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Yemeni Government, Opposition Meet in Europe as Unrest Continues
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Afghanistan
Al-Qaeda so weak that US Afghanistan withdrawal would be justified
Drone strikes and covert operations have weakened Afghanistan's al-Qaeda network to the extent a speedier than planned withdrawal of US troops would be justified, according to officials in the Obama administration.

Senior officials who appeared to support a faster exit plan told the New York Times that 20 of al-Qaeda's 30 prominent leaders in the region had been killed in the past 18 months.

During the May 2 raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, the US seized intelligence materials at the al-Qaeda leader's compound which showed that his lieutenants were too afraid for their lives to plan overseas terror attacks.

An official said that the description of Pakistan's tribal areas as a "safe haven" was now a misnomer. Mr Obama has doubled the rate of drone attacks in Pakistan's autonomous areas, adding to tensions with Islamabad but reaping deadly results against al-Qaeda.

Given that one of his major justifications for continuing the war in Afghanistan has been to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" al-Qaeda, many of his senior officials are arguing that he now has the latitude to bring home US troops at a faster rate than anticipated.

With growing concern in the United States about the duration and cost of the war, Mr Obama is under mounting pressure to reduce the US military presence.
Posted by: tipper || 06/19/2011 04:55 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Declare victory and leave.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/19/2011 5:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Damn straight. El Scramo Sadundo. Out of meanery I'd suggest trying to figure a way to get out via the semi-friendlystans via rail. I hate the idea of dropping more cash on the the vile tribal entity.
Posted by: Zombie Hillary Lover || 06/19/2011 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't think we should call it a day yet, we'd all like to but they will regrow like they did after 2002. There is a planned withdrawal, let's follow it.
Posted by: Griting Smith6978 || 06/19/2011 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  If they regrow we can return. Only with the not nice military. We should be real clear about that before we leave. The world will be able to get along fine, in fact lots better, without Afghanistan. Or Pakistan for that matter. Behave or be gone.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 06/19/2011 8:24 Comments || Top||

#5  If they regrow we can return.

Do not assume we'll have anything to return with. They're going to gut defense (one of the very basics in the Federalist Papers justifying a national government) instead of the two major revenue sucking black holes of socialist entitlements. That doesn't include interest that will have to be paid to even get loans via Treasury bonds.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/19/2011 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  If they regrow we can return.

Not sure: the road to Afgahanistan goes through Pakistan and it will be harder to get a new right of crossing than keeping the existing one.
Posted by: JFM || 06/19/2011 9:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Leaving really isn't an option in the foreseeable future.

What we are looking at is like Vietnam in reverse. That is, imagine if the roles of Vietnam and Cambodia were reversed? The US Military is in Cambodia with the NVA sending an endless supply of fighters across the border to attack us and the Cambodian government.

Pakistan has half the population (177m) of the United States, yet the government only controls part of the country. The other enclaves are full of madrassas that train an endless supply of new fighters.

If the US pulls out, the government of Afghanistan will fall, probably within a year or two, and Pakistan will again start exporting terrorists by the thousand.

In that scenario, the only sane thing to do, which they wouldn't, would be for all of Europe and the Americas to prohibit all emigration from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/19/2011 10:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Let's stop kidding ourselves about civilizing. Next time we'll just make the rubble dance.
Posted by: regular joe || 06/19/2011 10:29 Comments || Top||

#9  The issue isn't Al Qaeda, and hasn't been for a long time. The Siamese twin issues are the Pakistan's war against America in Afganistan, and the war of the ISI's pet jihadi groups against India and the West. If we 'declare victory and go home' without dealing with those problems, those problems will explode like an infection merely suppressed by antibiotics.

And, so long as everyone's attention is focussed on Afghanistan, the ongoing hunt on the far side of the border is getting precisely the lack of attention desired, just as on the Afghan side nobody notices what Special Forces are accomplishing the background while in the foreground the regular troops are doing their thing -- rather successfully, by recent accounts, might I add.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2011 11:46 Comments || Top||

#10  If they are so weak then just kill them.
Posted by: gorb || 06/19/2011 12:11 Comments || Top||

#11  according to officials in the Obama administration.

Once I read that, I knew the statement was absolute hogwash. The simple truth is that Obama and his crew do NOT wish America well. We need to get out of our heads that they are trying to help.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 06/19/2011 13:40 Comments || Top||

#12  Afghanistan is the symptom of the disease.

Pakistan is the source of the disease.

Saudis inject nutrients to make the disease grow.

