[TOLONEWS] On Thursday, General Zahir Zahir, head of the Kabul Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), said that warrants have been issued for MP Allah Gul Mujahid and his brother, Janat Gul, on charges of murder, kidnapping and land grabbing.
The announcement came after a clash occurred last month in which MP Mujahid's security personnel fought with police in the Deh Sabz district of Kabul. The confrontation between the MP's men and the police was sparked when some Japanese engineers from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) went to the district to assess investment opportunities and persons in the employement of Mujahid attacked them. The clash left at least six people dead and 16 others injured.
The Nomad MP and his brother are now wanted by police for their involvement in the clash, as well as in a series of other criminal cases related to men in their employment. Gen. Zahir said that the MP is wanted on the grounds of 30 different criminal cases.
"Whenever a killing happens, the killer goes to Allah Gul Mujahid to hide and receive support. Same in cases with people involved in kidnapping and land grabbing activities. All criminals take shelter in Allah Gul Mujahid's house and he helps them," Gen. Zahir told TOLOnews.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... MP Mujahid called all the charges levied against him and his brother "baseless."
"I refute all the charges against me and my brother. If I killed someone, his family should come to me and say that you or your brother killed my family member -- at least one person should claim that," said Mujahid.
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The B.O. regime's supposed deliberation on withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan earlier than expected, as reported by the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, has set off alarm bells for Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... . What is being described as a "zero option" may result in no forces being left in the war-torn country post-2014. The report stirred a heated debate in Afghanistan as opposition parties, the media and several analysts showed serious concerns over a move they believed could cause the country to slip into a state of civil war.
The report appeared just days after Karzai abruptly suspended talks over the possible security pact in what many believe was a response to the Taliban office opening in Qatar and the US announcing it would hold direct talks with the former. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the US dropped the idea of Taliban talks and, to pacify an angry Karzai, even agreed to what Afghan officials said about the office. Consequently, the opposition is blaming Karzai of annoying the US. The opposition also suspects Karzai is dragging his feet in signing the security pact for the post-2014 US presence in an attempt to secure personal concessions.
In order to allay public fears over the uncertainty post-2014, Karzai on several occasions publicly stated the US wanted to maintain military bases in Afghanistan in any circumstances. However, the president was unable to come up with a clear stance over the withdrawal plan. Most Afghan analysts seem to believe the country's collapse into chaos is inevitable should the US call all its troops home.
Political commentator Faizollah Jalal told Tolo TV he blamed the president for jeopardizing the country's national interests by "seeking interests and guarantees for himself and his family's assets in 2014 and beyond". Jalal said Washington should consider Afghanistan a partner instead of Karzai when making a decision on the country's future.
Egypt's public prosecutor has frozen the assets of 14 Islamist leaders, according to judicial sources.
The Muslim Brotherhood head Mohammed Badie and his deputy Khairat al-Shater are reported to be among them.
Mr Badie and other Brotherhood figures are already the subject of arrest warrants, while the ousted President Mohammed Morsi remains in custody.
On Sunday, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi defended the decision to remove him from power.
In a speech, he said he had urged the Islamist president to hold a referendum on his rule days before he was overthrown. "The response was total rejection," he added.
Gen al-Sisi said no group would be barred from politics: "Every political force... must realise that an opportunity is available for everyone in political life and no ideological movement is prevented from participating."
[Al Ahram] The way out of Egypt's highly divided political strife is to release deposed president Mohamed Morsi, says the head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP) Mohamed Abu El-Ghar in a televised interview.
Morsi should "return home, unless he is required to stand before justice," Abu El-Ghar asserted to Al-Arabiya channel late on Friday.
The former president has been held in a "safe place," to quote the interim leaders, and has not been seen in public since his ouster on 3 July. His supporters have been staging demonstrations nationwide calling for his release and reinstatement after the army removed him amid mass protests against his rule.
On Monday, 53 people were killed and over 400 injured when pro-Morsi supporters, mainly from the Moslem Brüderbund, clashed with the armed forces at the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo where they believed Morsi was held.
In his interview, Abu El-Ghar said that releasing the former president should be part of a "reconciliation" deal to be reached with the Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails.
He added, however, that the Brotherhood should acknowledge that those who went out on 30 June protests demanding that Morsi step down are many times the people who voted for him a year ago.
