KABUL, Afghanistan: The UN says it might remove the Afghan Taleban from the terrorism blacklist that includes Al-Qaeda.
The always helpful UN...
Taleban figures would be on a separate list. The move could be seen as a political gesture to promote peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taleban.
About as clever as promoting peace talks between Israel and Hamas. It just encourages them to continue in the hope of winning something through negotiation that they're incapable of winning otherwise.
UN official Peter Wittig said Tuesday a UN sanctions panel will decide by the middle of the month whether to divide the list to recognize the two groups' different agendas. Al-Qaida is waging worldwide jihad against the West, while the Taleban is focused on Afghanistan.
The two are linked, and anyway key personnel are loaned between different groups as their skills are needed elsewhere.
The Afghan government already has asked a UN panel to take about 50 Taleban figures off the sanctions list, which keeps them subject to an asset freeze and travel ban. The committee will rule on many of these requests next week.
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THE SO-CALLED "GOOD TALIBAN" = AFGHAN TALIBAN
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ZAWAHIRI VOWS [continue] JIHAD [agz US-West] IN BIN LADEN EULOGY.
ARTIC = OSAMA BIN LADEN will terrify the US in death as he did in life, the US will never know Peace + Security unless Muslims themselves have it + the US leaves or removes itself from Muslim lands.
IIUC, AYMAN = is saying that the WOT = ISLAMIST JIAHD AGZ US + WEST WILL NEVER END, moreso since Radical Islam = MilTerr Leaders, etal. have said the AFPAK [Somalia?] jihad + insurgencies will never stop until Islamist Statehood, Sharia is imposed.
AYMAN repor has given his full allegiance to MULLAH OMAR.
[Tolo News] President Karzai's National Security Advisor has warned that al-Qaeda network still has "tremendous recruitment potential" after the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no more... deep inside Pakistain.
Rangin Dadfar Spanta, who is also Head of the National Security Council, said he can understand the sentiment in Washington that eliminating Bin Laden was one of the initial objectives of US involvement in the war in Afghanistan, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported.
"I can understand that but at the same time my warning would be to be very careful," Spanta has said.
"Al-Qaeda is not only Bin Laden. It's a very dangerous policy to think so. Of course, Bin Laden was a charismatic leader for al-Qaeda, a symbol for them who is gone now. But the network he headed is alive and active and it has a tremendous recruitment potential in this region."
Some members of President B.O.'s newly appointed national security team believe American troops should be pulled out of Afghanistan more rapidly than previously discussed, according to the Times.
Speaking on condition of anonymity officials from military and the Obama Administration have told the New York Times that new "strategic considerations" require to be rethought.
According to the officials the considerations include the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and the rising costs of counterterrorism combats.
On his final and 12th visit to Afghanistan Pentagon Chief Robert Gates expressed concern over hasty withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, saying any hurried drawdown of combat forces from Afghanistan could lead to more instability.
Robert Gates will retire by the end of this month leaving his post to CIA Chairman Leon Panetta.
The United State has around 100,000 troops in Afghanistan and President B.O. has yet to make public the size of troops to be pulled out of the country based on withdrawal initiative due to start in a couple of weeks.
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As per PREZ KARZAI'S "FINAL" WARNING TO THE US ON DEADLY DRONE STRIKES AGZ AFGHAN CIVILIANS, Spanta has argued that Afghanistan is NOT Osama-hiding, MilTerr-protecting PAKISTAN, + that unless the US is very careful its Drone Strikes will turn the mostly anti-MilTerr Afghan Population agz the US-NATO, inspiring locals to align, fight wid the MilTerrs + induce potent new insurgencies + possibly Afghan civil war which would all but destroy the US efforts achieved thus far.
LONDON: Yemen is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as an explosion of violence strains the country, Yemen representative for the UN children's agency UNICEF said.
Somehow I just know that 1) America is going to be blamed for it all and 2) we're going to be asked to pony up a lot of money.
People in Sanaa are very scared and the country is in desperate need of water and fuel, Geert Cappelaere said.
