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Don't feel bad Besoeker, I've got you beat for typos anyday. (Wish I didn't, such is partial Blindnes)
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“Ninety per cent of Afghans have no education, and they didn’t mind the Taliban. But if you were educated it was hell.”
Kinda sums up the problem right there. Of course there's also the obligatory "US didn't create lasting institutions" crap a little later. But, exactly what does he expect with 90% rubes?
This will be a return to the dark ages of tribal/warlord government. It's what they want.
(Sh.M.Network) -- Prime Minister Raila Odinga has ruled out pulling Kenyan troops from Somalia, saying it will be tantamount to surrendering to terrorism.
He made it clear that Kenyan troops will not leave Somalia until the country is liberated and pacified, noting Kenya will not be at peace until Somalia which has not known peace for two decades realizes peace.
"We wantSomaliato be peaceful so that the 500,000 Somali refugees being hosted in Dadaab refugee camp can go back to their country to relieveKenyaof the burden of hosting them," he said.
"Surrender is therefore not an option for us because if we leaveSomalia, anarchy will set in which will spill over the borders."
The PM was speaking in Garissa where he addressed Moslem and Christian religious leaders at a meeting called at the Provincial Commissioner's office to find a lasting solution to frequent terror attacks on churches in the area.
The meeting was attended by Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and acting Minister for internal security Mohammed Yusuf Haji.
Saying terrorism transcended religious, political or racial boundaries, Odinga asked Kenyans to rise up and join the security forces in fighting this vice which, he added, if not checked will snowball into a huge conflagration that can consume the entire region.
He said: "It is known that Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... recently joined Al Qaeda, and there is danger that the terrorist organizations could link up with other terrorist groups like Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in Nigeriato destabilize the whole African continent."
Odinga who sent his condolences to the bereaved families assured them and Kenyans on the lam that the cut-throats will be tracked down, placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and punished.
Terming the terrorist attacks on churches as cowardly, the PM cautioned Kenyans against falling prey to the machinations of the cut-throats whom, he said, wanted to incite religious animosity between Christians and Moslems.
The PM appealed for sobriety in the wake of the attacks, saying it was improper to abortion blame to any religious sect as that will be playing in the hands of the terrorists.
Moslem leaders who spoke at the meeting condemned the incident saying it had nothing to do with religion but an act of terrorism.
They pledged to team up with security forces and their Christian counterparts to protect churches from similar attacks in the future.
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TUNIS: TunisiaÂ’s anti-corruption minister has quit, accusing the government of failing to do enough to overhaul the public sector and root out corruption, in a move that shows deepening cracks in the Islamist-led ruling coalition.
The weekendÂ’s resignation of Administrative Reform Minister Mohammed Abbou follows a spat last week between the Tunisian president and the government over the latterÂ’s decision to extradite Muammar QaddafiÂ’s former prime minister without the presidentÂ’s knowledge.
Analysts said yesterday that the resignation shows growing contrast within the ruling coalition and may plunge Tunisia — the first Arab country to oust its leader and hold free elections as Arab Spring uprisings spread around the region last year — into crisis.
The government, already facing accusations that it failed to create jobs and rein in Islamists, faces a no-confidence vote over the extradition decision, though it is expected to survive it.
“The resignation of Mohammed Abbou dispels the notion that the ruling coalition is coherent and will not disintegrate,” said Nabil Zagdoud, a Tunisian journalist and analyst. “The resignation deepens the contrast within the ruling coalition and may enter the country into crisis.”
The supposedly moderate Islamist Ennahda party won 42 percent of seats in the first elections of the Arab Spring in October, and went on to form a coalition government with two far smaller and weaker secular parties, including President Moncef MarzoukiÂ’s Conference for a Republic party.
Abbou, who is the Conference for a RepublicÂ’s secretary-general, said he had decided to step down because the government had refused to give him the authority to investigate corruption cases and overhaul the public sector as promised after last yearÂ’s revolution.
“The main reason for my resignation is the Tunisian administration’s refusal to change, while I see that the administration needs major changes because it is full of corruption,” Abbou told reporters on Saturday.
