[Quqnoos] The Afghan President has six months to sideline his brothers and tackle corruption or lose American support, the Times quoted an Afghan official as saying. According to the Times, the six month ultimatum to President Hamid Karzai was delivered on Monday when President Obama congratulated him after he was elected as Afghan President.
According to the article the appointment of reform-minded ministers is also among the top of Obama's demands from Karzai.
The demands came as Obama considers the sending of an extra 40,000 troops to Afghanistan as the runoff, which was canceled after Abdullah's withdrawal, had been believed to ease Obama's decision.
"If he doesn't meet the conditions within six months, Obama has told him America will pull out," the Times quoted an official with access to Mr. Karzai's inner circle as saying.
"Obama said they don't want their soldiers' lives wasted for nothing. They want changes in cabinet, and changes in his personal staff," the article further says.
Ahamad wali Karzai, brother of Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, has been accused of drug trafficking, but he has denied the allegations.
"There have been talks to find a new term of reference for the President's brother, said one. One option would be to send him abroad," Afghan officials told the Times.
Currently there are more than 60,000 US troops in Afghanistan to fight a growing Taliban-led insurgency.
Karzai was declared President of Afghanistan after his sole challenger, Abdullah Abdullah's withdrawal in the runoff, saying his minimum conditions for the legitimacy of the poll had not been met. In a news conference on Wednesday in Kabul, Abdullah Abdullah slammed the Election Commission's decision over announcing Karzai as Afghan President, saying that Karzai's "illegal government" will not be able to fight rampant corruption.
Earlier, Hamid Karzai, after he was declared the winner said that he welcomes all opponents in his government and he "will form a national unity" government. He also promised to take tough action to overcome the corruption that tarnished his administration in his previous term in office.
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According to the Times, the six month ultimatum to President Hamid Karzai was delivered on Monday when President Obama congratulated him after he was elected as Afghan President.
Bullshit
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This is gonna be Obama's excuse to pull out of Afghanistan?
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DER SPEIGEL > OBAMA IS PREFECTLY CORRECT IN RE-EVALUATING THE US AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY.
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BHARAT RAKSHAK > AFGHAN POLICE INFILTRATED BY TALIBAN AT EVERY LEVEL, + KARZAI ELECTION A SIGN OF PASHTUN UPRISING [civil war] IN AFGHANISTAN?;
+ US OFFERS TALIBAN SIX PROVINCES [formal Governorship] FOR EIGHT BASES [ Talib acceptance of in-country = domestic US mil presence on several USArmy-USAF milbases].
[Al Arabiya Latest] Somalia's main Sufi movement, Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa, on Thursday wrapped up an unprecedented conference in Nairobi to strategize its response to the rise and radicalization of the Shabaab group.
Dozens of the usually quiet religious movement's leaders have in recent days converged on Nairobi from Somalia and from Western exile to close ranks against what they see as an existential threat.
"The Shabaab are misguided people who have misunderstood the true values of Islam," overall chairman Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Muhieddin told AFP before leaving Kenya Thursday.
Sufism is dominant in clannish Somalia, where Muslim saints are often also clan founders, but its leading clerics have voiced concern that hardline Islamist groups such as the Al Qaeda-inspired Shabaab were slowly eradicating it.
It emphasizes the mystical dimension of Islam and includes practices considered as idolatry by the followers of the Wahhabi sect adopted by the Shabaab.
A year ago, Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa ('The Companions of the Prophet') took up arms after the Shabaab started hunting down Sufi faithful and desecrating their holy sites, notably in and around the southern Somali city of Kismayo.
"The Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa fighters are not a regular army who long for power, they are defending themselves and the lives of other Somalis whose way of life is threatened by the Shabaab's madness," Sheikh Sharif said.
Old religious feuds
The Ahlu Sunna leader, the son of respected Somali cleric Sheikh Muhieddin Eli, explained the current conflict as a continuation of old religious feuds between Muslims touched off by the death of Prophet Mohamed.
"A group of people who were known as the Khawarij (or Kharijite) came to kill other Muslims who did not share their views. Now the Shabaab are killing Somalis because they are not with them," he said.
As Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa gathered in Nairobi for its inaugural "war council", a man sometimes described as the movement's political face was also in the Kenyan capital to seek support.
Recently appointed president of the semi-autonomous central state of Galmudug with Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa's blessing, Mohamed Ahmed Alin argued that his administration can help achieve what the central government in Mogadishu and its Western backers have failed to do.
"With some cooperation, I believe the Shebab could be eliminated from most of the country," he told AFP. "We need infrastructure support, military support, training of our troops but so far, just words and no action."
While the organization's military strength remains unclear, its grassroots nature gives it a popular legitimacy and territorial reach that no other movement can boast in fractious Somalia.
"In my region for example, Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa never used to be a political affiliation. Everybody is Ahlu Sunna, that's all," said Alin.
And despite the religious movement taking on a new and more political dimension as it seeks to beef up against the Islamist threat, its top leaders are quick to emphasize they have no further ambitions.
"We are not after power, what we are fighting for is a peaceful Somalia governed by its elected leaders," said Abdulkadir Mohamed Somow, a senior Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa leader from Mogadishu.
"Our movement is fighting the Shabaab forces of anarchy but we will lay down our weapons as soon as they have been eliminated," he said.
Another senior Ahlu Sunna figure based in Garowe, the administrative capital of the northern semi-autonomous state of Puntland, was more circumspect.
"If it is God's will we may one day have a role to play in running the country, but it is too early to say more, there are consultations going on in Nairobi and elsewhere," Abdullahi Mohamoud Hassan said.
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[Maghrebia] Security experts in the Maghreb are alarmed by a recent upswing in violence in Somalia. With a rise in radicalism threatening the rights of women and religious minorities in that country, Maghreb civil society groups are taking steps to stop extremist ideologies from surging in their direction.
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi described the threat of Somali instability as "critical" at the African Union summit in August. Speaking at the opening ceremonies, he underlined "the necessity of resolving conflicts that exist among African brotherly nations, as they threaten global peace and security".
A video released by radical militia group Al-Shabab on Eid al-Fitr showed a pledge of allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Al-Shabab has cracked down on women in Somali cities in recent weeks, including the Monday (November 1st) closure of three women's organisations in the town of Balad Hawa on the Kenyan border. According to Reuters, the affected institutions are the Halgan Businesswomen's Organisation, the Sed Huro Human Rights Organisation, and Farhan Women for Peace.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A Yemeni Defense Ministry official denied on Thursday that Saudi forces had struck targets inside Yemen, after Shiite rebels launched a cross-border attack into Saudi Arabia earlier this week.
"Saudi Arabia did not hit targets in Yemen," the official told Reuters, but declined to give further comment on reports that the kingdom's air force had attacked rebel positions.
A Saudi government adviser said earlier on Thursday that the kingdom had launched heavy air strikes on rebel camps on the border region of Jabal al-Dukhan and moved ground troops nearer the border against them after they killed a Saudi border guard and wounded 11 others on Tuesday.
"Clean out"
Jets have been bombing the positions of the Zaidi Shiite rebels near the border with southern Jizan province since Tuesday, the source said, asking not to be named because operations were still going on.
"This is not a hit and run, this is a sustained action" that could involve a ground incursion into Yemen to "clean out" the rebel camps in coordination with Yemen authorities, he said.
Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, has become increasingly anxious about instability and militancy in Yemen, which is also facing separatist sentiment in the south and a growing threat from resurgent al-Qaeda fighters.
Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday a security officer was killed and 11 were wounded in an attack by gunmen who had crossed the border from Yemen -- the first such reported incursion since the long-running Houthi revolt flared up again in August.
The Saudi government adviser said no decision had yet been taken to send troops across the border, but made clear Riyadh was no longer prepared to tolerate the Yemeni rebels.
"After what happened yesterday, it is clear they have lost track of reality and it has got to a point where there is no other way. They have got to be finished," he said.
Saudi fears
An al-Qaeda group said on Thursday it was behind an ambush this week in which seven Yemeni security officials were killed.
The Shiite rebels, known as Houthis after the family of their leader, said on Wednesday they had taken control of the Jabal al-Dukhan area after defeating Saudi forces there.