Too many people, not enough water, no jobs to speak of, and an insh'allah culture. The only apparent solutions are civil war or massive emigration... or an honest-to-God miracle handed down from on high.
"This country is absolutely in dire need of humanitarian assistance," he said. "We hope that a solution to the political stalemate will come soon, but even if it comes this is not an end to the problems. We cannot emphasize that enough. Forty percent of the population lives below the poverty line and the repercussions of this are just huge."
Cappelaere said the insecurity was threatening to exacerbate the malnutrition crisis in Yemen where half of children already have stunted growth -- the highest rate in the world.
"Malnutrition levels are horrendous. Food prices are going up so malnutrition levels that are already high are going up too," he said by phone from Sanaa.
Schools have also closed so children cannot sit exams, which will jeopardise their future opportunities, he said.
Cappelaere said fuel, which is vital for trucking supplies as well as pumping water, was in such short supply that the United Nations is trying to negotiate with Saudi Arabia to access fuel for humanitarian operations.
The United Nations and humanitarian agencies are also planning to increase a $225 million appeal for Yemen launched at the beginning of the year which is 56-percent funded.
Violence has displaced thousands of people, most recently in the south where Al-Qaeda forces seized the city of Zinjibar.
UN agencies are already helping 15,000 people uprooted by the fighting but fear the numbers could rise to 40,000. Most of the displaced are women and children.
Cappelaere said people in Sanaa have moved out to villages, putting a strain on areas that are already underdeveloped. He said the chronic fuel crisis across the country was making it hard for aid agencies to continue supporting people.
"For example, we at UNICEF are responsible for trucking water. But you need a lot of fuel to pump the water from the ground and to transport it.
"Yemen has faced a water crisis for 15 to 20 years. People have hardly any access. Sixty percent of Sanaa's population get water from trucks not from the mains."
He said there had already been a cholera outbreak in the south where fighting had forced people to use unsafe water.
Cappelaere, one of very few international aid workers left in Yemen, said his staff were extremely frightened and some had lost loved-ones in the fighting.
"People are very, very distressed and very, very scared. People are comparing the situation with the previous wars in Yemen. They are scared of the violence and the looting."
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RIYADH: Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, state minister and commander of the National Guard, on Tuesday confirmed plans to purchase advanced war planes for the security organization.
Our aircraft purchase plan is progressing well. We dont face any obstacles, he said.
Miteb made this comment while attending a graduation ceremony for the infantry regiment of the Prince Turki Brigade in Khashm Al-An, near Riyadh. He did not say what kind of aircraft the National Guard was looking for. However, he pointed out that his organization required aircraft with certain specifications. It will take time as such planes will not be readily available like cars, he pointed out.
That's something he knows about, cars. Camels. Horses. Booze. Fighters? Sure hope someone in Saoodi-controlled Arabia knows about those...
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...I'm guessin' they're gonna see what good used AH-64s are running these days. The Saudi NG is actually the royal family's private army - they are very dedicated to the al-Sauds, and their job is to keep them alive if everything goes to hell. It's interesting that the SNG is talking about getting its own air support...almost like they're concerned that the RSAF won't be willing or able to do it.
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Selling advanced weapons to Soodis is like giving them to Iran.
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The Saudis buy acres of stuff. Then they park it in warehouses or in the open line after line of it. They dont have any soldiers to man it, altho' they can "rent" soldiers.( I hear the pay is good and you get to drill a lot and never fight)
The Saudis dont train their own people because nobody wants to trust their own people and besides their own people dont want nasty jobs like being a soldier for their country.( WHY should they?) Saudis automatically assume "somebody else" will defend their country for them. No real Saudi would actually get a dirty job when they can hire somebody who isnt a Saudi.
And we all know what magnificent soldiers Arabs are, dont we?
So the Saudi are buying modern "Advanced" aircraft? Yeah? A weapon is only as good as the man who is prepared to use it.
What kind of fighting men does Saudi have?
How do you say "Dwayne" in arabic?
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de Medici's comment put's an ex-Ranger's story into perspective.
