[An Nahar] South Sudan will not return to war with Khartoum despite a second day of Arclight airstrikes and bloody ground assaults in contested border areas between the rival states, a Southern minister said Tuesday.
"As our president (Salva Kiir) has said, we cannot be dragged into a senseless war, but we will be in position to protect our territory and integrity," South Sudan's Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin told news hounds.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. suspended an April summit with his Southern counterpart following the flare-up, prompting U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... to appeal for calm between the former civil war foes.
Khartoum said the attacks were in response to raids by Southern troops on Sudanese territory Monday.
Philip Aguer, a South Sudan army front man, said fighting continued Tuesday between Southern and northern Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) troops.
"Bombing has never stopped, ground festivities happened this morning, and we are expecting them (SAF) to attack us in other places," Aguer told news hounds, adding that casualties were feared.
"Definitely you cannot fight from afternoon up until morning without casualties," said Aguer, adding he was awaiting further details.
On Monday, Kiir said his troops had driven northern forces back across the undemarcated border and seized Khartoum's Heglig oil field, parts of which are claimed by both sides.
The proposed talks between Bashir and Kiir had been aimed at easing tensions that many fear have dragged the two neighbors back to the brink of full-scale war.
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I realize there are some substantial engineering issues, but the sooner South Sudan can build pipelines southeast through Uganda and Kenya to the Indian Ocean, the sooner they can seal their northern border with Sudan and put an end to all this nonsense.
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(Sh.M.Network)-- Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the president of the Transitonal Federal Government of Somalia on Tuesday visited Adado town frontline battles, as heavy confrontations between Al-shabab and Ahlu Sunna fighters are continuing in central regions.
The president's visit was to observe the developments Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a fighters aided by Ethiopian troops made in face of the Al shabaab fighters, who control few parts in southern and centralSomalia.
Speaking at Adado town, the president of Somalia said that pro-Somali government forces of Ahlu Sunna have penetrated into new Al shabaab military bases in centralsomalia.
He urged Ahlu Sunna fighters to strengthen and keep on battling until peace returns to the entire country.
President Sheik Sharif has previously toured wearing Clad with military uniformMogadishufrontiles, appraising the operations of Somali army backed African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeepers.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Sudanese intelligence agents on Tuesday seized copies of an independent daily newspaper after it refused to pull an anti-government columnist, the chief editor said.
The confiscation of Al-Jarida's Tuesday edition adds to thousands of other newspaper pages already seized from publications this year in what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said is an attempt to silence opposition news coverage.
"A few days ago they ordered us by telephone to stop one of our columnists from writing," Al-Jarida's editor, Osman Shinger, told AFP, referring to the security service.
"We refused. For that reason they stopped our paper from distributing."
After intelligence officers shut down Al-Jarida in late September without explanation, the newspaper resumed publication in January but quickly had one of its editions seized.
Three other newspapers have been ordered shut down this year.
"By closing news outlets and seizing newspapers, President (Omar) al-Bashir's government demonstrates its continuing appetite to censor critical news coverage," Mohammed Abdel Dayem, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa coordinator, said in a statement this month.
"The government must immediately allow the shuttered newspapers to resume operations, and it should stop its practice of seizing every newspaper edition that carries an unflattering story."
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] UN chief Ban Ki-Moon appealed for calm after Sudan on Tuesday suspended an April summit between President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. and his southern counterpart after fresh border festivities.
"The government announced that it suspended Bashir's visit to Juba after the South Sudanese army attacked (the oil-rich territory of) Heglig," state radio reported early Tuesday. The two leaders had been due to meet on April 3.
Comments by the South's leader Salva Kiir that his troops had taken the northern oil centre "reflected extreme hatred to Sudan," said Information Minister Abdullah Ali Massar, the official SUNA news agency reported.
South Sudan had engaged in "deceptive and misleading acts" when it signed accords with Khartoum at African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -led talks in Ethiopia, and when last week it invited Bashir to the summit, said Massar.