Starve the disease petri dish and the disease dies.

Been that way for a decade+. Our problem is a lack of will and leadership. Plus a bunch of lefty leaders who have softened up who we are.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/19/2011 14:26 Comments || Top||

#13  Afghanistan is the symptom of the disease.

Pakistan is the source of the disease.


And the disease is.... Islam!

Pakistan is the current source - Arabia is (and was) the original source.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/19/2011 14:45 Comments || Top||

#14  Iran is the other source of disease.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/19/2011 16:09 Comments || Top||


MPs Say Karzai Wants to Include Taliban in Cabinet
[Tolo News] Afghan House of Representatives on Saturday said the government along with High Peace Council is seeking to include the Taliban in the cabinet.
Not that they have much choice, given the U.S. is independently talking peace with the Taliban.
Some parliamentarians criticised the government saying President Karzai is waiting for the talks with the Taliban to take place and then to introduce the remaining ministers for vote of confidence to the house.

Legislators warned the government would only respond it parliament applies pressure to introduce the remaining ministers.

Parliamentarians say they would continue protesting the government till ministers are not sent to the house for vote of confidence.

"Let's come to the main point why the remaining ministers are not introduced? It might be because talks are in progress between peace council and the Taliban and the Taliban have their own demands concerning the cabinet ministers," Abdul Zaher Qadir, an Afghan MP, said.

Baktash Seyawash representing Kabul in the house said: "We are all committed to our constitution and there should be a way to take action toward anyone who is postponing the implementation of our constitution."

"After going through the vote of confidence a candidate minister becomes a legitimate minister," another member of parliament, Sherwali Wardak, said.

Now that years have passed since Karzai's second term as president, a number of ministries are run by acting ministers in what is seen as the pivotal flaw in Karzai's administration.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "We are all committed to our constitution"

Since WE aren't even committed to OUR Constitution anymore, why should anyone think they have any committment to theirs?
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/19/2011 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe the future Taliban foreign minister of Afghanistan (Mullah Omar perhaps?) will find the time to appreciate the Ground Zero Mosque during his visit to the UN next year?
/sarc

If the desired end state of this "Good War" is a stable and peaceful, albeit islamofascistic Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban then why start this war in the first place? In 2001 Afghanistan was all of the above.
Posted by: Phairong Dribble1404 || 06/19/2011 16:37 Comments || Top||


Africa North
International groups meet on Libya, urge solution
International organisations on Saturday called for a political process to end the conflict in Libya, where the government hit out at NATO's air war.

The Libyan regime headed by Moamer Kadhafi also dismissed rebel denials that the two sides have held talks.

Just after midnight on Sunday (2200 GMT Saturday) a loud explosion was heard in the Libyan capital.

Authorities took journalists to Tripoli's residential district of Arada where they were shown two bodies, said to have been victims of a NATO bombing raid. The reporters also saw four damaged houses.

World organisations including the United Nations, European Union and Arab League met in Cairo to discuss Libya and stressed the need for a political solution there.

They issued a statement in Arabic underlining the importance of "accelerating the launch of a political process that responds to the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people."

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton attended the meeting along with outgoing Arab League chief Amr Mussa and African Union head Jean Ping, while UN chief Ban Ki-moon joined by live video link.

"Today it's been about how do we make sure that in the work we do that we offer the sort of support that will enable the Libyan people to choose the future that they want," Ashton told reporters.

Ban Ki-moon meanwhile said that the roots of a negotiating process are showing in the Libya conflict.

Following talks with top officials from the European Union, African Union and other groups, Ban stressed the need for the international community to give a "consistent message" on a political solution with Kadhafi but indicated the signs of progress.
Posted by: tipper || 06/19/2011 02:17 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Protest Called against Moroccan King's Reform Proposals
[An Nahar] Morocco's youth-based February 20 Movement called Saturday for nationwide protests against constitutional reforms proposed by King Mohammed VI.

"The national coordinators (of the movement) have called for a demonstration Sunday for a truly democratic constitution and a parliamentary monarchy," a member of the movement's Rabat section told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"The plan as proposed by the king yesterday (Friday) does not respond to our demands for a true separation of powers. We will protest peacefully on Sunday against this plan," he said.

The king outlined curbs to his wide political powers in an address to the nation on Friday and pledged to build a constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliament.

The proposals, to be put to a referendum on July 1, devolve many of the king's powers to the prime minister and parliament.

They come in the wake of nationwide pro-reform demonstrations that started on February 20 -- hence the name of the movement -- inspired by other popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world.

