[Tolo News] Russia may send troops to Afghanistan for the first time since its last soldiers were pulled out of the country in 1989
The soldiers will be sent to Afghanistan under a joint initiative with Nato.
The plan will be discussed at a Nato summit next month in which the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev will also participate.
Nato officials have said that Russia has previously agreed to sell helicopters to Afghanistan and also provide training to the Afghan cops.
For the first time, Moscow will allow Nato forces to send supplies to Afghanistan over land.
The plan is expected to be agreed upon at Nato summit in Lisbon.
Nato's Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he hoped "a broad range of areas" will be agreed upon in the summit to develop cooperation on Afghanistan in "counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics" issues.
The efforts for the deployment of Russian troops in Afghanistan come at a time when Afghan president Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai has promised that his forces will take over the fight against insurgency by 2014.
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[Iran Press TV] The Supreme Court in Somalia has supported the country's president in the dispute with the speaker of the parliament over how to confirm the newly- appointed prime minister.
Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed maintains that the vote should be an open one while the parliament Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan contends that secret balloting would be more appropriate, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
In a statement issued by Somalia's highest court, chief justices ruled that the vote should be conducted by hand-raising as has been the case in previous confirmation votes in the parliament.
"The confirmation vote of the Prime Minister should be by hand-raising which is legal and has precedence," the chief justices said.
The constitutional dispute began when the new prime minister, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, was appointed by the country's president. The dispute has since escalated with rival politicians supporting each of the two men holding opposing meetings in Mogadishu.
More than 240 pro-president politicians on threatened to hold a parliamentary meeting on Monday without the presence of the parliament speaker but this was called-off after the intervention of the Supreme Court.
A similar meeting by pro-speaker MPs was held in the restive capital Mogadishu on Tuesday dismissing the Supreme Court ruling saying there was no "legal ambiguity" calling for the intervention of the Supreme Court.
The Somali parliament is anticipated to meet on Wednesday with the top agenda for both sides of the divide being the affirmation vote of the newly chosen Prime Minister. Each side is still maintaining its position on how the vote should be conducted.
The appointment of Mohamed has been controversial as he is thought of as being closer to the president rather than the speaker, analysts say.
The dispute emerged after both leaders over the weekend issued opposing statements on the legality of each side's position, over the method of voting to endorse the new prime minister.
The row is seen as major setback for the hapless Somali government which is fighting an insurgency that has forced the government into a few blocks of the restive capital.
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[Ennahar] An Algerian journalist says in a book published this week that he reveal the true identity of the leader of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), challenging in particular the one assigned by Interpol.
According to Mohamed Mokeddem, director of the Algerian Arabic daily "Ennhar", Abdelhamid Abou Zeid is called Mohamed Ghadir, not Abid Hamadou as experts on the Sahelian terrorism say and Interpol on its red list of wanted individuals.
The Algerian radical leader is responsible for several kidnappings of foreigners in the Sahel.
In an interview with AFP, Mr Mokaddem explained the mistake beacause both men "have the same story: both were originally smugglers and joined the Islamic Front of Salvation (Fis) of their municipalities respectively.
They have "the same profile: a brother and two cousins who are allied to them and joined the gangs," added that specialist of AQIM whose book "Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, smuggling on behalf of Islam" was presented at the International Book Fair of Algiers.
Mr. Mokaddem says he could demonstrate his thesis through photos and interviews with the families concerned.
He said Mohamed Ghadir is white, born in the region of Debdeb, near the Libyan border, while Abid Hamadou is black, born in Touggourt in the province of Ouargla (south, 800 km from Algiers).
"According to reports, Abid Hamadou would have fallen under the bullets of the army in the Sahara in the 90s", but his death was not recorded, said the journalist.
It's by comparing the evidence and photographs of two men with their respective mothers, some "repentant" (Veterans faceless myrmidons Islamist who have benefited from the amnesty decreed by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika) and former French hostage Peter Camatte kidnapped November 25, 2009, that Mohamed Mokeddem arrived at this conclusion.
Camatte, released in February 2010, "confirmed the true identity of Abu Zeid" using the picture that has been submitted, he said.
