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A lot of people fall back on familiar terms of speech. I do it in my grant writing; I know it and I take care to edit and re-edit to find those terms and rub them out.
What matters here isn't that he's using the saying 'punching above their weight' so many times, it's that NO ONE ON HIS STAFF TOLD HIM.
Why not?
That's what I don't get. "Hey Boss, that's a phrase you use a lot, maybe we should try this one instead."
The man is supposed to have speechwriters, aides, staff, etc. There are people out there who LIVE for this stuff. They'd be happy to work in his administration.
It isn't a failure of a trite figure of speech. It's a failure of his White House.
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either that, or he's really not a glib eloquent intelligent speaker without his Teleprompter. SCOAMF
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Wonder if Durbin will call for a Senate Hearing concerning these bounty hunters?
Yesterday afternoon at a press conference Mikhail Muhummud and the New Black Panther Party circulated a "wanted dead or alive" poster for George Zimmerman for shooting to death a Florida teenager four weeks ago.
The new Black Panther Party offered a bounty of $10,000 Saturday for the "capture" of a Florida neighborhood watch captain who killed unarmed teen Trayvon Martin.
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," leader Mikhail Muhammad said after announcing the reward for George Zimmerman at a protest in Sanford, Fla.
Muhammad called on 5,000 black men to mobilize and capture the neighborhood watch volunteer.
"If the government won't do the job, we'll do it," Muhammad said, leading chants that included "freedom or death" and "justice for Trayvon."
Muhammad said New Black Panther's chairman, Malik Zulu Shabaz of Washington, was taking donations from black entertainers and athletes.
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The Klan. Just like the old Klan, just under new management. Becoming the enemy they once despised for violence and intimidation. No surprise which big tent party they ultimate identify with. However, the old Klan would have like to have the criminal statistics the New Klan racks up in their own community.
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The Race War is coming. My God, I cannot believe the rate at which this country is starting to disintegrate.
I never thought I would see it.
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When Eric Holder was asked by Congress why he went lite on the Black Panther voter intimdation action, he told Congress these were "his people". With a tone of "Audacity".
Now People. Let Me Tell You Something.
The reason you question EVERYTHING about a candidate as the President of the United States - everything - even the legitimacy of his own birth certificate is to make sure a gangster a thug a LIAR a DECIEVER does not get in where he can take control of so much power.
This generation screwed it up. Now deal with it.
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Might be a mistake for the left to go after a hispanic (with a jewish name) this way, with no facts, just torches and bile. You might rally the black vote and lose the other ethnic enclaves.
Usually Hispanics are identified in the media as just that, and Hispanics are seen in progressive circles, academia, etc as part of the 'People of Color.' The thought is that they too have been discriminated against and so have a common agenda with blacks, asians, etc against 'the Other'.
This is so even as the Census Bureau asks about race and ethnicity separately, so that you do have 'white Hispanics' and 'black Hispanics' (I suppose one could be a 'white Pacific Islander' or a 'black Pacific Islander' if you fill in the little circles on the form in just a certain way).
Yet the NYT has gone out of its way to identify Mr. Zimmerman as a 'white Hispanic'. Is he (I take it) not a card-carrying member of the People of Color?
I have no clear idea what the facts are in the Trayvon Martin case, and I am content to wait for the authorities to release their exhaustive investigation to the public.
But it seems very shortsighted for the progressive community and the media (but I repeat myself) to try and split the People of Color at a time when Champ needs every vote he can get.
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We have so many gangs in this country and areas you dare not go if you don't belong. I don't believe the black panthers would dare go into a Hispanic area. This is media hype. They will most likely tear up their own home areas. Food stores and so on. Brothers in color only.
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I believe the hype was going full bore before white as initially reported became White Hispanic. I'm sure there is an attempt by some to slam on the brakes but it may have gone too far to undo.
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I read that the kid busted Zimmerman's nose. Witnesses say Tryvon was on top of Zimmerman beating him up when Trayvon Martin got shot. There sure has been a rush to judgment before the facts have come out. Obama has fanned the flames as much as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. But then what's new.
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"Zulu Shabaz"?? Now thats a stage name. ( or a great name for a cheap South Africa red wine)I think he should be introduced to the winger that Fred found in the "Hatching Evil" article.
The only danger is giving these guys too much credit. Democracy and a free for all press (that needs to sell copy) and there you go Wingers Galore. Thankfully Canada is too far below the radar for these high flyers.
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Sharpton said he warned the family from the start that anything negative about Trayvon would be dragged out in an effort to make him out to be a junkie and a thief. He knew that would happen, he said, because its occurred in every similar case he has ever been involved in.
yeah....we know
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Hey Al, just two words. Tawana Brawley.
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Twitter handle of @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA, and apparently gang affiliated.
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didn't use the RB linky tool? If you don't, it adds a header that FUBARS it, at least in Firefox. Best to use Fred's tool that looks like a globe with an infinity sign below it.....
not sure what you're using/how you did it....just helping peeps with FF?
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SEOUL, South Korea -- At the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, President Obama said that he would have "more flexibility" to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense, but incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to give him "space."
This is why Champ has to go...
The exchange was picked up by microphones as reporters were let into the room for remarks by the two leaders. The exchange:
President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it's important for him to give me space.
President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you...
President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.
President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.
When asked to explain what President Obama meant, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Ben Rhodes told ABC News that there is room for the U.S. and Russia to reach an accommodation, but "there is a lot of rhetoric around this issue -- there always is -- in both countries.
A senior administration official tells ABC News: "this is a political year in which the Russians just had an election, we're about to have a presidential and congressional elections -- this is not the kind of year in which we're going to resolve incredibly complicated issue like this. So there's an advantage to pulling back and letting the technical experts work on this as the president has been saying."
And then in 2013 he can bow to Vlad and give away our national defense.
Addendum at 11:50 CT: William Jacobson at the excellent Legal Insurrection puts this in terms that I find even more interesting: "Why does Obama feel the President of Russia is entitled to know more about Obama's plans than the American public?"
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Traitorous narcissistic scum. It's all about him and his reelection. He throws missile defense of Americans and allies out to save his skinny ass.
THIS is s BFD
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President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.
TRANSLATION:
After my election, Michelle and I can do anything we damn well phueching please.
[note his stated mownership of the election process]
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As Frank G said this is a BFD. The President is telling the Russians that he will be more willing to do something after the American people have judged his actions and determined he was worthy of re-election. What is it he would do that he must defer until after that judgement?
Obviously it is something that would be detrimental to his prospects of re-election, and hence cannot be considered beneficial to those whom he serves.
Gee, can you get any more clear evidence, out of his own mouth in an unguarded moment, of what a liar, and disingenuous man we have in the office?
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Does this mean, give me more time so I can get re-elected in a rigged election such as Putin had? And then this missile deal that we have can be pulled off?
Buggered by communists and a Manchurian candidate.
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Ya know, if I were a die-hard supporter of, or even more so a booster, obama I would be banging my head through a basement wall at the sheer incompetence of such a lazy and rookie mistake.
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I think what he means he will have a lot of time on his hands after the election when a new President takes over and if Russia needs a savior they need just ask.
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Personally, I'm more interested in the Bammer inference that post-2016 OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoA may still be dealing wid VLADVEDEV-IAN RUSSIA.
* "Detrimental to his re-election" > IOW, the state of the tote US Economy leading up to November.
No US-Iran ground war = Iran will get its Nukes = POTUS Obama will likely have to "Spend Spend Spend" on GMD-TMD during his second term + NOT make any serious compromise wid Russia. IFF ANYTHING, NUCLEAR IRAN + by extension poten NUCLEAR RADICAL ISLAM/TERROR = IT'LL BE RUSSIA WHOM ACCEDE TO THE US ARGUMENT.
He'll push for it whether he's re-elected or a lame duck. The difference is that, if it's the latter, he'll have to shoehorn it in with the rest of his agenda he wants passed before inauguration day.
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nice thing about that, Pappy is the Filibuster. While he and the Dems haven't felt restrained in the past by constitutional limited powers, they would then. What I find extremely interesting is a "Pardon Pool". Perhaps I'll start one up. First on the list? Holder
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Question is, if nobody brings charges against Holder until after Obama leaves office, can he still be pardoned ahead of time?
A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform killed two NATO troops in southern Helmand province on Monday.
In a statement, NATO's International Security Assistance force said, "The individual who opened fire was killed when coalition forces returned fire." It did not identify the two NATO soldiers or give their nationality.
The incident took place in Lashkar Gah and will be investigated by a joint Afghan-NATO team. The Lashkar Gah base is dominated by British forces and a NATO official said the two victims were British soldiers. Britain's Ministry of Defense said it was aware of the incident, but refused to release any more details or confirm whether the soldiers were British.
Did they catch the 'gunman' alive? Will the Afghans put him on trial? Will the Afghan government pay compensation to the families of the dead NATO troops?
"An International Security Assistance Force service member died following a shooting incident in eastern Afghanistan today. According to operational reports, the ISAF service member was shot by an alleged member of the Afghan Local Police as the security force approached an ALP checkpoint."
A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform killed two NATO troops in southern Helmand province on Monday. The attacker was gunned down by NATO force soldiers, the force said in a statement. It did not identify the two NATO soldiers or give their nationality.
The incident took place in Lashkar Gah, an Afghan security source said.
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We provide 'opportunity'. You have to provide the rest. If you don't, what follows is your problem. Don't make it our problem again cause we probably won't do the same thing again if we have to come back.
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That's the fundamental problem with all of this. It is not our job to provide the "opportunity of freedom". Our only job is to protect our own freedom - that is it. You cannot make a culture want to be free, they have to earn it.
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In other words:
You cannot impose freedom on a people.
The most you can do is to allow them to have the opportunity to be free. They have to bleed and die and yes even kill to obtain it.
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The real problem with democracy in Afghanistan is that it put our enemy (the Pashtuns) in power. Until the Pashtuns are defeated, with millions of their young men dead, we have have no peace.
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The real problem with democracy in Afghanistan is that an electorate consisting of vicious barbarians will not select a government any better than itself. FIFY.
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It would have been a HELL of a lot easier for all concerned (and cheaper for us) if we'd just bombed the hell out of them on September 12, 2001. And bounced the rubble every year or so. >:-(
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Yosemite Sam, I agree. I've become a believer in the J curve. Once a society makes a high enough GDP democracy and freedom generally follow. Try to force democracy and freedom in before the population is ready and you will be disappointed.
Should have creamed the Taliban, hunted Al Queda and put the Northern Alliance in power (with the old constitution as a fig leaf). Then made war on drug growers and Al Quesa for a year, then decide what to do but always keep a small footprint and avoid nationbuilding.
Having said that I think we will be happier knowing we tried before turning our backs ones third world nations sink into conflict.
PARIS: An extremists killing spree has turned the spotlight on the risk of extremist Islamic indoctrination in prisons, but Frances intelligence chief said Mohamed Merah had learned his radicalism alone.
