The Associated Press is doing a good job of promoting our Dear Leader's propaganda with its heavily edited video release titled "Marines 'inspired, Informed' by Mullen's Speech" (gag) and has released a wire story that conveniently leaves out key comments about restrictions on ROE.
PLEASE post either a link or the full text of his speech to Rantburg. SOMEONE at Camp Lejeune had to have recorded the whole thing. I heard audio clips on Rush that I haven't seen or heard anywhere on the net that I can find.
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I'm a little confused. Is the title sarcasm, admiring, or just a joke. I suppose the PKM is lightweight compared to an M2. Looks about the same as a BAR. But these guys sure struggle just to cock the thing, not what I'd want in a combat situation. Is it anywhere near as reliable or durable as an M2? BAR? I feel kind of dumb even asking these questions.
A suicide bomber who killed at least 22 people at a graduation in Somalia was brought up in Denmark, officials say. Poor Svën, we hardly knew him ...
Somali Information Minister Dahir Gelle told the BBC that the bomber's parents, who live in Copenhagen, identified their son's body from photographs.
Reports say he left Somalia when he was a child and spent 20 years in Denmark, before returning to Somalia last year. He reportedly joined the hard-line Islamist group al-Shabab - although they have previously denied the attack.
The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) also says the bomber was from Denmark, according to local media. The Copenhagen Post quoted PET as saying the man was in his 20s and was "a Somali citizen who had residence in Denmark".
"As PET has indicated numerous times in the past, there are people with ties to Denmark who have gone through militant Islamic training and radicalisation and who are involved in terror-related activities in several countries, including in Somalia," a PET statement said, according to the newspaper.
The bombing took place at a graduation for medical students on 3 December in one of the few parts of the capital, Mogadishu, which is controlled by the government. The students had been graduating from Benadir University, which was set up in 2002 to train doctors to replace those who had fled overseas or been killed in the civil war.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Somalia's president swore on Wednesday to intensify his war against insurgents blamed for a suicide bombing at a medical graduation ceremony last week that killed 22 people, including three government ministers.
Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's fragile administration controls only a few districts of Mogadishu and comes under near daily attack by rebels including the hardline al Shabaab group, which Washington says is al Qaeda's proxy in the failed Horn of African state.
Western security agencies say the country has become a safe haven for militants, including foreign jihadists, who are using it to plot attacks across the impoverished region and beyond.
A spokesman for al Shabaab denied the group was responsible for last Thursday's suicide bombing, but few Somalis believed him and the U.N. special envoy to the country said it was "outrageous" to suggest that anyone else was to blame.
Speaking to the commanders of his fledgling naval forces, Ahmed said the rebels had "humiliated" the Somali people. "We have to be ready to clear them out of the country and restore peace," Ahmed said. "They have decided to kill anyone who does not subscribe to their ideology. But Somalis have realised the trouble caused by these groups."
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Egypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels, the BBC has learned.
But the BBC nonetheless protesteth not. A good thing Israel was not involved.
For weeks local farmers have noticed more activity at the border where trees were being cut down, but very few of them were aware that a barrier was being built. That is because the barrier, made of super-strength steel, has been hidden deep underground. The BBC has been told that it was manufactured in the US, that it fits together in similar fashion to a jigsaw, and that it has been tested to ensure it is bomb proof. It cannot be cut or melted - in short it is impenetrable.
Cool. Yay us!
Intelligence sources in Egypt say the barrier is being sunk close to the perimeter wall that already exists. They claim 4km of the wall has already been completed north of the Rafah crossing, with work now beginning to the south. When it is finished the wall will be 10-11km (6-7 miles) long and will extend 18 metres below the surface. The Egyptians are being helped by American army engineers, who the BBC understands have designed the wall.
You think they're Army engineers, but we know better. Yay Halliburton!
The land beneath Egypt and Gaza resembles a Swiss cheese, full of holes and tunnels through which the Palestinians smuggle the everyday items they are denied by the blockade.
All they need do to end the blockade is to give up violence against Israel, something they continue to choose not to do. Ans so, the people of Egypt have gifted them this beautiful super-steel structure as a jeweled necklace about their neck.