He said that after Desert Storm, King Fahd did not trust his own bodyguards, so the US "rented" a bunch of special ops folks to him. It seems that even in 1993, the Saudis were worried about Bin Laden. Thus he spent a year in Saudi being fed, housed etc. by the royal family.
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Three points: (1) We should have been selling military equipment (primarily defensive stuff) to the Saudi's and Gulf States since the Shah fell. Built up a NATA style alliance and sold them export models of stuff. They'd have the pride and fig leaf of defending themselves and we'd make bank selling it to them. (2) Seems to me that the same cultural problems that create a third world nation also prevent the dedication needed to create first class pilots so they would be a limited threat if they went bad. (3) We should be creating some kind of Kurdish Legion as they have been the best fighters in the region since Saladan. They are Muslim, and they are reasonable, and could use the exposure. Such a legion could get proper training and do UN missions in Arab countries so that Christians didn't need to get involved at all.
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Saudi pilots are considered good if they can land the plan without damaging it. They have to hire mercenaries to do the actual fighting since the average Saudi can't be told what to do by a foreigner.
A Saudi pilot in the hottest western plane vs an Israeli in a mid-range plane is a no contest fight. The Saudi is a dead man.
[Straits Times] MUSLIM groups which refuse to tackle militancy will have their funding cut in an overhaul of counter-terrorism policy, the government is due to announce on Tuesday.
More money will be spent on identifying threats in prisons, universities and the health service under a revision of the 63 million pound (S$127.1 million) Prevent programme.
The review of the scheme, launched by the Labour government in 2007 to stop the growth of home-grown terrorism, was ordered after it was deemed to have failed to produce any discernible security benefits.
Home Secretary Theresa May will announce the policy changes to parliament later.
She has already said that up to 20 organisations funded under the programme over the last three years could have their funding withdrawn.
The government wants to stop state funding from reaching'organisations that hold orc views or support terrorist-related activity of any kind', according to extracts of the review seen by the Times newspaper.
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The Wall Street Journal has some thoughts on the subject.
Key bit:
The core of the Cameron/Clegg disagreement is this: Are people who are radicals, bigots, racists, homophobes, misogynists and more, but not currently actively violent, the sort of people you should support, or shun? In Munich, Mr. Cameron expressed his belief that paying radical nonviolent Islamists to draw people away from violent Islamists would be like paying British National Party fascists to draw people away from the violent neo-Nazis of Combat 18.
But inside the Cabinet and the civil service, the prime minister encountered a very different view: that currently nonviolent extremists should be supported as a bulwark against al Qaeda. Despite its manifest failures and the societal divisions it has caused to date, this view could yet prevail. As one senior official put it in private, "The Munich speech is [Mr.] Cameron's personal view, not policy." Mr. Cameron may be in office, but we have yet to see if he is in charge.
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Mexican security forces have seized 1096 kilograms marijuana, 29 kilograms of cocaine and 24 kilograms of opium gum in counternarcotics operations in Mexico nationwide since May 28th, as well as a number of weapons and some cash.
One man was killed in a shootout with Mexican Federal Policia (PF) Monday PF agents say was the capo involved in the Pacifico drug cartel. Daniel Martinez Vargas, AKA The Mojo, died and Elba Soto Martinez, 29, was wounded in a shootout June 6th in Cuernavaca, Morelos. Martinez Vargas used local police contacts to monitor opposing criminal rival groups as well as Mexican security forces, and was the replacement for Miguel Angel Cedillo Gonzalez, AKA El Pica who was arrested in April. Cedillo Gonzalez succeeded Edgar Valdez Villarreal, AKA Barbie, who was killed in a Mexican Army raid at his villa in Zapopan, Jalisco in late July, 2010.
Mexican Policia Federal agents arrested two individuals June 5th they say murdered two Policia Federal Preventiva (PFP) agents in November, 2004.
Alicia Luna Zamora, AKA La Gorda and Eduardo Torres Montes were arrested near the Ajusco colony in Distrito Federal. A video was found in a home owned by the couple in December, 2004 which implicated the two in the abduction and the beating death of two PFP agents in Distrito Federal in the village of San Juan Ixtayopan, in the Tlahuac delegation in Distrito Federal.