In all the other parties, of course...
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Ahhh, the smell of Arab spring. Just remember, there's no honor among thieves. I stole that loot fair and square.
[Yemen Post] President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi ...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... received on Sunday cheifs of the National Security and the Political Security, the two Yemeni intelligence services.
According to the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), chiefs of the National Security Mohammad Al-Anisi and the Political Security Ghalib Al-Qamish presented a detailed report about a number of terrorist cells including the cell that killed about 100 soldiers in a military parade rehearsal on May 21.
Saba said that meeting reviewed the nature of crimes committed by terrorist groups, pointing out that they discussed how a number of suicide kabooms were foiled in Aden, Sana'a and other provinces.
Saba cited that they also discussed how a serious suicide kaboom was thwarted inside Al-Mukla, pointing out that this bombing would have been killed large numbers of human-beings.
Hadi urged security services to be alert and cautious, stressing that Al-Qaeda suffers of subsequent defeats and tries to retaliate against the nation as a whole, its stability and security.
He highly appreciated efforts by intelligence services to thwart terrorist bombing and arrest of terrorists, Saba said.
Al-Anisi revealed on Thursday that the Yemeni authorities set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! the terrorist cell which killed and injured hundreds of soldiers in a parade rehearsal in the capital Sana'a on May 21.
Al-Anisi explained that the security authorities could arrest the terrorist cell that is affiliated to Ansar Al-Shariah, an Al-Qaeda linked group, but he did not give more details.
Al-Qaeda had grabbed credit for the attack, which coincided with severe blows it was receiving under a US-backed offensive in the southern 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... province.
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China will not tolerate an additional nuclear test and any provocations by North Korea, Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie told retired military leaders from South Korea in Beijing recently.
Not until it's in their best interests...
Ko Myung-seung, the president of the Korea Retired Generals and Admirals Association, told the Chosun Ilbo that Liang "expressed strong opposition" to any additional provocations from North Korea when leaders of the association met him on June 19.
"Really, we try to control them for their own good. But you know how it is -- mad dogs and Englishmen and all that."
It is rare for a Chinese government official to speak his mind about the antics of Beijing's closest ally.
Ko quoted Liang as saying North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un is preoccupied with economy, while his aides are focusing on diplomatic opening and economic policies, so Kim is more likely to listen to China's advice than his predecessors Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.
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FINALLY some sense(Don't fuk with the Chin, You'll be dead before you can say "So Solly, Honorable Mistake Prease")
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See below stupidity.
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A leaked internal document from North Korea's Workers Party says former leader Kim Jong-il ordered the mass-production of nuclear bombs, the Tokyo Shimbun reported Monday. Kim died in December last year.
Pudgy is unlikely to have changed the policy...
The 19-page document was written in February to indoctrinate mid-level party officials. It quotes Kim as saying, "We are not spending time on uranium enrichment technology to use just for civilian industrial use. It is natural that such a technology will lead to nuclear bombs from the military point of view." He then issued instructions to "produce a large quantity of nuclear bombs."
Kim also warned that unless the U.S. economy recovers, President Barack Obama could take special interest in the North Korean nuclear issue to regain popularity. "If the enemy [the U.S.] proposes dialogue, we should imply that this is unnecessary," Kim is quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, the document shows that current leader Kim Jong-un has put significantly more stress on the economy. "We need to establish the order in which decisions on economic issues made by the Cabinet are accepted," he said. "The party leadership should give active support to functionaries in the economic or administrative sectors."
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Late Big Daddy-O Kimmie being PRESCIENT, espec as per coming geopol = geosecurity troubles for overlord China???
E.g. DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA FORMS MISSLE BRIGADE FOR SOUTH CHINA SEA [DF-21D ASBMS, new DF-16].
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > FOUR CHINESE MARITIME SURVEILLANCE SHIPS LEAVE SANYA, HAINAN FOR SPRATLEYS.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINA'S IRON FIST IN A VELVET GLOVE.
* SAME > PAX-SINICA: WHY THE US SHOULD HAND OVER AFGHANISTAN AND CENTRAL ASIA TO CHINA.
