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US and Russia strike agreement on Syria
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Africa North
Zawahri Condemns Crackdown On Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
[Ynet] Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has described the army-installed government's crackdown against the Moslem Brüderbund in Egypt as a "brutal crime" and urged Egyptians to resist what he called a campaign against Islam in their country.

Security forces have killed hundreds of Brotherhood supporters and tossed in the slammer
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
thousands, including most of it leaders, since the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on July 3 following mass protests against his rule.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Considering the MosBros behaved like total shits once they got their hands on political power, you're lucky you aren't being hunted for sport, Zman.

Rather gratifying to see the Egyptians pushing back against Islamo-Fascism. Not an outcome I expected.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/14/2013 3:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Appears some New Yorkers are 'pushing back' against the MB as well:

Since 9/11, Islam has kept making inroads into the American life, including the White House, where at least six Muslims serve as advisors for the Obama administration.

Huma Abedin, a Muslim and wife of Anthony Weiner, is facing her own troubles -- less salacious than her husband's, but potentially more severe.

On June 13, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote her and Secretary of State John Kerry asking why Abedin, the deputy chief of staff at the State Department under former Secretary Hillary Clinton, was granted status as a "special government employee" after the birth of her son.

That title allowed her to work from home as a part-time consultant to State, earning $135,000 as a government employee -- while also earning $355,000 as a consultant for Teneo, where former President Bill Clinton is a board member.

Her mother, Dr. Saleha Mahmood Abedin is one of the founding members of the Muslim Sisterhood, and more importantly the long-time chairperson of the International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child?? (IICWC), which wants to impose Sharia law on Egypt, and eventually, the West.

Can anyone see why this woman might want to stand by her idiot husband and get him elected as Mayor of New York? This would give Muslim terrorist sympathizers inside access to the largest city in America and a major in-road to affecting the politics and laws of our country; all while this idiot is off playing fantasy sex games online. No wonder she doesn't care about what he is doing! Her long-term goal is to provide access to our government to Muslin terrorist organizations.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2013 3:13 Comments || Top||

#3  she already has "inside access" to The Smartest Woman In The World™. IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by: Frank G || 09/14/2013 9:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Is Zawahri still in Peshawar? If so why is that city still on the planet?
Posted by: 3dc || 09/14/2013 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  The gun market 3 Days, is vital to all.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/14/2013 15:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Ok, that does it. I'm putting aside some money for a Jersey.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/14/2013 17:18 Comments || Top||


Egypt: Ousted President Morsi's Arrest Extended By 30 Days
[Ynet] Egypt's official news agency MENA reported that the arrest of ousted President Mohamed Morsi was extended by 30 days for an attempt to escape prison.

Morsi, who has been in jug since July 3, will be prosecuted for violence and incitement to bullying, alongside 14 other Moslem Brüderbund officials.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  What they need to do is start extending necks.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/14/2013 10:14 Comments || Top||


Tunisia Probe Ordered over 'Tip-Off' of MP's Murder
[An Nahar] Tunisia's interior minister has ordered a probe into claims there was a tip-off that might have saved the life of an MP who was assassinated in July but not acted on.

Opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi was bumped off on July 25, setting off a political crisis that threatens to bring down the coalition government led by Islamist party Ennahda.

On Thursday, the opposition claimed an unidentified foreign intelligence agency had informed police and Prime Minister Ali Larayedh 11 days earlier that Brahmi was in danger, but that he was never warned.

The official TAP news agency said Friday Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou had ordered an internal investigation into the matter, adding that Jeddou had not been informed of the tip-off.

The probe will seek to determine "the reasons why the minister was not informed about this warning and why it was not followed up."

Brahmi, 58, of the leftist Popular Movement, was assassinated on Thursday outside his home in Ariana, near Tunis, by gunnies on a cycle of violence.

His killing came less than six months after another prominent opposition figure, Chokri Belaid, was rubbed out, and authorities say the two were killed with the same gun.

Last month, Larayedh put the blame for both murders on Tunisia's main Salafist Mohammedan movement Ansar al-Sharia
...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Tunisia and Yemen, with the Tunisian version currently most active...
, which the government has linked to al-Qaeda.
Posted by: Fred || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Ansar al-Sharia


Arabia
Bahrain Bans Books on Hizbullah because they 'Spread Hatred, Sectarianism'
[An Nahar] Bahrain authorities banned books on Hizbullah, and published by a publishing house linked to the party, during a cultural exposition, reported the Bahrain News Agency on Friday.

