An Islamist insurgent-run radio station in Somalia says it is awarding guns, bombs and books to three children in a Quran recital contest.
Andulus radio station is run by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militia.
The station announced Monday that the first prize winner in the contest received a rifle and $700, the second prize winner got a rifle and $500, and the third prize winner received two bombs.
All three children also received religious books.
Al-Shabab is battling Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed government. The militants have recently been weakened by famine in territory they control
The North Korean regime has spent US$1.04 billion since 2008 importing luxury goods in contravention of UN Security Council resolutions.
According to data Grand National Party lawmaker Yoon Sang-hyun obtained from the Foreign Ministry and other government agencies, the regime imported luxury goods worth $272.14 million in 2008, $322.53 million in 2009, and $446.17 million in 2010.
TVs, digital cameras, and video recorders made up the largest proportion, jumping from $115.47 million in 2008 to $215.95 million in 2010. Luxury cars and parts came second and movie equipment such as film cameras and projectors third.
UN Security Council resolutions 1718 and 1874 ban exports of luxury goods and weapons of mass destruction to the North.
Worked well, didn't it...
The amount the regime spent buying luxury goods was about 10 times the total humanitarian aid of $107.29 million it received from South Korea and the international community over the same period.
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Worked well, didn't it...
Sure did for the UN bureaucrats who got their cut of the $1 billion.
Officials from Seoul and Washington are discussing a revision of restrictions on the range of South Korean missiles, Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said Monday. The current missile guidelines restrict the range of South Korean ballistic missiles to 300 km, but Seoul wants them to cover the entire peninsula, according to Kim.
Sure, why not? Those missiles don't bother us any...
Kim did not specify how much longer Seoul wants the range to be, but a range of some 800 km is needed to cover all of North Korea. This was the first time the defense chief has formally revealed that discussions are underway.
Asked whether he wants to extend the range to cover all missile bases in the North, Kim said yes.
The missile guidelines were worked out in 1979 and revised in 2001.
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CBS released more of the recording about 5:00 yesterday -- about politics in this one ---
The tapes were recorded approximately mid-March 2011 by the primary gun dealer cooperating with ATF in its "Fast and Furious" operation: Andre Howard, owner of Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, Arizona. He's talking with the lead case ATF case agent Hope MacAllister.
- "Watch your back," the gun dealer warns the ATF Agent in an audio recording obtained by CBS News.
The secretly recorded conversations are between the primary gun dealer cooperating with ATF in its "Fast and Furious" operation, Andre Howard, and lead case ATF agent Hope MacAllister.
In the following audio excerpts, the gun dealer Howard and ATF Agent MacAllister discuss possible involvement in the investigation into Fast and Furious by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). They also mention Attorney General Eric Holder. Read or listen to text of the audio at site
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Great coverage of Fast and Furious but I'd like to see more on Operatiion Castaway, with weapons going south from TX and FL. Not a lot of press other than local but an ongoing multi-agency investigation into a cartel drug/money laundering ring through the BVI/USVI that includes airdrops via planes purchased in FL and flown between Venezuela and both the islands and Central America/Mexico for further shuttle via go-fast boats to Puerto Rico and the US has been going on for 13 years. Customs and Immigration officers have been arrested, caught on camera and stamping bogus Venezuelan passports for entry. Four individuals entered via yacht from Antigua to help set up details. (think Sir Stanford?) This began in 1998 to present, with more arrests expected. One businessman has been under watch since 2005. There have been previous arrests (2002--Ashcroft) in the area allege drugs-for=weapons with terrorists benefitting. These British islands also have off-shore banking with lots of dummy corps set up there but they have cells and computers + UK, DEA, FBI, ICE, Coast Guard, Homeland Security on various aspects of the ring. If only these could be definitively linked, it would make an impeachable offense.....
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This is all new to me, Me. Would you consider writing up a more detailed and documented discussion for posting?
Daily Jang quoted senior PMLN leader Javed Hashmi as saying that he did not agree with Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif over the number of provinces to be created within Punjab as he thought four would be needed. He added that it was a big mistake to transfer capital of Pakistan from Karachi to Islamabad where the army wants to dominate. He said Karachi should be a separate province.
Just wait -- it won't be long until Karachi is as empty as Detroit.
British brain behind Americans!
Famous chief editor Khushnood Ali Khan wrote in Jinnah that he was in favour of journalists calling on the government to stop the entry of American diplomats in KP province because a ban on their entry had led to a remarkable decrease in incidents of terrorism in Peshawar. In fact Britons too were allowed entry into Peshawar and one must understand that behind every American plot there were British brains.
See? It's not that the Brits are poodles, but that the Yanks are sock puppets.
