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Well, let's hope Wikileaks remains open for business and that somebody in the Iranian bureaucracy decides to post similar documents from their side.
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The governments of Iran and China strictly control access to the internet, anon1. Whole areas of the internet are simply blocked. In Iran those caught are jailed, which often leads to beatings, torture, rape... sometimes death from these causes. It's not like in the free world, where many leaks happen for reasons of petulance.
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I heard a rumor that the WikiLeaks datasets are compromised; someone swapped out the confidential informant names with names picked at random off of Treasury's lists of suspected al Queda financial supporters.
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[Tolo News] ISAF and US special forces can start military operations in insecure areas of Balkh province, Atta Mohammad Noor, the province's governor said on Tuesday
Mighty kind of you, Atta ...
Foreign forces were previously not allowed to conduct operations in the province due to some reasons, but the forces can start their operations now, Mr Noor said.
Mr Noor pointing out the increasing violence in the province said the efforts of the Afghan cops have been ineffective in maintaining security in the province.
"We told the ISAF forces in the north, and we also contacted some of our American friends and told them that we are no more against their military operations," Atta Mohammad Noor, the governor of Balkh said.
Perhaps Karzai didn't spread the Iranian money as far as he could have ...
Bill Burleson, the US commander of the 1st Brigade of the 10th Mountain in Balkh province emphasised over joint coordinated efforts by Afghan and foreign forces, and said: "When I personally do any security operations, it is always with Afghan forces...the specific to me as a commander."
Security has tanked in the northern parts of Afghanistan, and the Afghan Ministry of Interior has previously reported about a kick-off of the military operations in the Northern provinces.
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(KUNA) -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced today that it has requested Kenya to inform the court, no later than 29 October, about any problem which would impede or prevent the arrest and surrender of Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir in the event that he visits the country on 30 October. Al-Bashir is wanted by the ICC which is based at the Dutch city of The Hague to face charges of war crimes and genocide in Darfur.
The prosecutor of the ICC has informed the judges of the possibility that Omar Al Bashir might travel to Kenya for an Inter-governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) summit on 30 October, said the ICC in a statement.
The ICC said it has renewed its request to Kenya "to take any necessary measure to ensure that the President of Sudan, Omar Al Bashir, in the event that he travels to Kenya, be jugged and surrendered to the Court in accordance with its obligations as a State Party to the Rome Statute since 1 June, 2005." On 4 March, 2009, the ICC issued a first warrant of arrest against Al Bashir, on charges of being criminally responsible for five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes. A second warrant of arrest was issued against al-Bashir on 12 July, 2010, for three counts of genocide.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Somalia tops a closely watched global list of countries perceived to be the most corrupt with a score of 1.1.
Also scoring high in corruption is Iraq and Afghanistan despite efforts to stamp out graft in the war-torn nations.
Nearly three-quarters of the 178 countries in Transparency International's annual survey scored on the sleazier end of the scale, which ranges from zero (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 10 (thought to have little corruption).
"The results indicate a serious corruption problem," the Berlin-based organisation said. "Allowing corruption to continue is unacceptable; too many poor and vulnerable people continue to suffer its consequences around the world," said TI's president Huguette Labelle in a statement. "There should be nowhere to hide for the corrupt.''
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There must be many corrupt regimes in Africa, Mugabi comes to mind!
Our allies? Pakistan and Saudi are known for their backhanders!
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You need a government and economy to have corruption
"You wanna buy milk for your baby, Mrs. Customer? Show me what's under that pretty blouse, and I'll see what I can do..."
All that is needed is something worth trading and those who need it, and the corruptible need nothing more. There are plenty of societies where nothing happens without a little giftie to make it happen, inside and outside the government -- on non-government, as the case may be.
[Al Jazeera] Sudan's UN ambassador has warned that conducting a January 9 referendum in Abyei without settling voting rights for competing tribes, as well as the border, will lead to war.
"It is evident that any attempt to conduct the plebiscite before achieving an acceptable settlement between the two parties will mean only a return to war," Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman told a Security Council debate on Sudan on Monday.
The Abyei ballot - scheduled for the same day as people in south Sudan decide whether to opt for independence - is for the people of Abyei to decide whether to remain in north Sudan or join the south.
The separate referendums in southern Sudan and the Abyei region are part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement reached in 2005, which ended the two-decade old Sudan civil war that left more than two million dead.