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[Yemen Post] The alliance of the Joint Meeting Parties that headed the interim government has offered President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi a twelve-point plan for holding a successful national dialogue conference and reaching a political settlement.
Among the suggested points was the removal of the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... from the presidency of the General People Congress party and dismissal of the military commanders who involved in Yemen's political crisis.
An Emeriti newspaper, Al-Byan, quoted a big shot of the JMP as saying that secretary-generals of the Yemeni Socialist Party and the Islah Party informed Hadi about the JMP's suggestions.
A leader of the JMP said there was an agreement on most points offered to Hadi, declining to comment on points rejected by Hadi.
He further mentioned that the plan included the transfer of the armed forces to outside the capital and dismissal of some military and security commanders, integration of the armed and security forces under the command of the Defense Ministry and the Interior Ministry, and formation of the presidential guard under the supervision of Hadi.
The points also included a formation of a committee to reform the diplomatic missions in line of the national reconciliation.
The points also included the reformation of the Republican Presidency Office, and the General Secretariat of Presidency to enable them performing their tasks properly and completing the perpetration of the transitional justice law.
The countries overseeing the GCC-mediated power transfer deal have called all Yemeni parties to commit to the agreement signed in last November, cautioning against any attempts to impede the deal.
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[Bangla Daily Star] After repeatedly failing to produce witnesses in the case against Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... , the prosecution yesterday prayed to the International Crimes Tribunal-1 to accept witnesses' statements as testimonies.
Prosecutor Syed Haider Ali told the tribunal that many of the 19 key prosecution eyewitnesses have become "untraceable" while others are too sick to travel from their homes to the court.
He referred to a legal provision that allows statements recorded by the investigation officer to be accepted as testimonies in court in case of difficulties in producing a witness.
An application was placed on March 20 in response to a March 18 court order which asked the prosecution to submit the application explaining its future course of action regarding witness testimonies.
Tribunal Chairman Justice Md Nizamul Huq yesterday asked prosecutor Haider Ali to read out the application before the court as it was a "different kind of application".
The prosecutor then read out the application detailing the situation of 19 eyewitnesses, who were either sick or missing.
"We have reports that some witnesses have left their areas after being threatened by supporters of the accused," said Haider Ali.
Another 78-year-old witness Usha Rani Malakar of Pirojpur was seriously ill and could die if she travels from home, said the prosecutor, adding that the witness has also lost her voice and memories.
Shukharanjan Bali, another witness in the case, went to Parerhaat bazaar in Pirojpur one day and did not return, according to a general diary filed by his daughter, the prosecutor added.
Three other witnesses--a mother, her son and another person--could not be found, and their neighbours said that they had probably left for India.
The prosecutor said a group of gunnies had been patrolling Sayeedi's native Pirojpur district and threatening potential witnesses with dire consequences.
As the witnesses could not be traced, producing them before the court would be "time consuming" and "expensive".
As a result, their statements given to the investigation officer should be accepted as their depositions, said Haider Ali.
Abdur Razzaq, chief defence counsel of the Jamaat-e-Islami leader, said it was "a very serious application" and an "unprecedented one". He prayed to the court that the defence be allowed to deliver its counter arguments today.
Earlier, the three-member tribunal rejected a defence petition seeking to examine parts of the investigation report used for bringing formal charges against Sayeedi.
So far 27 witnesses have recorded their testimonies against Sayeedi. According to Sayeedi's defence counsels, the prosecutors had previously failed to produce witnesses for at least 15 times.
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was produced before the court yesterday. He is among six Jamaat and two BNP leaders who are facing charges of crimes against humanity at the tribunal.
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[OLIVER STONE = "JFK" + WARREN COMMISSION here].
Conservative parliamentarian John Howell asked pro-Paleostinian activist about the '100 rockets which hit Israel' earlier this month.
A British MP says he fears for his life after receiving death threats for defending Israel in an exchange with a constituent.