But the Israelis say the tunnels are also used to smuggle people, weapons, and the components of the rockets that are fired at southern Israeli towns.
The wall is not expected to stop all the smuggling, but it will force the Palestinians to go deeper and it will likely cut the hundreds of superficial tunnels closer to the surface that are used to move the bulk of the goods.
The plan has been shrouded in secrecy, with no comment or confirmation from the Egyptian government.
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Off topic perhaps but I was watching a special on the six-day-war the other night. During the show they showed crowds in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria. The one thing that stuck out to me was that NONE of the women were wearing a burka. It would be interesting to know where and when this started.
South Africa has suspended dozens of immigration officials being investigated for giving South African citizenship to foreigners, mainly from Pakistan, the government said Thursday.
The move comes months after Britain started requiring visas from South Africans, charging terrorists and criminals were exploiting the availability of stolen or forged South African passports to gain access to other countries.
In February, Britain said it was requiring visas for South Africans, who previously did not need them. British security and intelligence officials warned of an increasing risk of Islamic extremists using South Africa as a transit point and venue to plan plots.
They said future attacks on Britain could be directed from countries other than Pakistan — where dozens of Britons with family ties have traveled for terrorist training or have been linked to recent terror plots.
Prosecutors in the London trial of several men accused of plotting to blow up at least seven trans-Atlantic commercial flights said last year that one suspect had flown into Britain from South Africa to lead the final stages of the plan.
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The move comes months after Britain started requiring visas from South Africans, charging terrorists and criminals were exploiting the availability of stolen or forged South African passports to gain access to other countries.
With our own US 'home grown' mooslim jihadi sleeper agents appearing worldwide, it won't be long until USCITS will have to have visas as well.
International human rights activists say supporters of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe used rape to terrorize the political opposition during last year's contested elections.
AIDS-Free World, led by former UNAIDS envoy Stephen Lewis, released a 64-page report Thursday that documents 380 rapes it said were committed by over 200 Mugabe loyalists.
Some 70 women told the group how they were raped, kept as sex slaves and forced to watch their daughters being raped because they were linked to the opposition.
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But, but, but, I thought slavery was an American invention?
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Those poor women of Zimbabwe, no doubt descended from Black Rhodesians. Might not be a 'racist' crime, a crime all the same and definitely a crime of war.
As long as Mugabe has one nut left and is still breathing, I won't believe the women in the world can unite, or anyone really cares. As 'da yoof' says, 'whatever'.
[Bangla Daily Star] The Daily Star last night received an unsigned statement claimed to have been issued by a few organisations, which are carrying out insurgency in the Northeastern states of India. In the statement they expressed being hurt by the arrest of Ulfa Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and other leaders of the organisation.
In the statement, the claimed organisations, namely Manipur People's Liberation Front (MPLF), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT), Tripura People's Democratic Front (TPDF) and United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), have concluded that Rajkhowa was arrested in Bangladesh and as such they are hurt and disappointed.
However, Bangladesh Home Minister Sahara Khatun earlier personally denied the Ulfa chairman's arrest in Bangladesh. "No, no! Certainly not!"
It may be mentioned that the statement received through e-mail does not bear either the letterhead of any organisation or signature of anyone from the organisations.
Claiming themselves as "liberation forces", the organisations said they would emphasis that they should not commit any such act that may be construed as open infringement upon the sovereignty of their neighbouring countries and hurt sentiments of the people concerned.
This article starring:
ARABINDA RAJKHOWA
ULFA
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[Bangla Daily Star] The government yesterday told the High Court that no incident of extra-judicial killing took place in the custody of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Madaripur on November 16 this year although this court issued a suo moto rule asking the government for an explanation.
Explaining the incident on behalf of the government, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Kazi Ejarul Haque Sagor told the court that investigation into this case is going on, and if the High Court passes any order in this regard, the investigation will be obstructed.
He said this during the hearing on the suo moto rule issued by the High Court bench of Justice AFM Abdur Rahman and Justice Md Emdadul Haque Azad.
The court in the rule also directed the government to explain why appropriate actions should not be taken against Rab officials--Major Wahiduzzaman and Lieutenant Hasan and their companions--for killing of two brothers--Lutfor Rahman Khalasi and Khairul Haque Khalasi.