Mr. Mokeddem also asserts that the French Michel Germaneau kidnapped April 19 and declared and whom Aqmi actually declared killed, died "of a heart attack early last July. His sources are "Algerian merchants who have links in Mali" where the hostage was being held and "sources relating to the security situation in the Sahel region. ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...
Abu Zeid, appeared in 2003 as assistant of Abderazak the Para during the kidnapping of 32 European tourists, and would be responsible for a series of kidnappings, including that of British Dyer executed in June 2009 and more recently, five French, one Malagasy and one Togolese in northern Niger.
Mr. Mokeddem ensures that the businesses of kidnapping makes AQIM live. "The ransoms are transferred for the purchase of ammunition and weapons. This market is very important in Mali and Niger," where soldiers and former Tuareg rebels sell their equipments.
Part of the funds, he assures, is milled in particular "in the fast food and transportation.
According to Mr. Mokeddem, specialist of jihadist networks, this nebula has moved on the ground with the emergence of Nigerian Boko Haram in the north and the hundreds of deaths caused by last year's festivities with the Nigerian army.
"The future of AQIM, he said, is Nigeria not in the Sahel.
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[Yemen Post] The Jardan tribes in Shabwa province threatened on Wednesday to take serious action against the local government amid allegations they had been cheated by a bigwig over their dispute with the South Korean state oil company Knoc.
The official gave us the governor's promise to resolve our dispute with the company over our demand to have posts in it, saying the company's operations would be halted if we eliminated checkpoints and withdrew armed rustics, a sheikh said.
But the local government did not adhere to the truce terms and let the company continue its operations as if we did not reach a truce, he added, threatening the tribes will strongly respond to the conspiracy and abuse of the governor's word by those who have used to draw the region into conflict.
Tow days ago, the tribes fought the security forces which wanted to secure the company from armed rustics demanding jobs in it.
They are demanding to allocate posts in the company for them as it happens with other foreign companies in other Yemeni areas.
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The evangelical activist Robert Park, who was detained in North Korea for 43 days after crossing the border from China in December last year, has spoken for the first time on South Korean TV about the ordeal. "They have really thought about this. How can we kill these people, how can we starve these people, how can we enslave these people, how can we control these people," the Korean American told KBS on Tuesday.
He pledged to devote the rest of his life to fighting for the demise of the North Korean regime and the human rights of North Koreans.
Park recalled how he crossed the Duman (or Tumen) River on Dec. 25 last year, and was immediately arrested and beaten. "The scars and wounds of the things that happened to me in North Korea are too intense," he said. He added that to prevent him from divulging the details of his detention, the security forces carried out humiliating sexual torture. "As a result of what happened to me in North Korea, I've thrown away any kind of personal desire. I will never, you know, be able to have a marriage or any kind of relationship."
He attempted a suicide immediately after he returned to the United States and had to be treated by a psychiatrist for seven months.
Park insisted that an apology he read on North Korean TV was dictated to him. Asked why he decided to enter the North illegally armed with nothing but a Bible, he said, "I hoped through my sacrifice, that people will come together and they will liberate North Korea."
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ION WMF > CHINA FEARS NORTH KOREA WILL TURN TO THE US-JAPAN ON TRADE + REGIONAL SECURITY.
* SAME > RUSSIAN MEDIAS: EXPERT BELIEEVS WORLD IS MOVING AN ERA OF MANY "SMALL STATES WID BIG POWER". TRAIDITIONAL MAJOR POWERS TO EXERCISE GEOPOL RESTRAINT, SEMI-ISOLATIONISM.
(KUNA) -- North Korea demanded 500,000 tons of rice and 300, 000 tons of fertilizer in humanitarian aid from South Korea in return for concessions over reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, according to South Korea's news pool report Wednesday. South Korean Red Cross delegates told their North Korean counterparts here that their organization had no power to approve such massive aid, a South Korean official involved in the talks told reporters in Seoul. The demand was made during the second day of the Koreas' Red Cross talks. The North asked on Tuesday that the sides increase "humanitarian cooperation projects" as a way to expand chances for families separated by the Korean War to be reunited. The talks in the North Korean border town of Kaesong came ahead of the first family reunions in a year at the Mount Kumgang resort in eastern North Korea from Saturday to next Friday, a sign of easing tension on the peninsula.