He was a 'lone wolf', of course...
President Nicolas Sarkozy announced in the immediate aftermath of 23-year-old Merahs attacks and violent end, that France would take measures to stamp-out extremist proselytising in prisons.
We cannot allow our prisons to become seed-beds for the indoctrination of ideologies of hate and terrorism, the president said, demanding a thorough reflection on measures to control the threat.
But most experts who spoke on Friday said the young man had taken time in prison to radicalise himself, rather than falling victim to recruiters.
Who were nowhere to be seen in the prison, of course, other than the prison yard, the mess hall, the library, the commodes and the workshops...
Christian Etelin, a lawyer who represented the self-declared al-Qaeda follower during his earlier teenage career as a petty criminal, said after he was killed in a shoot-out with police that he had become radicalised in jail.
Merah, now 23, was jailed at 19 for a series of thefts and violent crimes and spent two years in jail. After his release he headed to Afghanistan and Pakistan where he claims to have received training from al-Qaeda.
It was during his time in prison that he began to radicalise himself, prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters this week.
And the head of Frances DCRI domestic intelligence agency, Bernard Squarcini told the daily Le Monde: According to statements he made during the siege, he self-radicalised in prison, on his own.
They're flonking the 'lone wolf' theory pretty hard. Makes you wonder why...
While most experts accept that violent extremist groups do recruit in jails, they said a very small proportion of the young men of Muslim background exposed to extremist propaganda end up joining jihadist groups.
So small a proportion it can't be measured...
Very few really fall into this, said Louis Caprioli, a former senior interior ministry official charged with anti-terror and counter-espionage.
Most of these young guys, when they come out of jail, want to go out with girls, steal BMWs and Mercedes, sell heroin for money, he said. They go back to the sensual pleasures of their former lives.
That's not incompatible with being a jihadi hard boy...
Only the fringe of the fringe, like Mohamed Merah, follow the logic through to its conclusion, he argued.
While lawyer Dominique Many said that Muslims who had travelled to Pakistan or Afghanistan were admired in prison as resistance fighters, other experts played down their long-term influence on less hardened recruits.
Farhad Khosrokhavar, director the EHESS social sciences school, said another strand of Islamic thought, hyper fundamentalism, was growing in prisons. Adherents to this ideal close in on themselves and dedicate much time to Islamic studies and prayer, but are not generally violent.
They just steer the ones who are...
In September 2008, the French interior ministry estimated that only just over 100 detainees among a national prison population of 63,000 inmates were undergoing a process of radicalisation.
And who knows how many of that hundred are gathering guns right now? And of the 62,900 other inmates, how many times the authorities have been wrong? Like I said, couldn't possibly be measured...
French authorities do not keep records of a citizens religious leanings but, based on the number of prisoners who refuse to eat pork, estimate the proportion of Muslim detainees at between 30 and 40 per cent.
Out of a population that is 5 to 8 percent Muslim...
Celine Verzeletti of the CGT union, which represents prison officers, said: A few years ago we warned of the need for vigilance, but I have the impression that radicalisation is less common today.
Verzeletti said more Muslim chaplains were being allowed to work in jails, helping prisoners who want to live a mainstream religious life.
And we all know what a 'mainstream religious life' is in Islam...
Where theres a chaplain, theres no self-declared imam, explained Moulay El Hassan El Alaoui Talibi, head of the Muslim chaplains in French jails.
The chaplain is the benchmark. If theres none, theres a risk.The number of Muslim clerics working in jails has tripled since 2006 to around 150, he said.
Abdelhak Eddouk, who works with Muslim prisoners in Fleury-Merogis jail outside Paris, agreed, explaining that chaplains can quickly respond to and defuse through argument the development of dangerous ideas.
A video purported to be from al-Qaeda's North African affiliate has demanded that Germany free a woman jailed on terror charges in return for a German hostage it says it is holding. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's video was obtained by a Mauritanian news agency.
Straight from the AQIM press attaché in Mauritania...
In the video, the hostage says his life is at risk if the woman is not freed.
Edgar Fritz Raupach, an engineer, was kidnapped by gunmen near the northern Nigerian city of Kano two months ago.
"We inform you that that your compatriot Edgar Fritz Raupach is a prisoner of the fighters of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," the video said.
The group said it is seeking the release of Umm Seifullah al-Ansari, or Filiz Gelowicz, a Turkish-born woman jailed a year ago in Germany for aiding terrorism.
Her husband, German national Fritz Gelowicz, a convert to Islam, was among four Islamists imprisoned in March 2010 for plotting to attack US facilities in Germany. At the time, the judge said the men, known as the "Sauerland group", had dreamed of "mounting a second 11 September 2001".
The statement claimed the Filiz Gelowicz was suffering "inhumane treatment" in a German prison.
That can't be; everyone knows the Euro prisons are models of compassion. Though we could arrange for Filiz to be transferred to a Turkish prison if you prefer...
Correspondents say the private Mauritanian news agency which sourced the video, ANI, frequently publishes statements by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Israel using permanent base in northern Iraq to launch intelligence missions in Iran in search of nuclear evidence, Western intelligence sources say
Israel is using a permanent base in Iraqi Kurdistan to launch cross-border intelligence missions in an attempt to find "smoking gun" evidence that Iran is building a nuclear warhead, the Sunday Times reported Sunday.
According to Western intelligence sources, Israel has used sensitive equipment during its covert operations to monitor the radioactivity and magnitude of explosives tests. It was also reported that Israeli special forces used Black Hawk helicopters to carry commandos disguised as members of the Iranian military and using Iranian military vehicles.
The sources said that Israel had been conducting intelligence missions in the area for several years. In recent months efforts aimed at the Parchin military complex near Tehran to which the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been denied access, have intensified.
According to the sources, operations are also aimed at Fordow near the city of Qom where Iran is working on high-level enrichment.
"We've detected clean-up efforts recently in Parchin which might indicate that the Iranians are trying to hide evidence of warhead tests in preparation for a possible IAEA visit," said a western source.
Washington believes that Hezbullies and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, are helping their backers in Iran to expand its influence in Yemen at the expense of Yemen's Gulf neighbors, the US envoy to Sanaa was quoted as saying on Sunday.
The pan-Arab daily al-Hayat cited Gerald Feierstein, in an interview in London, as accusing Hezbullies and Hamas of helping their backers in Shi'ite Iran at the expense of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a bloc in which Sunni-led oil giant Soddy Arabia's influence is dominant.
Iran is working with Shi'ite Mohammedan rebels in northern Yemen and secessionists in the country's south to expand its influence, Feierstein said.
[Dawn] LAHORE: Two alleged criminals were killed in a suspected police encounter near Mian Plaza in Johar Town early on Saturday.
Witnesses said blindfolded suspects were shot in, what appeared to be a planned encounter, but police claimed the suspects were killed after they violated a police signal to stop and fired at police.
Johar Town police claimed three robbers snatched a car from Fawad in Sabzazar on last Friday evening and later deprived a couple of cash and jewellery in Green Town police limits at around 1.30am on Saturday.
At the time of the second incident, robbers were five and they used the snatched car.
Police cordoned off the areas of Township, Green Town, Johar Town and Sattokatla after receiving an emergency call by the couple.
A police team at a picket on Johar Town Main Boulevard signaled a car to stop at around 2am near Ashiq Chowk, but the car occupiers tried to escape while opening fire on the police.
A shootout took place between two sides in which two suspects were killed instantly. The three other suspects beat feet on foot while exchanging fire with the police. Police said its personnel remained safe in the shooting. The victims suffered bullets to their chests and faces.
Police seized the car, weapons, some jewellery and a cell phone from the spot.
Saddar SP (Operations) Shoaib Khurram said the suspects were wanted by the police of Lahore, Okara, Narowal and Sheikhupura in at least 100 cases of dacoity, robbery, street crime and police encounters.
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[Dawn] Relatives of 17 people rubbed out in a rampage by a US soldier in southern Afghanistan have been paid tens of thousands of dollars in compensation, a tribal chief and government officials said Sunday.
The money -- provided by the US military -- was handed over at a private ceremony at the Kandahar provincial governor's office, they said.
"The elders called me and said they were paid $50,000 per person for the dead and $11,000 for the injured per person," Haji Agha Lalai, a tribal chief and a member of the Kandahar provincial council, told AFP.
The killings -- mostly of women and kiddies -- in Panjwai district are thought to be the deadliest crime by a US soldier during the decade-long conflict and have tested Washington and Kabul's already tense relationship to the limit.
The US is keen to draw a line under the massacre earlier this month as far as it can and the sums -- around $900,000 in total -- amount to a fortune in rural Afghanistan.
The payments on Saturday came a day after Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, 38, of the US 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, was formally accused of 17 premeditated murders for the killings -- charges that could carry the death penalty.
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[Dawn] The security forces recovered missiles and rockets during a search operation in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central on Saturday.
An official told journalists that unidentified beturbanned goons had planted nine missiles and two rockets in Badiasia area of Mamond to
attack an unspecified target.
He said that security forces moved to the area after receiving information from the local people about the presence of nine missiles and two rockets there. The security forces cordoned off the area and defused the missiles and rockets.
"The missiles and rockets were planted to target Khar town. It could have caused huge destruction if the same were not safely defused," the official claimed.
He said that security forces also recovered arms of different bores during the search operation.
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[An Nahar] Venezuelan His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez flew back to Cuba late Saturday for more radiation treatment after his latest cancer surgery.
Surrounded by military guards of honor, the Venezuelan supremo boarded a Havana-bound plane at Maiquetia International Airport at about 9:15 pm local time (0145 GMT Sunday).
Earlier in the day, Chavez said in a message broadcast on radio and television that he was planning to start radiation therapy in Havana on Sunday, adding that his treatment was expected to continue "four or five weeks."
The news came with Chavez already campaigning for re-election later this year.
Chavez, 57, underwent surgery in Havana on February 26 to remove a cancerous tumor around the pelvis, the same area from where a first tumor was extracted in June last year.
Officials in Caracas have never specified what type of cancer the president is suffering from, but they have denied the disease has spread to other organs.
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[An Nahar] The Moslem Brüderbund, the main Islamist force that emerged after the Arab Spring, is plotting to take over Gulf states, Dubai's police chief said in remarks reported on Sunday.
Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan said he had his reasons to claim that the "Brotherhood was plotting to change the regimes in the Gulf," in an interview published in the Kuwaiti daily al-Qabas.
"My sources say the next step is to make Gulf governments (their ruling families) figurehead bodies only without actual ruling. The start will be in Kuwait in 2013 and in other Gulf states in 2016," he said.
Khalfan has been involved in a tit-for-tat controversy with the Brotherhood after he threatened earlier this month to arrest holy man Yusuf al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jizz, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Mohammedan academics from Soddy Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... , a leading Brotherhood figure, for criticizing the United Arab Emirates for deporting Syrian protesters.
The police chief said he based his information on "leaks" from Western intelligence agencies and said this "had been known to us."
