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Suspended and arrested after refusing to change his NRA shirt. Today, 14-year-old Jared Marcum appeared before a judge and was officially charged with obstructing an officer.
A $500 fine and up to a year in jail, that's the penalty that Jared could face, now that a judge has allowed the prosecution to move forward with it's obstructing an officer charge against him.
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as instapundit says, bring a video camera whenever possible. I suspect this will be tossed out of court at some point and the officer given a holiday as if it were a penalty. Perhaps mandatory training that gets ignored and the money dedicated to it shifted somewhere else. Still, if the kid had it recorded all that would have happened already.
If you don't read French use one of the translate options to read this article. You don't need translate for the graphic photos.
Last night, 2 hours after the launch of an ultimatum Erdogan occupants Gezi Park, the police violently intervened to dislodge the protesters have been present for more than two weeks near Taksim Square. The police used large amounts of tear gas and water cannons, even going so far as to attack hotels and hospitals receiving casualties. Several testimonies and photographs gave the impression that there were not that pressurized water which was launched on protesters ..
The Medical Association of Turkey is confirmed afterwards in a statement the use of chemicals diluted in water cannons.
The international community will you investigate it? Is there as Syria had a red line crossed? There are no illusions to have
While the world awaits Russia's formal response to last week's US escalation in Syria (as Putin demonstratively arrived an hour late for talks on Syria with UK PM David Cameron) another country: Iran - fresh from an election in which moderate candidate Hassan Rohani became the new president - is taking matters into its own hands.
The Independent Reports that "a military decision has been taken in Iran -- even before last week's presidential election -- to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad's forces against the largely Sunni rebellion that has cost almost 100,000 lives in just over two years.
Iran is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, according to pro-Iranian sources which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic's security, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new 'Syrian' front on the Golan Heights against Israel."
Just more of the continuing, millennium-plus war between Sunnis and Shi'a...
Jodie Evans, 2008 Obama bundler and co-founder of the leftist anti-American group Code Pink, is in Yemen this week campaigning against the United States efforts in fighting the war on terror. This is in keeping with Code Pinks decade-long history of working with terrorists and state sponsors of terrorism against the United States.
While in Yemen, Evans is raising money for families of Yemenis being held at the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and possibly the family of slain al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki.
Code Pink sent their top leadership, including Evans, Susan Medea Benjamin and former diplomat Col. Ann Wright (U.S .Army, Ret.) on this trip to the home of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for meetings with the Yemeni government, the U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Gerald M. Feierstein , Nasser al-Awlaki and other family members of U.S. drone strike targets as well as Guantanamo detainees families.
While Code Pink is an American 501(c)3 tax-exempt group, Evans is also appealing for donations from international donors through Evans Gmail address in support of the trip to Yemen.
Evans posted a photo on June 13 on Instagram and Twitter of the groups meeting with Nasser al-Awlaki captioned, Our @CODEPINK #yemen delegation with Anwar al-Awlakis father Nasser, US killed my grandson, Why?
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The opening was announced on June 11 and will be advertised until June 24. No surprises here. Short window probably may indicate pre-selection.
According to the job description, this "diversity" officer will "serve as a change agent to provide strategies, solutions, training, tools, resources and thought leadership on diversity and foster inclusion." The position will also "build internal awareness" in the IRS amongst any remaining old white men. "Thought leadership" ??? WOW
This officer will be tasked with hearing and resolving complaints from employees and to "effect minor disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands." The new position will also assist in creating employee training programs.
"At the IRS, you will use your skills in accounting, business, finance, bitching and moaning, law enforcement, information technology, advocacy and more to help make America stronger," the listing reads.
The job requires "thorough knowledge" of diversity issues, or "circumstances associated with diversity and inclusive issues." It asks for one year of "specialized experience" in the field. One year of experience...nets a $123k salary ?
Of the compensation, the IRS says, "Our comprehensive benefits are very generous--helping you to reach your personal goals by supporting your professional growth, health, well-being and your family needs." Don't forget frequent conferences, get-aways, and line dancing, and M-16 firearms training.
The job description says nothing about offering "diversity" to American taxpayers applying to the agency for their tax exempt status.
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An art restorer is able to rebuild a broken sculpture after thoroughly studying its multiple unconnected pieces in order to decode how they related in the past, to return them to their original place and to discover its full shape again.
Just like art restorers, the Investigative Unit at La Nación Costa Rica received in November 2012 a device with millions of data in different formats. The relational databases came scattered over more than 320 tables and without an original dictionary to explain their relations.
These databases were parts of two larger separated databases that had been fed for nearly 30 years by two companies: Singapore-based Portcullis TrustNet (PTN), and Commonwealth Trust Limited (CTL), based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI).
Both firms specialize in setting up offshore financial structures. They have helped tens of thousands of people create offshore companies and trusts, as well as hard-to-trace bank accounts.
The data were obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which chose The Investigative Unit at La Nacion to process it and to develop the interactive application of the most ambitious cross-border investigative project in history.
The task did not start from zero. In the preceding months, UK journalist Duncan Campbell and programmer Matthew Fowler had made progress in understanding and documenting part of those relations.
Between January and April, the Investigative Units computer science engineer, Rigoberto Carvajal, thoroughly analyzed the data and, with advice from the UK team and data journalist Mar Cabra, applied reverse engineering processes to reveal the original relations between tables, fields, codes, and, ultimately, hundreds of thousands of records of companies and people.
As he started work, Rigoberto found himself faced with a disorganized and scattered structure, which for years enabled an insufficient and incomplete feeding of data, duplications, void values, unneeded repetitions, missing data and poorly solved relations.
There were thousands of names of people and companies which were duplicated because they had minimal variations in some character, abbreviations, typing errors, or a slightly different order of the elements.
If the data remained that way, the true links and relations of each separate element would have never been disclosed through visualization. It would have been something similar to varnishing, without first sanding them, the dirty pieces of a disassembled sculpture.
Part of the solution consisted in integrating the databases to bring together their similar entries and then organizing them in such a way that the structure would become practical for visualization.
In order to do so, the La Nación team used the Talend Open Studio for Data Integration, an open source tool for ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Load).
Talend hosted all of the processes: extracting the databases tables, organizing their structure to combine similar records, converting them into a node and link structure and, finally, loading up the unified nodes into a sole database which would feed the public application.
Procedures and algorithms to de-duplicate the data were applied. In this task, a library developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a result of a project named Vicino, played an important role. This library was added to the Talend Open Studio tool to apply functions in the data flow.
Also relevant was the use of the SIMIL function, which estimates the percentage of similarity between two chains of text, based on the number of sub-strings they have in common.
With these algorithms, Carvajal merged several thousand separate records which were the same persons or companies with a total degree of certainty and which had exactly the same addresses.
Following this merge, the links associated to each of those entities were finally related.
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The database includes entities incorporated in 10 offshore jurisdictions: British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Singapore, Hong Kong, Samoa, Seychelles, Mauritius, Labuan and Malaysia. The information comes from two offshore service firms: Singapore-based Portcullis TrustNet and BVI-based Commonwealth Trust Limited (CTL).
Could better be classified 'Home Front WOT'
Two dozen people were shot Saturday afternoon into Father's Day Sunday across the city, according to authorities. My title is not entirely facetious - the lack of meaningful father-child relationships is the root cause behind most of these shootings.
Of the 24 people shot, six died either at the crime scenes or at local hospitals. The youngest was 16. One of the men killed was an armed man shot by police after he raised a 9-millimeter handgun in their direction after bailing from a moving car, authorities said.
The shootings stretched from 9400 S. Loomis Avenue on the South Side up to about North Avenue and Pulaski in the Hermosa neighborhood. I don't know Chicago geography/demography, but I can make a good guess...