The 47-year-old monarch, who in 1999 took over the Arab world's longest-serving dynasty, currently, holds virtually all power in the Mohammedan North African country, and he is also its top religious authority as the Commander of the Faithful.

Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Unrest Lays Off 60 Per Cent Of Yemen Private Sector Workers
[Yemen Post] Many Yemeni workers at the private sector have been laid off due to the month-long unrest which paralyzed trade and largely affected the national economy, alsahwa-yemen.net quoted economists as saying on Saturday.

The protests calling for the ouster of the regime also forced many businesses to close, the website said, adding that economists estimated the contracts of almost 60 per cent of the workers at the private sector were terminated.

Some companies were said to have given staffs unpaid vacations until the situation returns normal, it said.

Meantime, state employees complained of late pays and deductions from their salaries, as some public offices were said to have suspended salary rises or other funds allocated for their employees besides the main salaries.

The website cited a source at the private sector as saying that the political crisis in the country paralyzed trade and productive operations at the sector by 70 per cent.

It is worth to mention that casual market absorbs more that a million workers, most of whom have already lost their jobs due to the unrest.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
Is the RAB out of control?
Posted by: ryuge || 06/19/2011 10:29 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  RAB, of course, has a very different story. According to RAB's Commander Mohammad Sohail, the village of Jhalakati is the hub of a powerful syndicate headed by Morshed Jamaddar. Everyone there, says Sohail, is in the pocket of Morshed's gang. He says law enforcement agencies have filed 19 cases against Jamaddar, including rape, murder and abduction, and that the Morshed gang has bought "everyone except RAB" — including some local politicians.





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Posted by: Zombie Hillary Lover || 06/19/2011 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  And finally for the pure Lulz....

Sohail says Human Rights Watch didn't approach RAB for information


His Spidey sense paid off.
Posted by: Zombie Hillary Lover || 06/19/2011 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Brilliant, Zombie Hillary Lover!
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2011 12:28 Comments || Top||


BNP, Jamaat declare new agitation
[Bangla Daily Star] The main opposition BNP and its ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition....
yesterday announced a three-day fresh agitation prorgramme in protest at the increase in prices of agricultural inputs and fuel, transport fare hike and recent collapse of the stockmarket.

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP acting secretary general, and ATM Azharul Islam, Jamaat acting secretary general, simultaneously declared the programme at press briefings at their party offices in the city's Nayapaltan and Moghbazar.

As per the plan, both the parties will stage a countrywide demonstration on June 21, protesting the price increase of agricultural materials.

On June 23, protest programmes will be held in the capital and the port city of Chittagong, for the government's "failure" to stabilise the share market.

For the third day on June 28, demonstrations will be held across the country in protest at recent spikes in fuel price and transport fare.

Mirza Fakhrul said the road marches towards North Bengal, which were scheduled for June 26 and 27, have been postponed due to inclement weather. The date will be fixed afresh in consultation with party leaders.

The BNP leader said 12 like-minded parties have expressed their support for the agitation programme.

Replying to a query, he said BNP will also protest against the production sharing contract (PSC) with American oil company ConocoPhillips if the PSC goes against the country's interest. The contract has been signed for oil and gas exploration from two deep-sea blocks in the Bay of Bengal.

Mirza Fakhrul asked the government to disclose the details of the PSC.

Asked whether they will support the six-hour hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
called by the national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports, he said they will decide on that later.

Referring to the Awami League general secretary's statement that the constitution will be amended in line with the Supreme Court verdict if BNP does not come for discussion, the BNP leader said Khaleda Zia
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
already cleared her position and now it is the government's responsibility to ensure continuation of the caretaker government system.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Britain
Christians are more militant than Muslims, says Government's equalities boss
Muslims are integrating into British society better than many Christians, according to the head of the Government's equality watchdog.
Posted by: tipper || 06/19/2011 00:52 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess Brits beginning to understand French Reign of Terror.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/19/2011 2:59 Comments || Top||

#2  As bad as the Reign of Terror was, and it by itself wouldn't have made a decent boil on the ass of the massacre of Catholics in the Vendee during the same time period by the same government, you don't have to go to France to find religious persecution; the British had a couple of religiously oriented Civil Wars of their own.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/19/2011 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  What Trevor Phillips, Chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission is saying is that some Christians are not laying down for his PC diktates, therefore they are worse than the guys who plant bombs in the Tube.
Posted by: regular joe || 06/19/2011 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember, that from the leftist point of view, what matters is not success, but *improvement*.