Similarly, constitutional expert and leading member of the ESDP Mohamed Nour Farahat called for a clear statement on Morsi's legal position.
If he is not accused of anything, he should be released, he said.
Farahat wrote on his official Facebook page that if Egypt is to be a state of law, it should avoid "exceptional measures... It is either [Morsi] is accused of a charge that independent judges would investigate or otherwise he should be released immediately."
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[Al Ahram] The Strong Egypt Party announced that founder Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh met with Al Azhar's Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayib on Friday to discuss possible national reconciliation efforts in order to end conflict following the ouster of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi.
According to the party's Saturday statement, the talks between former presidential candidate Abul-Fotouh and El-Tayib are part of the former's efforts to "communicate with different parties to contain the ongoing crisis the country is facing."
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[BBC.CO.UK] Egypt's public prosecutor's office says it is investigating complaints against ousted President Mohammed Morsi and members of the Moslem Brüderbund.
They include spying, inciting killing protesters, attacking military barracks and damaging the economy. It did not say who had filed the complaints.
Mr Morsi was deposed by the army on 3 July. The US has called for his release from detention at an unknown location.
Egypt's interim leader Adly Mansour has promised new elections early next year.
Dozens of people have died in festivities during major demonstrations by pro- and anti-Morsi protesters in the past few weeks.
Reconciliation blow
The prosecutor's office said it was investigating the complaints in order to prepare a file so that those accused could be questioned.
Among those named with Mr Morsi are the Brotherhood's leader, Mohamed Badie, and senior members of its political wing, the Freedom of Justice Party (FJP) including Deputy Director Essam El-Erian.
Mr Badie and other leaders are already the subject of arrest warrants, on charges of inciting violence outside a military barracks in the capital, Cairo, last Monday in which more than 50 people were killed.
The Brotherhood says its members were fired on while holding a peaceful vigil, but the army says soldiers reacted after coming under attack.
Mr Morsi's supporters, many of them members of the Islamist Moslem Brüderbund movement he comes from, have been staging mass protests in Cairo, since the army's intervention on 3 July.
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At least 20 students were killed in northern Nigeria last week when Islamic bully boyz razed their boarding school, prompting British authorities to label the group thought to be responsible, Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , a terrorist organization. But the B.O. regime has not done the same. While the State Department has labeled several individual Boko Haram leaders as terrorists, it is not clear why the B.O. regime has not taken the extra step to label the entire organization a terrorist organization.
When asked about the attack, a senior B.O. regime official said that the United States is "deeply concerned" about extremism in Nigeria, and pointed to the history of cooperation between the U.S. and Nigeria on security issues.
Pressure to label the Nigerian group has also come from within the administration. In January of 2012, Lisa Monaco, then the assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, wrote to the State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism requesting the department name Boko Haram as a FTO. Monaco currently serves as the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism for the B.O. regime.
Possible explanations for reluctance to label the group can be found in a 2012 letter to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Liberatress of Libya and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry L. Stimson ... from Nigeria experts, including John Campbell, the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria under President George Bush. The letter claims that the foreign terrorist organization (FTO) designation would limit the State Department's ability to shape "long-term" strategy and encourage the Nigerian government to use military action rather than diplomacy.
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cuz they're Mooslims?
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Obama tries desperately not to see Muslim wrongdoigs.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Amid widespread condemnation of Hefajat-e Islam Ameer Shah Ahmed Shafi's sermon denigrating women, the Islamist organization yesterday defended its chief's remarks.
In a statement, it said that atheist bloggers and their patrons, scared of the popularity of Hefajat, were "creating confusion by launching a smear campaign" against Shafi.
Signed by Hefajat's Organising Secretary Maulana Azizul Hoque Islamabadi, the statement noted, "As part of the smear campaign, special reports and talk shows based on the video clip of the sermon have flooded the social, electronic and print media. Some newspapers have played an overenthusiastic role."
Shafi, read the statement, gives sermons in villages in local dialects, using examples easily understood by villagers, while in cities he uses dialects suitable for educated people.
The organization argued that using analogies and languages used in villages and books [in sermons] cannot be termed indecent. These words and language have long been used in books, advertisements, health-related leaflets and booklets.
"Such examples have been used for centuries in sermons delivered in villages. No one has heard of these being termed indecent," added the statement.