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We don't think we'd ever heard of Oakland University, a second-tier institution in suburban Rochester, Mich., but Barbara Oakley, an associate professor in engineering, may help put the place on the map. Earlier this week Oakland's Oakley published a fascinating paper, "Concepts and Implications of Altruism Bias and Pathological Altruism," in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
...Oakley defines pathological altruism as "altruism in which attempts to promote the welfare of others instead result in unanticipated harm." A crucial qualification is that while the altruistic actor fails to anticipate the harm, "an external observer would conclude [that it] was reasonably foreseeable." Thus, she explains, if you offer to help a friend move, then accidentally break an expensive item, your altruism probably isn't pathological; whereas if your brother is addicted to painkillers and you help him obtain them, it is.
As the latter example suggests, the idea of "codependency" is a subset of pathological altruism. "Feelings of empathic caring . . . appear to lie at the core of . . . codependent behavior," Oakley notes. People in codependent relationships genuinely care for each other, but that empathy leads them to do destructive things.
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Spot on. I have continually fought people who were this way and felt it was their "christian" duty to behave this way. What's interesting about this tidbit is that it casts the preachers who exploit and encourage this dependency as the "drug dealers" of the problem.
Dr. Jonathan Haidt's work on moral maturity is very much worth looking at, since it helped me to understand leftists of my acquaintance better. (Quick summary: there are five areas of morality that the professor identified and developed tests to measure how developed a person was in each area of morality. Self-identified leftists/liberals score very high in two of them, but very low in the other three, while self-identified conservatives score high in all five. He likened leftists/liberals as morally colorblind: able to "morally" see, but unable to see the full spectrum, and thus contemptuous of conservatives for factoring in moral qualifications that they (leftists) assert do not exist.)
On the House floor on Friday, Texas Representative Louie Gohmert accused various federal agencies of aiding Islamic terrorists organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America in their attempts to enact Sharia Law.
We need to address the political correctness that is blinding our agencies and blinding our military of its ability to see who the enemy is, because its getting people killed, Gohmert said. When you refuse to acknowledge that the Afghans youre training, may be willing to turn their guns youre training them on and kill you until you recognize that and who our enemy is, and that our enemy can be among us, and that our enemy can be in uniforms that were supposed to be friendly with, then more Americans are going to be killed needlessly.
Gohmert accused the Obama administration of changing policy so that the FBI, State Department, and others had to partner with CAIR and ISNA, rather than treat mosques as terrorist recruitment centers.
Any time CAIR says, This offends us, the FBI says, Oh, gee, wed better change it, Gohmert claimed. When youve had the Fifth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals confirm that, yes, the evidence shows that CAIR, Islamic Society of North Americathose are front organizations for the Muslim Brotherhood. They want Sharia law to be the law of the land, not our Constitution. And that is what we did not take an oath to allow to happen.
Gohmert also recalled his theory that the Obama administration and various Congressional offices had been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, especially by citizens born in the US to parents on VISAs and later radicalized in their homelandsso-called terror babieswhich he called a misinterpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
So [Anwar] al-Awakis family was free to come in on a VISA for college, have al-Awlaki, take him back to Yemen, and radicalize him, so that he had America, and as he did lead prayers here on Capitol Hill with congressional Muslim staffers, and also have contact with people in the administration, Gohmert said. He was free to come and go and radicalize people in America because he was an American citizen.
Twenty people have been killed in a wave of car bombings across central and southern Iraq, police and medics say. The attacks took place in areas with a high concentration of Shia Muslims - Kut, Mahmoudiya, Nasiriya and Basra.
Iraq has been hit by almost daily attacks, raising fears of a return to the worst levels of sectarian violence. Last month was the bloodiest in Iraq since June 2008, with 1,045 civilians and security officials killed.
According to the Associated Press news agency, police said the deadliest blasts took place in and near the central city of Kut, where two parked car bombs targeted an industrial area and a gathering of construction workers.
In Basra, twin car bombs in a busy street killed five people, police said. The second bomb is said to detonated as rescuers rushed to the scene of the initial blast.
No group has admitted carrying out the bombings, but tensions between the Shia Muslim majority, which leads the government, and minority Sunnis has been growing since last year.
So - they're still not looking for jobs, or studying at a library or online to improve their skills (both free), or even volunteering at a shelter, hospital, etc.? Quelle surprise.
Commie leeches. >:-(
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Reminds me of the Peoples Park demos and riots in Bekeley in the sixties....actually I would rather forget.
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The occupy movement simply slid into homeless college-age bums. Which is mostly what they were before except with good press and actual college students in the mix.
At least 25 people were killed in southwest Pakistan on Saturday when militants blew up a bus carrying women students and attacked a hospital treating survivors, officials said.
Welcome to office, Nawaz...
A bomb attack on a bus in Quetta, capital of the forever restive Baluchistan province, killed 14 women students, and another 11 people died in a blast at a city hospital around 90 minutes later.
The second attack hit the emergency ward of the citys Bolan Medical Complex where the wounded were taken and was followed by a gun battle with militants holed up inside the hospital. The siege lasted for several hours and ended when security forces stormed the building.
Interior minister Chaudhry Nisar said the bus bomb killed 14 students and wounded 19.
As casualties were being brought to the hospital terrorists had taken position inside the hospital building, he told reporters. They opened fire on administration and police officials who arrived at the hospital. One suicide bomber blew himself up in the hospital.
Nisar said he was unable to give exact casualty figures of the hospital attack, but Abdul Wasey, spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps earlier said 11 were killed and 17 wounded in the bombing.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks but Quetta is a focal point for sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias.
The bus targeted in the attack was from Sardar Bahadur Khan Womens University.
Overnight, militants blew up a historic building in Baluchistan linked to Pakistans founding father, razing its structure to the ground. The attackers armed with automatic weapons entered the 19th century wooden Ziarat Residency after midnight and planted several bombs, senior administration official Nadeem Tahir told AFP.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the driving force behind the creation of the Pakistan, spent his last days in the building which was declared a national monument following his death, one year after the countrys independence in 1947. The building is in Ziarat town, 80km southeast of Quetta.
They shot dead the guard who resisted the intruders, Tahir said.
Police official Asghar Ali said militants planted several bombs and detonated them by remote control, completely gutting the building. At least four blasts were heard in the town, he said. The building caught fire and it took five hours to bring the blaze under control as Ziarat, a small hill station, has no fire brigade.
A separatist-group later claimed responsibility for the attack.
We blew up the Ziarat Residency, Meerak Baluch, a spokesman for the Baluchistan Liberation Army told AFP in a phone call from undisclosed location. We dont recognise any Pakistani monument.
Pakistans new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Baluch nationalist leaders as provincial governor and chief minister, raising hopes that some of the long-held grievances in the province about its treatment by the federal government could be addressed.
That's working well...
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In Pakistain, every day is Festivus. Let the Airing of Grievances begin! (mind the blast radius)
The CIA is preparing to deliver arms to rebel groups in Syria through clandestine bases in Turkey and Jordan that were expanded over the past year in an effort to establish reliable supply routes into the country for nonlethal material, U.S. officials said.
On Tuesday. Two o'clock. But don't tell anyone because it's supposed to be a secret...
The bases are expected to begin conveying limited shipments of weapons and ammunition within weeks, officials said, serving as critical nodes for an escalation of U.S. involvement in a civil war that has lately seen a shift in momentum toward the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.
If this is part of the Pournelle Doctrine then it makes sense to put just enough arms into the hands of Syrian rebels to continue a one thousand year proxy war between the Sunnis and Shi'a. Otherwise we're just being schtupid...
Syria experts cautioned that the opposition to Assad remains a chaotic mix of secular and Islamist elements, highlighting the risk that some American-provided munitions may be diverted from their intended recipients.
But U.S. officials involved in the planning of the new policy of increased military support announced by the Obama administration Thursday said that the CIA has developed a clearer understanding of the composition of rebel forces, which have begun to coalesce in recent months. Within the past year, the CIA also created a new office at its headquarters in Langley to oversee its expanding operational role in Syria.
