[Dawn] The United States is trying to secure the help of Pak intelligence service to organise reconciliation talks in Afghanistan aimed at ending the war there, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported Monday.
The newspaper said overtures are taking place just a month after President Barack I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money Obama's administration accused Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of secretly supporting the Haqqani network, which has mounted attacks on Americans.
The revamped approach, which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Richelieu ... has called "Fight, Talk, Build," combines continued US air and ground strikes against the Haqqani network and the Taliban with an insistence that the ISI get them to the negotiating table, the report said.
Top US officials including Clinton visited Pakistain this month to press for action against orcs, particularly the Haqqani network, which is blamed for anti-US attacks in Afghanistan.
But some elements of the ISI see little advantage in forcing those negotiations, because they see the gunnies as perhaps their best bet for maintaining influence in Afghanistan, the paper noted.
The efforts at brokering a deal with Islamic fascisticome as early hopes in the White House about having the outlines of a deal ready in time for a multinational conference on Afghanistan on December 5 in Bonn, Germany, have been all but abandoned, The Times noted.
Even inside the B.O. regime, the new initiative has been met with deep skepticism, in part because the Pak government has developed its own strategy, the paper pointed out.
One senior US official summarised the Pak position as "Ceasefire, Talk, Wait for the Americans to Leave."
Pakistain was the Taliban's chief diplomatic backer when it was in power and is regularly accused by both Kabul and Washington of helping destabilise its northern neighbour.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Kenya and Somalia want the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) to investigate the leaders of Al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... for crimes against humanity.
Kenya also announced plans to go to the UN Security Council to seek support for an international naval blockade of Kismayu to starve Al-Shabaab of income.
They asked the international community to provide warships to patrol Kismayu, regarded as Al-Shabaab's main source of income.
The leaders said the ICC should investigate individuals within Al-Shabaab over the terrorist attacks.
"The TFG will seek ICC assistance in beginning immediate investigations into crimes against humanity committed by individuals within the Al-Shabaab movement with the aim of seeking their indictment," read the statement in part.
Some of the known leaders of the group include Sheikh Mukhtar Abdurahman Abu Zubayr (better known as Ahmed Godane), the Supreme Leader, Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Ali Abu Mansoor, the deputy leader, Sheikh Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, the propaganda chief, Sheikh Hussein Fidow, chief of political and regional affairs, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, former leader of the defunct Hizbu Islam, Sheikh Hassan Abdullahi Hersi alias Sheikh Hassan Turki, former deputy leader of the defunct Hizbu Islam and Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Raghe alias Sheikh Ali Dhere, the front man.
The Nairobi meeting was also attended by Defence Minister Yusuf Haji, Chief of General Staff Julius Karangi, National Security Intelligence Service chief Michael Gichangi, Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere, Foreign Affairs assistant minister Richard Onyonka and Kenya's ambassador to Somalia Maj Gen (rtd) James Mulinge.
Mr Ali was accompanied by Somalia's deputy prime minister and Minister for Defence Hussein Aab Isse, Minister for Interior and National Security Abdisamad Mhamud Hassan, TFG Armed Forces commander Abdulkadir Sheikh Ali Dini and Somalia's ambassador to Kenya Mohamed Ali Nur.
Mr Ali was in the country to clarify reports by Somalia President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed questioning Kenyan's military intervention.
He said the TFG was united and that it supported the operation.
"I came with the blessing of the President. We will work with the Kenya government. There's no discord," Mr Ali said.
The join-statement said the security operation in Somalia was aimed at eliminating the threat posed by Al-Shabaab to Kenya's national security and economic well being "and is based on the legitimate right to self-defence under article 51 of the UN Charter."
The countries said the Al-Qaeda linked group was a common enemy for the region and the world.
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Not the ICC, surely not! These guys aren't criminals, they're just following an easy interpretation of Sharia, it's ok.
Libya's interim authorities have named Tripoli academic Abdurrahim al-Keib as the new prime minister.
The National Transitional Council (NTC) made the announcement days after declaring the country "liberated" following the death of Colonel Gaddafi. It also coincides with the official end of the Nato air campaign that helped overthrow the long-time leader.
The NTC wants a national congress to be elected within eight months, and multi-party elections in Libya in 2013.
