Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry, which recently announced that it would pull its troops out of Somalia by the end of the year, said Saturday it could extend its deployment by "a few days." Ethiopia's hasty withdrawal plan had sowed panic among the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), whose peacekeepers are to take over security duties but need more preparation time.
"Ethiopia accepted it had a moral obligation to AMISOM and it would do whatever necessary to see that its withdrawal did not harm AMISOM," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "This did not imply any delay in withdrawal but might allow for some flexibility in terms of a few days, if necessary, but this would be for AMISOM to assess."
Ethiopia announced a week ago that it had deemed it "inappropriate" for its troops to remain in Somalia, citing notably a lack of progress in peace efforts and deep rifts within the interim government it came to prop up two years earlier.
Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006 to oust the Islamic Courts Union, a hard-line group which controled most of the country and was imposing a strict form of Sharia law. -
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Is this a coincidence?
Or are the Ethiopians getting the heck outa Dodge before Bush leaves office?
HT: HotAir
Scientists have discovered a lotion that can save the lives of U.S. soldiers exposed to chemical weapons -- a product vastly superior to the standard-issue decontamination powder.
Naturally, the Defense Department wants to scrap the powder and switch to the more-effective lotion.
But there's a problem: After being lobbied by the companies making the powder, several members of Congress pushed through two earmarks worth $7.6 million that forced the military for the past two years to keep buying the inferior product.
The product, known as M291, is made from a resin sold exclusively by a Pennsylvania chemical company, which is then processed into powder by a New York company, then assembled into individual kits at a facility in Arkansas.
Among the lawmakers who championed the earmarks are Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.; Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
The M291 earmarks reveal how lawmakers can micromanage military purchases to suit the needs of companies, constituents or campaign donors -- instead of the needs of the soldiers.
Scientists conducted more tests, comparing the effectiveness of the lotion with the M291 kit. They found the lotion to be as much as seven times more effective at protecting soldiers
The Pentagon told Congress in 2005 that it expected to replace the M291 kit with the RSDL. At the same time, Rohm and Haas, the Philadelphia company making the M291 resin, turned to Congress to keep its product alive through an earmark. The company spent $830,000 lobbying Congress and the military on the decontamination kits and other issues in 2005, public records show. Since then, the company has spent another $2.3 million lobbying Congress.
The Defense Department bought huge stockpiles of Rohm and Haas' resin in 2005 and 2006, enough to last through 2012, said Douglas Bryce, second in command of the DOD's joint chemical- and biological-defense office. After the large purchases of resin, the military didn't include funding for M291 kits in its budget because the product was being phased out, Bryce said.
10 sponsors [of the newest millions in earmarks] included Sen. Specter of Pennsylvania, who has received $38,000 in campaign donations from Rohm and Haas' employees and its political-action committee since 2004.
Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa., offered a different rationale for the favor. The earmark "was never intended to pick a winner" but to support both products, Schwartz said. Schwartz received $8,000 in donations from executives and the political action committee at Rohm and Haas, a leading employer in her district. Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, whose district has R&H's facility, got $2,000 in this cycle and $1,000 in 2006, while Jack Murtha got a combined $2,000. They gave $5,000 each to the DNC and the DSCC in 2008.
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This is where military bureaucrats shine. Since the military has no choice but to accept the powder, the questions become, "How can we get the superior product as well?", and "What do we do with the other crap?"
Of course the priority is to get a product that works. But after that is done, ship out vast quantities of the crap as "military aid", that congress also dictates the military pay for.
Say Obambi decides to give military aid to Mugabe, to help him support his regime? Maybe his army can make soup out of for what would be for them a 50 year supply of resin? Utterly useless "military aid."
At the same time, pass around the message to other armies in the world, that the profiteer company's products are crap, and to not buy them. Suddenly the schemers find out that they can't give their crap away.