The 1,500 km (930 miles) border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia is a security worry for the kingdom, which is building a high-tech border fence to prevent infiltration.
Saudi Arabia and the United States fear the conflict in Yemen's north and a separatist movement in the south will loosen already tenuous government control and empower al-Qaeda.
Such fears rose in August, when a Yemen-based suicide bomber posing as a repentant al-Qaeda militant tried to kill Saudi Arabia's counter-terrorism chief, a member of the royal family.
Arab countries such as mainly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Egypt fear Shiite power Iran could gain influence in Yemen through the Houthis. The rebels deny getting any help from Tehran, which has offered to mediate in the conflict.
Yemen's army launched Operation Scorched Earth in August to crush the rebellion. Aid groups say around 150,000 people have been displaced by the fighting, which first broke out in 2004.
The rebels say they are fighting political, economic and religious marginalization by Yemen's central government.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > SAUDI STRIKES TO CONTINUE UNTIL YEMEN REBELS EJECTED [ from Saudi territory] + SAUDI FORCES CONTINUE TO POUND YEMENI REBELS.
* SAME > YEMENI REBELS [renew] ATTACKS ON SAUDI BORDER GUARDS [al-Qarn Village approxi 5-kms from loc of Saudi milfors]; + [Saudi Govt]SAUDI PLANES NOT BOMBING YEMEN [only Houthi/Yemeni rebels inside SArabia border areas]; + ANALYSIS: SAUIDS STRIKE AT HOUTHI SHIA REBELS BUT WARY OF IRAN ENTANGLEMENT.
[Bangla Daily Star] Most of the outlaws and members of the left-leaning underground parties now consider surrender in fear of "extrajudicial" death sentence after carrying out a reign of terror in the southwest region for decades. Being on the wrong end of a shutter gun tends to weigh on the mind
Sources have confirmed the outlaws are requesting AL local leaders to convince the government to give them an option to surrender like in 1999. "As the law enforcers are causing much trouble and killing our members in the name of crossfire, our top bosses are asking local ruling party leaders to arrange our surrender," said a Gono Mukti Fouz (GMF) leader asking not to be named.
In 1999, the then Awami League government offered the outlaws an opportunity to surrender and arranged it through ceremonies in the region. Although many of the outlaws surrendered, the problems remain unresolved as many of them later returned to their previous life again. Around 2,700 outlaws responded to the previous offer and surrendered with 2,100 firearms. Over 500 outlaws were rehabilitated in the Ansar Battalion on temporary basis, but more than 300 of them disappeared and returned to their previous occupations of killing, mugging and other modes of crime.
Sources in the home ministry say there is pressure from Ansar not to rehabilitate any outlaws in the force this time as many of those rehabilitated in 1999 deserted the force later. But the situation is different this time as deaths in so-called shootouts or crossfire have been occurring for the last five years. Some of the well-known top tier leaders including Mofakkar Chowdhury and Dr Mizanur Rahman Tutul were killed in similar fashion during the BNP-Jamaat rule.
A number of dreaded outlaw leaders were also killed in 'crossfire' or 'shootouts' with law enforcers. Only infamous outlaws like 'Kashai' Siraj and Laltu who killed scores of people, many by burning alive in brick kilns, are still in jail since they surrendered in 1999. I'd chuck them in the same kiln, but that's just me
The current leadership in Kushtia fears they might face the same fate of 62 'comrades', who were killed in 'shootouts' since the ongoing crackdown on outlaws began on August 22.
The Prime Minister's Office gave the order for massive crackdown on the outlaws due to a serious slide in law and order in the region marked by frequent killings. Sources say against this backdrop, leaders of different factions of outlawed outfits and underground parties now consider surrender and return to "normal" life. Home Minister Sahara Khatun on October 12 informed the House the government would soon announce its surrender offer so that the outlaws may return to "normal" life. Must have received a new shipment of "scare quotes".
However, cross-section of people expressed dismay over the government move and said giving such opportunities might be "futile" like in 1999. Members of the law-enforcement agencies are also against the surrender move right now and are eager to continue the operation to arrest the outlaws. "We want to see an end to the outlaw problem and want security to our lives," said a local businessman wishing anonymity. And nothing cuts down repeat offenders like a round of bullet
The government should continue "crossfire" to eliminate outlaws and take tough legal measures to bring their political patrons to book, people of the region demand.
CADRES AND ARMS STRENGTH
A list prepared in September-November last year on 13 underground parties and crime rackets mentions names of 2,847 cadres and their godfathers, mostly from 23 southwest and northwest districts. The list also includes names of 80 kingpins and 150 patrons from mainstream politics.
Sources in Rapid Action Battalion could not say for sure how many firearms the outlaws, underground parties and crime rackets posses but hinted that every active member has at least one gun. Which is kept in a velvet lined case at RAB HQ and is lovingly placed next to their bullet riddled body
However, a report prepared by a law-enforcement agency around a year ago gives some specific impression about the strength of some of those underground parties.
Purba Banglar Communist Party's (PBCP) ML-Janajuddha faction has 50 to 60 active cadres. The outfit has firearms like M16 and AK47 assault rifles, .303 rifles, 9 shooters, shotguns, single and double barrel guns, locally made and foreign pistols and revolvers and light guns (LG).
PBCP (ML-Red Flag) cadres possess AK47 rifles, single and double barrel guns, local and foreign pistols and revolvers, LGs and bombs.
PBCP (ML mainstream or followers of Mofakkar) has around 50 armed cadres, who use Indian and locally manufactured arms and bombs.
Biplabi Communist Party (Haque Group) has over 50 armed cadres, who have AK47, 9 shooter guns, single and double barrel guns, local and foreign pistols and revolvers, LGs and bombs.
The report states that most of the firearms and ammunition are smuggled in from India, though some underground parties smuggle weapons from Myanmar through Bandarban and Cox's Bazar borders. Funny they never seem to find those AK47's after the "crossfires". Must have been carried off by the elusive "Cadres of the Night".
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It ain't pretty, but it works. I'd say leave the RAB alone.
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Think of this like Elliot Ness going after Dillinger, Bodies pile up.
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After a reign of terror against unarmed civilians lasting for decades, y'all are giving up just because you are being hunted down like dogs in the dead of night? Come on, man! Where's your sense of sport?
[Bangla Daily Star] Bangladesh police chief has rejected the Ulfa's claim that two of its top leaders were arrested in Dhaka on Sunday and then handed over to India.
"I don't have any information about such arrests or handover (of Ulfa leaders) to India," Inspector General of Police Nur Mohammad told The Daily Star.
Quoting a spokesperson of Indian separatist group United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), Times of India reported yesterday that the outfit's foreign secretary Sasha Choudhury and finance secretary Chitraban Hazarika were picked up by Bangladeshi intelligence sleuths at midnight Sunday from a house in Dhaka's Uttara area.
"Seven to eight people in civvies took the two leaders saying the duo were being summoned for some interrogation by senior officials. After that there was no information of them and we suspect they might have been handed over to our enemies (meaning India)," Ulfa's military spokesperson Raju Baruah told the local media via telephone and email, the Times of India reported.
It also reported, there is, however, no confirmation from Dhaka or New Delhi. Assam police and Indian intelligence officials expressed ignorance about the reports.
New Delhi in the past had repeatedly claimed that northeast militants were operating out of bases in Bangladesh with several of their top leaders staying safe in Dhaka. Bangladesh had earlier denied such allegations.
However, the new Awami League government of Sheikh Hasina assured New Delhi of all support and cooperation to evict any Indian separatists from Bangladesh, the Indian daily reported.
The report concluded saying Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia -- in a Dhaka prison since 1997 -- is in Bangladesh due to the absence of any extradition agreement between the two countries, despite New Delhi's formal appeals to hand him over for trial in India.
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The North Korean military hacked into the South Korean Army command in March and a password for the National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) website leaked out, Lt. Gen. Kim Jong-tae, commander of the Defense Security Commend (DSC), admitted to a parliamentary audit on Tuesday. That confirms a report last month in the Monthly Chosun.
