[Yemen Post] The Yemen-based Abaad Centre for Studies and Researches has cautioned that some factions seek to collapse Yemeni cities militarily under the pretext of Al-Qaeda as happened in Radda and Abyan provinces scenarios.
"This scenario may be carried out in Ibb, Dhala'a, Lahj, and, Hadhramout and other cities would be controlled under the pretext of fighting Al-Qaeda as it is expected to happen in Dhamar, Taiz, and Hodeidah.
In a periodic report, Abaad pointed out that Al-Qaeda has no systematic structure and its goals are foggy, affirming that it lacks strategic visions.
Ouch. Not a kind evaluation of the Bravest Lions of Islam...
"Therefore, Al-Qaeda was penetrated by local and international bodies, and only those bodies take advantages of Al-Qaeda," added the centre. "Even some figures benefited from Al-Qaeda as that clearly appeared during its control and withdrawal of Al-Amria in Rada when Tariq Al-Dhahab could get his brother out of the custody."
"There are figures affiliated to Al-Qaeda, some were in Abyan and others who escaped jails, are currently existed in Sana'a, and some Al-Qaeda fugitives live with the displaced people inside schools in Aden."
The report ruled out that Al-Qaeda has the ability to take over any town, if it does not receive direct and indirect logistic support by some sides that are in connection to the power transfer process.
"Al-Dhahab withdrew from Radda after he failed to recruit enough numbers to completely control the city as well as he got his main demand, release of his bother" the report added.
The periodic report revealed that Al-Dhahab was not the real leader of Al-Qaeda in Radda.
It further cited that Al-Qaeda senior leaders, Nasser Al-Wohaish, the leader of Al-Qaeda, and Ebrahim Darwish, another Al-Qaeda leader were at Alzahir district of Baidha governorate when Radda was taken over.
"Decisions were taken by Al-Qaeda Shura council consisted of 20 persons who are selected of 60 persons, the real division of Al-Qaeda which is called " Almuhajreen" which includes a Saudi and Pakistani nationals. Their duties were not external protection. Some Bedouins, tribesmen and other escapees joined Al-Qaeda in its fighting with the aim of getting money and others were contained as a result of Al-Dhahab's charisma in the area.
"While the real leader was not known in Radda, there was a field leader who is called Abu Hamza and another high-ranking leader called "Abu Hamam" , and they were considered the main decion-makers in Radda"
Abaad said that assassination incidents against officers and soldiers of the Political Security and other security services were clear-cut indicators of Al-Qaeda expansion.
"Before Al-Qaeda control on Radda, three of the Political Security officials were killed in Baidah, capital of the governorate, and Al-Qaeda was behind their assassination," the report added "One of these officers, Ahmed Samba was kidnapped and executed by Al-Qaeda in Abyan,"
"Security services believe that Al-Qaeda was behind killing of approximately 70 security officers including 20 ones affiliated to the Political Security. Most of them were killed in the eastern and Southern governorates in the period from January 2011 to January 2012. This number is 25 percent of all those officers and soldiers killed since the eruption of anti-regime protests."
The report affirmed that Al-Qaeda used the Yemeni political gap and the power transfer process to strengthen its control, pointing out that Saleh's regime directly or indirectly contributed in Al-Qaeda control on Abyan and Radda.
"As Al-Qaeda took over Al-Qaeda in Zinjibar in April 2011 and seized control on the Central Security camp without fighting, it was supposed that Major General Adel Al-Masri, nephew of the Interior Ministry, be investigated.
"However, Al-Masri was appointed as a security director of Radda a day after the signature of the GCC-brokered power transfer deal," the report added.
"After Almasri became the first security official in Rada, Al-Qaeda could seized control Radda at the same way it took over Zinjibar,"
"As a result of Al-Qaeda operations, some regional and international powers would move to Yemen's territorial water, particularly the United states,"
"Its military move is motivated by presidential elections race, particularly after it achieved victories in Afghanistan and Yemen as well as the success of its covert operations which led to the killing of Bin Laden and Anwar Al-Awlaki,"
"Pentagon said it deployed a large floating base to serve as a "mother ship" for commando teams to the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran, Al Qaeda in Yemen and Somali pirates, but the main goal was the implementation of an agreement with Taliban for which the American forces would leave Afghanistan in return for allowing Al-Qaeda leaders would exit Afghanistan with guarantees of not endangering their lives,"
"Because Iran is interested in getting Americans and Al-Qaeda out Afghanistan, so it would facilitate the mission," added the report.
