The United States has denied visas to about 20 Iranian government officials hoping to attend next week's United Nations General Assembly, including two ministers, Iran's Fars news agency reported on Saturday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a regular at the assembly since he took office in 2005, will give his final speech there on Wednesday and will address a meeting on the "rule of law" on Monday.
But of the 160-or-so visas requested by the Iranian delegation two months ago, about 20 were turned down, Fars said.
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Probably the Russians just gearing up to cash out some more of their chips while Zero's still President. It might also have stuff to do with the tensions between Armenia and Azerbajan, with Georgia's existance being an unfortunate side-quest for Putin.
Also, that's the direction Russian troops would be going if they were to meet up with the Iranians and squeeze out the capacity of the West to stop their nuclear program.
Meanwhile, this last week has seen the publication of two controversial magazines in France: One, called Closer, showed Prince William's lovely bride, the Duchess of Cambridge, without her bikini top on. The other, the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, showed some bloke who died in the seventh century without his bikini top on. In response, a kosher grocery store was firebombed, injuring four people. Which group was responsible? Yes, frenzied Anglicans defending the honor of the wife of the future supreme governor of the Church of England rampaged through Jewish grocery stores yelling, "Behead the enemies of the House of Windsor!" The embassy-burning mobs well understand the fraudulence of Obama and Clinton's professions of generalized "respect" for "all faiths." As a headline in the Karachi Express-Tribune puts it:
"Ultimatum to U.S.: Criminalize Blasphemy or Lose Consulate."
Like most folks in the sprawling remote desert camp, [Lt. Col. Christopher K.] Raible, 40, a Marine squadron commander fighter pilot, faced two choices: seek cover or run toward the sound of gunfire.
"The difference between me and some people is that when they hear gunfire, they run. When I hear gunfire, I run to it," the squadron commander had often told his Marines half in jest.
When it became clear Bastion was under attack, Raible threw on body armor and jumped in a vehicle with [Major] Chambless. Because his rifle was not nearby, the commander charged into the combat zone armed only with a handgun. The two men exchanged nary a word during the short drive as they scanned the landscape for insurgents. When they got to the flightline, Raible dashed into a maintenance room and began barking out orders to the Marines who would soon push the assailants back.
Backed by a handful of men, he ran toward another building to check whether the troops there were safe. Along the way, Raible and his men were attacked. He and Sgt. Bradley W. Atwell, 27, of Kokomo, Ind., died of wounds from an explosion, Lt. Col. Stewart Upton, a military spokesman, said. Chambless was devastated but not particularly surprised.
"It was very fitting that he was killed leading his men from the front," the major said.
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...Didn't know until yesterday that the unit at Bastion was VMA-211 - the unit that held Wake Island against the Japanese for two weeks in December of 1941.
Tradition runs deep.
Mike
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So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.
When Salman Rushdie mocked Islamic sanctities in his magical 1989 realist novel The Satanic Verses, Irans Ayatollah Khomeini did something shockingly original: He issued a death edict on Rushdie and all those connected to the production of his book. By doing this, Khomeini sought to impose Islamic mores and laws on the West. We dont insult the prophet, he effectively said, and neither can you.
That started a trend of condemning those in the West deemed anti-Islamic that persists to this day. Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.
Khomeinis edict also had the unexpected side effect of empowering individuals Western and Islamist alike to drive their countries policies.
Fleming Rose, a newspaper editor, created the greatest crisis for Denmark since World War II by publishing 12 cartoons depicting Muhammad. Florida pastor Terry Jones sowed panic among American commanders in Afghanistan by threatening to burn a Koran. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula and friends prompted a crisis in U.S.-Egyptian relations with his amateurish "Innocence of Muslims" video. And the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo caused the French government to temporarily shut down diplomatic missions in 20 countries. Plans by the German satirical magazine Titanic to publish attacks on Muhammad likewise led German missions to be closed.
On the Islamist side, an individual or group took one of these perceived offenses and turned it into a reason to riot. Khomeini did this with The Satanic Verses. Ahmad Abu Laban did likewise with the Danish cartoons. Afghan President Hamid Karzai goaded his people to riot over burned Korans by American soldiers, and Egyptian preacher Khaled Abdullah turned Innocence of Muslims into an international event.
Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.
Which prompts this question: What would happen if publishers and managers of major media outlets reached a consensus -- Enough of this intimidation, we will publish the most famous Danish Muhammad cartoon every day, until the Islamists tire out and no longer riot? What would happen if Korans were recurrently burned?