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The CIA's expanding role as conduit of nonlethal assistance over the past year has also given the agency deeper insight into the composition of groups and the flow of material, U.S. officials said.
Our refugee outreach program and educational facilities in the south of Florida will one day soon, permit the Cuban people to return to their country and establish an effective democracy.
[Pak Daily Times] The Upper House on Saturday unanimously passed a resolution, strongly condemning the attack on the residence of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Ziarat, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... The resolution was moved by Leader of the House in Senate Raja Zafarul Haq. Speaking on a point of order Saifullah Magsi said the situation of law and order in Balochistan was worsening with each passing day.
He was referring to the attack on the Ziarat Residency and bombing at a women's university bus in Quetta.
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Gasp! They actually used the word "TERRORISM?" Our govmint hasn't got there yet. They are still trying to sort out the PC venacular. Currently, they are sorting out 300 million+ citizens as possible "man-made disasters" (except for those that aren't).
[An Nahar] Hizbullah lashed out on Saturday at German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle's accusations that the party killed civilians in Qusayr area of central Syria, near the Lebanese border.
Hizullah described in a statement Westerwelle's accusations as "void, false and baseless."
"The international customs state that the country's stances and policies should not be based on false and misleading information," the statement said.
Oh my goodness, how utterly delightful! This is why they don't have a country of their own to play with.
The party considered that the German FM accusations are part of the campaign on Hizbullah to please the United States.
"Hizbullah adopts the highest moral and humanitarian standards in dealing with civilians and military personal, which every international humanitarian institution agrees on," the statement added.
A statement almost country-worthy.
Westerwelle said in comments published in Saudi Okaz newspaper that Hizbullah's involvement in Qusayr battles is a "dangerous turn of events in Syria," condemning the targeting of civilians in the area by Hizbullah fighters.
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Layers of fact checking don't work when you fail to employ them.
From TFA:
Last week, The Guardian and The Washington Post got their hands on a big story about the National Security Agency and its alleged connection to a handful of giant tech companies.
The bombshell stories in both publications carried the by-lines of experienced reporters. The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, a vicious communist well-known political commentator who also holds a law degree, has been covering national security issues for nearly a decade, and the Post's Barton Gellman is a Pulitzer Prize winner who has a distinguished record covering privacy and security issues.
But neither publication assigned an independent expert to vet the claims of their source, 29-year-old Edward Snowden, who had until recently worked at the NSA as a contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden provided both publications with classified documents he had spirited out of the NSA. He also made claims that turn out to have been exaggerated.
That absence of an independent tech check means both publications got the story wrong, as subsequent reporting by other journalists with experience in these topics has confirmed. These are not trivial details, nor is this a matter of semantics. We're not quibbling over words. If you don't understand the technical workings of these surveillance programs, you can't understand whether they're working as intended, you can't identify where the government has overstepped its bounds, and you can't intelligently debate the proper response. The fact that the government has maintained rigid secrecy compounds the problem. Greenwald has been something of a legend to rightwing bloggers for his sockpuppetry mostly. It's how he got his start. What Greenwald knows about technology, you could fill a urine test sample cup.
A summary of Glenn Greenwald's extensive military experience can be found here
I fail to see the perfesser's objections to the Constitution. It's not like leftists actually follow it, or even respect it, considering the 22,000 plus guns laws we have now, every one of which are unconstitutional.
A sample from TFA:
So let's repeal the Second Amendment. It is dated, lethal, and morally abhorrent.
Americans have repealed amendments before. The Constitution is not a sacred text. It is a framework for government, the product of dozens of compromises. The men who framed the document envisioned that it would be changed. They made the process difficult and time-consuming, but it has happened.
The NRA advocates an untrammeled right to keep and bear arms and asserts the constitutional right to do so. Meanwhile, the killings continue. Let's take aim at that part of the Constitution that provides cover for the NRA. At our current pace, we will continue to bury too many victims of gun violence each month.
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There has been an unending assault on the 2nd for years. People like Feinstein, Schumer, the Clintons, and others have tried background checks, repeal, registration, control of firearm features, making firearms illegal in blue cities such as Chicago, NYC, and Washington. It goes on and on and is unrelenting. They want to take American firearms from lawful citizens while nothing is done about thugs in the cities who have stolen or illegally obtained firearms. At the same time, Mexican drug cartels have been supplied with firearms (F&F) and now the Syrian rebels are being supplied with arms. What's wrong with this picture?
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P2K says...That never seems to smack the gun grabbers in the face does it?
You are not ascribing enough evil to these people. As soon as they get the "law" they want they will start sending the gestapo around to confiscate any & every gun they can find and shoot those who resist.
Multinational military exercise 'Eager Lion' has been launched in Jordan amid condemnation from neighboring Syria and its ally Russia. The US brings Patriot missile batteries to the Syrian border, which could remain deployed afterwards.
The exercises will last for 12 days, bringing together about 8,000 personnel from 19 countries, mostly Arabic, but also including the US and Europe. The maneuvers will also involve some 3,000 Jordanian and 500 British troops.
'Eager Lion' which is being conducted only 120km from the Jordan-Syria border is aimed at training personnel for the possibility of the Syrian civil war spilling into neighboring countries.
Russia has raised concerns over the deployment of US Patriot missile batteries and F-16 fighter jets to Jordan: We have more than once stated our opinion on this foreign weapons are being pumped into an explosive region, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aleksandr Lukashevich said last week.
As opposed to Russian weapons being pumped into Syria...
This is happening very close to Syria, where for more than two years the flames of a devastating conflict are burning that Russia and its American partners are trying to stop by proposing to hold an international peace conference as soon as possible, Lukashevich said.
The organizers of 'Eager Lion' say that the troops involved will also train for the possibility of a chemical attack, as Syrias neighbors fear that Damascus may lose control of its chemical weapons arsenal, which could then fall into the wrong hands.
"We all have chemical training from any activity, so we continue to build those objectives into any exercise that we do, said US Major General Robert Catalanotti, the Director of Exercises and Training.
Last week the US military revealed it may indefinitely leave behind the Patriot batteries and F-16s deployed in Jordan due to the threat of the violence in Syria crossing into Jordanian territory.
Jordanian Army Major General Awni el-Edwan, Operation Chief of Staff, told reporters on Sunday that no US troops, Patriot missile complexes or F-16s would remain in Jordan after the exercises conclude: "The drills have nothing to do with any objective related to what is happening in Syria."
No forces will stay after the exercise unless there is a request by the Jordanian government to keep the Patriots and F-16 jets, this is a political decision," General el-Edwan said, adding that Amman has no intention to attack anybody.
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[Shabelle] News from Bula Barde town in Hiran region report that a top Alshabab commander by the name Abdullahi Gesey died last night in a hospital located inside the town after he sustained serious injuries.
Residents of the town confirmed to Shabelle media that Alshabab's top administrator for the region died while he was receiving medication in a hospital located at Bula Barde.
Alshabab have not released any statement about the death of top admin and it is believed that he was maimed during yesterdays fighting with federal government troops at gobo district in Hiran region
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Good, as in riddance.
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Can we hope it was painful?
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Riot police fired water cannons and tear gas on protesters in Istanbul's Taksim Square and neighbouring Gezi Park on Saturday, an intervention that came shortly after the prime minister warned that security forces "know how to clear" the area.
Protesters had defied Recep Tayyip Erdogan's earlier warnings to leave, vowing to press on with a sit-in that has galvanised demonstrations around the country and dented Erdogan's international reputation.
Saturday's sweep marked the first time in weeks that police had entered the makeshift tent city in Gezi Park, which has been transformed into a national symbol of resistance. White smoke billowed skyward as a phalanx of white-helmeted riot police marched inside the park. They tore down protesters' banners, toppled a communal food stall, and sprayed tear gas over the tents -- urging those inside to pull out. Protesters carried someone away on a stretcher.