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No surprise to me at all, and I wasn't even a supply and procurement troop, or a high-ranking one at that; this sort of ear-marking even made itself felt at the commissary and PX. Our fearless solons seemed to view those places as a means to dispose of agricultural surplus - and to keep the PX from competing with local retail outlets. Remember when a powerful senator from a dairy products state did a tour of European base commissaries and found (gasp!) French and German cheeses in the delis? Obviously, Kraft ought to be good enough for us. Or how Ron Dellums forced the AAFES package stores in Europe to stock California wines, never mind how perfectly good European stuff was available, without the cost of shipping it? How about how the BX at Mather AFB couldn't stock major appliances like refrigerators and microwaves in the early 1980s, because the local merchants would squawk to their pet local politicians? Oh, the nerve of those enlisted peons, wanting to avoid paying through the nose on the local economy.
OTO - nothing beat Department of Ag surplus cheddar for making mac and cheese. Great stuff - the commissary used to have it for 50 cents a pound.
Complete peace would be restored in Bajaur and Mohmand by the end of the month and foreign militants would be flushed out of the areas, said Frontier Constabulary (FC) Inspector General Tariq Khan on Sunday. The FC official told a private TV channel that there were more than 300 foreign militants in the two tribal agencies. "The military operation would continue till the total ouster of the foreign militants," he said, adding that foreign militants were involved in most of the terrorist attacks across the country. He, however, said that military operations alone were not a solution to terrorism and extremism, and called for a 'social, economic solution' to the problems. He also appealed to tribal elders not to shelter foreign militants.
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Tehrik Nifaz Fiqah-e-Jafria (TNFJ) chief Allama Sajid Naqvi on Sunday said that Peshawar terrorist incident killing over 35 people was a conspiracy to fan sectarianism in the country.
Talking to media persons here after attending a meeting of ulema belonging to various schools of thought at Madrassa Allama Arif Hussain Al-Hussaini, Naqvi said that foreign hands could be involved in terrorism in different parts of the country calling for joint efforts to thwart this conspiracy.
Naqvi said the whole country was a victim of terrorism and even mosques and imambargahs were not safe. He did not rule out the possibility of involvement of foreign hands in terrorist activities taking place across the country.
Naqvi said that both federal and provincial governments were carrying out their duties in an effective manner to check terrorism. However, he underlined the need for unity among the people to banish terrorism from the country.
Efforts needed for Chitral's development: Chitral District Nazim Haji Maghfirat Shah urged all stakeholders, including heads of departments and representatives of civil society, to make coordinated efforts for sustainable development of Chitral.
He was addressing a meeting held at a local hotel. The meeting was organised by the Tehsil Municipal Administration in collaboration with the Regional Women Empowerment Project.
Speaking on the occasion, the district nazim said that although many non-government organisations were working for raising life standards of women folk and development of the entire district, there was a need of more coordination for sustainable development of the area.
He said that the Women Development Forum must be established to improve the skills of women by different ways.
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WAFF > GLOBAL RESEARCH > CREATING AN ARC OF CRISIS: THE REDISTRIBUTION [redrawing]OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA, wid IRAN as ARC CENTER-Of-GRAVITY/GRAVITAS. NEW WORLD ORDER and related is THREATENING EVERY COUNTRY IN ASIA from TURKEY, SYRIA, and IRAN to PAKISTAN AND INDIA.
Also from SAME > IRAN TEST-FIRED A SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSLE [NASR-2 SSM]FROM A WARSHIP.
* OTHER > FREEREPUBLIC - seems ISRAEL is fretting over news that IRAN HAD TRIPLED ITS ARSENAL???
Defeated US Presidential Candidate John McCain says India will attack Pakistan if it fails to act against those involved in the Mumbai raids. McCain, who is on a two-day visit to Pakistan, outspokenly told a group of reporters in Pakistan's Lahore that Indian Premier Manmohan Singh was visibly angry about the killings and damage to property in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
"The democratic government of India is under pressure and it will be a matter of days after they have given the evidence to Pakistan to use the option of force if Islamabad fails to act against the terrorists," Pakistan's Daily Times quoted him, as saying on Sunday.