Would repetition inspire institutionalization, generate ever-more outraged responses, and offer a vehicle for Islamists to ride to greater power? Or would it lead to routinization, to a wearing out of Islamists, and a realization that violence is counter-productive to their cause?
I predict the latter. A Muhammad cartoon published each day, or Koranic desecrations on a quasi-regular basis, would make it harder for Islamists to mobilize Muslim mobs. Westerners could then once again treat Islam as they do other religions freely, to criticize without fear. That would demonstrate to Islamists that Westerners will not capitulate, that they reject Islamic law, that they are ready to stand up for their values.
So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.
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I predict the latter. A Muhammad cartoon published each day, or Koranic desecrations on a quasi-regular basis, would make it harder for Islamists to mobilize Muslim mobs
Burning Koran or cartoon fatigue? Sort of like listening to Obama polluting the boob tube everyday?
Even if they didn't get inured to all this, they would most likely run out stuff to burn--much of it being their own. Send them some more fake U.S. flags, the one's with the "special treatment" that does you in if you burn it.
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When Salman Rushdie mocked Islamic sanctities in his magical 1989 realist novel "The Satanic Verses," Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini did something shockingly original: He issued a death edict on Rushdie and all those connected to the production of his book.
And here I was thinking it was for the execrable writing.
A Pakistani government minister has offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the maker of an anti-Islam film produced in the US.
Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told the Associated Press (AP) that he would pay the reward for the "sacred duty" out of his own pocket.
He suggested the Taliban and al-Qaeda would be eligible for the reward. Ghulam Bilour should be on the predator hit list...
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He's trying to set up a murder for hire of a US citizen. FBI, get to work...
Hahahahahahahahhahahahhhahhahahhaaaaaaaa...
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Railways minister? Might be a good time for a train wreck. Just sayin'.
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What a primitive Mr. Bilour is. If he had any sophistication he would have offered a $100,000 donation to the DNC.
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Don't doubt that there's already someome trying to work him in that direction. GOP too...
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#1 Levant their plans have been known for years even before this! I guess you all missed that Al Qaeda show on CNBC with all the bankers and Euro trash-hahahahahaha! The FRENCH LED THE CHARGE SIGNS ABOUT ISRAEL SAME THINK TANK (911) MARYLAND KABOB KING AFGHANISTAN MARIA B LOOKED NICE IN HER BERKA THAT MORNING ALSO AL QAEDA PUT THAT GUN TO EUROPES HEAD TO SIGN RIGHT FIRST @ INVADED LIBYA AND EGYPT REMEMBER WHO STARTS IT LOSES IT!
In a recent intercepted message from al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-
Zawahiri, to al-Qaeda's new operational commander in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, these
concepts are spelled out and can be extrapolated as ends, ways and means not just for al-
Zarqawi in Iraq, but for the entire Islamic extremist movement. In the message al-Zawahiri
details the plan for success in Iraq:
It has always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a
Muslim state is established in the manner of the Prophet in the heart of the
Islamic world, specifically in the Levant, Egypt, and the neighboring states of the
Peninsula and Iraq...If our intended goal in this stage is the establishment of a
caliphate in the manner of the Prophet, then the Jihad in Iraq requires several
incremental goals: The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq. The second
stage: Establish an Islamic authority or amirate, then develop it and support it
until it achieves the level of a caliphate...The third stage: Extend the jihad wave
to the secular countries neighboring Iraq. The fourth stage: the clash with Israel.9
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Someone should offer the same or more for his castrated flayed corpse. This is why we need microwave beam weapons in orbit. Someone says something like this, next day, they are found exploded in their office or better yet, while speaking on TV.
Death to Amer- *ZAP*
We can call it our Gentle Warming Ray of Happiness aka Imperialist America Death Ray
GOING WITH THE best-defense-is-a-good-offense approach, the Romney campaign is accusing President Obama of being a -- gasp! -- redistributionist. In a rather pale replay of 2008's Joe the Plumber spread-the-wealth debate, the GOP dredged up a 14-year-old video. The MSM could have brought it up four years ago. Then it would only have been ten years old, and just as important.
In it, Mr. Obama, then a state senator, said, "I think the trick is figuring out, how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot." That quote was important because it was a peek at the inside of someone protected by the media.
To tax is to redistribute. To govern is to redistribute. To breathe is to redistribute.