A good example is court ordered drug treatment counseling. Such counselors are often on a strong ego trip and have deep personal control issues. They want obedience to their whims.

It has been learned that the very best thing you can do before attending such mandatory counseling is to get as much drugs into your blood as you can, prior to your first drug test. Because what the counselors want is for you to show "improvement".

So you have to continue to take lots of drugs, but taper off over time, and you will get very high marks and be released from your training quickly.

The worst possible thing you can do is to have your first test indicate that you are "clean", and have no drugs in your system. This means you cannot "improve", so you are *defying* your counselor, and they may continue to force you to attend counseling for an extended length of time, because of your *defiance*.

Now, in this case, the leftists are probably thrilled to death with the Muslims. "Last week you killed 3 women and raped 3 more. But this week, you only killed 2 and didn't rape any at all! You have shown tremendous improvement! You get top marks for integration!"

But at the same time, he is very upset with the Christian. "Last week you said your gospel does not permit homosexuals to marry. This week you are saying the exact same thing. Why are you defying me and refusing to *improve*?"

"You Christians are anti-social and refuse to integrate. You should be more like Muslims!"
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/19/2011 10:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Anonymoose: you might enjoy this post over at House of Eratosthenes: "Dialogue."
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/19/2011 11:08 Comments || Top||

#6  We have our share of idjuts in the U.S. too. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said that investigators needed to analyze Christian militants in America because they might try to “bring down the country.”

In other words the looney left tries to find scapegoats and boogeymen in the name of PC and to cover up failures.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/19/2011 16:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Al-Takeyya. You can lie to promote Islam in situations, including, I am certain, feigning integration....
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 06/19/2011 19:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Moslems are integrating into british society better than Christians ....
there was a time when British society WAS Christian.
Posted by: lotp || 06/19/2011 20:09 Comments || Top||

#9  And then comes ....

To wit,

* NEWS KERALA > EUROPEAN FIGHTERS JOIN AFGHAN TALIBAN, to avenge the death of OBL includ alleged "British Radicals".

Read, BRIT, EURO RADICALS = JIHADIS WHOM MAY RETURN TO THEIR HOME COUNTRIES TO BEGIN JIHAD THERE, once their training is completed or they survive insurgent combat, etc.

and

* SAME > UK PM CAMERON PLACED ON TERROR HIT LIST, for assassination vee compilation by Al-Qaeda "working group" of Govt-Public Personages whom supported the US-NATO invasion of Afghanistan, committed other alleged "Crimes agz Muslims/Islam".

AND YES, POTUS BAMMER REPOR TOPS THE LIST.

Not clear at this time iff ex-POTUS DUBYA is on the list or is ranked in Top 5-10.

versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Jailed]TTP MILITANTS SAY [confess] THEY TRAINED KIDNAPPED CHILDREN FOR FOREIGN AGENCY. Various Terrops includ Suicide Bombings.

Claimed to had been paid approxi US$25,000
per child, US$15,0000 of which was kept by the Reza Mehsud Training Centre where the Kiddies received their indoctrination.

POSTERS > "FOREIGN AGENCY" = read, USA = CIA? espec as per Raymond Davis case???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/20/2011 0:14 Comments || Top||


Europe
Terror suspect plotted plane attack on Bundestag
An Austrian terror suspect arrested this week was plotting to crash a plane into the German Bundestag, a report said on Saturday as officials said a German with links to the suspect was detained.

The suspect, who has been named only as Thomas al-J. and is a 25-year-old Austrian national who converted to Islam, was arrested Wednesday in his Vienna flat on suspicion of recruiting for terror training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan and of financing a terrorist organisation -- the German Taliban Mujahideen (DTM).

Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung reported on Saturday that the suspect had been plotting to crash a plane into the German parliament in Berlin, the Bundestag, and had been training on a flight simulator.

Austria's interior ministry also said on Saturday that a German terrorism suspect had been arrested in Austria on May 31 and had links with the alleged recruiter. The 26-year-old German, originally from Berlin, is in the process of being extradited to Germany, where he is suspected of being a member of a terrorist organisation, ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia said.

Three other suspects who were arrested at Vienna airport Wednesday apparently on their way to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan were released from custody that evening. Police said there were no grounds to detain them further.

Austria last year passed a law that foresees up to five years in prison for any person attending a terror camp abroad.
Posted by: tipper || 06/19/2011 04:03 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  has been named only as Thomas al-J

How odd, I suspect the J is Jurgen... the al is like von... so we're looking at a Thomas Van Jurgen.