"As for the US-Iranian competition at Bab-el-Mandeb strait, particularly after Tehran threatened to close Hormuz strait, the report said that Americans seek to secure Bab-el-Mandeb, and then expand to the east Africa, but they know that Iran's existence in the African Horn would make them accept share as happened in Afghanistan and Iraq" the report concluded.
It expected that Washington would support Turkey's efforts to decrease the ceiling of Iran's demands which start with the United States' suspension of its support to the Iranian opposition and ends with turning blind eyes to Iran's repression against Sunnis in Balochistan , Ahwaz and Kurdistan.
It also cited that Washington and Tehran would reach an agreement that put an end to bargaining, pointing out that the Gulf Cooperation Council states would have their roles in the agreement as they are considered the closest partners to the United States.
"Yemen could be included in bargaining and Iran may abandon its influence in the African Horn, Yemen, Syria , Bahrain, particularly if it felt that it is fragile from inside and that its "Guardianship of the Jurist" system faces collapse in conjunction with parliamentary elections and Arab spring revolutions" it added.
The report concluded that bargaining reveals that Al-Qaeda organization is used as a justification for regional and international race to took over region's resources.
It ultimately called the Yemeni Consensus government to set an emergency plan to deal with Al-Qaeda which includes economic reforms, political openness, debates and dialogues with all Yemeni forces including Al-Qaeda and the Houthi group.
"The government must take into consideration the military and security action as the last solution," the report said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday said if any attack on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina or the party were planned, it would be devised in London, not in the country.
"Such a scheme would be hatched in London and executed in Bangladesh," he told a meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) with party chief Sheikh Hasina in the chair at the Gono Bhaban.
The minister, however, did not name anybody in this connection.
Referring to his January 14 talks with the UK's Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell in Dhaka, Ashraf said he had informed Mitchell about the matter during the meeting.
"If any such incident [attack] occurs in Bangladesh, it'll have an impact on the entire world, including the neighbouring countries. The international community is worried about it," he mentioned.
Ashraf called upon the people as well as his party men to remain alert about keeping the BNP out of power. "So you have to remain cautious about any probable attempt to turn the country into Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... 's Bangladesh. We don't want to be recognised as a corrupt nation in the world."
The AL spokesperson accused the BNP and its chairperson of doing everything possible to foil the ongoing trial of war criminals.
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On Saturday, a senior Muslim leader in Canada ordered an end to honor killings and domestic abuse, saying the Koran does not endorse such violence. Imam Syed Soharwardy, founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, issued the fatwa following the convictions in Ontario, this week in the deaths of four Muslim women killed by relatives.
Soharwardy said, "Those who think honor killing is OK are dead wrong.
In contrast with their victims, who are just dead.
There is no place for violence in Islam."
He added that "a very small minority" of Muslims adhere to the concept and "need to be corrected."
Soharwardy said he had been researching the issue for a while but it was the recent murder trial that led him to act. The imam said he and other scholars also want infidels non-Muslims to understand that mysogyny is not sanctioned by Islam.
Soharwardy noted while a fatwa is "not legally binding" it is "morally binding."
It is just the third fatwa Canadian organization has issued in the past decade. The most recent one was in January 2010 when the council said Muslims were not to commit acts of terrorism against Canada or the United States.
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Too bad he didn't issue the fatwa before Dad, sonny and wifey 2 dumped the car with daughters 1,2 and 3 and wifey 1 into the canal. Apparently wearing short skirts and texting boys are a bad thing honour-wise.
ISI chief to go in March
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that ISI chief General Pasha was expected to finish his second tenure in office on 18 March 2012 and will go home.
Just like Cincinnatus and former president George Washington. Or perhaps more like dear Lt-General Hamid Gul.
The nutty former head of Pakistain's ISI, now Godfather to Mullah Omar's Talibs and good buddy and consultant to al-Qaeda's high command... Major general Naushad and corps commander Peshawar General Khalid Rabbani were being considered for the ISI top job.
Does anyone know anything about these honourable gentlemen?
Insaf will win 100 seats
Writing in Jang Haroon Rasheed stated that when the 'tsunami' of Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... began in Lahore it was hoped that the party would win 30-40 seats - because the PMLN was still a big party - but afterwards this estimate went up to 70 seats. After the Karachi rally and the one coming on 23 Match, Insaf will win a hundred seats.
Khalid Kharal attacks PPP
Old PPP veteran leader Khalid Kharal told Mashriq that the PPP had lost vision and was corrupt compared to the old leadership. He said his wife too had nothing to do with the PPP and that he welcomed the joining of Insaf party by Shahnawaz Cheema and Khwaja Muhammad Saleh.