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Isn't a reasonable suspicion that the NSA was already compromised ante Snowden? If the skinny 31 year old can walk in with a thumb drive and then walk out with critical documents?
From TFA:
National security veterans have been skeptical that Snowden could have been the sole source of everything that has been leaked to date. Many were surprised to see publication of the FISA court order in particular; one former US counterintelligence official noting that in all of its 35 year existence, there has never been a breach of the FISA court. That we know of...
That document was not definitively attributed to Snowden in news reports, and Greenwald has declined to specify whether or not Snowden was the only source. To date, there has been no confirmation that any others were involved. Greenwald prolly typed the informaton himself.
Another point of focus has been the fact that Snowden actually only worked at Booz Allen for a few weeks before taking an unpaid leave. When Snowden was no longer able to be located, his employer notified intelligence officials because of his high-level security clearance.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told House Judiciary Committee members that Snowden is now "the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation," and intelligence officials are handling the matter as a possible case of foreign espionage. While Snowden selected Hong Kong as his place of refuge for the time being, there is tremendous concern that he might be planning to defect to China and share some of our nation's intelligence secrets. Snowden is a cat's paw. Someone else did the heavy lifting.
But if it's okay to tap James Rosen's email at the AP, why aren't we tapping Glen Greenwald, the vicious hard-left commie 'columnist' for the Guardian?
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The not so subtle irony; the... "ongoing investigation" of former employee Snowden involves a detailed forensic examination of his net usage. Once again, the painter's house needs painting.
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Please forgive one for asking a lowly plebian question regarding high tech -- but shouldn't all computers used at Spook Central be made without ports for thumb drives, etc.?
[Tolo News] Five coppers were killed in a roadside kaboom blast in eastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province early Saturday, officials said.
Seven other copperswere maimed in the blast.
"The incident took place in Janikhil district of the province, when their vehicle fell prey to a roadside kaboom," Provincial Governor's office said in a statement.
The victims have been taken to a nearby hospital.
No group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the blast.
Paktika province shares its border with Pakistain and off late, bully boyz have been frequently targeting the Afghan cops.
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[An Nahar] President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... called on Saturday on the army to pursue the assailants who fired rockets on the Bekaa city of Baalbek and to maintain the security of the Lebanese people.
"The army should pursue the assailants," Suleiman stated.
He pointed out that such acts that target the safety of the Lebanese areas are completely rejected regardless of who are responsible for them.
"The Lebanese state will not tolerate such incidents and will find those who are responsible for them to maintain the security of the Lebanese people on its territories," Suleiman added.
On Friday, two people were maimed as nine rockets fire from Syrian territory landed in Baalbek, shortly after Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... vowed in a speech to put an end to rocket attacks against the Baalbek-Hermel region.
The agency said the rockets fell in the areas of al-Kayyal, Adous intersection, al-Basatin and near the My College School, the house of Suleiman Ramadan and the house of Sheikh Hassan Shamas.
In his address, Nasrallah noted that "there is a delicate situation in the Baalbek-Hermel area -- which includes the rockets that are falling on the area -- that needs special care."
"The sensitive point is that some media outlets are circulating rumors that these rockets are being fired from Arsal and its barren mountains -- they are accusing a Sunni town of shelling Shiites towns," he said.
"And whenever a resident from Arsal is killed or attacked, some politicians directly accuse Hizbullah. Some media outlets are spreading lies and I call on everyone to verify any report. I announce that the rockets were not fired from Arsal, but rather by the gangs inside Syrian territory and God willing we will find a solution to this issue," Nasrallah vowed.
President Michel Suleiman called on Saturday on the army to pursue the assailants who fired rockets on the Bekaa city of Baalbek and to maintain the security of the Lebanese people.
"The army should pursue the assailants," Suleiman stated.
He pointed out that such acts that target the safety of the Lebanese areas are completely rejected regardless of who are responsible for them.
"The Lebanese state will not tolerate such incidents and will find those who are responsible for them to maintain the security of the Lebanese people on its territories," Suleiman added.
On Friday, two people were maimed as nine rockets fire from Syrian territory landed in Baalbek, shortly after Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed in a speech to put an end to rocket attacks against the Baalbek-Hermel region.
The agency said the rockets fell in the areas of al-Kayyal, Adous intersection, al-Basatin and near the My College School, the house of Suleiman Ramadan and the house of Sheikh Hassan Shamas.
In his address, Nasrallah noted that "there is a delicate situation in the Baalbek-Hermel area -- which includes the rockets that are falling on the area -- that needs special care."
"The sensitive point is that some media outlets are circulating rumors that these rockets are being fired from Arsal and its barren mountains -- they are accusing a Sunni town of shelling Shiites towns," he said.
"And whenever a resident from Arsal is killed or attacked, some politicians directly accuse Hizbullah. Some media outlets are spreading lies and I call on everyone to verify any report. I announce that the rockets were not fired from Arsal, but rather by the gangs inside Syrian territory and God willing we will find a solution to this issue," Nasrallah vowed.
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The high-school civics class version of American democracy, at least the version I learned, said that individuals are largely free to do what they do and believe what they believe in private (within the bounds of law), while representative government has a duty to be accountable and transparent.
All this NSA and surveillance-state debate in the past week has shown that our understanding of that order has flipped. Now government has the privilege of operating in opacity and secrecy, while our day-to-day must be transparent and scrutinized (without any meaningful input from us about that arrangement).
I am not much for NYT but even the far left seems to be getting it.
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Our vigilant leader was moody,
for his was an onerous duty:
"What we've got to do
is say 'please' and 'thank you'
as I shine a light up your patootie!"
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What Mark Lavin has warned us for years has come to pass, and what Judge Napolitano recently said is right. "We are no longer a democracy, we are now a dictatorship".
Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed a provincial election candidate in a drive-by-shooting in a restive northern city. Ghazi was running on a ticket close to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
A police official said the attack on Muhanad Ghazi occurred Friday as he was walking home in the city of Mosul. A hospital official confirmed the death. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to brief the media.
Iraqi authorities earlier delayed the provincial council voting in two Sunni dominated provinces Anbar and Ninevah citing security concerns. The elections in these two provinces are due in June 20.
The attack came just a day after a failed assassination attempt on Ninevah governor, Atheel al-Nujaifi.
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Mohammed wasn't Elected was he? No, I thought not.
Moslems don't really "do" democratic elections. Turkey isn't too interested in Democracy. Syria either. Iran? There you get to "elect" old men in Turbans who just happen to be qualified as Ayatollahs. In Gaza and and places where "palestinians" gather you can elect the man with the gun to your head. And in Egypt you can elect a guy who shoots fast from the back of a Camel.
In London you can read poster signs that if you dare to insult Islam they insist you sincerely DESERVE to have your head cut off. Any Moslem country where they actually do hold elections that actually ARE elections?
if you have any questions ask Hussein. But he will claim he is the Messiah and you know your vote doesn't matter when it comes to a Messiah. Then they ignore your questions and target you as a troublemaking citizen who asks questions.
But they do in .223 and .45 caliber, so there's that.
Un-rewritten press release because I'm lazy.
From TFA:
Jihawg Ammo today announced release of the industry's first truly defensive ammunition.
Not only does Jihawg guarantee that all of their ammunition meets or exceeds S.A.A.M.I. standards for velocity, penetration, and accuracy, they also coat each projectile with a special ballistic paint infused with pork to make it "Haraam" or unclean to a radical Jihadist.
This makes Jihawg Ammo the only commercially available ammunition with the added deterrent factor of eternal damnation for fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist.
Now Americans can defend themselves, their families, their communities, and their country from Muslim terrorists. Jihawg Ammo is the first product that provides a natural deterrent, promotes peace and yet provides maximum protection when used in a defensive posture.
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Holy crap, they have it in .45 AND .308! Double whammy! Have to wait a bit though since I already convinced the wife to let me buy a half case of .45 yesterday.