Lawmakers quoted Kim as saying the target of the hackers was the computer of the director of the chemicals division, and his ID and password were leaked through a hacking program when he logged on to the alumni website of the Korea Military Academy. Kim bluntly stated that the military security system "is not safe" from attacks by North Korean hackers at the moment, lawmakers said.
The Monthly Chosun reported that North Korean hackers stole confidential information from the Chemical Accident Response Information System (CARIS) set up by NIER using a password obtained from hacking South Korean Army command. Over 2,000 national secrets were stolen, including the names of around 700 companies or state-run entities that manufacture toxic chemicals.
The DSC explained that the hacked computer was connected to an external Internet network, which is strictly separated from the internal military network. This time, the DSC explained, the internal military network was not hacked, but it added, "As North Korea's hacking technology develops, the chances of the internal network being attacked is increasing and better security is needed."
There is also a risk that military information might leak through a hacking program on a flash disk used when logging onto the military network, but the current system is capable of detecting and preventing that, the DSC said.
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Talks between North Korea and the U.S. aimed at persuading the North to return to six-party nuclear discussions will probably take place early next year, Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan speculated Thursday. "It will be difficult before President Barack Obama visits [South] Korea" between Nov. 18 to 19, Yu said. "They will take place either at the end of this year or early next year."
There had been hopes that Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, would visit North Korea at the end of November, but that now seems unlikely.
Yu returned to Seoul on Thursday from a tour of the Middle East. "An important factor is that the United States wants to take things slowly," he told reporters at the airport. "If the U.S. and North Korea encounter no difficulties, then China will convene the six-party talks. But China's intervention will be needed when the envoys of Washington and Pyongyang find themselves in an awkward atmosphere."
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Given the suggested food situation, time is not on NorK's side.
[Kyodo: Korea] The nominee for U.S. special envoy for North Korea human rights issues pledged Thursday to actively assist Japan in resolving a dispute with North Korea over Pyongyang"s decades-old kidnappings of Japanese citizens. ""The United States continues to be concerned about Japan"s abducted citizens,"" as well as South Korean prisoners of war and abductees, said Robert King in prepared remarks during his confirmation hearing.
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TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > US EIGHTH ARMY TO STAY PUT/REMAIN STATIONED IN SOUTH KOREA. US Army-DOD is reorg and forming a new US-ONLY? COMBAT FORCES COMMAND, to be based at sprawling new diggs planned for construx at PYEONTAEK, GYEONGGI, SOUTH KOREA. US TROOPS + DEPENDENTS will increase from 28,500 now to approxi 71,000 plus-minus circa 2020.
AN official Taliban publication warns Australia that it will have to assimilate into a dominant Asia or face the prospect of being overpowered and forced to take population overspill from Asia.
The choice is spelled out in the latest issue of the online Taliban monthly magazine, Al Sumud (Steadfastness), whose lead article offers a sweeping view of a post-war order in which a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan becomes a moral pivot for a pan-Asian renaissance that will coincide with the decline of Western power.
"The end of European leadership in the world will place the white settler diaspora in Australia before two choices," writes the author, Mustafa Hamid, a former senior al-Qaeda member who in 2001 married Australian Rabiah Hutchinson, a Sydney mother with links to Islamic extremists.
"It can either return to its motherland in Europe or reconcile with its Asian surroundings and assimilate into it as a wealthy and active member."
Otherwise, he warns, a lengthy conflict will ensue in which Australia will be overpowered "by Asian waves that are better armed and more numerous".
"There is no doubt that the huge growth in the population of Asia, together with its economic and military development, will make Australia into lebensraum - to use the European term," writes Mr Hamid. Lebensraum, meaning living space, was a term used by Nazi Germany as a motivation for territorial conquest.
Asia, Mr Hamid writes, is facing a population explosion "while Australia is nearly empty of people, apart from scattered groups of white residents".
Residents of "the Israeli outpost" at the other end of Asia are likewise warned to return to their countries of origin or face an "unequal conflict".
These warnings, however, are marginal to the central vision offered in the article - the emergence of a vibrant pan-Asian identity in which Islam, and the Taliban in particular, constitutes a powerful moral and cultural force but not an exclusive one. Its emphasis on pan-Asian political identity rather than pan-Islamic sets it apart from al-Qaeda ideology.
The Taliban article does not call for jihad, although it hints at the possibility of "peaceful Islamic expansion" and the linchpin role in the "Asian Age", as the author terms it, is ceded to non-Islamic China.
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Just more evidencia that Radical Islam indeed is trying to break up MAINLAND ASIA = RUSSIA-CHINA-INDIA, to includ as per getting control andor techs transfers ala ASIA"S NUKES.
WAFF > THE MOST VULNERABLE NAKED NUKES OF INDIA [ 80% of INDJUH'S NUKES, NUCFACS, etc. are wierdly and mysteriously also in ACTIVE COMMIE-MAOIST, ISLAMIST-CONTESTED REGIONS IN EASTERN INDIA].
You can also add that INDIA'S ABOVESAME NUKES are also vulnerable to CHINESE PLA MILSTRIKES from the INDIAN OCEAN + BANGLA-MYANMAR STRATEGIC CORRIDOR.
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CHINESE MIL FORUM > THE CHRISTIAN MAOIST NEXUS IN ORISSA [aka NAGALAND, India]. Its CHRISTIAN MAJORITY are mostly BAPTIST-PROTESTANT, yet provide many recruits for the Maoists.
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First of all, you got to love the sheer Hubris : "Taliban-ruled Afghanistan becomes a moral pivot for a pan-Asian renaissance", "the emergence of a vibrant pan-Asian identity in which Islam, and the Taliban in particular, constitutes a powerful moral and cultural force but not an exclusive one",...
Huh, yeah, nothing screams more success than afghanistan, under taleb rule or not.
BUT, this guys HAS a point, western power IS in decline, relatively speaking (with other areas either having developed themselves through diffusion, like Asia, or just piggybacking on foreign tech - I mean, just about anyone on Earth can use a gun, a PC, a cellphone, a car,... with diverse degrees according to familiarity and education, but, it's just using tools, we're hardwired as a specy to do just that).
Actually, this is not just relative decline, there is a much larger, deeper trend : what is the history of the last few decades???
After a long period of expansion, the western (= white european) world has first been chased out of the spheres of influences it had outside his own turf (due in large part to that relative decline, PLUS, the soviet long term strategy of using non-white nationalisms as levers to destroy the "imperialists", this dates back to the very beginning of marxism-leninism and still is ongoing today with third-worldism, orientalism,...) and is now under siege, culturally, demographically, socially,... in its own various homelands.
Whitey is on his heels, literally speaking.
This is why chavez and assorted ethnic-sovvial2sts can pretend to aim at expurging europeans from the Americas that "belong to their original, righteous inhabitants", this is why china can see itelf as the world's next standards setter , replacing the 'western world order' with a china-centric 'values' world, this is why the muslims are feeling their oats (hell, they are buying us as we write), with iran indulging in messianic revolutionarism...
So, yeah, do listen to this guy, he may be a moron blinded by Hubris, but he's right on some deep, fundamental level.
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Doesn't "Vibrant" mean "Shaking" or "Quivering"
Like shaking in their Pointy toed slippers?
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Only to you technical types, Redneck Jim. To the rest of us it means energetic or vigorous. It's just like you-all spell it gage, and the rest of us spell it gauge (except for dear Frank G., who is bispellignual (which is not a real word, for those of you who just shivered as your eyes passed over it)).
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Not mentioned in the article is that this POS is presently cooling his heels in Iranian detention. So we can take it that this is Iranian Psyops.
However it is well written in that it seeks to exploit the divisions in Australia between the clueless bleeding heart "politically correct"tranzies and the realists who understand what the Islamic long-term goal is , namely the Islamification of Australia by mainly demographic means.
The Tamil Tigers organization hopes to use Canada as a strategic base to continue the fight against the government of Sri Lanka, according to an authority on the alleged terrorist group. "I cannot think of any other country that is more important for the Tamil Tigers as Canada, to regroup and continue their campaign against Sri Lanka," said Prof. Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, a Singapore-based think-tank.