More than 80,000 South Koreans are waiting for a chance to be reunited with their loved ones left in the North after the 1950-53 war ended in a truce. About 20,800 Koreans have been reunited since 2000, when the countries' governments held their first summit. South Korea demanded during the two-day talks in Kaesong that the reunions be held at least nine times each year. The South Korean officials said North Korean delegates "tied the reunion issue to rice and fertilizer aid." South Korea stopped sending massive food aid to North Korea after President Lee Myung-bak took office in early 2008 with a pledge to link such assistance to progress in Pyongyang's denuclearization efforts. The relations between the divided countries hit the lowest point in years when the South condemned the North in May for the sinking of one of its warships late March. 46 sailors died in the sinking that the North denies any role in. South Korea shipped 300,000-400,000 tons of rice to North Korea annually before Lee, a conservative, took over. The South this week is sending a shipment of 5,000 tons of rice to the North in flood aid through the Red Cross channel. The North Korean Red Cross is also demanding that the South resume its cross-border tours to Mount Kumgang, where a South Korean tourist was shot to death in 2008 after apparently wandering into a restricted zone.
The tours immediately ground to a halt. North Korea says it has taken every measure to account for the shooting and guarantee safety, while the South calls for a renewed on-site probe and an array of tangible security measures. The tours were long seen as a symbol of inter-Korean reconciliation and won Pyongyang millions of US dollars every year until 2008. On Wednesday, the North renewed its demand that the two governments quickly hold dialogue on ways to revive the cross-border tourism project.
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They "DEMAND" we give them food? Uppity litle beggars don't send them ANYTHING until they realise they're NOT in a demnding position of power.
Appologise first and grovel a bit (Lose "Face") then ASK politely.
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Shooting people trying to get out rather than shooting people trying to get in is nature's way of migration that say conditions are below sucking level in the former.
Thank you, HEU, for my first belly laugh of the day. Check out that healthy Kim Jong-il (the picture taken a decade ago, before the stroke and the unhealthy lifestyle sapped his strength and marred his appearance) standing in a field of wildflowers (that would better have been terraced farms to produce some of the 500k tons of rice North Korea lacks this year). In the distance the mist of chemical weapons rises from the factories in the reeducation camps, where in noisome conditions toil the condemned and all their friends and relations... and their innocent children and grandchildren who grow up with no idea of what their ancestors had done to condemn them to this hell.
Come to think of it, that isn't funny at all. When you die, HEU, I hope you spend an eternity experiencing the memories of those you dismiss with such a treacly attempt at the Great Man style of art. *
* To be fair, the images of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc in Great Man mode were just as bad. Why is it that evil, expansionist, totalitarian dictators inspire such a complete lack artistic imagination?
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Because good, creative, inspirational art is an individual expressing creativity. Can't have that so the art must be something which looks as though Jim Street did it on the way to morning rations.
Personally I like the Saddam collection, very amusing stuff...other than what it took to put the pictures up that is.
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You don't think he's serious, do you, tw? Really? Come now, HEU. You're putting us on. Right? That picture of Little Kimmie kinda reminds me of the picture of Joe Biden in today's Seedy Politicians section: If it wasn't so despicably evil it would be funny.
I'd love to oblige, wr, but I'm laughing too hard.
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You don't think he's serious, do you, tw? Really?
I'm a simple soul, Ebbang Uluque6305, not subtle at all. (Remember how I reacted the first time you posted? I felt awful, once I realized.) It was for people like me that emoticons and /sarc were invented. When they aren't there, I generally take the statement at face value, even when most people pick up the joke.
On Wednesday, the head instigator of an Islamic "charity" denounced Netanyahu over his praise of the naval commandos whose raid on a Gaza-bound boat killed nine Turks.
"Netanyahu's insolence has no limits," said Bulent Yildirim, head scoundrel of the IHH (Foundation of Humanitarian Relief),"killing innocent and defenseless people is not heroic."