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OK, alternate plan:
(1) Go to grocery store. On aisle where the Crisco is, look for 'manateca' (pork lard).
(2) dip bullet tips, wipe. leave enough that they're shiny.
(3) bust a cap on Achmed. Done.
Alternately, you could use your leftover bacon grease...
Of course, the whole deal here is whether Achmed et al are aware you're doing this, because that is the source of it's deterent value, aside from being made dead in the process. For helpful insight on this, look into the begining of the 'Sepoy Mutiny' in British colonial India, and the stories of Douglas MacArthur in his early years in the Philippines. Both touch on this very subject.
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Hollow points make it easier to apply the proper lube in the cavity
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Sit-Rep from Idaho...actually in Vail, CO for a wedding...Gerald Ford's old hangout. Apparently he was quite a good painter with pics hanging around town.
Met our new neighbors last weekend in a little get together organized by one. Didn't take long for the conversation to turn to politics. I eased everyone's mind by saying " Don't let the California license plates fool you...we might be the last conservatives out from CA (Golf Bravo excepted of course)"
They all relaxed then ...jokingly offered to show my NRA card also. Most are retired military . One even said it was time to take her flag in for the night since she didn't have it lit for nighttime....when's the last time you heard that!
Mrs. Warthog says it's like "coming out of the closet" after the SF Bay area fools we encountered. All is well and we continue to thrive....stay tuned
[An Nahar] Al-Qaida's leader in Iraq has defied orders from the group's global chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to break up his claimed union with a jihadist group in Syria, according to an audio message released Saturday.
The purported remarks by Islamic State of Iraq head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the message posted on jihadist forums indicate tensions between ISI and al-Qaida's central command.
In April, Baghdadi announced that ISI had merged with Syria's Al-Nusra Front.
Al-Nusra leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani acknowledged a relationship between the two groups, but he denied there had been a merger and publicly pledged his allegiance to Zawahiri.
Yet in Saturday's message, the man identified as Baghdadi said "the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant remains, as long as there is blood in our veins and our eyes are blinking.
"It remains, and we will not compromise; we will not give up... until we die."
Earlier this month, Zawahiri ruled that the ISI and Al-Nusra should operate as separate entities, according to a letter posted on Al-Jazeera's website.
Baghdadi had "made a mistake" by announcing a merger "without consulting us," he said.
The merger plan has been "damaging to all jihadists", Zawahiri said, adding that "Al-Nusra Front is an independent branch of al-Qaida".
But the message on Saturday said: "Regarding the message which was attributed to Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri ... (I) was put in a situation, to choose between God's command and an order against God."
"I chose the order of my God, over the order against it in the message."
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Ayman al-Zawahiri does not seem to have the same power as OBL which is promising.
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See WORLD NEWS > [Middle East Online] TENSIONS WIDIN AL-QAEDA: ZAWAHIRI'S AUTHORITY ENDS WHERE AL-BAGHDADI'S BEGINS.
Truth be told, Baghdadi has always been stubbornly self-minded = "arguing for arguing's sake" since he was a kid.
[Pak Daily Times] North Korea on Saturday made a fresh vow to build up its nuclear deterrent in the face of "threats of war" from the United States and a "policy of confrontation" from the South.
An editorial in Pyongyang's ruling party daily, the Rodong Sinmun, said "reckless" war exercises by the US and South Korea could spark a nuclear war at any moment.
"As long as the United States and South Korean puppets continue with nuclear threats and threats of war against us, we will... strengthen nuclear deterrence through every possible means," it said.
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye was no different from her predecessor in taking up a policy of confrontation, the editorial said, accusing the South of deliberately sabotaging planned high-level talks.
"Unless there is a fundamental switchover in the policy of confrontation of the South's ruling forces, dialogue and improvement in relations between the North and the South cannot be realised forever," it said.
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[Shabelle] 14 soldiers from different sides have been reported dead after a heavy fighting broke up between troops who fall under the federal government and Raskamboni militia troops in Hosingow town in the lower Juba region.
The heavy fighting lasted for hours and both sides have not yet released any statements about the losses incurred during the fighting.
It has been confirmed that rocket propelled grenades were fired from the Kenyan military base located at the outskirts of Hosigow town.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... souces have not confirmed whether the Kenyan troops took part in the heavy infighting between the Somali troops.
The situation in the town has now returned to calm and elders residing from the region have called for an immediate ceasefire between the opponent sides.
The conflict in the lower Juba region has been fueled by the self declaration of Somali war lords all claiming to be the president of the proposed Jubaland state.
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[An Nahar] Interim head of the opposition Syrian National Council George Sabra accused the Syrian regime of attempting drag Leb into the conflict in his country and by involving Hizbullah in the crisis, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper Saturday.
He told the daily: "The Lebanese government must assume its responsibilities and prevent Hizbullah from fighting in Syria and meddling with the fate of the Syrian and Lebanese people for the sake of regime that will inevitably collapse."
"Hizbullah has awakened a sectarian monster that it will not know how to put to rest again," he lamented.
"The resistance's glory was lost when it directed its arms against Beirut on May 7, 2008 and its weapons turned into shame when they were used in the streets of Damascus and al-Qusayr," he added.
"The party is now preparing to battle for Aleppo, but Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... should heed our warning and avert strife he will regret for the rest of his life," Sabra warned.
"We have great affection towards the Lebanese people and we have true allies who are loyal to the Syrian revolt, such as the Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement, Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... , the Democratic Left Movement, the March 14 alliance, and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... , whose position we understand," he noted.
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[An Nahar] A Dutch couple living in Yemen disappeared in Sanaa, police said on Saturday, with press reports saying they had been kidnapped.
"The police commissariat in Sanaa learned on Saturday of the disappearance a few days ago of a Dutchman and his wife," a security official said on condition of anonymity.
Press reports said the couple, who have not been named, had not been seen for three days, had been kidnapped.
Daily Al-Yemen Al-Youm reported that "unknown men kidnapped" the couple, without giving details.
Western sources said the pair were teaching at the Lebanese International University in Sanaa, and that the wife was also a journalist working for a radio station in The Netherlands.
Another source close to the couple spoke of last seeing the woman three days ago, and saying they had probably been kidnapped.
The two had not been seen at the university since Tuesday, some of their students said.
It was not possible to contact the Dutch embassy on Saturday.
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[An Nahar] Iranian catspaws in Yemen known as Zaidis said on Saturday several of their men enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! during festivities with police in Sanaa have been freed under an "arrangement".
"The authorities have released a number of detainees, members of Ansarullah (Supporters of God)," their front man Ali al-Bukhaiti told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Bukhaiti, one of the group's representatives in a Yemeni national dialogue, said they were freed "in an arrangement with the authorities" under which members of the group maimed in festivities last Sunday will be treated.
A shootout erupted when rebels, among a crowd demanding the release of members of their community, attacked the national security headquarters with automatic weapons and grenades.
Ansarullah said 13 of its members were killed and 100 maimed. A security official said 87 more were incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... On Monday, the Zaidis staged a similar protest and urged the government to address the killings.
A security source on Saturday confirmed to AFP "the release of seven detainees arrested several months ago for having false passports or undergoing military training in Iran".
In return, Ansarullah had agreed not to boycott the national dialogue, its front man said, while reserving the right to protest if the authorities did not respect the "arrangement".
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Nb: this particular use of the word moderate means moderate for those vetted by the ruling mullahcracy, and therefore not moderate at all, but perhaps not as extreme as some others vetted by the self-same mullahcracy.
was declared Iran's new president on Saturday, the interior minister said, in an outright election victory that ends eight years of conservative
See note above...
grip on the top office.
Rohani hailed his election as a "victory of moderation over extremism", media reported. "This victory is a victory for wisdom, moderation and maturity... over extremism," said the mid-ranking moderate cleric who was also backed by reformists.
Cute. Cleric Rohani is very, very cute. Hopefully this will protect him more than the last "moderate" cleric at that level, who as I recall has been under house arrest for several years, though perhaps I misremember.
