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Am I the only one that finds this kinda ominous?
Not in that part of the world.
Now when I start seeing this being proposed to non-mooselimb French girls being offered for marriage, then I will be worried. I give about 10-15 years until that prophecy comes true.
Frømandskorpset need to be given the green light and pronto
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Disgusting Sub-Animals. How about we send Sven down to rape the pirate with a glass soda bottle instead? And then completely rid Somalia of all human life? That sounds good to me. Dribble2712, Im channeling you today.
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If anywhere , you'll find that subhuman in the sinktrap raving in his own unique delinquent way
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[Al Jazeera] Cairo will recognise South Sudan as an independent state, Nabil Elaraby, the Egyptian foreign minister, has said during a visit to Khartoum.
Elaraby is in the Sudanese capital as part of a visiting Egyptian delegation, headed by Essam Sharaf, the prime minister. The visit to Sudan is Sharaf's first abroad since taking office in the wake of Egypt's uprising that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak. ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
"Sudan intends to be the first to recognise Juba (capital of South Sudan) and Egypt intends to be the second to recognise the south," Elaraby said on Sunday, two months after the region voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to secede from Khartoum.
Elaraby also said Egypt would introduce a new proposal to Nile Basin nations to try to overcome a stalemate on sharing the river's waters.
South Sudan has not declared a position on sharing Nile waters but most analysts believe it is likely to side with its east African allies.
They have signed a new treaty aimed at ensuring what they say would be a more equitable distribution of the water, worrying Egypt which is struggling to grow food for its burgeoning population.
"We will be offering a new proposal to the Nile Basin states ... and we hope to find a solution which will not harm any nation," Hussein Ehsan el-Atfi, Egypt's water resources and irrigation minister, told news hounds in Khartoum.
He did not go into details but Magdy Rady, the Egyptian government front man, said an unfinished and long-stalled project to create the Jonglei Canal in South Sudan, which would channel swamp water back into the Nile, would be discussed in Juba.
"This is still a project - we spent a lot of money on it and there's still a little money left to finish it. This project - if we finish it - it will provide 4 billion extra [litres of water a year]," he said.
"This will be divided between Egypt and south Sudan - if they are not in urgent need of it, we are in urgent need of it."
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I guess this is in reaction to the non-reported violence between Egypt and Sudan earlier this week?
mostly untrained
lightly armed
some Libyan Americans
some heavy bearded types who pray fervently
a lot of the unemployed looking for something to do
a Jeffersonian type or two
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Efforts appear to be under way to offer Muammar Gaddafi a way of escape from Libya, with Italy saying it was trying to organise an African haven for him, and the US signalling it would not try to stop the dictator from fleeing. How about DRC? Zim-bob-we? I've got it! Ivory Coast!
The move came amid mounting diplomatic and military pressure on Gaddafi as Britain tries to assemble a global consensus demanding he surrender power while intensifying air strikes against his forces. An international conference in London -- including the UN, Arab states, the African Union, and more than 40 foreign ministers -- will focus on co-ordinating assistance in the face of a possible humanitarian disaster and building a unified international front in condemnation of the Gaddafi regime and in support of Nato-led military action in Libya.
On the eve of the conference, Italy offered to broker a ceasefire deal in Libya, involving asylum for Gaddafi in an African country. "Gaddafi must understand that it would be an act of courage to say: 'I understand that I have to go'," said the Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini. "We hope that the African Union can find a valid proposal."
A senior American official signalled that a solution in which Gaddafi flees to a country beyond the reach of the international criminal court (ICC), which is investigating war crimes charges against him, would be acceptable to Washington, pointing out that Barack Obama had repeatedly called on Gaddafi to leave.
"I can't say I know of active efforts to find him a place to go, but I would not say it has been ruled out," the official said. "The ICC has said it will ready to pursue the case, but there are also the rules of the ICC," he added, pointing out that some countries do not recognise the court's jurisdiction.
British officials said they would rather see Gaddafi face trial, but if his escape was the price of a peaceful settlement they would be able to live with that.