The Bahrain Ministry of Information Affairs said in a statement that the books "promote sectarianism, hatred, and hard boy radical ideologies."

"These ideologies are a direct threat to the safety and security of Bahrain," it explained.

"The attempt to import these books is a blatant and heinous violation against the will and illusory sovereignty of Bahrain due to the poisonous sectarianism and ideologies that target the unity of the Bahraini society," it added.

"Freedom of opinion and expression will be preserved in the kingdom as long as it does not violate the illusory sovereignty and security of others," stressed the ministry.

The GCC monarchies decided on June 10 to impose sanctions on Hizbullah, targeting residency permits and its financial and business activities in reprisal for the group's armed intervention in Syria.
Posted by: Fred || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Home Front: WoT
Al-Qaida calls for terror attacks in US to 'bleed America economically'
[Jpost] Zawahri says Boston marathon terror attack shows US that they are facing a Mohammedan uprising, not just individuals or groups.

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged small-scale attacks inside the United States to "bleed America economically", adding he hoped eventually to see a more significant strike, according to the SITE monitoring service.

In an audio speech released online a day after the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 strikes, Zawahri said attacks "by one brother or a few of the brothers" would weaken the US economy by triggering big spending on security, SITE reported.

Western counter-terrorism chiefs have warned that radicalized "lone wolves" who might have had no direct contact with al-Qaeda posed as great a risk as those who carried out complex plots like the 9/11 attacks.

"We should bleed America economically by provoking it to continue in its massive expenditure on its security, for the weak point of America is its economy, which has already begun to stagger due to the military and security expenditure," he said.

Keeping America in such a state of tension and anticipation only required a few disparate attacks "here and there", he said

"As we defeated it in the gang warfare in Somalia, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan, so we should follow it with ...war on its own land. These disparate strikes can be done by one brother or a few of the brothers."

At the same time, Mohammedans should seize any opportunity to land "a large strike" on the United States, even if this took years of patience.

In his audio speech, Zawahri said Mohammedans should refuse to buy goods from America and its allies, as such spending only helped to fund US military action in Mohammedan lands. He added that Mohammedans should abandon the US dollar and replace it with the currency of nations that did not attack Mohammedans.

Zawahri spoke approvingly of one of the worst attacks on US soil since Sept. 11, 2001, the bombing of the Boston Marathon in April, which US authorities say was carried out by two ethnic Chechen Mohammedan brothers. The attack killed three people and injured 264.

Zawahri sought to paint the bombing as part of al-Qaeda's violent transnational campaign of jihad or holy war against US interests, even if it was relatively small-scale.

"The Boston incident confirms to the Americans ... that they are not facing individuals, organizations or groups, but they are facing an uprising Ummah (Mohammedan community), that rose in jihad to defend its soul, dignity and capabilities."

"What the American regime refuses to admit is that al-Qaeda is a message before it was an organization," he said.

Zawahri, suspected by many security specialists to be living in the Pakistain-Afghanistan border
...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons...
area, added that the al-Qaeda message simply was that if Mohammedans wanted to live in dignity and "be liberated", then they had to defend their dignity.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Americans have been doing an excellent job of destroying their own economy, and no help from al-Qaeda is necessary.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/14/2013 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Is there some reason we shouldn't just kill all these guys?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/14/2013 0:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Ayman must mean GLOBAL/WORLDWIDE MOHAMMEDDAN CONQUEST ...

But youse didn't hear it from me - dats my story + I'm sticking to it!

Meanwhile, NOT to be outdone by the USA being domestically jihadded by Jihadis ...

* WAFF > [Voice of Russia] PUTIN: MILITANTS FIGHTING IN SYRIA MAY LATER EMERGE IN RUSSIA.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > VIDEO: US CONCERNED ABOUT REPORTS OF [Ten] AMERICANS FIGHTING WID ANTI-ASSAD REBELS IN SYRIA.

Because, ya know, they might come back home to America = Amerika as Islamic terror cadres + wage violent jihad agz our sacred Clintonian National Communism-Socialism, now Globalism.