The Conservative MP for Henley, John Howell, has been offered police protection for meetings with voters after an email exchange with the constituent was posted online.
He has also been forced to remove the details of his district offices from his website. Constituents who want to meet him must now call a constituent hotline.
Pro-Paleostinian activist Harry Fear, from Watlington in Oxfordshire, sent Howell an email on March 10 asking what he was doing "to see that Israel halts the military actions that are taking place in defiance of international law and basic human decency."
A photograph of a building exploding accompanied the email with a caption stating: "Only a few hours ago, Israel felt it necessary to inflict this destruction and death on the [Gazoo] Strip." The photo was in circulation back in 2009 and is completely unrelated to recent events in Gazoo.
Responding to the email, Howell said: "And what is your position, Harry, on the 100 rockets which have landed in Israel over the weekend?" Fear posted the question, together with the MP's reply, on his blog and Facebook page. He included the MP's contact details and instructed people write to Howell "civilly, expressing discontent with his conduct."
The Conservative MP said he received around 30 emails; some were "worrying."
"There are a huge number of emails from pro-Paleostinian and Arab fanatics, some from the UK and some clearly not, some equally threatening," Howell said.
One email said: "You will suffer the consequences of this corruption and callousness."
There was also a series of emails from some calling himself "Jihad Alshamie," who told him: "It is people like you who deserve to die."
"The last thing I want to appear as is a drama queen, but you have to take seriously a threat when it says, 'I would like to see you dead,'" Howell said. "It is not just a question of me, it is my family and my staff. All it takes is one person out there who is weird enough, with a distorted view of life, to make an attempt to carry this out."
In 2010, Labor MP Stephen Timms was stabbed at a constituency meeting by Roshonara Choudhry, who was said to have been inspired by radical websites, for his support of the Iraq war. She was found guilty of attempted murder and nabbed for life.
Last year, members of the Moslems Against Crusades group made death threats against Conservative MP Mike Freer for his support of Israel, when he visited constituents at a north London mosque.
"I have been helped by the House authorities in Parliament, who are assessing the level of risk, and also by Thames Valley Police, who have provided extremely good security advice. If I feel at all unsafe there can be a policeman with me at a surgery [district office]," Howell said.
Howell said that Fear was not responsible for the threats but questioned the way Fear interpreted his response. He said he only wanted to address the lack of balance in Fear's email.
"My stated position on the Middle East is that in order to have peace we need a secure and universally recognized Israel alongside a sovereign and viable Paleostinian state," Howell said.
Continuing to pursue the issue, Fear said that the MP's response was "deeply disturbing" and "latently abusive," as Howell "did not extend me the professional practice (or even human courtesy) of writing a proper and serious reply."
He sent Howell an email, and he's complaining about the lack of a 'proper and serious reply'?
Fear has sent a complaint to Parliament and the Conservative Party. He has also sent the correspondence to The Guardian and The Independent.
The Zionist Federation of the UK has called for people to write letters expressing support for Howell.
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"Pro-Paleo-stan-ian activist", Harry Fear...",
Sez it all.
There's plenty of tough-sledding ahead for Israel and her supporters(whomever those might be).
Our Almighty mutual +GOD+ has been suppressing His WRATH until the most opportune moment. Stay tuned for the World-Wide Major Societal Melt-Down (WWMSM).
Accept the Christ Jesus as The Son of +GOD+ Who was nailed to the Cross to cancel all the sin of accepting believers. Confess (the sins of your past)| Repent (Simply put: change any sinful thought and behavior as you understand it). In simple prayers, ask +GOD+ to help you remember past sins (mistrust of others-this isn't easy) and pray again to be forgiven; which you will be). +GOD+ wants to hear; via our simple, quiet prayers, our humble requests for His Grace.
Pray hard. Pray often. Pray in a quiet place; darkened or well-lit. At the end of your prayer, say, "In Jesus' name, AMEN". Get a Bible and read the New Testament at a pace that is comfortable for you. Bibical resources available on the internet are absolutely astounding!