A third agent survived his wounds sustained in the beatings.
Mexican Policia Federal agents arrested 18 individuals they say were involved in the theft and sale of oil in Colima state June 4th.
Agents also seized a number of equipment used in the transport and storage of stolen petroleum products including six trucks, two trailers, pumping equipment, weapons and munitions and more than 432,400 liters of petroleum products in several 200 liter containers and in transport tanks.
Mexican Policia Federal agents in Cancun, Quintata Roo arrested VÃctor Manuel Perez Izquierdo , AKA El Siete Latas, 30, a man they say headed the Los Zetas criminal organization in Quintata Roo.
The arrest was made incident to a traffic stop near the corner of avenidas Cancun-Kantunil and Chigthechen Itza in Cancun where Perez Izquierdo attempted to elude Policia Federal agents in his Pontiac G6.
Also seized in the arrest was an AR-15 assault rifle with ammunition, quantities of marijuana and cocaine divided for retail sales, a currency counting machine, a scale and a radio.
Information on this latest arrested was derived from interrogations of 10 suspected Los Zetas arrested May 28th.
Policia Federal agents arrested two top members of the Pacifico Sur cartel June 2nd in Cuernavaca, Morelos they say ran murder, kidnapping and extortion operations for the group.
Candido Ramos Perez, AKA Base 40, and Agenor Ferreira Romero, 32, were arrested at the conclusion of a vehicle pursuit in Highway 95 at the border of Morelos state and Distrito Federal.
Ramos Perez ran a network of about 40 informants, colloquially known as falcons, that tracked the movement of Mexican security forces in the area, while former municipal police officer Ferreira Romero apparently coordinated the cartel informants.
A subsequent raid on two residences in Milpillas and Buenavista colonies in Cuernavaca yielded a number of contraband including six assault rifles, one 9mm pistol, one .38 Special revolver, 418 rounds of ammunition, and three stolen vehicles: one Dodge Caliber SUV, one Jeep Patriot SUV and one Mazda sedan.
Policia Federal agents arrested 36 members of La Familia near the Jalisco-Michoacan border May 29th including two individuals they say shot a Policia Federal helicopter down May 24th.
Among those arrested in village of Las Lomas in the Jilotlan de los Dolores colony in Jaliso were Caudiyur Ambriz Altamirano, AKA El Yogurth, 34, of Michoacan, Cesar Barragan Valencia, AKA Caramelo, 24, of Jalisco and Gerardo Fernandez Covarrubias, AKA El Mofles, 37.
Although La Familia announced their dissolution in December 2010 following devastating Policia Federal and military confrontations, remnants have been fighting with a rival offshoot who called themselves Knights Templars.
Fighting took place on the Jalisco-Michoacan border roughly coinciding with the large Mexican Army counternarcotics operation in the last week in May.
Policia Federal reports also suggest that at least 15 members of La Familia and possibly Knights Templars were killed in several gunfights with Policia Federal agents during the last week in May.
Seized in the arrests were 70 AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles, one Barrett .50 caliber rifle, 14 handguns, three grenades, 578 weapons magazines, 21,121 rounds of ammunition, 40 tactical vests, 14 tactical helmets and radio equipment.
Mexican Policia Federal agents seized 400 kilograms of marijuana May 27th near Hermosillo, Sonora.
Agents found the drugs at a checkpoint on the Hermosillo-Los Pocitos stretch of Mexican Federal Highway 15, which has its terminus in Nogales, Sonora on the US border.
Reyna Guerrero Ramirez, 38 and Trinidad Alberto Guillen Romero , 39 were arrested when their Ford sedan was searched by agents who found the drugs in 39 bundles wrapped in tape.
Dany Gonzalez Guillen , 27, and Juan Gonzalez Rodarte, 46, were arrested at the scene when agents determined the couple were with the arrestees. An Oldsmobile Cutlas was also seized in the arrest.