Posted by: Zombie Hillary Lover || 06/19/2011 6:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
LAPD Deputy Chief Admits Partnering With The Muslim Brotherhood
Posted by: tipper || 06/19/2011 09:20 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Waste wars: Captives ‘weaponize’ bodily fluids
Guantánamo guards and cooperative captives alike are grappling with the stench of prisoners who have made themselves filthy inside the Pentagon’s maximum-security Supermax-style prison in southeast Cuba.

Posted by: tipper || 06/19/2011 03:44 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dogs like to roll in urine too; I guess they both like the way it makes them smell.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/19/2011 9:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't they have firehoses?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/19/2011 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Firehoses are a reasonable alternative, but cells have to be designed so that they can be used there. This means cells that are more like they are at ADX Florence, with concrete beds and desks, a shower and toilet whose water shuts off if their drains are plugged.

In the case of Gitmo, in such cells I would include a moderately waterproof storage area for them to put their prayer rug and Koran, along with any other authorized small items.

Procedure would be to remove them from their cell, make them strip and put them in a shower room with water cycles that contained anti-louse, then soap, then rinse, then deodorizer water.

While they're in there, their clothing would be washed with deodorizer added, and their personal stuff would be removed from storage and cleaned as needed, then their cell would be hit with a de-greaser, then soap foam with bleach substitute, then rinsed into a secure drain in the floor.

Done on a weekly basis, the place would be quite pristine, excepting when they threw their urine and feces. So it is also a good idea to have an easy to clean corridor as well.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/19/2011 10:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Nothing comes out if nothing goes in. Throw sh*t at me, no more food for a week. Throw p*ss at me, no more water for a day.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/19/2011 11:42 Comments || Top||

#5  This has been going on for years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2011 12:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Reminds me of the primate pavilion at the chicago zoo.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2011 16:03 Comments || Top||

#7  skidmark: That comment has been made for years by prison guards throughout the US. Many inmates are downright scatological, throwing their urine and feces. They also spit and openly masturbate.

In recent years, some even cut themselves enough to get a cup or two of blood to add to the mix, knowing that they have hepatitis C or HIV.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/19/2011 17:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Now your insulting Primates Skidmark.

Besides - Primates are more civilized.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/19/2011 17:33 Comments || Top||

#9  ScotchBrite, scrub brushes, bleach and disinfectant applied directly to the inmate. Scrub until raw, spray them down with the solution.

Rinse and repeat as required.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 06/19/2011 20:21 Comments || Top||

#10 
I would include a moderately waterproof storage area for them to put their prayer rug and Koran


Why?

The hose is only required if the prisoner doesn't cooperate; it's their choice whether the Koran gets bathed in their filth or not. We should not take into onto ourselves to treat their "holy" book with more respect than they accord it.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/19/2011 20:53 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Guardian journalist badly beaten for the second time in Pakistan
Waqar Kiani assaulted by men in police uniforms five days after he publishes story about torture by intelligence agents
Posted by: john frum || 06/19/2011 15:31 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If these journalists were proper muckrakers, they would have long ago set up such spooks so when they would try to brutalize someone, that they would be caught on camera, and surrounded by a small mob that would strip them naked and parade them through the streets, extracting confessions about who ordered them, before turning them over to (more) honest cops.

Of course this is reliant on there being more honest cops, who would not bow and grovel to the corrupt ones or the spook organization.

Of primary importance is to totally compromise the hit squad members, so that they are publicly identifiable, then go after their families and peers. Make their life a burden and a mis'ry.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/19/2011 16:50 Comments || Top||


Bombed Islamabad bank denies sacrilege
A terrorist outfit targeted a bank in Islamabad on June 13 because its floor tiles and their design were strikingly analogous to the sacred name, Allah, and the bank did not change them despite complaints to its management.

A bank guard was killed and four others were injured in last Monday’s suicide attack on an Islamabad branch of a bank. The bank administration was cautioned by a section of the outfit that had even lodged a written complaint with Islamabad’s Industrial Area Police Station two years back following the direct warning to bank officials, it is reliably learnt.

Bank officials confirmed to The News on condition of anonymity that the administration received complaints about the design of the floor tiles, and that some individuals had also met the management official in this regard but neither the area police nor the bank administration took any action on the objections raised by the grdoup.

The bank’s president, when contacted for his comment, said: “It cannot even be imagined to disgrace the holy name of Allah Almighty.” He said the allegation was baseless and concocted. “We are Muslims and can never think of the disrespect to the name of Creator”, he added.