AL-QAEDA fanatics are plotting a deadly cyanide poison attack on the London Olympics, a Sun investigation has found.
Extremists on a website with links to the terror group have posted detailed instructions on how to cause carnage at this summer's Games.
The chilling online plot was uncovered as two convicted al-Qaeda forces of Evil were released early from jail and put back on the streets ahead of the Olympics.
And the specific nature of the "cyanide slaughter" web posts suggest they should be taken seriously by the security services.
An cut-thoat who called himself Abu Hija Ansari said the poison should be mixed with a handcream that would enable it to be absorbed through the skin.
He wrote in Arabic: "Through skin: 1 -- cyanide, 2 -- skin cream. Mix the ingredients. The skin cream will open the pores in the skin and speed up the absorption and effectiveness of the poison."
He said plotters should wear "medical gloves" when producing the lethal mixture.
A second cut-thoat said on the website: "It is a good idea and you need to plan well."
She added chillingly under a logo of the 2012 Games: "It's time to prepare for the event, as once again they are interfering with innocent Mohammedans."
Our investigator used a false identity to access the website which has 17,000 members worldwide and known links to six al--Qaeda terrorists.
He said: "There is a contingent using this site who want to strike at the Games. The explicit nature of what is being said would indicate more than just sabre-rattling but a wish to do real harm to the event and the people at it."
Tory MP Bernard Jenkin, chairman of the all-party homeland security group, said: "I hope the individuals are identified so action can be taken. Those who believe there is no terrorist threat are living in cloud cuckoo land."
Britannia's security services are on high alert to counter any attack on the Olympics, which start on July 27 in the main stadium.
They will not be helped by the early release of fanatics Nabeel Hussain and Tariq al-Daour.
Hussain, 28, was given eight years in 2009 for being part of a plot to bomb 19 jets flying from Heathrow to America. Al-Daour, 26, got ten years after he was found guilty of inciting murder online in 2007. They have both been freed to London bail hostels.
Their release boosts to more than 100 the number of convicted forces of Evil likely to be on Britannia's streets before the Olympics.
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Netters are repor in angst that the IOC wants the Beach Volleyball Babes to stop wearing Bikinis - CLEARLY THE IOC WANTS PEOPLE TO STOP WATCHING BEACH VOLLEYBALL ENTIRELY AS FEW WATCH THE MEN'S PLAY TO BEGIN WITH.
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If they want the beach volleyball girls to go au natural I can accept that. In the intest of sports and all.
Al Queda attacked the world on Sept 11 but most of the world acted as if it was simply an attack on one country. It would be harder to do so after an attack on the Olympics.
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Al Queda attacked the world on Sept 11 but most of the world acted as if it was simply an attack on one country. It would be harder to do so after an attack on the Olympics.
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I assisted with the military planning for the Winter olympics in 2010 in Vancouver. Interesting intelligence came out of that. Fortunately most of these clowns can't ski or skate. Nevertheless we had our own home grown clowns. Legal brothrels will help though. A nice diversion.
I recommend same to the Brits.
Ahmad Wali Siddiqui says in trial that Islamic Theocratic Republic supports the terrorist group.
KOBLENZ -- Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, a German-Afghani who is alleged to have been a member of al-Qaeda, said on both Monday and Tuesday during his trial that Iran harbored al-Qaeda terrorists.
The revelations were fresh evidence of Shi'ite Iran's ongoing support of Sunni snuffies in al-Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
"Life in Germany is not good. You live with gays, lesbians and Jews. Islam rules here," Siddiqui, 37, told his mother in Hamburg in a wiretapped telephone conversation disclosed during his trial. He is charged with being a member of a terrorist organization.
A group of German Islamists planned to return from Pakistain in 2010 to mount attacks targeting Europe's economy. American forces in Kabul jugged Siddiqui in 2010 when he was on his way to Germany.