Marvi Memon leftover of Imran Khan
According to Haroon Rasheed in Jang old PMLQ firebrand Marvi Memon wanted to announce her entry into Insaf party but Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi did not allow her to make the announcement and later did not let her come to the mike and speak. She was politically savvy and hardworking but was emotional and self-centred. She wanted Imran Khan to announce her entry and then put her in charge of information, which Imran Khan denied her. After that she turned away from Insaf. She was picked up by PMLN which was like eating the leftovers of Imran Khan.
How unkind to say so. But apparently she has plenty of company...
Gilani eats up income from the tombs
World famous politician Sheikh Rasheed stated in Express that prime minister Gilani was used to eating up the income of the tombs and was therefore not fit to be prime minister. Roedad Khan said the Supreme Court disappointed him by giving the PPP the sixth option while the country was sinking. Hasan Nisar said that Husain Haqqani was loyal to no one.
They talk about each other like a bunch of high school girls
Hamid Mir's dilemma
Writing in Jang columnist Hamid Mir stated that when he said that the worst kind of democracy was better the best kind of dictatorship, the Army would get offended with him; and when he said that the corruption by the government was pushing Pakistan to the brink of disaster then he was considered an enemy of democracy.
Court will save generals from dismissal
Famous lawyer Akram Sheikh told Express that if the prime minister used his powers to dismiss the generals Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... and Pasha the Supreme Court will overturn the order and keep them in their posts.
'Pakistan is calling me!'
Quoted in Mashriq Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... in Dubai announced that he was going back to Pakistan because Pakistan was calling him. He said Pakistan needed alternative leadership which he would provide. In Pakistan, however, courts had ordered his arrest as he landed in the country amid reports that he was fast losing support among his followers after hearing that he was coming back. According to Nawa-e-Waqt (16 Jan 2012) Musharraf said he was willing to join Insaf party but was puzzled why Imran was not in favour of letting him join.
Second judge ducks the Khosa case
Reported in Mashriq after seeing that one judge of the High Court had excused himself from hearing the case of actress Sapna's disappearance as wife of the powerful Dost Muhammad Khosa son of Punjab PMNLN leader Zulfiqar Khan Khosa, another High Court judge Sheikh Najmul Hasan too had excused himself from hearing the case. Dost Khosa claimed that he had divorced his wife before she disappeared and he was looking for her.
Why would he look for her if he'd divorced her? Is that now not the responsibility of her father?
Dasti raises dust
Famous PPP leader from Muzaffargarh Jamshed Dasti was reported by daily Pakistan as saying that he was making ready to announce his joining the Insaf Party because the PPP high command had handed over the control of everything (siah-o-safed) in Muzaffargarh to someone else which proved that the PPP favoured the feudals only. Shah Mehmood played a role in getting Dasti to rise in revolt. (Dasti later agreed to stay with the PPP.)
Dr AQ Khan attacks Imran Khan
"You disgrace my family name, you upstart name-thief!"
World famous nuclear scientist Dr AQ Khan was quoted in Mashriq as saying that the end of Imran Khan would be same as Mian Azhar after he revolted from the PMLQ. He said if a gathering of the people and clapping was any yardstick then Mira and Reema would be more popular leaders than anyone.
Eunuchs freed in seduction case
Technically they can't, you see, no matter how real it might seem to all parties involved
,Reported in Mashriq the police rounded up a lot of khwaja sara (eunuch) people from the roads of Lahore accusing them of inviting the citizens to sin (dawat-e-gunah) with them. The plea from the eunuchs was that what they did by the roadside was begging for alms because they had no other way of subsisting. The Court let them off the charge after determining that they were not inviting people to sin.
Astrologers go after Christian graves
Reported in Jinnah astrologers practising magic in Lahore were obsessed with the sensitive organs and bones of men and were focusing on the graves of the Christians. Christian graveyards were being attacked and graves opened to steal the sexual organs of men to mix in potions made for enhancing power among Muslim men.
How great must the enhancing need be, to use not the bits of, say, a freshly slaughtered bull or tiger, but the well-rotted parts of a centuries-ago subdued people?
'Judiciary has again ganged up with Army!'
Reported in Jinnah lawyer Asma Jahangir stated that the judiciary was once again being seen as siding with the Army against the elected government which had happened in the past too. She said the government was being pushed into a dead alley with the street banner saying 'justice'. She said establishment tweaked results of all elections and had produced a whole crop of politicians.
Akram Sheikh, all-round lawyer
Quoted in Mashriq world famous lawyer Akram Sheikh
Perhaps the writer means that Mr Sheikh, esq. is world famous within certain select circles, not among the general public like us...
who defended millionaire Mansoor Ijaz against the PPP government stated that he was also thinking of taking the case of defending PPP lawyer-leader Babar Awan too who was under notice of contempt from the Supreme Court.
