Barack Obama is facing calls from Democratic allies to urgently change course in his re-election campaign, following a new low in poll ratings, worsening economic conditions and a daunting haul of donations by his opponents.
The Presidents approval rating has slipped to 47 per cent, its lowest level since January, an Ipsos poll found. The proportion of voters saying that the US was on the wrong track rose six points to 63 per cent.
Discontent with Mr Obamas leadership has seen his national lead over Mitt Romney, his Republican challenger, fall from seven percentage points to one virtually a tie in the past month. Meanwhile Mr Romney has overtaken him in the money race.
Amid indications that he may seek to strike a humbler tone beginning with a major economic speech Thursday, Mr Obama told donors at a fund-raiser in Pennsylvania late on Tuesday: I hope you still believe in me.
His comments came as he was overtaken by Mr Romney in polls in North Carolina, a battleground state that he won in 2008 and which his campaign chiefs still claim he can hold again.
Support there for Mr Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, was put at 48 per cent by a PPP survey, compared to 46 for Mr Obama. Two months ago, the President led in the state by five points.
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China will take swift counter-measures that could include impounding European aircraft if the EU punishes Chinese airlines for not complying with its scheme to curb carbon emissions, the China Air Transport Association said on Tuesday.
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Basically, the EU is making a so-called carbon tax, and extending their jurisdiction outside their airspace. That will not fly. A global shakedown. They are playing a big game of chicken, but hats off to China for calling them on it.
Now the EUniks are trying to create a crisis and drag ICAO into it so it can be a worldwide taxing scheme. Pretty blatant to anyone but an idiot.
The EU needs a smackdown and I think one is coming, starting with China. Wonder how Russia feels about all this nonsense.....
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Good on China. I wish our feckless leaders had the spine to do that.
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reading ICAO pressers, they are siding w/ China, in that the airspace over a country belongs to that country. they are NOT completely dismissing the carbon shakedown tax, however. only the outside the EU borders part.
the really funny part is that Airbus is going to be screaming really loud since China is a heavy hitter in the new aircraft market and both EADS and Boeing have new a/c to market, the A320neo and 737Max. the neo also has a 1000+ backlog, so Boeing could supply the new airframes quicker.
h/t Instapundit
The AFL-CIO has told Washington Whispers it will redeploy funds away from political candidates smack dab in the middle of election season, the latest sign that the largest federation of unions in the country could be becoming increasingly disillusioned with President Obama. rats, sinking ship?
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As per "Globalism" + OWG-NWO [proto Space Govt-Order], we know what foreigners are getting from the "Globalism" - American jobs, BUT WHAT ARE AMERS GETTING IN RETURN FOR SAME, FROM SAME???
Those whom supported the merits of "Globalism", etc. NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT AMERS BEING THE ONLY ONES TO LOSE THEIR JOBS, OR LOSE JOBS + INDUSTRIES WHOLESALE.
Fortunately for the Bammer, by most accounts the He + Romney are locked in a statistical dead heat going into the Father's Day weekend, although some surveys indic the Bammer would still win iff the POTUS Elex were held today.
* FYI FREEREPUBLIC > OBAMA IS LOSING.
That sound you may be beginning to hear is Nuke-wannabe IRAN going "Yuh Oh"! iff the pro-Diplomacy Bammer's campaign base can't recover for November.
A critical document from President Barack Obama's free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises.
Wonder how long it will take to cross-match those names with the donors to the Obama campaign. Of course, if we had a Republican president that would already have been done and published in the New York Times...
The leaked document has been posted on the website of Public Citizen, a long-time critic of the administration's trade objectives. The new leak follows substantial controversy surrounding the secrecy of the talks, in which some members of Congress have complained they are not being given the same access to trade documents that corporate officials receive.
"The outrageous stuff in this leaked text may well be why U.S. trade officials have been so extremely secretive about these past two years of [trade] negotiations," said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch in a written statement.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has been so incensed by the lack of access as to introduce legislation requiring further disclosure. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has gone so far as to leak a separate document from the talks on his website. Other Senators are considering writing a letter to Ron Kirk, the top trade negotiator under Obama, demanding more disclosure.
You guys could always vote 'no' when the FTA comes to Congress for approval...
The newly leaked document is one of the most controversial of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. It addresses a broad sweep of regulations governing international investment and reveals the Obama administration's advocacy for policies that environmental activists, financial reform advocates and labor unions have long rejected for eroding key protections currently in domestic laws.
Under the agreement currently being advocated by the Obama administration, American corporations would continue to be subject to domestic laws and regulations on the environment, banking and other issues. But foreign corporations operating within the U.S. would be permitted to appeal key American legal or regulatory rulings to an international tribunal. That international tribunal would be granted the power to overrule American law and impose trade sanctions on the United States for failing to abide by its rulings.
That is extra-constitutional. That places an international tribunal higher than our own Article III courts. That just isn't allowed.
The terms run contrary to campaign promises issued by Obama and the Democratic Party during the 2008 campaign.
"We will not negotiate bilateral trade agreements that stop the government from protecting the environment, food safety, or the health of its citizens; give greater rights to foreign investors than to U.S. investors; require the privatization of our vital public services; or prevent developing country governments from adopting humanitarian licensing policies to improve access to life-saving medications," reads the campaign document.
Yet nearly all of those vows are violated by the leaked Trans-Pacific document. The one that is not contravened in the present document -- regarding access to life-saving medication -- is in conflict with a previously leaked document on intellectual property (IP) standards.
"Bush was better than Obama on this," said Judit Rius, U.S. manager of Doctors Without Borders Access to Medicines Campaign, referring to the medication rules. "It's pathetic, but it is what it is. The world's upside-down."
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative insists that while broad standards require many medical patents and IP rules that would increase the price of medications, the U.S. intends to work with countries involved in the Trans-Pacific talks to ensure that the agreement does not restrict access to life-saving drugs.
USTR was not immediately available to comment on the newly leaked investment chapter of the Trans-Pacific deal, and has previously stated that it cannot comment on the terms of an allegedly leaked document.
That statement is belied somewhat by recent American efforts in other international negotiations to establish controversial medical patents that grant companies long-term monopolies on life-saving medications. Those monopolies increase drug prices, which impede access to medications, particularly in developing nations. The World Health Organization and dozens of nonprofit public health groups have objected to the standards sought by the Obama administration. Two United Nations groups recently urged global governments not to agree to trade terms currently being advocated by the Obama administration, on the grounds that such rules would hurt public health.
Such foreign investment standards have also come under fire at home, from both conservative sovereignty purists and progressive activists for the potential to hamper domestic priorities implemented by democratically elected leaders. The North American Free Trade Agreement, passed by Congress in 1993, and a host of subsequent trade pacts granted corporations new powers that had previously been reserved for sovereign nations and that have allowed companies to sue nations directly over issues.
But while the current trade deal could pose a challenge to American sovereignty, large corporations headquartered in the U.S. could potentially benefit from it by using the same terms to oppose the laws of foreign governments. If one of the eight Pacific nations involved in the talks passes a new rule to which an American firm objects, that U.S. company could take the country to court directly in international tribunals.
Public Citizen challenged the independence of these international tribunals, noting that "The tribunals would be staffed by private sector lawyers that rotate between acting as 'judges' and as advocates for the investors suing the governments," according to the text of the agreement.
In early June, a tribunal at the World Bank agreed to hear a case involving similar foreign investment standards, in which El Salvador banned cyanide-based gold mining on the basis of objections from the Catholic Church and environmental activists. If the World Bank rules against El Salvador, it could overturn the nation's domestic laws at the behest of a foreign corporation.
Ordinarily you'd think the Progressives would be thrilled that an international organization gets to order around a sovereign state, but it's all about the goals, my friend, it's all about the goals...
Basic public health and land-use rules would be subject to challenge before an international tribunal, as would bank regulations at capital levels that might be used to stymie bank runs or financial crises. The IMF has advocated the use of such capital controls, which would be prohibited under the current version of the leaked trade pact. Although several countries have proposed exceptions that would allow them to regulate speculative financial bets, the U.S. has resisted those proposals, according to Public Citizen.
Trans-Pacific negotiations have been taking place throughout the Obama presidency. The deal is strongly supported by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the top lobbying group for American corporations. Obama's Republican opponent in the 2012 presidential elections, Mitt Romney, has urged the U.S. to finalize the deal as soon as possible.
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American corporations would continue to be subject to domestic laws and regulations on the environment, banking and other issues. But foreign corporations operating within the U.S. would be permitted to appeal key American legal or regulatory rulings to an international tribunal. That international tribunal would be granted the power to overrule American law and impose trade sanctions on the United States for failing to abide by its rulings
If I'm reading this correctly this treasonous bastard is plotting to turn over American sovereignty to an international tribunal which can over-turn American law.
How is this not treason?
Is he planning on getting this new treaty through the Congress or implementing it through some sleazy maneuver of his own?
Projection: Voters gave a resounding rejection to Measure 2 on Tuesday, opting not to be the nations first state to abolish property taxes.
With 43 percent of precincts reporting, 78.2 percent of voters shot down the measure.
Approximately $812 million in revenue would have been needed to be replaced retroactively by ND's part-time legislature -- these two highly significant omissions seem IMHO to be the biggest flaws in the measure.
Security forces and local police in the North Caucasus region of Karachayevo-Cherkessia have killed several terrorists militants, including a wanted terrorist militant leader.
Local authorities on June 13 identified one of the terrorists militants killed in the overnight raid as Umar Baichorov, 26, who officials said was wanted for masterminding and conducting several attacks targeting local police last year.
The terrorists militants had been surrounded by security forces in a private house late on June 12. The exact number of the killed terrorists militants was not made public.
Two soldiers and two village defense volunteers were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in Narathiwat province on Wednesday morning.
A village leader earlier this morning reported to a security unit that he found a suspicious box left near a roadside sign post in front of his house. Some soldiers and defense volunteers went to the spot and while they were inspecting the box the 5kg home-made bomb hidden inside it was remotely detonated, injuring four of them.
The board hand-picked by Mayor Michael Nanny Bloomberg that must approve his ban of selling large sugar-filled drinks at restaurants might be looking at other targets.
The New York City Board of Health showed support for limiting sizes of sugary drinks at a Tuesday meeting in Queens. They agreed to start the process to formalize the large-drink ban by agreeing to start a six-week public comment period.
At the meeting, some of the members of board said they should be considering other limits on high-calorie foods.
One member, Bruce Vladeck, thinks limiting the sizes for movie theater popcorn should be considered.
"The popcorn isn't a whole lot better than the soda," Vladeck said.
Another board member thinks milk drinks should fall under the size limits.
"There are certainly milkshakes and milk-coffee beverages that have monstrous amounts of calories," said board member Dr. Joel Forman.
Mayor Bloomberg says the drink rules are an attempt to fight obesity in the city. It would limit food service establishments in the city from serving drinks bigger than 16 ounces but would allow refills.
The New York City Restaurant Association is fighting the proposal and is considering legal action of it goes into effect.