A detachment of the Mexican 9th Military Zone seized 49 kilograms of marijuana near the village of Pinole in the Culiacan municipality in Sinaloa state. The unit was on patrol when it found an abandoned one ton truck with the drugs inside.
In a separate raid in Sinaloa, an army unit seized 620 kilograms of marijuana near the village of Rancho Viejo, in the Badiraguato colony. The unit found two vans with the drugs inside parked a short distance from the road they were patrolling.
A detachment of the Mexican 9th Military Zone seized a large amount of cash in US denominations as well as other contraband in Sinaloa state June 1st.
The unit discovered a Chevrolet pickup truck on the Culiacan-Navolato road in the Bachigualato colony they determined had been abandoned by its owner because of the presence of Mexican security forces.
Seized were USD $500,000.00, one 9mm pistol magazine, one AR-15 magazine, five rounds of 9mm ammunition, and the Chevrolet pickup truck. No detainees were reported.
A detachment of the Mexican 13th Military Zone seized 29 kilograms of cocaine aboard a bus at a checkpoint in Acaponeta, Nayarit June 2nd.
The bus originated from Guadalajara, Jaliso and was bound for Culican, Sinaloa when it was stopped and searched.
Two unidentified men including the driver were arrested at the scene.
A units of the Mexican 35th Military Zone seized drugs and weapons while on patrol in Guerrero state June 3rd.
The unit found two abandoned stolen vehicles near the intersection of Carrizal de Bravo in the Leonardo Bravo municipality in Guerrero. Seized contraband included 24 kilograms of opium gum, 72 kilograms of poppy seed, 17 kilograms of marijuana, one rifle and eight rounds of ammunition.
A unit of the Mexican 7th Military Zone on patrol in the Niño Artillero colony in the Monterrey municipality June 2nd found an abandoned vehicle with one rifle, 13 rounds of ammunition, one bulletproof vest, a grenade and seven radio units.
In Martinez Dominguez colony in the Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon municipality, a unit of the Mexican 7th Military Zone arrested five individuals and seized two trucks, three rifles, two 40mm grenades, one 40mm grenade launcher, 26 weapons magazines, 580 rounds of ammunition and tactical gear.
A detachment of the Mexican 2nd Military Zones arrested 11 individuals in pursuit of a citizen complain of armed suspects in an area of Tijuana, Baja California.
Three suspects were arrested near the Hotel Palacio in the Hipodromo colony of Tijuana. Information provided by the detainees led security forces to eight more suspects and the weapons.
Seized materiel included 40 rifles, 48 handguns, 9.298 rounds of ammunition, 70 weapons magazines and a gas grenade.
A unit of the Mexican 7th Military Zone arrested six individuals and seized a quantity of cash and weapons in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon.
The army unit pulled over individuals travelling in four vehicles seizing USD $912.00, a suitcase with jewelry, 79 weapons magazines, 1,130 rounds of ammunition and four vehicles.
The Department of Homeland Security is limiting the number of investigators of non-Islamic based "domestic terrorism" organizations, returning that role to the FBI. Likewise, it is discontinuing LEO briefings on the subject and will no longer be issuing reports on such groups.
This began when, four months into the Obama administration, the DHS issued a report that equated organizations such as the anti-abortion movement, the sovereign citizen movement, several "Christian identity" groups, militia organizations, and States rights and firearms freedom groups, with radical terrorism.
Much of the information in that report was provided by the the New York-based Anti-Defamation League and the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC being a particularly reprehensible organization...
When the DHS report on "right-wing extremism" was leaked, Janet Napolitano initially defended it, saying "we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown." But after 20 conservative groups sponsored ads calling for Napolitano's ouster, she said it was disseminated without regular review.
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I agree with Mike as well. Poor Mike, damned by agreement from the damned. :)
Couple this with the story of a Dept of Ed SWAT Team (!!!!!) activity breaking down doors also in the news.
Read "A State of Disobedience" by Tom Kratman. When I read it, I liked the story but thought Kratman went a little overboard with all the various FDA and EPA etc. shock troops. Now, I think he might be prescient. Uncomfortable thought, that. Maybe I am in denial.