Gunaratna is advising the Canadian government as it investigates the 75 Tamil migrants currently in immigration custody in Vancouver. The men were found aboard a ship seized off the coast of British Columbia on Oct. 17.
Lawyers for the men have said they are not Tamil Tigers, but Gunaratna disagreed.
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He gave a Grand Rounds presentation. . . You take turns giving a lecture on, you know, the correct treatment of schizophrenia, the right drugs to prescribe for personality disorder, you know, that sort of thing. But instead of giving an academic paper, he gave a lecture on the Koran, and they said it didn't seem to be just an informational lecture, but it seemed to be his own beliefs. That's what a lot of people thought.
He talked about how if you're a nonbeliever the Koran says you should have your head cut off, you should have oil poured down your throat, you should be set on fire. And I said well couldn't this just be his educating you? And the psychiatrist said yes, but one of the Muslims in the audience, another psychiatrist, raised his hand and was quite disturbed and he said you know, a lot of us don't believe these things you're saying, and that there was no place where Hasan couched it as this is what the Koran teaches but you know I don't believe it. And people actually talked in the hallway afterwards about 'is he one of these people that's going to freak out and shoot people someday?' 43 more victimize twice by muslim jihad and political correctness. Also:
"A source tells NPR's Joseph Shapiro that Hasan was put on probation early in his postgraduate work at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He was disciplined for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues, according to the source, who worked with him at the time."
Click on the headline and listen to the link. Dr. Hasan's colleagues were seriously spooked. Good work by the NPR reporter.
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This is not all that difficult: If you see someone and say, "Someday he will shoot someone or will kill someone", then act on it. Ask someone who has been through one of these deals, and they will usually say, "I always thought it would be him". The U.S. Army was in a good position to act on things by investigating Hansan, counseling him, treating him, and assigning him to some place out of harm's way.
Of course. Why not? He was a "moderate." Until he wasn't.
"Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland Security Disaster Preparation," from Gawker, November 6 (thanks to Mary Belle):
The gunman who killed 12 people today at Ft. Hood appears, based on current media reports, to be Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last year.
The task force was not officially affiliated with the White House. It was a project of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an independent thinktank housed at George Washington University, aimed at drafting policy recommendations for the incoming Obama administration.
According to the task force's May 2009 report [pdf], a "Nidal Hasan" from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine was a task force event participant. Other participants included Senate and House staffers, Department of Homeland Security officials, Defense Department officials, and reporters for Politico, the Washington Post, and the London Times....
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Makes sense to me. If you need a warm body to fill a seat at something useless, might as well send somebody who isn't being useful at something else.
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I must apologize, earlier I asked the question, "Why isn't a nut muslim like Nidal Hasan a Whitehouse adviser?" Now I learn that he is on a Whitehouse adviser panel!
How can the O find so many nuts and communists running around? I suppose his bullsh_t detector has a vitamin deficiency or was burned out by drugs.
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Hassan is not and has never been a member of any White House Panel and was just an attendee. Whatadeal apparently jumps at every "Boo" and believes whatever someone tells him without doing any vefification. Let me see - "Whatadeal, you are an idiot." He now believes that.
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Like it or not, Obama's going to take a huge hit on this one, all the facts sow this Murdering Muslim was trusted by Ohshit, and this has backfired big time on him.
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Either the Army will change policy to prevent more of this happening or it won't. Why not fill the entire fighting force with muslims?
There is a small Islamic population currently on active duty in the U.S. military. Yeah, but they seem to be punching above their weight class, don't they?
Out of the 1.4 million service men and women, 3,572 are Muslim, according to U.S. Department of Defense figures. And out of that number, just 1,164 are in the Army - which has over half a million soldiers.
Muslim recruits are treated just as any other soldier and are expected to deploy to American stations around the globe and fight for their country regardless of whether the enemy shares their faith.
There are many cases of Muslims serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan and several have died on the battlefield.
Sergeant Youseff Mandour moved to America from Morocco at the age of 17 and joined the army five years later. Now 25, he has recently returned from 12 months in Iraq and hopes for a lifelong career in the military.
'I'm fighting for a better life and a belief in freedom,' he said. 'I had a chance to get involved. I learned the English language and appreciate everything this country has given to me. That's why I joined the Army. The U.S. is doing great things.'
The average age of Muslim soldiers is 21. Most are married, with one child. Many U.S. bases, including Fort Hood, make provisions for their Muslim recruits to worship just as they would for any other faith.
A handful of organisations began - many after the atrocities of 9/11 - representing Muslims in the military.
Qaseem Uqdah, a former Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who heads the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council in Washington, D.C., counts upwards of 15,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and Coast Guards as members.
A spokesman for the organisation, established to serve the spiritual needs of the Muslim military, said of Sunday's shootings: 'We express our deepest condolences to the victims and their families. We join the Community of Fort Hood, Texas in their mourning. I guess he forgot the part about how they would issue fatwas to clear up any confusion Hasan may have had about the US involvement in the Middle East?
'Islam holds the human soul in high esteem, and considers the attack against innocent human beings a grave sin. Great! So will we hear about his excommunication soon?
'This is a criminal act that is now best dealt with by the law enforcement community.' Can I take this to mean that it is not Islam's fault, there is no need to issue fatwas to clear up any alleged confusion, he won't be excommunicated, and that it's purely chance that basically all terror going on in the world today is the spawn of Islam?
I am still waiting for the day when I see a muslim get on tv and get truly pi$$ed off about muslims being terrorists.
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There are many cases of Muslims serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan and several have died on the battlefield.
But are they worth the risk?
We've been warned over and over again that these people want us dead and every time they get a chance they prove it. And yet our leaders cling to their politically correct belief in "diversity". OK, so we need blacks, Hispanics and Asians. But we don't need Muslims. We can't afford the risk anymore.
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I have no reason to doubt that the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council is anything other than an honorable organization with honorable people.
They condemned it and it sounds as if they're as horrified as we are.
Let's not tar people with the brush of group identity. That would make us into progressive Democrats.
People are individuals. There are 3,572 Muslims in our military, and until one of them gives me doubt I'm going to assume that they're all decent people.
The problem here is that Major Hasan DID give people reason to doubt his loyalty (not to mention his sanity) and no one did anything about it. THAT'S the problem.
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The problem here is that Major Hasan DID give people reason to doubt his loyalty (not to mention his sanity) and no one did anything about it. THAT'S the problem. That should be run as a banner headline on all the MSM, but it won't happen.
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Listen to the broadcast at the link of the article Officials Begin Putting Shooting Pieces Together. There are Muslims in the Armed Forces who not only disagree with Dr. Hasan, but have spoken up about it. And do remember that the FBI had been investigating Dr. Hasan for six months; however, good as they have been at preventing other incidents, there was never any guarantee they'd stop everyone in time.
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They're already dancing around the facts so hard it looks like a stampede of Giraffes.
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Going to be difficult for the government to deny the muzzie factor but I'm sure they'll come up with something. We've been in denial far to long already to retract. Muslim insanity will be the plea and my guess is he'll spend the rest of his days behind bars at the dicipilanry barracks at Leavenworth watching soccer and writing his memoirs while hordes of muzzie organizations demand his release. Full military medical retirement is another option I would NOT discount and there is always the Holder and Obama pardon.
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they all need to be exterminated, round em up and gas em. the germans gave us the example, they chose the wrong group to mess with though. heres the target, muslims, not jews
No political or religious ideology could ever justify or excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence, the council said in a statement. The attack was particularly heinous in that it targeted the all-volunteer army that protects our nation. American Muslims stand with our fellow citizens in offering both prayers for the victims and sincere condolences to the families of those killed or injured.
Interesting. While the words seem like the right ones, this is from an organization who is planning the destruction of the social and political foundation of the U.S.A. according to documents found by the infiltrator of CAIR, Chris Gaubatz, for the book "Muslim Mafia" by his father, P. David Gaubatz, and Paul Sperry.
What GAUL these ghouls have to say these things. They have been accused of supporting groups (Hamas, Hizbollah) who regularly commit much, much worse acts in the middle east.
I doubt that any of the victims or their families would welcome their "prayers" and "condolences" if they fully understood what festering pustules these CAIR traitors are.