David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy tried to ratchet up the pressure on Gaddafi, issuing a joint statement on the eve of the conference declaring his era over, and indicating that his lieutenants might escape prosecution if they abandoned him immediately. "We call on all his followers to leave him before it is too late," they said.
Meanwhile Obama gave a televised speech to the American people in which he explained why the US was involved in the conflict, as a response to his domestic critics over the crisis. The US president increased the pressure on Gaddafi by saying it was imperative his rule be ended. "We continue to pursue the broader goal of a Libya that belongs not to a dictator but to its people," he said. "Gaddafi has not yet stepped down from power and until he does Libya will remain dangerous."
He also used his speech to emphasise that strikes against Gaddafi's forces would continue even as American leadership of the campaign transferred to Nato tomorrow. "Our coalition will keep the pressure on Gaddafi's forces," he said.
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Italy plots Gaddafi's escape route
The Italians were given this task? The French must be quite angry.
[Al Jazeera] Hosni Mubarak, ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... Egypt's ousted president, has been put under house arrest along with his family, according to an Egyptian military statement.
Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Monday said that the former leader and his family would not be allowed to leave the country and denied reports that Mubarak had decamped to Soddy Arabia.
"There is no truth to reports that former president Hosni Mubarak has left Egypt for Tabuk in Soddy Arabia," the council said in a statement on the social networking site Facebook. "He is under house arrest, with his family, in Egypt."
The military council took power on February 11 after Mubarak was pushed from office following 18 days of massive street protests against his 30-year rule.
Egypt's prosecutor general on March 3 denied media reports that Mubarak was in Soddy Arabia, insisting that he was at his family home in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Media reports suggested that Mubarak had gone to Tabuk to receive medical treatment, with the state-owned daily Al-Akhbar claiming Mubarak was receiving medical treatment for cancer.
Egypt is due to hold parliamentary elections in September, although no exact date has yet been given for a presidential vote.
The country's emergency laws, in place since 1981, are to be lifted ahead of the parliamentary vote, the military council has said. The laws give police near-unlimited powers of arrest and allowed indefinite detentions without charges.
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[Arab News] Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, laid the foundation stone for the Students' Islamic Center in New Delhi Sunday and urged the student community to work together to change the social order and bring about progress and prosperity.
The Saudis, generous souls that they are, have been working for change via their educational charities for quite some time.
The imam commended the Students Islamic Organization of India (SIO), which is building the center, for its efforts in spreading the message and culture of Islam among the student community. The SIO has branches in most Indian states as well as in GCC countries.
We don't need the Saudi-sponsored SIO in America -- we've got the Muslim Brotherhood's Muslim Student Association instead.
"I am very happy to learn that the SIO is playing an important role in the Indian society," the imam said. "The student community is a vital source of development and progress for any country," he said.
So true. Unfortunately, India's Muslims are so fervently educating their children in madrassahs to be Muslim that their educational attainment is fighting that of the Untouchables for bottom of the Indian barrel.
He wished every success for the student center project.
Earlier, SIO President Muhammad Azharuddin welcomed the imam and introduced his organization. "We are greatly honored to have Your Excellency to launch this Islamic center project," he said.
The SIO works for preparing students and youth for the reconstruction of society in the light of divine guidance, Azharuddin said. "The SIO believes that the real function of education should be to impart genuine knowledge about life, existence and future," he added.
As opposed to preparing the students to be productive citizens when they graduate.
The ceremony at the SIO headquarters was attended by President of Indian Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Jalaluddin Umari, the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs' Abdul Aziz Swaleh, Jamaat vice presidents Siddique Hassan and Muhammad Jaafar, SIO's secretary-general P.M. Saleh and other dignitaries.
Al-Sudais, who is on a five-day tour of India, also attended an Islamic conference organized by Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind where he called for setting up a television channel to spread the teachings of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
They've already got a couple of those in India. Do try to keep up, Shaikh Al-Sudais.