Preparations for both votes are way behind schedule, and many Western nations fear conflict if the referendums are delayed.
Status of the Abyei region
New US-brokered talks between Abyei and the Khartoum government, due to start in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Wednesday, have been called off.
The Sudanese ambassador said his government wanted negotiations on the referendums to lead to peace, "not to war, which we have never willingly accepted".
No referendum commission has been set in disputed Abyei and the region's leaders have failed to reach an accord with the Khartoum government on either who is eligible to vote or Abyei's borders.
Local tensions in Abyei, where oil fields are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, have heightened worries over the dispute with Khartoum. The territory is dominated by the Dinka Ngok tribe - who support south Sudan - and Arab Misseriya nomads who migrate with their cattle through the region's rich pastures.
UN concerns
The referendum law gives voting rights to the traditionally southern-supporting Dinka, leaving it up to a commission to decide whether "other Sudanese" are considered residents of the region and can also vote.
The Misseriya have threatened to carry out acts of violence in the district if they are not allowed to vote.
Khartoum's warning comes as the UN peacekeeping chief told the Security Council on Monday that reinforcing the UN force in Sudan cannot prevent hostilities between the north and the south if tensions continue to rise.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, said the southern Sudan commission must now work "extremely quickly" if it is to get a vote ready on time.
He also said he was "deeply concerned" about events in the oil-rich Abyei region.
"The continued lack of progress is exacerbating an already tense and volatile situation on the ground," Ban said on Monday in a report to the Security Council.
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I wasn't aware the civil war had ended. I've always thought Egypt was a fool for obsessing on Israel instead of going after Sudan and Libya. Heck, Reagan probably would have funded an attack on Libya.
[Iran Press TV] The Moroccan government denies Human Rights Watch (HRW) allegations that suspects detained under counterterrorism allegations are ill-treated in the country.
Not more than any other prisoner in Morocco, anyway ...
The New York-based HRW in its report released on Monday said that suspects detained are routinely subjected to human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... violations.
The 56-page-long report quotes suspects picked up under the North African nation's anti-terror laws as saying they were tortured or ill-treated in secret detention centers, where they were held without access to a lawyer -- sometimes for up to five weeks.
The report is based in part on interviews with suspects detained between 2007 and 2010 and their families, the statement said.
The Moroccan government defending itself said: "Allegations of torture made to Human Rights Watch by the suspects jugged in 2010 are not credible, since these suspects had the opportunity to lodge such complaints before the general prosecutor or the investigating judge and failed to do so."
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[Iran Press TV] Security forces in Egypt have detained at least 70 campaigners of the Mohammedan Brotherhood ahead of the upcoming November parliamentary elections.
The arrests were made as campaigners were putting up posters for one of the group's candidates.
"Police jugged around 70 Brotherhood members at dawn as they were hanging posters for a woman candidate in various parts of the Alexandria governorate," AFP quoted a senior member of the Mohammedan Brotherhood as saying.
Police say they have violated the election regulations which ban the use of religious slogans.
The latest arrests bring to 260 the number of Brotherhood supporters detained over the past 10 days.
A total of 508 seats are up for grabs in the November elections.
The Mohammedan Brotherhood won a fifth of the seats in the last elections in 2005 -- despite a police crackdown.
Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak has announced November 28 as the date for the country's much-anticipated parliamentary elections.
The announcement comes as Cairo continues to maintain pressure to silence critics of the government in the media and elsewhere in the run-up to the vote.
Despite its setback, the Mohammedan Brotherhood has defended its decision to field candidates.
"We participate for Egypt's sake," Mohammedan Brotherhood front man Essam el-Erian said in mid October.
"Participation is the best way to expose the corruption of the regime."
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[Iran Press TV] The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson was reporting an anti-war protest event in Westminster when he lost temper with a protestor holding a placard which read "Cut the war not the poor" before stamping it, British media reported.
When challenged over his overreaction to a peaceful anti-war rally, which has been captured on camera and uploaded to the internet, Robinson said he was "not even remotely ashamed".
Robinson claimed that the placard wielder had been interrupting his broadcast, but the footage shows a protestor shouting at the BBC editor: "You should be ashamed of yourself".
Confronted after the incident by the camera-wielding activist, Robinson remarked: "I'm not remotely ashamed of myself." But a posting on his blog revealed he has since softened his stance.