What do you want to bet there were (carefully hidden) celebrations at various CAIR locations when this news broke?
We don't WANT them to "stand with" us. We want them to LEAVE and never come back.
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Shooting unarmed men and unarmed women by surprise is not brave; it is cowardly, devious, mean, cruel, unmanly, vicious, sneaky, sinful, and many other things, - just not brave. It is said that the girl, Kimberly, raced to the sound of gunfire, and placed 4 bullets on Hasan after she was shot in both legs. That defines courage and bravery!
Muja-nuts, listen up, a Texas girl can and will shoot you full of big, bad big bullet holes. You may think you are tough and fight dirty - you don't know nothing, until you start messing around and some little Texas girl starts shooting body parts off of you!
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No political or religious ideology could ever justify or excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence,
Indiscriminate violence, my hindquarters! This act was planned in advance and methodically executed. The victims were deliberately chosen. Quite the antithesis of indiscriminate. The justification appears to be an ideology that encompasses both the religious and the political. You can argue it is merely an aberrant strain of the true faith, but judging by the number of articles on Rantburg and their associated body counts, these beliefs are widely held.
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The News this AM that HASAN helped wid POTUS BAMMER"S transition team doesn't bode well for the UK's QUEEN LIZ + ROYAL FAMILY.
Hopefully the elite Guards' regiments, MOD, MOS, etc. will use this tragic Fort Hood incident to engage in new closer scrutiny of security around the Royals + UK Govt in general.
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To parapharase COVIL WAR POTUS ABE LINCOLN? > IIRC THE ONLY REALISTIC WAY TO DEFEAT OR DESTROY AMERICA IS FROM WITHIN [e.g. TREASON], or words to that effect.
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FREEREPUBLIC > AL QAEDA LAST WEEK CALLED FOR ATTACKS ON ANY CRUSADERS "WHENEVER YOU CAN FIND THEM".
ARTIC > IIUC, AQ = Radical Islam has just essens called on Muslims to begin deadly Terror attacks anywhere in the DOMESTIC US-WEST/ALLIED countries, + ditto agz any Muslim Govt-Leader colluding wid same???
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Pragmatically, iff the FREEREPUB Artic + Source is correct, AL QAEDA HAS INDIR ALSO CALLED FOR TERROR STRIKES AGZ POTUS BAMMER + US GOVT. ITSELF, + ISRAEL + NATO???
I've said that mainstream Amer + USGovt should NOT be surprised iff Radical Islam deliber escalates its worldwide terror actvities as ISLAMIST IRAN APPROACHES THE YEAR 2012 BENCHMARK, as per IRAN-, PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION.
WHITNEY HUSTON-fan OSAMA has effec upped the ante again agz the Bammer.
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This retired Col needs to shut the F up. Let the people who sort this do their job.
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i would bet that if the Col did shut up , then the blatant red flags here would never be made known and the whole episode would quietly be swept under the rug and the PC bull crap that led to this would not only continue but be reinforced.
on the other hand, he should stick only to the things he personally heard/saw, and leave out the 3rd party inuendo
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"Let the people who sort this do their job."
The same people who declared that this was "no terrorist attack" without knowing a damn thing about it.
Sorry. I just don't trust those people anymore.
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MSM: he suffered from PTSD from the evil Boosh war
fact: he never deployed ...until now
MSM: recent convert to Islam who nonetheless suffered from slurs from fellow officers
fact: he was a lifetime muslim who was pious and handed out Qurans while extolling the virtues of suicide bombers
The furious spin to avoid calling this Jihadi POS just what it was needs to be smacked upside its' PC head
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The furious spin to avoid calling this Jihadi POS just what it was needs to be smacked upside its' PC head Posted by Frank G
But Frank... if you give it the terms of reference, then you MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT by examining the entire organization and process to include entry and commissioning.
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life long worshipper
from palestine
bio-chemist
psychiatrist
no children
Thats one heady brew
Surely formal complaints about his conduct to returning troops should have been thoroughly investigated? If not , why not ?
His profile alone is dubious and should have had alarm bells ringing .
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I have no problem with that, Pan.
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At least it's Texas. Hopefully they'll fry him fast.
Unless the fucking Feds get ahold of him, then we'll be in the courts for years. How long did it take to crisp McVeigh? They still haven't put an end to the DC snipers.
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A major - he'll be courts martial. However, the appeal judges in the military system haven't allowed an execution in a loooooog time. Moving him to a federal civilian court would set a bad precedent that some seek to remove uniform individuals from a jury of their peers. Remember the case in CA in which the fed was trying to prosecute the soldier/marine for actions in Iraq?
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Will the feds, FBI, investigate it and then go to a military court? I would think that due to it being on a military post DOD will want this one. I don't know the law, but this seems right.
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We'll be lucky if he's not released as a nut case and permitted to medically retire from the Army.
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I don't think he'll be executed. Sgt Hasan Akbar is still above room temperture and he fragged officers in a combat zone. Surely I thought he would be put down long ago, but sadly he is not (AFAIK)
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Premeditated Capital Murder of unknown persons, and "murder of a peace officer or firefighter acting in the line of duty, when the person knows the victim is a peace officer or firefighter", and "murder of more than one person in one event, or of multiple persons in a related series of events" puts the dude in the fastlane if it goes to Texas courts.
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A little late now, but it really is incredible that these recollections from COL(Ret) Lee and others are just NOW coming out. This is a TOTAL BREAKDOWN IN LEADERSHIP! I US Army Commander's Inquirey should have been initiated the first time this SOB spouted this anti American drivel.
When news first broke Thursday that a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, killed and injured U.S. soldiers, the national communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations wrote a statement of condemnation.
He only sent it out later, when reports emerged that the alleged shooter's name was Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
"As soon as we saw what appeared to be a Muslim name, we issued our statement," Hooper said. "Until that time, we were praying that no Muslim would be involved."
That's the reality of crisis management for the Muslim-American community, said Hooper, who handles communications for the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group.
Even without confirmation that the alleged gunman was Muslim -- there was no immediate determination of any religious affiliation for Hasan -- the mere reporting of a possible Muslim name required an immediate comment, he said.
"That's unfortunately the world we live in nowadays," Hooper said. "So often, Muslims are accused of not condemning these kind of acts."
The CAIR statement said: "No political or religious ideology could ever justify or excuse such wanton and indiscriminate violence. The attack was particularly heinous in that it targeted the all-volunteer Army that protects our nation. American Muslims stand with our fellow citizens in offering both prayers for the victims and sincere condolences to the families of those killed or injured."
In a separate statement, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, based in Los Angeles, California, condemned what it called the "heinous incident."
"We are in contact with law enforcement and U.S. federal government officials to gain more facts from this tragic incident and work together in dealing with its aftermath," the group said.
Its statement called on "all members of American Muslim communities to be in contact with local law enforcement for the safety and security of their communities and their institutions."
The Islamic Information Center also issued a statement "in conjunction with all the major Muslim organizations nationwide" that condemned the attack.
"While several news reports have cited one of the gunmen to be Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, IIC strongly emphasizes that this attack and its perpetrator are in no way representative of the Muslim people or the peace-loving religion of Islam," the statement said.
"The individuals who perpetrated this attack blatantly acted against the teachings of Islam and humanity," it added.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, Muslim-Americans reported increased attacks and threats by revenge-minded non-Muslims.
"We've seen this before," Hooper said of a possible backlash. "Whenever there's an incident of this type, there's always the possibility this will happen."
Even non-Muslims could be targeted, he said, noting that Sikhs who wear turbans or Hispanic-Americans can be mistaken as being of Middle Eastern descent.
On Thursday night, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad told a news conference the alleged Fort Hood attacker's motive remained unknown.
"We urge all Americans to remain calm in reaction to this tragic event and to demonstrate once again what is best about America -- our nation's ability to remain unified even in times of crisis," Awad said. "We urge national political and religious leaders and media professionals to set a tone of calm and unity.
"Unfortunately, based on past experience, we also urge American Muslims, and those who may be perceived to be Muslim, to take appropriate precautions to protect themselves, their families and their religious institutions from possible backlash."