Mr Keib, an academic specialising in electrical engineering and based in Tripoli, beat eight other candidates to receive 26 of the 51 votes from members of the NTC. He is seen as a consensus candidate who could smooth over rivalries within the NTC. Mr Keib is expected to appoint a cabinet in the coming days. The new interim government will run Libya until elections are held.
Although not a familiar public figure, Abdurrahim al-Keib is said to be well-liked within the National Transitional Council and is seen as a consensus candidate.
More importantly, not a threat to any power faction...
Libyans will be hoping he can help smooth out regional and other rivalries within the Council - evident, for example in the bickering over how, when and where to bury Col Gaddafi's body - so that Libya can move forward with its ambitious step-by-step programme to democratic elections.
It also helps that Abdurrahim al-Keib is from Tripoli. People in the capital have been irritated that the business of government has so far been run out of Benghazi in the east.
He replaces Mahmoud Jibril, who said he would stand down once Libya was declared officially "liberated" - which happened on 23 October, after the death of Col Gaddafi and the fall of his hometown of Sirte.
Spokesman Jalal el-Gallal said the NTC wanted to form an interim government after the fall of Col Gaddafi because its initial members started out as an impromptu group.
"This vote proves that Libyans are able to build their future," NTC chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil was quoted as saying after he voted.
Noah Gottschalk, a senior humanitarian policy advisor for Oxfam America, says that a military operation is just one of many potential tools for combating the LRA, and one that could put countless thousands of civilians in harm's way. The Ugandan military has tried a military solution in dealing with the LRA in the past, Gottschalk said, most recently with their Operation Lightning Thunder at the end of 2008. "That operation was designed to go after the LRA with the stated intent of making the LRA go away, but it left civilians a lot worse off."
In the long run, the solution may be the boring work of development, Gottschalk says.
"The LRA goes to places where there is little development, they don't go to places where there are big roads," he says. "So if you start to squeeze that area, building roads, bringing in infrastructure, you're not only bringing development to the most neglected corners of Africa, you're also reducing the territory that the LRA can operate in."
Watch it, with that Japanese CO2 Sat report that is exactly what will be sold. And recovering SAMs. Nation building is what they called it at one point in time.
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Zero is trying to tie the US into the 21st century version of Kipling's White Man's Burden. EXCEPT that we get NO benefits out of it, pay ALL of the costs, and lose ALL of the people doing it. Feel-good socialist social engineering and sticking it to the flyover country whites who make up the political resistance and most of the military as well.
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OK, so he's a nominal Christian at best, with guns, mixed up with a little local hokum.
The article doesn't say so but I wonder if it's a little like this: Uganda sends troops to Somalia so we pay them back by sending troops to Uganda. Is that our dog in this fight?
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's son and heir apparent Kim Jong-un is rumored to have married last year, the Daily NK reported Friday. mIt quoted a source in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province as saying his wife, who is from Chongjin, is two years younger than Kim Jong-un, who is believed to be 29. She graduated from Kim Il-sung University and is pursuing her doctoral degree there.
The source added her father is a university professor and her mother a gynecologist.
The source said several black Mercedes sedans have been spotted coming to her parents' house every national holiday since last year carrying gifts from Kim Jong-un.
A source in Pyongyang said Kim Jong-un's uncle Jang Song-taek, who is widely seen as the eminence grise of the regime, chose a woman from Kim Il-sung University who was attractive and had good academic grades and introduced her to Kim Jong-un.
The Daily NK said there is no confirmation of the rumor, but it is spreading through North Korea.
Molls married mobsters. Princesses married absolute tyrants. I think even Caligula was married at one point. So I suppose it could happen.
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The United Nations on Tuesday called a summit for January between leaders of ethnically split Cyprus to settle a decades-old conflict harming Turkey's bid to join the European Union.
A peace summit? Cheez, why didn't anyone think of that one before? Dude, you're a genius...
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon expressed optimism that Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu were on their way to resolving long-standing differences.
"Discussions have been positive, productive and vigorous," Ban told journalists, flanked by the two leaders at U.N. headquarters in New York.
"This has given me confidence that a comprehensive settlement can be achieved. Both leaders have assured me that they believe that they can finalize a deal," he said.
He said further efforts were needed over the next two months to move to the "end game" of negotiations.