The Brits know Pakistan because they have ruled in these parts for a long time.
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tw: Many years ago there was a program written for DOS called 'Babble' that would rearrange text from various text sources to generate a random stream of consciousness nonsense text. After reading this, I think this old program is how the Pak government develops its policies.
Long piece from the Pak Daily Times about how government ministers, police chiefs and prosecutors work with, aid, abet and share in the boodle with carjackers. Just another reason why Pakistain is a cesspit of a failed state.
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Why don't we give it a catchy, muscle car sounding operational name? Something like 'Fastbacks and (Plymouth) Furies'
ISLAMABAD: Human Rights Ministry (HRM) has decided to take up matter of drone attacks with United Nations under international humanitarian law and file an official complain to Special Rapper Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Addressing a media briefing on Monday, Adviser to Prime Minister Mustafa Nawaz Khokar said the matter would be discussed with all stakeholders of the government after taking them on board an official complain will be lodged.
Sovereign countries usually take care of terrorism and don't force others to do it for them...
He categorically made it clear that drone strikes are not acceptable.
So do something about it. I'm sure the mighty Pak Air Force will step up...
He said so far the debate has only circled around loss of collateral damages and not about the specific legislation of the strikes in the light of international humanitarian law (law of war).
He explained that apart from being in violation of Pakistan's territorial sovereignty, there was growing consensus among International law experts
Is that as lacking in meaning as a scientific consensus?
that these strikes can be aptly described as "Target Killing", or "ExtraJudicial Killing" primarily because the targets are being 'taken out' without giving them opportunity to defend themselves in court of law.
"Emerging international law" is a code-phrase for the progressive community as "law as we'd like it to be".
This view is gaining ground in the international legal fraternity and is supported by various international treaties as well as United States' own constitution.
Look in Article VII...
Mustafa mentioned that one does not have to be a legal expert to see that there is blatant disregard of International Law, Customary Law, treaties and conventions by the American administration.
Not to mention state law, city ordinances, copyright law, trade-dress law, patent law and the Harvard law review...
The moral and legal obligations are being flouted by the US administration, he said, adding, complain regarding drone attacks has already been lodged with US several times but unfortunately it was not proved fruitful and the HRM has decided to take up this matter with UN.
Mustafa Khokar further said that a photo exhibition would start in London on Tuesday (today) titled "Gaming in Waziristan", in which the snapshots of drone attacks victims, including corpses of children, women, clothes, shoes and other belongings of these people would be displayed to unveil the reality in front of international forums.
Wanna see Mustafa wet his pants? Tell him to look up at the sky and smile...
The adviser said that America and its allies record is questionable ranging from disrespecting the environmental treaties to torturing detainee and now extra-judicial killings. He hoped that as the UN Special Rapporteur is considering the matter, Pakistan's official communication in this regard might prove to be highly productive.
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I think the drone strikes are quite acceptable. I think the HRM should be focusing their attention to more pressing local matters.
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As per yesterday's firefight between Talibunnies and Pak army over a dead drone they both likely wanted to sell to China.... and this article today... its time to go to the civil air boneyard and turn lots of old non-mil planes into drones and randomly crash them in the Pak tribal areas in order to stimulate Red on Red fighting.
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Hague Convention of 1907 - a neutral country has the obligation not to allow its territory to be used by a belligerent. If the neural country is unwilling or unable to prevent this, the other belligerent has the right to take appropriate counteraction.
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Hague Convention of 1907 - a neutral country has the obligation not to allow its territory to be used by a belligerent. If the neural country is unwilling or unable to prevent this, the other belligerent has the right to take appropriate counteraction.
That's just the sort of oppression by colonialist european squares we're complaining about!
ISLAMABAD: The United States should focus on defeating Muslim militant enemies inside Afghanistan instead of blaming Pakistan for its failure, Pakistani officials said on Monday.
Couldn't possibly be the fault of the country offering sanctuary to the Haqqanis, now could it...
Washington accused Pakistan on Saturday of having links to the Haqqani network, which Washington blames for an attack on the US Embassy and other targets in Kabul, and said the government in Islamabad must cut those ties.
"Whenever big attacks in Kabul or elsewhere in Afghanistan take place this blame game starts," a senior military official, who requested anonymity, told Reuters. "Instead of blaming us, they should take action against terrorists on their side of the border."
How about we whack the terrorists on both sides of the border?
A little late to be asking permission for that.
I wouldn't ask for permission. Heck, I wouldn't even ask for forgiveness afterwards.