Rohani, 64, a former top nuclear negotiator who has championed more constructive engagement with world powers,
Translation: "Taqiyah. Ever more taqiyah instead of openly defying the world while we continue working toward our nuclear Israel-destroyers."
won outright with 18.6 million votes, or 50.68 per cent of those cast. Announcing Rohani's win, Interior Minister Mohammad Mostafa Najjar said 36.7 million people, or 72.7 per cent of the electorate, had voted on Friday.
Rohani's tally was enough to ensure there would be no run-off against the runner-up, Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who was in distant second place with 6.07 million votes. Current nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, was third with 3.17 million.
Rohani inherits an economy that has been badly hit by EU and US sanctions targeting the key oil and banking sectors.
Which doesn't mean he'll listen to sense...
If he didn't agree with the same rulers who held power throughout President Ahmadinejad's administration, he would not have been vetted. Nothing important will change, regardless of who is elected.
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if they stopped the uranian enrichment program or only enriched to the 7% or so needed for the reactor, they would save millions of KWh which would then be available for the domestic economy
but we'll see what the boss mullah has to say about that
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Just as importantly, they'd be within international law and the IAEA convention, which they signed as a non-nuclear power. That convention gives them the right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
The Mad Mullahs, bless them (PTUI) have gone about this all wrong. FIRST you build the reactors, etc etc for 'peaceful' purposes, with IAEA inspection all the way. "Us? Sure! C'mon down! Look around as long as you want!"
Once they've got the reactors and enrichment program to 5% working, THEN they build the clandestine program.
Do as much as you can in the open exactly within the rules, and lull your opponents to sleep.
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Steve: they don't have to do that. "We're" willing to let them get the bomb even if they do it the Dumbass Way.
Of course they do. It's all part of the game to stall any Western intervention on the part of the Sunnis in the proxy war...
MOSCOW Russias foreign minister said on Saturday that the evidence put forth by the United States of chemical weapons use in Syria apparently doesnt meet stringent criteria for reliability.
The Obama administration said this week that it will give lethal aid to Syrian rebels in light of evidence that President Bashar Assads forces used chemical weapons in the countrys civil war.
In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the material does not include guarantees that it meets the requirements of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He said the organisation specifies that samples taken from blood, urine and clothing can be considered reliable evidence only if supervised by organisation experts from the time they are taken up to delivery to a laboratory.
Technically true enough, and one could argue that the rebels could fake it. Then again, Pencilneck's daddy used chemical weapons on his people so it isn't a big stretch to think that it could happen again...
The OPCW is the autonomous body for implementing the international Chemical Weapons Convention that went into effect in 1997. Its website says Syria is one of six countries that have not signed or acceded to the convention. A spokesman for the organisation, based in The Hague, Netherlands, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Lavrov, after meeting his Italian counterpart Emma Bonino, scoffed at suggestions that Assads regime would use chemical weapons now in light of its apparent growing advantage against the rebels.
The regime doesnt have its back to the wall. What would be the sense of the regime using chemical weapons, moreover at such a small quantity? he said.
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Shhheeeesh. Putin allegedly stole New England Patriots owner, Robert Kraft's superbowl ring and Champ says Assad used chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war. I'd say it's a draw.
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Russia: "Chemical analysis shows these are different than the CBW that Assad got from Saddam, and that Saddam got from us, so we can definitely say it doesnt meet stringent criteria for reliability."
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[Tolo News] Three forces of Evil were taken into custody during a joint Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troops' operation in western Farah province Friday, Isaf said.
"The Afghan National Army under the supervision of coalition forces incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! three forces of Evil in Bala Boluk district, Farah province, Friday. The combined forces conducted the operation to put a check on Taliban activities within the district. The National Directorate of Security currently has custody of the detainees," Isaf said in a statement on Saturday.
In a separate operation, the Afghan and NATO troops killed one bully boy and maimed two others while they were in search of a Haqqani leader in the Sayed Karam district of Paktiya province, Saturday.
The Haqqani leader oversees a network responsible for Improvised Explosive Device (IED) operations in multiple districts throughout Paktiya province. He and his subordinates acquire IED making materials, construct IEDs and emplace them in an attempt to target the Afghan and coalition forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... the statement said that the Afghan Local Police (ALP) reduced six IEDs in Panjwa'i district, Kandahar province, Friday. The ALP discovered the IEDs while conducting a dismounted patrol around their newly established checkpoint in Pay-e Maluk village. After ensuring the safety of nearby Afghan civilians, the ALP destroyed the six IEDs.
The statement also said that the Afghan and coalition security forces confirm the arrest of an Al-Qaeda-linked big shot in Watahpur district, Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , June 6.
The big shot was responsible for conducting Al-Qaeda training in Watahpur district. Senior Al-Qaeda leadership sent money, weapons, supplies and new recruits to him for training in terrorism operations. Following their training, the leader carried out attacks targeting Afghan and coalition forces with the new fighters and equipments.
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[Pak Daily Times] The police have tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! two more aides of placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! accused Abdullah allegedly involved in killing of Chaudhry Zulfiqar who was prosecuting in Benazir murder case against former president Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... One of the detainees belongs to Mardan while the second one hails from Mulkwal. Both of them have been shifted to secret place for further investigation. According to reports, the accused has been sent on judicial remand due to sickness, as lower part of his body has paralysed. Zulfiqar was the top public prosecutor in high profile cases in which Musharraf and several members of some myrmidon groups are implicated. Musharraf had been accused of failing to provide adequate security for Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... at the time of her death and Zulfiqar initiated the move to arrest him for this after he returned to Pakistain. He was also believed to be close to submitting final evidence against seven members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , a myrmidon group, who are on trial for planning and executing the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed.
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Actual article headline: Student Injured After Dude Shot Bottle Rocket From Anus Can't Sue Marshall University
And yes, that is the school where that journalism professor got publically overexcited about the NRA not long ago. But credit where due, he is very sorry and contrite about the kerfuffle, so learning did take place.
I'm not sure if the story's West Virginia or fraternity.
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Brings a whole new meaning to "whistling Dixie out of your *$$ hole."
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There was no railing on the deck. Helmburg asserts that the ATO fraternity was negligent in failing to install one. Helmburg also contends that Hughes is obviously to blame for the injuries he sustained because Hughes drank a lot of booze, which leads to stupid and dangerous activities.
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[An Nahar] Afghan cops will soon take over responsibility for the whole of the country, officials said Saturday, a major milestone as the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led war effort winds down after 12 years of fighting.
The handover of the last 95 districts from NATO to Afghan forces includes many of the most volatile areas of south and east Afghanistan where the Taliban have fought a bloody insurgency against the U.S.-backed government since 2001.
NATO and Afghan officials, who declined to be named, said that President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... would attend a ceremony within days to mark a key point of the "transition process" to full Afghan illusory sovereignty.
The exact date and location of the handover has not yet been announced, but it will complete a program started in 2011 when relatively-peacefully areas inhabited by about 20 percent of the population were put under Afghan security.
"The event will be held shortly and 95 districts in 11 provinces are included in the fifth and final phase. Further details will be released later for security reasons," an Afghan government official told AFP.
The last "tranche" of districts includes 13 in Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban, and 12 in each of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Khost and Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... provinces -- all hotbeds of krazed killer activity along the border with Pakistain.
After the handover, 100,000 NATO forces will only play a supporting and training role as Afghan soldiers and police take the lead in the fight against the gunnies who were ousted from power after the 9/11 attacks.
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[Pak Daily Times] Two consecutive blasts claimed one life and maimed around eleven people, including the Rangers and police personnel at Kati Pahari, an area of Qasba Colony on Satuday.
As per details, the police officials said that the first kaboom was a ball bomb, which was thrown by an armed motorcyclist.
When the law enforcers gathered to recover the injured, the second bomb was went kaboom!, which claimed at least one police constable's life and maimed several others.