"If these leaks from Western intelligence were to be correct, by 2016 all Gulf rulers" will be just figureheads with no actual power, Khalfan said. "I am warning Gulf states about these groups."
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Azerbaijan, Baku -- The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Fereidoon Abbasi said that the output of Busher nuclear power plant reached to 700 MW, Fars News Agency reported.
"Today, Bushehr NPP works by its 75 percent capacity," he said.
The nuclear capacity at Bushehr power plant is planned to be increased up to 1000 MW, its final capacity.
The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant was officially launched on September 12 and started by generating electricity at 40 percent of its capacity. The 1,000-megawatt plant, located southeast of the city of Bushehr along the Persian Gulf, had been already connected to the country's national power grid with the power of 60 MW on September 3, 2011.
It reached the capacity of 190 MW on last September 27 , and a day later it improved its capacity to 300 MW. The plant gained 50 percent of its nominal power on October 7 as it reached the capacity of 420 MW.
Initial construction of the facility began in 1975 by German companies, but the work was stopped following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In 1995, Iran and Russia reached an agreement to complete the project. But power generation was delayed several times due to a number of technical and financial problems.
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Russian techs are currently running the plant and will probably do so for a few years more.
Once the Iranian techs take over it will be time to begin a lot of preventive maintenance tasks. I don't think any observer thinks this will go well.
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"Once the Iranian techs take over it will be time to begin a lot of preventive maintenance tasks. I don't think any observer thinks this will go well."
Gee, Lord Garth - we're talking about Ins'allah maintenance at a nuclear facility. What could go wrong?
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[Dawn] THERE is substantive evidence to suggest that Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) is gaining ground in Pakistain. Irrespective of the causes, the rise of the group from within a relatively smaller religious sect and its ability to create an immense impact both on public and policy discourse in Pakistain is considered by its associates as a great 'triumph'.
Having conceived its objectives in a narrow sectarian and anti-democratic perspective, the JuD is now struggling to adjust itself as an important player in the country's religious-political landscape.
During the last one decade or so, it has launched and led many mass movements: a campaign against the Prophet's (PTUI!) images by a Danish cartoonist; countrywide protests against the Iraq war; Tehrik Hurmat-e-Rasool (in reaction to the desecration of the Koran in Guantanamo some years ago); a movement against the women's protection bill; and the pro-Soddy Arabia campaign in the context of Riyadh's role following the unrest in Bahrain. The group is now among the leading members of the Difaa-e-Pakistain Council (DPC).
Once the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... (JI) had the ability to mobilise the immense mass movements and its participation in any religious and political agitation was considered the key to success but now the JuD has taken over the role. One reason could be that the JuD has built its organizational structure on the pattern of the JI. Also, the top leadership of the group has served in the JI. Is it a sign of transformation of a hard-core thug organization into a mainstream religious political party? Is the JuD following a pattern similar to that of Hezbullies and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,?
It can be discerned from the recent history of radical and thug organizations that when the infrastructure of one among such organizations expanded on a large scale, the group's stakes grew in the same system it had been opposing previously.
Contrary to this, thug groups that failed to develop their organizational infrastructure were subjected to divisions and became more violent. The JuD has succeeded over time in diversifying its infrastructure and resources, employing the strategy of social delivery programmes and exploiting contemporary religious and political issues.
Nevertheless, the JuD is on the surface and owns a solid and stretched-out infrastructure inside Pakistain which includes more than 300 offices, mosques and madressahs. The group has set up many commercial ventures including more than 400 English-medium schools, colleges, transportation companies, residential projects and media groups and has acquired farmland on a large scale.
Its charity wing has one of the biggest fleet of ambulances in the country, seven hospitals and more than 200 health centres.
The group has the second largest charity network in Pakistain after Maymar Trust, formally known as Al-Rashid Trust. This means that the JuD cannot afford any confrontation with the state that could force it to abandon its activities in the country.
In the beginning, the JuD's ideological discourse was built on an extremely narrow sectarian agenda of spreading hatred against the Shia and Barelvi communities, as reflected in its earlier publications. But after 9/11, it adopted a reconciliatory approach and invited opposing sects to its platform to 'wage a joint struggle for a common cause'.
The approach worked and not only the JuD but the Ahle Hadith school of thought too gained ground in public and religious discourses. The JuD even struck roots in the Hindu-dominated districts of Sindh, where more numbers among the local population were seen to embrace Islam.
It must be a good feeling among JuD's brothers in Soddy Arabia and other Gulf states that the thug group has had a significant impact on Pakistain where these countries had been spending enormous resources on promoting their orthodox school of thought for decades, but had failed to attract the Sunni majority.Is JuD's active participation in political rallies and membership of an alliance of political parties and individuals a sign that the group has ambitions to move towards electoral politics? Though their rejection of democracy was one of the prime objectives behind the establishment of the JuD, the group leadership appears to have changed tack.
It seems that the group has the willingness to participate in electoral politics but is concerned about the absence of an electoral support base. Nevertheless, JuD members had contested local bodies elections in their individual capacity and supported different candidates in previous general elections. The JuD's taking part in electoral politics would be an interesting phenomenon for political scientists to see how a thug group had completed its lifecycle in Pakistain.
The JuD still believes in achieving its goal through the use of violence but it is becoming extremely cautious in its sociopolitical rhetoric. Although it has not yet abandoned ties with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) it avoids admitting its links with it at a public level.
It may not be because of any fear of public reaction but mainly to avoid external pressure. There is a dissident voice also in the organization that this indifferent policy towards LeT could lead towards complete detachment from it.
The assessment of JuD's probable political transformation is only relevant if the group is considered as an independent entity with no links to and patronisation from any quarter of the establishment.
Certainly, establishments use non-state actors for their legitimate and illegitimate purposes, but non-state actors gradually become independent and it becomes difficult for the establishments to control them as it happened in the case of many thug
organizations in Pakistain which were created in Afghanistan and Kashmire but later turned against the state.
For instance, Ilyas Kashmiri, once an asset, rebelled and dealt a blow to the security forces. He was considered the criminal mastermind behind some major attacks on security forces in Pakistain.
[Dawn] Dozens of French Mohammedans are training with the Taliban in north-western Pakistain, raising fears of future attacks following the shooting deaths of seven people in southern La Belle France allegedly by a man who spent time in the region, Pak intelligence officials say.
Authorities are investigating whether Mohamed Merah, the Frenchie of Algerian descent who is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three French paratroopers in Toulouse this month, was among the training group, the officials said on Saturday.
Merah was killed in a dramatic shootout with police Thursday after a 32-hour standoff at his Toulouse apartment. The 23-year-old former auto body worker travelled twice to Afghanistan in 2010 and to Pakistain in 2011, and said he trained with al-Qaeda in the Pak thug stronghold of Wazoo.
Approximately 85 Frenchies have been training with the Pak Taliban in the North Waziristan tribal area for the past three years, according to the intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Most of the men have dual nationality with La Belle France and North African countries.
The Frenchies operate under the name Jihad-e-Islami and are being trained to use explosives and other weapons at camps near the town of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... and in the Datta Khel area, the officials said. They are led by a French commander who goes by the name Abu Tarek. Five of the men returned to La Belle France in January 2011 to find new recruits, according to the officials. It's unclear whether Merah was among that group.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... promised a crackdown on French citizens found to have trained in terror camps abroad.
"Anyone, who goes abroad to follow ideological courses that lead to terrorism will be criminally punished. The response will be prison," he said in a campaign speech Saturday.
A senior French official close to the investigation into the shootings told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Friday that despite Merah's claims of al Qaeda links, there was no sign he had "trained or been in contact with organized groups or jihadists."
A thug commander, Ahmed Marwat, claimed in a phone call with the AP on Saturday that Merah was affiliated with the Pak Taliban in Waziristan, but provided no details. I can say no more! Marwat said he was part of the Jundullah wing of the Pak Taliban.
The claim could not be independently verified.
The Pak Taliban, which is closely allied with al Qaeda, has carried out hundreds of attacks in Pakistain over the past several years that have killed thousands of people.
Taliban leaders say they want to oust the US-backed government and install a hard-line Islamist regime. They also have international jihadi ambitions and trained the Pak-American who tried to detonate a car boom in New York City's Times Square in 2010.
The main sanctuary for the Pak Taliban is the restive tribal region along the Afghan border, especially North and South Waziristan. Despite a large military offensive in South Waziristan in 2009, the government has very little control over the area.
Western officials have been concerned for years about Mohammedancut-throats with European citizenship visiting north-western Pakistain, possibly training for missions that could include terror attacks in Europe where they would act as "lone wolves" or on the orders of others. In 2010 alone, dozens were believed to be there.
Merah told police during the standoff that he was trained "by a single person" when he was in Waziristan, not in a training center, so as not to be singled out because he spoke French," the director of the DCRI intelligence service, Bernard Squarcini, told the Le Monde newspaper.
Merah was questioned by French intelligence officers last November after his second trip to Afghanistan, and was cooperative and provided a USB key with tourist-like photos of his trip, the French official close to the investigation told the AP.
While he was under surveillance last year, Merah was never seen contacting any gunnies and went to nightclubs, not mosques, the official said. People who knew him confirmed that he was at a nightclub in recent weeks.
Merah told negotiators during the police standoff that he was able to buy a large arsenal of weapons thanks to years of petty theft, the official said.
French prosecutors said Merah filmed himself carrying out the three shooting attacks in Toulouse that began March 11.
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[An Nahar] U.S. President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed Sunday on the need to send "non-lethal" aid to Syrian rebels, including communications equipment, a U.S. official said.
The two leaders agreed that a "Friends of Syria" group meeting on April 1 should seek to provide such aid and also medical supplies, as they met in South Korea on the eve of a nuclear security summit, said U.S. deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.
Washington has said several times that it is looking at providing non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels battling the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , whom the United States says should step down.
The rebels are badly outgunned by Syria's armed forces but the White House has said that it does not favor arming the rebels, arguing that further "militarizing" the conflict would worsen civilian bloodshed.
Washington has also ruled out unilateral military action in Syria, and says there is no coalition favoring multilateral action like that which ousted Libya's Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... last year.
In the talks with Erdogan, Obama said the United States and Turkey agreed that "there should be a process" of transition to a "legitimate government" in Syria.
Erdogan noted that 17,000 refugees had decamped to Turkey from Syria and said "we cannot be spectators" to the humanitarian crisis sparked by the crackdown on rebel groups that has killed more than 9,000 people, according to monitors.
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...but the White House has said that it does not favor arming the rebels, arguing that further "militarizing" the conflict would worsen civilian bloodshed.
Bringing a band-aid to a gunfight? This guy's worse than Carter...
[Shabelle] One person was killed and another maimed after Al-shabab fighters opened fire on youths at an entertainment centre where they were playing video games in Mogadishu's Bondere and Wardigley districts, witnesses said.
