendants of Suleiman are expecting the same kind of thing from Kurdistan. Expell the PKK and close their headquarters there, or else face the wrath of the Turkish military.
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Remember: one-fifth of US military equipment in support of the 2003 invasion force against Saddam tyranny, sat unusable off the Bosphorus after Turkey's Islamofascist government refused transit through their soil. However, that hasn't stopped President Bush from shilling for Turkey's membership in the EU.
Tel Aviv - Israel's Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi censured a general Thursday for allowing soldiers to use Palestinians as 'human shields' during a military operation in the West Bank city of Nablus earlier this year.
Brigadier General Yair Golan, who was the military commander of the West Bank, will be passed over for promotion for at least the next nine months, following the reprimand which came after an extended investigation, the military said.
The practise of using Palestinian civilians during military operations - usually to try and convince a militant to surrender - was outlawed by Israel's High Court in 2005 following petitions by human rights groups.
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Nope. What separates the Israelis from the Paleos (in part) is that the latter uses human shields all the time, and the former do not -- and should not.
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I don't understand. Why would Golan even have used human shields I did not know that would have any effect against Paleos? I would have guessed the situation was more like the Israelis refusing to concern themselves with human shields being used against THEM.
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I agree that Israelis using human shields is self defeating. This is because having civilians in the way is not a good way to fight.
For this reason, the Israelis should deploy a Sheriff type system, so that, as they need to travel through a crowded area with a high probability of ambush, they can disperse the crowd quickly.
Because it is PR problematic, they need to conceal its use until it has been used multiple times with no great side effect--to test its effectiveness and develop tactics appropriate to it.
For example, before you use it, have a bunch of snipers ready to take out men with guns. When you hit the switch, the crowd disperses, and for a moment the gunmen might lose their cover.
They might even consider using a flash bang weapon at the same time to confuse the issue among the witnesses. They will hopefully associate the flash bang with the skin pain.
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The practise of using Palestinian civilians during military operations - usually to try and convince a militant to surrender - was outlawed by Israel's High Court in 2005 following petitions by human rights groups.
Jordan's King Abdullah II voiced support for a US-sponsored international peace conference following talks in Britain Thursday with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a royal palace statement said.
Abdullah expressed "Jordan's strong support for the planned international meeting on the Middle East," the statement said. But it did not refer to Arab suggestions to postpone the meeting to complete preparations between the Israelis and Palestinians. The statement quoted the king as telling Rice during a closed-door meeting in the British capital, where Abdullah is on an official visit, that he was "encouraged to hear the progress achieved during Secretary Rice's talks in the Middle East."
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A majority of Knesset members signed a petition this week calling for Jerusalem to remain undivided in a move that could tie the hands of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in his negotiations with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of the Annapolis summit.
The petition drive, initiated by Likud MK Yisrael Katz, attracted support from some 30 coalition MKs, including ministers Ya'acov Edri and Ze'ev Boim of Kadima and the two Pensioners Party ministers.
Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz said he would sign soon. Thirteen Kadima MKs signed, including Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Tzahi Hanegbi. Every Pensioners MK signed.
The only Israel Beiteinu MKs who signed were David Rotem and Estherina Tartman and the only Labor MK who signed was MK Yoram Marciano.
Katz said the petition drive was intended to send a message to Olmert that he has no mandate to negotiate Jerusalem's future.
The new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that despite the commitment of U.S. forces elsewhere, the military is capable of conducting operations against Iran if called on to bomb nuclear facilities and other targets.
Adm. Michael Mullen told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday: From a military standpoint, there is more than enough reserve to respond if that, in fact, is what the national leadership wanted to do, and so I dont think were too stretched in that regard.
Defense and military officials have been preparing American forces within striking distance of Iran, according to the Washington Times. Attacks on the Islamic Republic would be carried out largely by the Navy and Air Force.
Officials say one target of any U.S. military action would be Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps facilities because of their role in providing insurgents in Iraq with armor-piercing roadside bombs. One official said the factory where Iranian bomb materials are being produced has been located.
A second target would be Irans nuclear facilities, which are chiefly underground and spread across the country.
Appearing with Mullen at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it would probably spur other nations in the region to obtain those weapons themselves. That in turn would raise the risk of nuclear materials falling into the hands of terrorists.
But Adm. Mullen said the use of military force against Iran would be an option of the last resort.
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Hell, we know we can. The question is, will we?
And when?
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"...if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it would probably spur other nations in the region to obtain those weapons themselves. That in turn would raise the risk of nuclear materials falling into the hands of terrorists."
How stupidly dense. If "Iran acquires nuclear weapons", nuclear materials would ALREADY BE "in the hands of terrorists"!
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"...if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it would probably spur other nations in the region to obtain those weapons themselves. That in turn would raise the risk of nuclear materials falling into the hands of terrorists."
How stupidly dense. If "Iran acquires nuclear weapons", nuclear materials would ALREADY BE "in the hands of terrorists"!