The Arizona Senator stressed that if Pakistan does not do anything to find and arrest the 'bad guys', India will have no option but to use force.
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She warned that the "US will act if Pakistan did not".
I'ma wondering what, exactly, Condie meant by that.
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Not too long ago, I was told by an Indian military type that India regards Pakistan as an "annoying gnat". This is actually a good thing, because India has no designs at all on capturing anything Pakistani. Any war will be up to Pakistan to start, and India to finish.
The US then becomes the critical player, because it makes it abundantly clear to both sides that nuclear weapons will not be used.
This sets the stage for them both to have a little blow off, with their warmongers having at each other for a while.
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The problem with the US threatening retaliation for the launch of nukes is that, hey, you have to actually back it up with action when the Pakis launch (or attempt to) anyway. Which makes you the "bad guy" somehow, trust me. I'm not really clear on the thought processes of suicidal Islamic idiots, sorry.
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Restrain assumes control. I don't have confidence in the Pakistani ability to control all of its forces given a legitimate threat to their heartland. I don't have confidence in their ability to keep a full-scale conventional war, well, conventional.
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From Fox:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — DEVELOPING: Pakistan's military says operations against militants are under way following the Mumbai attacks.
A military statement released late Monday says the operations are "intelligence-led" and target banned militant organizations.
It says arrests have been made, but gives no more details.
It is not clear whether the operations detailed in the statement include a raid on Sunday that targeted a camp run by Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group blamed for plotting and carrying out last month's attacks on Mumbai.
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Pragmatically, wid RUSSIA realigning and deploying new milfors to its own CAUCASIA-SOUTH, + CHINA doing same to its West and South vee the UIGHURS, TIBET, MYANMAR, TRI-NATION LOC,etc, basically it leaves attacking INDIA + SOUTHEAST ASIA as Radical Islam's singular "best option/choice" amongst RUSSIA, CHINA, INDIA in the near term. NUCLEAR INDIA > viewed as the weakest of "ASIA'S BIG 3" wid a host of differentiated Militant-Terror-Anarchist Groups already well-established domestically.
ISLAMIST IRAN > essens a strategic, PCorrect
"BLOCK/ANCHOR" on one end, wid Radical Islam counting on normal "GREAT POWER" GEOPOLITICS = MILPOL CONFRONTATIONISM on the other end, to keep the US-Allies at bay.
India's foreign minister accused Pakistan on Sunday of trying to deflect attention from the role of its citizens in last month's terror attack in Mumbai by leaking word of a hoax phone call to the Pakistani president's office that forced its air force to go on high alert.
The episode underscored the high level of tension that remains between the two nuclear-armed nations nearly two weeks after the attack, as India continues to charge that a Pakistani terror group with past ties to the government was responsible and Pakistan insists that it was not involved.
During the call, which came on Nov. 28 as the attack was still unfolding, the caller allegedly identified himself as Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee and threatened that India would mount military action unless Pakistan took action against the attackers. Pakistani information minister Sherry Rehman said in a statement that the call came from "a verified official phone number of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs." The call prompted President Asif Ali Zardari to put the air force on high alert.
News of the call was first reported in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn over the weekend, and was subsequently picked up by other Pakistani media. But on Sunday, Mukherjee released a statement saying he had first learned of the call from "third countries," and that the call was a hoax.
"We immediately clarified to those friends, and we also made it clear to the Pakistan authorities, that I had made no such telephone call," Mukherjee said. He added that it is "worrying that a neighboring state might even consider acting on the basis of such a hoax call, try to give it credibility with other states, and confuse the public by releasing the story in part."