Ban spoke after the United Nations hosted a meeting of Christofias and Eroglu on Sunday and Monday at a secluded estate in Long Island, New York.
The United Nations has been trying for years to reunite Cyprus, a Mediterranean island split between its Greek and Turkish Cypriot populations in 1974 after a brief Greek-inspired coup
Let's guess the outline of the agreement: both sides keep their quasi-independent states as part of a larger, uber-state that gets an international fig-leaf but doesn't have any power. But it does have a lot of ministries and thus jobs to offer...
The French weekly Charlie Hebdo has been rebaptised Sharia Hebdo for the occasion, and will feature on its cover a picture of Mohammed saying: "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!" Promises to be a real barrel of laughs
Canada is joining the U.S. in cutting off funding for the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO because it approved a Palestinian bid for full membership.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Tuesday the decision is not in the best interests of peace in the Middle East, so Canada is freezing all future voluntary contributions to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Canada contributes about $10 million a year to the agency.
The United States has also announced it will pull its $60 million in funding from UNESCO, which depends heavily on American funding.
The UNESCO vote represented a fallback plan for the Palestinian leadership after its bid for U.N. recognition as a state and full membership in the global body foundered in September.
[Dawn] President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... has said Pakistain has lost over 36,000 innocent men, women and kiddies and suffered a direct economic loss of over $70 billion in the fight against terrorism.
In an interview with leading Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, Mr Zardari, who is in Istanbul to attend a trilateral summit on Afghanistan, said: "No country has made greater contributions and sacrifices in fighting terrorism than Pakistain. We have lost our great leader and my wife Benazir Bhutto at the hands of terrorists. No-one should question our commitment or intentions in fighting the war."
President Abdullah Gul will host the sixth Turkey-Afghanistan-Pakistain summit here on Tuesday and President Zardari will meet his Afghan counterpart Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... for the first time since the liquidation on Sept 20 of former Afghan president and peace council head Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... and evolve a new strategy on the war against terrorism.
President Zardari said the the late Osama bin Laden ... who knows that it's like to live in the belly of a whale only he's not living... issue was now `history` and Pakistain was looking forward to a new chapter of relations with the United States. He said the source of the greatest evil of the new millennium had met his eventual fate.
"We should look into the future and ensure that the cut-thoat mindset is defeated. The sooner we stop public criticism and finger-pointing at each other and coordinate our resources, the better it will serve the cause of peace and stability and in the fight against extremism and militancy," he said.
"Our relations should be based on respect for illusory sovereignty and mutual trust."
He said after the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, the international community abandoned the region, leaving "us at the mercy of so-called Jihadis. Today, our innocent citizens are killed mercilessly by these terrorists. This is a historical fact. The international community owes it to Pakistain to support it in the fight against cut-thoat mindset". Mr Zardari said Pakistain was grateful to the Turkish nation for their deep compassion and sublime generosity towards the millions of Paks affected by the floods and the 2005 earthquake.
He said under the present arrangement, visa was no more required for holders of diplomatic and official passports and the eventual goal was a visa-free regime for all citizens and a currency swap agreement to increase bilateral trade.
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Dear President Asif Ali Zardari
"the late Osama bin Laden issue was now `history`"
You know many people here find history very interesting and we want to know about some other peoples history for example
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Mullah Mohammad Omar
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Pakistain has lost over 36,000 innocent men, women and kiddies
Including Osama bin Laden. suffered a direct economic loss of over $70 billion
Is that before or after tallying in the US aid? Including the 10%?
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The Sept 11, 2001 attack on the USA has been very good for Pakistan, especially their thieving elites. Before that their economy was in the dumps for several years. Pakistan gdp growth rate
And what of the 36,000 dead? Pakistanis killing other Pakistanis minus the 1,500 or so Jihadis killed with drones. That doesn't include the tens of thousands Pakistani Jihadis killed in Afghanistan since Oct. 2001.
[Dawn] Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... said Pakistain, United States and Afghanistan need to continue working on a joint strategy in the fight against terrorism and extremism. When the hands and the lips are in conflict, discount the lips. Especially if they fall off.
In an interview to SBS television here, the Prime Minister said, "We need cooperation and we all together have to make a strategy to fight against them (terrorists)."
He said he discussed with leaders of member states of Commonwealth the need to win hearts and minds of people. Grab them firmly by the testicles. Their hearts and minds will follow.
