[Tolo News] The Taliban are against peace and stability in the country and are trying to increase their krazed killer activities together with the terrorist groups in Pakistain, NDS officials said Sunday.
Spokesman for the National Directorate of Security Sahfiqullah Taheri said that as the international community is putting more pressure on Pakistain to combat terrorism honestly, the cut-throats are trying to increase violence in Afghanistan through the Taliban and other Pak terrorist networks.
"The Taliban don't want peace in Afghanistan, they want to overrun the recent political achievements in the country, in coordination with terrorist groups in Pakistain, they are trying to escalate violence,"Taheri told news hounds in a press briefing.
He also said that several people were incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! recently while involved in krazed killer activity with documents and ID cards of Pakistain.
"We have proof. They were born in Pakistain, trained in Pak Madarasas and terrorist training camps," he told news hounds, adding that members of five terrorist groups were killed or tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... recently in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Ghazni and Kabul with Pak nationals among them.
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[Tolo News] The Taliban's attacks on Afghan and foreign security forces have decreased since last year, the top Isaf commander in the north said Sunday.
Major General Erich Pfeffer said that while improvised bombs (IEDs) are still a major challenge for peace and stability in Afghanistan, he stressed that the Taliban had lost their capability to fight the Afghan cops. What proportion of the Afghan cops in the north are Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara?
"With all challenges and problems, we are looking forward to major progress in strengthening the Afghan military forces," Pfeffer said.
"They have already had remarkable progress in the past, and we will continue supporting them."
He also emphasised that Afghan cops should properly trained and fully equipped to take security responsibilities by the end of 2014.
The security transition is underway with the first and second phases accomplished, and the third underway. Plans for the fourth phase are in progress. With the completion of the third phase, more than 75% of the country will be under the full control of the Afghan cops.
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[Tolo News] Chief of the Pakistain Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's paramilitary troops claimed Saturday that there are more than 30 forces of Evil training camps in Afghanistan which are launching bad turban activity in Balochistan.
If only our supplies were getting through Pakistan at affordable rates -- but without them, there's really nothing we can do.
Speaking to the local media, General Obaidullah Khan Khattak said that about 550 bad turban activities have occurred in Balochistan over the course of this year, of which different bad turban groups have grabbed credit for 258 incidents.
"Over 30 forces of Evil training camps have been set up across the border in Afghanistan to launch terrorist and anti-state activities," he said.
He also added that teachers, doctors and many civilians have been targeted by the snuffies with over 100,000 people migrating to other parts of the country because of increasing violence.
Deputy front man for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security Shafiqullah Taheri said that Pak military officials are trying to bamboozle the civilian government in Pakistain in order to hide their intervention in Afghanistan.
"Our investigations show that Pakistain's intelligence agency is trying to propagate wrong and untrue information in order to deceive the civilian government of Pakistain in order to hide their intervention in Afghanistan," Taheri said.
"We strongly reject such information and propaganda," he added.
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The Afghans are rumored to be hosting training camps for Baloch nationalist rebels.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Five of the six security chiefs tried with ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... over the deaths of protesters will be released on Sunday a day after their acquittal, the official MENA agency reported.
But the head of the now-dissolved state security apparatus, Hassan Abdel Rahman, will remain in prison pending investigation into another case in which he is accused of destroying state security documents, it said.
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The Yemeni army geared up for a push to try to take a southern coastal town from al Qaeda-linked fighters on Monday, residents said, part of a U.S.-backed offensive in a country Washington sees as a frontline of its war against the Islamist militants.
Soldiers versus terrorists? Soldiers usually win, even if they aren't the best soldiers in the world.
The United States and its Gulf allies are alarmed by the deteriorating security in Yemen, where al Qaeda's Arabian Peninsula wing (AQAP) took advantage of a split in the military during an uprising against then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh and seized territory in the south province of Abyan last year.
Shi'ite rebels known as Houthis also exploited the political upheaval and carved out their own state within a state in the rugged northern province of Saada, on the border with Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter.
The United States, which helped engineer Saleh's replacement by his deputy in February, is backing an offensive in the south and has stepped up its campaign of drone strike assassinations of alleged al Qaeda members it says plot attacks from Yemen.
It has also sent dozens of military trainers and stepped up aid to Yemen where it wants President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to reunify the military and focus it against AQAP.