Ten gunmen attacked Mumbai on Nov. 26, killing 174 people and wounding 230 in strikes on luxury hotels, a Jewish prayer center a restaurant and a train station. Indian officials have said that the gunmen were of Pakistani origin, that they came by boat from Karachi and that they belonged to the Pakistan-based outlawed militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba. Members of the group were earlier blamed for the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament that brought the two longtime foes to the brink of a fourth war.
Pakistan has demanded evidence of the Pakistani link, but has also promised to assist New Delhi in the investigation.
The attacks have given rise to a new war of words between the two neighbors, straining an ongoing peace process.
The controversy over the hoax call has led to questions over how the prank caller managed to bypass the official protocol that governs telephone calls between world leaders and top diplomats.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > MUMBAI: INTELLIGENCE FAILURE OR STATE-MANAGED "SHOW"; + WASHINGTON ARROGANCE HAS FOMENTED A MUSLIM REVOLUTION.
* WORLD MIL FORUM [paraph = GOOGLE Chinglish translation] SOUTH ASIA IN A HAIR-TRIGGER SITUATION. BEIJING[China] WILL NOT SIT IDLY BY DURING INDIA-PAKISTAN MILITARY CONFLICT; + ONLY CHINA CAN STOP A SERIOUS INDO-PAKISTAN WAR?
Also from WMF > IIUC RUSSIAN MEDIAS: RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES BELIEVE CHINA HAS COVERTLY MOBILIZED AND DEPLOYED TWO ELITE RAPID RESPONSE PLA DIVISIONS TO MILITARY REGIONS TO OVERWATCH RISING POST-MUMBAI INDO-PAKISTANI TENSIONS AND LINE-OF-CONTROL!? + INDIA'S RULING PARTIES-GOVT MAY NOT RULE OUT WAR WITH PAKISTAN IN 2009 AS IT WILL BE AN ELECTION YEAR FOR INDIAN VOTERS.
PESHAWAR: Four years ago, journalists used to go to Waziristan for the story. Today, the story itself reached Peshawar. In October 2003, a team of journalists reached Baghar in South Waziristan, to file follow-up stories of the maiden airstrike on a suspected Al Qaeda or Taliban hideout. A local journalist planned an early morning departure for the site of the strike without official permission. Four years on, a look at the damage caused by Friday eveningÂ’s car bomb blast near the historic Qisakhawani bazaar and an attack on parked trucks carrying NATO supplies testifies the danger has arrived as close as possible.
The government itself is a hostage. An Iraq-like green zone was established in Peshawar with checkposts on the roads leading to important offices and residences. High profile kidnapping and murders have added to the fears of Peshawar residents. Security analysts forecast that Peshawar might face an even worse scenario if over 500 hardened militants camping in Khyber Agency storm the provincial capital and the army is called upon to reclaim the city. The ever increasing pressure on Peshawar from militants will make things more difficult for the ANP government which is facing an ‘internal debate’ on whether to abandon governance or to take the fight to its logical end.The symptoms of a Beirut-like situation are emerging. Living in Peshawar is like dancing to the tune of death.
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Are problems building in Peshawar because the Tali-Quada are getting stronger, or because the are finding it necessary to move further from the A'stan border? Or some of each?
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That's our line of communications getting sown there, bigjim-ky. Unless y'all have made progress with that matter teleporter or feel like relying on supplies through Putinland, we're in a bit of a pinch with Peshawar coming to pieces.
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(I was....)
Slippin' into chaos
Take my mind beyond the dreams
(Well...)
I was slippin' into chaos
Take my mind beyond the dreams
Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei, says five years of US and international efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions are a failure. He told the Los Angeles Times Sat. Dec. 6: "We haven't moved one inch toward addressing the issues."
DEBKAfile's political sources: ElBaradei's words are the answer to president George W. Bush's reiteration Friday in a summing-up of his foreign policy record that the US would not allow Iran to develop an atomic weapon.
The UN official bluntly marked the sanctions-incentives policy "a failure."