Head of the bank administration said that the plaza was four-storey building and the owner of the building constructed the structure but the design of the tiles was not objectionable. He said anyone could visit the building and the bank anytime.

Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad Binyameen when contacted by this correspondent for comments confirmed the lodging of the complaint with the Industrial Area police and said that although the complaint was filed two years back, the police were investigating that aspect. He said that the investigators have got some concrete evidence leading to the terrorist outfit involved in the suicide attack.

Quoting evidence, Binyameen said that the attacker was not wearing suicide jacket but was carrying explosive material packed in a bag. He said that police were working on the aspect whether the suicide attacker blew the explosive material himself or some one other had exploded it by remote control.
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#1  "The blue paint on the walls is similar to the reported colouration of the sky in Paradise. Burn them!!!,,!!,"
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Generals face harsh criticism as NA passes defence budget
[Dawn] The opposition PML-N raised on Saturday sharp questions about the performance of Pakistain's military in recent years, with one senior politician calling it confidence-shaking, before the National Assembly approved the defence budget of over Rs505 billion.

It was during debates on more than 200 opposition cut motions on demands for grants for two federal ministries and two divisions that the military role came under what was probably the severest criticism during a budget discussion in the country's parliamentary history.

This is because "Pakistain's people are now compelled (to ask questions)", the PML-N's main speaker on the subject and former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
chief minister, Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan, said in a pointed speech before another prominent party figure and former minister, Ahsan Iqbal, and a couple of back-benchers also came hard on the role of generals for involvement in politics since first military ruler Field Marshal Ayub Khan seized power in 1958.

"Pakistain's defence failures for some years have shaken the people of Pakistain," Sardar Mehtab said as he accused the General Headquarters of imposing its will on domestic and foreign policy issues. "In the past few years, particularly in the past one year, people's confidence has been badly affected," he added.

This was the latest of a series of attacks on the military leadership in the lower house from the country's largest opposition party since the presentation of the budget for fiscal 2011-12 early this month.

Leader of opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan's was only a subdued criticism when he opened the general debate on the budget on June 6, but two other senior PML-N members, Khwaja Mohammad Asif and Ms Tehmina Daultana, came out with strident attacks in their speeches afterwards in what seemed to be a party policy, which attracted the charge, in a statement of a June 9 corps commanders' conference, of a showing "conceptual biases" to run down the armed forces.

Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar came out with only a brief ridicule of what he called Sardar Mehtab's "drum-beat" and politicisation of the situation and, while declining to go into politics, said the government would make every effort to strengthen the country's defence, before the house rejected all 34 cut motions and approved the defence ministry's demands, including the largest of Rs495 billion for defence services.
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CIA not conducting operation in Pakistan: Malik
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
said Saturday that Pakistain is a sovereign state and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is neither conducting any operation inside the country nor will it be allowed to do so.

Talking to media outside the parliament, he said the law enforcement agencies are conducting operation against undocumented Democrats, adding, the people who are living in Pakistain despite their expiry of visa have also been deported.

He urged the people to stand with national security agencies and criticism on them without any evidence is unjustified as they are fighting for the survival of the country.

He disclosed that timely reporting about 1100 cases by the agencies saved the country from faceless myrmidons activities.

Rehman Malik termed the news about deleting of Saleem Shahzad's data as totally wrong and added that a commission has been formed to probe the killing of Saleem Shahzad.

To another question, he said to maintain the law and order situation is the responsibility of the provinces. Law and order situation in Bloody Karachi was under control, he said.

"Rangers were deployed in Bloody Karachi on the request of Sindh government to assist the police force. The police strength was not enough to control the law and order situation in Sindh. It will be unfair to blame the whole Rangers personnel for an individuals action", he said.

He said during the last five month about 48 police personnel have embraced 'Shahadat' while taking action against the criminals.

He said all the checkposts in the capital have been restored and the police forces deployed at the checkposts have been directed to check people without any discrimination.

"The government will take all possible measures to protect the live and propriety of the people," he said. To a question, he replied that IG Police in Islamabad will be appointed soon.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  For some reason, this made me think about the killer in No Country For Old Men.

That guy truly deserved his Oscar. The coin toss scene in the gas station had to have been one of the most intimidating scenes ever filmed.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 06/19/2011 11:19 Comments || Top||

#2  That guy truly deserved his Oscar.

Maybe, but this was Javier Bardem's tour de force.
Posted by: badanov || 06/19/2011 11:31 Comments || Top||



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