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"As soon as we saw what appeared to be a Muslim name, we issued our statement," Hooper said. "Until that time, we were praying that no Muslim would be involved."
I guess it's the only thing you are left with when the odds are stacked against you big time.
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Um . . . Mr. Hooper nobody was surprised it was a Muslim. Sorry to say, you guys are the go to religion for murder, bombings, rape, beatings, honor killings, car bombs, female mutiliation, the murder of homosexuals and other innocents, etc.
Islam is a religion of thugs and you, Mr. Hooper, are its spokesman.
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"So often, Muslims are accused of not condemning these kind of acts."
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On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Va., but his nationality as Palestinian, Khan said.
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On Thursday night, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad told a news conference the alleged Fort Hood attacker's motive remained unknown.
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A Major has the authority to command a Battalion.
Majors are not lightweights. The organizational capacity and the Leadership skills of a Major...are well.....major. This guy was no common thug...I want his entire career under a microscope.
And I want everybody he has ever served with interviewed. And I want his promotions and advancement process files. I want to know everybody he knows and all his friends...civilian and military. There are two others in custody associated with him... I want them wrung dry.
I dont want anyone directly involved in this talking to the Press. I want the Press denied access to the victims families. Close ranks and take care of our own.
Keep it quiet...who else is Moslem in the ranks ? I want an analysis of them using this man as a profile...especially Officers. Dont give anything to the Civilians especially political civilians. I want to see some careers scrutinized and dry cleaned.Our people died because we were trusting and they died because we were sloppy about Moslems. Lets make sure this not only doesnt happen again, but that it CANT happen again.
I think we need to go through the ranks and make sure we have no problem with Moslems...especially Moslem Officers...again.
Get on it. (And I dont care what is PC or what Barack Hussein has to say on the subject. In combat if you have a threat to your life then that is what your gun is for...or a knife outside the chowhall in the dark. )
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A Major has the authority to command a Battalion.
Docs, nurses, lawyers, and padres hold their rank because of their skill. They do not have the same command authority (re:lawful order) as line officers.
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You can't just go rounding up everyone with a muzzie name and investigate them. Good lord thats the same shit we did in WWII. It won't help. That sick F67K that fragged the tent in 101st was a black kid that converted to Islam. If we rounded up all the muzzie names we would have missed him. What DOD needs to do is pay closer attention to their troops in looking for this behavior. Easier said than done, I know, but there has to be a trend, a patter that will help ID tis behavior. When suicide rates climbed DOD built a team to study why and what to do about it. The Army studied PTSD after Viet-Nam, they are much better at dealing with it now than they were 35 years ago, not perfect, but things like now it is not only acceptable to seek help but in some units required. This type of event has happened more than once now. Banning guns is not an answer, we need to figure out how to identify these nuts before they snap, identify the trend and indicators. The exact reason is really not important as we might think, the indiators are. Columbine they were outcasts, the 101st event he was a convert, at Bragg it was extra duty that set him off, this one we do not know yet. We must find the signs before the event. Like this retired Col. If that ass knew this guy was slipping, why did he not do something! That COL needs a good ass whipping. Now he is in the "Ya I knew he was a bad seed" and I'm a TV star mode. Screw him, as an officer if he really did see this he let every soldier and their families down for not doing something about it, shame on him.
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So he hears of the massacre and the first thing he does is pray there are no Muslims involved?
So typical of these cowards. No thoughts of the victims or their families, their first thoughts are for themselves. I spit on them and their f*cking religion.
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Did anybody notice that the official reaction from the Muslim is who me? We are a peaceful people, why everybody picking on me?.
But down the Arab/Muslim street is another story, nothing but celebration.
The same thing happened on 911...
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Fuck Hooper and his taqiyaa bullshit. The mosques *ought* to catch hell for this crap. They *should* be picketed. They let their reading rooms become cesspools of Saudi-printed Wahhabi death-cult propaganda and their lecture-halls to echo with the howl of hatred, and then they expect us to just take po-faced "condemnation" of "indiscriminate violence" - some fucker on NPR actually said that this morning, "indiscriminate violence" - and expect to scuttle off into the protection of armed police officers posted outside their fucking doors?
Fuck them. I want to see them clear out their fucking temple first. I want to see books thrown in the trash. I want an actual demonstration of good fucking faith this time.
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49 Pan: That sick F67K that fragged the tent in 101st was a black kid that converted to Islam. If we rounded up all the muzzie names we would have missed him.
In that case, in addition to name, anyone who is or was a known muslim should be put under investigation. Offer an apology, but everyone would understand the necessity. Most would pass, but I'm sure that it would take care of 99% of the problem with 10% of the effort. And as far as I am concerned, those who complained about it should be sent home.
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My heartfelt condolences go out to the families of the victims.
My condolences as well to the American people who have to put up with a President who obviously doesn't share my feelings (or if he does is hiding them well).
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Ok, I'll bite, two real issues here. First off I think we need to wipe all mosques that we know support wahabiism off this planet. In the US we need to shut them down as terrorist supporting organizations, just like we do KKK supporting white supremist churches. I think the Patriot act, RICO act and Sedition acts should help cover it as well. Please don't mistake my desire to wipe all organizations that hate America off the face of the earth with my discussions on this event. LOL
The second is this trend of nutjob shooters. Be it Islam, KKK, wanting to cover for killing your wife, or just because you have a crappy life, these nuts will pick up on some cause that gives them the strength to do this. We have to define how these people get there and then identify the trigger points so the proper authorities can get involved. This is difficult, and I don't have the answer. Just rolling up every Muzzie this time, every black guy or red neck next time will not work. This trend goes beond Islam and we can do better than that.
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"Command a battalion" my ass. He was a doctor, not a field officer. The rank was so he could order orderlies around.
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Besoeker, you are seriously crossing the line here.
Millions of Americans are Muslims and that doesn't prevent them from being good citizens.
Deal with the bad apples... but only with those.
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Official response, straight from the CIC will be: In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
A court hearing in Phoenix for an Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because she had become too Westernized has been delayed because he is on a suicide watch.
Court officials say the Maricopa County sheriff's office didn't take Faleh Hassan Almaleki to his arraignment Thursday because of his status.
Almaleki was charged with two counts of aggravated assault after police in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria say he ran down his daughter and her boyfriend's mother with his Jeep Oct. 20. Police say those charges will be upgraded since the daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, died Monday.
The other woman is expected to survive.
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At this point, I think it's fair to say that every muslim in the world is on suicide watch.
Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad released a May 2008 letter on Wednesday in which the mastermind of the deadly 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area proclaims his innocence.
The rambling, handwritten letter was made available because of requests for a statement from Muhammad, his attorneys wrote on the Web page of their law firm. The letter was filed in federal court in connection with Muhammad's unsuccessful attempt to block his execution, the attorneys said.
Muhammad, 48, is scheduled to die by injection on Nov. 10 at a Virginia prison.
In the letter dated May 8, 2008, and rife with misspellings, Muhammad writes of discussions with a new team of attorneys and of assurances that "exculpatory evidence" that he claims was withheld from his trial "will prove my innocent and what really happen ...."
The letter adds: "So all you police and prosecutors can stand-down-'rushing' to murder this innocent black man for something he nor his son (Lee) had nothing to do with ...."
Lee Boyd Malvo was Muhammad's teenage accomplice, who is serving a life sentence. Muhammad fostered a father-son relationship with Malvo but the two were not related.
Jonathan Sheldon, one of Muhammad's attorneys, wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the letter has been filed in U.S. District Court since May 2008. "It just had not come to public attention, like much of our filings," he wrote.
The letter, written under the heading "Attorney Client Privilege," was apparently filed during an attempt by lawyers to spare Muhammad from the death penalty.
In their filing, the lawyers said Muhammad was regularly whipped with hose pipes and electrical cords and beaten with hammers and sticks by family members during a brutal childhood.
Muhammad was convicted of killing Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas, Va., gas station during a three-week spree that killed 10 in October 2002. The killings happened in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Tuesday, Muhammad's attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop his execution.
Muhammad's lawyers also have asked Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine for clemency, saying Muhammad is mentally ill and should not be executed.