New York City voters oppose 51 - 46 percent Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on the sale of over-sized sugary soft drinks, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
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Apparently oxygen is in short supply in NY, perhaps they should ban that as well.
Watch Nanny Bloomers this morning. He is a charming narcissist who will lie to your face with a smile so long as he has a bit of statistic or factoid.
Enjoy your hell New Yorkers, or at least those of you weak enough to be patrolled for a cafe au lait, cuz you know the tough hoods are exempt. Or going to the concession stand four times during your 150 minute movie, or six times during the yanquis game, especially if you take the kids. What do you suppose the price of a bottle of water will go for?
Governor William J. Le Petomane: [pointing to a member of his cabinet] I didn't get a "harrumph" out of that guy!
Hedley Lamarr: Give the Governor harrumph!
Politician: Harrumph!
Governor William J. Le Petomane: You watch your ass.
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Bloomberg approved - Just like Grandmas used to taste.
The year is 2022. The world has grown more crowded each year, and as the population has grown, the means to feed that population have dwindled. We couldn't go hungry; something had to be done. That's where the Soylent Corporation stepped in and saved us all. Forget their Soylent Red and Yellow - their crowning achievement has been Soylent Green. And now we share their wondrous invention with you: Soylent Green Crackers.
Prepare and boil the beets in Orange Juice until soft. Mash.
Crumble the crackers into a pie dish. Layer the mashed beets, then top with the shredded arugula. After setting, cut a slice and go watch the Food Network and pretend you are eating what is on the show.
The much-vaunted recovery began to show signs of slowing a few months ago. Even so, the revelation on June 1st that employment grew by just 69,000 in May, a 12-month low, suggested a more serious deceleration than anyone had imagined. The stockmarket plunged, giving up all its gains since January. Online punters slashed the odds that Barack Obama would be re-elected to a little over 50%. Dreamers!
Yet hopes that 2012 would be the year when America's economy at last shook off its lethargy seem dashed. Employers and investors face increasing uncertainty in every big economy. China, India and Brazil have slowed sharply. The euro zone is dangerously close to collapse. Goldman Sachs reckons that the spillover of European stress into American financial markets will knock 0.2 to 0.4 percentage points off growth this year.
Meanwhile, tax increases and spending cuts equal to 5% of GDP a year are programmed to take effect around December 31st. Most analysts assumed this "fiscal cliff" would not be a worry until 2013. But economists at Bank of America, in a recent report, think it could become a significant drag relatively soon. The fiscal hit is huge, the date is set, and no resolution is in sight before the election on November 6th. Uncertainty is a killer.
This all gives firms a powerful incentive to postpone hiring and investment until the resolution is known. The bank sees a one-in-three chance of recession between now and mid-2013. Sunday, a WaPo editorial said O's downfall would be Europe, but it looks like he can crash the US, too.
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Anyone who believes this will turn around is smoking crack with the chum buddies.
Marxist fools and democrats are the opposite of economies, always has been, always will be.
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The "much-vaunted recovery" has been a lie and a distortion all along. The US is only better off in comparison with the rest of the world, which is deteriorating much faster.
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"The EuroZone is dangerously close to collapse" > possible, but unlikely. IMO the EU will manage to hold or stave off any such de facto collapse -IT WILL BE THE OTHER DESIRED/PROPOSED OWG FED "UNIONS" THAT WILL BE PUT OFF OR DELAYED FROM FORMAL START-UP UNTIL SUCH TIME THE WORLD SEES THE EU EFFEC CORRECT ITS "BIRTHING/
OPERATING" PROBS + PROVE ITSELF A REAL SUCCESS.
* E.G. TOPIX, CHINA DAILY FORUM > OVERSEAS LIABILITIES RAISE UK DEBT TO 300% OF GDP.
* IIRC RENSE > US DEBT IS NOT US$15.0TRILYUHN [US$15.7T + rising], ITS US$50.0TRILYUHN, iff one uses Accrual, not Govt-beloved Cash, Methods.
The only exception I can see would be formal start-up of proposed NAU as led by the USA, + by extension so-called "Atlantic Union", SINCE THE US IS THE PER SE "TIP OF THE SPEAR/FOREFRONT" AS PER SETTING UP OWG-NWO = SPACE-GOVT-ORDER. Widout the success of US-led NAU there will be no OWG "Atlantic Union" nor OWG "Pacific/Oceanic Union".
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US/UK/Saudi/AlQaeda are involved already - where on earth does he think the Sunnis got all those weapons?
The plan is simple - let western allies (Saudi/Al Qaeda) purge Syria of Christians (this is largely complete - 90% purged already from Homs according to Syrian Church).
Once the Christians are gone - Israel can flatten the rest without getting the blame for all those dead Christians, and every one is happy.
The Palestinians lose their Christian backers and then Israel finishes off their Islamic backers. Job done.
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Does anyone really think having a super-sized Hamas/Hezbollah (i.e. a Muslim Brotherhood Syrian government) with 10 times Israel's land area and 3 times Israel's population, armed with MiG's and SAM's on Israel's borders is a good thing? Syria's Alawite regime has been funneling Iranian supplies to Hezbollah in exchange for Iranian aid to Syria. A Muslim Brotherhood-run Syria will devote the entire resources of the state towards killing as many Israelis as they can. The Alawites have traditionally been hostile towards Israel because they were using Arab Nationalism as a shield against Sunni Arab resentment at being ruled by Alawites. The sectarian war against Sunnis has basically destroyed the whole idea of Arab Nationalism in Syria. It's now everybody in Syria against the Sunni Arabs, who are now being financed by the Gulf's Sunni Arabs - the same people who are keeping Hamas alive and financing al Qaeda. Why would Israel shun this opportunity to reach an unspoken understanding with the Alawites - the same kind of understanding it reached with Jordan's King Hussein after the 1967 war? Especially with Egypt about to hand power over to a Muslim Brotherhood government that is about to march against Israel? If Syria's falls to the Ikhwan, Jordan won't be far behind, given its long and porous border with Syria.
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I think we're developing a new generation of people who are just now figuring out the old Cold War phrase 'My dictator is better than your dictator' wasn't necessarily a bad option in the real world. Not to be confused with some mythical magical world of academics [particularly those with a Marxist tint] in which everything is to blame on America.
Because a group of weathly homeowners sought to block a new highway by getting a pretty-plain piece of property listed in the Historical Register. KY and Ind. decided that was still the best place for the new highway, so now they have to tunnel under the trash-tree part of the 'historic' property. Indiana's 'share' of the cost is $255 million. Budget problems? Who has budget problems?
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Did the world end when a lot of 'historical' buildings and sites in Europe were leveled by the 8th Air Force in 1944-45?
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Once again, wealthy elites use the law for their own purposes. You and I pay. Suckers.
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Speaking of INDIANA ...
* IIRC CHINA DAILY FORUM > US STATE OF INDIANA TO ALLOW CITIZENS TO SHOOT POLICE OFFICERS, or other Govt-Public Servants iff they perceive an "immediate" threat of "deadly unlawful force".
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This has happened all over the country for many many years.
My fav example:
Back in the 70s, the Ft McHenry bridge was going to be built but the bridge would have cast a shadow on Ft McHenry (it wouldn't have dislocated a single blade of grass) so the preservationist insisted a tunnel be built instead.
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A 55-year-old man from Utica, Florida was arrested and charged with driving while absolutely blotto after police caught him joyriding during a drunken stupor. Yet, there was no car involved in this incident. That's right. Raymond Kulma was driving while really, really hammered in a motorized wheelchair. The worst part is that the wheelchair didn't even belong to him. "Yesh, thish izh mine; I have a crafshered leg--I mean frecshared--broken."
"Shouldn't you have a cast on your leg, then?"
"It wazh... shtolen?"
"Nice try, beauzeau."
Kulma actually stole the wheelchair from James Konkel, a resident at a local retirement home. Raymond and James got into an argument outside the retirement home and Kulma got on Konel's motorized wheelchair and made like a Berkeley professor and left. Utica police arrested Kulma a little while later on Greeley Street not far from the senior living complex. "Police! Freeze!"
"Yesh, I could shtand to beat the heat."
"Well, you can cool your heels in the hoosegow."
During his encounter with police, Raymond Kulma was found to have three sheets to the wind. In fact, he failed three sobriety tests prior to being arrested. According to Police Chief Faber, "Mr. Kulma was three times the legal limit. He didn't pass any of the sobriety tests he was given." "What? I'm shober azh a judge, ocshifer."
"Of the Ninth Circuit Court, maybe."
Upon further investigation, the police found that this was not Mr. Kulma's first offense. In fact, this was the seventh charge of operating a motor vehicle while completely smashed since 1984. His license has also been revoked twice and suspended four times. Furthermore, he hasn't has a valid driver's license since 1993.
When asked what should happen to Raymond Kulma, the wheelchair owner, James Konkel shared his opinion. "I think he needs to be locked up for a little while. Maybe it will teach him a lesson."
What an amazing coincidence. After Obama says the most important policy he could address in his second term is climate change, Bank of America announces they pledge $50 billion to combat climate change. Where are they getting $50 billion? Oh thats right, bailout money.
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And here I just heard last week that the banks were having a hard time making ends meet after the Feds regulated their fees.
I guess Bank of America has money to burn!
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remember that the Dem Convention will be held in Charlotte, NC. The ascension of Emperor Obama to Dem Prez renominee will take place at Bank Of America Stadium there. That is already getting flack. I suspect this is an attempt to buy some concessions from the "I hate BofA/1%" crowd using somebody else's money
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"Combat Climate Change:" = let's spend money to wreck what's working in the energy industry in the US, but hope the people working in it are still able to send in their monthly mortgage checks and credit card payments.
In the handling of money and when one acts as a corporate or individual trustee, there is a fiduciary responsibility owed to the principal party. It is defined as a relationship imposed by law where someone has voluntarily agreed to act in the capacity of a "caretaker" of another's rights, assets and/or well being. The fiduciary owes an obligation to carry out the responsibilities with the utmost degree of "good faith, honesty, integrity, loyalty and undivided service of the beneficiaries interest." The good faith has been interpreted to impose an obligation to act reasonably in order to avoid negligent handling of the beneficiary's interests as well the duty not to favor ANYONE ELSE'S INTEREST (INCLUDING THE TRUSTEES OWN INTEREST) over that of the beneficiary. Further, if the agent should find him/herself in a position of conflicting interests, the agent must disclose the dual agency (acting for two parties at the same time) or risk being accused of constructive fraud in regards to both or either principals.
The lot of the board and operators should be sacked.
Looks like the tooth fairy is not biting.
Germany's central bank has shot down EU proposals for a European banking union, warning categorically that eurozone liabilities cannot be shared without a fundamental shift towards fiscal and political union. Which ain't gonna happen.
The CORRECT solution is to undo the EURO the obvious solution is another power grab.
It all depends on your perspective of what the goal is. For the Europhile elite across the continent, the goal is the USE under the control of the anti-democratic technocracy.