[Yemen Post] The US on Sunday announced $6,5 million in additional humanitarian aid to Yemen, with the sum bringing the total of the US humanitarian aid to the country so far this year to $80 million, the US embassy in Sanaa said in a blurb.
The statement coincided with an order by the UAE president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to donate $500 million Dirham in urgent humanitarian aid to the country.
Yemen is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, and more recently international agencies said the country needs at least $1 billion to cover emergency humanitarian needs at the moment.
So once again Uncle Sugar rushes in. We'll not receive a bit of thanks for this...
The 2011 events including the mass anti-regime protests have largely aggravated the situation in the country, where a person lives on about two US dollars a day. There are more than ten million Yemeni people facing famine and many children below five suffering from malnutrition.
The US embassy said the additional aid will target 55o,ooo displaced people in areas which have been largely affected by conflicts as well as about 215,000 African refugees.
There are about 500,000 IDPs due to conflicts in the south and the north and recently the authorities said Yemen is hosting about 2 million African refugees, mostly Somalis.
The USAID Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Nancy Lindborg said the additional US aid will be allocated to provide safe drinking water, sanitary, educational and healthcare services as well as urgent foodstuffs and medications for Yemeni affected people. She called on the international community to provide urgent support to help Yemen cope with humanitarian challenges, according to the statement.
"About half the Yemeni population don't have enough food and there are about million children under five suffering from malnutrition to be most vulnerable to diseases," she said.
"Just at the moment, the international community needs to help this country through a long-term development support which can in turn help create a more stable, democratic and prosperous Yemen".
Lindborg was among the members of a multiple international mission which visited Yemen during June 1-3 to evaluate the humanitarian situation.
According to the embassy's statement, the US provided about $115 million in aid to Yemen and plans to provide $118 million this year.
Last month, the UN said it rallied $450 million, which could meet about 40% of Yemen's emergency humanitarian needs at the moment.
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Area of interest also because of Iran's attempt to encircle Saudi Arabia or possibly restrict oil flow in Red Sea. Iran wants choke points and trouble for the Saudis.
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I recently had contact with an old friend who is assisting with a rather large NGO Humanitarian Aid package to Afghanistani school children. After succesfully operating in the region for many years, he is of late, experiencing great difficulty with the USG over shipments. At this point the difficulty and frustration can only be characterized as political obstructionism. I suppose none of this should come as any great surprise.
[Yemen Post] Yemen's security services have tightened security measures at the entrances of the capital Sana'a, an online website of the Interior Ministry stated on Sunday.
The ministry added that it tightened security measures to prevent the infiltration of bully boyz to the capital and arrest the wanted by security authorities.
It further said that it circulated a list of the wanted to security forces positioned at the security belt of Sana'a, stressing that vehicles coming to Sana'a are inspected thoroughly.
It further stated that security teams continuously conduct field visits to evaluate the level of performances and security measures taken to avoid any security breaches.
Killings and other criminal acts have remarkably increased in Sana'a due to Dire Revenge™ and armed disputes as gunnies exploited insecurity in Sana'a to carry out killings and tribal Dire Revenge™.
After a year of pro-democracy protests that swept the country and after formation of an interim government, Sana'a witnesses a state of loose security as crimes and weapon carrying increased.
The Interior Ministry has declared a ban on weapons carrying inside cities, but gunnies are still seen roaming with AK-47 assault rifles, hunting rifles and pistols inside Sana'a streets.
Though Yemenis live on less than two dollars a day, Yemen has the second most heavily armed population in the world, unofficial statistics say.
An average civilian casualty rate of about 4000 people per year due to gun violence, the statics say.
Yemen's interior ministry estimates there are about 60 million firearms in Yemen, or about three for every citizen. Government efforts to take weapons out of peoples' hands have been unsuccessful.
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[Yemen Post] President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi ...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... has ordered the Yemeni army to cleanse Zinjibar of Al-Qaeda Islamic fascistiwithin days and send military reinforcement to the battle ground, an Emeriti newspaper, Al-Khaleej said .