The Saturday night incident happened after three Al-shabab gunnies armed with pistols attacked the youths, killing a young boy named Mohammed, injuring his accompanying person, according to eyewitnesses.
Reports say the attackers immediately decamped the scene of the fatal incident. The motive of the gunnies are yet to be established, but locals expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the repeatedly killings against innocent people in Mogadishu.
In additional, Al-shabab carried out another liquidation against the tax chief of Bondere district administration for Somali government whose has been released as Mohammed Hassan on Saturday night.
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Color me surprised. Is this just a cynical tack to the center or does Champ actually get it that sometimes socialist thuggery doesn't work?
After squinting through binoculars into a nation frozen in time, US President Barack Obama reeled off a contempt-laden and startlingly frank indictment of North Korea. The Stalinist remnant of the Cold War was, in Obama's eyes, nothing but a nation which cannot make "anything of any use", "doesn't work", and even its vaunted weapons exports were hardly state of the art.
"It is like you are in a time warp," Obama said Sunday, after he toured a rocky border post in the demilitarised buffer zone that has split the Korean peninsular for longer than he has been alive.
"It is like you are looking across 50 years into a country that has missed 40 years or 50 years of progress," Obama marvelled later, after taking a helicopter back to teeming, prosperous Seoul, just 25 miles (40 kilometres) away.
Obama, who is locked in his first showdown with the North's new leader Kim Jong-Un over a planned rocket launch, stood behind a bullet proof screen four inches thick and surveyed rocky hills and wooded slopes in North Korea. He gazed over a windswept no man's land between the two nations, split by a brutal Cold War conflict six decades ago, after his armoured SUV took a road through a minefield and tank traps.
Then he turned to his left, and looked out across bare fields to a huge North Korean flag -- flying at half-mast to remember late leader Kim Jong-Il, who died in December leaving his youthful and untested son in charge. Behind the flag were simple low military buildings, and in the distance a town could just be picked out in the haze, but there was no sign of North Koreans who live hungry, isolated and cut off from the 21st Century.
Wearing a brown leather jacket and beige slacks, Obama stood in an open bunker and chatted with senior US and South Korean officers, just as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush did on trips during their presidencies.
Later, Obama shared his observations with reporters as he held a joint press conference with South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak, on the eve of a major nuclear summit in Seoul. And he seemed unable to process the logic of three generations of leaders who had kept their people imprisoned, impoverished and in thrall to successive personality cults.
"If a country can't feed its people effectively, if it can't make anything of any use to anybody, if it has no exports other than weapons and even those aren't ones that in any way would be considered state of the art.
"If it can't deliver on any indicators of well-being... for its people... then you'd think you'd want to try something different," Obama said in a highly undiplomatic and unusually frank public appearance.
"There are certain things that just don't work and what they are doing doesn't work."
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"There are certain things that just don't work and what they are doing doesn't work."
Then, Dear President, are you so hell-bent on shoving those same things down our throats? This is the end-result of your 'redistribution' policies.
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See also DAILY TIMES.PK > UNCLEAR WHO IS RUNNING NORTH KOREA: OBAMA, at the Inter-Korean DMZ ala the DPRK's Pyongyang Govt.
Put it this way, Bammer, if-n-when the proverbial SHTF Pyongyang + DPRK Army will do what Beijing wants them to do - the former USSR had the power once but lost it save for trinklings after the Sino-Soviet Split in the 1960's.
IMO DPRK still has an impor advantage vee overlord China because the latter wants full-scale State/National Modernization + desires MilPolEcon domination of the "First Island Chain" ASAP AMAP ALAP. Beijing in particular wants mucho access to Tokyo's technical + scientifc prowess, etc. to help facilitate its modernization.
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China is repor calling for restraint on the Korean Peninsula.
OTOH WORLD MIL FORUM > OUT OF CONTROL: CHINA'S POLICY OF EVADING MILPOL CONFRONTATION WID THE US + ASEAN NATIONS IN FAVOR OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS A MAJOR FAILURE AS CHINA IS STEADILY LOSING CONTROL OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, EAST CHINA SEA, + DAOYUTAI ISLANDS. CHINA NOW ONLY HAS TWO OPTIONS - OFFICIALLY ACCEPT ITS LOSS OF SOVEREIGNTY, OR ELSE PREPARE FOR MAJOR WAR.
* Also from SAME > RUSSIA CONFISCATES DOCUMENTS + INFORMATION FROM VISITING JAPANESE DELEGATION RELATED TO HISTORICAL + PRE-1945 JAPANESE SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE SOUTH KURILES [Japan = pre-WW2 Northern Territories].
* SAME > "DISOBEDIENT" NORTH KOREA IS A FRIEND
[+ Pawn?] TO CHINA. THE BURDEN OF A TROUBLESOME NORTH KOREA FALLS NOT ON CHINA BUT ON CHINA'S PARTNERS. THE IMPORTANCE OF NORTH KOREA + KOREAN
PENINSULA TO CHINA'S REGIONAL, GEOPOL SECURITY + NATIONAL AFFAIRS IS SUCH THAT CHINA CANNOT ALLOW THE TWO KOREAS TO ACT ON THEIR OWN OUTSIDE OF CHINA'S INFLUENCE + CONTROL.
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Obama's disbelief after starring into N. Korea
The real "disbelief" that should be noted is the Light Giver's failure to accept or absorb the CIA regional briefings he receives.
"If it can't deliver on any indicators of well-being... for its people... then you'd think you'd want to try something different,"
I cannot believe he actually uttered that statement. Excellent material for a Pub attack advert I'd say.
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Obama's disbelief is that North Korea achieved his dreams without going to an Ivory League School or infiltrating/manipulating the mainstream media.
A great shot would be a picture of what he was looking at through the binoculars and a headline 'Obama searches for retirement community'
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They sacrificed everything for socialism. North Korea is just like what a large number of the world's population used to live under. Former socialist countries want no part of it, while Obama thinks it's a great idea and we need to move towards it.
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Wow. On one hand, it's nice that he actually said something everybody and their brother actually believes. On the other hand, it's called "undiplomatic" for a reason. The diplomats who have to deal with the NorKs have to practice willful blindness in order to keep their opposite numbers calm enough to do something other than scream unproductively across the table at them.
This is, of course, what he probably considers a "painless" sop to whatever's left of the Scoop Jackson Democrats. And in hopes of getting his recent words encouraging a virtual lynch mob off the American front pages, I guess.
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Why is he criticizing his own beliefs?
It's the same "nation" he is building here.
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Wow! He saw all of that through a pair of Binos looking at some distant buildings. Must be sum good binos (likely made in China). Sure hope he doesnt use them to look at his northern border. Could be dangerous. "Hey!They have life span thats two years longer than ours. They must be freezing them or sumpin." Is it an election year or just a leaping year? Oh wait - its both! I see now.
A Jordanian police official says 10 Syrian security defectors have been placed in durance vile on suspicion of spying on refugees and dissidents for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... 's embattled regime.
The official says the 10 have been living in a compound run and guarded by Jordanian police in Mafraq, near the Syrian border. He says the men decamped from the compound last Thursday but were placed in durance vile the same day.
[Dawn] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... central deputy chief Sirajul Haq said on Saturday that a civil war could erupt in the country if supply of goods to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in Afghanistan through Pak route was restored.
Addressing a public gathering in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency, he questioned the need of restoring supplies to NATO forces as the United States had already announced its pullout plan for Afghanistan.
"It clearly shows that the allied forces have some secret agenda in Afghanistan so they are seeking restoration of supplies," he
said.
The JI leader said that his party was willing to support and assist the US pullout but made it clear that 'war crimes' of America in Afghanistan were unpardonable. He feared that terrorist activities would be increased if NATO supplies were restored.
About the future status of tribal areas, Mr Haq suggested holding of a referendum on the issue so that a genuine opinion of the rustics could be ascertained.
"Let the tribal people decide about their future and the political parties shall refrain from imposing their own manifesto on them," he insisted. He made it clear that majority of the rustics would not accept any decision, which was taken outside Fata.
The gathering was also addressed by former MNA from Bajaur Sahibzada Haroon Rashid, Zar Noor Afridi and Abdur Rauf Shinwari. They criticised Fata parliamentarians for what they called selling of their votes in the March 2 Senate elections.
"Fata parliamentarians have converted politics into a shameful business. They openly put their votes for auction to the shame of all egoistic rustics," they alleged.
They said that more than 2.5 million tribal people had been displaced owing to military operations in different parts of Fata while militancy had badly affected the health, education and economy of the region.
They called for an immediate halt to the military operations and an honourable return of all internally displaced families to their respective areas.
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The MQM is slaughtering JI members in Karachi. We should welcome a Punjabi-Sindh alliance against the Pashtun-Waziri terrorists. Bring on the civil war.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday.
The families of the dead received the money Saturday at the governor's office, said Kandahar provincial council member Agha Lalai. Each wounded person received $11,000, Lalai said. Community elder Jan Agha confirmed the same figures. They were told that the money came from U.S. President Barack Obama, Lalai said.
A U.S. official confirmed that compensation had been paid but declined to discuss exact amounts, saying only that it reflected the devastating nature of the incident. The official spoke anonymously because of the sensitive nature of the subject.
A spokesman for NATO and U.S. forces declined to confirm or deny the payments, saying that while coalition members often make compensation payments, they are usually kept private.
"As the settlement of claims is in most cases a sensitive topic for those who have suffered loss, it is usually a matter of agreement that the terms of the settlement remain confidential," Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings said.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is accused of sneaking out of his base before dawn on March 11 then creeping into houses in two nearby villages and opening fire on sleeping families within.
It was not immediately clear how much money had been paid out in all. Afghan officials and villagers have counted 16 dead - 12 in the village of Balandi and four in neighboring Alkozai - and six wounded. The U.S. military has charged Bales with 17 murders without explaining the discrepancy.
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But is he guilty? Smells like sharia penalization before trial. OF course, BHO likes sharia. He gained so much from daddy's recitation of 3 talaqs. What a culture: spouse and child abandonment meets approval of the god entity of those savages. Give them a fart with a lump in it.
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I can't help wondering, being of a numerical bent, what it would cost to do the whole country (yeah, it's mean. I know) So $50K times 30 million Afghans... carry the one...hmmm, I wonder if we could get a group discount? I note without comment that if we whacked *everyone*, there would be no one left to pay reparations to.
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Let us just suppose for the sake of argument that the presumption of innocense prevails and someone else (not SSG Bales) is found to have murdered those civilians.
Will the sharia blood money payments be reimbursed to the US taxpayers?
[Dawn] The weather in Karachi changed rather suddenly last week when instead of getting warmer, it actually reversed and became chilly. Of course, as usual the weather experts had all those typical explanations to offer, sighting high pressure there that generated dust and cold winds here and all that.
But the truth lies somewhere else. It was HAARP! The United States' High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program -- an ionospheric research programme jointly funded by the US Air Force, the Navy, the University of Alaska, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Kilingon High Command.