In his sermon, Shafi said, "If a small boy is sucking on a piece of tamarind ... when you walk beneath a tamarind tree ... when you go by a tamarind shop in the market, it makes your mouth water; women are worse than that."
He went on saying, "Sitting inside your husband's home, you should take care of your husband's furniture and raise your children, your male kids. These are your jobs. Why do you have to go outside?"
The sermon drew flak from different women rights bodies and eminent civil society members after a video clip of the speech went viral.
But yesterday's statement claimed that the Hefajat chief never asked to see women tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! at home, rather he reminded all about women's key roles at home.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. yesterday blasted Hefajat-e Islam chief Shah Ahmed Shafi for his "derogatory" remarks about women.
"Recently, a religious leader has made some indecent remarks about women. I'm totally confused how a religious leader could utter such indecent words when Islam has showed highest respect for women," she told a function at Gono Bhaban.
The event was organised to inaugurate 88 air-conditioned buses bought under the $1 billion Indian line of credit.
The prime minister said such remarks from an Islamic leader were unwarranted and obviously derogatory.
Her comments came after a speech of Shafi had been widely circulated in the social media recently, where the Hefajat ameer made some indecent remarks about women and likened them with mouth-watering tamarind (tentul).
Hasina said the first person who had embraced Islam was a woman (Bibi Khadiza); Bibi Ayesha had fought in the battlefield alongside Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) and won a battle; and Bibi Sumaiya was the first martyr in the history of Islam. Besides, Bibi Khadiza had engaged herself in trade and business, she added.
"I want to ask him [Allama Shafi], didn't he come from a mother's womb? Won't he respect the mother? Doesn't he have a sister or wife? Won't he uphold their dignity?" she questioned wondering about how a person could talk such "nonsense" about women.
Referring to the "tie-up" between the Hefajat and BNP, she said the Islamist organization was now under the leadership of BNP, whose leader is a woman. "How could he [Shafi] accept her [Khaleda] as the leader?" questioned Hasina.
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Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who first published the documents Snowden leaked, said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday that the U.S. government should be careful in its pursuit of the former computer analyst.
"Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had," Greenwald said in an interview in Rio de Janeiro with the Argentinean daily La Nacion.
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Now really, what might we expect Mr. Greenwald to say; Snowden's information is now quite dated and the multi-agency damage assessments have prompted the appropriate programmatic changes and safeguards? Of course not.
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Theory out now is that Snowden was more a drop-box for a spy ring within the NSA or FISA court, and was tipped off, possibly by elements within the FBI.
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With all this talk about Snowden being a traitor, everybody seems to conveniently forget his whistleblowing information that THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS SPYING ON ALL U.S. CITIZENS, INSIDE THE UNITED STATES, in complete contravention to the Constitution.
Not that that surprises me .... >:-(
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Haven't forgotten that. However, the motive for releasing the information being "THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS SPYING ON ALL U.S. CITIZENS, INSIDE THE UNITED STATES" was a side effect to the primary missions of getting intel to the Chinese (and the Russians) and metaphorically blowing up the whole works.
[Dawn] Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervez Rashid on Saturday night categorically denied media reports that Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... Commission's report had gone missing from the prime minister's office.
The original report is in safe possession of the government and no unauthorised person can have access to the document, he told APP.
"The report has neither disappeared nor got leaked from PM office," the minister clarified. He said media reports and comments are based on unauthentic, incomplete and distorted version of the report.
The leaked version of report, uploaded by the Qatar-based media organization Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... , had blamed all government and military institutions of collective failure for their inability to track down the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... while he was living in the country, and for not being able to detect or prevent the unauthorised operation against the Al Qaeda chief by the US Navy SEAL's deep inside the Pak territory.
Replying to a question on the possibility of official release of the report, the minister said former prime minister had set up a committee on Feb 1, headed by the then minister for law with foreign and defence ministers as members to decide about complete or partial release of the report.
The committee was also mandated to decide whether the report should be made public at all. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the government's tenure concluded on March 16 and the findings of the committee could not be finalised by that time.
Rashid said the present government is looking into the matter and shall make a decision about release of the report in the national interest.
He urged the media not to jump to conclusions and wait for release of the authentic version of the report to make any analysis or judgment.