It's indisputable that Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama have diverging views about the danger posed by increasing income inequality and the degree of redistribution in which government should engage. But the Romney campaign's desperate, clownish portrayal of Mr. Obama does this important debate a serious disservice. The Post Editorial Board, I am confident, will do their level best to remedy that and focus on the "important debate".
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But the Romney campaigns desperate, clownish portrayal of Mr. Obama does this important debate a serious disservice.
there's serious beclowning going on, but it's not by the Romney campaign
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The fundamental difference is redistribution for a public good (e.g. building roads and bridges) and redistribution for private use (e.g. Solyndra loans and food stamps).
The former is a necessary evil. The latter is just plain old evil.
Who had the worst week in Washington? Mitt Romney -- again.
Modern politics has killed at least two things: privacy and context.
Mitt Romney (re)learned that lesson this past week when an amateur video from a fundraiser went viral. It shows him telling a group of well-heeled donors that, among other things, "there are 47 percent who are with [President Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them." That's an opinion. One which I happen to share, mostly. I wonder why no one has done any polls about what that number "really" is? Anybody got any facts to the contrary?
Mitt Romney, for forgetting that the camera is always rolling, you had the worst week in Washington. Congrats, or something. Hey! Wasn't there some little dust-up in Libya? Oh, but that had nothing to do with Obama or his policies, that's right.
Have a candidate for the Worst Week in Washington? E-mail Chris Cillizza at chris.cillizza@wpost.com. Hey, Chris, I have one...
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At the start of the week Romney and Champ were tied in the polls. At the end of the 'worst week in Washington', Romney and Champ were ... tied in the polls.
Champ should be worried for when Romney has a good week -- say, the first week in November.
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Maybe off topic here, maybe not. But Sarah Palin is urging R&R to "break through the liberal media filter", which I would assume includes WAPO, so that America can have a come to Jesus moment.
Hey, Mitt, Sarah might be right. Why do you let WAPO frame the debate? Why do you let WAPO tell you that you had a bad week? Tell it like it is and call BS on them.
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If most of these polls are over-sampling democrats, that means Romney is really ahead in the polls--not even.
Venezuelan Elections: All signs are pointing to a public turning its back on dictator Hugo Chavez and his failed 13 years of socialism. The big question coming up on Oct. 7 is whether he'll accept defeat. or November 6th
As if there wasn't enough turmoil elsewhere in the world already, bubbling up from Caracas is the prospect of a violent explosion over a hotly contested election where Hugo Chavez is facing his strongest challenge ever.
Vote for Chavez or "expect a civil war," Chavez told voters last week, which is pretty much the tone of the campaign now. As for his challenger, Henrique Capriles Radonski, Chavez said the latter could be expected to leave this election "on a stretcher." Fausta noted that he couldn't draw a huge crowd in one of his strongholds, cut his appearance short, and in general looks like the Big C is taking its' final toll....
A Venezuelan consultant, who asked to remain unnamed, met with all five of the country's top pollsters Monday and found they all had one common conclusion: Chavez's support is capped at 48% of the vote.
sound like anyone we know?
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Nah, chavismo is never gonna be mistaken for manliness. Hopefully he and bawwee can have a crying party together, mebbe at danny ortega's house...
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Venezuelan Electors won't be "allowed" to make a "mistake".
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It's not about Hugo anymore, it's about the system, and the system is dying - choking to death on its own excess'. Jimmuah will be there to give it CPR, so gawd only knows what will happen.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's efforts to stem capital outflows and extend her control over South America's second-largest economy has brought growth to a standstill. good job, Evita
Gross domestic product was unchanged in the second quarter from a year earlier and shrank 0.8 percent from the first quarter, the national statistics agency reported today. Economists had forecast year-on-year growth of 0.5 percent, according to the median estimate of 10 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. This was the first time GDP hasn't grown annually since a 0.3 percent contraction in the third quarter of 2009. based on fake inflated data
"The government's policies have halted growth because they led to lack of confidence and of investments," said Walter Molano, head of sovereign research for emerging markets at BCP Securities in Greenwich, Connecticut, an investment bank that focuses on developing nations. "Argentina could have easily continued growing 7 percent or 8 percent for years." but then she wouldn't have had control
Since her re-election in October, Fernandez, 59, has banned most purchases of foreign currency, restricted imports and nationalized YPF SA (YPF), the country's biggest oil producer. While those policies have eroded business confidence and investment, a drought in the U.S. that has pushed up soybean prices may provide some relief for the world's third-largest producer of the oilseed.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's efforts to stem capital outflows and extend her control over South America's second-largest economy has brought growth to a standstill.