Yes, the same programme that caused the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the 2011 Japanese earthquake and the 2011 Imran Khan tsunami.
Before you dismiss me as being some conspiracy nut job, consider this: It was people like me who were the first to suggest that there were Blackwater agents roaming in Pakistan, that the Americans were using drones in Waziristan and that the earth was actually flat and hollow.
People laughed at people like me but not all people but only people serving the interests of people trying to break up Pakistan and its people and turn them all from being true keepers of the faith and patriotism to becoming liberal scum, so you see, people, what kind of people I am talking about, even though you are not that kind of people, are you, people?
Now also consider this: I have on purpose used the word people over and over again in the preceding paragraph. Count the times I used this word. Nine times. Now divide 9 with 777 and then multiply the resultant number with 365 and you'll get the figure of 666. If you didn't get this number then you are liberal scum. If you did, then welcome to reality. And that is: Lucifer is in control of the United Nations.
I'm sure some of you must be squirming and itching to ridicule me, but remember it was I who first suggested that the CIA was using fake polio vaccination campaigns in FATA to gather intelligence in the area, that Husain Haqqani was working against the interest of Pakistan and that man never walked on the moon. It was an elaborate hoax.
It is a conspiracy to label men like me as conspiracy nuts because the powers that be want to hide the truth from the masses, a truth, rather truths, that can expose the large, all encompassing conspiracies that the powers that be are conspiring to implement for world domination through so-called elected governments, the media and nano genetic implants in our heads that are mixed into our branded mineral water by the powers that be through multinational corporations, secular political parties, NGOs and the leading cast of Hamsafar.
And did I mention all this was being done by the powers that be? I did. Thrice. Now multiply 3 by 5 then divide by 2; multiply the resultant number with 6, divide it by 9 and add 77. You'll get 666 again. Make sure you use a halal pencil while doing the adding and multiplying, or if you're using a calculator, make sure it's a local brand and not a Zionist one.
Because then the calculator is likely to blow in your face and the powers that be will blame the explosion on the Taliban who really do not exist but when they do they are actually a non-Muslim race of Reptilian people working for the CIA, RAW, Mossad and Nana Patekar to balkanise Pakistan and sell all of (true) Muslim population as slaves to the makers of a certain fruit juice residing on the island of Atlantis that does not exist in the Atlantic Ocean but somewhere in the Arabian Sea. I know this because I can speak and understand Arabic fluently.
In fact, all Pakistanis should be able to understand and speak Arabic fluently. It is a conspiracy by the powers that be who are bosses of the powers that be that I was talking about earlier that instead of Arabic, Pakistanis were made to learn to speak regional languages, such as Sindhi, Balochi, Pashto and Saraiki.
These languages were taught to us by Hindu baniyas and tyrants who ruled over us before Muhammad bin Qasim came to our rescue on 14th August 711 AD and created the Islamic Arabic Emirates of Bakistan.
Now look what the liberal scum want to do. They want to rearrange our history textbooks and fill them up with lies like Qasim Shaheed was not the first Pakistani and that Imran Khan is not a tsunami. People like me have struggled hard to fight the conspiracies of the liberal scum present in some sections of the Pakistani media.
But thanks to support and backing of gallant and pious institutions like Fauji Fertiliser and Fauji Cornflakes, and renowned scholars and profound intellectuals like doctor (both medical as well as academic), engineer (both Chinese as well as Islamic) and all round hunk, Zaid Hamid, Hakeem Ali Azmat and Austin Powers, the people of Pakistan are waking up to the deep conspiracies being hatched by the powers that be and the Powerpuff Girls to discredit Pakistan's armed forces and make Switzerland's Israeli Francophile Vatican-backed banking system to continue funding local Freemasons like Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif and make decent Muslim Pakistani women pose nude on the covers of Anglo-Indian-Angelo-Mathews fashion magazines with 'Pasha Baby' tattooed on their arms.
Think about it. What more proof do you need? Now, coming back to the changing weather conditions in Karachi and HAARP...
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I give up. When it comes to Pakistain, I can't tell zany, lunatic satire from zany, lunatic business as usual. Although, I suppose the lack of death threats, overt or implied, might be a hint.
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FRED! Ok, you win with this one. And I thought climate change was fictional. Turns out its not, just yet another USA plot to do things like huricanes on its own soil. The question is --does this guy get the right to vote --anywhere?
Dozens of French Mohammedans are training with the Taliban in northwestern Pakistain, raising fears of future attacks following the shooting deaths of seven people in southern La Belle France allegedly by a man who spent time in the region, Pak intelligence officials said Saturday.
Authorities are investigating whether Mohamed Merah, the Frenchie of Algerian descent who is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three French paratroopers in Toulouse this month, was among the training group, the officials said.
[Dawn] In a significant development, major opposition parties announced on Saturday that they would adopt a 'unified stance' at the joint sitting of parliament which is deliberating on new terms of engagement with the United States.
They asked the government to finalise through 'consensus' fresh guidelines for Pakistain's relationship with the US and warned it against using parliament only to "endorse its premeditated actions".
The decision to adopt a unified stand was taken by leaders of the opposition parties during a meeting at the residence of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... . It came two days before the opening of a debate on the 16-point recommendations made by the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) on Pakistain-US relations. The recommendations focus on resumption of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... supplies to Afghanistan through Pakistain.
The meeting was attended by Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan of the Pakistain Mohammedan League-N, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, chief of his own faction of the Pakistain People's Party, and a number of key members of the JUI-F and PML (Likeminded).
The much-awaited report of the all-party PCNS, presented by its chairman Senator Raza Rabbani during a joint sitting of the National Assembly and Senate on March 20, called upon the United States to "review its footprint" in Pakistain. It included calls for US and NATO forces in Afghanistan to pay charges for the transit of their supplies via Pakistain, an "unconditional" US apology for a deadly attack on Pak border posts in November and a halt to drone attacks in the country's tribal areas.
The presentation of the report set off speculations about whether the recommendations could be adopted unanimously as had happened on some domestic issues in the past.
Talking to news hounds after the meeting, Chaudhry Nisar said all opposition parties had decided to adopt a unified stance at the joint sitting of parliament and a strategy would be thrashed out at another meeting before start of Monday's session.
"We will go to the session with an open mind, but will not allow the government or any of its officials to hijack (parliament)," he said, adding that the opposition was ready to cooperate with the government in "the larger national interest" if it wanted to seek guidance from parliament "in the real sense". Soon after presentation of the PCNS report in parliament, opposition parties criticised it and warned that they would not allow the government to get it approved in the same form. Chaudhry Nisar went to the extent of describing the report as a 'weak' document, although it carried the signatures of his own party representatives -- Ishaq Dar and Sardar Mahtab Ahmed Khan -- and members of other opposition parties.
In what appeared to be a face-saving move, the opposition members have now started using the term "working paper" for PCNS proposals.
Asked why opposition members, including Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Aftab Sherpao, had put their signatures on the PCNS report if they had any reservations, Chaudhry Nisar said parliamentary committees could not be a substitute for parliament itself.
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Fighting between rival armed terrorist insurgent groups left two dead and sent around 270 families fleeing from their homes in the southern Philippines, a military spokesman said Sunday. Eight houses were also burned as members of the main Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) battled fighters from the older Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), said Colonel Prudencio Asto.
He added that after a week of sporadic gunfire, MILF fighters attacked members of the MNLF in the agricultural town of Carmen on the island of Mindanao on Saturday, leaving one dead on each side.
MILF spokesman Von al-Haq said the fight was triggered by a personal feud between an MILF leader called Commander Karim and an MNLF leader called Commander Teo and that it was not a wider war between the two groups. He said, "They (the fighters) are alleging that Commander Teo is the mastermind of the killing of the wife of Commander Karim about three weeks ago."
There are about 400 MILF fighters and 300 MNLF members known to be operating in the farming village where the fighting erupted.
(Sh. M. Network)-- Top Al-shabab leaders have had a meeting with some elders in Southwestern Somali town Dinsor in Bay region, asking for help,reports said on wednesday.
As sources in Dinsor district have confirmed Shabelle Radio, that key members from Al-shabab, including foreign officers from Al-qaeda and local elders who were forced to attend that meeting by Al-shabaab have had the meeting in the town.
The forced elders who attended the meeting came from the regions of Bay, Bakool and Gedo. Some of these elders who spoke Shabelle, told that the meeting was being discussed how Al-shabaab can retake the control of the captured areas by the TFG forces backed by Ethiopian troops.
The Al-shabab officers have forced the elders to bring each clan its young boys to be recruited by Al-shabab, in a bid to fight against the TFG and countries who invaded the country, as they put it.
It is reported that, the officers who took part the meeting were the leaders of the regional administrations of Al-shabab of Bay, Bakool and Gedo regions, while some reports indicate that the leader of Al-shabab Sheikh Muktar Abdirahman known as Zubeyr has also participated the meeting.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... it is not known how that meeting can help Al-shabab, as the cut-thoat radical group lost some key strategic towns in Somalia, like Hiran, Bay, Bakol and Gedo, while it is also facing huge military pardons of war against them.
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[Dawn] A former president of the Malir Bar Association and his young lawyer son were rubbed out a few yards from their Malir home on Saturday in what appeared to the Sherlocks and different organizations as part of the recent spate of killing of professionals on sectarian grounds.
Note that the article does not mention what sect the two belonged to, for which they had to be killed.
Sixty-year-old Salahuddin Haider Jaffery with his son Ali Raza Jaffery
Definitely not Hindu... Shiite, perhaps? They're fond of Ali, nephew of Mohammed, right?
-- in his mid-20s -- were targeted in a rickshaw in Ghazi Town near the Bakra Piri area of Malir minutes after they had left for the courts, police said.
They added that the suspected gunnies on a cycle of violence sped away after the shooting that sowed fear and panic in the area.
"There is a petrol station in the area and the killings took place close to it," said Inspector Sarfaraz Kakazi, the SHO of the Malir City cop shoppe.
"It appears that the two gunnies on a motorbike were waiting for their target and as the rickshaw slowed down over a speed bump, they ambushed the victims."
The rickshaw driver, he said, remained unhurt but was so traumatised that he took almost an hour to regain his senses and share the details. The victims were the residents of the same area and travelled by their own car, but due to some mechanical fault in the car, they hired a rickshaw on Saturday morning to reach the Malir courts, he added.
"We have collected nearly half a dozen spent bullet casings of a 9mm pistol," said Inspector Kakazi. "The victims were hit in the faces, chests and the upper torsos. The bodies were handed over to the family after medico-legal formalities at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre."
Known as 'the father of the Malir Bar Association', Mr Jaffery was its founding president in 1994 and remained in that post till 1999. He was said to be affiliated with the ruling Pakistain People's Party. He had been in the legal profession for the past 40 years and was a high court lawyer. His young son was unmarried and had enrolled as a lawyer only two years ago. The father of three sons and two daughters, Mr Jaffery originally hailed from Dadu district.