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[Dawn] People of various tribal regions have refused to form anti-Taliban lashkars (peace bodies) and demanded release of the 175 members of a tribal jirga allegedly imprisoned in Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency about a month ago.
Speaking at a presser at Peshawar Press Club on Monday, the students of different tribal regions, led by Fata Students Federation vice-president Shafeeq Ahmad Safi, Barhanuddin and Gul Sattar Mengal, rejected the government`s move to force the tribal people to form anti-Taliban peace bodies.
Mr Shafeeq alleged that the political administration of Mohmand Agency had invited a jirga of 175 elders of the region and asked them to form an anti-Taliban lashkar, but on refusal they were jugged under the 40 FCR.
He made it clear that in the prevailing situation the tribal people could not afford such steps.
"The members and heads of various Qaumi lashkars are being killed in different tribal and settled areas, but the government has failed to arrest the killers," he said and added that it was the government`s responsibility to protect lives of the people.
The FSF leader said that the relatives of the jugged elders were not allowed to meet them. "Our elders are mentally tortured for no fault of theirs," he alleged.
Mr Shafeeq said that the detainees also included heads of their families who were supposed to provide them tuition fee, but in such a situation the students were also unable to pay their dues.
He said that the prison lacked basic facilities and they were not allowed to provide food to their elders.
He called for proactive measures for enforcement of lasting peace in the tribal areas, especially in Mohmand Agency. He observed that the peace committees could not maintain peace for long time.
He said that the rustics had always extended support to the government in difficult times and demanded of the government to stop step-motherly attitude with them and immediately release the jirga members.
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Chinese analytical department shut down: all analysts suffer psychotic breaks from trying to separate fact from fantasy in Pakistani intelligence.
[Dawn] Pakistain has assured China of providing full intelligence cooperation on the activities of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), DawnNews reported.
The ETIM is said to be working for the separation of Xinjiang from China by means of violence and terror.
Among the stated goals of the ETIM is the conversion of all Chinese people to Islam.
The assurance regarding intelligence cooperation was conveyed to Chinese officials by Javed Noor, Director-General of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), during his visit to China.
Mr Noor held detailed meetings with Chinese intelligence authorities with the two sides agreeing on strengthening intelligence cooperation.
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PAKISTAN + XINJIANG [West China]
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* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > CHINA'S RISING SPURS "GAPAC" GROUP. Group of Asian Powers Around China, to include the US of A.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > WHAT RUSSIA FEARS IN ASIA, espec Central Asia = former SSR's vee ambitious, Osama-hiding, MilTerr-protecting Pakistan.
OTOH, lest we fergit, RUSSIA > purchased MISTRAL-class amphibs to DETER CHINA, NOT JAPAN.
Rana is being tried in a Chicago federal court for allegedly helping co-accused David Headley do surveillance for the 26/11 attacks, which killed 166 people and injured over 300 in Mumbai in November 2008, and also giving material aid to the Lashkar-e-Taiba for the attacks. While Rana has pleaded not guilty, Headley admitted guilt in a deal that protects him from getting the death sentence and being extradited to India. The prosecution and defence began delivering closing arguments on Tuesday and a verdict could be delivered as early as Wednesday.
Video clips of Rana's quizzing by the FBI were played for the first time in court this week and hosted on the court's official website as evidence submitted.
They showed Rana telling the FBI about details of his conversations with LeT operative Headley.
Rana, knowing well that his statements could be used against him during the trial, told FBI investigators that Headley had told him that the ISI was providing weapons to "freedom fighters" in Kashmir. When asked about the ISI and weapons, and Headley's role, Rana said, "No guns, but now obviously it's, uh, a freedom fight...in Kashmir. I think he said the ISI gives them weapons. When he says, when they (terrorists) about to enter into India. So, at that very moment, when they say bye to each other... the ISI at that time gives them, you know, guns."
Rana told the FBI that Major Iqbal was Headley's contact in the ISI and the Pakistani spy agency gave Headley weapons. Rana also said that he had spoken to Iqbal over the phone. "He (Iqbal) call and he call me sir, and I'm.... I was a captain when I deserted the Pakistan Army,'' Rana said amusingly.