As per WORLD NEWS, the Philippines is repor asking the USA to conduct recce flights oer disputed areas of the South China Sea - LOOKS LIKE, BESIDES THAILAND'S U-TAPAO AB, NASA'S WEATHER RESEARCH PLANES WILL ALSO BE HEADED BACK TO CLARK AFB OR OTHER IN THE PI???
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I can only understand this, IF the guns blew up on first use, or on command later.
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In July 2010, Burke [Donk gun ban pusher] told the Arizona Capitol Times there had "clearly been direction provided already by President Obama and Attorney General Holder as to what they want to be doing."
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Let everyone be warned. Obamacare was not about health insurance or health care, it was about something else.
Much as F & F was not about drug cartels and weapons but about discrediting gun ownership so that the Feds could seize all firearms as the first step in an Obama figureheaded dictatorship.
It is time we all put our heads together and look at all of Obama's legislation and figure out what the rest of the dirty little secrets are that will come out of the woodwork if he is reelected.
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HT to Weasel Zippers. The supply route opens - for how long? The Paks learn that he'll bow to even their corrupt tantrums. Remember - the Paks shot at us, and got what they deserved back
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God how I hate these people.
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Stupid shit bitch, WE should "Apologise" by nuking their crap country.
Then Apologise, for destroying a perfectly good Junkyard.
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Ah, yes, using the proven North Koran gambit.
We should all apologize for having the State Department. Maybe we should outsource it to a slightly more effective bureaucracy, the United States Postal Service. At least they're not ashamed of being an American, so far.
[An Nahar] Pak officials accused up to 60 Afghan soldiers on Monday of crossing into Pak territory and sparking festivities that killed two primitive.
It was the latest in a series of escalating cross-border attacks reported in Afghanistan and Pakistain that are inflaming tensions along the mostly non-existent border as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... prepares to end its combat mission against the Taliban in 2014.
Both countries blame each other for harboring Taliban fighters active on both sides of their 2,400 kilometer (1,500 mile) border, fanning distrust between Kabul and Islamabad, and complicating a grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan.
Kabul threatened to report Islamabad to the U.N. Security Council over what it alleges is the shelling of villages, Betcha they're quaking in their curly-toed slippers at the thought of that...
while Islamabad said it would protest formally to Kabul against the latest incursion.
"If our bilateral discussions regarding this issue brings no result, we will refer this issue to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Security Council," Afghan foreign ministry front man Faramarz Tamana told Agence La Belle France Presse.
In Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt, security officials said two rustics were killed in Upper Kurram district in festivities with 60 Afghan army soldiers.
Another primitive was also maimed "after they shot it out with Afghan army soldiers on seeing them inside Pak territory," a bigwig told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The festivities lasted for more than 90 minutes after which security forces were sent to the area on the Afghan border, he said.
Local residents said the Afghans were pursuing attackers fleeing Shehar-e-Nau village in Paktia province.
Afghan defense officials denied the alleged incursion.
"We are not aware of such an operation by ANA (Afghan National Army) in that area," Daulat Wazir front man for the Ministry of Defense said.
Colonel Ahmad Jan, front man for army corps 203 in southeastern Afghanistan said: "It is not true, our forces have not entered Pakistain. We have not had any operations near the border recently."
A front man for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security intelligence agency said cross-border fire had killed four people, including a woman and a child, and maimed six others, in the last week.
Afghans and Americans blame Pakistain for not doing more to eliminate havens on its soil, which are used as launch pads for attacks across the border.
Last month, the U.S. commander of NATO in Afghanistan blamed the Pakistain-based Haqqani network for a siege on a lakeside hotel in Kabul that killed 18 people.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... also warned last month that Washington was running out of patience with Pakistain over myrmidon havens.
But in Pakistain, border attacks have raised fresh concerns that Pak Taliban, who fled a 2009 army offensive, have regrouped and again pose a threat.
Officials said dozens of Orcs and similar vermin based in Afghanistan on Sunday attacked a checkpost in Upper Dir, a district in the government-controlled part of Pakistain, for the second time in eight days.