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Well, Muhammad, if your attorneys believe you, I guess they could always post that evidence on youtube.
Until then, I am planning on enjoying watching you squirm.
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The only squirming he needs to be doing is at the point of the needle.
Or, if we could arrange it, on the point of the classically aligned stake that will impale him slowly, over a 24 hr period, leaving him to die over a weeks time.
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Playing the race card to the very end. Maybe he'll clench his fist and raise it in a salute as he is lying on the gurney.
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I used to work in an appellate court, and consequently I have a fair bit of experience reviewing habeas petitions from inmates.
If you read their filings, you'll quickly learn that there are no guilty men in the penetentiary. They're all innocent; the cops framed 'em, the prosecutor's on the take, the judge wasn't fair, the informant that dimed 'em was lying, it was only a bag of powdered sugar they were going to use to make confections for their grandma, they didn't know the girl was underage, and so on.
In other words, same old same old.
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ISRAEL has rejected a UN resolution that calls on it and the Palestinians to probe suspected war crimes committed during the Gaza war at the turn of the year.
"Israel rejects the resolution of the UN General Assembly, which is completely detached from realities on the ground that Israel must face," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The statement said that during the 22-day war, which killed some 1400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, the Israeli military "demonstrated higher military and moral standards than each and every one of this resolution's instigators."
Yesterday, the 192-member assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-sponsored resolution that endorsed a UN report accusing both Israel and Palestinians of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during the war.
The vote was 114 in favour and 18 against, with 44 abstentions.
Israel, which had strenuously opposed the non-binding resolution and the UN report that it endorsed, voted against it as did its staunchest ally, the United States, along with Australia and a few European countries.
A majority of European Union countries, including Britain, France, Spain and Sweden, abstained after failing to secure amendments to the text, including one that would have dropped references to possible Security Council action if the report's findings are not implemented. Russia also abstained.
The move capped a two-day debate on the 575-page UN-commissioned report by a panel led by respected former international prosecutor Richard Goldstone.
The report recommended that its findings be transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague if Israel and the Hamas rulers of Gaza fail to conduct credible investigations into the war.
From the outset, Israel rejected the report as biased.
[Ma'an] President Mahmoud Abbas' announcement on Thursday evening that he would not be seeking a second term has left the PLO and Fatah without their top nominee, several officials said beforehand.
According to Yasser Abed Rabbo, the secretary-general of the PLO's Executive Committee, Abbas remains the preferred candidate for next January's elections. He told reporters at a news conference in Ramallah that the PLO would reject Abbas' retirement from politics.
It is the committee's assumption, the secretary-general added, that Abbas will run for president not only on Fatah's ticket, but representing every PLO member faction, as well. Several hours before Abbas' announcement, Abed Rabbo said Abbas has the PLO's full support, and urged the president to reconsider.
For its part, Abbas' Fatah party scheduled a protest march in Ramallah in protest of the president and party leader's decision to retire from politics, despite that he said his decision was final.
Fatah spokesman Fahmi Az-Zarir said that during a PLO Executive Committee meeting, Abbas announced he had had enough with "Israel's obstruction of the peace process" and its refusal to cooperate with Palestinian and international calls that it fulfill its most basic agreements, namely freezing settlements.
In an interview with Ma'an Radio, Az-Zarir added that Abbas is "upset and angry" over various internal and political matters, but particularly on "the peace process, on which the Palestinian people rely to end the Israeli occupation with Arab and international support."
"I think the international community, especially the United States and the European Union, should understand the damage done to the process over the past four years, plagued by the absence of any real achievements," he added, expressing concern over what Abbas' absence could mean for political stability in the region.
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Egyptian Cleric Amin Al-Ansari Hatred of Joooos is Prevalent in Sports and in the Animal Kingdom: "'Judgment Day Will Not Come Before the Muslims Fight the Jews and Kill Them'; The Muslims Will Kill the Jews Be Patient"
Following are excerpts from an address by Egyptian cleric Amin Al-Ansari, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on October 12, 2009.Earlier this year, Amin Al-Ansari appeared on Al-Rahma TV to show footage of torture and killing of Joooos in Nazi concentration camps, stating, "This is what we hope will happen, but, Allah willing, at the hand of the Muslims. [1] "
Amin Al-Ansari: "God has filled peoples hearts with loathing for these [Jooooos]. Lets take a look at the field of sports. Forget about politics, military issues, and so on. Lets look at sports on the international level. How come there are no successful Israeli athletes like in any other people? They are abhorred. God does not let people be friendly with them.
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"Lets see how the Joooos are hated in the field of sports. They are abhorred. Lets take a look."
Footage of soccer game, showing a Chelsea player kicking the Israeli Yossi Benayoun, playing for Liverpool
Amin Al-Ansari: "This is a Jooooish soccer player, who behaved unjustly even on the field. But Allan be praised... Lets take another look."
Replay of footage
Amin Al-Ansari: "Look at this Joooooo being kicked. People hate them. They dont like them.
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"We are not talking only about people. [The same goes] even for trees and animals. You know, there is rather peculiar footage, in which an Arab man who has a camel loves it (and vice-versa, not that there is anything wrong with that) and kisses it, and the camel kisses him back. Along comes a Joooo and wants to kiss the camel, just like the Arab. What do you think the camel did? Lets watch."
Footage showing Arab kissing camel and camel trying to bite Joooooish man
"Animals Can Sense Things; The Proof [of This] Is That... When Judgment Day Draws Near, the Final War Between Muslims and Jews Will Take Place"
Amin Al-Ansari: "Look what happens when the Jooooo tries to kiss it... Hes fled the scene, of course. Hes fled from this 'lion.'"
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"Jews think that anybody can... No, animals can sense things. The proof is that the Prophet Muhammad said that when Judgment Day draws near, the final war between the Muslims and the Joooos will take place. The Prophet said that the Muslims would kill the Joooos.
"'Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jooos and kill them.' The Muslims will kill the Jooos. Be patient. All the trees and all the stones will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allan, there is a Joooo behind me, come and kill him - except for the Gharqad tree.' Only one kind of tree will not call [the Muslims]. It is the Gharqad tree." Zionist tree! Let's behead it!
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[1] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 2215, "To Mark 'Holocaust Holiday,' Egyptian Cleric Amin Al-Ansari Revises History, And Comments On Footage of Prisoners Being Tortured in Dachau, Mauthausen, and Belsen, Saying: 'This Is What We Hope Will Happen But, Allah Willing, at the Hand of the Muslims,'" January 27, 2009. To view the clip on MEMRI TV.
I'm sure they just thought this up on their own.
The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned.
The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of the design. The development was today described by nuclear experts as "breathtaking" and has added urgency to the effort to find a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis.
The sophisticated technology, once mastered, allows for the production of smaller and simpler warheads than older models. It reduces the diameter of a warhead and makes it easier to put a nuclear warhead on a missile.
Documentation referring to experiments testing a two-point detonation design are part of the evidence of nuclear weaponisation gathered by the IAEA and presented to Iran for its response.
The dossier, titled "Possible Military Dimensions of Iran's Nuclear Program", is drawn in part from reports submitted to it by western intelligence agencies.
The agency has in the past treated such reports with scepticism, particularly after the Iraq war. But its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, has said the evidence of Iranian weaponisation "appears to have been derived from multiple sources over different periods of time, appears to be generally consistent, and is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed that it needs to be addressed by Iran".
Extracts from the dossier have been published previously, but it was not previously known that it included documentation on such an advanced warhead. "It is breathtaking that Iran could be working on this sort of material," said a European government adviser on nuclear issues.
James Acton, a British nuclear weapons expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: "It's remarkable that, before perfecting step one, they are going straight to step four or five ... To start with more sophisticated designs speaks of level of technical ambition that is surprising."
Another western specialist with extensive knowledge of the Iranian programme said: "It raises the question of who supplied this to them. Did AQ Khan [a Pakistani scientist who confessed in 2004 to running a nuclear smuggling ring] have access to this, or is it another player?"