"I have a confession," he wrote. "I grabbed the sign and ripped it up - apparently you can watch video of my sign rage in full glorious Technicolor on the web. I lost my temper and I regret that.
"However, The infamous However... as I explained afterwards to the protesters who disrupted my broadcast, there are many opportunities to debate whether the troops should be out of Afghanistan without the need to stick a sign on a long pole and wave it in front of a camera."
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) claims itself to be an independent media outlet which exercises impartiality as far as the government policies are concerned. Although it has been trying to pretend that it reports the truth but its crew members are failing to remain as impartial as they are supposed to be.
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The elites get really angry when the little people try to interfere with Adult Time. A hundred years ago Nick Robinson would have horsewhipped the scoundrel.
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TV luvvies have the phrase 'never work with children or animals' but for some reason the news reporters haven't adopted the slogan 'never do a live outside broadcast'. The viewers don't pay any attention to what the reporter's saying, they're just watching the crowds and passers-by, wondering which one will be the first to do something stupid to try to interrupt.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) claims itself to be an independent media outlet which exercises impartiality as far as the government policies are concerned. Although it has been trying to pretend that it reports the truth but its crew members are failing to remain as impartial as they are supposed to be.
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Meanwhile, Bat Fans, over at WAFF > it appears that the "HONEY TRAP" = SEXY SLINKY NAKED COVERT NOT-ANNA-CHAPMAN-ESQUE SPY BABES[undetermined-at-this-time Foreign INTEL Service{s?)] were seemingly used to entice + SEPARATE MALE TURKISH NAVAL OFFICERS, OTHER FROM SENSITIVE/CLASSIFIED INFO AS PER SECRET NAVAL PROJECTS???
[Iran Press TV] Amnesty International has called for an investigation into human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... violations committed against former child detainee Omar Baby Face Khadr.
The calls comes after Khadr was forced to accept a plea deal and plead guilty to five "war crime" charges against him at a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Forced?
The 24-year-old is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier during a July 2002 raid on an al-Qaeda compound in Afghanistan.
He was only 15 years old when he was maimed and captured by US troops in Afghanistan.
Khadr now faces charges of murder in violation of the laws of war, conspiracy, providing material assistance to a terrorist organization and espionage. This is while many critics say that the Canadian citizen should not be prosecuted because killing a soldier during a firefight does not amount to "war crime."
"While military trial proceedings may be coming to an end in Omar Khadr's case, the obligation on the US authorities to address serious concerns about human rights violations suffered by him does not end," said Rob Freer, Amnesty International's USA researcher.
He added that US authorities "have ignored their international duties in the treatment of children, which was the case when Omar Khadr was jugged eight years ago."
Under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, which the United States ratified in 2002, governments are obligated to recognize the special situation of children who have been recruited or used in an armed conflict.
However, The infamous However... Washington has not only ignored the protocol, but also has sent the former child detainee to Guantanamo Bay detention center -- arguably Washington's most notorious detention camp.
Khadr has repeatedly alleged that he was subjected to interrogation techniques and detention conditions that amounted to torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
"The US must abandon military commissions and bring any Guantanamo detainee it intends to prosecute to trial in ordinary civilian federal court, in accordance with international fair trial standards," Freer stressed.
On January 22, 2009, US President Barack B.O. Obama signed executive orders directing the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp within a year and the immediate case-by-case review of detainees still held at the facility. Obama's orders, however, have yet to be materialized.
Earlier in October, the White House also refused to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, becoming the only country beside Somalia not to have done so.
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[Dawn] The Federal Investigation Agency has completed its probe into the liquidation of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and held the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain responsible for her death in a gun-and-bomb attack, sources in the FIA told Dawn on Monday.
The FIA is likely to submit the investigation report before an anti-terrorism court on Oct 30.
According to the sources, the FIA's investigation team was reluctant to submit the challan before the court because it could not complete its investigation regarding three absconders in the case, Abdur Rehman, Saddam and Faiz Mohammad.
The investigation report, however, is now saying that the three absconders were killed in a military operation in tribal areas.
Five of the accused, who are all members of TTP, have already been jugged. They are Rafaqat, Hussain, Sher Zaman, Aitzaz Shah and Abdul Rashid.
The head of FIA's team, Khalid Mehmood, told Dawn that the investigation had not been completed, but he did not deny that its report was being presented before the court on Oct 30.