Replying to the rule and direction, DAG Sagor told the court that no one by the name Major Kazi Wahiduzzaman was found in the Madaripur Rab unit.
The court fixed December 14 for further hearing on the matter.
A case has been filed with Madaripur Police Station in connection with killings of the two brothers on November 16. The following day, the court issued the rule upon a newspaper report on the killings.
On November 22, the bench directed the government to place before it by December 9 (yesterday) the details of Rab officials involved in detaining the two brothers.
Meanwhile, Ain O Shalish Kendra (ASK), a human rights organisation, told the court yesterday that this organisation will provide materials and documents on the incidents of extra-judicial killings to this court.
Advocate Ruhul Quddus appeared for ASK which was earlier allowed by this court to place arguments as an intervener in this case.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] President Nicolas Sarkozy warned French believers to refrain from religious "ostentation and provocation" on Tuesday after the Swiss vote to ban minarets stoked debate about Islam in France.
The president made the statement in an opinion piece in Le Monde daily, wading into an increasingly tense debate over national identity that has zeroed in on immigration fears in France, home to Europe's largest Muslim minority.
"Christians, Jews, Muslims, all believers regardless of their faith, must refrain from ostentation and provocation and ... practice their religion in humble discretion," wrote Sarkozy.
"Anything that could appear as a challenge" to France's Christian roots and republican values would lead to "failure" in efforts to promote a form of moderate Islam in France, he warned.
With Islam now the nation's second faith, France has sought to reaffirm its staunchly secular tradition which sees religion as a strictly private affair while seeking to avoid a clash of civilizations within its borders.
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"With Islam now the nation's second faith, France has sought to reaffirm its staunchly secular tradition which sees religion as a strictly private affair while seeking to avoid a clash of civilizations within its borders."
[Iran Press TV Latest] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Israel of strong reaction should the regime violate his country's airspace in an attempt to spy on Iran.
In an interview with Egyptian journalist Fahmi Huwaidi, Erdogan said Turkey's response to any Israeli violation would cause an "earthquake" in Israel, the Turkish media reported.
His remarks were made after some reports claimed that Israel had violated Turkish airspace in order to spy on Iran.
Endogen, however, rejected the reports.
"Furthermore, the Israeli's cannot use the relationship they have with us as a card to wage aggression on a third party and expect us to stand neutral or with folded hands," the premier concluded.
Is that a threat of war? How very interesting. Prime Minister Erdogan is certainly feeling his oats.
I dunno: I wonder if at least some of this is smoke being blown at the Iranians: Endogen tells the evil Juice not to overfly his country, while the Turkish air generals provide the Israelis with the air corridors, IFF codes and an escort.
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To add to Fred's comment - perhaps there's even more going on.
Wouldn't the IDF be interested in all possible options - i.e. through Turkey, through Jordan/Iraq, elsewhere?
Given that any air attack will eventually be known, what if Israel chooses all of the above? Rather than focus Iran's revenge on a single compliant neighbor, what if all it's neighbors airspace was used?
The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil, has concluded that the country confronts a rising threat from homegrown extremism.
Anti-terrorism officials and experts see signs of accelerated radicalization among American Muslims, driven by a wave of English-language online propaganda and reflected in aspiring fighters' trips to hot spots such as Pakistan and Somalia.
Europe had been the front line, the target of successive attacks and major plots, while the U.S. remained relatively calm. But the number, variety and scale of recent U.S. cases suggest 2009 has been the most dangerous year domestically since 2001, anti-terrorism experts said:
* There were major arrests of Americans accused of plotting with Al Qaeda and its allies, including an Afghan American charged in a New York bomb plot described as the most serious threat in this country since the Sept. 11 attacks.
* Authorities tracked other extremism suspects joining foreign networks, including Somali Americans going to the battlegrounds of their ancestral homeland and an Albanian American from Brooklyn who was arrested in Kosovo.
* The FBI rounded up homegrown terrorism suspects in Dallas, Detroit and Raleigh, N.C., saying that it had broken up plots targeting a synagogue, government buildings and military facilities.
Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano issued her strongest public comments yet on the homegrown threat.
"We've seen an increased number of arrests here in the U.S. of individuals suspected of plotting terrorist attacks, or supporting terror groups abroad such as Al Qaeda," Napolitano said in a speech in New York. "Home-based terrorism is here. And, like violent extremism abroad, it will be part of the threat picture that we must now confront."
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But, but, but, I thought the treat was all these extremist veterans?
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So this must be, along w/ Major Nidal Hasan, the "smarter" way to handle Overseas Contingency Operations and Man Caused Disasters. The Obama, or Sept. 10th, Way.
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If we have many more attacks there Grom the vets will be a threat when they take actions in their own hands.
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[Dawn] Blasts which killed 51 people and engulfed a busy market in flames in Lahore were caused by two suicide bombers, police and bomb disposal experts said Wednesday.
The two explosions hit within seconds of each other as shoppers and diners milled around the popular Moon Market on Monday evening, with government officials blaming Taliban fighters avenging military operations against them.
'Now it has been confirmed that two suicide bombers carried out these attacks. We have made some arrests but as yet there is no major breakthrough,' said Chaudhry Shafiq, a deputy police chief in Lahore.
He said that the death toll from the blast in the nation's cultural capital had risen from 49 to 51, with the two bombers also killed and about 140 people wounded.
Mazhar Ahmad, who heads the bomb disposal squad in Lahore, said ball bearings and grenades were found at the blast site, indicating that the two attackers were wearing suicide vests packed with deadly explosives.
'Both the blasts took place in a highly crowded area. The second blast was near an electricity pole causing an electric short circuit and triggering the fire,' he told AFP.
'The fire caused by the blasts and short-circuit engulfed the whole area and caused severe damage,' he added. 'Had we succeeded in controlling the fire in 10-15 minutes, the human loss would have been less.'
The Lahore blasts were part of a surge in militant strikes this week, with a suicide bombing in Peshawar on Monday killing 11 people, a senior hospital official said, updating the previous death toll of 10.
Then on Tuesday, two suicide attackers firing rockets and guns drove up to the offices of Pakistan's main intelligence agency in Multan, before detonating their car bomb and killing 10 people.
'Rescue workers have recovered another dead body of a woman. A total of 10 people were killed and 47 injured,' said Multan police chief Saood Aziz, adding that four of the wounded were in critical condition.
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[Geo News] Tehreek-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan Wednesday said he is a politician and support the idea of holding talks with the militants. Addressing a news conference here, Imran Khan said there is a threat of fresh US attacks inside Pakistan and called for convening an all parties meeting to discuss this issue. "We should prepare our own strategy in a situation when America is once again urging Pakistan to 'do more'," he stressed.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iraqi leaders were set to come under fire Wednesday, having failed to prevent a spate of attacks in Baghdad that killed 127 people, the third major set of bombings to hit the capital since August.
The blasts undermined the government's claims of improved security and MPs quickly demanded that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the government's security ministers answer for any failings that led to the attacks.
The United States, United Nations, Arab League and Britain, meanwhile, led international condemnation of Tuesday's bombings, with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon calling them "horrendous" and "unacceptable."
Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani, whose department is responsible for police forces across Iraq, welcomed being questioned by lawmakers in the Council of Representatives over the attacks, which a senior security spokesman said bore "the touch of al-Qaeda."
"I am ready to go to parliament on the condition that the session be public," Bolani told AFP.
The bombings all struck Baghdad within minutes of each other on Tuesday morning.
One suicide attacker detonated his payload at a finance ministry office, another struck at a tunnel leading to the labor ministry and a third drove a four-wheel-drive car into a courthouse.
A fourth suicide bomber in a car struck a police patrol in Dora in southern Baghdad, causing 15 deaths, 12 of them students at a nearby technical college, an interior ministry official said.
Another car bomb hit interior ministry offices in central Baghdad.
An interior ministry official said 127 people had been killed and 448 wounded in the bombings.
Maliki called Tuesday's attacks a "cowardly" attempt "to cause chaos... and hinder the election," and said they were deliberately timed to come after MPs on Sunday agreed on a new electoral law.