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[Dawn] The Pak Taliban have banned tight or see-through clothing for men, threatening to impose a fine and shutter businesses selling the items, traders from the country's restive tribal belt said Saturday. Nobody's hunting the Talibs down and hanging them so I guess nobody minds.
Shopkeepers in Wana, the main town of South Wazoo tribal district along the Afghan border told AFP the written warning came ahead of the Mohammedan holy month of Ramzan which began on Thursday in Pakistain.
"All such clothes which are of a thin material and which do not properly cover men's bodies are un-Islamic and against Pashtun culture," said the pamphlet, distributed in Wana bazaar.
It warned that any shopkeeper found selling such items will be charged a fine of 5000 rupees ($50) and will also see his shop closed for at least five days.
The pamphlet also warned male residents "not to wear such clothes."
A government official in Wana confirmed the written warning and told AFP that the local Death Eater groups had previously banned the sale of tight or see-through clothes for women.
South Waziristan is one of seven districts that make up Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The semi-autonomous region of mountains, valleys and caves is one of the most deprived and ill-educated in the country.
Talibs in Pakistain have often targeted shops selling music and films that they say break Islamic moral codes.
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I thought the Pak army/Govt was in control of South Waziristan?
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no Abercrombie & Fitch for the Pak hipster doods
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Tight pants for sheep still ok though.
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"Tight crotchless pants for sheep still ok though."
FTFY, new(?) addition to our Army of Steves. ;-p
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[FridayTimes] Thousands of new religious schools that opened in urban Sindh after 9/11 are a cause of concern for the provincial government
In a recent survey carried out by the Sindh Home Ministry, there are 12,545 madrassas in the province, of which 2,161 are sectarian and dangerous.
About 74 percent of these religious schools are in Urban Sindh (Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Hyderabad and Sukkur). At least 8,191 out of them opened after 9/11. About 67 percent of the madrassas in the province are owned by people who do not have a Sindh domicile.
According to the survey, 6,191 of the madrassas belong to the Deobandi school of thought, 2,811 are Barevli, 412 follow the Ahle Hadith doctrine and 512 belonged to the Shia fiqh.
The most alarming aspect of the study is that the areas with the highest concentration of madrassas are the focal points of sectarianism. One example of that is Karachi's central district that has more than 813 madrassas. More than 74 percent of all sectarian motivated killings in Karachi are carried out in this district.
Mufti Taimoor Afridi owns the Jamia Islamia madrassa in North Karachi, with 381 students mostly from the tribal areas. "These children would have joined the Taliban if they weren't studying here," he said. "We are teaching and feeding them. The money comes from local donors." Mufti Taimoor Afridi recently bought a new 4x4 Vigo worth Rs 3.2 million.
Inside the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... 's headquarters in Karachi, party head Aurangzeb Farooqi says his group's madrassas do not promote sectarian rivalry. "We have hundreds of madrassas with thousands of students, and we do not teach sectarianism."
The population of madrassa students in Sindh according to the Home Ministry survey is estimated at up to 120,000 to 150,000. "We have seen cases in the past where we recovered children chained in a madrassa named Madrassa al Arabia al Uloom," said Mohammad Rameez Khan, an official of the Sindh Home Ministry. "The parents enrolled the children but the madrassa administration chained them so they wouldn't run-away."
In 2005, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad promulgated the Societies Registration (Sindh Amendment) Ordinance, under which no seminary can be set up or run in the province without being registered. A new section 21 was included in the 1860 law, with four clauses, that also made it compulsory for all seminaries to submit annual reports of their performance, their expenses and receipts, and audits of their accounts. The law also prohibited teaching or publishing "any literature which promotes militancy or spreads sectarianism or religious hatred".
But the madrassa networks remain a major cause of concern for the Sindh government. "A majority of sectarian forces of Evil use these madrassa networks not just to hide but to recruit, pick and even train," said senior police officer Chaudhry Aslam, who heads the CID.
But any reform of law enforcement moves could backfire if madrassa owners are not taken on board, analysts say. "The biggest problem is enforcement," said Sharfuddin Memon, former home minister and CPLC chief. "We should also take stern action against hate literature and enforce laws to regulate these seminaries."