[PHILIPPINE COMMIE-NPA-VS-MACALANANG [PHIL Govt]; CHINA WOULD LIKE TO THE US ISOLATED TO EASTPAC BY 2020 here].

* SAME > VIDEO: RUSSIAN MEDIAS EXPOSING [US-Israeli-led] TERRORISM IN BALOCHISTAN [Pakistan].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/14/2013 0:51 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought 'bleeding the economy' was Champ's job ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2013 3:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Obama does not need the help. Obamacare alone will bring US to it's knees.
Posted by: newc || 09/14/2013 8:52 Comments || Top||

#6  think of the economic disruption a couple of black muslims caused by sniping their way around the beltway

yeah, I know Lee Boyd Malvo wasn't specifically identified as muslim
Posted by: Frank G || 09/14/2013 9:38 Comments || Top||

#7  ...gee, if only there were a way to prevent "death by a thousand cuts"...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/14/2013 9:44 Comments || Top||

#8  I thought 'bleeding the economy' was Champ's job ?

Besoeker, Champ or AlQ Islamists? A distinction without a difference.

Why else is he so hot to support the MoBro & feed arms to alNusra and friends?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/14/2013 10:13 Comments || Top||

#9  "I am Barack Obama and I approve this message"

FORWARD to the Detroitification of America!
Posted by: Airandee || 09/14/2013 16:24 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Arrow 3 trials successful, may move operational timetable ahead
[Ynet] Seven months after testing of improved system for interception of ballistic missiles, program's announcement as operation may move ahead. Former program head says 'system demonstrated high reliability'

Analysis of the Arrow 3 missile launch tests, which took place last February in the Israeli Air Force's Palmachim base in cooperation with American partners, revealed that the experiment was successful beyond all expectations, to an extent that may speed up the timetable for the declaration of the program as operational.

Arrow 3 is the Israeli solution to intercepting long-range missiles that exit the atmosphere. The improved missile will be able to stand a future scenario of Iranian launch of a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead.

The Arrow 3 missile is not intended for intercepting Syrian Scud missiles. In order to deal with that threat, Arrow 2 batteries were deployed in central and northern Israel. The Arrow 3 system is intended for long-range missiles only.
Inbal Kreiss, who until recently headed the Arrow 3 program, said that "the goal is to reach a fully guaranteed interception, after the system demonstrated high reliability."

In an event held in Tel Aviv University, Kreiss added that "the system has proven saving in time and missiles, and the security establishment is examining answering all threat scenarios with (this system). The missile's ability to divert course while reaching the targeted missile was proven beyond all doubt, as the accuracy of interception high above the State of Israel was improved."

At the end of the event, Kreiss told Ynet that "we try to move the schedule ahead. The experiment's success lowers the risks involved and helps move forward." The project's future stages, which are to take place in the next year and a half, until the system is declared operational, are an additional launch to space, as well as an experimental interception of a missile that simulates a long-range enemy missile that could reach the distance of about 2,000 kilometers (1242 miles).

The Arrow 3 missile is not intended for intercepting Syrian Scud missiles. In order to deal with that threat, Arrow 2 batteries were deployed in central and northern Israel. The Arrow 3 system is intended for long-range missiles only.

If Arrow 3 misses the hit, an Arrow 2 intercepting missile will be launched towards the enemy missile. As backing for the system and destroying of residual air missile, there will be a use of the aerial defense system Magic Wand, which is in advanced stages of development.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  now just who would be launching long-range missiles at the Juice.... hmmmm? Tunisia? Estonia?
Posted by: Frank G || 09/14/2013 9:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Frank G: With the BeauZooz we now have running our gummint, a possibility could be the USS Barry....
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/14/2013 18:00 Comments || Top||


No action towards Egypt army's destruction of tunnels: Hamas
[Al Ahram] Gazoo's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Prime Minister Ismail Haniya said that his group will only use weapons against its "Israeli enemy," amid intensive efforts by the Egyptian army to destroy tunnels linking Egypt's eastern border with the Gazoo Strip.

During Friday's prayers sermon at the Belal Ben Rabeh Mosque, south of Gazoo Strip, Haniya said that Paleostinian authorities are closely monitoring the destruction of the tunnels, and shall take steps to ease pressure of the besieged Gazoo strip and its residents.

"Our weapons will be directed against no one except for the Israeli enemy located on the Paleostinian territory... We won't distract our resistance despite injustice befallen us," he said, easing tension created by earlier sermons.