He said during the trial that two of his fellow conspirators -- Rami Makanesi and Naamen Meziche -- flew from Vienna to Tehran so as not "to not get caught." An Iranian-operated travel agency in Hamburg arranged their trip. Makanesi and Meziche established contact with a controller known as "Dr. Mamoud," who works for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Siddiqui continued.
The travel route allowed the two men to travel unimpeded to the eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, which serves a hub for snuffies seeking to enter Afghanistan and Pakistain. Dr. Mamoud "welcomed them" to Zahedan and from the border city they made their way into Pakistain, Siddiqui said.
Pak authorities jugged Makanesi in 2010 while disguised as a woman wearing a burka. Meziche is believed to be in Iran.
Presiding Judge Angelika Blettner poised tough questions to Siddiqui about his views toward the West and Jews. She said his anti-Jewish and homophobic comments revealed contempt for life in Germany. When asked by federal prosecutor Bernd Steudl who had taught him to hate Jews, gays and lesbians, Siddiqui replied that "every mujahideen [people involved in jihad] holds this opinion."
Siddiqui said at the trial, "I have nothing against Jews."
Other than what he was taught...
Sources connected to the trial said it is expected to reveal an intricate network among al-Qaeda members, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran, and other Islamic terrorist groups operating in Europe, Afghanistan and Pakistain.
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Not to worry. Iran will "reject" the charge in a day or two.
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Sometimes some good comes from public trials, such as the information coming from this one. The German system allows the judge to ask a lot of questions, hence the questions from the bench -and some very interesting answers. Is the North American media covering this -nope not all. They are busy generating division and angst. Is there a special course in asking the stupid and the obvious questions in journalism. And who cares what people "feel"? God I hate that lazy question. I want to know what they saw, did, and observed through their other senses. That how I feel. Opps ranting before the first coffee on the West Coast.
Anyway back to Uzbekistan - and the Iranian alleged link: name a country that does not have some al-Qaeda like cell within it? Particularily one east of say Cyprus?
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ION ALLEMANIE, WAFF > "LITTLE INSTANBUL":TURKS TO [legally] RENAME PARTS OF GERMANY THEY ARE COLONIZING, e.g. City of Manhem in electoral referendum.
Arise, ISLAMO/OTTO-GERMANIA, arise???
And so it begins.
versus
* TOPIX > TURKEY WANTS TO BE A GLOBAL POWER.
More than just Regional.
* SAME > ARAB REVOLTS [Arab-Muslim Springs] BRING ISLAMIST REGIONAL VISION CLOSER TO BEING REALIZED.
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > COMMISSION: SCRAPPING TRIDENT SLBMS TO SAVE UK L$83.5BILYUHN.
HMMMM, HMMMM, so IIUC the UK may have to rely on an Ireland + independent Scotland? wid no Militaries, Surrender-is-not-Defeat France + the wily Propellers of the CV Charles De Gaulle, future Otto-Germania, + weak Mama Russia for UK + EU Security???
D *** NG IT, LONDON MUST BUILD THE "QUEEN LIZ" CVF IN ORDER TO MOTHBALL IT!
The incident occurred Monday outside the school, which the 12-year-old victim attends. He was not seriously injured.
The attack came a week after a gunman opened fire on the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, killing a rabbi and his two young sons, and the daughter of the school's principal.
The boy in Paris reportedly was beaten about 100 yards away from the school, out of sight of police who have been guarding the school since last week's attack in Toulouse.
[An Nahar] An angry La Belle France won a pledge Tuesday from the Al-Jazeera news channel not to air a video shot by an Islamist myrmidon during a murderous shooting spree targeting soldiers and Jewish children.
President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... demanded that the channel not broadcast the video sent to its Gay Paree bureau, which includes graphic footage shot by Mohamed Merah during attacks this month in southern La Belle France that left seven people dead.
French officials also reacted with fury to threats from Merah's Algerian father to sue Gay Paree over the way in which he was slain in a gunbattle with police last Thursday at the end of a 32-hour siege of his Toulouse flat.