Wearing hijab (head cover) or niqab (face veil) increases a womans risk of vitamin D deficiency, a national study has found.
Conducted by the National Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Genetics, the study found that 37.3 per cent of women had low levels of vitamin D compared to 5.1 per cent of men.
However, women who wear hijab or niqab are more likely to have low levels of vitamin D than women who do not cover their heads, according to the study, which was conducted to assess the vitamin D status of Jordanians at the national level and to identify groups of the population at high risk for vitamin D deficiency.
The rate of low vitamin D was 36.5 per cent among women wearing niqab, 37.9 per cent among women wearing hijab, and 29.5 per cent among women who do not wear any head covering.
The study, a copy of which was made available to The Jordan Times, covered a sample of 5,640 subjects from across the Kingdom and involved interviews, laboratory tests and physical measurements.
According to the studys results, a major cause of vitamin D deficiency is inadequate exposure to sunlight. Very few foods naturally contain vitamin D and foods that are fortified with vitamin D are often inadequate.
The recommendation to avoid all sun exposure to protect against skin cancer has put the worlds population at risk for vitamin D deficiency, the study indicated.
Vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency affects one billion people worldwide, as deduced from several studies.
According to the World Health Organisation, five to 15 minutes of casual sun exposure of the hands, face and arms two to three times a week during the summer months is sufficient to keep vitamin D levels high.
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Supposedly, we all came out of Africa some 50,000 years ago and evolution arranged that the farther north you went, the lighter your skin color became. Otherwise, evolution killed you off for vitamin D deficiency.
Soooo ... one way to look at this is evolution at work. Birth rates will plummet until they remove enough clothing to sop up a few photons.
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Wearing a hijab puts you more at risk from meme poisoning than vitamin D deficiency.
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Audio presentation. Private sector doing well but Romney indicates it was not a slip, that he went on with that subject. Where is point man Joe Biden when you need him.
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Mods- this is Tom-Pa.. I'm sorry if I 'mistakenly' tried to post this 6.5 minute "PODCAST" on your website. I frequented rantburg early in the 2000's. There is no video, this is merely a 6.5 minute PODCAST by my local radio host. I'm getting confidence each day that BHO will not be able to win 270 electoral votes. BHO will be 'out of here' come post election day. I've learned much in hanging out in Rantburg. With your articles/ reader comments. Thank you. The MSM has been withholding info from the US population, and certain stories (specifically, this Fast & Furious). Eric Holder has been questioned much recently. Those members of the committee are being 'stonewalled' asking for information, even as far back as a year ago. I'm a big Issa fan, along with other members of the REPUBLICANS sitting on the commitee. The DEMOCRATS are going with the strategy that the investigation is just politically motivated on the part of the REPUBLICANS. They simply claim that the REPUBLICANS are simply on an unnecessary WITCH-HUNT. The lower level agents have testified previously. My understanding is that the liberals are against the second amendment. Strategy they were using was it's too easy to get guns. To prove this, the US Government and agencies( I know of at least the ATF) procured I think it was 6000(?) guns supplied/bought at US mexico border and turned over to Mexican Drug cartels. Most of the weapons headed south into Mexico (GOD only knows how many poor Mexican citizens) have been killed by these weapons. However, in 2010, US border agent, Brian Terry was killed at the border. The serial number on the gun that killed Terry, matched one that was involved in the purchase of the original 6000.
I also remember by one of the testifiers, the US didn't even co-ordinate this operation with the Mexican authorities. Agents testified that the US agents(?) were going to keep a close eye on the shipment(s) to see where they were headed. At that time, the US would notify Mexican authorities. Up to this time, only the lower agents have been reprimanded. But where did the orders start from? That is where Issa has been making continuos requests of the administration for some time now. As an aside, has anyone here been watching on c-span the recent questioning of Eric Holder by the commitee? and to go back further in time, has anyone watched the questioning of the lower level agents giving details of the operation? Just wonderring, because nothing/minimal details have been reported by the 'state controlled media'. You have to remember, if they don't report it, it never happenned. (censorship). Sorry to really go off on a tangent here, after all my original posting had to do with a MITT ROMNEY interview on the radio yesterday. Off the record here, since I don't even watch the news anymore has any of my above 'short-story'(ha-ha, short) appeared on CBS, or NBC, or ABC, or CNN, or MSNBC, or even FoxNews?? I'm hoping the proverbial "shit hits the fan" sooner/rather than later(post election)- Who knows these days?
As an aside again, I was trying to find out how many of the 'sheeple' has ever heard about this?
I would introduce myself, go one on one with that person and ask them, "If I mention the term 'Fast and Furious', does it mean anything to you." Most of my respondence from that person would be, "you mean the movie?" So, I figured that person didn't know.. If this makes RANTBURG pages, I would welcome your comments. You people here are astute as to what goes on, and would appreciate some feedback.. GOD BLESS the USA, obama's out of here come november. BTW, whats the intrade on the election right now?
Prediction here is Pres Romney, along with Republican controlled Senate and House. Not sure though with world middle east events, along with world financial crisis. About five months to election. Sidenote, recently had 'spine surgery' on 6/1 and am recovering at home. I have 'seen the light', dr's say I could have been left paralyzed. Often I see postings by Steve White over at Professor Jacobson's 'LegalInsurrection'.
So is anybody else following this? I am going to blame the long story on my backpain meds! thank you for your time...
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Tom-Pa, they made me a moderator while you were away, so I was speaking above in that capacity. (Life is full of surprises, I know.) I wasn't the one who published your plea, though, so another mod thought it worth sharing with our gentle readers.
We've been following the Fast & Furious story from the earliest days, thanks in part to moderator Sherry, who also came on board after you turned your attention elsewhere. I think it was ABC that's been reporting the story -- one of their reporters has a stubborn streak. Also, our own badanov has been doing independent reporting on the drug war and politics in Mexico, where they are not pleased about their citizens dying from F&F guns about which they were not informed.
You'll want to send a note to Fred (see the front page in the right margin for the link) to regain access to the articles in the archive, so you can get caught up on the subject. Fred tightened that up during the Righthaven excitement -- he was one of the bloggers they went after, which was not fun despite the generous support of some of our clever Rantburg lawyers and business people, and quite generous donations from the readership.
I'm glad your surgery went well, and welcome back! I was just reading through the older bits of the archives yesterday, and found myself wondering what had happened to you and some others. :-)
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Trailing Wife... Check out this link for Fast and Furious Ad. Hope it works. Let me know if doesn't! I'm unfamiliar how to post links on this site to youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Wk2n8P6dQ
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Check out this link for Fast and Furious Ad.
That worked, Tom -- thank you! I'm still working on figuring out the quirks of the iPad that replaced my last laptop, and am handicapped by a decided lack of technical ability, about which my family, now including two professors of computer science (my sister just got the offer yesterday!!) find highly amusing.
[Dawn] Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak was in a stable condition on Tuesday, a prison official said, after sources reported a day before that the jailed 84-year-old's health had deteriorated and that he had received treatment to restart his heart.
Speculation about Mubarak's health has swirled since he was jailed for life on June 2 for failing to halt the killing of protesters who toppled him. Hundreds were killed in the 18-day uprising that ended his 30-year rule on Feb. 11, 2011.
Mubarak's lawyer told Reuters on Monday that Mubarak's status was "very critical" and that he should be moved to a better equipped facility outside of the prison.
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Mubarak's lawyer told Reuters on Monday that Mubarak's status was "very critical" and that he should be moved to a better equipped facility outside of the prison.
So he can escape easier?
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The 15-month-old conflict in Syria has grown into a full-scale civil war in which the government is attempting to recapture large swathes of urban territory it has lost to the opposition, the UN peacekeeping chief said on Tuesday.
"Yes, I think we can say that," UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous said....
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Fellow Rantburgers, these are "for real" questions from me. Why is this such a big news story and the UN so worried about it? I dont understand. Am I missing something? Whats the difference between the Russians giving the Syrians copters and arms compared to us giving arms and and a proxy air force/navy to the Libyan Rebels? I would think its a good thing to let the Syrians go at each others throats instead of being a tool of Iran right now.
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Those are good questions, Yosemite.
One thing that seems apparent is that throughout this whole "Arab Spring" thingy our U.S. government has consistently sided with the "demonstrators" or "rebels" or whoever is opposed to the existing governments in the Arab Middle East. This has been in spite of indications that the anti-government folks in these countries are either unknown or else known to be just as bad if not worse than the existing governments.
One example would be Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood as opposed to Hosni Mubarak. After presiding over 30 years of peace with Israel, all of a sudden Mubarak was a bad guy who just had to go. I don't know why. It's almost as if Obama is hustling for votes from the Muslim Brotherhood types.
Another example would be Syria. How is it that we have dog in this fight? Why should we care?
Then, of course, there is Libya. If Ronald Reagan had gone all out after the Lockerbie bombing to terminate Qdaffy I would have thought that would be a good thing. But the way NATO did it this year for no apparent reason just seems chickenshit.
I don't get it and have yet to hear a credible explanation. There must be something that O'Bummer isn't telling us. Romney isn't calling him on it either which would seem to indicate that the Republicans are in on it, whatever "it" is. Dunno.
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One thing that seems apparent is that throughout this whole "Arab Spring" thingy our U.S. government has consistently sided with the "demonstrators" or "rebels" or whoever is opposed to the existing governments in the Arab Middle East.
Sunni Arab theocrats (i.e. the ones who'd like nothing but to kill us all) are great propagandists. In this respect, they resemble the communists, who were so successful that there was scarcely a communist movement that the media did not support, back in the days of the Cold War. A lot of politicians on both sides (GOP and Democrat) are uninformed, and prone to seeing these conflicts in black and white, David and Goliath terms. The side currently carrying out more atrocities is bad and the side with more power is bad. In truth, few people have had the luxury of using kid gloves to quell insurrections.
If Arabs living within Israel prior to the 1948 war had stayed, Israel would be a seething cauldron of insurrection, and continuous guerrilla warfare like Syria today. It's fashionable today to badmouth our Indian fighting forebears for using harsh tactics to subdue the natives during the Indian Wars over a century ago. However, if these tactics hadn't been employed, we'd be fighting them today.
The amusing thing about this selective outrage over Syria is that nothing comparable has been expressed over Sunni Arab-ruled Sudan, which hosted al Qaeda and has killed over 200K Christians and animists, and is continuing to kill 1000 people a month. Where are the calls for a no-fly zone over Sudan? My impression is that we have become the mamluks, Sunni Islam's military slaves, of the 20th century.
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At the margin, I agree that the civil war in Syria isn't something the US should try unwind and, in any event, without use of military force our options are minimal (a few more economic measure and a few more diplomatic ones).
However, there are real problems here.
1/ stocks of bio/chem stuff in Syria that could go to terror groups if the Civil War continues.
2/ the remaining Christian communities in Syria are more in danger every week
3/ ditto the Kurds
4/ ditto any remaining secular liberals
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Lord Garth, those all sound like reasons why we should support Assad.