Considering that his flotilla was going to help Hamas, a terrorist organization whose very mission statement involves killing innocent and defenseless people, Yildirim's comments go far beyond 'insolent'.
But of course. Mr. Yildirim is engaged in jihad, mostly but not completely not of the sword. Only aristocratic jihadis like Saladin are polite to their targets, and only then to their equally aristocratic targets like King Richard the Lionhearted, and even then they require them to sacrifice their entire country's riches as ransom.
"Moshe! Next time you go aboard a flotilla boat, make sure you don't kill anyone who's considered defenseless!"
"Does that actually reduce the target list, sir?"
Netanyahu paid tribute to the commandos' action as "vital, necessary, legal and of the utmost importance," on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said that Ankara was still waiting for hell to freeze over apologies and compensation from Israel.
The U.S. Army is preparing to host India's army in Alaska for a series of field engagements. The aim is to improve bilateral readiness while demonstrating U.S. commitment to South Asia and the broader Asia-Pacific region, according to the U.S. Army Pacific commander.
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon called the exercise an example of growing theater security cooperation that is extending far beyond historical alliances. U.S. Army Pacific conducted 214 of these events in 29 countries last year alone.
While reinforcing relationships with longtime partners in the region such as South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Australia, Mixon said the command is increasingly engaging with other nations. These include Indonesia and Malaysia as well as India.
During Yudh Abhyas 2010, the 25th Infantry Divisions 4th Brigade Combat Team "Spartans" will join their Indian counterparts in airborne and weapons exchanges and a brigade-level command post exercise. Last year's excercise included the largest deployment of Stryker armored vehicles outside a combat zone.
"The importance of the Asia-Pacific region is obvious to everybody," Mixon said. "So across the board, having a U.S. presence on the ground in the Asia-Pacific region enhances peace and stability in the area."
Mixon is emphasizing the importance of cultural "astuteness" among his troops. He noted that many of his soldiers adapted easily from culture to culture during exercises last year in Thailand and the Philippines. "That is what we want our soldiers to be able to do," he said.
U.S. Army Pacific is undergoing an internal reorganization designed to improve its ability to support operations in the Korean peninsula. That initiative, Pacific Integration, involves folding 8th U.S. Army in Korea into U.S. Army Pacific by next year. Eighth Army already has reorganized as the Armys only field army, poised on the Korean peninsula to fight alongside its South Korean counterparts, if required.
Mixon said that establishing a single service component in the Pacific eliminates redundancies and would provide a more efficient and more capable force.
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I think a wise foreign policy would be for the US to groom India to take over a lot of our "world's policeman" duties. We've been at it for 65 years, and its time we stopped carrying the whole burden.
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India should cut a strategic deal with China. They support Chinese claims to Tibet, and Central Asia, make the Dali Lama unwelcome in india, and patrol the sea lanes from the Gulf to Singapore to help ease Chinese oil supply issues. In exchange the Chinese stop supporting bad people in Pakistan and Afghanistan and elsewhere along India's borders.
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I don't think so, rj. That might be the way of Barak Obama. But let's all hope that at least the Indians learned their lesson from Neville Chamberlain.
[Geo TV] Chief of Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan ... who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker... has Wednesday said that the nation is paying the price of electing Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari as President of Pakistain while the current push and pull being witnessed among various blocs of Muslim League is only aimed at getting into power.
Addressing a public meeting in Burewala and a gathering at Vihari District Bar Association, Imran Khan said the dependence on foreign aid can be eliminated by setting the system in order.
"Relentless plundering by the rulers has pushed the country to the brink of bankruptcy," he maintained.
He said the turncoats are now facing humiliation and insult and that the innocent people are being killed in return for a few dollars
Commenting on the cricket woes of the country, Imran Khan said International Cricket Council (ICC) is getting stern due to the irresponsible statements of Pakistain Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman.
"Political appointments by PCB Chairman led to the downfall of cricket in the country," he observed, adding that things will only improve if decisions are taken on merit.