The imam emphasized the importance of inculcating the values professed by the sahaba (the Prophet's companions) in the daily lives of Mohammedans. He urged parents to bring up their children on these values. "A special TV channel should be set up to ensure that people get to know about the noble lives of the sahaba and their values and messages," the imam said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The main opposition BNP will not team up with Jamaat-e-Islami to launch any anti-government programme until war crimes allegations against top Jamaat leaders are settled, party insiders have said.
Jamaat leaders in a recent meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... tried to convince her to revive the four-party alliance, they said.
The leader of the opposition said the alliance is more of an electoral coalition and it would be revived at the right time.
Khaleda, now in Soddy Arabia, said she would announce agitation programmes after the Cricket World Cup, as Bangladesh is a co-host of the big event.
Acting Jamaat chief Maqbul Ahmed and acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam, who were present in the meeting, refused to comment on the issue.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said it is not time to go for a joint movement against the government, as the matter is yet to be discussed in the party forum.
Some BNP leaders said a section of influential leaders are strongly opposing the idea to revive the alliance, as some senior Jamaat leaders now face trial for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
Jamaat must get cleared of war crimes allegations for the revival of the four-party alliance, said the leaders.
Otherwise it might leave a negative impression on people. BNP doesn't want to face any criticism over its ties with Jamaat, they said.
The Awami League-led government initiated trial of war criminals in line with an electoral pledge. The main opposition neither supported nor opposed the move.
BNP and Jamaat participated in the last two general elections under the four-party alliance, but the coalition has remained inactive after its debacle in the 2009 parliamentary elections.
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[Chosun Ilbo] North Korea has unveiled a statue of leader Kim Jong-il, probably the first in the communist country. "It is our highest privilege and good fortune to be able to unveil a bronze statue of our comrade commander for the first time in our country," Gen. Kim Jong-gak, a vice director of the People's Army's General Political Bureau, was quoted as saying by an army newsletter that also carried a picture of the statue.
The streets of Pyongyang are riddled with statues of former leader Kim Il-sung, but this is the first representing Kim Jong-il. "There were occasional accounts of sightings of Kim Jong-il statues, but this is the first photograph of a full-body statue of him made by the state," a Unification Ministry official said.
"There have been instances when loyal officials insisted on erecting a statue of Kim Jong-il, but Kim always declined," a senior defector who beat feet from the North last year said. "He also initially rejected a proposal back in the 1980s to hang portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il side by side, which led to confusion among the public over which picture to hang on their walls."
The leader apparently has good reason to oppose the construction of statues depicting him. "The emergence of statues of a leader signifies the end of his reign," a South Korean intelligence official said. Statues of Kim Il-sung began to appear at the end of his reign and the start of Kim Jong-il's leadership.
The bronze statue may be a project by his son Jong-un, who is widely expected to inherit the North Korean throne. Kim Yong-hyun, a North Korea expert at Dongguk University, said Kim junior appears to be consolidating his succession by canonizing his father just as Kim Jong-il justified his rise to power through a personality cult of Kim Il-sung.
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Maybe they actually bronzed ole Kimmie.
It's cheaper than buying his meds.
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[IRNA] IRNA - A largely-attended anti-US rally in Islamabad Sunday condemned desecration of the Holy Koran by a so-called American pastor and called for an urgent OIC conference to chalk out strategy to counter such acts.
Organized by Jamaat-e-Islami, the rally also condemned U.S. drone strikes in Pakistain's tribal region and the mysterious release of a CIA contractor who had killed two Paks.
Thousands of men joined the rally which was led by the Jamaat chief, Syed Munawar Hassan ... The funny-looking Amir of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He joined the National Students Federation (NSF), a lefty student body, and was elected its President in 1959. He came into contact with the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) Pakistan and studied the writings of Mawlana Syed Abul Ala Maududi, The Great Apostasizer. As a result, he joined IJT in 1960 and soon he was elected as President of its University of Bloody Karachi Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. He was Assistant Secretary General of Jama'at-e-Islami Pakistan in 1992-93, and became Secretary General in 1993. After years of holding Qazi's camel he was named Amir when the old man stepped down in 2009... , who said the U.S. is hatching conspiracies against Islam and the Mohammedans but the Pak rulers and generals were not ready to doff the yoke of US slavery.