We haven't been. :-)
In blunt remarks, the US ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, told Radio Pakistan there was evidence linking the Haqqanis to the Islamabad government. The Haqqani network is one of three, and perhaps the most feared, of the Taleban-allied insurgent factions fighting US-led NATO and Afghan troops in Afghanistan.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Pakistan last week the United States would "do everything we can" to defend US forces from Pakistan-based militants staging attacks in Afghanistan.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Pakistan in 3-1/2 hours of talks on Sunday to attack the Haqqani network, a senior US official said.
On Monday, Pentagon spokesman George Little suggested patience with Pakistan was wearing thin as US officials repeated their calls for greater action against the group.
"The Haqqani network has blood of American soldiers and our allies on its hands. ... Anyone who can bring pressure to bear on the Haqqani network should, immediately and with every leverage point they can use," he said.
Munter indicated ties with Pakistan, which relies on billions of dollars of US aid, were still heavily strained. "These relations today need a lot of work," he said.
The view from Pakistan differs. "They (the Americans) say militants come from Pakistan but they travel up to Kabul and no one arrests them all the way to Kabul. It is their responsibility (to arrest them there) not ours," said the senior Pakistani military official.
How about we deep-fat-fry them at the border?
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua told Reuters the two sides needed to work toward a "friction-free relationship."
"Any perceptional differences warrant deeper engagement and that is taking place," she said.
"Terrorism and extremism are a much bigger threat to Pakistan than to the United States," said Mahmud Ali Durrani, a former Pakistani ambassador to the United States.
Funny, the Pak government never acts as if that's true...
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Pakistan last week the United States would "do everything we can" to defend US forces from Pakistan-based militants staging attacks in Afghanistan.
Everything except B-52 strikes on the Mosques, Madrasses, and selected compounds in Chaman and Quetta, which would put an immediate and long-lasting end to this bullshit and everyone from PV-1 to General Officer knows it.
WASHINGTON: Former US President Jimmy Carter has called on Washington not to veto a Palestinian application for the UN recognition of their state in the Security Council.
"If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations," Carter told National Public Radio on Sunday. "There's no downside to it."
Shaddup, ya bigoted old coot.
"There's been basically a 34-year period of unfulfilled expectations by the Palestinians that Israel would carry out the promises it made to me, and to Egypt, and to the Palestinians and to the rest of the world.
"They've not been willing to do so, and they still occupy Palestine and they've built ever more settlements and the Palestinians do not have any more rights, human rights and political rights that they had when I was president -- in ancient times," said the former US president.
When asked how this move would actually help the Palestinians get closer to having an actual independent state, Carter said: "The only alternative is the maintenance of its status quo.
"Every day, as you well know, the Israelis are building more and more settlements, confiscating more and more of Palestinian land and depriving the Palestinians of their basic human and political rights and that's a status quo that's unacceptable to the Palestinian people and should be unacceptable to the rest of the world."
And the downside is...
Reminded that Israel is "vehemently" opposed to this and has asked the US to back Israel on this issue, Carter was asked what motivation or reason would President Obama have not to veto the vote when he is up for re-election next year?
Carter admitted such a move "could have adverse effects, perhaps, on his political future.
Not because Bambi would lose the Jewish vote, mind you, just the sensible American vote...
Actually, President Barack Hussein Obama continues to fall in polls of Jewish voters, just like former President Carter did. In NY-9, it was the Jews who voted in the Catholic Republican. The Dems are becoming quite concerned.
"I faced the same prospect when I was president;
...when inflation, stagflation and malaise ruled the land...
I talked the Israelis into giving up the occupation of the Sinai region to Egypt, in a peace treaty that came six months after the Camp David accords."
Asked if he thought this UN vote for nonmember status would really change anything for the Palestinians, Carter said: "Yes."
"Let's just assume that in the General Assembly there is a vote following a veto in the Security Council by the US, the status of Palestine will be almost identical to what it is with the Vatican now, .
I've never heard of the Vatican launching rocket attacks into Rome.
and what it has been, on an interim basis, with new coming nations in the past. "So it won't be a full member of the UN, but it will have certain privileges of membership in international organizations."
Finally, he was asked if he thought if the US will be on the wrong side of history on this. He said: "I believe so," and added that "the United States' influence among the Palestinians and inside Israel is at the lowest point it's been in the last 60 years."
There's a reason for that...
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I've never really seen a downside to giving them a seat. After all what the Pals have been doing has been an act of war and if they were a nation Israel would have had a case long ago to destroy them and most would have to support them or fear the prescident.
Yet, I can't side with Carter easily. He's been wrong on just about every issue my entire life so I have to believe I've been missing something. So I guess I'm undecided at best now.