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IIRC wasn't it bin Laden's master plan to start a war with the U.S. / west so we would go after the "terrorists" and show how the respective current M.E. regimes were in cahoots with us? That way the Muslim proletariat would rise up to overthrow said regimes and begin to form a new pan-Muslim caliphate. Smells like Arab spring to me. That just begs the above questions on why we are supporting the actors that we are supporting. Fishy. Very fishy.
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"It's almost as if Obama is hustling for votesmoney from the Muslim Brotherhood types."
FTFY, EU.
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CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > THE BEAR WARNS WAR IS COMING UNLESS THE SYRIAN REBELS COULD BE CRUSHED IN 4-6 WEEKS | [WND.com] RUSSIA WARNS [Assad = Syria] WAR IS COMING, SOURCE REVEALS GOVERNMENT GIVEN 4-6 WEEKS TO CRUSH OPPOSITION.
ARTIC = Mama Russia repor did not elaborate on what kind of war was specifically coming or could break out.
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > ISRAEL TO "EVACUATE TEL AVIV" IN CASE OF MISSLE ATTACK, espec by LRBMS, Rocket Arty wid Unconventional Warheads.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US, IRAN RACE TO LIMIT EACH OTHER'S INFLUENCE AFTER ASSAD FALLS.
* WAFF > ANKARA'S RED LINE.
Syrian mil buildup detected near Aleppo may have serious implications or effects for Turkey's national, geopol security which it may not be able to ignore or alleviate short of Turkey-specific mil intervention agz Syria???
[An Nahar] Around 25 people have been killed and scores more maimed in five days of sectarian violence in western Myanmar, a senior government official told Agence La Belle France Presse on Tuesday.
"About 25 people have been killed during the unrest," the official said, requesting anonymity, without providing details of how they died or whether they were Buddhists or Mohammedans. A further 41 have been maimed, he said.
Previously the official toll had stood at seven people dead since Friday.
A cycle of apparent Dire Revenge™ attacks has gripped western Myanmar following the recent rape and murder of a local woman, allegedly by three Mohammedans.
In response an angry Buddhist mob beat 10 Mohammedans to death on June 3 -- fatalities not included in the figure given by the government official.
Hundreds of homes have since been torched, forcing both Buddhists and Mohammedans to seek safety, and rights organizations fear the corpse count is higher than the official number.
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Once again the Muslims are on one side (at least) of a violent conflict.
Other than Mexican/South American narco wars I can think of no on going violence that doesn't include Muslims can you?
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The Irish Republican Army is quiet lately, and FARC is a bit crippled so, none that come to mind. Unless you count the deaths US inner cities, which wax and wane.
[An Nahar] Clashes with machineguns erupted on Tuesday in the Beirut southern suburb of al-Kafaat between members of the al-Moqdad family and "others from Hizbullah," MTV reported.
The festivities broke out "after Hizbullah members cooled for a few years Please don't kill me! members of the al-Moqdad family for robbing a store," MTV said.
The TV network said "the fighting erupted as Hizbullah members arrived in al-Maamoura near Rammal Supermarket," adding that "some Hizbullah members were seen carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers."
MTV said members of al-Moqdad family attacked a Hizbullah official called "Abu Hadi."
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... state-run National News Agency reported "an exchange of gunfire between members of the al-Moqdad family and unknown gunnies in an area between al-Mreijeh and al-Maamoura."
For its part, OTV said the festivities erupted between members of the al-Moqdad and Zoaiter families.
Later on Tuesday, the Army Command's Orientation Directorate issued a statement clarifying the circumstances of the incident.
"This afternoon, after an argument between citizens in the al-Kafaat-Hadath area over previous family disputes erupted into an exchange of gunfire with light assault rifles, an army unit intervened, imposing a security cordon around the area," the statement said.
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(Sh. M. Network)-Al shabab cut-throats have tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! on Tuesday at least four people in Somalia's central town of El Bur, after alleging to have links with Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a ASWJ and Æthiopian forces, who deserted the town before the cut-throats rolled in Sunday.
According to local residents two women are among the tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! people by Al shabab fighters after ASWJ and Æthiopian forces abandoned the town on Monday for what the officials called 'military tactics'.
"Al shabab tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! today Mohammed Wehliye, father of Al shabab official for Zakaat, and Three others, two of them women and taken to undisclosed location in the town," El Bur residents told Shabelle Media on the phone.
Local people expressed shock and fear over the arbitrary arrests and killings against locals by Al shabab fighters who poured into El Bur town on Monday, shortly after the allied troops from ASWJ and Æthiopia quit.
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Kids at Islamic Jihad kindergarten celebrate end of year by demonstrating how Paleostinian prisoners are 'tortured' in Israel. Teacher: We educate them to love resistance, Paleostine
The photos at the link are about what one would expect of such adorable tykes.
[Ynet] Children attending a kindergarten in Gazoo that is run by Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... celebrated their graduation by dressing up in army attire, waving toy rifles and chanting anti-Israel slogans.
"It is our obligation to educate the children to love the resistance, Paleostine and Jerusalem, so they will recognize the importance of Paleostine and who its enemy is," the kindergarten's director said.
The children were dressed up in uniforms of Jihad's armed-wing, the al-Quds Brigades, and each of them received a toy rifle. Some of them held up photos of Islamic Jihad founder Fathi Shaqaqi.
The event was attended by the children's relatives, some of whom belong to Islamic Jihad and other armed Paleostinian factions.
During the ceremony the children were asked to stand next to mock coffins draped with flags of the various armed factions. The flags bore the images of "shahids (deaders)."
One child, Hamza, said "When I grow up I'll join Islamic Jihad and the al-Quds Brigades. I'll fight the Zionist enemy and fire missiles at it until I die as a shahid and join my father in heaven.
"I love the resistance and the deaders and Paleostine, and I want to blow myself up on Zionists and kill them on a bus in a suicide kaboom," he said.
During the ceremony the children "demonstrated" how Israel treats Paleostinian prisoners. In the display, handcuffed children depicting inmates were placed in cages, with an "Israeli guard" standing nearby.
Another child depicting an Israeli prison guard placed the head of a "Paleostinian prisoner" in a bucket of water to demonstrate how Paleostinian prisoners are "tortured" in Israel.
"At every kindergarten graduation ceremony we focus on the children to represent the role of struggling and resistance in the way of Allah so they will grow up to love the resistance and serve the cause of Paleostine and Holy Jihad, as well as to make them leaders and fighters to defend the holy soil of Paleostine," one of the teachers said.
Alternate headline: UN documents too much food aid still going to N. Korea...
The United Nations is calling for the international community to put aside political differences and boost funding to help address what it says are the dire humanitarian needs of North Koreans.
The UN said Tuesday that aid efforts in North Korea remain "seriously underfunded," even as it unveiled a funding request for an additional $198 million to respond to "key humanitarian priorities" in the impoverished communist state in 2012.
International donors provided just over a third of the $218 million the UN requested for North Korean aid in 2011. Because of the lack of funds, the international body said it was unable to effectively address the humanitarian needs there.
The UN described serious humanitarian conditions in North Korea in its report, saying 16 million people continue to suffer from chronic food insecurity, high malnutrition rates, and deep-rooted economic problems. It said undernourished children are particularly at risk, with nearly a third of children under five showing signs of stunting and hundreds more dying from preventable conditions such as diarrhea.
UN Resident Coordinator Jerome Sauvage called on donors to separate political issues from humanitarian needs in North Korea, which has been under international sanctions because of its nuclear program.
"We think that humanitarian assistance should be not dependent on the ups and downs of the political situation," Sauvage said. "As we said, this [assistance] is going for the most vulnerable people, and certainly, if we see our funding going down for whatever reason, this is what is happening really to affect the population. We think that humanitarian aid should be separate from politics."
North Korea has suffered from chronic food shortages since a famine in the 1990s believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of people.
The United States and North Korea reached an agreement in February under which the North had agreed to suspend its nuclear weapons and missile programs, in exchange for a delivery of 240,000 tons of badly needed food aid.
But Washington scrapped the deal after North Korea's failed rocket launch in April. Pyongyang said the launch was to place a weather satellite into orbit, but the Obama administration argued it was a test of a long-range ballistic missile that could carry warheads.
Despite its political differences with North Korea, the U.S. has been the biggest single contributor of food aid to the communist state since the famine.
We need to stop. The aid goes to the army. The children starve anyway. Stop delaying the revolution!
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HHHMMMM, HMMMMM, well, on a not necessarily unrelated note the new Spanish Bailout cost the equivalent of US$125.0Bilyuhn [EU$100.0Bilyuhn], which is weirdly-n-mysteriously-n-.... also the amount of the most recent rise in the US Budget Deficit.
As per FREEREPUBLIC > US DEFICIT MORE THAN DOUBLES TO US$125.0BILYUHN.
[Dawn] Two Islamic fascistiand a local primitive were killed in two kabooms in a remote village of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency on Monday.
Sources said that the driver of a passenger pick-up was killed when a remote controlled device, fitted in his vehicle, went kaboom! in Mastak village. The dear departed was identified as Kabeer Khan, a local primitive.
Sources said that another bomb planted along the road at the same venue went off when Alif Khan, local leader of a hard boy group Tawheedul Islam, reached there to inspect the site of the blast. Alif Khan was killed on the spot while four of his bodyguards received injuries in the second blast.
One of the injured identified as Umar Khan departed this vale of tears in a private clinic.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... Khasadar Force recovered 34 kilograms of heroin and incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... three drug pushers during a raid on a house in Jamrud.
Officials said that the raid was conducted on the house of Alaf Khan in Shahkas locality.
They said that during the search Khasadar Force recovered the contraband from a cupboard in the kitchen. Three persons identified as Aseen Khan, Faizullah and Akhtar Sher were taken into custody and shifted to Jamrud lockup.
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(Sh. M. Network)- -- Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... broke out in Somalia's Lower Jubba region on Tuesday after Al shabab fighters attacked positions manned by pro-government forces on the outskirts of Qoqani town, reports said.
Local residents in Qoqani town confirmed to Shabelle Media on Tuesday that the fighting was fierce and both warring sides traded heavy and small weapons, forcing residents to flee their homes to the safe locations in the region.
Figures on the casualties are yet to be established, but witnesses said Kenyan army helping Somali forces involved in the combat against Al shabab gun-hung tough guys at Qoqani town.
Reports indicated that the situation has returned to normal after the fighting subsided and the area is under full control of Somali and Kenyan forces tightening the security.
No Al shabab official was available for comment on the battle so far.
Last week, Somali and Kenyan forces took control of Afmadow, a town in southernSomalia, all without firing a shot.
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[Dawn] A 38-year-old man was rubbed out and two others were maimed inside their house in Mowach Goth on Monday in what police described as an attack related to the gang warfare that had claimed five lives in the Mauripur area a day earlier.