Gross domestic product was unchanged in the second quarter from a year earlier and shrank 0.8 percent from the first quarter, the national statistics agency reported today. Economists had forecast year-on-year growth of 0.5 percent, according to the median estimate of 10 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. This was the first time GDP hasn't grown annually since a 0.3 percent contraction in the third quarter of 2009.
Enlarge image Argentine Growth Slumps as Fernandez Tightens Controls: Economy
"The government's policies have halted growth because they led to lack of confidence and of investments," said Walter Molano, head of sovereign research for emerging markets at BCP Securities in Greenwich, Connecticut, an investment bank that focuses on developing nations. "Argentina could have easily continued growing 7 percent or 8 percent for years."
Since her re-election in October, Fernandez, 59, has banned most purchases of foreign currency, restricted imports and nationalized YPF SA (YPF), the country's biggest oil producer. While those policies have eroded business confidence and investment, a drought in the U.S. that has pushed up soybean prices may provide some relief for the world's third-largest producer of the oilseed.
Budget Forecasts
Argentina, which has expanded an average 7.8 percent a year since 2003, will grow 2.5 percent in 2012 and as much as 5 percent next year, Molano said. Fernandez's government forecasts growth will accelerate to 4.4 percent in 2013 from 3.4 percent in 2012, according to the 2013 budget. and pigs will fly
The Argentine government has defended its record and says growth will rebound.
Argentina's Fernandez tightened import restrictions in February to boost the country's narrowing trade surplus and bolster central bank reserves. With Argentina locked out of global credit markets since its $95 billion default in 2001, Fernandez has tapped the bank's holdings since 2010 to help pay the nation's foreign debt. She plans to use $8 billion of reserves for the same purpose next year.
The import restrictions led to shortages of foreign-made parts, forcing manufacturers such as Fiat Spa (F)'s local unit to trim production. Fernandez also tightened controls on dollar purchases in a bid to slow capital outflows, which accelerated to $21.5 billion in 2011 from $11.4 billion the previous year.
In April, Fernandez, who succeeded her late husband Nestor Kirchner in December 2007, seized control of YPF from Spain's Repsol SA, blaming lack of investment by her country's biggest oil company for a doubling of fuel imports in 2011. During her first term, she expropriated $24 billion of private pension savings and nationalized Aerolineas Argentinas SA, the nation's flagship airline. Obama and the democrats will likely try and tap teh cash in 401Ks in exchange for future "promises", expecially now that they are making squat in interest
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thought I posted to Seedy Pols. Mods? please move, thx
Moved to Non-WoT.
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It's already started in Europe last year. Amd we know how Obama and a lot of Democrats want to be more like Europe...
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You would think crooked politicians at all levels would want us all to be working like mad in an overheated economy so there would be more to steal, but they're a short sighted lot, they are...
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Of course, get enough prosperity and most of the solutions in search of problems that politicians like to peddle would be spotted as unnecessary. Can't have that...
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...its about power and control. Tis better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven. Ask any one running Cuba, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, etc
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Executive summary of comments so far:
Feds expropriating 401Ks in stealth maneuvers and talk on US streets is about how much Honey Boo Boo should be paid per episode.
Mitt Romney releases tax return for 2011, showing he paid 14.1 percent tax rate
Mitt Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes on $13.69 million in income in 2011, most of it from his investments, for an effective rate of 14.1 percent, according to hundreds of pages he released Friday in a move to quiet political controversy over his personal finances.
The Republican presidential nominee could have paid less in taxes, but he engineered his 2011 returns to overpay the government to ensure that his effective tax rate would "conform" with his statement last month that he had paid at least 13 percent, according to his trustee, R. Bradford Malt. Yes, somehow, that seems ...bad.
Romney did that by not taking full advantage of his charitable deductions. In their joint return, he and his wife, Ann, listed $4.02 million in donations to charity last year -- nearly 30 percent of their income -- which substantially reduced their tax obligation. They claimed a deduction for only $2.25 million of those contributions. But charity doesn't count, because it's anti-socialist and The One dies not give away 30% of his income.
Had the Romneys deducted all of their charitable donations, they would have paid about $467,000 less in taxes for an effective rate of 10.55 percent, according to an analysis by Rebecca Wilkins, a tax lawyer with the Citizens for Tax Justice. Romney can amend his returns at any point over the next three years to take advantage of the potential deductions. Aha! So he plans to refile after he's elected! Proof positive! And if you can't believe a spokesperson at 'Citizens for Tax Justice', who can you believe?