They said six Orcs and similar vermin were killed after crossing into Sabir Killey village in the Soni Darr area of Upper Dir. One official told AFP the "firefight continued late into the night".
Another official said there were reports "hundreds of myrmidons" were gathering in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar.
"Authorities have alerted local lashkars (tribal militia) amid fears of a bigger clash," he told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Intelligence officials say the attackers are loyalists of Pak holy man Maulana Fazlullah, who fled into Afghanistan when the army recaptured the Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... valley after a two-year Taliban insurgency ended in 2009.
Swat neighbors Upper Dir, which is a key transit route between Afghanistan and Pakistain.
The valley was once a popular tourism destination and unlike the semi-autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border, lies just 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the capital Islamabad.
The Taliban released a video showing severed heads of 17 Pak soldiers who they said were killed in a similar cross-border attack on a check post in Soni Darr on June 24.
A bigwig confirmed that all 17 in the video were security personnel.
Islamabad lodged a strong protest with Kabul over the June 24 attack.
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including a woman and a child,
Playing for Pity, won't work.
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[Pak Daily Times] Proclaiming 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 top on his list of priorities, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Monday said bringing stability and prosperity in the province would be the top priority of his government.
Chairing his first meeting on Balochistan crisis as prime minister, Raja said the self-styled independence of federal agencies is being checked by ensuring that they do not act independently in connection with law and order. He said the federal agencies were meant to provide assistance to the provincial government as and when required. The prime minister further said that he had invited the Baloch leadership for dialogue to address all their grievances within the framework of federation. "I will soon visit Balochistan with a view to find out an acceptable solution of the Balochistan problem after holding detailed discussion with all the stakeholders," he announced.
Raja directed the law minister to hold a meeting on Tuesday (today) exclusively on missing persons' issue. It would be attended by secretaries of defence, interior, law, Balochistan chief secretary, FC IG, IB DG, head of ISI in Balochistan and the provincial police IG. He also directed the Ministry of Finance and Planning Commission to prioritise the projects in Balochistan having direct bearings on the people of the province. In this regard, the prime minister said that the road from Gwadar to Rato Dero, Kacchi Canal, RCD Highway, solar tube wells, etc, should be given due consideration. Raja noted Balochistan was an important part of the country and because of its strategic location, the maintenance of peace there was of utmost importance.
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"Stability and Prosperity" I am sorry for laughing so hard. Solar tube wells? Do they mean like windows?
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Ummm, no, there's a way to run a well pump by solar.
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Stability and prosperity got nothing to do with Pakistan.
[Saudi Gazette] Pak officials accused up to 60 Afghan soldiers on Monday of crossing into Pak territory and sparking festivities that killed two primitive.
It was the latest in a series of escalating cross-border attacks reported in Afghanistan and Pakistain that are inflaming tensions along the mostly non-existent border as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... prepares to end its combat mission against the Taliban in 2014.
Both countries blame each other for harboring Taliban fighters active on both sides of their 2,400 kilometer border, fanning distrust between Kabul and Islamabad, and complicating a grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan.
Kabul threatened to report Islamabad to the UN Security Council over what it alleges is the shelling of villages, while Islamabad said it would protest formally to Kabul against the latest incursion.
"If our bilateral discussions regarding this issue brings no result, we will refer this issue to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council," Afghan foreign ministry front man Faramarz Tamana told AFP.
In Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt, security officials said two rustics were killed in Upper Kurram district in festivities with 60 Afghan army soldiers.
Another primitive was also maimed "after they shot it out with Afghan army soldiers on seeing them inside Pak territory," a bigwig told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The festivities lasted for more than 90 minutes after which security forces were sent to the area on the Afghan border, he said. Local residents said the Afghans were pursuing attackers fleeing Shehar-e-Nau village in Paktia province.
A front man for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security intelligence agency said cross-border fire had killed four people, including a woman and a child, and maimed six others, in the last week.
Afghans and Americans blame Pakistain for not doing more to eliminate havens on its soil, which are used as launch pads for attacks across the border.