"The government and the resistance [of Hamas] do not interfere in any of the Arab countries' affairs... they consider these countries our allies and supporters of the Paleostinian cause."

The Egyptian army said it has destroyed dozens of tunnels in Sinai recently, which are considered an economic lifeline for the Gazoo enclave because it is partially blockaded by Israel.

Gazoo preachers, in fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
sermons, had previously accused Egypt's army chief, General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, of waging war against Islam. Egyptian army officials have said Hamas is interfering in Egyptian affairs and suggested that Paleostinians were helping Islamist gunnies in Sinai, which borders Gazoo and Israel.

Hamas, an ideological offshoot of Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund, denies such allegations. The group's religious affairs minister Ismail Rudwan said recently preachers were instructed not to "speak about Egypt's internal affairs" and only "focus on Paleostinian national issues."
Posted by: Fred || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Translated: The Egyptians don't use rubber bullets.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/14/2013 4:29 Comments || Top||


Poll: Majority Of Palestinian Authority Muslims Support Suicide Bombings
[Breibart] A poll recently released by the Pew Research Center flies in the face of Barack Obama
I am not a dictator!...
's attitude toward the Paleostinian people world and their desire for peace. The poll, which was conducted among 11 different nationalities comprised of large Mohammedan populations, found that there was unanimity among them in their opposition to suicide kabooms-with one exception.

One question asked whether suicide kabooms could ever be justified. The possible answers were "Never," "Rarely," "Sometimes," "Often" and "Don't Know." Unlike their Mohammedan brethren, 62% of those from the "Paleostinian Territories" (the areas of Paleostinian Authority-controlled Judea and Samaria, and the area of Gazoo) said suicide kabooms were "sometimes" justifiable. The next largest group approving was from Leb, with 33% approving. Of those who said the suicide kabooms were "often" justifiable, 37% of Paleostinians approved. The second highest group was from Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
, at 11%.

Interestingly, the group most opposed to suicide kabooms was from Pakistain, where Al Qaeda and the Taliban have almost exclusively focused the bombings on other Mohammedans.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Paleos practice taquia less than other Muslims---they've less need to.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/14/2013 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Poll: Majority Of Palestinian Authority Muslims Support Suicide Bombings

..and the brain dead wonder why the Peace Process(tm) hasn't gone anywhere.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/14/2013 9:17 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Philippines VP Says Rebel Leader Agrees to Discuss Truce
[An Nahar] The leader of Musselmen rebels locked in a deadly stand-off with Philippine forces in a key southern city has agreed to discuss a ceasefire, a front man for Vice President Jejomar Binay said Saturday.

About 180 gunnies from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) infiltrated six coastal districts of Zamboanga city before dawn on Monday in a siege which has left at least 22 people dead and 52 maimed.

"He (Binay) talked to (MNLF leader Nur) Misuari and he talked to (Defense Secretary Voltaire) Gazmin, and they agreed to discuss a ceasefire," the vice president's front man Joey Salgado told Agence La Belle France Presse.

The vice president had proposed for the truce to begin from midnight (1600 GMT) Saturday and is flying to Zamboanga later in the day to begin discussions, Salgado said.

Misuari has set no conditions in exchange for agreeing to discuss a ceasefire, he added.

The rebels have been battling with more than 1,000 Philippine troops for the last five days in a bid to derail peace talks aimed at ending a Musselmen insurgency that had claimed 150,000 lives since the early 1970s.
Posted by: Fred || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US and Russia strike agreement on Syria
Put on the galoshes, fellas. The boollsh*t is about to get unusually deep today

From TFA:


Russia and the United States announced Saturday that they have reached a groundbreaking deal on a framework to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, after talks in Switzerland.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stood side-by-side as they set out a series of steps the Syria government must follow.

Syria must submit within one week a comprehensive list of its chemical weapons stockpile, Kerry said, and international inspectors must be on the ground no later than November
Posted by: badanov || 09/14/2013 10:32 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good grief. Here we go again...
Posted by: Dave D. || 09/14/2013 10:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Rope a dope, Syria style. What do they take us for, idiots?