Rana also told the FBI that Headley was affiliated with both the ISI and the LeT, and that he had also met Ilyas Kashmiri, who led the Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami.
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Sorry Rana, my fourth grader already told me that.
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Iran will soon install more advanced centrifuges at its new uranium enrichment site, the country's nuclear chief said Wednesday, underscoring Tehran's continued defiance in the face of international sanctions imposed over its controversial nuclear program.
They're getting awfully uppity. Stuxnet didn't slow them down enough or are they fantasizing? What are the odds that Israelis will nuke them the day after their first nuclear test?
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IMO Iran nor any other nuclear wannabe, Islamist "Rogue Govt-State" will unilater attack Israel unless their Militant-Terrorist proxies are already armed wid Nukes-WMDS, WHICH IMO AGAIN IS THE TRUE COVERT SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MILTERR RAID AGZ PSN MEHRAN WHICH REPOR ALSO SERVES AS STORAGE DEPOT FOR PAK NUCWEAPS, notsomuch revenge for Osama.
The Osama I remember from the 1980's anti-Soviet Afghan War would've wanted Radical Islam's Jihad to go on widout him despite his demise, + has been indic as so on the MSM-Net.
Iran will stay on the Media, Diplomatic defensive AMAP ALAP, moreso now that Radical Islam has opportunity as per pro-democracy "Jasmine" Uprisings to legally or electorally take over the Govts. of several Muslim states wid pre-established Civilian
Nucprogs [NucEnergy? converted in time to NucWeaps]. IFF SUCCESSFUL, AS TIME GOES ON ANY DE FACTO NUCLEAR-ARMED IRAN WILL BECOME JUST ONE SOVEREIGN ISLAMIST NUCLEAR STATE AMONG MANY FOR THE US-ARMIES TO ATTACK, + THE ECON-TROUBLED USA, AMERICA = AMERIKA, CAN'T ATTACK 'EM ALL, WID OR WIDOUT UNSC MANDATE.
And Moud, Tehran Mullahs + the MilTerrs, etal. know it.
To once again paraph DOUGLAS MACARTHUR + OTHER > "PROLONGED INDECISION IN WAR [waffling] ONLY RESULTS IN NEW, MORE CONFLICTS + MORE CASUALTIES".
[An Nahar] Iran's navy has sent submarines to the Red Sea "to collect data," its first mission in distant waters, the Fars news agency reported Tuesday without giving further details.
"The submarines, dispatched in May, have entered the Red Sea after a mission in the Gulf of Aden to collect data on the sea bed in the high seas and to identify other warships," Fars said quoting an unnamed source.
"They are accompanying an Iranian navy fleet," it added, without mentioning the number of the submarines, their types or the make-up of the fleet.
Iran has several types of submarines, including the home-produced 500-ton Nahang which was first introduced to the navy in 2006, as well as three Russian-made submarines of the Kilo class purchased in the 90s.
In August 2010, Iran's army chief Ataollah Salehi announced the inauguration of a new "semi-heavy" submarine, named Qaem, capable of operating in the high seas, such as the Indian Ocean or the Gulf of Aden.
Iran's navy operates 11 mini submarines of the domestically built 120-ton Ghadir class, first launched in 2007, which according to Iranian officials are "stealth" submarines and patrol shallow waters, notably the Gulf.
Last February, two Iranian warships were sent to the Mediterranean Sea for a visit to Syria, crossing the Red Sea and Suez Canal, a move that angered Israel.
The two ships docked in Syria on February 24, marking Iran's first such mission since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Tel Aviv put its navy on alert, following the entry of the Iranian vessels in the Mediterranean, while Israeli President Shimon Peres described the move as a "political provocation."
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Aka "BATTLE FOR SUEZ CANAL" [Oil-Gas, Trade] + SHIA-IRAN-VS-SUNNI-SAUDI-ARABIA for leadership of the [post-US? post-WOT?]Islamic/Muslim World = FUTURE OWG-NWO NUCLEAR CALIPHATE.