Hadi had vowed to several times to defeat Al-Qaeda and send back the internally displaced persons to their homes. Thousands persons of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... were displaced as a result of violent festivities between the army and the myrmidons.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... about 13 al-Qaeda Islamic fascistiwere killed and several others were maimed in festivities between the army and Ansar Alsharia, an Al-Qaeda-linked group after the Islamic fascistitried to storm the branch of the Central Bank of Yemen in Zinjibar, local sources said.
According to 26 September Newspaper six Al-Qaeda Islamic fascistiand one soldier were killed in the early hours of Sunday.
It made it clear that the festivities between the two sides lasted for two days in the morning of Sunday, and that the Islamic fascisticould escape after the troops strongly responded. Military sources said that army is controlling most of Zinjibar's outskirts, a town that was overran by Al-Qaeda Islamic fascistiover a year ago, pointing out that the Islamic fascististill take control over the centre of thewon.
They further said the troops try to control the entrances of the town to cut it off from Jaar and Shaqra," 35 kilometers east of the city and which Islamic fascisticontrol since June 2011.The Yemeni army has been carrying out an offensive against Al-Qaeda strongholds in some towns of Abyan since May 12. It aimed at reclaiming Zinjibar and other localities in Abyan lost to Al-Qaeda during the past year.
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Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov has angrily accused the United States of lecturing him on human rights and demanding that Chechens "march" to its orders. He said, "The U.S. is trying to lecture the whole world. They are trying to turn all countries and people into formations of marching soldiers, dictating to each and everyone how to live and what to do and not do."
He was reacting to the State Department's recently released annual human rights report, which accused him of continued violation of fundamental freedoms and of fostering "an overall atmosphere of fear and intimidation."
Kadyrov said the report did not reflect how human rights are respected in Chechnya or Russia as a whole. He said, "In Chechnya, human rights are observed more than anywhere else."
He added, "100,000 people have their own centuries-old principles. You cannot destroy them by pressing them into American standards."
The State Department report details the case of Umar Israilov, a Chechen refugee and former bodyguard of Kadyrov who was gunned down in Vienna in 2010. An Austrian court last year convicted three Chechens of organizing the murder. A fourth suspect, Letscha Bogatirov, accused of pulling the trigger, "was promoted by the Kadyrov government following the killing as a reward for his actions," according to the U.S. report.
North Korea's military Monday threatened rocket attacks on the Seoul offices of South Korean media outlets for their critical coverage of a mass children's event in Pyongyang.
The military general staff, in an unusual move, listed the coordinates of some of the offices and said missile units and other forces had already targeted the buildings.
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Either they are bluffing their asses off and hoping the media caves as fast as the US ilk, or they are suicidal.
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I, too, marked Khomeini's passing in the best way I could - with bacon. And not just a side order. This was a veritable Bacon-Fest. We're talking rivers of swine, as if Heaven were a Carolina roadside barbecue joint. May the misery you inflicted on earth be returned to you in the hereafter 444-fold. Amen.
[Dawn] The Inspector General of Frontier Corps (FC), Major General, Obaidullah Khan Khattak, said on Saturday the turmoil in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... was crying out for a political solution since a number of countries were aiding anti-state elements, claiming that 20 foreign intelligence agencies were active in the province.
In addition, 50 "farari (runaway) camps" were training fighters to destabilise Balochistan, he told a presser.
"We are determined to foil all conspiracies hatched by anti-Pakistain elements, but efforts should be made to find a political solution because use of force has never succeeded in resolving any issue," the FC chief said.
He said the FC always took action on directives of the provincial government, but it was bound to work under the federal government because it was a federal force.
A high-level meeting on Balochistan last week had vested Chief Minister Aslam Raisani with powers to call out FC in the province.
He said a campaign had been launched under a conspiracy by certain elements in Balochistan against state institutions, including the FC and intelligence agencies, to undermine the writ of the government and shake the nation's confidence in security forces.
Gen Khattak said despite suffering heavy losses, the Frontier Corps and other forces were determined to protect the country's frontiers and ready to lay down their lives.
"Our morale is high and it cannot be weakened through such conspiracies."
The FC chief said 'individuals and institutions' should respect the soldiers and officials who had put their lives in the line of fire for preserving the country's integrity.
In reply to a question, he said that Frontier Corps had all respect for the judiciary and political institutions, recalling that he had appeared before the Supreme Court four times and was ready to appear again.