Whoops, I answered my own question.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/14/2013 14:28 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm more concerned about the side agreements.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/14/2013 15:01 Comments || Top||

#4  good thing Obama's "more flexible" after the election, or Putin might've broke him bent over like that
Posted by: Frank G || 09/14/2013 15:02 Comments || Top||

#5  It takes a special kind of guy to lose the moral high ground to an unrepentant KGB thug who sits at the top of the world's largest kleptocracy, but I do believe Champ has managed it.
Posted by: Matt || 09/14/2013 15:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Then we have Sergey Lavrov negotiating with John Kerry. Must be nearly impossible for Lavrov to keep a straight face ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2013 15:16 Comments || Top||

#7  It's like how Ed Edwards got to be Governor that time Matt, such a choice.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/14/2013 15:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Must be nearly impossible for Lavrov to keep a straight face ?

He's had lots of practice dealing with self-important imbeciles from Third World countries.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/14/2013 17:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Ship, a negotiation between Edwin Edwards and John Fn Kerry is something I'd pay money to see. Just to make it sporting you'd have to give Edwards time limits. "Eddie, you got to have his watch and wallet before you sit down. You got ten minutes to get title to his yacht. By twenty minutes he's got to be hopping on one leg and whistling Dixie..."
Posted by: Matt || 09/14/2013 18:02 Comments || Top||


France, 3 Arab countries to 'strengthen' support for Syria rebels: Paris
[Al Ahram] La Belle France, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan have agreed to strengthen the Syrian opposition in its battle against Bashir al-Assad's regime, the French presidency said Friday.

After a meeting in Gay Paree, French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
and foreign ministers from the three countries "agreed on the need to strengthen international support for the democratic opposition to allow it to face attacks by the regime," the Elysee said in a statement.

The statement said they agreed on the "need to remain firm with Bashir al-Assad's regime, to dissuade him from again using chemical weapons and to have him commit to negotiations on finding a political solution to the Syrian crisis."

It said the regime's "obstinance" was helping "extremist movements" and "threatens regional and international security".
Posted by: Fred || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  ...coalition of the WTF...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/14/2013 11:46 Comments || Top||


Obama hopes Kerry talks 'bear fruit' on Syria
[Al Ahram] President Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
says he is hopeful negotiations Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
is having over the future of Syria's chemical weapons "bear fruit."

The president said during an Oval Office meeting with Kuwait's ruler Friday that they agree Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
's government used chemical weapons in a criminal act.

Obama told news hounds it's important for the international community to respond and get those weapons out of Syria.

He said he told Kuwaiti Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah he is hopeful for progress during talks this week between Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He said any agreement to remove Syria's chemical weapons stockpile "needs to be verifiable and enforceable."
Posted by: Fred || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  OTOH BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Angirfan.blogspot.UK] RUSSIA SHOT DOWN TWO US MISSLES FIRED FROM SPAIN.

At or very close to the same day as a well-repor secret US-Israeli joint test, ALLEGEDLY CAUSING THE BAMMER ADMIN [+ USDOD] TO WET ITS PANTS + DROP ITS FIRST-PREFERRED PLAN TO LAUNCH MILSTRIKE(S) AGZ ASSAD = SYRIA IN FAVOR OF THE CURRENT DIPLOMACY IN GENEVA [Kerry-Lavrov]???

IFF TRUE, "OBAMA'S WAR AGZ ASSAD" BEGAN + ENDED IN THE SAME REAL TIME DUE TO EFFECTIVE RUSSIAN ABM-BMD???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/14/2013 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Also from BHARAT RAKSHAK + DAILY STAR LEBANON > FRANCE SAYS CHEMICAL REGULATOR "INSUFFICIENT" FOR SYRIA ARMS CONTROL.

Paris wants a UNIVERSAL, BINDING UNO-APPROVED RESOLUTION EFFECTIVE PER ALL PARTIES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/14/2013 0:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Hope?

Is that his 'grand strategy'?

That isn't a strategy! What it is: is stupidity.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/14/2013 0:44 Comments || Top||

#4  * TOPIX = GROONG > [Arminfo] US EXPERT: FEAR OF FAILURE - THIS IS WHAT STOPS US FROM STRIKING SYRIA, No chance of the US invading, occupying Syria.

and

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > NOT GFIVING MORE OPOWER TO THE EU MAY LEAD TO [new Euro inter-State, inter- Alliance?] WAR | ROLLING BACK THE EU THREATENS RETURN TO "WAR + TRENCHES", SAYS [EU Commission President] JOSE MANUEL BARROSA - TELEGRAPH.