But his answer raises a question that if the report is not complete, how will it be produced in a court.
The fresh investigation report has accused slain TTP chief Baitullah Mehsud of criminal masterminding the murder of Ms Bhutto.
The UN commission, in its report, had said that blaming the TTP leader for the liquidation before completion of investigations was tantamount to throwing the investigation off the scent.
The sources said the FIA team did not take statement of any public office holder who is accused in the case.
Earlier, the FIA team had decided to send a questionnaire to the interior minister because being a sitting minister he could not be summoned or interrogated. However, The infamous However... no questionnaire was sent to him.One of the main accused in the case, Ashfaq Anwar, who was head of Rawalpindi's Elite Force at the time of the murder and was responsible for the security to Ms Bhutto, has gone to UK on a scholarship.
Maj (retd) Imtiaz, the personal security officer of Ms Bhutto, is at present serving as DIG Quetta. A few days ago he held a meeting with President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari.
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[Dawn] Pakistain will consider mounting an anti-Taliban offensive in North Wazoo only when other tribal areas are stabilised, a senior military officer said on Tuesday, a position likely to anger ally Washington.
Pakistain has resisted mounting US pressure to launch a major operation in North Wazoo to eliminate the Haqqani Taliban faction.
The Mighty Pak Army has repeatedly said it is too stretched fighting Taliban Islamic fascistiin other forbidding mountaineous regions, and that only it can determine if and when to strike.
Lt.-Gen Asif Yasin Malik, the main military commander for the northwest, said it would take at least six months to clear forces of Evil from Bajaur and Mohmand, two of Pakistain's seven semi-autonomous tribal agencies.
"What we have to do is stabilise the whole area. I have a very large area in my command," he told news hounds on a trip to Orakzai agency. "The issue is I need more resources."
There are already six brigades in North Wazoo which carry out daily operations, he said.
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Don't give their excuse for a military 2 billing fricking dollars until they do the assault properly.
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ION MEMRI > PAKISTAN ARMY ALLOWS TALIBAN TO MOVE INTO NEW SANCTUARY IN KURRAM AGENCY WHILE ALSO FINALLY AGREEING TO CARRY OUT [military] OPERATIONS AGZ MILITANT COMMANDER IN NORTHWEST WAZIRISTAN.
["USS GEORGE WASHINGTON" CVN; ROK, US??? CANCELLED NAVAL DRILL HERE], as the US cannot confirm or deny that a Carrier = NAVEX Drill was even formally scheduled wid ROK??? THE USN = PAK ARMY = "AGREE IN PRINCIPLE" ONLY.
The United Nations Security Council could support the Palestinian's unilateral bid for statehood if Israel does not renew its freeze on new settlement construction, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry warned Israel on Tuesday.
"If the freeze is not renewed, then yes, maybe this is going to happen," Serry said as he spoke with The Jerusalem Post in an olive grove in the West Bank village of Turmus Aiya, located in the Binyamin Region near the Shiloh settlement.
In so far as the Paleos could have a state, it would look and act like Hamastan. Just what the world needs, another thugocracy. Next thing you know it'll be named to the UN Human Rights Commission ...
But he qualified his remarks by noting that he was an official of the UN and not a member of the Security Council, whose 15-member body would make such a decision.
The PA has threatened to turn to the UN and ask for recognition of Palestinian statehood inside the 1967 lines if the diplomatic process breaks down. The Palestinians said they would not resume talks unless Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu resumed a settlement moratorium, and Netanyahu has said he would consider the possibility of bringing an additional freeze to the cabinet if the Palestinians would recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people -- something they are refusing to do.
Serry told the Post, "I do not think it is helpful to come with conditions on either side." He added that recognition of Israel as a Jewish state was an understood part of a two-state solution.
"What is the essence of a two state solution," Serry said. "It is about two home lands for two peoples, the Palestinian and the Jewish people."
Still, he said that settlement construction would be harmful to the peace process.
Certainly for the Paleos, since it reminds them who has the upper hand and how powerless their 'friends' are ...
Serry added that it was important for Israel to make other tangible gestures, such as fewer military incursions into area A and more enablement of the PA in areas B and C, particularly with respect to zoning and Palestinian land development issues.
What tangible gestures will he demand of the Paleos?