Gen Khattak said his force would not hesitate to render any sacrifice to nip the designs of elements working for Balochistan secession from the country.
"We will not tolerate those who are talking about separating Balochistan from Pakistain."
Gen Khattak said it was unfortunate that the media were painting as heroes those who were up in arms against the state while those who were fighting these elements were being vilified as criminals.
"One should come out with courage and say no to militancy and killings of innocent people in Balochistan," he said, adding that over 100,000 people had been forced to leave Quetta and other areas of the province.
The FC chief said that out of the 575 incidents of violence that had taken place this year in Balochistan, 258 had been owned by outlawed bad boy groups, but they were neither facing any case in a court nor anyone was willing to hold them responsible for unrest in the province.
"The FC has been physically and psychologically targeted for quite some time," Gen Khattak bemoaned.
He regretted that although his force had handed over 129 cut-throats to police, only four of them had been convicted so far while 50 had been released by courts due to lack of evidence. "The conviction rate is only three per cent and we have to plug loopholes in the law of evidence."
In reply to a question, the IG of FC said it was difficult to stop infiltration through the 1,200-km border with Afghanistan.
He said arms and ammunition illegally entered Balochistan through the porous Afghan border, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and even through Sindh and sea routes.
In reply to a question, he said although "farari camps" had been dismantled during operations carried out from 2004 to 2007, cut-throats who had escaped returned and re-established the camps in mountains of Dera Bugti, Kohlu, Turbat and Sibi.
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[Dawn] The United States has rejected majority of the demands pressed by Pakistain with respect to the coalition support fund claiming them to be unrealistic, DawnNews reported.
The US is not only adamant in its refusal to apologise for the Salala border checkpost incident that had resulted in the killings of 24 Pak soldiers in November last year but also cornering Pakistain as punishment for the apology demand.
Sources claimed that Pakistain's federal government has decided to pass the burden of the US punishment onto the public and the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) has been increased by 15 to 20 per cent to deal with the impasse. The price hike would be affective from 1st July.
US military authorities rejected Pakistain's request seeking USD 2.8 billion in respect of the coalition support fund stating the request as 'unrealistic'.
Both the countries have held more than half a dozen meetings related to the disbursement of the support fund's amount but the issue remains unresolved in face of the rejection by the US.
Pak-US relations went into freefall last year.
There were hit when a CIA contractor rubbed out two Paks and dented further by an American raid that killed al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who sleeps with the fishes... and by US air strikes in November that killed 24 Pak soldiers.
After the air strikes, Pakistain shut its Afghan border to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... supplies and ordered US staff out of an air base reportedly used as a hub for drones.
Seven US drone strikes have been reported since May's Chicago summit, which failed to secure a deal on resuming the supply lines.
In March, Pakistain's parliament agreed to reset US relations on condition that Washington apologise for the troops' deaths and end drone attacks on its soil.
Pakistain has been incensed by Washington's refusal to apologise for the November air strikes and US officials have so far rejected Pak proposals to charge several thousand dollars for each alliance truck crossing the border.
Islamabad, which is understood to have given its tacit approval for attacks on al Qaeda and Taliban targets in the past, has become increasingly vocal in its opposition to the perceived violation of national illusory sovereignty.
Despite Pak criticism US officials are believed to consider the drone attacks too useful to stop them altogether. They have argued that drone strikes are a valuable weapon in the war against Islamist cut-thoats.
According to an AFP tally, 45 US missile strikes were reported in Pakistain's tribal belt in 2009, the year US President Barack Obama Because I won... took office, 101 in 2010 and 64 in 2011.
The New America Foundation think-tank in Washington says drone strikes have killed between 1,715 and 2,680 people in Pakistain in the past eight years.
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Apparently, it has changed ....
* DEFENCE.PK.FORUMS > US AGREES TO PAY [reimburse] US$1.18BILYUHN OF CSF ARREARS, or approxi 75% of claims to Pakistan.
However, DPK POSTERS = argue that Pakistan is claiming or owed another US$1.5Bilyuhn in claims for domestically fighting MilTerrs at behest of the US-NATO inside + along the Pak-Afghan border, hence the so-called "75%" is actually only "42%" of what Pak is due from the US.
versus
* SAME > PAKISTAN [strongly] CONDEMNS [new rise = surge] IN "ILLEGAL" US DRONE STRIKES.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > US DRONES ATTACK PAKISTAN TARGETS FOR THIRD SUCCESSIVE DAY.