The dear departed was identified as Shahmir and the maimed victims as Ahmed Ali and Ali Mohammad, all hailing from Jacobabad, said an official at the Saeedabad cop shoppe.
It emerged during the initial investigation that the incident was linked to the Mauripur killings, he said, adding that the same gang could be behind the early morning attack.
Saeedabad SHO Chaudhry Irshad said that Mowach Goth was once known as the area dominated by the Razzak Commando gang, which was associated with the slain Rehman alias Dakait.
The SHO said the attack could have been carried out on the suspicion that the victims were supporters of the Arshad Pappu gang.
The body and both the maimed victims were taken to the Civil Hospital 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... for medico-legal formalities and treatment, respectively.
Nobody had turned up to lodge the case at the Saeedabad cop shoppe till Monday evening.
Army man killed
A sepoy was bumped off inside his home in Pakhtunabad within the remit of the PIB Colony cop shoppe late Sunday night, said officials.
Sepoy Waqar, son of Miskeen Ali, had recently arrived from Multan, where he was posted, to spend holidays at home, said PIB Colony SHO Nusrat Hussain Sheikh.
The officer added that two gunnies entered his home, shot at him and fled. He was rushed to the PNS Shifa Hospital, where he died during treatment. The body was later shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination.
The police quoted his family as saying that the killing could be a result of some personal enmity.
A duty officer of the PIB Colony cop shoppe said that the family had not lodged the case till Monday night.
Following the killing, tension spread in some parts of the locality. Many shops in the area were not opened after the early morning attack. Other commercial activities were also partially suspended.
Police and Rangers were deployed in the area to avert an untoward situation.
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At least the French police are now taking reports and making arrests. Before they just ignored it, or told the Jews to stop triggering attacks by being identifiable. But we'll see how long it lasts under the Hollade government.
[Ynet] French police jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! three men suspected of attacking an 18-year-old Jewish man in Sarcelles, a northern suburb of Gay Paree over the weekend, Le Gay Pareeien reported Monday. According to the report, the three subjected the man to anti-Semitic insults and stole his mobile phone.
On Saturday, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls met with Jewish community leaders at the great synagogue of Sarcelles and expressed his determination to combat anti-Semitic words and actions.
The attack comes just a week after three Jewish men wearing skullcaps were attacked with hammers and iron bars in Villeurbaine, near the city of Lyon. Police jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! two suspects and La Belle France's interior ministry labeled the attack anti-Semitic. The three received treatment and were discharged from hospital a short while later.
Valls condemned the attack which he described as an "intentional attack" against the Republic.
That, too, though it wouldn't be were the Republic to enforce its monopoly on violence.
(Sh.M.Network) -- The prosecutor in the Gay Paree trial of six Somalis charged with holding crew of a luxury sailing ship hostage in the Gulf of Adenin 2008 on Monday called for sentences of up to 15 years.
"These six men you are going to judge ... seriously endangered French lives," prosecutor Bruno Sturlese told the court.
"They were ready to sacrifice them to get money," he added.
Somali pirates seized 30 crew members of the luxury yacht Le Ponant in the pirate-infested waters in April 2008 and held them for ransom.
French Special Forces placed in long-term storage Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the six men, aged 25 to 50, in an airborne operation after a ransom had been paid.
Only one of them admits to being a pirate. Two admit to having been aboard the elegant 88-metre (290-foot) three-master but only to sell goats, cigarettes and the mild narcotic khat. The other three deny ever having set foot on the boat.
Sturlese called for a 15-year sentence against Ismael Ali Samatar, 31, the only one to have admitted his role in the crime. The prosecutor said he had played a greater role in the hostage-taking operation than the others.
But he said the others were also implicated, having been placed in long-term storage Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! aboard an off-road vehicle that had $181,000 in it.
The verdict in the case, which opened on May 22, is expected late Thursday.
A total of 22 Somalis are being held byLa Belle Francein connection with four hostage-taking incidents.
Last year a Gay Paree court jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! five pirates for between four and eight years for hijacking the Carre d'As in theGulf of Adenin September 2008. A sixth alleged pirate was acquitted.
Prosecutors are appealing those sentences as being too lenient.
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"Only one of them admits to being a pirate. Two admit to having been aboard the elegant 88-metre (290-foot) three-master but only to sell goats, cigarettes and the mild narcotic khat."
Yes, because generally I find the best place to sell goats is aboard a luxury yacht.
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[Yemen Post] The Yemeni parties, which were not part of a West-backed power-transfer deal signed after the 2011 unrest, on Tuesday agreed to participate in a comprehensive national dialogue expected in coming months, Saba reported.
The statement was made at a meeting with the liaison team in charge with communication with these parties to bring them to the dialogue, for which preparations have got underway, according to the official agency.
At the meeting chaired by head of the liaison team, Yasin Saeed Noman, the representatives of the parties agreed to participate in the dialogue without conditions, stressing the importance of dialogue as the best way to lift Yemen out of the current situation, Saba said.
The dialogue liaison committee is currently preparing for meetings with the Southern Movement Harak and the youth-led protesters inside the change and freedom squares to convince them to participate in the dialogue. A dialogue preparatory committee is scheduled to be formed before June 30.
According to informed sources, meetings with opposition abroad, mainly those guiding the southern movement, have been held in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
The liaison committee met with the Shiite Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America™", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... Group based in Saada province in the far north, which agreed to participate in the dialogue, amid sporadic battles between its followers and Sunnis and the army.
In November, the General People's Congress and the Joint Meeting Parties, the main opposition bloc, signed the power transition deal, which was brokered by the GCC and backed by the UN.
The deal ended the political crisis and turmoil including the mass protests, which forced former president to sign it and resign after 33 years in office.
Under the deal, a power-sharing government from the GPC and the JMP was formed and the international community is now sponsoring its implementation, especially the terms over reforms in the army, preparations for the dialogue and tackling economic, political and security disorders.
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That'll be a first. Still, let us be proud that this particular branch of jihadism has discovered chivalry, however late the date.
[Yemen Post] The Sharia Supporters, the offshoot of Yemen Al-Qaeda, on Tuesday confirmed the fall of their key strongholds of Zinjibar and Jaar in south Yemen, saying in a statement of which Almasdar Online got a copy, its faceless myrmidons had withdrawn to avoid shedding the blood of Mohammedans.
After months of battles in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , the defense ministry said the army has finally cleared Al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons from all towns in this southern province including the capital Zinjibar, which were seized in mid-2011.
"Our fighters withdrew from Zinjibar amid fears the government forces might repeat their crime of destroying the whole city and displacing its people, which occurred last year," the website quoted the statement as saying.
In the meantime, the defense ministry has said the forces have started the golden swords operation to hunt and clear all faceless myrmidons from Abyan, including the areas to where faceless myrmidons fled the battles in the past few days.
The statement, however, denied that the faceless myrmidons withdrew from Jaar after battles with the forces, saying the withdrawal started before the government forces could arrive in this strategic city, according to the website.
Earlier today, Al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons distributed publications while leaving Jaar, saying they never wanted to disturb the locals and that their withdrawal came to prevent possible attacks against the civilians, the website said.
With direct support from the US and tribal fighters, the army stepped few months ago the offensive against Al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons killing and injuring hundreds of them including big shots.
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[Dawn] A FACTION of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain has defeated the local Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... tribe to take over one of the last bits of Khyber Agency's Tirah Valley that had not already fallen into myrmidon hands. Remote as it is, Tirah is no insignificant mountain hideout. On the one side it shares a border with Afghanistan. On the other it leads to the plains of Bara, which connect the agency to the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar. Khyber also links several agencies to each other, serving as a north-south route within Fata. So it has long been fought over by a mix of myrmidon organizations, including the TTP, the Ansarul Islam and Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... 's Lashkar-e-Islam. But given the mountainous terrain and remoteness of the area, the task of fending off myrmidon occupation was outsourced to local tribal lashkars, supported by occasional aerial bombardments by the army. This latest myrmidon victory in Tirah is proof that the strategy has failed.
Pak troops had gone into the area shortly after the American invasion of Afghanistan had pushed Orcs and similar vermin across the border. The move had more than just practical importance; given the area's remoteness, it was seen at the time as evidence of Pakistain's commitment to containing militancy. But for the last several years the security forces have not maintained a presence in Tirah and the situation has tanked, likely because they had their hands full elsewhere, were unable to claim the decisive upper hand in neighbouring agencies that have served as communications and supply routes, did not manage to come up with a successful strategy for the area, and simply didn't pay enough attention. Experts point out that conducting an operation in Tirah might not have been a smart approach; various myrmidon groups may have started working together in response. If so, another workable approach was required, and was not worked out.
The upshot is that almost all of Tirah is now in myrmidon hands. The implications are both foreign and domestic, strategic and humanitarian. Cross-border movement could become another bone of contention with Afghanistan. If Tirah's Orcs and similar vermin are now able to make even more headway in Bara, Peshawar's security, so tenuously improved, will be at risk once again. Militants in other parts of Fata could see the defeat as an encouraging sign of state weakness. Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... the Kukikhel have had to flee their homes, and according to the local administration it is entirely unclear when they will be able to return. Pakistain has made progress against militancy, but Tirah is an example of how it still hasn't managed to crack the code in parts of the tribal areas.
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[Ynet] During a tour of the south, Home Front Defense Minister Matan Vilnai officially kicked off a project to fortify educational institutions located in Israeli communities located between seven to 15 kilometers from Gazoo.
The project will cost NIS 90 million and is expected to be completed by September 2013.
Clearing the decks for action, and about bloody time, too.
(Sh.M.Network)-- The EU and the US have been asked to help the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force in Somalia (AMISOM) to wrest theportof Kismayo from Somalia's Shebab Islamists, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Tuesday.
"Our aim is to get to Kismayo by August," Odinga said, saying that taking the Shebab's last bastion would entail an "operation by land, sea and air."
"We have asked the EU to help us with the Atalanta forces that they have there; they are reluctant," Odinga told a meeting with international media.
Between five and 10 warships, depending on the period, are deployed off the Horn of Africa as part of the European Union's ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Atalanta operation that was launched in 2008 to protect merchant vessels from Somali pirates.
Atalanta's mandate was expanded in March to include air-borne operations against pirate bases on the Somali coast.
However no mention was made of possible operations against the Shebab Islamists who are fighting the weak transitional government and who still control a large chunk of south and central Somalia.
"We have asked the Americans for assistance ... we are talking about financial assistance," he went on.
The assault on Kismayo "is going to be a joint effort," the prime minister said. "We are working with other international groups which are inSomalia," he said, citing Ugandan troops within AMISOM as well as Æthiopian forces.
Kenya rolled tanks and troops across the border intoSomaliain October. The Æthiopians went in one month later.
The Kenyan contingent, which according to Nairobi numbers 4,631 soldiers, was officially integrated into AMISOM in early June.
Burundian and Ugandan troops in AMISOM pressured the Shebab into abandoning fixed positions in Mogadishu in August.
The Islamists have lost other major towns such as Beledweyne and Baidoa but have so far held on to the port of Kismayo, from which they draw most of their revenue.