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The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , which is holding its annual summit in Iraq this week, will not call for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... to resign, the group's secretary general said in comments published on Sunday.
Nabil al-Arabi told pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat Assad's response to proposals by international envoy Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... to end the bloodshed in Syria was "insufficient," and said he planned to submit a report on the crisis to summit leaders.
Asked in an interview if it was unlikely that the vaporous Arab League would call for Assad's resignation during the meeting, Arabi replied: "That is correct."
Annan was in Moscow on Sunday to shore up vital backing from Russia which, along with China, has already blocked two U.N. Security Council resolutions condemning the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters that the opposition says has killed at least 9,100 people since March last year.
International and regional efforts to end the violence in Syria hinge on sustained pressure by both China and Russia on their Arab ally.
Annan's meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev comes just days after Russia finally backed a Security Council statement calling on Assad's forces to pull out of protest cities.
Annan will also travel to Beijing on Tuesday and Wednesday.
His peace plan calls for a U.N.-supervised halt to fighting, with the government pulling troops and heavy weapons out of protest cities, a daily two-hour humanitarian pause to hostilities and access to all areas affected by the fighting.
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[Dawn] Unknown gunnies opened fire outside a literary event in Bloody Karachi. ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... The shooting occurred near Do Talwar in Clifton. No loss of life was reported. The literary event was organised by the MQM and had local and international poets participating.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... DawnNews quoted MQM leader Wasay Jalil who said that the situation was under control and the event has resumed.
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Literary event? Did someone just pass the written part of their exam to get a gun license or something?
An al Qaeda cell slated to take part in one of the final plots ordered by the late Osama bin Laden ... who sleeps with the fishes... made use of an Iran-based terror network that, according to the B.O. regime, operates "under an agreement between al Qaeda and the Iranian government." That revelation has emerged from legal proceedings in Germany, including the trial of Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, an al Qaeda recruit who took the stand for the first time last week in Koblenz.
This article starring:
Ahmad Wali Siddiqui
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An assistant village leader in Narathiwat province and a defense volunteer in Pattani province were killed yesterday in drive-by terrorist shootings.
Adisak Taye, 53, from Tha Ruea village, was gunned down by a terrorist man on the back of a motorcycle in Rueso district while he was riding home on a scooter. The terrorists attackers, who are thought to be members of an terrorist insurgent group, took a 9 mm handgun from the victim.
In Pattani, defense volunteer Ahamat Duero, 49, was gunned down after returning from an intelligence mission and meeting other village defense volunteers in Khok Pho district.
Meanwhile, the army is handing out relief supplies and talking to local residents in a bid to stop them supporting terrorist separatist groups. Officers from the navy corps visited villagers in Bacho district to hear their problems and provide them with medical assistance and supplies.
The village was once classified a red zone where terrorists militants were believed to hide out, and the government hopes this latest idea while help lessen the terrorists' insurgents' influence.
CAIRO - The ruling army council on Sunday defended its handling of Egypt's political transition against withering attacks on the army-backed government by the Islamist-dominated parliament.
The Moslem Brüderbund, whose Freedom and Justice Party has the biggest bloc in parliament, described Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri's cabinet as a failure and criticized the army for continuing to support it, in a statement on Saturday.
The military took over more than a year ago after a popular uprising ended President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's 30-year rule.
Parliament began steps this month to withdraw confidence from the government, although power to form any new cabinet lies with the army council that has said it will hand power to civilians by July 1 after a new president takes office.
A front man for the Jordanian government reacted to reports claiming that Israel was warning its neighbors against approaching its borders for the "global march on Jerusalem" which is expected to take place on Friday. He noted that the kingdom had not received an official statement from Israel on the matter.
He added that the Jordanian government could not prevent the protests so long as they are done in a peaceful manner and without violence. "They are occupying Jerusalem," said the front man. "And there is no one in the Arab nation and the Islamic world who can agree to Israel's occupation of Jerusalem and Israel's actions against the Paleostinian people."
[Dawn] Kazakhstan has called the playing of a spoof of its national anthem at an international sporting event "a scandal" and demanded an investigation of the incident.
Maria Dmitrienko won a gold medal for Kazakhstan on Thursday at the Arab Shooting Championships in Kuwait, but during the award ceremony the public address system broadcast the spoof anthem from the 2006 movie "Borat," which offended many Kazakhs by portraying the country as backward and degenerate. Borat's the best thing to happen to Kazakhstan. Possibly the only thing...
Foreign Ministry front man Ilyas Omarov told the ITAR-Tass news agency the incident "is, of course, a scandal and demands a thorough investigation, which we intend to conduct."
ITAR-Tass quoted shooting team member Oksana Stavitskaya as saying that Asian Shooting Federation President Sheikh Salman al-Sabah had apologised to the team.
"Sheikh Salman personally apologised to us. He recognised that the use of the music from the scandalous film in place of the anthem of Kazakhstan was completely a mistake of the organisers. He explained that the awards ceremony was conducted by a firm under contract," Stavitskaya said.
The Kazakh news agency Tengri quoted team Coach Anvar Yunusmetov as saying tournament organisers had downloaded various countries' national anthems from the Internet.
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Come on now; their potassium's better than everyone else's...
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Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.
Kazakhstan home of Tinshein swimming pool.
Its length thirty meter and width six meter.
Filtration system a marvel to behold.
It remove 80 percent of human solid waste.
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan.
They very nosey people with bone in their brain.
Kazakhstan industry best in the world.
We incented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstans prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course Turkmenistans
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Come grasp the might phenis of our leader.
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!
[An Nahar] U.S. President Barack Obama B.O.... warned North Korea Sunday that its "bad behavior" would be thwarted and the country would only deepen its isolation if it carried out a planned rocket launch.
"North Korea will achieve nothing by threats or by provocations," Obama said in a joint news conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak on the eve of a nuclear security summit in Seoul.
Obama vowed to thwart North Korea's "bad behavior" and "pattern of provocation."
Lee also said he and Obama agreed that the long-range rocket launch planned for next month would be "a provocative action that threatens global peace and is against U.N. resolutions.
"President B.O. and I have agreed to respond sternly to any provocations and threats by the North and to continually enhance the firm South Korea-U.S. defense readiness," Lee said.
The North has announced it will fire the rocket to put a satellite into orbit between April 12-16 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of founding president Kim Il-Sung.
Washington and Seoul say the launch would be a disguised missile test which would breach U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874 banning any ballistic missile tests by the communist state.
The U.S. says a launch would also breach a bilateral deal reached just last month, offering U.S. food aid in return for a partial nuclear freeze and a missile test moratorium.
But the North has insisted it has a right to launch a satellite for what it says are peaceful purposes.
South Korea's defense ministry said Sunday that the North had transported the rocket's main body to a site in the far northwest of the country in preparation for the launch.
Obama also visited the tense inter-Korean border Sunday, calling it "freedom's frontier."
Obama is visiting South Korea to attend a 53-nation summit starting Monday on combating atomic terrorism.
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The Bammer's also warning IRAN ...
* TOPIX > OBAMA: TIME RUNNING OUT ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR CRISIS.
* SAME > OBAMA'S BLUNT WORDS TO TWO NUCLEAR POWERS.
FYI the ROK = South Korea is following Japan's lead + warning the North it may shoot down its rocket iff it strays into SOKOR territory.
Iff I were to speculate, I'd think that Seoul wants the DPRK'S Rocket to fly oer CHINA, wid powerful inferences or implications therefrom drawn???
[An Nahar] Syria's Moslem Brüderbund will share power and respect democracy if Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... is toppled, its leader said on Sunday.
"The regime is trying to show that the Mohammedan brotherhood are trying to control Syria alone," Mohammad Riad al-Shaqfa told a news conference in Istanbul in remarks translated into English.
"We want a democratic Syria and we do not want to control the country alone," he said, ahead of the international conference of "Friends of Syria," scheduled in Istanbul for April 1.
Meetings of various factions of Syrian opposition will take place this week in Istanbul, and "90 percent of the opposition parties will be united by April 1, under the umbrella of Syrian National Council", which already includes majority of opposition parties, said the Islamist leader.
The movement's number two, Farouk Monir Khalid, described as "good news" a decision by the United States to assist Syrian rebels with "non-lethal" aid.
"It is a good step to help" the rebels, he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
U.S. President Barack Obama This is a teachable moment... and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed Sunday on the need to send "non-lethal" aid to Syrian rebels, including communications equipment, said U.S. deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.
"We expect to have funds to help the SNC, and more decisions to stop the killings in Syria," to emerge from the next "Friends of Syria" meeting, Khalid said.
"We assure that we will accept the result of free elections. We assure that the rights of all Syrians will be guaranteed, of all groups and beliefs."
When asked about the fate of the Kurdish minority in Syria, he said that the Moslem Brüderbund "are looking for a non-centralized administration in Syria."
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[Dawn] The Pakistain Taliban will attack politicians if they decide to re-open NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... supply routes to Afghanistan, the bad boy group's front man said on Sunday, a threat likely to complicate efforts to mend severely strained relations between the United States and Pakistain.
"If the parliament decides to restore NATO supplies, we will attack parliamentarians and their overlords," Ehsanullah Ehsan, front man for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) told Rooters.
Pakistain's parliament is reviewing recommendations for a new direction in ties with Washington, including a possible re-opening of supply routes for NATO forces in Afghanistan, which were suspended last November after a cross-border skirmish with NATO forces killed 24 Pak soldiers.
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Looks like they want to wait until Israel attacks Iran, which will in turn will p.o. Russia + China, whereupon Russia will close off the NDN Routes. This will build presuure for unilateral US-led war agz "defensive" Iran which will justify Radical Islam's launch of major new Terrops agz CONUS-NORAM + West.
[An Nahar] Blasts rocked the flashpoint city of Homs on Sunday as Syria's regime pressed its assault on protest hubs, with another 65 people, including 53 civilians, killed in violence across the country, activists and monitors said.
There was "heavy shelling of Khaldiyeh, Hamidiyeh and Old Homs neighborhoods by the regime's army, and kabooms shook the whole city," the Local Coordination Committees said.
The LCC said security forces killed 16 civilians in Homs, 14 in Hama, five in rural Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... , 10 in Idlib, five in Daraa and three in Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitoring group, said in a statement that five non-combatants were killed by security force fire in the Homs area.
Four, including an infant, died in Homs itself, while a fifth -- a young girl -- was killed in Rastan by heavy machinegun fire. The Observatory also said a member of the security forces was killed in Homs city.
In the central Hama region to the north, the monitoring group said army shelling killed five civilians in the Murk and Latamna districts.
And in the southern town of Nawa, tanks entered the main streets, and heavy festivities broke out between regime forces and deserters, said the Observatory and the LCC, the main opposition activist group in Syria. Three soldiers and six rebel fighters were reportedly killed.
LCC activist Luai Rushod in Nawa spoke of "a large number of defections by soldiers in the southern part of Nawa, followed by festivities and troops committing barbaric murders."