"The occupation is being rolled back and Israel is taking positive steps, but we need to see more tangible progress," he told reporters."If the Palestinians living in this beautiful little town do not see that these things are being rolled back, it is difficult to convince them that we are working toward a two state solution.
"I hope the negotiations will be resumed soon," he said, adding that the best way to achieve this was for the two sides to come to a negotiated two state solution.
Serry said that the Palestinians were ready for statehood and threw his support behind Fayyad's two-year plan, first announced in August 2009, to prepare Palestinian institutions for statehood by that same time in 2011.
"All international players are now in agreement that the Palestinians are ready for statehood at any point in the near future," Serry said. "We are in the homestretch of your agenda to reach that point by August next year, and you have our full support."
He added, "Palestinian statehood is not only a right and in everyone's interest -- it is also doable."
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor responded by saying that "while Palestinian institutions may be ready for statehood, friends of the Palestinians would be well advised that real statehood can be reached only through direct negotiations with Israel, and that they should resume talks without pre-conditions and with no further delay."
A source in the Prime Minister's Office said that Netanyahu, like Serry, also believes Palestinian statehood is "doable." But, he said, "the path to the realization of Palestinian sovereignty can only be through direct negotiation with Israel, where leadership on both sides are willing to take historic decisions."
Like, for example, getting the Paleos to give up the 'right of return' ...
Referring to Palestinian threats to take the issue to the UN, Netanyahu said, "All other paths are a dead end, a mirage. It is crucial that the international community, in dealing with the Palestinians, says this clearly: Palestinian statehood is possible, but only achievable through a negotiated peace."
But Fayyad said that if Israel was committed to peace it would have taken more steps to curb settlement construction and/or halted it altogether. Such building, he explained, is illegal under international law.
"The youngest of these olive trees is more deeply rooted in this land than the largest Israeli settlement," Fayyad said.
Israel, he continued, must begin to view these laws and UN resolutions not as "mere recommendations" but as "obligations that have to fulfilled." But Israel does not seem eager to end the occupation, he said.
Paleos don't seem to be eager to end the intifada, nor do they seem to be especially eager to stop training their children as killers ...
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Three separate Hezbollah units are responsible for moving rockets from Syria to Lebanon and deploying them at various sites operated by the group, the French daily Le Figaro reported Monday.
Over the past year, international media outlets have published numerous reports on the upgrading of Hezbollah's high-trajectory missile capabilities and the increasing threat they pose against Israeli population centers. So far, Kuwaiti newspapers have been publishing most of these reports, joined now by a French paper quoting government sources in Paris.
In its detailed report on Hezbollah's missile and rocket arrays, Le Figaro described a dramatic event that occurred in January: "A warning signal flashed on American radar screens. The signal on the screen indicated preparations to move 26 M-600 rockets from Damascus to the Syria-Lebanon border. The rocket, manufactured in Syria, with a range of about 250 kilometers, were to have been given to Hezbollah in Lebanon, making strikes possible deep in Israeli territory."
Israel has outside sources of information beyond the Turkish secret service, which has now formally broken ties with Mossad, following similar actions by the Turkish government. (See here for details.)
I'll just guess that Mossad still has a number of 'informal' ways of getting information from the Turks.
Beyond that, there is a simple way to make the movement of missiles into Lebanon irrelevant: Israel simply needs to state publicly that if a single missile is launched from Lebanon into Israel, it will be considered to be an act of war by Syria, to which Israel will respond appropriately.
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Yokay, so we find that ISRAEL is being surrounded by NUCLEARIZING, MOSTLY ANTI-ISRAEL STATES + MILTERR GROUPS.
ARAB-MUSLIM MIL HISTORY > strongly indciates or infers that, for the time being, ISRAEL'S ENEMIES AS A CLASS WILL NOT MIL ATTACK ISRAEL ["EN MASSE"?] UNTIL SOME KIND OF MAJOR GEOPOL EVENT(S) OUTSIDE THE ME OCCURS ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD.
IOW, ISRAEL IS A "SECOND/TERTIARY" FRONT - the question becomes what is the abovementioned
"major geopol event" and where to occur?
E.g. MILITANT THREAT TO ASIA, i.e. RUSSIA + CHINA + INDJUH [India], NATO-EU?; + MILITANT REGIONAL, GLOBAL NUCLEAR THREAT [Nukes-WMDS =
STRATEGIC WEAPONS, MILTECHS].