"Kismayo is the real major source of supply of the Shebab, without the control of Kismayo, it is very difficult to completely neutralise Shebab," Odinga said.
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Alternative headline: Iran sends more payments to N. Korea for missile and nuclear technology.
Iran will send more humanitarian aid to North Korea. Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency reported Monday that the country's Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent told North Korea's Red Thingy Cross that it will ship food items, including powdered milk, as well as relief and medical supplies to the impoverished country.
An official with the North's Red Thingy Cross said Pyongyang has received blankets and tents from Iran, and that it may need more help as heavy rainfalls are forecast for the coming months.
Western countries have criticized both Iran and the North for their respective nuclear programs, and particularly for their alleged links on missile technology.
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I heard Iran was about 2M tons of wheat short of fully feeding its people this year. I think I just figured out what they meant by that.
[Dawn] THE reported death of Abu Yahya al-Libi in the latest US drone strike may have dealt yet another blow to the Al Qaeda leadership operating from Pakistain's lawless tribal region and is seen as a triumph for President B.O.'s relentless decapitation campaign. But the long-term success of this tactic of fighting Al Qaeda remains questionable.
Indeed, the killing of a top Al Qaeda ideologue who made an incredible escape from an American detention centre at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan in 2005 is one of the biggest successes for the US war against the terror network after the killing of the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... A deputy to Ayman al Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... , Al Libi is the latest on the list of more than two dozen senior Al Qaeda operatives killed in the CIA's drone campaign over the past three years. Yet the removal of the old guards often known as 'sheikhs' won't obliterate the group whose centre of gravity appears to have now shifted from Pakistain's tribal region to Yemen and Somalia.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... Al Qaeda, operating from the Pak borderland, has managed to transform and replenish itself with new recruits. Though the US counterterrorism officials assert that the network has been crippled, and the number of hard-core foreign Death Eaters operating out of the tribal territories is now reduced to less than 200, the reality is that a new Al Qaeda has emerged in Pakistain.
Largely comprising local Death Eaters and Islamic hard boyz from other countries they are replacing the leaders killed in the drone strikes. The network has also grown in strength due to the new alliances it has made with the Pak Taliban and other outlawed turban and Sunni sectarian groups.
Drawn from educated urban middle-class youth splintered from mainstream Islamic parties including 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 maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. 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... , they are the new face of Al Qaeda in Pakistain. Many of them have risen high in the group's hierarchy, presenting a formidable challenge not only to the US coalition forces in Afghanistan, but also to the Pak state.
Ilyas Kashmiri was the prime example of this new breed of non-Arab commanders who occupied a very senior position in the Al Qaeda hierarchy. A veteran member of Harkat ul Jihad Islami, Kashmiri became the main strategist of Al Qaeda and had also been seen as one of the contenders to take over the command of the group after the death of Osama bin Laden.
Kashmiri was believed to be the criminal mastermind behind some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks inside Pakistain, including the one on the Mehran naval base. He was killed in CIA Predator strike in South Wazoo last year.
Among others who became the part of the core group of Al Qaeda in Pakistain were two leading medical doctors from 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... -- Arshad Waheed and Akmal Waheed. Both were active members of the JI before joining Al Qaeda in Waziristan.
Dr Arshad Waheed, a renowned orthopaedic surgeon who took the nom de guerre Sheikh Moaz, not only provided medical help to the forces of Evil but also became a trained fighter. He was killed in March 2008 when a CIA-operated drone struck his hideout near Wana in South Waziristan.
An Al Qaeda videotape released after his death hailed him as a martyr who was "unparalleled in faith, love for his religion, and belief in Allah". Dr Akmal Waheed , a cardiologist, is still active in Al Qaeda somewhere in the border area.
The Waheed brothers' role in Al Qaeda raised questions about the JI's connection with the global jihad network. This was certainly not an isolated case. In 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured from the house of a leader of the JI women's wing. There were several other such incidents where JI members were involved in providing shelter to Al Qaeda runaways.
Although there is no evidence of the JI's organizational links with Al Qaeda, many of its members maintained close connections with the group. Their association with Al Qaeda operatives is not accidental.
The country's most powerful Islamic political party was after all the original face of jihad in Pakistain. Thousands of its cadres had fought against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s and later in Kashmire, Bosnia and Chechnya. Though the party leadership denied any links with Al Qaeda, many younger cadres joined the fighting against the US-led occupation forces in Afghanistan.
The cadre Al Qaeda attracted are ideologically and politically motivated. Products of secular educational institutions rather than Islamic seminaries, they have been the planners of many terrorist attacks that heralded the new phase of militancy sweeping the country over the past few years. They include spectacular attacks on high security military installations such as on the army headquarters in Rawalpindi and Mehran naval base in Bloody Karachi.
Strongly committed to the cause of global jihad this new Al Qaeda generation acts as a magnet for radicalised Moslems, including a number of western citizens who travel to Pakistain. Then there are sympathisers providing monetary and logistic support, thus giving the group new depth in the country's urban centres.
Though North Waziristan remains the main hub of Al Qaeda activities, the intensification of the CIA drone strikes has forced many Pak operatives to scatter outside the targeted regions. With a strong support network they do not face much difficulty in operating from urban centres.
The rise of small terrorist cells has made the task of countering them harder. These terrorist groups multiplied with the escalation in the Pak military offensives in the northwest and tribal regions. Some of these groups have just four or five members making them hard to detect.
The absence of a coherent counterterrorism strategy has also allowed Al Qaeda-associated groups to operate freely. Most of those set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! are freed by the courts either because of lack of evidence or because the judges are threatened. Pakistain is now a major battleground for Al Qaeda and its associated turban groups with dangerous implications for the regional security.
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"Shifted ... to Yemen and Somalia" > IMO read, OLDER MEMBERS OF OSAMA'S INNER CIRCLE IN AFPAK, THE YOUNG BUNS IN AFRICA???
[Ynet] Paleostinian bully boyz in Gazoo opened fire Tuesday afternoon on IDF soldiers operating in Israeli territory near the border fence. There were no reports of injury among the soldiers, who did not return fire.
Earlier today, Air Force helicopters fired on open field in central Gazoo strip.
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, on Saturday said the appointment of a new US security officer in the occupied West Bank was aimed at creating a coalition of three parties to protect Israel and enforce division.
The United States announced Friday that it had appointed a prominent Navy officer to the post of US security coordinator to the Paleostinian Authority and Israel, the Haaretz newspaper reported. Paul Bushong will replace Air Force Lt. Michael Moeller and will be responsible for strengthening Paleostinian Authority security forces.
Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum said that by appointing the admiral, the US, Paleostinian Authority and Israel had created a three-member coalition to protect Israel and cement the Paleostinian split.
In a statement, Barhoum said the appointment was considered American intervention and revoking of authority in the West Bank. He called to end all forms of security coordination with Israel, and to allow for Paleostinian issues to be the priority.
He also urged the Paleostinian Authority to implement reconciliation and work on establishing a national strategy to protect Paleostinian interests against Israeli and American dictates.
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Admittedly this will be a thankless assignment.
However, I suspect there aren't many flag officers with his type of experience. It's also likely a precursor to a 'sunset tour'. i.e., "take this job and we'll make your next one - the one prior to your retirement - worthwhile".
Late one evening 25 years ago, when the rickety minibus he worked on pulled into Kupwara at the end of a bone-rattling ride from the market town of Sopore, Syed Bashir Ahmad decided he was done selling tickets. From the bus station, he began walking up over the Dudhniyal forests, across the Line of Control (LoC). His passengers, that day, had included a group of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) cadre, headed for training at Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-run camps in Pakistan. Mr. Ahmad decided to go along, he says, more or less on a whim.
Frostbitten and exhausted, his journey ended in a hospital. Three months later, Mr. Ahmad moved in with relatives in Muzaffarabad, married a cousin, and eventually began working as a taxi driver.
Last week, he returned home with his wife, Safina Ahmad, and their seven children, hoping to rebuild his life. Later this summer, their oldest daughter, Bushra, will marry a relative's son. Sabah Ahmad, just 12, likes the homeland she has known for eight days: "in Muzaffarabad," she says, "we couldn't sleep without a fan, and the power kept going all the time. Here, it's cool."
Perhaps too cool. Until the Indian government stitches together a legal framework for the hundreds of families who have returned to Jammu and Kashmir since 2005,
What happened in 2005 that changed things?
Ms Ahmad can be prosecuted as an illegal immigrant. Though the children can lay claim to Indian citizenship, the government has yet to waive regulations mandating that their birth be registered at a mission overseas. Finding jobs and setting up businesses is tough; social acceptance is, at best, grudging.
Back in the summer of 2005, troops at the Indian Army's Nanak Post, near Uri, watched as four small brightly-coloured specks clawed their way up the mountainside. Through their binoculars, the troops could see the group was not terrorists, but a woman with two crying infants in her arms; the man next to her, luggage tied around his back, was urging two older children up the climb. Finally, as the family reached the barbed wire that divides Kashmir, he shouted out: "my name is Nasir Ahmad Pathan, and I want to come home."
Ever since 2007, when The Hindu's sister publication, Frontline, interviewed the Pathan family for a report on Kashmir's returning ex-jihadists, many more have made the crossing. This year, almost a hundred have returned, joining the 140-odd last year; the total exceeds 500.
For most, the decision to come home seems pragmatic. "Sugar sells at Rs.85 a kilo in Muzaffarabad," says Mr. Ahmad's wife, Safina, "and a gas cylinder costs Rs.1,600. We had a son to put through college, and daughters to be married. So I asked my husband, when your family has land and a home, why should we keep living like this?"
In most cases, the journey home involves a substantial investment. The Ahmad family paid Rs.70,000 each to an agent in Rawalpindi for Pakistani passports and airfares from Karachi to Kathmandu. From Kathmandu, the family crossed the open India-Nepal border into Uttar Pradesh, and caught a train from Lucknow. In recent years, most families that have returned have done the same.
Expensive, but easy-peasy -- what mental lack causes the jihadis to try crossing where the Indian Army stands guard instead?
Life, though, remains profoundly uncertain for those who have returned. Five years after they came to India, the Pathan family are yet to receive citizenship papers, or any other form of documentation. Neither has Abdul Rasheed, who returned with his Pakistani wife, Nyla Abbasi and two children to Srinagar in 2009. Others have had more serious problems. Kulgam resident Mohammad Jalil Amin, for example, served 10 months in jail when he was arrested on returning home, though in June 2006.
Zonia Dar, whose father Shabbir Ahmad Dar returned to India earlier this summer, has spent five months trying to restart her education as a doctor. Her qualification from a Karachi medical college, though, is worth nothing in India.
To be fair, Indian medical schools teach nothing of djinns or the efficacy of Mohammed's urine, so there's a lot of studying wasted right there.
In 2010, the government of India announced a rehabilitation policy -- but Pakistan hasn't responded. Indian diplomats, sources said, have informally discussed the issue with the United Nations and international humanitarian organisations, but to little effect. "In the long term," says a senior police officer, "this is going to be real problem. There has to be some framework."