The participants of the rally marched for three kilometers on the main road leading to the parliament house with banners and placards and were raising slogans condemning the devilish pastor's blasphemous act.
Hasan said that the responsibility for the desecration of the Holy Koran by an American pastor rested on the cowardly rulers of the Mohammedans world including Pakistain.
He said that the powers blaming the Mohammedans of extremism and non-tolerance were in fact worried over the rapid advances of Islam in their own lands and had resorted to the blasphemy of the Holy Prophet and the Holy Koran.
"If the Mohammedan rulers had some sense of honour and dignity, they must have worked out a joint strategy against the US highhandedness and terrorism, and cut off all ties with it".
He called upon the OIC to summon an emergency meeting to urge the UN to take serious note of the act of fanatic American preacher who has hurt sentiments of the Mohammedans across the world. He regretted that the U.S. administration had allowed the man to burn the Holy Koran and the American authorities have not taken any action against him.
The Jamaat chief strongly condemned a recent U.S. drone attack in North Wazoo tribal region which killed over 40 innocent rustics, who had gathered for a jirga or council.
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What is needed is a "Koran desecration randomizer", to generate thousands of "news stories" detailing countless stories of Korans being mistreated around the world, by infidels and Muslims alike.
Of course, "featured desecrators", like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, could get lots of stories that were particularly snarky, like how he makes a mulch of Korans to feed to his harem of pet pigs.
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While I was certainly not in attendance, I have it on reasonably good authority that former US State Department employee and SIG SAUER trick shooter Raymond Davis did not speak at this event.
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Ah, another "Anti-US Quran Desecration Rally & BBQ" event. That's just the Pakistani Taliban equivalent of a block party. Pay no attention unless they start killing each other.
The Federal Cabinet on Monday approved the reopening of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's murder case by filing a judicial review reference in the Supreme Court.
Briefing media persons after the federal cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... , Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan said that the cabinet discussed the issue in detail and unanimously approved to reopen the case.
"The Cabinet gave unanimous approval for the reopening of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's murder case, however the details would be given by Minister for Law in a couple of days," she remarked.
She said that it is a full decampedged legal procedure and we all must wait for its verdict as it is pre-mature to say anything at this stage.
Briefing media about the Cabinet decisions, the minister said that the cabinet also approved the devolution of five ministries to provinces which includes Ministry of Education, Culture, Special Education, Livestock and Dairy Development and Ministry of Tourism.
The minister informed that the meeting took strong exception of desecration of Holy Koran and condemned it strongly.
"There is need to raise collective voice in this regard as Pakistain is not the only Mohammedan country in the region," she added.
"Mohammedan countries must have unanimous point of view on the issue as it is our collective responsibility and our voice will not be effective until and unless we form common strategy," the minister added.
Dr. Firdous categorically stated that President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... made a call to his Turkish counterpart on the desecration of Holy Koran and both the leaders condemned the act in strongest words.
She said that the Cabinet also discussed the implementation of different development projects and urged the concerned ministries to evolve proper arrangements for their completion within the stipulated time.
Answering a question regarding drone attacks, the minister said that the Cabinet condemned the attacks on Pak soil and conveyed its reservations on the killing of innocent people.
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President Barack Obama Tuesday said the Libya operation was an example of how the world "should work" with the United States at the center of a broad international coalition.
Obama expanded upon his explanation of his decision to launch an air assault on Moamer Kadhafi's forces to protect civilians and set up a no-fly zone as he dedicated a new US mission to the United Nations in New York.
"That's how the international community should work -- more nations (with) the United States right there at the center of it, but not alone, everybody stepping up, bearing their responsibilities," Obama said. Spoken like a true community organiser.
"That's what it means to be (the) United Nations," Obama said, opening the new facility named after Ron Brown, former president Bill Clinton's commerce secretary, who perished in a plane crash in Croatia in 1996.
"We believe that the world is more secure and the interests of the United States are best advanced when we act collectively," said Obama.
"The burden of action should not always be America's alone." It's interrupting my golf practice time.