"There are over 600 madrassas in Sindh which are red flagged and termed dangerous," said a source in the Sindh Home Ministry. But analysts say it is hard to prove how a specific religious curriculum promotes hatred, violence and prejudice towards various sects within Islam and non-Musselmens, especially when the entire state and private school curriculum is designed to promote, inculcate and incite the spirit of jihad and hatred among children as young as five.
There are also concerns about the future about the thousands of students who enroll in these religious schools. "What will these children do after graduation?" asks Mufti Naeem of Jamia Binoria, one of the largest seminaries in Sindh. "There has to be vocational training and some sort of accommodation to these madrassa students or there would be issues at all levels."
Syrian plans to run for a spot on the UN Human Rights Council met with sharp criticism from the United States and Israel on Thursday, while Tehran announced it had withdrawn its candidacy for the world body's rights watchdog. The General Assembly's annual elections for the United Nations' 47-nation, Geneva-based human rights body will be held in November in New York. There will be 14 seats available for the five UN regional groups for three-year terms beginning in January 2014.
From the so-called Asia group, which includes the Middle East and Asia, seven countries -- China, Iran, Jordan, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Vietnam -- will be vying for four seats.
Human rights winners all of them. The best might actually be Vietnam, which is sad...
A spokesman for Iran's UN mission said on Thursday that Iran had withdrawn its candidacy and did not provide an explanation. "It (withdrawing) is a normal practice within all the UN regional groups," the spokesman said.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Rosemary DiCarlo said neither Syria nor Iran belonged on the UN rights council.
"Attempts by either country to join the Human Rights Council are highly inappropriate given existing Human Rights Council mandates to investigate human rights violations in these countries, their egregious records on human rights, and their on-going collaboration to suppress the democratic aspirations of the Syrian people," DiCarlo said.
Ambassador Ron Prosor of Israel echoed DiCarlo's views.
"This might be a new world record for lunacy at the United Nations," Prosor said. He said having countries like Iran and Syria on the right council would be like "putting the Godfather in charge of a witness-protection programme."
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[Ynet] Thousands of Arab-Israelis hold protest in support of ousted Egyptian president Morsi, placing blame on army, US for orchestrating move they claim opposes will of Egyptian people
How very odd. Nonetheless, photos and video at the link.
More than 2,000 people affiliated with the Israeli branch of the Islamic Movement held a pro-Morsi demonstration in the Arab town of Kafr Kanna on Saturday.
The protesters were led by the movement's leader Raed Salah. They held pictures of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and blocked the town's main road.
"Morsi is head of state, we oppose the army, we oppose the revolution," Arab-Israelis chanted in a rare show of support for Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund. Protesters also shouted that they would be willing to give their life for Morsi.
The focus of the protest's anger was directed against Egypt's Defense Minister and Chief of Staff General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who decided to depose Morsi nine days ago in the wake of massive public protests.
"Sisi betrayed his people and America is a terrorist state," protesters yelled and claimed that "Sisi is not the head of state, the elected president is Morsi."
The protest was organized by the Islamic Movement's northern branch. The movement's leader, Sheikh Raed Salah, and his deputy Sheikh Kamal Khatib took an active role in the protest.
Khatib told Ynet: "We're here to tell the entire world and the Egyptian people that Morsi is the legally elected president and he must be reinstated so that the people's will will be respected."
According to Khatib "we're against the revolution and we'll continue to support Morsi until he returns to his position. If they want to get rid of Morsi they could vote him out in three years."
Protesters also placed the blame on the US.
Oved Hussien, who came to the protest from Nazareth, said that "every part of the 'revolution' was planned by the United States, which is truly responsible for Morsi's fall."
According to him, "It makes little to no sense to topple the government after so little time. The way it happened solves no problems. If Morsi erred then he needs to fix it, but he shouldn't be thrown out and people should not be killed."
There were also local Arab residents who were opposed to the protest. A resident Kafr Kanna said: "I have no idea what Egypt has to do with us. In my opinion this was redundant and has no place here.
"If the Arab sector (in Israel) wants to dissent it should do so against land expropriation and the destruction of houses not against Morsi's ouster. The Egyptian people and not us should pay the price of what is happening in Egypt.
[Jpost] US intelligence agencies say Tehran is aided by North Korea, China in development of intercontinental ballistic missile.
No worries. The Smartest Man In The Room, as well as The Second and Third Smartest, will all be out of office by then. So nothing need be done. Tea?