The revelation of the documents comes at a time of growing tension. Tehran has so far rejected a deal that would remove most of its enriched uranium stockpile for a year and replace it with nuclear fuel rods which would be much harder to turn into weapons. The Iranian government has also balked at negotiations, which were due to begin last week, over its continued enrichment of uranium, in defiance of UN security council resolutions.
There are fears in Washington and London that if no deal is reached to at least temporarily defuse tensions by the end of December, Israel could set in motion plans to take military action aimed at setting back the Iranian programme by force, with incalculable consequences for the Middle East.
Iran has rejected most of the IAEA material on weaponisation as forgeries, but has admitted carrying out tests on multiple high-explosive detonations synchronised to within a microsecond. Tehran has told the agency that there is a civilian application for such tests, but has so far not provided any evidence for them.
Western weapons experts say there are no such civilian applications, but the use of co-ordinated detonations in nuclear warheads is well known. They compress the fissile core, or pit, of the warhead until it reaches critical mass.
A US national intelligence estimate two years ago said that Iran had explored nuclear warhead design for several years but had probably stopped in 2003. British, French and German officials have said they believe weaponisation continued after that date and may still be continuing.
In September, a German court found a German-Iranian businessman, Mohsen Vanaki, guilty of brokering the sale of dual-use equipment with possible applications in developing nuclear weapons. The equipment included specialised high-speed cameras, of the sort used to develop implosion devices, as well as radiation detectors. According to a report by the Institute for Science and International Security, the German foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, testified at the trial that there was evidence that Iran's weapons development was continuing.
The IAEA is seeking to find out what the scientists and the institutions involved in the experiments are doing now, but has so far not been given a response. The agency's repeated requests to interview Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whose name features heavily in the IAEA's documentation and who is widely seen as the father of the Iranian nuclear programme, have been turned down.
The agency has also asked Iran to explain evidence that a Russian weapons expert helped Iranian technicians to master synchronised high-explosive detonations.
The first implosion devices, like the "Fat Man" bomb dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945, used 32 high-explosive hexagons and pentagons arrayed around a plutonium core like the panels of a football. The IAEA has a five-page document describing experimentation on such a hemispherical array of explosives.
According to a diplomat familiar with the IAEA documentation, the evidence also points to experiments with a two-point detonation system that represents "a more elegant solution" to the challenges of making a nuclear warhead, but it is much harder to achieve. It is used in conjunction with a non-spherical pit, in the shape of a rugby ball, or explosives in that shape wrapped around a spherical pit, and it works by compressing the pit from both ends.The IAEA has expressed "serious concern" about Iran's failure to give an account of the research its scientists have carried out.
Descriptions of "two-point implosion" warheads designs have occasionally appeared in the public domain (there are extensive descriptions on Wikipedia) and they were first developed by US scientists in the 1950s, but it remains an offence for American officials or even non-governmental nuclear experts with security clearance to discuss them.
Iran is demanding full delivery of reactor fuel before it gives up its stash of low-enriched uranium and has balked at further efforts to hold international talks on its nuclear program, according to a senior European diplomat.
The diplomat, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive diplomacy involved, said prospects for a breakthrough with Iran have narrowed dramatically since a high-level meeting in Geneva on Oct. 1, when Iran tentatively approved a deal to reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium and agreed to hold another set of talks by the end of October. Instead, the reactor deal appears to be falling apart, and there are no prospects for talks before the governing body of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meets this month to consider whether Iran violated international obligations by building a nuclear facility near the city of Qom.
Such a finding would probably result in yet another referral to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions, the diplomat said.
The diplomat said he believed the breakdown in the discussions has little to do with the nuclear issue, but instead is the result of a tense internal struggle within the Iranian political system. The issue has "paralyzed the decision-making process in Tehran," he said. "It is a battle over who is tougher or who is more anti-American, and we are in a situation so ridiculous that [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is in the middle."
Ahmadinejad -- considered a hard-liner in the West -- promoted the idea of seeking an agreement with the West to acquire new reactor fuel for a medical research facility that helps detect and treat diseases. Major powers offered to convert a substantial portion of Iran's low-enriched fuel into the necessary reactor fuel at facilities in Russia and France. But according to the diplomat, Iran then said it would not ship its enriched uranium out of the country until it receives upfront all of the reactor fuel it needs for the facility. There is discussion of perhaps a third country holding Iran's stock under IAEA supervision, the diplomat said, but he expressed pessimism that the impasse could be broken.
"We keep using the Russians to pass tough messages every day, saying: 'This is a good deal. Take it,' " he said.
During the Geneva talks, which started with no official agenda, Iranian diplomats refused to discuss Tehran's uranium-enrichment program, though Western powers raised the issue, the diplomat said. Diplomats had hoped that Iran would begin to engage on its nuclear ambitions at the planned follow-up meeting, but it has refused to agree to any agenda that lists the nuclear program, he said.
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TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > UN QUESTIONS IRAN OVER TEST OF ADVANCED WARHEAD DESIGN.
UNIAEA > YOO IRAN, we have select evidence that indicates you dev an advanced nuclear warhead design - did ya, or didn't ya?
IRAN > We want to make it absolutely positively undeniably categorically, ...@clear to the UN-World, WE CANNOT CONFIRM OR DENY YOUR CLAIM. WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU!?
Hizbullah on Thursday issued its first response to Israel's seizure of a cargo ship loaded with hundreds of tons of weaponry sent to the terror group from Iran.
The Lebanese Shi'ite organization issued a statement saying that it "categorically denies" any connection to the weapons "that the Zionist enemy claims to have confiscated from the ship."
"Lies! All lies!"
On Wednesday, Israel announced that the Francop, a large cargo vessel, contained dozens of containers holding several hundred tons of weapons concealed in crates marked "parts for bulldozers."
Hizbullah also condemned "Israeli pirates operating in international waters."
Israeli Navy Seals captured the Francop some 100 nautical miles west of Israel's northern shores.
Hizbullah's statement echoed a statement made by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, who denied late Wednesday that the cargo ship was carrying weapons from Iran, and implicitly called the Israeli naval forces "pirates."
"Unfortunately there are official pirates disrupting the movement of goods between Iran and Syria," he told reporters on a visit to Teheran. "I stress, the ship was not carrying Iranian arms bound for Syria, nor was it carrying material for manufacturing weapons in Syria. It was carrying [commercial] goods from Syria to Iran."
Lebanese MP Michel Aoun, who in 2006 became aligned with Hizbullah, remarked later on Wednesday that Lebanon would get its arms from China if not from Iran, adding that such weapons would be better suited to the "liberation of Palestine" than to the internal Lebanese conflict.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief says that UN inspectors have found "nothing to be worried about" in Iran's latest nuclear facility.
"The idea was to use it as a bunker under the mountain to protect things," Mohamed ElBaradei told the Thursday print of the New York Times, pointing to Iran's Fordo nuclear facility, some 160 kilometers southwest of Tehran.
"It's a hole in a mountain," the IAEA chief said.
Nuclear inspectors had visited the newly constructed nuclear facility in October.
The IAEA is expected to declare details of the inspection in its next report due in mid-November.
ElBaradei also said that he was examining possible compromises to unblock a draft nuclear cooperation deal between Iran and major powers.
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Mind if we come over and look at your junk from time to time?
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.
Bangla Daily Star] Most of the outlaws and members of the left-leaning underground parties now consider surrender in fear of "extrajudicial" death sentence after carrying out a reign of terror in the southwest region for decades.
The Tamil Tigers organization hopes to use Canada as a strategic base to continue the fight against the government of Sri Lanka, according to an authority on the alleged terrorist group. "I cannot think of any other country that is more important for the Tamil Tigers as Canada, to regroup and continue their campaign against Sri Lanka," said Prof. Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, a Singapore-based think-tank.
Egyptian Cleric Amin Al-Ansari Hatred of Joooos is Prevalent in Sports and in the Animal Kingdom: "'Judgment Day Will Not Come Before the Muslims Fight the Jews and Kill Them'; The Muslims Will Kill the Jews Be Patient"
Iran is demanding full delivery of reactor fuel before it gives up its stash of low-enriched uranium and has balked at further efforts to hold international talks on its nuclear program, according to a senior European diplomat.