[Iran Press TV] In a sudden U-turn, Soddy Arabia has called on pro-West Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to step down to pave the way for a pro-Syrian government.
The Saudis demanded Monday for Hariri to immediately step down and make way for an administration dominated by pro-Syrian ministers and Hezbullies, Israeli military intelligence website debkafile quoted its Middle East and Beirut sources as saying.
The resignation call comes days after Hariri told US Deputy Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman that he was under Saudi pressure to leave office and that he was about to give into the Saudi king's demand.
Feltman reportedly urged the Lebanese premier not to surrender and stay in office despite a deepening crisis triggered by a UN-backed tribunal into the liquidation of his father, late premier Rafiq Hariri in 2005.
Saad Hariri's resistance prompted the Saudi mouthpiece Asharq al-Awsat to publish an article on Monday, suggesting the Lebanese prime minister had a choice in the matter.
Chief Editor Tariq Alhomayed warned Hariri that he had run out of options and the only choice left for him was to follow his father's example and resign as prime minister as the senior Hariri did in 2004.
The Saudi daily asserted that no Lebanese leader stepping into Hariri's shoes would be able to question the legitimacy of a UN-backed tribunal investigating his father's liquidation in 2005.
Debkafile's sources, however, predicted that a pro-Syrian Sunni leader would annul the court and blame the killing of the popular prime minister on Israel -- which would ignite a war between Leb and Israel.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... confessions by two employees of the Lebanese Alfa cell phone company have revealed that during the thirty-two days of the 2006 Leb War, Israel had controlled the company's database.
Israeli sources expect Hezbullies to produce evidence proving that Israel was responsible for the Hariri murder and that Tel Aviv managed to blame the killing on Syria and Hezbullies by means of its command over Leb's telephone system.
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[Iran Press TV] The Leader of the Islamic theocracy Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the global arrogance is killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan in "cold blood."
Addressing a gathering of Iranian students and scholars in the holy city of Qom, Ayatollah Khamenei said the atrocities committed by foreign forces in Iraq and Afghanistan show that they are the "enemies of humanity."
The Leader said such crimes were the "result of the Western world's distance from divine thought" and the "abuse of power and wealth" by hegemonic powers.
Ayatollah Khamenei said the West's materialistic view lacks any basic purpose and only seeks worldly interests. The Leader said despite repeated failures the West continues to plot to distort the facts about Iran.
Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that the global hegemony continues to devise "plots" against the Islamic Theocratic Republic despite its repeated failures.
"Arrogant powers, through their advanced propaganda tools, are trying to distort the fact about the country," the Leader said on Tuesday.
Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to enemy plots to create the "antithesis" of the Islamic theocracy, once soon after its victory in 1979 and again after the death of the founder of the Islamic theocracy, Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, in 1989.
The Leader stressed that the Iranian nation should show greater "insight" in the face of enemy plots against the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
Ayatollah Khamenei said such insight includes a view of the world as a systematic and purposeful entity for human beings.
"Considering this fact, the Islamic establishment and the Iranian nation should vigilantly seek long-term plans to counter these plots," the Leader said.
Ayatollah Khamenei referred to last year's post-election events as yet another failure for Iran's enemies.
The Leader lamented the "lack of insight" by some candidates, who claimed the presidential vote was rigged and resorted to unlawful ways.
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I've been hoping for decades that "The West" will get hot blooded re Sharia-beasts.
Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah on Tuesday noted that "the objective of the Special Tribunal for Leb is undermining stability rather than maintaining justice," adding that "the evidence is that many heads of state had died here (in Leb) before" with the United States remaining idle about their cases.
After the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc held in Rabiyeh, Aoun stressed that "the issue of the Judicial Council is clear, and everyone knows that the murder of ex-PM Rafik Hariri had been referred to the Judicial Council since the beginning."
He clarified that "Opposition ministers have not set a deadline for resolving the false witnesses issue."
On the other hand, Aoun urged the Lebanese judiciary to speed up the issuance of verdicts against the perpetrators of an ambush against an army patrol in the Bekaa town of Majdal Anjar on Thursday, which had left an officer and a sergeant dead.
As Aoun condemned the "attacks" against Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud, he congratulated Telecom Minister Charbel Nahas "and our allies in the International Telecommunication Union for unveiling Israel's spying on the telecom sector."
The FPM leader called on the government to follow up on the issue.