And police said they believed the al-Qaeda-inspired gunman, branded a "monster", may have had one or more accomplices who possibly sent the footage to Al-Jazeera and helped him steal the scooter used in the attacks.
"In accordance with Al-Jazeera's code of ethics, given the video does not add any information that is not already in the public domain, its news channels will not be broadcasting any of its contents," the Qatar-based network said.
The pan-Arab channel, which once owed much of its fame outside the Arab world to airing recordings of al-Qaeda's late chief, the late Osama bin Laden ... who abandoned all hope when he entered there... , said it had declined "numerous requests from media outlets for copies of the video."
Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchie of Algerian descent, had previously boasted of filming his killings and witnesses had told police that he appeared to be wearing a video camera in a chest harness during the shootings.
He was not wearing the device during his final fatal shootout, but police said they had found the Go-Pro style camera in bag he had given to a friend.
Al-Jazeera's Gay Paree bureau chief, Zied Tarrouche, said the channel received the videos on a USB memory key, along with a letter in poorly written French that claimed the attacks in the name of al-Qaeda.
Tarrouche said the videos showed the attacks in chronological order and had been edited into a montage.
"There was a mixture of religious music and chants, lectures, and recitals of verses from the Koran," he said.
Leading French television networks all said they would also not broadcast the videos if they became available.
Latifa Ibn Ziaten, the mother of Imed Ibn Ziaten, the first of three French paratroopers bumped off by Merah, told Agence La Belle France Presse she was relieved the footage would not be shown.
"This is good, it is the right decision, the only decision to take," she told AFP by telephone from Morocco. "I am relieved because this was about my son's honor. I don't want my son to be dirtied."
Sarkozy had called on all channels not to broadcast the footage "under any pretext, out of respect for the victims and respect for the republic."
The French leader -- who is running for re-election in a campaign already marked by fierce debate on security and the integration of Moslems -- also lashed out at Merah's father, Mohamed Benalel Merah, for his lawsuit threat.
"It is with indignation that I learned that the father of the killer of seven people... wants to file a suit against La Belle France for the death of his son," Sarkozy said.
And Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said: "If I were the father of such a monster, I would shut my mouth in shame."
The father had told AFP on Monday he would sue French authorities because they "had the means to take my son alive... they preferred to kill him."
When police surrounded Merah's Toulouse apartment last week, the gunman fought off an initial assault and then, in a conversation with a police negotiator, grabbed credit for all three attacks.
He rubbed out three soldiers in two separate attacks in Toulouse and nearby Montauban on March 11 and 15.
Last Monday he shot up a Jewish school in Toulouse, killing a 30-year-old teacher, his sons aged five and four and a seven-year-old girl.
On Sunday, the authorities charged the gunman's brother, 29-year-old Abdelkader Merah, with complicity in the attacks but he denied any involvement.
Abdelkader Merah was charged with helping his sibling steal the powerful Yamaha scooter used in the shootings and police said Tuesday they were seeking a third person who may have been involved in the theft.
Police also said an accomplice may have been involved in mailing the videos to Al-Jazeera.
French Moslem officials said the family had asked for Merah's body to be transferred to Algeria for burial.
Merah's mother Zoulhika Aziri had asked for her son to be buried in Algeria to avoid his grave being desecrated.
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[Emirates 24/7] French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Tuesday that the father of a gunman who has threatened to sue over his son's death at the hands of police should keep silent in shame.
What they call in the diplomacy biz a frank and open statement. Good for him.
"If I were the father of such a monster, I would shut my mouth in shame," Juppe told Radio Classique.
A senior advisor to President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... , Henri Guaino, also lashed out at the lawsuit threat by Mohamed Merah's father Mohamed Benalel Merah.
"It is his right, but only one word comes to mind: indecent," he told La Belle France Culture radio. "This guy was a monster who killed in cold blood."
Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchie of Algerian descent, was rubbed out by police at the end of a 32-hour standoff on Thursday after claiming the killings of seven people in a series of shootings in southwestern La Belle France.
His father Mohamed Benalel Merah told AFP on Monday he planned to sue La Belle France for having shot his son instead of taking him alive.
"La Belle France is a big country that had the means to take my son alive. They could have knocked him out with gas and taken him in," he said. "They preferred to kill him.
"I will hire the biggest named lawyers and work for the rest of my life to pay their costs. I will sue La Belle France for having killing my son."
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The dead and buried families sue his ass for raising a murdering bastard.
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Fat chance. Look for Holder to work a 'deal' with that POS Panetta to give to the Black Panthers for the next round of election place monitoring. Armored up HUMVEES are needed for such activities, ya know.
[Dawn] World leaders called on Tuesday for strong action to combat the threat of nuclear terrorism, including minimising civilian use of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which can be turned into bombs.
"Nuclear terrorism continues to be one of the most challenging threats to international security," said a joint communique at the end of a two-day summit in South Korea bringing together leaders or brass hats from 53 nations.
"Defeating this threat requires strong national measures and international cooperation."
The leaders, including US President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... and Chinese President Hu Jintao ...Hu has been involved in the Communist party bureaucracy for most of his adult life, meaning his viewpoint has a lot more theory than it does practice. He espouses a Harmonious Society approach, suggesting everybody should play nice or they'll be shot... , stressed the "fundamental responsibility" of all nations to safeguard nuclear material and keep it out of the hands of terrorists.
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See also DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > {2012 Seoul Summit] FROM ISLAMIC BOMB TO JIHADI BOMB.
Collusory "Rogue Govts-States", to Autonomous or Independent "Lone Wolf(s)" - ASYMMETRICAL ALL ARE WE???
THE DEATH OF OBL AT ABBOTTABAD WAS NOT ENUFF TO REDUCE THE DANGER OF RADICALS-WID-NUKES = NUCLEAR TERROR, HEAVILY DAMAGED ORGS, NETWORKS LIKE [post-Osama]AL-QAEDA HAVE SEEEMINGLY FOUND NEW LEADERS WHOM ARE MORE INSPIRED TO THE CAUSE + SPIRIT OF JIHAD, NOT LESS.
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* TOPIX > THE WEST [US-NATO] HAS LOST IN AFGHANISTAN.
AT worst the Taliban + AQ, etc. MilTerrs have only changed their methods - there is little to no sign that they have given up the fight or thier agenda as per "Hearts-n-Minds".
Israel boosted its Syrian and Lebanese border units as special flights carrying thousands of pro-Paleostinian activists from Tehran touched down in Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... Tuesday, March 27 for the international Global March to Jerusalem Friday, March 30. Before taking off, they were split into small groups and tutored by Iranian Al Qods Brigades officers in tactics for breaching Israeli border barriers, bursting through and challenging the Israeli military forces defending the border.
On arrival in Damascus, one group of activists was sent by special bus to Leb, where Hizballah officers stood by to lead them to villages close to the Israeli frontier; a second is assigned to face Israeli lines on the Golan.
These anti-Israeli activists from several countries are being planted at strategic points to carry out the plan hatched together by Iran, Syria and Hizballah to ignite Israel's two northern borders in solidarity with the annual Israeli-Arab Earth Day next Friday.
Earlier reports from Damascus that the demonstrators would keep the Quneitra sector of the Golan and the Lebanese Beaufort were meant to put the Israeli command off its stroke by disguising the real scope of their plans and their objective: a mass assault on Israeli borders. They are programmed to coincide with the outbreaks the Paleostinian Authority is preparing for Jerusalem and the West Bank and Israeli-Arab disturbances inside Israel -- all on the same day, as DEBKAfile reported earlier Tuesday.
The Paleostinian gunnies of the Gazoo Strip will certainly not stand aloof.