Nawa is in the southern Daraa province, where the popular uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... 's iron-fisted rule erupted in March 2011. Monitors say at least 9,100 people have been killed since then.
The Observatory said an kaboom hit a bridge in the Daraa region of Lajat, where many army deserters are thought to be.
In the north, near the border with Turkey, rockets were fired into the town of Aazaz as helicopters flew overhead, the LCC said in a statement sent to Agence La Belle France Presse in Beirut.
It added that rebel fighters of the Free Syrian Army blocked a highway used by the military for reinforcements and supplies to Aazaz, the scene of fierce festivities for the past few weeks.
Two deserters were killed in fighting in Aazaz with government forces using heavy machineguns and mortars, it said.
In the northwest province of Idlib, regime troops killed seven civilians, including three children, in the town of Saraqeb and in Kaframim village, where they torched the houses of dozens of fleeing rebels.
"Deserters have begun pulling out of Saraqeb," said the Observatory, which also reported fighting in the town of Ariha to the west.
Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Sunday accused regime forces of using civilians as human shields to march in front of them as they advanced on opposition-controlled towns in Idlib.
"By using civilians as human shields, the Syrian army is showing blatant disregard for their safety," HRW emergencies researcher Ole Solvang said in a statement, urging the army to immediately halt "this abhorrent practice."
In Damascus province, rebels fired rocket-propelled grenades in a dawn attack on a military facility in Nabak, the Observatory said.
Mohammed al-Shami, an activist, said fighting erupted at night between soldiers and army deserters and continued into the early hours, including in Douma, a hot spot on the capital's northeastern outskirts, where a young man was killed, according to the Observatory.
Elsewhere, the official SANA news agency said that an "armed terrorist group" attacked a gas pipeline in the eastern region of Bir al-Jouf.
At least 28 non-combatants were killed across Syria on Saturday, including two women and two children in the central province of Homs, the Observatory said.
Sixteen soldiers and two deserters were also reportedly killed.
As the year-old conflict showed no signs of abating, rebel fighters set up a military council to unify their ranks and political opposition leaders called a meeting of all dissident groups to forge common objectives.
The latest violence came as U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... wrapped up and trip to Moscow to seek the vital backing of Russia, a key ally of the Syrian regime, for his plan to end the bloodshed.
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[An Nahar] Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. , wanted by the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... for war crimes, will attend this week's Arab summit in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's office said.
"President al-Bashir told President Talabani that he will head his country's delegation to attend the next Arab summit in Storied Baghdad this week," the presidency's website said after a phone call between the two leaders.
Iraq is not a signatory to the ICC's founding Rome Statute, according to a copy of the treaty posted on the U.N.'s website.
The foreign ministry has said on its website that "the protection of President al-Bashir is guaranteed one hundred percent," adding that the same goes for all summit attendees.
The Arab summit is due to be held in Storied Baghdad from Tuesday to Thursday.
It is the first time that the Iraqi capital has hosted a meeting of the 22-member Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... since now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
The Hague-based ICC issued an arrest warrant for Bashir in 2009 for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur. A later warrant added genocide to the charges. Fat lot of good it's done, too... But we're not supposed to notice that.
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So they are going to harbor that war criminal. Nice intervention, George and Barack.
#4
Wikipedia now has a pretty long article on Mohamed Merah.
Somewhat surprisingly (in view of some previous soft pedaling of islamic terrorism), the article actually mentioned the possible role of Mohamed's brother and the pro-Mohamed Merah demonstration of a few days ago.
FWIW, Wikipedia also has created a multistep process for editing this page as opposed to their usual 'anyone can edit' protocol.
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A Turkish shampoo commercial featuring Adolf Hitler has infuriated Jewish groups worldwide and has led to calls for it to be withdrawn immediately.
The commercial for Biomen, a men's shampoo, shows Hitler delivering an enthusiastic speech urging male customers to buy the product, described as "a 100 percent male shampoo." In the ad, Hitler proclaims, "If you are not wearing a woman's dress, you should not use her shampoo either."
The Turkish Jewish Community blasted the 12-second ad, saying, "It's totally unacceptable to make use of Hitler, the most striking example of cruelty and savagery."
On an international level, the United States-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL), said it was "repulsed." Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of the ADL and a Holocaust survivor, said, "It is an insult to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, those who survived, and those who fought to defeat the Nazis."
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A total of four armed suspects were killed in an exchange of gunfire in Cadereyta Jimenez, Nuevo Leon Friday, according to a press release at a Mexican Army website.
Milenio news daily on its website Sunday morning confirmed that one of the operatives killed Friday was José Manuel Salazar Salazar AKA El Manolin, who has also been identified as one of the shooters in the Apodaca prison massacre in Nuevo Leon last month. José Manuel Salazar Salazar is said to be a Los Zetas operative.
The Apodaca prison massacre killed 44 individuals, all of them Gulf cartel drug cartel members.
An army patrol with the Mexican 7th Military Zone was on patrol at Los Pilares ejido when it came under small arms from from an undetermined number of shooters. Army return fire killed four.
Los Pilares is roughly two kilometers west of Cadereyta on Nuevo Leon State Highway 16. Cadereyta itself is 12 kilometers east of Monterrey. Some drug gangs use the road between Cadereyta and Allende farther south as a bypass to Monterrey. Numerous gunfights and pursuits between those gangs and Mexican security forces have in the past taken place along the road.
Following the gunfight, soldiers seized 10 AK-47 rifles, weapons magazines and ammunition and one vehicle.
A photo gallery of the aftermath of the incident can be found here..
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
[Dawn] The body of Fakhra Younus who had did away with himself in Italia on Saturday, arrived in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Sunday.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) members, politicians and Abdul Sattar Edhi were among those present at the Bloody Karachi airport to receive the body.
Fakhra was a victim of an acid attack carried out by her husband, Bilal Khar, the son of PPP leader Ghulam Mustafa Khar. He had burned her face with acid 12 years ago.
Fakhra did away with himself by jumping from the sixth floor of her flat in Rome.
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[Dawn] UNREST has reigned in parts of Bloody Karachi's ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... locality for the past several days as police and protesters have fought pitched battles on its congested streets. The trouble started last Sunday when a leader of the Kuchhi Rabita Committee, along with several associates, was bumped off; leaders of the banned People's Amn Committee were nominated in the murder case. Following the killings the police launched an 'operation' in the area, though some Lyari residents claim the police's actions are 'one-sided'. There is an element of ethnic rivalry in the feud between the KRC and the Baloch-dominated PAC, while the tussle has a political element as well: the PAC is said to have the backing of some elements of the PPP while the KRC allegedly enjoys the support of the MQM. There is also reported rivalry among supporters of the PPP in Lyari; the area is one of the party's few political strongholds in Bloody Karachi. But perhaps the biggest cause of violence in Lyari -- one of Bloody Karachi's oldest localities -- is the struggle between different groups for control of the extortion, drug and gambling rackets that thrive in this working-class area.
Law and order in Lyari has been worsening for the last decade. While criminal elements have destroyed its social fabric, the state has also largely neglected the locality. Even though some civic projects have been carried out over the past few years, a precarious law and order situation renders such gains useless. While action against criminals is needed across Bloody Karachi, it must be concentrated on eliminating illegal activities in Lyari. A complementary plan also needs to be drawn up for the socio-economic uplift of the locality, particularly to ensure that Lyari's youth don't fall into the clutches of criminal gangs. The state, particularly the PPP, needs to act now to end Lyari's perpetual misery.
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[An Nahar] Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Sunday that Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... represented the last chance for avoiding a civil war in Syria and offered the U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy Moscow's full support.
Medvedev's stark message to Moscow's traditional ally came only hours after U.S. President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... announced plans to send "non-lethal" aid to the Syrian rebels and new waves of violence swept the battle-scarred country.
Russia has been facing mounting Western and Arab calls to step up pressure and stop delivering arms to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's regime after a year of violence that the opposition says has claimed more than 9,100 lives.
Moscow on Wednesday backed a non-binding Security Council statement after vetoing two previous resolutions. But it did so only after making sure the text contained no implicit threat of further action should Assad fail to comply.
Medvedev on Sunday appeared to be aiming his words at Assad directly by warning of dire consequences if Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... ignored Annan's peace plan.
"This may be the last chance for Syria to avoid a protracted and bloody civil war," Medvedev told Annan at a meeting held in Moscow's Vnukovo 2 airport before his departure for a summit in Seoul.
"We will be offering you our full support at any level at which we have a say," said Medvedev.
"We very much hope that your efforts have a positive outcome."
Annan replied that he expected Russia to play an "active" role in making sure that both sides follow the points of the U.N. Security Council-backed initiative.
The U.N.-Arab League envoy was expected in China on Tuesday to shore up backing for his efforts from the two U.N. Security Council members that had blocked previous efforts to condemn Assad's regime.
China has also expressed support for Annan's mission amid signs of quickly waning support for Assad from his traditional friends.
The U.N. Security Council-backed peace plan requires Assad to pull back his forces from protest cities and provide immediate humanitarian access to the thousands of civilians trapped inside.
It also makes no explicit demands on the opposition and calls for a gradual transition to a more representative government in which Assad's role remains undefined.
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WAFF > FREE SYRIA ARMY CALLS ON ARMED GROUPS TO UNITE.
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* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > RUSSIA SAYS THE SYRIAN ARMED REBELS MUST ALSO CEASE FIRE + WITHDRAW FORCES | ANNAN IN MOSCOW SEEKS SUPPORT FOR SYRIAN PEACE EFFORT.
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Ahh, Kofi...You've returned to the "World Stage"; have you? And, why wouldn't you?
What, with being such an urbane, soft-spoken and fully-liberally credentialed and melanin-positive manny-kin? Irresistible to One Worlder globalists everywhere! Miss you at the UN...still salivating over your parking "spot".
[Dawn] At least 24 snuffies and eight security personnel were killed in festivities in South Wazoo and Orakzai Agencies on Saturday, sources said. Eight troops and four snuffies were maimed.
Gunbattles erupted when security forces during a search operation came across the snuffies loyal to Hakimullah Mehsud in Shin Warsak and Taza Ghundai areas of South Waziristan.
According to sources, there were intelligence reports that supporters of Hakimullah Mehsud, head of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, had set up hideouts in an area dominated by the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe. The area is largely controlled by Mullah Nazir, a pro-government bad turban 'commander'.
The sources said that Mehsud's supporters along with three bad turban 'commanders' -- Abbas, Javid and Noor Islam -- had relocated to Shin Warsak and Taza Ghundai areas under an agreement with Mullah Nazir.
The agreement was signed about four months ago. The three commanders, who belong to the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe, were expelled from the area in 2007 after festivities with the Nazir's group.
Security forces launched a search operation in these areas before dawn which continued till 6 in the evening. Clashes took place during the search operation.
An official said that five security personnel were killed and four others injured. Independent sources in the area reported that the army had suffered 10 casualties.