"We have to do something practically for them, because we have to go to the root cause of terrorism, which is because of poverty and illiteracy and we have to fight that." You keep saying the causes of terrorism are poverty and illiteracy. It's probably a lot more accurate to say that terrorism works because people with lots of money are willing to shell out big bucks to recruit rubes to kill themselves and others in the name of whatever crackbrain idea's being pushed at the moment, whether fascism, communism, or - as in the present instance - olde tyme religion. Since the poor will always be with us, it makes more sense to me to kill the financiers, but what the hell do I know?
He said the United States has already committed to building of Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs) in areas of Pakistain and Afghanistan for the uplift of living standards of people. Good idea. Have Pak politicians hand out our money to beturbanned rustics. Who thought that up? A few of us want to have a talk with him.
"But we are expecting that they do it soon. Only military actions are not the solution and once you have a military action, you should have an exit strategy with a socioeconomic programme, so that there is a permanent solution."
About Pak-US relations, he said, "there had been a lot of ups and downs but there is a realisation that they can understand our ground realities and I discussed with them that we need a political space, so that we can fight better."
"And if there is no political space left for us, then individually no one can be able to perform well, till such time when we have the support of the masses."
The Prime Minister said Pakistain has lost many people in fight against terrorism, which shows its resolve and commitment. "We have lost about 30,000 people and 5,000 brave soldiers including that of law enforcement agencies and how anybody can even doubt our intention".
He said he discussed with the Australian Prime Minister the recent attacks on Australian and US forces in Afghanistan.
"It is bad news and we really condemn this incident," he said adding, "We are fighting against terrorism and extremism and we paid such a huge price and therefore we can't afford that ISAF forces and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces lose. We want them to win. Because we are directly affected by such incidents."
He said forces that are working in Afghanistan, have to leave one day but "we are the neighbours and we have to live permanently".
To a question about the statements coming from Pentagon, he said Pentagon has its assessment and many statements come from the US and "we don't want to answer each and every statement. We only deal things politically and through the Foreign Office."
The Prime Minister said he met US Secretary Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Woman to Call at 3 a.m. and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another George C. Marshall ... during her visit to Pakistain. "We had a lengthy meeting and we almost agreed on all points that they wanted."
Pakistain and United States have great cooperation in defence and intelligence sharing, he added.
Gilani said the US wanted to win and Pakistain is ready to support any initiative of Afghanistan for any reconciliation.
"We are ready to support them as Pakistain is part of the solution. Therefore we are ready to help them," he remarked.
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Show some respect to the SuperPower then we might help!
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"We have to do something practically for them, because we have to go to the root cause of terrorism, which is because of poverty and illiteracy and we have to fight that."
Israel last night announced that it would accelerate settlement construction and withhold tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority to punish it for joining the UN's cultural arm.
Not a chance in the world the Paleos figure out 'cause and effect'...
It looks like the Israelis decided that punishing the PA was an option, after all. Next time they shouldn't lead the Palestinians on.
Edit: never mind, that promise was for applying for nation status, not this thing. Sorry "bout that.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, convened his inner cabinet yesterday to study proposals to sanction the Palestinian leadership after it won overwhelming international support on Monday for its bid to join UNESCO.
While some kind of punitive action was expected, the severity of Israel's response suggested that Mr Netanyahu had bowed to pressure from right-wing ministers intent on exacting the heaviest penalty possible for what they saw as an act of Palestinian effrontery.
Or, alternately, that Mr. Netanyahu led from the front, being personally upset over the whole matter...
President Obama and the Quartet will not be pleased at this defiance. Especially just after prime Minister Netanyahu gave them his final borders, as demanded.
An Israeli government official defended the measures, saying that Mr Netanyahu had been left with no choice but to respond robustly to Palestinian "unilateralism" in its pursuit of UN membership and by what he claimed was the growing radicalism of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.
"You cannot demand that Israel continues to show restraint when the Palestinian leadership continues to slam the door in our face," he said.
Or shoot rockets at your kids...
By withholding Palestinian customs revenues, Mr Netanyahu has taken a step that his defence establishment has countenanced against for fear that it could cause the collapse of the moderate Palestinian Authority.
Syria enlisted the services of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani scientist, in a covert programme to develop a nuclear weapon, it has been claimed.