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Uh, are these actual Palestinians, or Iranians? In other words, are we talking about International Brigades, or Condor Legions?
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I assume it's Iranians, Mitch, although I haven't yet seen this anywhere else. What's a Condor Legion?
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The Condor Legions were four squadrons of Luftwaffe bombers sent to the Spanish Civil war by Goering, which remained under German command. Responsible for the bombing of Guernica.
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Perhaps the wording should be "Hazaris" Hazaris of protesters. That in fact is the word for 1000 and refers to the basic 1000 person military structure of the Mongul Horde. It would however be somewhat unfair to the Hazaris of Afghanistan whom I found to have suffered the most yet are the most agreeable ethnic group of all the Afghan groups. (with exceptions of course)
Defense sources confirm Mohammed Merah stopped in Israel en route to Afghanistan in September 2010, aroused suspicion of border officers but eventually allowed to enter country
Sources in the Defense establishment confirmed on Monday that Toulouse terrorist Mohammed Merah had visited Israel.
According to examinations conducted recently, Merah, who murdered a rabbi and three children in a Jewish school last week, stopped in Israel en route to Afghanistan in September 2010.
Defense sources confirmed that the terrorist entered Israel from Jordan via the Allenby crossing. He was questioned after arousing the suspicion of border officers but was eventually allowed to enter Israel after it was determined he wasn't involved in terrorist activity.
Merah entered Israel as a tourist with a French passport. The sources had no knowledge of reports that he had been caught with a knife in Jerusalem, as claimed by a French minister last week. Merah left Israel after three days and returned to Jordan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... French newspaper Le Gay Pareeien revealed additional details from the terrorist's exchange with French police during the siege on his house. He told the officers that a day prior to the raid, he had noticed three suspicious cars parked outside his building. He also claimed he was being followed.
It was also reported that a day after the school shooting, where he shot to death four people, he drove to his hometown and played soccer.
Want to know why the Afghan Taliban opened talks with the United States even though they have fought the world's most advanced military to a virtual stalemate or prospects for girls' schools if they regain power? Go online and post your question.
The Taliban have opened an online forum on their website, called "Your questions and Zabihullah Mujahid's answers" where readers are invited to leave queries for their front man to answer.
One of the burning issues of the moment is the Taliban's secret dialogue with the United States, their sworn enemy whose forces they have vowed to drive out of Afghanistan.
Questioner Ahmad Ahsan said Taliban supporters had long trusted the leadership but a proposal to open an office in Qatar for talks with foreigners was causing disquiet.
"We have always believed in our leaders and elders. Now we are restless in our minds," Ahsan wrote in the Pashto language.
Mujahid defended the decision, saying the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan - the name the Taliban use for their movement - was led by Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... , a "person who had proved himself to the world" and that was enough.
He said the Taliban remained steadfast in their objectives.
"Leave the rest to Allah and pray," he wrote.
A female, Madiha Khalid from Germany, asked what would happen to girls' schools if the Taliban came back. The Taliban banned girls from school during their hardline rule.
But Mujahid blamed a lack of funds to ensure girls' schools were run according to Islamic tenets.
"We want our mothers and sisters to have education according to Islamic framework," he said.
The Taliban have made extensive use of the Internet to spread their message. Mujahid told another questioner that the group kept a close eye on Facebook, YouTube and scoured the media for reports about them.
"We try to look at everything that gets published and then announce our position."
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"We want our mothers and sisters to have education according to Islamic framework,"
Islamic Framework LOL
You are educated to nine then married off to an older man where you are basically a slave to his needs and have children contantly from the age of 14 whilst not allowed outside the house without a male relative ala Saudi Arabia and rape must been seen by for males.
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.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Sudanese intelligence agents on Tuesday seized copies of an independent daily newspaper after it refused to pull an anti-government columnist, the chief editor said.
World leaders called on Tuesday for strong action to combat the threat of nuclear terrorism, including minimising civilian use of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which can be turned into bombs.