If the Romneys had not taken any charitable deductions, their rate would have been 18.8 percent, said Wilkins, who studied the returns and used accounting software to determine their effective rates.The slimeball! Who put those allowances for charity in the tax code? Who? The Congress? Oh.
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Romney did that by not taking full advantage of his charitable deductions.
It's called audit-proofing. I guarantee Romney's tax returns have been audited by the IRS at least once. An agent walks in and may find something - you respond with deductions and writeoffs you didn't put on the tax return. Stalemate. I don't have the stats right in front of me but seven figure AGI's are audited about 10 percent of the time by the IRS; the Mass. DOR's probably been on his ass more than that.
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Romney didn't take full tax advantage of deductions because he'd pledged to keep his taxes at 13.something %. He'd have been way below that if he'd taken them all.
And yes, he's no doubt audited often. But PriceWaterhouseCooper is a heavy hitter in the tax accounting arena. I doubt the IRS finds anything, and I don't think the Dems thinks so either.
What they want is to paint a horrible picture with people who don't stop to think about issues like, "why is it good for us all if the wealthy invest their after-tax earnings, and pay lower rates on the resulting new earnings?".
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so what tact does alleged Pederast Harry Reid take now? OH! "he's hiding something! He's hiding something!"
How about you release yours, Harry, to show how a bureaucrat politician can become a multi-millionaire? Also, please prove that the Pederast allegations aren't true?
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Harry, how about those sweet land deals you got? Hillary still hasn't explained her sweet deals where she made a lot of money in questionable deals such Porkbelly Gate and Whitewater Gate. What is it with you guys and gals(?).
People across the globe seemingly fell in love with President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign of 2008 and shortly afterward. But now that love affair is over. In addition, there's little evidence that his popularity overseas did anything to boost relations with our allies ---- or our enemies, Politico reports.
"For conservatives, it's a 'Told you so' moment, proving -- as they believed all along -- the notion that Obama could remake America's image through the power of his personality was a fantasy," the news service states.
Whereas for progressives, it's a moment to put their fingers in their ears and sing loudly...
"There was rapturous narcissism," Kori Schake, a senior foreign policy adviser to Sen. John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign, told Politico. "It was rapturously self-regarding to think that the change from President Bush to Obama would, all by itself, improve our standing."
Actually, Obama's election did improve our standing temporarily, she says. "And that disappeared as the result of his policies."
Mitchell Reiss, a foreign policy adviser to 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, says Obama has conducted foreign affairs with a scatter-shot approach.
"Essentially, American foreign policy was personalized," Reiss, a State Department official in the George W. Bush administration, told Politico. "I think what we're finding now is that you actually need policy in order to promote American interests and values around the world. . . . You can't simply rely on your own estimation of your own magical personality."
Nations have enduring interests regardless of who is in charge. The Russian Bear has been interested in a route to the Indian Ocean for a few centuries. That the head cheese is called Czar, Comrade, General Secretary or President doesn't change that. The Mad Mullahs want to black our eyes regardless of who is in charge. And so on. You'd think the smart folks here would know this.
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Obama can still retire to Cuba or Venezuela. I don't think the muzzie countries are feeling the love any more.
For the first time, Iran's highest-ranking military official has tied the reappearance of the last Islamic messiah to the regime being prepared to go to a war based on ideology.
"With having the treasure of the Holy Defense, Valayat (Guardianship of the Jurist) and martyrs, we are ready for a big war," Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said, according to Mashregh news, which is run by the Revolutionary Guards.
"Of course this confrontation has always continued; however, since we are in the era of The Coming, this war will be a significant war."
Shi'ites believe that at the end of time great wars will take place, and Imam Mahdi, the Shi'ites' 12th imam, will reappear and kill all the infidels, raising the flag of Islam in all corners of the world.
Vahidi became the Revolutionary Guards intelligence officer after the 1979 Islamic revolution and later was promoted to chief commander of the Quds Forces. He is on the Interpol most-wanted list for the Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 85 and injured hundreds.
Vahidi also played a major role in the 1996 Khobar Tower bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen.
Speaking at a mosque in remembrance of the martyrs who died in service to Iran, Vahidi stated that, "The Islamic republic is going to create a new environment on the world stage, and without a doubt victory awaits those who continue the path of martyrs. ... we can defeat the enemy at its home and our nation is ready for jihad. Martyrdom has taught us to avoid wrong paths and return to the right path. Martyrdom is the right path, it's the path to God."