* RENSE > {Telegraph.UK] BRITAIN SAYS MILITARY ASSETS DEPLOYED NEAR YEMEN.
The cover story is to evacuate UK Citizens, Nationals from Yemen iff ordered, but methinks London also wants to monitor any threats to the Suez Canal, as the US Fifth Fleet, etc. already covers the Persian Gulf.
* SAME > YEMEN: THE VOLATILE TRIBAL COUNTRY REPRESENTS THE GRAVEST THREAT TO [UK +]WESTERN SECURITY, as per Brit Intel.
[Dawn] Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad on Tuesday accused Washington, Tehran's arch-foe, of planning to sabotage Pakistain's nuclear facilities, during a media conference in Tehran.
"We have precise information that America wants to sabotage the Pak nuclear facilities in order to control Pakistain and to weaken the government and people of Pakistain," the hardline president said.
The United States would then use the UN Security Council "and some other international bodies as levers to prepare the ground for a massive presence (in Pakistain) and weaken the national illusory sovereignty of Pakistain," he added, without elaborating.
Pakistain is the only Islamic nation with nuclear weapons, and has close relations with Iran.
In order to fight al Qaeda and Taliban beturbanned goons in Pakistain, Washington has intensified its aerial operations in Iran's southeastern neighbour.
Pak Islamist groups have at the same time multiplied their assaults on Pak military convoys and also on transport and fuel convoys through Pak territory intended for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... troops in Afghanistan.
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Pakistan has repor sold nuclear warheads to Saudi Arabia, while the latter has also purchase nuclear-capable CSS-2 missles from China.
Ambitious nuclear Pakistan desires:
> To have an effective response agz perceived threats from ISRAEL, SHIA IRAN, besides of course Indjuh.
> Set up a protective NUCLEAR UMBRELLA over aligned Allies/Partner-States, e.g. Saudi Arabia.
"REAL MENACE" OF PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME IS ITS UTILITY TO ASYMMETRIC MILTERR GROUPS + ACTIVITIES, moreso given how many in the curren PAK GOVT, MILITARY = NATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT SUPPORT RADICAL ISLAMISM.
* DECCAN HERALD > PAK MAY LOSE CONTROL OF PART OF ITS N-ARSENAL [Nuclear Arsenal] TO TERRORISTS: SIPRI.
versus
* HBARAT RAKSHAK > POSTER > [Video = Shangri-La Dialogue 2011] CHINESE DEFENCE MINSTER DOES NOT [specifically]DENY CHINA WILL SET UP BASES IN GWADAR, SRI LANKA.
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US: IRAN MOVES ON URANIUM "PROVOCATIVE".
Ditto as per FRANCE.
Again, IRAN will prefer to stay on the Media, Diplomatic, etc. defensive, + is unlikely to support or initiate any kind of unilateral = preemptive? Milactions unless its MilTerr proxies also possess ["sufficient"]Nukes-WMDS for TerrOps agz US-West/Allies. It will also wait-n-see as per the outcomes of the various "Jasmine" People Power uprisings in ME + North African states wid Nucprogs. IRAN WANTS THE US, ISRAEL TO ATTACK FIRST, while its NON-STATE = NGO PROXIES CAN ATTACK AT ANY TIME TEHRAN SO ORDERS.
OER TIME, ANY DE FACTO NUCLEAR-ARMED IRAN WILL BECOM JUST ONE SOVEREIGN, NUKE-ARMED, PRO-ISLAMIST MUSLIM STATE = "ISLAMIC STATES" AMONG MANY WHICH THE US + UNO/UNSC WILL BE HARD-PRESSED TO STOP OR ATTACK.
As before, the most dangerous phase or aspects of the GWOT for both Radical Islam + US-World lies ahead of us, not behind us.
* 1990's + PRE, POST-9-11 NET > CLINTONISM + OWG-NWO = Amer's enemies demand their right to be attacked + invaded by wily dastardly imperialist capitalist arrogant Fascist male brute America.
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