The same mark automatically applies to Israel's leaders and their dogged reliance on the international community to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons -- a line favored by president Shimon Peres, ex-prime minister Ariel Sharon, incumbent Ehud Olmert, foreign minister Tzipi Livni and defense minister Ehud Barak.
The IAEA director stressed: "Tehran continues to acquire nuclear technology and stockpiling sensitive material" after three sets of international sanctions and the US-European offer of economic and security incentives.
In retrospect, the sanctions may have led to "more hardening of the position of Iran," ElBaradei said. "Many Iranians who even dislike the regime [are] gathering around the regime because they feel that their country is under siege."
Nonetheless, Israel's government leaders stick to the demand for more sanctions in the face of the IAEA director's confirmation that this course has got exactly nowhere (as argued for years in DEBKAfile analyses).
Aswat al-Iraq: More than 34,000 security personnel will participate in a security plan in Najaf city during the Eidul-Adha, or the Greater Bairam. "The plan aims to protect visitors to Najaf on the occasion of Eidul-Adha," Najaf's police chief, Maj. Gen. Abdelkareem al-Ameri, said during a press conference today. "A large number of visitors, which may reach one million, will arrive in the city during the Eid holiday," the police chief added.
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The Basra province's electoral commission is to begin collecting signatures to transform the oil rich hub into an autonomous region. Collecting signatures in the predominantly Shia province will be held for one month beginning December 15 to January 14, the province's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said in a statement on Sunday.
Visioning the Kurdistan region's economic and political opportunities in light of its autonomous stance, Basra is also demanding the establishment of a federal region of its own.
IHEC says there are 1,409,393 eligible voters in the oil-rich Basra province.
Basra produces 70 percent of Iraq's oil and 80 percent of the country's crude is exported from Basra port the capital city of the province.
"If after the certification of the signature collection process, the signature list reaches the required 10 percent of the 'Final Voters List', a referendum will be held within three months," AFP quoted the statement as saying.
The statement further said that if the referendum is organized and accepted, it will transform Basra into an autonomous region with the same rights as Kurdistan in northern Iraq, which also enjoys considerable oil wealth.
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What will Iran's role be in an autonomous Basra? Would this autonomy split the national Shia and damage the national governing coalition?
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Ordinarily, I'd be in favor of Federalism, but this is probably the first step in Iran "accepting the automomous region of Basra" into Iranian hegemony.
Israel threatened tougher action against rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on Sunday as the territory's sole power plant again shut down in the face of a crippling blockade. Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he has told security chiefs to draw up contingency plans for military action against militant groups in Gaza.
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So, what has restraint gotten Israel so far?
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Israeli's outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday slammed Jewish settlers in Hebron even as he ordered security chiefs to draw up contingency plans for military action against resistance groups in Gaza although there have been no deaths as a result of the rocket and mortar fire of the past week.
Olmert called the settler rampages against Palestinians a 'pogrom'--a Yiddish term for anti-Jewish massacres--in Sunday's cabinet meeting.
" As a Jew I am ashamed of the sights of Jews firing at Arabs in Hebron. I have no other definition for what we saw but a pogrom "
Ehud Olmert, Israel's outgoing PM
"As a Jew, I am ashamed of the sights of Jews firing at Arabs in Hebron. I have no other definition for what we saw but a pogrom," he was quoted as saying by Ynet news, the Israeli daily Yediot's website.
Olmert added that the defense minister will take action to curb the "phenomenon" of settler rioters. Jewish settler attacked Palestinians in Hebron last Thursday after an Israeli court ruled they were to evacuate a disputed building.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni echoed Omert's call for a harsher Israeli response to rocket attacks directed at Israel from Gaza Strip. "The truce has not been respected by the other side. They are firing on our citizens," Livni said Sunday, adding that Israel's response should be "militarily, economically and politically" inclusive.
Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Bahum accused "the Zionist enemy of continuing its aggression against Gaza by systematically violating terms of the truce."
The six-month-long Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is due to end Dec. 19 without extensions.
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Saudi Arabia's grand cleric on Sunday indicated that militants do not have any connection with Islam and called for the Muslim world to unite in the face of terrorism to preserve stability.
"Islam does not support terrorism in any form and strictly prohibits shedding blood of innocents," Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh said in his haj sermon at Nimra Mosque addressed to about three million pilgrims in Arafat.
"The world must criminalise terrorism... we must be cautious of terrorism and fight hostile criminal gangs that destroy countries and people," the grand mufti said, adding the family of Islam must "form a barrier in front of anyone who threatens its security and stability."
Sheikh said the global financial crisis stemmed from ignoring God's rules and allowing 'riba' or usury, prohibited in Islam.
"Today we watch as this financial crisis enfolds and some companies and banks go bankrupt. This is the result of ignoring God's rules," he said, adding, "Muslims must abide by God's rules, and build their economies accordingly."
Banks operating under Islamic rules avoid charging interest on loans and instead prefer shared ownership and splitting of profits.
Urging Muslim youth to strengthen their relationship with Islam, the grand mufti warned that 'some forces' were trying to change their thoughts.
"These forces are trying their best to unveil Muslim women, promote drugs in Muslim societies and misinterpret Islam's teachings to distance Muslims from their religion," he said, adding that practicing Islamic teachings was the only way for Muslims to succeed in this world and the hereafter.
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"Islam does not support terrorism in any form and strictly prohibits shedding blood of innocents," Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh..."
The problem is that Islam doesn't look at the infidel as "innocent."
On the other hand if the grand cleric had said that terrorists were infidels, or apostates, or perhaps guilty of shirk for elevating themselves to be partners with Allen... then it might have a bit of bite.
Leading Sunni Muslim cleric Muhammad Tantawi has branded the editors of an Israeli newspaper "liars" for reporting what he insists was an inadvertent handshake with Israeli President Shimon Peres, media outlets reported Sunday.
Tantawi, who heads Cairo's al-Azhar University, said last week that he did not recognize the octogenarian Peres when he "passingly" shook his hand at a U.N.-sponsored religious dialogue last month. Tantawi also said he had no idea that Gaza was under a seige.
" I do not know whether there is a siege of Gaza. What siege? What rubbish? The siege has been there for months, "
Al-Azhar University Chief Muhammad Tantawi
"I do not know whether there is a siege of Gaza," he said. "What siege? What rubbish? The siege has been there for months."
The Israeli newspaper Maariv ran details of the encounter, reporting that Tantawi had approached the Israeli Nobel Peace laureate and conversed with him.
Tantawi responded furiously to the report, telling an Egyptian television anchor that the Maariv editors were "liars and sons of 60...", an abbreviation of an Arabic insult that often ends by calling a parent a dog or a prostitute, according to a transcript obtained by Egyptian newspaper al-Masri al-Yom.
A senior journalist at Maariv told AFP that the report, by veteran correspondent Jackie Hugi, was carefully sourced. "The newspaper stands by the report, and I stand by what Jackie published because of his history," he said, requesting anonymity.
Another Israeli daily, Haaretz, had also published a report last week saying Tantawi was the one who approached Peres, and that he clasped Peres's hand for several minutes while talking to him.
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Does Islamic law demand that his hand be cut off and burned? If not, then why not?
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Iranian students held a protest Sunday at Tehran University calling for freedom and denouncing the policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a pro-reform student group said. The protest amid heavy security was organized by the radical pro-reform Office to Consolidate Unity (OCU) student group to mark National Student Day.
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Yawn. Notify me when they have his head on a pike.
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
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Saudi Arabia's grand cleric on Sunday indicated that militants do not have any connection with Islam and called for the Muslim world to unite in the face of terrorism to preserve stability.