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[An Nahar] The U.N. pointman for Paleostinian human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... launched a blistering attack on the international community Monday, accusing it of conspiring in Israeli settlement policies and branding the grinding of the peace processor a "trick".
Richard Falk, the special U.N. rapporteur for human rights in the occupied territories, also took aim at the so-called Middle East Quartet ... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy.... 's peace envoy Tony Blair over his efforts in the region.
Falk, who spoke to news hounds after addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, said Paleostinians in the occupied West Bank were offered no protection in Israeli law and that their treatment was akin to apartheid.
"I think one has to begin to call the reality by a name," he said, likening the "discriminatory dualistic legal system" in the West Bank to the former system in South Africa.
In his report to the council, Falk expressed his concern about Israel's use of administrative detention, the expansion of settlements and violence by settlers.
Israel in March severed contacts with the council after the 47-member body said it would investigate settlements in the occupied territories, which are considered illegal under international law.
Peace talks between the two sides have been on hold since September 2010, with the Paleostinians refusing to resume them without a moratorium on settlement building.
"The grinding of the peace processor is a trick rather than a way to find a solution to the problem," Falk said.
He also criticized the work of the former British prime minister Tony Blair in the region.
"Tony Blair has not much to show for his 86 visits to the Middle East... (it is) an extension of the grinding of the peace processor which I regard as a failure because while time passes the settlement culture continues."
"The international community is conspiring -- maybe unwittingly -- in a process that has no way of bringing justice to the people involved in this conflict," he said of settlements.
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U.N. Rights Pointman Says Mideast Peace Process a 'Trick'
Took ya some time to figger it out Hmmm?
And WHO"S the liar?
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Actually, the Palestitians DO have a official status with relation to Israel: Occupied population of the LOSERS.
[Al Ahram] The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip said on Monday it has "temporarily" halted voter registration just over a month after granting the electoral commission permission to work. The decision was criticised in the West Bank, with Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmed saying that the Hamas decision "halts the reconciliation" between the rival Palestinian movements. File under "One man, one vote, one time."
In a statement, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior front man for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gazoo. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... cited various "obstacles" that needed to be resolved before the electoral commission could resume its work.
"Hamas and the government in Gaza have provided the Central Election Commission (CEC) with all the facilities required for it to carry out its role with ease," he said.
"But there are many issues that represent obstacles," he said. "Therefore Hamas has decided to temporarily suspend the registration process until an agreement between the parties involved to remove the obstacles."
The statement lists a variety of alleged obstacles, including the arrest of Hamas members in the West Bank and a failure to carry out registration in the Palestinian territories and abroad at the same time.
It also says no agreement has been reached on dealing with the "large number" of unregistered Palestinian voters in the West Bank and Gaza who do not have identity cards.
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[Jerusalem Post] Beirut newspaper 'Al-Joumhouria' cites 'security study' saying terror group has upgraded underground structures.
They must be getting worried -- Hizb'allah's work has always been good enough before.
Hezbollah has upgraded its network of tunnels in southern Leb to secure itself against Arclight airstrikes in a future war with Israel, according to a report by a Lebanese newspaper on Monday.
Al-Joumhouria said its source was a diplomatic report issued by an unspecified European embassy, which it said contained information from "a number of Western security agencies."
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Al-Joumhouria claimed the report said that "Iranian experts" had supervised the digging of a new tunnel network in Leb's Beqaa Valley region, which borders with Syria, following the Second Leb War.
After that war in 2006, IDF soldiers uncovered an extensive network of Hezbollah tunnels in southern Leb.
The fortified underground structures enabled gun-hung tough guys to exit their bunkers, fire mortars at Israeli troops and return to the bunkers without being seen.
The report said Hezbollah had dug a new network of tunnels in an area south of the Litani River. The tunnels are equipped with state-ofthe- art ventilation, lighting and communication networks and are built to resist land and air operations, according to the report.
Hopefully they have tanning beds, too -- lack of vitamin D has been discovered to cause all sorts of physical and mental health problems.
The report also claimed that the tunnels contain underground stores of weapons and ammunitions, which have been stashed at various locations.
Oooooo -- secondaries!