The injured, including coppers and rangers personnel were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medical treatment where police constable, Yousuf Khan, son of Behram Khan, departed this vale of tears during treatment.
Following the incident extra contingent of law enforcers reached on the blast site. The bomb disposal squad also called at the blast site and collected the evidences from the blasts site. The BDS experts said that the first kaboom was carried out by the ball bomb contained around 200 grams of kaboom while the second one was the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) carrying weighted around two kilograms of kaboom, including nuts bolts and ball bearings.
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[An Nahar] The Pentagon confirmed on Saturday that F-16 fighter jets and Patriot missile interceptors will remain in Jordan after the end of a joint military exercise this month.
"Secretary (Chuck) Hagel has approved a request from the Kingdom of Jordan for a detachment of F-16s and Patriot Missiles to remain in Jordan following the conclusion of the Eager Lion Exercise next week," front man George Little said in a statement.
"All other U.S. personnel assigned to Jordan for Eager Lion will depart at the conclusion of the exercise. The United States enjoys a long-standing partnership with Jordan and is committed to its defense."
A U.S. defense official earlier this week said the military will also keep a unit of U.S. Marines on amphibious ships off the Red Sea coast after consultations with Jordan, the official told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
Officials have declined to say how many F-16 jets had been deployed.
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...so no 'Arab Spring' for Jordan.
[puts on tin hat]
Then again that sort of puts F-16 fighter jets and Patriot missile interceptors between Israel and Iran.
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If I told you a few years ago that IRS would be hassling president's political opponents, NSA spying on them, and kindergartens would call a swat team when a five years old brings his toy gun---what kind of hat you'd be talking about, P2k?
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I'm not seeing or reading "Syria" - IMO this is the US-vs-Russia in whom can best support-vs-stop an Israeli [only?] IDAF strike(s) on Iran's NucProgs.
US F-16's, PATRIOTS, USMC etc. in Jordan = Utility of Pakistan's LRBMS-Nukes as per Iran = MAINLY ABOUT THE PERSIAN GULF + US-IRAN WAR???
[An Nahar] The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, is preparing to hand control of the gas-rich Gulf state to his son, Qatari diplomats and officials said.
Without dying first? Impressive.
A cabinet reshuffle is also expected in which powerful Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani may lose his post, or at least the foreign affairs portfolio, the sources said.
A Qatari official told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity that the emir "is convinced that he should encourage the new generation" of politicians and rulers.
"He hopes to transfer power to the crown prince, Sheikh Tamim (bin Hamad al-Thani), and to carry out a ministerial reshuffle" and appoint younger ministers, the minister said.
Sheikh Tamim, born in 1980, is the second son of the emir and his second wife Sheikha Mozah.
The crown prince is joint commander of the armed forces and head of the country's Olympic committee.
Political sources said that the premier, a cousin of the emir, could lose the foreign affairs portfolio he has held since 1992, and maybe even the premiership which he has held since 2007, in a reshuffle.
A French diplomatic source told AFP that the emir could "take a step back, that is, not completely retire but take on a more honorary position, in such a way that his son could take on more responsibilities and become the man in charge".
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It's not going to change how Qatari money is being spent.
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Where would this fit in?
Israel talks with Qatar over arming rebels
Given that the original report came from an Iranian government news agency, I'd file it under Lies & Propaganda, tipper. They're trying to paint their opponents as Jooooo-lovers, lower which does not exist.
[An Nahar] More than 70 Syrian military officers have defected to the opposition and crossed into Turkey, an official there said on Saturday, as world leaders prepared to discuss the Syrian conflict at the G8 summit.
The defections followed a U.S. decision to give the rebels "military support" after Washington reviewed evidence showing the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons.
But Russia said the regime, which bombarded the outskirts of Damascus on Saturday, had no need to use chemical weapons because its forces were making steady advances on the ground.
The defection of 71 army officers and two coppers came over a period of 36 hours, the Turkish official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The group included six generals and 22 colonels, the official added, and was the highest-level defection in months.
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[An Nahar] Israel reacted to the election of Iran's new president on Saturday by saying it was supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who decides on nuclear policy, not the president.
"Iran's nuclear program has so far been determined by Khamenei, and not by Iran's president," the foreign ministry said after Hassan Rowhani was elected to succeed Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad.
"After the election, Iran will continue to be judged by its acts, in the nuclear field as well as that of terrorism," the statement said.
"Iran must conform to the demands of the international community and stop its nuclear program and cease spreading terrorism in the world."
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[Pak Daily Times] Separatist gunnies blew up a historic building linked to Pakistain's founding father in the country's violence-plagued southwest after shooting dead a guard in a predawn attack on Saturday, officials said.
According to details, four gunnies entered the hall of Quaid-e-Azam Residency and attacked it with a remote-controlled and petrol bombs.
The attackers, armed with automatic weapons entered the 19th century wooden Ziarat Residency after midnight and planted several bombs, senior administration official Nadeem Tahir told AFP.
Sources said that soon after the incident, an exchange of fire took place between two security personnel and gunnies. As a result, a security personnel, identified as Mohammad Tahir, was killed in the exchange of firing. The gunniesbeat feet from the area after the attack.
Sources said that the residency caught fire after the attack, and the items used by Quaid-e-Azam, as well as his portraits, reduced to ashes. A team of fire-fighters was dispatched from Quetta following the incident, which put out the fire after hectic efforts for many hours. Sources also said that a Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) unit defused six more bombs from the area.
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[An Nahar] A Saudi court handed two Saudi women 10-month jail sentences on Saturday for seeking to help a Canadian woman who wanted to leave her Saudi husband with their children, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists said.
The court also banned Fawzia al-Ayuni and Wajiha al-Huaider from leaving the kingdom for two years, rights activist Aql al-Bahli said.
They have a month to appeal against the judgment.
The two women were convicted of the Islamic sharia law offence of takhbib, or incitement of a wife to defy the authority of her husband, Bahli said.
They had been briefly jugged Please don't kill me! by police a year and a half ago in the company of the Canadian woman who at the time wanted to flee the kingdom with her children after a row with her husband, he added.
Regional rights group the Gulf Forum for Civil Societies expressed "deep concern" over the jail sentences handed down against two women, who had "defended a humanitarian right".
It urged the Canadian government to intervene with the Saudi authorities on the women's behalf.
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Syrian regime forces bombarded rebel positions in Damascus and its surroundings on Saturday with air raids and artillery fire, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Air raids targeted parts of Juba, a neighbourhood on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital where rebel fighters and regime troops have battled for months.
Fighting was also reported around dawn on the outskirts of the Palestinian Yarmuk camp in southern Damascus, which also came under regime fire.
Outside of the capital, regime troops fired mortar shells at several areas including western Moadamiyat Al Sham, southern Sbeineh and the region of Wadi Barada, north-west of Damascus.
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And Obama SAID he was going to do "something" about Syria.
But he didn't say what exactly. Maybe its a good thing when an American President is named Hussein.
You can expect things from a guy named that. You can expect him to take a Vacation for about 100 million and send his wife to tour the EU on your dime.
The positive side is that no matter who wins in Syria all the dead just happen to be Moslems. Go Hussein.
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Due to ailing kinfolk, I had to make the pilgrimage back home over the Memorial Day week end. We used to call it Decoration Day, and one of the obligatory tasks in fly-over is to visit the local cemetery place flowers on graves. I visited two. When entering the second I slowly drove past a well attended, small town American Legion memorial service. Memories of the fallen, both friends and family can bring a quick knot to one's throat as you hear those old Garands bark their salute. As a survivor, words from Steven Speilberg's epic film came to mind:
Old James Ryan: Tell me I have led a good life.
Ryan's Wife: What?
Old James Ryan: Tell me I'm a good man.
Ryan's Wife: You are.