US intelligence agencies have assessed that as early as 2015, Iran will be set to test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), that has the capability to strike the United States, a released Pentagon report states.
"Iran has ambitious ballistic missile and space launch development programs and continues to attempt to increase the range, lethality, and accuracy of its ballistic missile force," the report says.
"Iran could develop and test an ICBM capable of reaching the United States by 2015."
The US Department of Defense assessment was compiled by The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, together with the Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center and the Office of Naval Intelligence.
The report also stated that China and North Korea were rapidly proliferating the developments of nuclear warheads capable of hitting the United States, as well as supporting the development of advanced Iranian missile capabilities.
"Iran has an extensive missile development program, and has received support from entities in China, and North Korea," the report says.
Not only is Iran closing in on such power capabilities, but is also actively training for its use.
"Iranian ballistic missile forces continue to train extensively in highly publicized exercises," the report says, "these exercises enable Iranian ballistic missile forces to hone wartime operational skills and evolve new tactics."
This report comes following a July 5 test failure of an American missile defense system.
Four US Republican politicians on Friday urged Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to conduct another test of the missile defense system this year after last week's test failure, and to make development of a next-generation interceptor a top priority.
The politicians said the cause of the failed July 5 missile defense test was not yet clear, but they argued that President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... 's cuts in spending on missile defense had reduced funding for needed tests and maintenance of the system.
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Would that be early in 2015 or perhaps in the November-December timeframe? Emergency supplemental funding requires a bit more fiscal-year accuracy. Lastly, please, no more cut and paste from previous years.
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Targeting systems are not going to be measured in meters, closer to kilometers. Nearest big targets are on the coasts which just so happen to be deep blue who kept in office probably the less qualified team to avoid all of this. Karma.
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IIUC, IOW Iran is crossing yet another of the Bammer's "red lines", + thus far the Bammer isn't seemingly doing anything about despite his Media, Diplomatic rhetoric to the contrary.
NOW APPLY THE BAMMER'S LACK OF RESPONSE OR LEADERSHIP ON SAME TO CHINA OVER IN EAST ASIA, VEE THE EAST CHINA SEA + SOUTH CHINA SEA, + GWADAR + CHABBAHAR + KARACHI + BANGLADESH + SRI LANKA + MALDIVES, ....@ETC? as per the Globalist agendum for OWG + a "Multipolar World" where the post-Cold War/9-11, formerly "Sole" Superpower or Hyperpower USA is now a OWG-NWO "GLOBAL CO-SUPERPOWER" AMONG MANY ALL RANKED PAR AT WORLD#1.
Iff it isn't so-called "Rising China", it will be "Rising Iran" = NUCLEAR ISLAM/ISLAMISM INCLUD REGIONAL, GLOBAL NUCLEAR MILITANCY-TERRORISM WHICH IS ALREADY NIPPING AT CHINA'S, RUSSIA'S, + INDIA'S SIX.
"Post-US" wannabe China wants the same or better level of global influence + capability as the US, AS WILL SHIA RISING IRAN = AKA OWG NUCLEAR CALIPHATE = AKA FIRST WORLD'S FIRST ISLAMIC/
ISLAMIST NUCLEAR SUPERPOWER WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE DESIRED OUTCOME OF SHIA IRAN'S RIVALRY WID SUNNI SAUDI ARABIA.
Any each + all "Brush/Jungle Wars" + "Banana Conflicts", etc. will be NUCLEAR, WMD-CAPABLE.
[Dawn] THE murder by a jihadist militia on Thursday of a powerful Free Syrian Army commander highlights the country's drift towards anarchy. Commander Kamal Hamami belonged to the FSA's supreme command and wanted to discuss military operations with rival leaders when an Al Qaeda-linked group shot him. The killers belonged to the 'Islamic State of Iraq and Levant', which later said it would kill the entire leadership of the FSA's supreme military council. Originally confined to its country, the Islamic State of Iraq merged a few months back with Death Eater Syrian groups to acquire its present nomenclature. This infighting among the rebels has helped Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... , whose government has gone on the offensive and gained some important military victories, including the capture of Qusayr from the rebels. His government could now concentrate on wresting Homs from the dissidents.