He blamed "foreign elements" who backed al-Qaeda.
The courthouse bombing destroyed a large part of the building, with falling concrete killing several people, emergency workers said.
Mangled wrecks of cars, some flipped on their roofs, lined the street opposite the courthouse, and several parked vehicles were crushed by collapsed blast walls.
Near the finance ministry, several houses were completely destroyed and a two-meter (6.5 ft) deep crater marked the site of the explosion.
Although no group has yet claimed responsibility, the timing of the blasts and the fact that three targeted government buildings suggested an al-Qaeda operation.
"This has the touch of al-Qaeda and the Baathists," Major General Qassim Atta, spokesman for security operations in Baghdad, told AFP, referring to the outlawed Baath party of now executed president Saddam Hussein.
Both groups were blamed for bloody attacks -- including truck bombings of the finance, foreign and justice ministries -- in Baghdad in August and October that killed more than 250 and punctured confidence in Iraq's security forces.
"Such attacks are war crimes," London-based rights group Amnesty International said in a statement.
Violence across Iraq dropped dramatically last month, with the fewest number of deaths in attacks recorded since the invasion in 2003. Official figures showed a total of 122 people were killed in November.
Both the Baghdad government and the U.S. military have warned of a rise in attacks in the run-up to the election.
Presidential chief-of-staff Nasser al-Ani told Iraqi state television on Tuesday the election will be on March 7, after the presidency council said earlier that March 6 had been chosen as the date for the vote.
Despite Tuesday's attacks U.S. forces remain on track to begin withdrawing from Iraq in large numbers next year, the top U.S. military officer said.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed disappointment on Wednesday over the watered down European Union draft calling for Jerusalem to become the capital of two states and said the initial draft presented to the Palestinians was less "vague."
Abbas said the EU statement had watered down an earlier Swedish draft, which had defined a state of Palestine as comprising "the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza."
"Regarding the position of the EU, we all know the Swedish draft was a good draft because it put in clear cut terms the issue of East Jerusalem. Then came the final, vague form," Abbas said after talks in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
"We can say it is an important decision but certainly does not fulfill or reach the level of the draft that was presented by Sweden that we agreed with and were satisfied with," he added.
The European Union on Tuesday called on Israel to end its occupation of east Jerusalem as part of a Middle East peace agreement and make the holy city the capital of two states, a position the current Israeli government rejects.
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"Abbas Bitches...."
Isn't that what's known in the trade as a standing headline?
Egypt is building a massive iron wall along its border with the Gaza Strip to disrupt the tunnels Palestinians use to transfer food and other basic needs into the blockaded territory.
The wall which will be 9 to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) long, and will go as deep as 20 to 30 meters into the ground, Haaretz reported.
The structure is made of huge slates of steel, and will be impossible to cut or melt, the daily quoted Egyptian sources as saying.
The barrier wall is the latest move by the Cairo government in assisting Israel with its crippling siege on the Hamas-run coastal enclave since the closure started in June 2007.
The Egyptian forces demolish tunnels or fill them with gas almost every week, often with people still inside them, resulting in Palestinian casualties in the tunnels which are also regularly pounded by Israeli planes.
Joint American-Egyptian patrols have been seen in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah as they try to detect tunnels using underground sensors.
Palestinians say the tunnels are the only resort to provide food and other basic needs for the starving population in the impoverished territory.
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The structure is made of huge slates of steel, and will be impossible to cut or melt
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Haven't you heard? Steel does not melt, sag or cut? So say the 911 Conspiracy sites.
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I wonder who is funding this. Probably best if nobody finds out, though.
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Say, "The long suffering American taxpayer." and you will be right every time.
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I wonder if the steel will provide some kind of structural support for the tunnels cutting beneath it. Might prevent cave ins and save a lot of terrorists lives that way. Might also be a way to generate toll money.
Hizbullah Leader Nasrallah in Major Address: 'Confusion and Powerlessness' of U.S. Economy Reflects Structural Crisis in Capitalism; American Arrogance™ Has Left Us No Option But Resistance™
You can have Bambi Hopenchangy - Lord knows we don't want him.