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[Geo TV] Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Wednesday termed kabooms on Mazars as a conspiracy to disintegrate the nation, saying the bully boyz are attempting to trigger a clash among different sects but added that he would defeat their design with the help of the nation.
Talking to media men during his visit to the recently attacked Mazar of Baba Farid Ganj Shakar in Pakpatan, Shahbaz Sharif declared the security arrangements put in place at the Mazar as satisfactory, saying the presence of tight security stopped the bully boyz from entering Dargah.
The Punjab Chief Minister offered fateha at the Mazar and later distributed cheques of Rs500,000 each to the families of the dead victims and of Rs75,000 each to the injured.
Earlier, Shahbaz Sharif arrived at Dargah Baba Farid in a helicopter and inspected the blast site. He visited the injured at District Hospital and suspended the MS on failing to provide proper treatment to them.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Russia's foreign ministry yesterday called for "clemency" for former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz after he was sentenced to death by hanging for murder and crimes against humanity.
"It is obvious that considerations of elementary humanity demand that he is shown clemency," the ministry said in a statement, calling on the Iraqi authorities to take account of Aziz's age and ailing health.
"We would like to be able to count on Iraq's presidential council not allowing this sentence to be enforced," the ministry said, acknowledging however that the sentence was Iraq's "internal affair."
Nice to see that Russia stands by their clients ...
Iraq's supreme criminal court imposed the death sentence on Aziz, the long-time international face of the Saddam Hussein regime, on Tuesday after finding him guilty of "deliberate murder and crimes against humanity."
Aziz turned himself in to US forces in April 2003, days after the fall of Storied Baghdad and was sentenced to death along with two other pillars of the former Iraqi regime, former interior minister Saadoun Shaker and Abid Hmoud, a one-time aide to Saddam.
Russian politicians earlier in the day denounced the death sentence imposed on Aziz after he was convicted on charges of murder and crimes against humanity.
"What has happened in Iraq is the elimination of a witness and a settling of accounts between different religions, not a victory for justice," Mikhail Margelov, the head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia's upper house, the Federation Council, was quoted as saying by Interfax.
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"We would like to be able to count on Iraq's presidential council not allowing this sentence to be enforced,"
TRANSLATION: "Please, dear Gawd, don't let him start spilling the beans about anything."
Mike
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i really doubt Russia gives a flying damn if anyone spills the beans about anything. They are widely known as a weapons supplier too every shithole in the world. Also who is gonna do anything about anything they may have did wrong?
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The Russians can sometimes be a little thoughtful about such things. Though he was in the inner circle, it's doubtful that he was of moment. I gather even those he had killed had tried to kill him, first.
So it is a simple question: is he worth hanging, or should he just spend a few years in the joint until he dies of natural causes?
After the publication of photos showing Turkish militants in Islamic Jihad uniform, the Paleo-terrorists claim that Israel used souvenir photos as 'filthy propaganda,'.
Why would it be ok for Turks to play dress-up in terrorist garb?
Calls for Avoiding Dragging Lebanon into Reckless Adventures
[An Nahar] The March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... general secretariat condemned on Wednesday the attack against Special Tribunal for Leb investigators that took place in Dahiyeh today "at the hands of residents affiliated with Hizbullah that assaulted the investigators and stole their files."
It said in a statement after its weekly meeting that the attack was reminiscent of attacks that had targeted the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Interim Force in Leb in the South, "which is an attack against international legitimacy and resolutions."
Furthermore, it criticized the March 8 forces' insistence on eliminating the STL and "substituting it with another cause, which the March 14 forces believe will only lead to unrest and strife."
It reaffirmed its support for the international tribunal, calling on regional powers to stop using Leb as a pawn in their battle with international justice.
Addressing Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Naji Otari's recent criticism describing the March 14 forces as "carton structures," the secretariat general noted: "While the Syrian premier launched a 'carton' attack against Leb's independence forces, the Syrian President 'assured' us of his commitment to stability."
The March 14 coalition condemned the discrepancy in the positions and the opposition's media outlets' constant warning of a future unrest in Leb, saying: "The blatant provocative behavior will not affect the March 14 forces' determination."