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from the same Asshole who swapped spit with Arafat
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After all what the Pals have been doing has been an act of war and if they were a nation Israel would have had a case long ago to destroy them and most would have to support them or fear the prescident.
I'm afraid that what you'll find is they will support the Palestinians against Israel every time, no matter what. Remember, there are far more Arab and Muslim countries in the UN than there are Jewish. There are far more dictatorships than there are democracies. They don't care about right or wrong. They just want to get rid of the Juice so they can turn that country into a dysfunctional cat box just like all the other Arab countries.
jimmuh is a despicable little man and a disgrace to the United States.
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Well somethings up. New directional EFPs and multiple EFP's are said to be in Palestinian hands. Then in Janes also they mention leaflets of a "previously unknown group Al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula were distributed in Rafah, a town on the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Well if Carter is for it then it must be bad for Israel."There's no downside to it" come on, what are you selling.
That's because he's an ineffectual blunderer who's painted himself into a corner.
UNITED NATIONS: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday that he would push ahead with plans to seek full UN membership for a Palestinian state, a move the United States and Israel say could lead to disaster.
Abbas met Ban at the UN headquarters and reaffirmed that he planned to ask this week for a Security Council vote on Palestinian membership despite the certainty of a US veto, his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudainah said.
Ban, through whom any application must be made, told Abbas he would "perform his duties under the UN charter," and called for the Israelis and the Palestinians to resume negotiations "within a legitimate and balanced framework," UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
Earlier, Abbas said "all hell has broken out" over the statehood bid, and acknowledged it carried risks for his Palestinian Authority, which depends on international financial aid for its survival in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
"We decided to take this step and all hell has broken out against us," he told reporters on his flight to New York, but added that he would not be swayed. "From now until I give the speech, we have only one choice: going to the Security Council. Afterward, we will sit and decide."
Abbas has said he will present his application to the Security Council on Friday.
With a US veto looming at the Security Council, the Palestinians have said they could also go to the UN General Assembly to request an upgrade in their standing from an "entity" to "a non-member state" a move they say is likely to pass with support from at least 126 members of the 193-member body.
Abbas is expected to meet with French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who warned that both Israel and the Palestinians were courting disaster by clinging to the status quo.
"The only solution is to resume talks," Juppe said in remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Because that's worked well ever since 1948 or so...
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Britain, like other members of the European Union, remained committed to a solution that would see an independent Palestinian state emerge peacefully alongside Israel.
"We ... have withheld our position on how we would vote on any resolution that may come forward in the General Assembly in order to exert as much pressure on both sides to return to negotiations," he told Sky News in an interview.
The United States says it opposes the Palestinian bid for full UN membership on the grounds that only a resumption of a two-decade old negotiation process can advance the cause of peace. It has also said it would not support a Palestinian vote in the General Assembly.
A US Security Council veto would supposedly carry huge diplomatic risks for Washington, which could find itself further isolated alongside Israel as political turmoil sweeps the Middle East and unleashes new fears of instability.
Remember when liberals and the media (but I repeat myself) assured us that Bambi would create a whole new relationship between the US and the rest of the world?
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Sunday to discuss Ashton's recent trip to the region, part of a frantic effort to persuade the Palestinians to avoid a showdown.
Senior diplomats from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations the so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators also met on Sunday and were expected to hold further meetings this week. The Quartet has for months been trying to put together guidelines for future peace talks, but Abbas has said they have offered nothing new.
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They don't want to talk to their neighbors to make it happen. I hope they try and I hope we veto, and I hope we withhold our aid money. They will be making noise regardless.
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This is Abbas's version 'campaigning for the Presidency'.
He is currently President but his term expired years ago and decided this UN step would be a way to make his expired Presidency seem real and get to be the center of attention. It worked
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(Ma'an) --Two Paleostinians were maimed on Monday when a gas canister went kaboom! inside a smuggling tunnel running under the border between the Gazoo Strip and Egypt.
Queerly enough, even while in the early stages of revolution, Egypt still doesn't want to let the Gazans run around freely. Why d'you suppose that is?
Five Paleostinians were in the tunnel at the time of the kaboom, with two receiving critical injuries and three reported missing, Paleostinian medics said.
The three missing people were later found, medics added.
On Sunday evening, a young Paleostinian was killed and another injured when a smuggling tunnel between the city of Rafah in the Gazoo Strip and Egypt collapsed.
The Ambulance and Emergencies Committee in Gazoo identified the dear departed as Jihad Irbati.