Even though the Syrian civil war is more than 27 months old, its character underwent a radical change over the last year, with the spirit behind the Arab Spring giving way to a sectarian conflict. Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Qatar are lending political, financial and military support to Death Eater elements at a time when around two-thirds of Syria is not under the Assad government. This has enabled Al Qaeda to make a major effort to turn Syria into a base of operations. As a report says, even Pak Taliban have managed to find their way to the country and work in tandem with those having a larger Islamist agenda. This could destabilise the entire Middle East. While there is a split in the Western world over arming Syrian rebels, America and Russia should try to revive the Geneva peace conference move, now in limbo, to end the slaughter which has so far cost 100,000 lives.
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A month after the Obama administration pledged stepped-up support for Syria's armed opposition, the government of President Bashar Assad's position has improved, with U.S. assistance to the rebels apparently stalled and deadly rifts opening among the forces battling to topple the Assad regime. Government forces appear close to forcing rebels from the key city of Homs after a 10-day offensive, while an al Qaida-linked rebel group on Thursday assassinated a top commander from the more moderate, Western-backed Supreme Military Council, signaling what one British newspaper dubbed a "civil war within a civil war."
The biggest reversals, however, came inside Syria, where areas once solidly under rebel control have begun to slip away. That has cut into the opposition's ability to provide aid to hungry, besieged communities -- a key part of a strategy to prove it could govern Syria, should Assad fall. n the United States, political and logistical snags are preventing the distribution of promised military aid, while in Turkey, the exiled civilian Syrian Opposition Coalition remains mired in organizational turmoil.
Increased military assistance that the Obama administration promised in mid-June after it determined that the Assad government had used chemical weapons has stalled because Congress is divided over whether and how to arm the rebels. That program was to be handled by the CIA, but Congress' intelligence committees have yet to approve the program. On Friday, members' offices declined to discuss the program.
A review of recent statements by members of both the House and the Senate committees found a mix of opinions. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said last month that he would've favored sending weapons long ago to ensure that vetted, moderate rebels were "the best armed, best equipped and best trained," while the committee's chairwoman, Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., last month seemed to favor United Nations action over U.S. action, calling on the Security Council to "finally take strong and meaningful action to end this crisis in Syria." In the House of Representatives, tea party members have joined forces with some Democrats to introduce legislation that would forbid the Obama administration from sending arms to Syria without the approval of Congress. Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., said sending weapons to the opposition would be tantamount to "arming and aiding extremist groups who seek to defeat us and our way of life."
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki declined Friday to comment on the status of the aid programs. She said only that the administration had "taken steps" on that front, and that the U.S. was concerned about the Syrian military's sieges on Homs and other areas.
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The Obama dither. Dick Cheney had this boy pegged right off.
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See also DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [Reuters] SYRIA REBELS SAY THEY HAVE GIVEN UP ON US WEAPONS PROMISES.
Winner/Advantage: AL-QAEDA + TALIBAN, ETC. FOREIGN MILITANT GROUPS whom many in the FSA = anti-Assad opposition will now rely + turn to for Arms, $$$ in lieu of the Bammer = USA.
Speaking of which ...
* TOPIX > ISLAMIC MILITANTS STREAM OUT OF PAKISTAN IN GROWING NUMBERS TO FIGHT IN SYRIA.
* SAME > PAKISTANI TALIBAN FIGHTERS JOIN SYRIA REBELS IN FIGHT AGZ ASSAD.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > VIDEO: SAUDI MUJAHIDIN JOIN FELLOW SUNNIS IN SYRIA FIGHT.
Iraq lacks the means to stop Iranian arms deliveries to Syria through its airspace, if there are any, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in comments published on Saturday. Zebari said he had urged Western governments to take action themselves if they were convinced that Iran was smuggling weapons to its Syrian ally.
Zebari said Western governments were convinced such an air bridge existed and that his response was: "This does not have my consent, and I do not have the means to prevent it."
He said the Shiite-led government in Baghdad had urged Tehran "not to use relations with (Iraq) to send arms to others."
"We reject and condemn the shipping of arms through our airspace, and we will tell the Iranian side of that officially, but we cannot stop it," Zebari said. Zebari, himself a Sunni Kurd, said last month that he could not deny that Iraqi Shiites were fighting in Syria alongside the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, whose Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
But he stressed that their involvement in the conflict "does not come under government policy."
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