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Hmmm. I wonder whether there is some common cultural thread, a rotten ideology or poisonous meme that runs through all the Arab countries and dooms them to such seemingly inevitable suckitude.
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Ever notice that when Indians or Chinese migrated the the United States and had the opportunity to be away from the policies and oppression of their old home country, how they prospered, not just marginally, but really big gains. Given that both governments are allowing that to happen at home now, both countries are reaping the bounty of their own people. Have we seen the same effect with immigrants from the Arab cultures?
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Yes, notably with Lebanese Arab Christians. Whether they are actually decendents of people from the arabian peninsula or converted native Lebonese is debatable. Many of them have done very well--witness Carlos Slim, the richest man in Mexico. His family immigrated from lebanon 100 years ago. Also, the Christian Basha family in Arizona is very influential and has been very generous in contributing to many public institions.
Iran's top intelligence official has denounced senior figures in the clerical leadership who he says support the country's opposition.
The comments by Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi signal growing pressure by hard-liners in the government to pursue higher-ranking figures in the opposition. So far the government has been hesitant to do so because of the possible backlash.
In a report Thursday, the state news agency IRNA says that Moslehi told a gathering of clerical supporters that the sons of some major clerics and senior figures are involved in opposition protests and have influenced their parents. He said "the enemy is using these sons to bring their ideas to the elite." Ooh, sounds like a purge is in the works. Clean and lube those Walther .25 ACPs. They could be getting a workout.
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purging rafsanjani is unlikely to be a simple chore.
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New 3/8" steel cable for the hanging cranes please.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi Arabia slammed Tehran's allegations that it had handed over Iranian nuclear scientist, Shahram Amiri, to the United States after he disappeared in the kingdom in May, a London-based Saudi newspaper reported Wednesday.
Amiri reportedly disappeared from the holy city of Medina, just three days after landing in Saudi Arabia to perform Umra, or lesser pilgrimage.
"Saudi Arabia receives over a million Iranian pilgrims every year and like all pilgrims, they are usually under the supervision of their country's official mission with regards to their housing and transportation," Asharq Alawsat quoted Saudi Foreign Ministry official, Osama Neqaly, as saying.
Negaly said that the Saudi authorities had searched for Amiri, following reports of his disappearance in Medina, but he is yet to be found.
"Results of the search have been reported to the Iranian mission and the their embassy, but we have not received an official response from Tehran until now," Neqaly said.
The U.S. State Department Tuesday declined to comment on Iranian claims that Washington abducted Amiri while he was in Saudi Arabia.
"We are aware of the Iranian claims," said department spokesman Philip Crowley. "I have no information on that."
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"I have no information on that."
"shit, you think they tell ME where the safe houses are?"
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Goodness, liberal hawk, if that's how it translates, I'm going to have to move "learn Arabic" a few notches up my To Do list.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Top American intellectual Noam Chomsky says that the general public should fear more from the US and Israel than Iran.
During a lecture entitled "Obama, the Middle East and the Prospects of Peace" delivered at Boston University on Tuesday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor stressed that Iran is acting within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
"All states [must] resolve their conflicts within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty," he said.
"Who was that resolution directed at? Nothing in the resolution relates to Iran. Iran is not threatening the use of force, and as far as anyone knows, they are staying within the bounds of the treaty," Chomsky added.
He said people may have more to fear from the two countries that the American public would not typically associate with terrorism.
"The resolution is actually directed at the two states that consistently and regularly do resort to force and the threat of force, namely the United States and Israel," he said.
"Those are the countries that carry out aggression regularly and repeatedly, that invade other countries, occupy other countries, invoke terror and violence and they're unique in that respect," Chomsky added.
He stated that the US government and its media have propagated exaggerated reports about Iran's nuclear program.
"There has been a massive propaganda campaign that demonizes Iran, that portrays it as a major threat to world peace that has been going on for the past three years," Chomsky said.
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Then go live Iran, asshole.
"Top intellectual" my ass. Top asshole is more like it. :-(
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Iran is not threatening the use of force.
Liar. Iran has repeatably threatened to wipe Israel off the map. Chomsky knows this - he is lying.