Aitzaz to replace Gilani?
Daily Mashriq quoted a daily in the UK Times as saying that the PPP was considering getting rid of prime minister Gilani and appointing Aitzaz Ahsan in his place. This was to be done to ease the pressure on President Zardari who was assigning Aitzaz to engage the judiciary in secret negotiations.
Chehlum terrorists caught in Karachi
Hurrah!
Reported in Mashriq a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... terrorist gang was caught by the police before it blew up the Shia procession in Karachi on the night of chehlum (40th day) of Imam Husain's martyrdom together with 60 kilos of explosive matter, 4 suicide jackets and a rocket launcher. But the killings could not be stopped in Rahimyar Khan - the home town of the terrorist leader Malik Ishaq recently freed from a Lahore prison - where the procession was attacked killing 20 people. In Basra in Iraq the death tool, was above 50.
Oh nooooos -- their evil ones are more evil than ours! However will we be able to face our fathers' wrathful disappointment?
[Dawn] Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... has said that there is no space for terrorism, militancy or extremism in Islam and those involved in such activities cannot even claim to be Moslems.
The prime minister, in his message on the occasion of Eid Milad-un- Nabi (PTUI!) being celebrated on Sunday, said: "Those, who spread disorder and chaos, cannot even claim to be Moslems as the scourges of terrorism and extremism are incompatible to the essence of Islamic teachings."
Gilani said Islam, a universal religion, guides the humanity to the path of peace, security and welfare.
He said Islam does not allow anyone to spread violence and strife on the face of earth and forbids people to kill others.
The premier said since Islam preaches peace and love, therefore, those, who enter its fold, become the embodiment of the same.
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Translation = Don't Assassinate Me Please.
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The premier said since Islam preaches peace and love, therefore, those, who enter its fold, become the embodiment of the same
What rubbish.What gets taught in Madrasses?How does Islam get on with other religions worldwide?
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never have gotten along with other religions and never will
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This was a misquote.What he meant was "we havent terrorized space yet"- Meaning " we have targets of opportunity. Perhaps Newts space station". Yep, thats it.
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All of what he said is true...IF you are talking about his particular sect. If you are not a member of his particular sect then you are not a human and all bets are off.
[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 Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. on Saturday asked Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to withdraw the 'un-parliamentary remarks' that he had used against the Army and security agencies.
In a statement issued on Saturday, Malik said that Chaudhry Nisar should apologize to the country for "insulting the whole nation and the Army" by passing derogatory remarks.
The interior minister also said that he would take up the matter in the NA session on Monday requesting to expunge these remarks from proceeding of the house.
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The alleged terrorist mastermind behind the July 7 London bombings is reported to have been freed from a Syrian jail by President Bashar Assad's regime.
Anyone surprised by this? Anyone? Bueller?
Abu Musab al-Suri had been held in Syria for six years after being captured by the CIA in 2005 and transported to the country of his birth under its controversial extraordinary rendition programme.
But he is now said to have been released as a warning to the US and Britain about the consequences of turning their backs on President al-Assad's regime as it tries to contain the uprising in the country.
Time for the SAS and MI6 to conduct a small joint 'operation'...
Al-Suri, also known as Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, was al-Qaeda's operations chief in Europe and has been accused of planning the London bombings, in which four British-born terrorists detonated three bombs on the Underground and another on a bus, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700 others in 2005.
In a statement released after the attacks, al-Suri said: "[In my teachings] I have mentioned vital and legitimate targets to be hit in the enemy's countries ... Among those targets that I specifically mentioned as examples was the London Underground. [Targeting this] was and still is the aim."
A mechanical engineer, he is also wanted in Spain in connection with the Madrid train bombings in 2004, which left 191 dead, and for links to an attack on the Paris Metro in 1995.
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time to expel ALL Syrian diplomats from all countries. Make em live in the Civil War they support
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From the article:
Quoting local sources, Syrian opposition website Sooryoon.net revealed al-Suris release last week.
It said: The timing of his release raises a lot of questions and observers believe the release may indicate the regime is stopping security co-operation with the Americans and thus releasing all those Washington considers a threat to its interests.
Color me skeptical. It makes sense that the opposition would lie about this kind of stuff - they are trying to egg the West into bombing Assad.
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.
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[Yemen Post] The Yemen-based Abaad Centre for Studies and Researches has cautioned that some factions seek to collapse Yemeni cities militarily under the pretext of Al-Qaeda as happened in Radda and Abyan provinces scenarios.
Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday said if any attack on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina or the party were planned, it would be devised in London, not in the country.
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