According to Al-Joumhouria, the tunnels are equipped with dormitories, medical facilities, kitchens, toilets, water and heating systems that allow dozens of gun-hung tough guys to live underground for weeks at a time.
The report added that Hezbollah had purchased large tracts of land years ago in the Hermel region near the Syrian border, and had drilled tunnels though the mountains of the Beqaa region, reaching deep into Syrian territory.
Al-Joumhouria said these tunnels and warehouses had "strategic importance" because they are located far from military confrontations and would allow Hezbollah to smuggle ammunition and rockets through Syrian territory in the event of a war with Israel.
The newspaper quoted sources saying Israel's next war with Leb could be a "tunnel war," and said Israel was monitoring the tunnel drilling process using sophisticated technology developed after the Second Leb War.
The report said Israel had conducted maneuvers in tunnels similar to Hezbollah's, which could help the IDF excel in a future conflict.
Al-Joumhouria also quoted an unnamed Hezbollah source as saying the "Israeli enemy" would be "surprised" in the event of a war, saying that the response would be "entirely and radically different" from the Second Leb War.
The newspaper quoted the source as saying that it was "no longer an issue of tunnels, but about of missiles," which were hidden all over the country.
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Japanese were great at tunnel building - and then came the U.S. flame-throwers.
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in the Vietnam war... overpressure from a certain bomb its too early in the day to start a drinking effort by mentioning... would do a real good job breaking all the ear drums of tunnel rats via the tunnel channeled overpressure and rendering them quite a bit easier to kill by normal means... Just saying... a "MOAB" and its relatives would have a similar result...
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Propane gas is heavier than air. Sell 'em leaky bottles of mercaptan-free cooking gas and let nature take its course.
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On the same problem -Geneva has a problem with it but - pumping a natural gas-air mixture into a tunnel complex then introducing it to a spark is quite effective. One can see it at work with certain rodent elimination products like this video shows:
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Calcium carbide rocks and water in gopher tunnels took care of the problem. Just scale it up.
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[Iran Press TV] Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili says foreign powers are hatching various plots to undermine the unity and solidarity of the regional nations.
"The progress and stability of the region is contingent upon vigilantly passing the fabricated conflicts [staged] by the foreigners such as the Kurd-Arab or the Sunni-Shia conflicts," Jalili said in a meeting with Nawshirwan Mustafa, the leader of the reformist Iraqi Kurdish political party Movement for Change, in Tehran on Monday.
Jalili further referred to the growing ties between Tehran and Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... in various sectors and said strategic bilateral cooperation will help the stability and flourishing of the region.
For his part, Mustafa also stressed the need for increasing cooperation between Iran and Iraq as two important countries in the region.
"The people and officials of the Kurdistan Region believe that their interests and benefits lie in remaining within the framework of a united and integrated Iraq," Mustafa added.
Mustafa had earlier met with Iran's Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran's Majlis (parliament) will codify a double-urgency plan aimed at closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US-led European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) embargoes on the country's oil industry, an Iranian politician says.
"The Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy has drawn up a plan which puts emphasis on blocking the passage of tankers carrying oil through the Strait of Hormuz to countries that imposed sanctions on Iran," a member of the committee Ebrahim Aqa-Mohammadi said on Monday.
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See also RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN DRAFTS BILL TO BLOCK HORMUZ FOR PERSIAN GULF OIL TANKERS.
DPK BLOGGERS = Bill is apparently designed to exploit the transit of oil tankers + general shipping which goes thru offshore Iranian territory e.g. islands. DEEPER WATERS OF THE GULF ARE ON THE IRAN SIDE.
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WORLD NEWS > TRADERS CALL IRAN'S BLUFF [USO] [UCO][DBO][OIL].
May had scared Stock-Oil Traders to no end last year, but isn't as intimidating this year.
Is it just me, or anyone else get the feeling this may end up being another "NDN" or Pakistan-vs-NATO-Supply-Routes brouhaha save for the Saudi-led OPEC???
Speaking of which ...
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USDOD seeks formal "reprogramming" of funds to the tune of US$8.0Bilyuhn.
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