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Chomsky made sense when he invented his grammar theories in the 60's. Everything else he has done is BS. My guess is he took too much Acid in the 70s.
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Come to think about it... I remember a story of an MIT "dinner" from those days that some "merry prankster type" got to the coffee and dosed the bunch of them pretty completely. I recall that it was hushed up. Somebody there who didn't drink the coffee told me about it - and its so long ago I forget who.
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Noam Chomksy is a walking macro. Just feed in the third world country you want him to spout off about & you can just sit back and watch the mad lib machine crank out some polemic. No wonder he believes in Natural Language - he's easily the most programmed "public intellectual" outside of the North Korean propaganda shop.
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Chomsky is a prime example of a scholar in one subject pontificating about other subjects and being taken seriously. Historians and political scientists should have laughed him out of the political commentary long ago. Out of job security if for no other reason.
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at last ,i found someone having brains .
by the way prez was misquoted when he said israhell be wiped off , he meant that all israhellis shld go back to their respective counttries and not nuke israhell as was potrayed .he clrified it later in the eastern media .
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Chomsky is 81.
He still acts as an apologist of sorts for Pol Pot (he does it using "... well nobody has conclusively showed..." type language).
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Nic, do you really believe that BS? All the red-brown, from a good chunk of the french wingnuts to a good chunk of the Paranoid Conspiracy Theory folks (jeff rense or the web bot guys) push that "mistranslation" (by the joooooish-owned western media machine) meme, even it's stupid on its face, I mean, you love people with a brain, use yours, use context and longer term trends in what is said and what is done...
But, by brain, given you root for chomsky, I take you mean antisemite, excuse me, "anti-zionist". Anyway, who cares? If you're a leftist, you're following your programming and that's too bad, if you're a wingnut, you are being lied to (to borrow a famous title), and you root for your ennemies. So, you do that, that's fine, myself, I'm off to DL some smut, that's fine too.
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by the way prez was misquoted when he said israhell be wiped off , he meant that all israhellis shld go back to their respective counttries
Poor nic. You wrote all the way from Mumbai to say that? My dear, if you wish to impress you need to work on your spelling, grammar, Near Eastern history, and foreign languages. After that you should work on your ability to think clearly and write persuasively, but one step at a time.
I suspect you did not actually read President Ahmadenijad's statement in the original Farsi. If not, you are not qualified to pronounce on what he did or did not say. I suggest you look up the man's speeches on www.MEMRI.org to find out what he actually said; the distortions you've read in the blogs do not count if you wish to persuade those less ignorant than you. Then find a Farsi tutor at your nearby Berlitz school -- I seem to recall my husband mentioning seeing such things when he worked in Mumbai some years ago -- Farsi is a very different language than either Arabic or Urdu although it does use the Arabic alphabet, so you should have a head start there, assuming you read Urdu. In a few years, if you study hard, you'll be qualified to do simple translations of your own, and can decide whether or not you agree with MEMRI's experts. Until then, please do be quiet -- you are annoying people who actually know what you think you are talking about.
As for sending the Israelis back... it's been tried. For the better part of a century, in fact. The only result has been to expand the territory held by the Jews, and to demonstrate yet again that Arabs and Iranians make terrible soldiers. Clearly their best killed off one another in the unending civil wars and blood feuds of the Muslim empires. In fact, the current situation in Pakistan is clarifying whether that behaviour is intrinsically Arab, or necessarily Muslim. Given that you are in Mumbai rather than Quetta or Peshawar, I would suggest you agree the omens are not favourable, my dear nic.
#17
Ooooo, tw fillets another troll. Bet he didn't even feel the razor.
tw, if when I grow up I wanna be just like you. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
12/10/2009 19:03 Comments ||
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gee... i thought nic was being tongue in cheek. guess i gave too much credit thinking nobody could actually be that stupid and still take the time to post.
oops
/sarc
Posted by: abu do you love ||
12/10/2009 21:44 Comments ||
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#19
jeebus. Our troll quality has dropped off. At least at AOSHQ they have laptop battery guy for spamming... Our trolls are semi-literate islamitard tools.
Posted by: Frank G ||
12/10/2009 22:16 Comments ||
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