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Moud has already times indic = inferred that Iran's nuclear rights are not negotiable and that the country will ignore any and al UNO-INternational sanctions imposed upon it. ANY US BOMBING, WHILE PC AND LIKELY SUCCESSFUL AT THIS POINT IN TIME/POLITIX, IS AT BEST A TEMPORARY SOLUTION - BEST OPTION REMIANS DEMOCRATIC REGIME CHANGE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, e.g. thru GROUND INVASION. However, Moud-Mullahs are aware of this and have planned for asymmetric warfare, foreign interventionism [ Russia-China], and anti-US "justified" retaliatory Terror including but not limited to Amer Hiroshimas. RADICAL MULLAHS > GLOBAL OR GEOPOL CHAOS/ANARCHIES IS TO ISLAM'S = RADICAL ISLAMISM'S ADVANTAGE. IRAN HAS ALREADY INDIC THAT IFF NEED BE, IT WILL ALLOW NUKES-WMDS TO BE DETONATED ON ITS OWN SOIL IN ORDER TO DEFEAT US/US-ALLIED FORCES.
During his U.S. visit, March 14 leader Walid Jumblatt accused Hezbollah of working behind the back of the government to establish relations with Israel.
Responding to the prisoner swap between Hizbullah and the Jewish state, Jumbtat, who has met in Washington with Democratic and Republican congressmen on Wednesday said: "It is like Israel is saying there is no Lebanese state, but a Hizbullah state." "This is sad and it proves a certain reality that there is some sort of a relation between Hizbullah and Israel," Jumblat told reporters in Washington.
Congress on Monday proposed a resolution condemning Syria, Iran and their Lebanese allies for their meddling in Lebanon and for acting against national interests. Hizbullah criticized the resolution as "interference" in Lebanon's affairs.
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Hey Wally, you maybe fool the Americans, but in Israel we know that you're nothing but another lying, thieving, murderous animal.
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ISRAEL > PFLP - HIZBULLAH DOD NOT COORDINATE EXCHANGE; + SYRIA/HEZBOLLAH > US INTERFERENCE THREATENS LEBANON STABILTY, espec as per US + Lebanon's Armed Forces [LAF].
Walid Jumblat, who arrived in New York on Monday, discussed with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and other U.N. officials ways to speed up the establishment of the international tribunal that would try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri.
Upon arrival in Washington, Jumblat said efforts to set up the Special Tribunal for Lebanon were satisfactory. He said the majority March 14 alliance does not object to reaching consensus over a head of state, but stressed that "this president must respect international resolutions, including 1559 and 1701," which call for the disarmament of Hizbullah and other armed groups. "The president should adhere to the principles of the Cedar Revolution, sovereignty, independence and free choice," Jumblat added.
Jumblat's visit, during which he hopes to rally U.S. support for the Cedar Revolution, comes ahead of a parliamentary session scheduled for Oct. 23 to elect a new president for Lebanon.
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Even though Russian President Vladimir Putin was not convinced of Iran's intentions, any person could realize that no country would invest the sums needed to build long range ballistic missiles without the ability of mounting nuclear warheads on them, President Shimon Peres said Thursday.
The president was speaking with the Israeli-Palestinian Forum of Bereaved Families. "Iran," Peres said, "is an imperialist state and it is no secret that they want to take over the Muslim world, the Middle East and anywhere else they can reach."
The president also rejected rumors about his health. Peres said he was feeling well and added that his doctors said he was as fit as a young person.
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Iran an imperialist state? They just want to help their neighbor get on their feet. They care so much that they are sending their Qods force to help out.
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Yes, Iran may be an imperialist state seeking to take over the world, but it is anti-Bush. Doesn't that out-weigh whatever evils lie in its heart?
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IMPERIALISM, GLOBALISM + AGGRESSION is stated andor strongly implied/inferred in iran's post-Shah [1979] CONSTITUTION. Just have to recall Moud's own comments and before him the anti-US/Western rants of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Amsterdam - The Dutch government will go ahead with the sale of outdated HAWK-parts to Israel, Foreign minister Maxime Verhagen told parliament Friday. 
Lal Masjid students said on Thursday their movement was peaceful and they did not believe in terrorism and political assassinations.
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A two-member SC bench on Thursday directed the government to cancel the appointments of the temporary clerics of Lal Masjid if they or the mosques old administration created any disturbance. 
Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has demanded that the government sack Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Brig (r) Ijaz Shah, PPP spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar quoted her as saying after the late night blasts on Thursday in Karachi that killed dozens of people. Ms Bhuttos husband 
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government said on Thursday that the execution of Saddam Husseins notorious hatchet man Chemical Ali, which has been delayed for weeks due to Muslim holidays and legal hitches, will happen in the coming days.
During his U.S. visit, March 14 leader Walid Jumblatt accused Hezbollah of working behind the back of the government to establish relations with Israel.