* SAME > [IBN]US DRONE ATTACKS IN PAKISTAN TURNING INTO VIRTUAL BLITZ [-krieg], espec in NW Pakistan.
* SAME > PAKISTAN [now] SEEKS US$2000 TRANSIT
[US$1800.0 - 2000.0] FOR EACH NATO CONTAINER [Truck] + TANKER.
versus
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > NATO STRIKES DEAL WID CENTRAL ASIAN NATIONS FOR WITHDRAWAL OF EQUIPMENT FROM AFGHANISTAN TO COMPLETELY BYPASS PAKISTAN.
* RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > NATO STRIKES ALTERNATE SUPPLY ROUTES DEAL THROUGH CENTRAL ASIA, namely Uzbekistan + Kyrgyzstan + Kazakhistan.
Looks like POTUS Bammer may yet be able to avoid ground war wid IRAN going into November 2012, save for other MSM-Net News this AM as per Muslims being killed by Buddhist reactionaries oer in Myanmar, + more Shia Muslims being killed by alleged Sunnis in Quetta.
The protracted drama has seen Prime Minister Nuri al-Malikis deputy revert to decrying him as a dictator and the leader of the autonomous Kurdish region call for him to go on one side, while the premier insists he has sufficient backing to stay on the other. The political crisis has reached its highest level since its beginning, but it is still running within the framework of the democratic game, Iraqi political analyst Ihsan al-Shammari said.
The country is paralyzed on all levels; there is a clear political paralysis paralleled by governmental negligence and a failure of the legislative authority, while the people are disappointed and afraid of the security consequences, Shammari said. The trouble began in earnest in mid-December, when the secular Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc began a boycott of parliament and the cabinet over what it said was Malikis centralisation of power.
For his part, Maliki sought to sack Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlak, an Iraqiya member who had labelled the premier worse than Saddam Hussein. That month, an arrest warrant was issued for Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, also of Iraqiya, for allegedly running a death squad.
Hashemi fled to the autonomous Kurdistan region in north Iraq, which declined to hand him over to Baghdad and then permitted him to leave on a regional tour that took him to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. He is now being tried in absentia in Iraq. Kurdistan further entered the fray when its chief, Massud Barzani, launched a series of attacks against Maliki.
In April, the region stopped oil exports, claiming Baghdad has allegedly withheld more than $1.5 billion (1.2 billion euros) that Kurdish officials say is owed to foreign oil companies working in the region.
And powerful Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose parliamentary bloc is part of the national unity government along with Iraqiya and the Kurdish alliance, referred to the premier as a dictator hungry for acclaim, and accused him of wanting to postpone or cancel elections. But Maliki opponents have now moved from merely criticizing the premier to talk of actually removing him from office.
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Probably bad for illicit copies used by regimes that didn't pay for legit programs running on their systems. Of course with an embargo, it's pretty much most of what certain regimes rely upon.
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As per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS + Kaspersky Lab, looks like "Flame" has been secretly downloading secret AUTOCAD-based designs in Iran, + was doing so for several years.
[Iran Press TV] An Iranian politician says in case of civil war in Syria, the ensuing crisis will not remain limited to Syrian borders and will spread to its neighbors including Israel.
Referring to the recent escalation of terrorist operations in Syria, Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini noted that such operations are guided by Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad.
"The Syrians are angry with the blood that has been spilt thus far and blame the Zionist regime [of Israel] as the main cause. Therefore, it will not take long before they will disturb security of the occupied territories," he said on Sunday.
Pointing to the recent measure by some Western countries in expelling Syrian diplomats in reaction to the massacre in Houla, the Iranian politician said the move aims to distract international attention from foreign intervention in Syria.
"If foreign intervention in Syria continues in the current manner, the situation in this country will become more critical and people's distrust of West's policies will grow," he noted.
Criticizing UN observers in Syria for their inaction toward the aggravating situation in the country, the Iranian politician said although observers witness flow of forces, arms and money into Syria, they don't do anything to stop it.
On May 25, deadly festivities broke out between Syrian forces and gangs in Houla, located in the central province of Homs. According to head of the UN observer mission in Syria, Major General Robert Mood, 108 people were killed in the festivities, including 49 children and 34 women.