United Nations investigators say they have identified a previously unknown complex in the far north-east of Syria that bears a striking resemblance to a uranium enrichment plant Mr Khan planned to build in Libya, officials were reported as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
Further bolstering long-held suspicions over the scientist's connections with Syria, the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has obtained correspondence between Mr Khan and a Syrian official proposing co-operation, the officials said.
The twin disclosures provide the most compelling evidence linking the "father" of Pakistan's atom bomb and Syria. They also appear to confirm that the Syrian regime followed two separate tracks in its attempts to develop a nuclear weapons programme.
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has always denied links with Mr Khan, whose nuclear black market is thought to have supplied blueprints and technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
The president insisted that the only communication he ever had came in a letter from Mr Khan in 2001 offering Syria help to build an atom bomb. Mr Assad said he rejected the proposal.
[Dawn] Any buildup of U.S. forces in the Gulf after their withdrawal from Iraq would be imprudent, Iran's foreign minister said on Monday, urging all nations to tread cautiously in a troubled region.
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi made the comments in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... days after U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William H. Seward ... warned Iran not to try to exploit the U.S. withdrawal at the year-end.
"Now, about the U.S. planning to build up their forces in the region ... they are not following a rational and prudent approach," Salehi told a joint news conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari.
"The Americans always have a deficit, unfortunately, in rationality and prudence. So what I expect is that it's about time for the Americans to be ... more prudent and wise in their approach," he said.
Washington is planning to bolster its military presence in the Gulf after it pulls out of Iraq, including negotiating to maintain a combat presence in Kuwait, and is considering deploying more warships in the area, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Sunday.
Salehi said the region was entering a troubled period. "The consequences of these developments are not yet known to anybody, so one has to be cautious. Everybody has to be cautious, including the U.S.," he said.
Iraq and the United States failed after months of talks to agree on keeping U.S troops in Iraq past the end of this year.
U.S President Barack Why can't I just eat my waffle? Obama announced he would stick to plans to pull out the remaining force, about 39,000 now, by the year-end, nearly nine years after the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. .
U.S. officials have accused Iran of interfering in Iraqi affairs by supporting Shi'ite militias in Iraq.
On Sunday Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed the coming withdrawal of U.S. troops from neighbouring Iraq as a "golden page in that country's history".
"Iraq does not need anybody to meddle in its internal affairs. Iraq is an independent country," Salehi said.
Asked if Iran was ready to make a deal with Iraq to train its forces and exchange intelligence information, Salehi said:
"Sure. (There is) no problem in such a suggestion, to make a thorough pact that includes all these (ideas)," he said.
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"The Americans always have a deficit, unfortunately, in rationality and prudence. So what I expect is that it's about time for the Americans to be ... more prudent and wise in their approach," he said.
Prudent? Rational? Wise? Practical?
Do I recall the Iranians sent some of their military vessels through the Strait of Hormuz to tweak Israel? Do I recall the Iranians planning to send some of their military vessels over into the Pacific?
If we have a deficit, then I guess by their own "logic" they are stark raving mad.
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If our leadership really were Prudent, Rational, Wise and Practical, Iran would be a wasteland where we send our servicemen for cheap booze and whores.
[An Nahar] [An Nahar] Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... is expected to meet President Michel Suleiman before the end of this week to discuss with him the possibility of resuming dialogue between the Lebanese foes.
Berri said in comments to As Safir newspaper published on Monday that he will discuss with Suleiman the chances of resuming the national dialogue, to inquire him about the reasons that are preventing the launching of the all-party talks.
He expressed belief that Prime Minister Najib Miqati, Hizbullah, Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... have agreed on resuming the dialogue.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... he said "the issue depends on the position of the March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... forces, especially al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement."
Berri said he was ready to discuss the matter with al-Mustaqbal bloc leader ex-PM Fouad Saniora, "if my meeting with the president established a solid ground to begin from."
The speaker stressed that "the dialogue should resume without any previous conditions."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The United States is trying to secure the help of Pak intelligence service to organise reconciliation talks in Afghanistan aimed at ending the war there, The 
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l-Shabaab
The French weekly Charlie Hebdo has been rebaptised Sharia Hebdo for the occasion, and will feature on its cover a picture of Mohammed saying: "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!"
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[Dawn] Prime Minister Syed 
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