Without support, those who have returned are finding things to be difficult. In 2001, Kreeri resident Sharif Din, then a 17-year-old high school student, joined a group of young people recruited by local Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Mushtaq Butt. Even while he trained for two months at a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen camp near Muzaffarabad, Mr. Din's family raised the money needed to buy him out of a tour of duty with the jihadist group. "I won't lie," he says, "I was terrified about coming back to fight. I was almost killed by the Army twice on the way into Pakistan, and the boys who were with me at the camp are either still there, or dead. I begged my family to save me."
Back home, though, Mr. Din isn't able to use the pharmacological qualification he acquired in Pakistan. Even though he briefly found a job at the Florence Hospital in Srinagar, he says, the Army insisted he live in Kreeri so he could be under surveillance.
He is now contemplating setting up a pharmacy, but hasn't yet managed to raise the capital. He hopes to marry, but no one is willing to give a daughter to a man without a job, and who faces possible trouble with the police.
Like Mr. Din, former Muslim Janbaaz Force jihadist Manzoor Ahmad, a one-time embroidery-artisan from Khadniyar near Baramulla, has faced difficulties rebuilding his life in the year since he came home. Having dropped out of school in 1991, he finds no market for his rusty talents. In Pakistan, he earned Rs.6,000 a month working in a mobile accessories store; in Khadniyar, he spends his days helping his brother write villagers' petitions to government offices. He hopes to start his own mobile-phone business eventually.
Manzoor Ahmad's business idea has had a mixed welcome from his family. A relative recalls his brother telling him, "for all these years while you were wasting your time in Pakistan, we tended the lands, we looked after the home, we even put up with beatings from Army men because we were your relatives. Now, you come back here and ask for a share in the property to start a shop?"
In Muzaffarabad, jihad commanders have been blaming Pakistan's diminished support for the death of their war. "We are fighting Pakistan's war in Kashmir," Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Muhammad Yusuf Shah said earlier this month "and if it withdraws its support, the war would be fought inside Pakistan." Mr. Shah has held out threats like these before. In February 2009, he warned that if "there is a setback to the war due to the cowardice of the [Pakistan] government, then this war will need to be fought in Islamabad and Lahore."
The reality, though, is that the jihad is dead in Kashmir itself -- not because of Pakistan's declining support, but because of the choices the men who fought it, and the society around them, have made. Even the Jamaat-e-Islami, the political mill in which the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen was manufactured, is now in the hands of politicians, firmly committed to politics. Dozens of the organisation's local cadre have fought panchayat elections; its amir, Sheikh Ghulam Muhammad, allowed units to ally with the People's Democratic Party in the 2008 Assembly elections.
In its own interest, India must work harder to enable the thousands who crossed the LoC to come home -- and to give those who have made the journey back a second shot at life.
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(Sh. M. Network)-Authorities in central Somalia say that undisclosed newly trained troops for TFG have arrived at Beledweyne town, the picturesque provincial capital of Hiiren region to boost up the security.
Adawe Elmi Nur, the deputy governor of Hiiran region for Somali government, told Shabelle Media by phone from Beledweyne that those forces reached this morning the town have recently completed their training course provided by Somali and Æthiopian military experts in a training camp located Junta-Kundisho area, on the outskirts of Beledweyne.
Beledweyne, a strategic town in central Somalia, lies just about 206 miles (332 km), north of Mogadishu fell to Somali and Æthiopian troops in last December after Al shabab fighters retreated, all without firing a single shot.
AU soldiers, mainly from Djibouti have dispatched the first troops in the town this month to take over the security from the current operating Æthiopian troops who are not part of African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
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[An Nahar] An alleged Libyan jihadist group has grabbed credit for last week's bombing of the U.S. consulate in Libya's main eastern city of Benghazi, the SITE monitoring service said Monday.
The "Brigades of the Imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman" said the attack was to avenge the death of Al-Qaeda number two Abu Yahya al-Libi in a drone strike in Pakistain, said the US-based SITE, which monitors jihadi websites.
The Brigades also said the June 6 kaboom at the U.S. diplomatic mission -- in which one person was maimed -- had come in response to the use of "American drones flying in Libyan skies," SITE said.
The group said it had "planted an bomb in a wall of the consulate, targeting a group of 'Christian overseers' who were preparing to receive one of the 'heads of instigation'" from the State Department, SITE said.
The statement added that the group -- which also grabbed credit for a May attack on the Benghazi offices of the International Committee of the Red Thingy -- would soon release its footage of the consulate attack.
The group is named after Abdel Rahman, 73, who received a life sentence in the United States for his involvement in plots to hit New York targets and a plan to assassinate former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... .
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[An Nahar] Tunisia said Tuesday it has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in eight regions of the country including the capital Tunis after rioting blamed on ultra-conservative Salafist Muslims.
The curfews take effect from 9 pm to 5 am and cover areas in the southeast and northeast of the country including the greater Tunis region, the defense and interior ministries said in a joint statement.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A man suspected to have been behind the recent kaboom in Nairobi has been incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! in Tanzania.
Emrah Erdogan, a German of Turkish origin who police have linked to the May 28 terrorist attack at Assanands House, was incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! on Tuesday. The suspect is also known as Salahuddin al-Kurdi.
A police officer told the Nation that they had been contacted by their Tanzanian counterparts over the development.
Police said they were trailing four terror suspects, among them Erdogan, before the May 28 kaboom in Nairobi in which one person was killed and 36 others injured.
Police front man Eric Kiraithe said Erdogan, believed to have entered Kenya through Garissa from Somalia on May 3, was among the four suspects. A device was reportedly placed in a stall by a man posing as a customer.
According to political scientist Dirk Baehr and German media, Erdogan travelled to Wazoo in northwest Pakistain in early 2010 and joined a myrmidon Islamist group.
He then went to Somalia in 2011 and reportedly joined al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... terror group.
The ranks of Al-Shabaab include imported muscle from Kenya, Europe, the Gulf, Afghanistan, Pakistain and the Horn of Africa.
Since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October to pursue Al-Shabaab myrmidons, there have been a string of grenade and kabooms in Nairobi and northern parts of the country.
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[Tripoli Post] A Libyan government front man has been reported saying that Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor, one of the four ICC personnel tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! in the town of Zintan last week after visiting Seif al-Islam could be freed if she were to lead the Libyan authorities to Qadaffy's former henchman, who is a key former regime figure linked to Seif.
She is currently held in "preventative detention" for allegedly trying to hand the son of the former Libyan dictator a coded letter from Mohammed Ismail.
Ms Taylor was in the town, where Seif is being held, with an International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... team to meet Seif ahead of his upcoming war crimes trial, but Libyan government front man Mohamad Al-Hereizi says they believe that the Australian lawyer knows where Mohammed Ismail is hiding.
Mr al-Heriezi said authorities who searched Ms Taylor found GPS coordinates that they believe are linked to Ismail. He has now been was quoted telling ABC's AM programme that if they would let her go if she tells them where Mohammed Ismail is.
"She has paper from him. That means she see him. I don't know where. She saw him. Yes. We want this guy. It's very important to catch this guy because this guy is very, very, very dangerous for us," Mr al-Hereizi said.
Asked by AM whether he thought Ms Taylor understands how important Ismaili is to Libya, he replied that she knows, then added: "We don't have anything against this woman. Just we need some information from her, after that she will be free."
Overnight the ICC demanded her immediate release, along with that of the other three members of the ICC team. But Libyan officials say Ms Taylor and the three other ICC staffers have been put in what they describe as "preventive detention" for 45 days while they are investigated.
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[Breitbart] The US Department of Justice announced Monday it will sue Florida to stop the state from purging ineligible voters from its voter rolls. The DOJ statement came after Florida filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security for failing to cooperate with efforts to clean up the state's voter registration records.
A preliminary comparison between drivers license records and voter registration has flagged as many as 182,000 registered voters who may not be US citizens. Florida officials sought access to the DHS immigration database (SAVE) to verify their matches but DHS has refused to respond to the state's requests.
At least 141 non-citizens have been found on the voter rolls and 47 on this list have cast ballots in previous elections. More than 500 on the list have been identified as citizens and lawful voters.
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Just ignore Holder and keep on purging illegal Democrats from the rolls. What are they going to do about it? If the feds cut off funds to anything, it will just upset the voters. Besides, FL can also cut off federal taxes. It doesn't seem to me that the feds have time to process this anyway.
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Holder is a worthless, narcissistic snik just like his golfing boss. His Fast and Furious testimony before the congress clearly illustrates his total contempt for them and the system. The sooner we are rid of both of them, the better.
I am beginning to wonder if this entire Fast and Furious fiasco will eventually find it's origins with the leadership of the US State Department. The Beast is stearing clear of the Beltway, visiting every foreign country she has ever heard of, and Slick is somewhat reluctantly stumping for The One. What am I missing?
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I've been wotching Morgan Freeman's Thru the Wormhole. recently, the show was about 'are there parallel universes?'
Clearly, Holdner and his boss are in another part of the multi-verse!
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I am beginning to wonder if this entire Fast and Furious fiasco will eventually find it's origins with the leadership of the US State Department
Unlikely. Doesn't mean that State wasn't a player in the F&F fiasco, either willingly or through incompetence. Either way it will not reflect well upon the Secretary.
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All he needs to do is to stave off voter roll cleanup until the election. After that, he has 4 years to find another way to build the Dem's voter cadres.
Chinese firms are violating a UN embargo by supplying North Korea with key components to make weapons, the Daily Telegraph said. These include parts for ballistic missiles including launch vehicles, according to evidence provided by an Asian intelligence agency.
This is why you stop food aid. The Norks are buying Chinese weapons instead of food...
Classified documents seen by the paper show that Beijing has failed to act when confronted with evidence that Chinese companies are breaking UN Resolution 1874 and helping North Korea build long range missiles.
The intelligence agency found that North Korea companies continue to buy banned materials in China. The report said these entities "have been smuggling in or out controlled items by either setting up and operating a front company in China, or colluding with Chinese firms to forge documents and resorting to other masking techniques."
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ULTERIOR = ALTERIOR? MOTIVES, above + beyond both countries' desire for Hard Currency???
Given ...
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US ROLE TO FADE [in Asia, World] WID CHINA AS CREDITOR: ECONOMIST.
Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute as well as the Center for Global Development.
* SAME > CHINA, JAPAN TENSIONS MAY RISE OVER ISLANDS [Japan Senkakus = Chinese Daoyus/Daoyutai].
ARTIC > Conservative Japanese Political-Activist Group holds Japan Coast Guard-protected "fishing derby" in disputed isles to demonstrate JAPANESE "SOVEREIGNTY" OER SAME.
* SAME > TIME IS ON CHINA'S SIDE IN [Daoyus = East China Sea] DISPUTES WID JAPAN: GLOBAL TIMES.