He also asked the government to "publish the contracts with Sukleen (waste disposal company), so that we know what they contain."
"The defect that has been ongoing since 1993 at the Finance Ministry requires us to defend the public rights because debts have been increasing. We demand ultimate transparency in financial auditing and we won't accept any compromise," Aoun stressed.
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[An Nahar] French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Tuesday denied that France was willing to "back a Lebanese agreement that would annul the Special Tribunal for Leb," reiterating his country's support for international justice.
After meeting with Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri, the Hizbullah sock puppet in Gay Paree, Kouchner stressed that "no country can influence the tribunal and no one knows the content of the indictment."
He described the so-called false witnesses issue as an "additional" problem that the Lebanese judiciary must look into.
The French minister hoped that "Premier Saad Hariri's government is not at risk" so that Leb does not go back to "the previous impasse."
He said that Berri, for his part, does not think that the government is in jeopardy.
Kouchner said that Leb "is living a period of relative tension, compared to the previous stages of tension."
Commenting on the recent visit of Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad to Leb, the French minister said "it went good protocol-wise, but it didn't contribute to pacification, because what he said in South Leb were not words of peace."
On the other hand, Kouchner voiced his willingness to organize a conference that would gather the Lebanese parties in France, an initiative that was welcomed by Berri, according to the French minister.
France's "relation with Syria is fine and Leb is part of the region," Kouchner said, adding that Gay Paree "does not separate the Lebanese crisis from the situation in the region, and discussions with the Lebanese do not only tackle the domestic issues, but also the rest of the dossiers."
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[An Nahar] The third day of the International Media Forum organized by the Special Tribunal for Leb in The Hague has dropped the "conspiracy theory" which has long characterized Leb, sending those harmed by the Court to launch political and media campaigns targeting STL credibility and raising skepticism on the Court objectives.
Media representatives have noticed through the round table held at the headquarters of the Foundation of International Information in The Hague, Netherlands, that attacks against the STL -- accusations and skepticism on its establishment and its goals -- are only a replica of the campaign against the Former Yugoslavia Tribunal.
Common ground was found between the positions of those harmed by the Former Yugoslavia and Leb tribunals in discussions and exchange of information regarding challenges facing the media covering the work of the International Tribunal, from the standpoint of objectivity in combining between the legal mechanisms involving the investigative work and trials on one hand, and between the positions of political parties on the principle of international tribunals:
1 - Opponents of the Yugoslavia Tribunal who condemned a 1993 U.N. decision to set it up, argued that the Court aimed to divide the former Yugoslavia after the fall of Communism and the Soviet Union to weaken the new independent entities emerging to allow the United States to get hold of the region, just as some voices in Leb accused the U.S. of fragmenting the region via the Special Tribunal for Leb.
2- Opponents of the former Yugoslavia Tribunal believed upon its establishment that its work and the accusations it was going to issue would ignite sectarian strife between Mohammedans and Christians, which is what those Lebanese harmed by the Tribunal have been warning of.
3- Opponents of the Yugoslavia Tribunal considered that search for justice through the Court would lead to destabilization through multilateral war in an attempt to overthrow the court and prevent it from carrying out its work, which is actually what happened in the wars and battles of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and others. In Leb, however, the equation of a choice between justice and stability is flourishing given that those who refuse and are harmed by the STL consider justice sought by the Court will destabilize Leb and push the country and the region into complicated wars.
4- During the phase of the investigation into war crimes in former Yugoslavia scathing personal campaigns against the General Prosecutor were launched to an extent of describing her as "a bitch." This scenario was repeated with international investigators particularly Detlev Mehlis, who was accused of using his job to ensure lavish spending and meet the invitations to banquets and night life in Beirut. Investigator Serge Brammertz and STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare also did not survive accusations.
5- Those harmed by the former Yugoslavia Tribunal work have accused investigators that they were working for the interests of American and international intelligence. The same scenario is repeated today with the probe into the liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri when those harmed by the STL have accused Tribunal managers of serving the interests of the United States and Israel.
6- Many during the foundation phase of the former Yugoslavia sought to torpedo the court through regional and international equations and many bet on efforts to try to persuade Russia, heir to the Soviet Union and as Greek Orthodox leader, to work to help bring down the court to protect some Serb leaders indicted for war crimes. But the attempts failed and the Court carried on.