Ditto for USA = CONUS-NORAM as per NAU? Trans-Pac Partnership = PACIFIC UNION? Trans-Atlantic Partnership = ATLANTIC UNION???

[AZTLAN MOVEMENT = PANCHO VILLA?, NORTH KOREAN INVASION OF USA here]
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/14/2013 1:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Hope is not a plan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2013 1:47 Comments || Top||

#6  ...my grandfather used to say "I'll hope in one hand and sh*t crap in the other and see which one gets full faster."....
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/14/2013 9:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Obama hopes Kerry talks 'bear fruit' on Syria

Tax free docking rights for yachts in St. Petersburg?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/14/2013 10:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Isn't "bear fruit" a polite term for what bears leave in the woods?
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 09/14/2013 12:02 Comments || Top||


#10  Bitter fruit for the rest of us.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/14/2013 15:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Squeeze them blueberries
Posted by: KBK || 09/14/2013 16:38 Comments || Top||

#12  Great, now I have Day-O stuck in my head.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/14/2013 17:14 Comments || Top||


Ban lashes out at Assad as US, Russia push on with Syria talks
[Al Ahram] Though he did not blame the regime directly, Ban said UN experts will confirm in a report released next week that chemical weapons were used in an attack near Damascus that left hundreds dead.
Assad has vowed to relinquish his chemical arms, after the alleged attack prompted threats of US-led military strikes.

US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov were holding a second day of talks in Geneva Friday to hammer out the details of a Russian plan that emerged this week.

The last-minute Russian initiative caused US President Barack Obama
Why can't I just eat my waffle?...
to back away from planned military strikes in response to the chemical attack, which Washington blames on the regime and says killed about 1,400 people.

At the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
, Ban lashed out at Assad and said the UN inspectors' report would provide "overwhelming" confirmation that chemical weapons were used.

He said the Syrian leader had "carried out many crimes against humanity" and insisted there had to be "accountability" once Syria's civil war is over.
Posted by: Fred || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Kerry consults with Henry Kissinger on getting to yes with Russians
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kissinger? If you want to talk to the dead why don't you dig up Ghengis Kahn? He was much more effective dealing with Russians and Muslims.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/14/2013 10:17 Comments || Top||

#2  WHD Exclusiv! Kerry’s Secret Tête–à–Têtee
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/14/2013 11:17 Comments || Top||

#3  ....interesting to see how "Copy/Paste" placed the e's...!
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/14/2013 11:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Cramming for the final is futile. Course is over, Jawn. Besides it's graduate level.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/14/2013 16:41 Comments || Top||

#5  "Reset!"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/14/2013 17:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Kissinger? Are we talking re-animated undead zombie Kissinger or is the old kraut still alive?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/14/2013 17:12 Comments || Top||

#7  ummm... mooobies.. Ich kann ummmm..... mooooobies. Mein boooooobies.... Ich kann, ummmmm mooooooobies.

Sehr gut. Nuke Portugal.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/14/2013 17:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Kissinger is very well alive and kicking. He even attended a soccer match of his old German team Fürth this year.
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/14/2013 17:37 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Report: Putin to travel to Iran for nuclear strategy talks
....Uh-Huh....
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/14/2013 12:26 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Youtube video removed. Try this one...

Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/14/2013 15:33 Comments || Top||

#2  ...and in additional Iranian / US news...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/14/2013 15:37 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2013-09-13
  US Consulate in Herat hit by car boom
Thu 2013-09-12
  American Islamic militant eats dirt in Somalia
Wed 2013-09-11
  Egypt bans unlicensed mosque preachers in crackdown on Islamists
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  Syria 'welcomes' proposal to hand over control of chemical weapons
Mon 2013-09-09
  Russia To Pencilneck: Give Up Chem Arsenal Or Face US Alone
Sun 2013-09-08
  Nigerian army says kills 50 Boko Haram Islamists
Sat 2013-09-07
  Drone strike killed senior Haqqani network commander
Fri 2013-09-06
  Reports: Egypt to dissolve Brotherhood as NGO
Thu 2013-09-05
  Egypt's Minister Mohammed Ibrahim survives bomb attack
Wed 2013-09-04
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