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > PLAN TO BUY DAOYU ISLANDS A FARCE.
* SAME > "THE TERRITORIAL DISPUTES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS ARE OVER - CHINA HAS WON" | [Time.com] US TAKES A PASS - FOR NOW - ON CHINA SEA DISPUTE. AVOIDING A US-CHINA WAR.
ARTIC = US is saving its Powder = Mil Power, etc. to keep strategic sea lanes open.
* SAME > CHINESE CARRIER "VARYAG" [PLAN "Shileng"] MAY JOIN THE NORTH SEA FLEET, at the fleet's Qingdao base.
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [IDSA Report]INTERNAL PUSH IN JAPAN TO NATIONALIZE ISLANDS IN EAST CHINA SEA.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINA CAN'T PROVIDE [sustained] LONG-DISTANCE SSBN PATROLS, outside of East China Sea, South China Sea coasts + littorals
* SAME > US PENTAGON CONQUERS SPACE WID ITS MYSTERIOUS SUPER-DRONE.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [IBNLive] WHY DOES AMERICA WANT A [USN, USAF?]BASE IN BANGLADESH? ( + WHY INDIA IS NOT AMUSED].
ARTIC = possib new US Base at Chittagong can provide effective air-mission support [Refueling, CAP] for USAF's Next-Generation-Bomber, or even for its curren fleet of B-2's, on LR strike missions into central China = anti-US LR ICBM Bases from GUAM ANDOR DIEGO GARCIA; DANGEROUS FOR INDIA + OTHER REGIONAL NATIONS AS CHINA WILL LIKELY MAKE UNILATER PRESUMPTION(S) OF ALLIANCE BWTN THEM + US AGZ CHINA, VEE BOMBER OVERFLIGHTS.
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CDF POSTER = opined that the PHILIPPINES should become a formal part of China, or in lessor under China's sphere of influence, the latter comprised of CHINA-CONTROLLED OR DOMINATED TAIWAN, DAOYUS ISLANDS, + PERHAPS EVEN JAPAN ITSELF IN NE ASIA???
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PHILIPPINE LEADER [Pres. Aquino] SEEKS US ASSURANCE ON DEFENCE, in case of military attack by China in SCS.
* SAME > CHINA ASSURESMILITARY SUPPORT TO SRI LANKA IN ANY SITUATION [Natural or Military].
#5
CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > RECENT VISIT TO WASHINGTON BY PINOY PRESIDENT [Aquino] DIDN'T SEEM TO GIVE HIM MUCH ASSURANCES | [Asia Times] MIXED SIGNALS IN US-PHILIPPINES BUILDUP.
DPK POSTER = as a Nuclear Weapons State, any US [military] help to the PHIL in SINO-PHIL SPAT could trigger China's unilateral = preemptive?use of 3.3-Megaton DF-3A IRBMS agz US, PHIL targets.
* SAME > ICG CONSIDERS POSSIBILITY OF MILITARY COUP IN BANGLADESH INCREASINGLY HIGH | INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP [ICG]: BANGLADESH - BACK TO THE FUTURE.
* SAME > AUSTRALIA WILL SOON BE ASIA | INDONESIA CAN INVADE AUSTRALIA - WHO LET THE MUPPETS OUT?
ARTIC = AUS relatively small population of 22.0Milyuhn Western/White people + 2.0Milyuhn foreigners may not be enough to stop a dedicated military invasion from Muslim Indonesia [worst-case scenario], let alone from Rising China.
AUS doesn't even have enough Army-Police forces to stop illegal foreign workers from sneaking in.
* WORLD NEWS > AQUINO WARNS OF MORE "BREWING CONFLICTS" BETWEEN PHILIPPINES + CHINA FOLLOWING SCARBOROUGH SHOAL STANDOFF.
* SAME > CHINA-PHILIPPINES "BANANA WAR" [economic/trade war] MAY JUST BE A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME.
[An Nahar] At least 73 people were killed in shelling and festivities across Syria on Tuesday, 61 of whom were civilians and rebels and 12 regime soldiers, according to the opposition Local Coordination Committees and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Regime forces rained shells on rebel positions in the northwestern Latakia province, pounding the town of al-Haffe for the eighth straight day as they appeared to be preparing to storm it, monitors said.
The Observatory said troops also shelled rebel bastions in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, the northern province of 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... and several parts of the central province of Homs.
It said 13 civilians, including a young girl, were killed when troops pounded a neighborhood of the city of Deir Ezzor.
Regime forces also pounded Hreitan in the northern province of Aleppo while soldiers clashed with armed rebels at the entrance to the town, leading to "heavy losses among regime troops," activists said.
The shelling "destroyed a large number of houses... and forced residents to flee," said the Local Coordination Committees, which spearheads protests against the regime.
According to the Observatory, troops used heavy artillery and helicopter gunships in their attacks on al-Haffe, where activists feared a massacre would be committed if regime troops managed to enter the restive town.
At least 120 people have died in fighting in al-Haffe over the past week, including 68 troops, 29 civilians and 23 rebels, with hundreds maimed, the Observatory's Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Troops also stepped up attacks on the central city of Homs and its suburbs, pounding rebel positions, the Observatory said.
"The situation is horrific, murderous," an activist in Homs who identified himself as Abu Bilal told AFP via Skype.
Abu Bilal said 400 civilians -- including women and kiddies -- were trapped in a school in the Jourat al-Shiah neighborhood.
Rebel bastions Talbiseh, Qusayr, Khalidiyeh and Rastan -- in Homs -- were also under heavy attack by regime forces, according to the Observatory.
Three non-combatants were killed in Talbiseh, another three on the outskirts of Qusayr and three in Jousiyeh during a raid by regime troops.
In Andan, in the suburbs of Aleppo, five non-combatants were killed when troops "shelled the village arbitrarily," the Observatory said, adding that 12 soldiers were killed in fighting across the country.
The main opposition coalition has accused the regime of escalating attacks across the country in an attempt to wipe out dissent.
The Observatory said nationwide violence cost the lives of at least 111 people on Monday, including 79 civilians.
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Hundreds of Salafi Islamists, angered by an art exhibition they say insults Moslems, clashed with police in Tunis on Tuesday, raising religious tensions in the home of the Arab Spring and piling pressure on the moderate Islamist government.
Protesters hurled petrol bombs at officers in some of the worst confrontations since last year's revolt ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and launched uprisings across the Arab world.
Salafis, who follow a puritanical interpretation of Islam, blocked streets and set tyres alight in the working class Ettadamen and Sidi Hussein districts of the capital overnight.
By morning, protests had spread to a number of residential districts. Stone-throwing youths stopped trams from passing through the capital's Intilaqa district where demonstrators entered mosques and used the loudspeakers to call on Tunisians to defend Islam.
An interior ministry official on Tunisian state TV said 97 people had been tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! during the unrest, including dozens of Salafis and some "criminals".
Tuesday's festivities came a day after a group of Salafis forced their way into an art exhibition in the upscale La Marsa suburb and defaced works they deemed offensive.
The work that appears to have caused the most fury and polarised Tunisians, spelt out the name of God using insects.
"These artists are attacking Islam and this is not new. Islam is targeted," said a youth, who gave his name as Ali and had removed his shirt and was preparing to confront police in Ettadamen.
In a statement released before the protests, Ennahda, the moderate Islamist party that now leads the government, condemned what it described as provocations and insults against religion but urged its own supporters to respond peacefully.
DIFFICULT POSITION
The violence puts Ennahda in a difficult position.
While Islamists did not play a major role in the revolution, the struggle over the role of Islam in government and society has since emerged as the most divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... issue in Tunisian politics and several festivities have erupted in recent months.
Salafis, some of whom are loyal to al Qaeda, want a broader role for religion in the new Tunisia, alarming secular elites who fear they will seek to impose their views and ultimately undermine the nascent democracy.
A Tunisian official told Rooters seven members of the security forces were maimed as they tried to quell the riots by using teargas and firing into the air.
State television reported the offices of Tunisia's main labour union in the northwestern city of Jendouba had been set alight by Salafis overnight while the offices of secular parties were attacked.
The powerful union is considered a bastion of Tunisian secularism in a country that was seen as one of the most secular in the Arab region under the rule of Ben Ali and his predecessor, independence leader Habib Bourguiba.
A group of youths cut off the main road linking the capital to Bizerte, about 60 km to the north.
A day before the festivities, the leader of al Qaeda called on Tunisians to defend Islamic law from Ennahda, which won the first post-revolutionary election in North Africa in October and has said it would not seek to impose sharia (Islamic law) in the new constitution that is being drawn up.
The audio recording, attributed to Ayman al-Zawahri and released on Islamist websites, said Ennahda, which leads Tunisia's government in coalition with two secular groups, had betrayed the religion.
While pushing for a greater role for Islam, Tunisian Salafi leaders have said they would do so peacefully and did not intend to clash with Ennahda. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... Salafis say they draw the line at actions they believe humiliate Moslems or Islam
Secularists have defended the offending art, criticising the Islamists they say are bent on curbing freedom of expression. They say Ennahda has been too lenient with Salafis, giving them the confidence to step up their demands.
[An Nahar] Taliban kabooms killed at least eight people, including women and kiddies, in Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said.
That's as many as in Chicago this past weekend...
A jacket wallah on a bicycle targeted a police patrol in the main market of Chahar Bolak, a small town in the northern province of Balkh, regional police front man Lal Mohammad Ahmadzi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The interior ministry in Kabul confirmed the incident, saying three non-combatants were killed and five coppers were maimed.
Hours earlier, a roadside kaboomdestroyed a minibus in the central province of Wardak, killing five civilians, an official said.
Provincial government front man Sahidullah Shahid said a mine went kaboom! under the minibus, killing five civilians, including women and kiddies. "Two others are injured," Shahid said.
Four other passengers survived the kaboom in the restive province's Sayed Abad district, he said.
Authorities blamed both attacks on the "enemies of Afghanistan", a phrase commonly used by Afghan officials to refer to Taliban and other thugs.
On Monday, a roadside kaboom killed five people in northern Afghanistan and last week twin suicide kabooms killed 23 people in the south.
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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
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Security forces and local police in the North Caucasus region of Karachayevo-Cherkessia have killed several 
The much-vaunted recovery began to show signs of slowing a few months ago. Even so, the revelation on June 1st that employment grew by just 69,000 in May, a 12-month low, suggested a more serious deceleration than anyone had imagined. The stockmarket plunged, giving up all its gains since January. Online punters slashed the odds that Barack Obama would be re-elected to a little over 50%.
A 55-year-old man from Utica, Florida was arrested and charged with 
Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak was in a stable condition on Tuesday, a prison official said, after sources reported a day before that the jailed 84-year-old's health had deteriorated and that he had received treatment to restart his heart.
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Chinese firms are violating a UN embargo by supplying North Korea with key components to make weapons, the Daily Telegraph said. These include parts for ballistic missiles including launch vehicles, according to evidence provided by an Asian intelligence agency.
At least 73 people were killed in shelling and 