The current air operation over Libya has seen the United States play the dominant role, but Washington says it will increasingly play a support role to its partners including France, Britain, Italy, and Arab states including Qatar.
NATO earlier delayed its assumption of command and control responsibilities for the operation by one day to Thursday, to allow a smoother handover from the United States.
"Today in Libya, we are showing what's possible when we find our courage; when we fulfil our responsibilities and when we come together, as an international community, to defend our common interests and our common values," Obama said.
"We're saving innocent lives." Aww! that brings a tear to my eye, but don't forget the bunny rabbits and the fluffy ducks.
IRNA -- President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad said on Monday that independent states by adopting rational stands can thwart plots of their enemies.
President Ahmadinejad made the remark in a meeting with Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Ali al-Shami in Tehran on Monday.
The global arrogance is doing its best to save the Zionist regime through suppression of governments and nations that are against the West's policies.
According to the presidential website, Ahmadinejad underlined the need to adopt a unified stand in dealing with bullying powers and said the arrogant and colonial powers under the guise of backing nations pursue their ill-wishes.
President Ahmadinejad thanked for participation of Lebanese officials in the International Nowrouz Festival and said the occasion is regarded as a chance to promote peace and brotherhood among all nations.
Ali al-Shami, for his part, said that the two countries are determined to upgrade current level of relations and cooperation. Expressing satisfaction with his participation in the festival, he said 'I had the honor to represent the Lebanese government and nation in the event.'
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A common thread amongst such stories is that they are either propaganda or lies.
[An Nahar] March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... politicians Ammar Houri and Oqab Saqr warned that Syrian meddling in the Lebanese government formation process would take back the country to the era of hegemony.
Al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc MP Houri told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published Sunday that he rejects interfering in the internal affairs of any country just as he is against the meddling of any side in Leb's affairs.
He expressed regret at visits carried out by MPs Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... and Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... and the assistants of the Hizbullah leader and the speaker, Ali Hassan Khalil and Hussein Khalil, to Damascus. ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
"This is not comforting and take us backwards," Houri said in reference to the period of Damascus' hegemony over Leb that ended with the pullout of Syrian troops from the country in 2005.
Now Leb bloc MP Saqr, in his turn, said "the unilateral formation of the Lebanese government reflects negatively on the situation in Leb and Syria."
"Any provocative government would create a problem for Syria internally and on its international ties," he stressed.
"It is not acceptable to abort what we have achieved since 2005," Saqr added.
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[Al Jazeera] Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, advised Syria to "positively respond" to people's demands for reform.
"We advised Mr Assad that responding to people's years-old demands positively with a reformist approach would help Syria to overcome the problems more easily," he said from Ankara on Monday, adding that he expected Assad would publicly announce plans for reform shortly.
The unrest across Syria has put enormous pressure on Assad, who succeeded his father Hafez on his death in 2000, and the 45-year-old president is expected to make a public address in the days to come.
Deadly violence has also gripped cities in southern Syria for weeks. On Saturday, demonstrators torched the Baath party's local headquarters in the southern town of Tafas.
Nationwide, officials say more than 30 people have died since the unrest began earlier this month.
But activists have said that more than 126 people have already died in protest violence, with upwards of 100 killed on Wednesday alone in a crackdown on protests in Daraa, a southern tribal town that has become the symbol of the dissent.
In London, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights released a list of 41 names of people reportedly jugged by authorities on Friday. Amnesia Amnesty International has issued a list of 93 people it says have been jugged. And Rooters media on Sunday reported that two of its journalists in the country were missing.
But in a move said to be aimed at placating protesters, Syrian authorities on Sunday released a lawyer - Diana Jawabra - along with 15 others who were tossed in the clink for taking part in a silent protest demanding the release of children jugged for scrawling graffiti inspired by pro-democracy protests across the Arab world.
This followed news of the freeing of 260 political prisoners.
Assad faces calls to curb a pervasive security apparatus, free political prisoners and reveal the fate of tens of thousands of dissidents who disappeared in the 1980s.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Khaleda Zia
North Korea
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, advised Syria to "positively respond" to people's demands for reform.