A few days later, on May 30, governments of the United States, La Belle France, Britannia, Spain, Germany, Italia, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... announced the expulsion of Syrian ambassadors to their countries.
Some Western governments blame Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... for the massacre, but a Syrian government investigation into the deadly incident has shown that anti-Damascus gangs had carried out the killings to "bring foreign military intervention against the country in any form and way."
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Iran wants in its Navy in the Med + Atlantic + East Asia, + its not taking "no" for an answer.
[Iran Press TV] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... has warned that Syria has become the target of a foreign conspiracy.
In an address to the new parliament in Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... on Sunday, Assad said Syria was facing a real war from outside.
"We are not facing a political problem but a project to destroy the country," Assad said.
He added that the government has made every attempt to end the months-long unrest and implemented the promised reforms.
The Syrian president insisted that the reforms have managed to fend off part of the regional and international attacks on the country.
Assad also criticized opposition parties for boycotting the May 7 parliamentary elections, saying they have in fact boycotted the people not the government.
He called for a national dialog to end the violence and invited all parties to put aside their differences for the interest of the country.
Syria has been the scene of unrest since mid-March 2011. Many people, including security forces, have bit the dust in the violence.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing the protesters. But Damascus blames ''outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups'' for the unrest, stating that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
The Syrian president also described last week's Houla massacre as an "ugly crime."
On May 25, deadly festivities broke out between Syrian forces and gangs in Houla, leaving 108 people killed, including 49 children and 34 women.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... a Syrian government investigation into the massacre states that anti-Damascus gangs were responsible for the massacre.
The head of the inquiry, Brigadier General Qassem Jamal Suleiman, said on Thursday that between 600 and 800 armed hard boyz used heavy machinery to carry out the attacks.
Suleiman also said that there was no evidence to indicate that artillery bombing by Syrian forces had led to the bloodshed, and blamed the gangs for the massive loss of life as part of a plan to "eliminate the presence of the government [in the area] totally and turn it into a region out of government control."
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... has dismissed accusations his government had any role in the brutal Houla massacre, as he charged forces outside Syria of plotting to destroy the country.
In a rare televised address to parliament, Mr Assad, dressed in a smart suit and tie, said even "monsters" were incapable of carrying out massacres such as last month's killings near the town of Houla in central Syria.
At least 108 people, including 49 children and 34 women, were slaughtered in the massacre which started on May 25 and spilled into the next day, triggering international outrage.
Assad's defiant speech came as Arab leaders called on the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... to act to stop bloodshed in Syria, and La Belle France raised the prospect of military action against Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... under a UN mandate.
"What happened in Houla and elsewhere are brutal massacres which even monsters would not have carried out," the Syrian leader said.
"The masks have fallen and the international role in the Syrian events is now obvious," he said in his first address to the assembly since a May 7 parliamentary election, adding the polls were the perfect response "to the criminal killers and those who finance them".
Assad also paid tribute to civilian and military "deaders" of the violence in Syria, saying their blood was not shed in vain.
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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 Taliban are against peace and stability in the country and are trying to increase their
The Taliban's attacks on Afghan and foreign security forces have decreased since last year, the top Isaf commander in the north said Sunday.
Five of the six security chiefs tried with ousted president 
[Yemen Post] The US on Sunday announced $6,5 million in additional humanitarian aid to Yemen, with the sum bringing the total of the US humanitarian aid to the country so far this year to $80 million, the US embassy in Sanaa said in a 
[Yemen Post] Yemen's security services have tightened security measures at the entrances of the capital Sana'a, an online website of the Interior Ministry stated on Sunday. 
President 
Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov has angrily accused the United States of lecturing him on human rights and demanding that Chechens "march" to its orders. He said, "The U.S. is trying to lecture the whole world. They are trying to turn all countries and people into formations of marching soldiers, dictating to each and everyone how to live and what to do and not do."
The Inspector General of Frontier Corps (FC), Major General, Obaidullah Khan Khattak, said on Saturday the turmoil in 
The United States has rejected majority of the demands pressed by Pakistain with respect to the coalition support fund claiming them to be unrealistic, DawnNews reported.
[Iran Press TV] An Iranian 
Syrian 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