7- Those with the upper hand in the former Yugoslavia tried to stop the International Tribunal, a scenario echoed by STL opponents in Leb in the hope that they would succeed in stopping it through withdrawal of recognition. But the STL carried on.
8- Former Yugoslavia Tribunal faced difficulties since its establishment as well as financial obstacles, but every time things end up ensuring continuation of its work. For example, budget for the first year of the former Yugoslavia Tribunal began at $270,000 to reach today an annual budget of $300 million.
In short, all the accusations today against the Special Tribunal for Leb were previously launched against the former Yugoslavia Tribunal. And after more than 17 years of accusations against the Yugoslavia Tribunal, the Court still operates and has prosecuted Presidents, Cabinet ministers and military commanders, and continues to carry out the task that was entrusted to it via sessions -- between 4 and 5 sessions per week for a period between 6 and 8 hours a day.
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[Iran Press TV] Mohammedans live under " dictatorship" in the US, says an African-American Mohammedan activist, ahead of a review of the US human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... records by the UN Human Rights Council.
In less than two weeks, the Human Rights Council will, for the first time ever, assess the human rights status of the United States in a Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
"We [Mohammedans] believe that it is our duty, it is our responsibility to stand up to what we call the United States government's 'constitutional dictatorship'," activist and Imam of Masjid al-Islam Abdul Alim Musa told Press TV on Monday.
"When we say a constitutional dictatorship, we mean that they have a constitution, but with all of the new anti-terrorism bills, patriot acts, all of the homeland securities, all of the FBI memos... all of these new charges that they operate on allow them to go around all of the constitutional guarantees [for human rights,]" he added.
It is not only the Mohammedans that are under pressure in the United States, as other minorities also suffer discrimination.
According to a UPR report provided by the US government, the unemployment rate for African-Americans is 15.8 percent and for Hispanics, 12.4, compared to only 8.8 percent for whites.
A little less than half of African Americans and Hispanics own their homes, compared to three-quarters of the whites.
A person with disabilities is only one-fourth as likely to be employed as a person without, and white Americans are twice as likely as native Americans to have college degrees.
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According to a UPR report provided by the US government, the unemployment rate for African-Americans is 15.8 percent and for Hispanics, 12.4, compared to only 8.8 percent for whites.
Funny how they always leave out Asians (Japanese / Chinese / Koreans / Indians / etc..) or other groups which (like a lot of whites) value education, study and are better educated because of it. But I guess that wouldn't fit the narrative.
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"In less than two weeks, the Human Rights Council will, for the first time ever, assess the human rights status of the United States in a Universal Periodic Review (UPR)."
1. Who sold us out to the UN?
2. Does this mean we'll actually be allowed to get fingerprinted or require ID in order to vote versus the sham system we use now?
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While in college I was a bit of a lefty (center left). I read an Amnesty International annual report that was so weighted against reality and the West it made me sick. Half the freaking thing was listing the nightmarish situation in the US and UK while Cuba got ten pages or so. It was at that point I realized the left really can't be trusted with the truth, they have agendas. Opened my eyes and hopefully that Human Rights Coujncil report will do the same to a lot of others.
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OTOH DRUDGEREPORT > BIN LADEN ISSUES WARNING TO FRENCH | BIN LADEN BLAMES FRENCH "INJUSTICE" FOR ABDUCTIONS-TV. AQIM 09/10 kidnappings of French Nationals in Niger.
"EYE FOR AN EYE" + "ANTI-COLONIALISM/
IMPERIALISM" = IMO OSAMA is essens warning that AQ + RADIC ISLAM have the right to attack France, ...@etc. Euros as long as allegedly abusive French = Euro Troops, Civilan Proxies of same are in Muslim Countries. IOW, FRANCE, EU WILL BE ATTACKED IN LT IFF FRENCH FORCES, ENTITIES, EU DON'T LEAVE.
"2012", NUCLEAR IRAN, NUC MILTERRS, + "TESTING THE BAMMER", i.e. a Muslim/Islamist-perceived "WEAK" POTUS.
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OSAMA = PCorrect "ANTI-ADAM GADAHN" calling for US-WORLD Muslims to oppose + overththrow the LOCAL = DOMESTIC shackles of repression + tyranny agz them = PROTESTS, CIVIL WAR + REVOLUTION IN AMERICA = AMERIKA IN THE NAME OF AMER SHARIA, MUSLIM RIGHTS.
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