I was lucky. Most chaplains were further forward than I was, but I still hated it. I suspect the only thing I hate worse than war are those that bring it. Palin is right, "Let Allah Sort it Out". It's not worth a single headstone, these senseless interventions. We've seen far, far too many. Damn them that bring them on with no good reason. Damn them all.
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You were a chaplain, Besoeker? Somehow that had not occurred to me, possibly because the only former military chaplain I have known is our former rabbi, who was prone to dancing in the aisles with the torah and wonderfully erudite sermons, baroque in their organization. But then, he was originally intended to be a concert pianist, before realizing his calling was on a different stage.
I hope your ailing relatives have since recovered, aided by the pleasure of your company.
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No, certainly not a chaplain. Damn poor example I'd have been at that. It was an early morning attempt at comparison as Shipman has indicated. Yes, doing better, the kin. Thanks for your well wishes TW.
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The only bright spot with Syria is that the US will be back to dancing the Cold War Waltz. The dark side is that there was a clear objective in the Cold War. R2P is a lousy substitute.
Oh, and going back to the 'unofficial' dying or getting wounded for no immediately appreciable reason. Been there, did that. Got the bloodstained t-shirt.
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I do not trust the people who say that the other side was good and we were evil the last time around to lead a cold war against the same damn people this time around.
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The Syrian conflict is not some expansion of the so-called Arab-Spring as some originally advised. Neither is it an autocratic governments brutal repression of its citizenry. And no its not even, as popularly described, a civil war that threatens to explode into a regional conflict. Even though the situation in Syria may exhibit all those elements it should be plain to see what the current reality is. It is a Holy War the same Holy War thats been going on for well forever. Palin is right in her own folksy style. The US has no moral obligation to intervene. The POTUS must clearly articulate what is in the US National or Strategic Interest. And, as important, what is the obligation after the Assad regime falls? Otherwise, maybe as they battle each other theyll have less enthusiasm to attack the West.
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Snowy, that's one of the better common-sense one-liners I've seen in a long time. Sure wish Instapundit would feature it.
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If any general officers, admirals or senior spooks out there think this is a bad idea, I'd really like them to speak out now rather than waiting until after retirement.
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Good luck with that Matt. Unfortunately, the rank and file of the fawning 'party line crowd' goes far, far deeper than flag officers or intelligence community (IC) senior bureaucrats.
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Comment from another site: "I wonder if the President will conduct background checks before giving these people assault weapons?"
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Syria is another proxy war with Iran.
We have been fighting Iran since the world's longest drive by shooting in 2003.
Lot's of Iranians killed in the fighting in Iraq.
Now we are arming people who want to kill us so they can kill people who want to kill us.
I suppose the theory that keeping them occupied with fighting over the succession to Mohammed is safer than letting them plot and scheme our demise.
Yep its a holy war alright. The Shias vs. the Sunnis. And when they grow tired of the bloodshed they pick out a convenient infidel target and blow that up.
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Headline Circa 2013 A.D.
12 Years After Al Qaeda Attacks The U.S., the now U.S. President Hussein sends arms to Al Qaeda affiliated Forces Actively Over Throwing Middle East Governments
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: Three coppers and an alleged member of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) were held on Saturday. As per details the accused, Ghaniur Rehman was incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! on a tip-off from Hawkesbay Road. Police also recovered a TT pistol from his possession. Maripur SHO Shafiq Tanoli said that the accused was involved in the killings of professional lawyers belonging to Shia sect, and has already confessed to killing at least five Shia lawyers during the initial course of investigation.
SHO Tanoli said that in the recent past, the accused accompanied by his lover companions had killed senior lawyer Kauser Saqlain on Maripur road along with his two sons, 15-year-old Own Abbas and 12-year-old Mohammad Abbas, when Saqlain was on his way to drop his sons to Ghulaman-e-Abbas School on May 28, this year. Besides targeting Saqlain, the accused also revealed to have killed two more Shia lawyers near Teen Hatti and City Court, said the officer. The officer said that the accused was produced before the court for a fourteen-day remand in police custody for further investigation. Separately, three coppers were jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! over their suspected involvement in the murder of their colleague in Boat Basin locality.
A police constable, Naveed Khalil, 40, was shot and killed under mysterious circumstances near Sea View within the limits of Boat Basin cop shoppe on Friday night. According to police officials, the incident took place when deceased, along with coppers Ishtiaq, Qurban and Khalil, was returning to cop shoppe after completing duty. The colleagues have been detained on suspicion of being involved in murder over a monetary dispute.
As per sources, there was a dispute over bribe money between deceased and detained coppers, however, SHO Tanoli denied it, and said that nothing could be said until the investigation finalised.
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OK, guess I havent kept up, What's a TT pistol.
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Here you go, dear Redneck Jim, with photos and everything. Enjoy!
[An Nahar] Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Saturday announced the "definitive" severing of relations with war-torn Syria, which is suffering from more than two years of civil war.
Egypt "decided today to definitively break off relations with the current regime in Syria, to close that regime's embassy in Cairo and to recall Egypt's charge d'affaires" from Damascus, Morsi told thousands of Islamist supporters in a Cairo stadium for a "Support for Syria" rally.
Morsi also slammed Hizbullah's interference in the Syrian war.
"Egyptians stood by Hizbullah in 2006 and today we stand against the party for its involvement in the war against the people," he said.
The Egyptian president stressed: "We demand Hizbullah to leave Syria."
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so perhaps only a few days from Iran severing relations w Egypt
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Taqqiya, nothing to see here. Better check the arabic version of his speech.
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Over at the Independent, they're reporting that Iran is sending a 'first contingent' of 4,000 IRG to Syria in support of the supreme ophthalmologist.
Morsi is probably none too pleased that his rag-tag Broderbund jihadists there might actually have to face more professional troops.
Could get dicey for the O's foreign aid decision.
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Against this fearful background, the Palestinian tragedy continues.
[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said that he fully backed Pakistain Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's stance on the issue of US drone strikes inside Pakistain.
In an interview with a Pak private TV channel Geo, Karzai said, "The issue of drones is between the US and Pakistain, I am not in favor of drone attacks in Pakistain, I am against it and I endorse Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's stand on this. I will stand with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif against drone attacks, just as I have stood against American military operations in Afghanistan where non-combatants were killed, where civilians were maimed, where civilian homes were destroyed. I will fully stand with Pakistain against any activity by any foreign power that causes civilian casualties in Pakistain."
Karzai expressed disappointment over the way the war on terror was being executed saying it is not going to get us any relief.
Answering to a question he regretted that the raids in the war against terror were not hitting the right targets causing civilian casualties and material losses.
Pakistain's new Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, vented his anger on the recent US drone strikes and accused his country's military of lying to Paks about cooperating with the CIA to eliminate terrorism in the northwest tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.
"The policy of protesting against drone strikes for public consumption, while working behind the scenes to make them happen, is not acceptable," Sharif said last week, according to an official statement issued after the first meeting of his cabinet.
But stopping US drone strikes, which he and other Pak politicians have characterised as a violation of their country's illusory sovereignty, seems hardly certain. Two strikes have hit Pakistain since Sharif's ascent to the prime minister's post was assured -- one on May 30, which killed the Deputy Chief of the Pak Taliban, and the other Friday, which killed seven unidentified suspected bully boys.
Apparently, continuation of drone attacks is one of the main barriers of the bully boy's movements in some parts of Pakistain.
"Karzai himself has said that bully boy's hideouts must be targeted out of Afghanistan's geography. Karzai's recent speeches are not in favour of Afghanistan," Shukria Barakzai, Member of Afghan Parliament told TOLOnews.
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He has more faces than Mount Rushmore.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[An Nahar] A Dutch couple living in Yemen disappeared in Sanaa, police said on Saturday, with press reports saying they had been kidnapped.
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[An Nahar] More than 70 Syrian military officers have defected to the opposition and crossed into Turkey, an official there said on Saturday, as world leaders prepared to discuss the Syrian conflict at the G8 summit.
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Nawaz Sharif