It called on the other team to "return to reason and avoid dragging Leb into reckless adventures."
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Violence Won't Deter OTP from Pursuing Its Mission ... until they're all dead ...
[An Nahar] The Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Leb on Wednesday denounced "the use of violence," after a group of women charged at U.N. investigators at a Dahiyeh gynecology clinic and snatched a briefcase containing documents from them.
"The investigation into the Hariri attack will continue and this incident will not deter the OTP from pursuing its mission," STL's press office stressed in a communiqué.
The Office of STL Prosecutor Danielle Bellemare "takes this incident very seriously and is currently gathering the facts. The Lebanese authorities have launched an investigation," the communiqué went on to say.
It noted that on Wednesday morning "two investigators from the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Leb and an STL interpreter attended a pre-arranged meeting at a doctor's office in Beirut as a legitimate step in their ongoing investigation."
"The process leading to the visit was handled professionally and in accordance with legal safeguards. The visit had been approved by the Lebanese authorities."
The OTP noted that the investigators were accompanied by members of the judicial police and the army.
"The doctor, having received approval from the Beirut Order of Physicians to meet with the OTP investigators, had agreed to the meeting," the OTP added.
"The session with the doctor was conducted in a respectful manner. During the meeting, a large group of people showed up unexpectedly and violently attacked the investigators and their female interpreter. Several items belonging to OTP staff were stolen during the attack."
The Lebanese army extracted the three staff members and brought them back safely to the STL Beirut Office where they were provided with medical attention, according to the OTP.
The U.N.-backed STL was set up by a 2007 U.N. resolution to find and try the killers of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in a massive Beirut bombing on February 14, 2005.
Leb is facing a full-blown crisis over the tribunal as unconfirmed reports indicate it is set to accuse members of Hizbullah.
Hizbullah has confirmed several of its members, both male and female, have been interrogated in connection with the Hariri murder.
The Syrian- and Iranian-backed party has also accused the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society of interfering in Lebanese affairs and warned such an eventuality will have repercussions in Leb, calling instead for a local investigation.
Saudi-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of the slain ex-premier, has meanwhile vowed to see the tribunal through.
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[An Nahar] The attack this morning in Beirut against staff members of the Special Tribunal for Leb is a deplorable attempt to obstruct justice, STL's press office said in a communiqué on Wednesday.
"Those who carried out this attack must know that violence will not deter the Special Tribunal for Leb, a court of law, from fulfilling its mandate," added the communiqué.
"The President of the Tribunal, Judge Antonio Cassese, the Head of the Defense Office, Mr. Francois Roux and the Acting Registrar, Mr. Herman Von Hebel condemn violence in the strongest of terms."
STL's press office noted that Cassese "will report this regrettable incident to the Government of Leb and to the U.N. Secretary-General."
Earlier Wednesday, a group of angry women charged at U.N. investigators at a Dahiyeh gynecology clinic and snatched a briefcase containing documents from them.
Doctor Iman Sharara, who runs the private obstetrics and gynecology clinic, told news hounds a team of two male investigators, their female translator and a plain clothes security officer arrived at her practice mid-morning on a scheduled appointment.
"They asked me for the phone numbers of between 14 and 17 people who visited my practice since 2003 and I told them it would take me some time to review my files," she said at her clinic in the Hizbullah-controlled southern suburb of Beirut.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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(KUNA) -- North Korea demanded 500,000 tons of rice and 300, 000 tons of fertilizer in humanitarian aid from South Korea in return for concessions over reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, according to South Korea's news pool report Wednesday. South Korean Red Cross delegates told their North Korean counterparts here that their organization had no power to approve such massive aid, a South Korean official involved in the talks told reporters in Seoul. The demand was made during the second day of the Koreas' Red Cross talks. The North asked on Tuesday that the sides increase "humanitarian cooperation projects" as a way to expand chances for families separated by the Korean War to be reunited. The talks in the North Korean border town of Kaesong came ahead of the first family reunions in a year at the Mount Kumgang resort in eastern North Korea from Saturday to next Friday, a sign of easing tension on the peninsula.
On Wednesday, the head 