Officials said that 12 snuffies died in the gunbattle. They said eight bodies of the snuffies were brought to the military base in Wana.
Security forces also fired heavy artillery from their bases in Zari Noor and Wana, targeting bad turban positions.
In Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... , 12 snuffies were killed and four injured when fighting erupted in the restive region's Khadezai area.
Officials said three soldiers were also killed and four others injured in the festivities which started after a patrolling party came under attack.
The slain soldiers were identified as Saleem Khan, Rashid and Amanullah. The injured soldiers were shifted to Kohat. Officials said that a vehicle loaded with explosives was also destroyed.
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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Bianca Kajlich aka Jennifer in "Rules of Engagement (TV 2007 )" aka Juicy in "30:Minutes or Less (2011)" aka Katy in "Hard Love (2011)" aka Sharon Exler in "Semper Fi (TV Movie 2001)" (age 36)
Jeanne Cagney aka Jimmy Cagney's Baby Sister Jeanne aka Josie Cohan in "Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)" aka Vera Novak in "Quicksand (1950)" aka Kitty Duval in "The Time of Your Life (1948)" aka Elsa Rochelle in "Don't Bother to Knock (1952)" aka Carrie Chaney in "Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)" aka Jennie Brown in "A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)" (Died in 1984 at age 65)
North Korea announced Saturday it will hold an annual parliamentary session next month around the time of a planned rocket launch that has sparked widespread condemnation.
The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the Supreme People's Assembly would convene on April 13. Analysts say the parliament will likely promote the country's leader, Suet Face Kim Jong-un, to chairman of the National Defense Commission, a post held by his father Kim Jong-il, who died in December.
The news agency also carried a statement by the North's Foreign Ministry spokesman, who said launching a satellite "is an exercise of an independent and legitimate right in accordance with... international laws."
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[Dawn] Negotiations to get freed two Italian hostages kidnapped by Indian Maoists plunged into uncertainty on Saturday after the rebels kidnapped a local politician.
Two of the negotiators said in a statement the kidnapping of the state government politician overnight had made "a mockery of peaceful talks" and "the negotiations (should) be kept under suspension".
But Orissa state Home Secretary Upendra Nath Behera, the head of the three-man government team participating in the talks, said the government was "always open to peaceful dialogue and would not mind speaking again".
Naveen Patnaik, the chief minister of Orissa, one of a string of states where Maoist rebels have been waging a decades-long armed battle to overthrow the government, called on the rebels to release all three hostages.
"I once again appeal to the Maoists to shun violence and release the three hostages immediately," Patnaik told news hounds in the Orissa state capital, Bhubaneswar, on Saturday.
The kidnapping of the state politician followed the seizure last week of the two Italians, Paolo Bosusco, 54, and Claudio Colangelo, 61, in what is believed to be the first kidnapping of foreigners by India's Maoists. The Italians were on an adventure holiday.
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[Dawn] Eight Afghan security personnel and a foreign soldier were among 10 people killed in a Taliban-style roadside kabooming in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said Sunday.
"Last night there was an IED attack," Shah Mohammad, the local administration chief of Arghandab district, told AFP.
Provincial government front man Zalmai Ayoubi said an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldier, six Afghan coppers, two Afghan army soldiers and a translator working for the foreign forces were killed in the bombing.
An ISAF serviceman and another Afghan policeman were maimed, Ayoubi added.
Separately, the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... -led foreign forces said one service member had died "following an improvised bomb attack in southern Afghanistan yesterday."
A front man declined to give further details or confirm Afghan casualties.
But a Western security source confirmed to AFP that the Afghan and ISAF reports were referring to the same incident.
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[Dawn] A policeman was killed on Saturday and another maimed in an attack on a Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi vehicle in Landhi, said officials and MQM-H leaders.
The police and MQM-H leaders differed over whether the vehicle was immediately part of a convoy led by MQM-H chief Afaq Ahmed when it came under an armed attack.
They agreed, however, that the attack also left a party activist maimed.
MQM-H leaders said that the attack was carried out when the convoy was on its way to Hyderabad to attend a wedding function. The jeep ahead of the convoy came under attack near Landhi 89, they said.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the police said that the vehicle attacked was not part of the convoy.
"The firing left two coppers and another person travelling in a jeep maimed," said Inspector Mazhar Iqbal Awan, the SHO of the Landhi cop shoppe.
He identified the coppers as Habibullah and Faisal Taimur, and the other victim, who was driving the jeep, as Munawwar Khan. All the three victims were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraudate Medical Centre, where 25-year-old constable Faisal died.
"There was no convoy... nor was the attacked jeep escorting any vehicle of Afaq Ahmed. The jeep was attacked by some gunnies while it was going to a fuel station for a refill. The victim coppers were deployed for Afaq Ahmed's security and they were originally posted at the Saudabad headquarters," he added.
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One armed suspect was killed and another was found dead in a joint Mexican security forces operation in southeastern Veracruz state Thursday, according to news releases posted on the Mexican Army and Mexican Navy websites.
Elements from the Mexican 26th Military Zone, an unidentified Naval Infantry unit and Veracruz state police agents had been dispatched to a location near Poblacion de Pacho Viejo along the Xalapa-Coetepec highway where an anonymous complaint said armed men were. One air force, two navy and one Veracruz state police helicopters supported the operation as well.
Security forces came under small arms fire from an undetermined number of armed suspects. Return fire killed one unidentified Los Zetas operative. At the location security forces also found one dead body in a vehicle, and another individual who had been severely beaten, but was still alive. The survivor was evacuated for medical attention.
Security forces also found two stolen vehicles, two AR-15 rifles, one 14 gauge shotgun and weapons magazines and ammunition.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
[Dawn] Chief of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... on Sunday spoke about the reservations on the recommendations by the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to a large gathering in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Rehman said that the opposition parties want further discussions on the recommendations.
He further said that there is no military solution of the Afghanistan issue. He said that the government was discussing opening the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... supply route with the US but was making it seem as if it is the Parliament's decision. The JUI-F chief said that if the government restored the routes, it will be its own decision and not the Parliament's. He said that the country will not support this decision.
Rehman said that the country was blindly following a foreign policy imported from abroad and said that an independent foreign policy can only be devised after economic stability.
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[Dawn] A deputy superintendent of police, who is facing departmental inquiries in connection with rape and fake encounter cases, is included in the list of around 55 DSPs who are under consideration for the promotion to the rank of SP.
Because rape and unjustified murder are exactly the behaviours Pakistani authorities want to see in their police officers? Really, there is nothing more to say about this society.
The Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) meeting is likely to be held on March 26.
Gulshan-e-Ravi circle Sub-Divisional Police Officer Imtiaz Ahmad Bhalli, who was nominated in cases of rape and fake encounter when he was Kot Lakhpat CIA DSP and Raiwind SDPO respectively, has been facing inquiries for the last two years and has all along avoided joining probes despite repeated summons by the inquiry officer, DIG Mubashirullah, official record says.
A source told this news hound that the DPC was likely to consider at least 15 DSPs including Mr Bhalli for their promotion and his inquiry officer had been dramatically changed by the provincial police chief just 12 days before the committee meeting.
He claimed that the IO had been changed apparently to clear the DSP of all charges.
The source said departmental inquiry proceedings had been changed without any logic as the matter was still in the notice of the Supreme Court and proceedings could not be stopped.
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For a second I thought they were talking about the D.C. police.
(Sh.M.Network)-- US armed forces have handed over 15 suspected Somali pirates, captured during a rescue operation to free Iranian fishermen in the Arabian Sea, for trial in the Seychelles, officials said Wednesday.
The Indian Ocean archipelago agreed to accept the suspected pirates with the men handed over 'last night at the airport,' said Seychelles presidential spokeswoman Srdjana Janosevic.
The men were captured in January after the US navy saved 13 Iranian fishermen held hostage for weeks in the Arabian Sea, a rescue welcomed by Tehran amid heightened tensions with Washington.
'Seychelles has today the highest percentage of Somali pirates in detention anywhere, amounting to 20 percent of its total prison capacity, which represents a huge burden on the prison system,' a government statement Tuesday read.
'However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... by accepting an additional 15 pirate suspects, Seychelles wishes to send a clear signal to the international community that it will continue to do its utmost in the fight against piracy,' the statement added.
The Seychelles 'will not permit their (pirates) villainous acts to continue to be perpetuated with impunity,' Minister of Home Affairs Joel Morgan added.
US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland thanked the Seychelles, praising its role in supporting anti-piracy efforts.
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RABAT - Tens of thousands of Moroccans staged a pro-Paleostinian march in Rabat on Sunday in a show of force organized by an Islamist group seen as the main opposition to Morocco's monarchy.
A Rootersnews hound in the Moroccan capital said at least 40,000 people joined the march called by Al-Adl Wal Ihsan (Justice and Spirituality). A senior police officer put the number at 11,000 while organizers said 100,000 had turned out.
It was Al-Adl's first march since December when it pulled out of pro-democracy protests, inspired by Arab uprisings elsewhere and aimed at forcing the Arab world's longest-serving dynasty to become a constitutional monarchy.
Morocco has not had a revolution of the kind seen in Egypt, Libya or Tunisia. King Mohammed is still firmly in charge after he offered to trim his powers and allowed moderate Islamists to lead the government after their Justice and Development Party (PJD) won an election in November.
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.
LAHORE: Two alleged criminals were killed in a suspected police encounter near Mian Plaza in Johar Town early on Saturday.
The security forces recovered missiles and rockets during a search operation in Mamond tehsil of 
Azerbaijan, Baku -- The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Fereidoon Abbasi said that the output of Busher nuclear power plant reached to 700 MW, Fars News Agency reported.
[Dawn] THERE is substantive evidence to suggest that 
Wazoo
A senior French official close to the investigation into the shootings told The 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday.
The weather in Karachi changed rather suddenly last week when instead of getting warmer, it actually reversed and became chilly. Of course, as usual the weather experts had all those typical explanations to offer, sighting high pressure there that generated dust and cold winds here and all that.
[Dawn] In a significant development, major opposition parties announced on Saturday that they would adopt a 'unified stance' at the joint sitting of parliament which is deliberating on new terms of engagement with the United States.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
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...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
Unknown 
Kazakhstan has called the playing of a spoof of its national anthem at an international sporting event "a scandal" and demanded an investigation of the incident.
North Korea
The body of Fakhra Younus who had 
[Dawn] UNREST has reigned in parts of 
Orakzai Agency
North Korea announced Saturday it will hold an annual parliamentary session next month around the time of a planned rocket launch that has sparked widespread condemnation.
Negotiations to get freed two Italian hostages kidnapped by Indian Maoists plunged into uncertainty on Saturday after the rebels kidnapped a local 
A policeman was killed on Saturday and another 
A deputy superintendent of police, who is facing departmental inquiries in connection with rape and fake encounter cases, is included in the list of around 55 DSPs who are under consideration for the promotion to the rank of SP.
Somali pirates