Two Palestinian teenagers have died from injuries sustained when a smuggling tunnel under Gaza's border with Egypt collapsed on Monday, medics said. Ashraf Al-Qarra, 17, died on Monday afternoon and Haytham Abu Radwan, also 17, died on Tuesday morning, the ambulance and emergencies committee in Gaza said in a statement. The teenagers were injured when a gas canister exploded in the tunnel they were in.
Medics say over 160 Palestinians have died in the network of underground tunnels since Israel imposed a siege on the Gaza Strip in 2006.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Scores of women and children wearing colorful miniskirts and tight leggings gathered in central Jakarta on Sunday, outraged by a public official's comments that provocatively dressed women are to blame for sexual assaults.
These women have courage telling their Muslim countryMEN that it's THEIR job to control their libidos, and not the women's job to control their appearance.
The protest was in response to remarks by the Indonesian capital city's governor Fauzi Bowo, who said on Friday that women must not wear revealing clothes to avoid being raped or victimized. He quickly apologized, but his comments were publicized widely via local media and Twitter.
The rally called on police and the Indonesian government to do more to protect women and help the victims of sexual assault.
Women carried placards saying "Don't tell us how to dress, tell them not to rape," and "My body is not porn, instead it's your dirty mind."
"Public officials should remain silent rather than making discriminatory statements against women. They are supposed to be sensitive and it is their job to find real solution to violence against women," said Tunggal Prawestu, a spokeswoman for the event organizers.
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Don't be so quick with praise. These 'walks' are radical leftists.
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A 'Score' might be as low as 21 - remember Journalists always round up (except when its conservative or the tea party). It makes their story sound much more impressive.
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I too thought these things were silly lefty wank when they started in Canada and San Fran, but Jakarta is a whole 'nother deal. These women are pushing on the boundaries of their community as EU6305 points out above. Imagine this same event in Riyadh or Teheran.
Step back and think about what liberty means, and graciously accept that these women's exercise of liberty is worthy of a little more than chortle here in the civilized world, but elsewhere it is an explosive demand for civilization to hurry up and arrive.
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I support freedom, but biology and context can not be ignored. Police officers wear uniforms and it would be confusing for the general populace to have to discern if the person wearing the uniform is a real police officer or not. Prostitutes also have a uniform which is widely recognized and it can be confusing for the general populace to determine if the person wearing it is a memeber of that proffesion. Rape is a crime and can not be condonded, but women should not be surprised or offended if they wear the uniform and receive the same general response as a prostitute. In danger zones (like ghettos), it is wise not to flash cash or jewelry if you do not want to attract criminals. Islam uses rape to punish women for various "crimes"--loosely defined to our western mind. These women are brave to risk that for their freedom. "Provacative" can be different in different locations. In Muslim countries, anything less than head to toe black out is considered provacative. I wish them well.
NEW YORK: French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe accused the Syrian regime Monday of "crimes against humanity" and slammed the UN Security Council for failing to take a strong stand on the unrest.
So you want to do another Libya? Or is it that you want someone else to take on the expense and risk of doing another Libya for you?
"Crimes against humanity are committed in Syria. The silence of the Security Council is unacceptable," Juppe told the Council on Foreign Relations,
Ah. They just want an official statement, not action.
at a talk held on the sidelines of a week of UN summits.
Yeah, yeah, tell the Russians and the Chinese...
Since the anti-regime protests erupted in mid-March, several opposition groups have emerged united in their call for the ouster of Assad's autocratic regime but have been divided about how to go about achieving it.
The latest group, the Syrian Coalition of Secular and Democratic Forces (CSDF), is meeting in Paris where it issued a statement on Monday urging the international community to protect civilians against the repression.
Sure, just like the international community did in Libya, Bosnia and Rwanda...
The appeal -- an implicit call for foreign intervention -- conflicted with other pleas by opposition groups for an end to the bloodshed in Syria and the launch of political, economic and social reforms.
"We call on the international community to adopt a United Nations resolution to protect civilians," said a statement modeled on UN Security Council Resolution 1973 that authorized international action in Libya.
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Call me cynical, but I can't help thinking there is some sort of Froggie money angle here. Oil for Palaces, and all that.
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.
Officials from Seoul and Washington are discussing a revision of restrictions on the range of South Korean missiles, Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said Monday. The current missile guidelines restrict the range of South Korean ballistic missiles to 300 km, but Seoul wants them to cover the entire peninsula, according to Kim. 
ISLAMABAD: The United States should focus on defeating Muslim militant enemies inside Afghanistan instead of blaming Pakistan for its failure, Pakistani officials said on Monday.
WASHINGTON: Former US President Jimmy Carter has called on Washington not to veto a Palestinian application for the UN recognition of their state in the Security Council.
(Ma'an) --Two Paleostinians 