Vahidi said Iran's enemies would have taken action in Syria in the past couple of years if they had the capability. Iran is a much more formidable power than Syria, he said, and concluded that Tehran can easily wipe out the "Zionist regime" of Israel.
Several U.S. officials, including Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have called the officials of the Islamic regime "rational actors." Another reason for Dempsey to go...
Meanwhile, a Revolutionary Guards report quoting the head of the Guards' public relations, Ramezan Sharif, revealed that Iran has military assets in several countries.
The presence of Quds Forces in Syria and Lebanon, Sharif said, is with the goal of supporting the Islamic nations and for the special situations that exist in those countries.
Sharif said Iranian presence is based on international laws and that, "Currently the Revolutionary Guards has presence in 15 countries, among them Syria and Lebanon, while the Iranian military also has presence in some other countries."
As revealed recently, terrorist assets of the Islamic regime have been put on high alert for attacks on Israeli and U.S. interests. This extends from the Middle East to Africa, Latin America and the United States.
In a report Thursday in the Washington Times, Kevin L. Perkins, deputy director of the FBI, told a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the agency considered Iran's assets a "serious threat."
"Quds Forces, Hezbollah and others have shown they both have the capability and the willingness to extend beyond that (Middle East) region of the world and likely here into the homeland itself," he testified.
Guard commanders have openly stated that they have recruited assets from Latin America and even some from European countries to avoid suspicion by intelligence agencies and will target America should it get involved militarily against Iran.
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Timmy: "what's that, Lassie? The Imam's trapped in the irradiated well?"
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They want a big war? They have not idea what kind of hell they are talking about.
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True. I'm not sure anybody in the ME is really ready for this next Big War, and that especially includes Iran. But they are right about one thing - it's gonna be a BIG war alright.
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Remember that it is in the Iranian's interest to act as crazy as possible to keep up the price of oil, which is the only thing they produce that anyone wants.
If the price drops to $50/bbl, their future prospects would be grim.
The conflict arises as the Saudis try to lower prices enough to bankrupt alternative oil production, like tar sands and tight oil, which requires getting prices down to that level. If they can't do that, then all their customers will go away and their future plans will be spoiled.
So, just expect continued crazy talk from Iran's government, and continued production growth from the Saudis. The only way out for the Iranians is to do something crazy that lets them continue to export while upsetting the growth in Saudi production. That is not a big war, but sabotage and treachery.
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Hummm.... RB has 14 Modi not including Em -- aka the hidden Mod. So not to worried about the Persians getting one out of The_Well or the Entire_Whole_Earth_Catalog. They sound like crazed hippies.
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* "Create a new environment on the world stage" > IOW, Shia-centric Nuclear OWG Caliphate = Islamic/islamist Global Superpower.
D *** NG IT, MOUD + TEHRAN BOYZ CAN'T DO THAT - THATS CHINA'S JOB!
* "Recruit assets in Latin America ... will target America" > IOW, IRAN ALL BUT OFFICIALLY/FORMALLY ADMITS THE JIHAD HAS LANDED IN THE AMERICAS + MOVING INLAND.
D *** NG IT, I know for a fact Chuck Norris fought Soviet-sponsored/controlled Terrorists, in "INVASION USA", NOT Islamist Hard Boyz.
Iranian military leaders unveiled a new missile defense system Friday that is built to destroy "aggressive" U.S. aircraft, according to reports. The system, dubbed Ra'd, "has been built in a bid to confront U.S. aircraft and can hit targets 50km in distance and 75,000 feet in altitude," Iranian General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the nation's Aerospace Force Brigadier, told Iran's Fars News Agency Friday.
The new system is evidence that Iran's military capabilities are becoming more sophisticated as it gets closer to building nuclear weapons capabilities, foreign policy experts told the Free Beacon.
"This means the clock is ticking down" on a preemptive strike on Iran by the U.S. or Israel, said Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser on Iran and Iraq. "With the more progress they make with their missiles, they may take the option off the table for us."
While Iran's nuclear ambitions have received widespread coverage in the Western press, its growing military capabilities on other fronts have not drawn as much attention.
"Iranian engineers are talented and those who don't work on the nuclear program are very good at reverse engineering" Russian weaponry and other systems, Rubin said.
The Ra'd system was built in Iran, Fars reported, just like a recently announced cruise missile that is reportedly capable of reaching any Israeli city.
Iran's Air Defense Unit released to Fars specific information regarding the new missile defense sytsem's capabilities. The highly-advanced home-made Ra'd (Thunder) air defense system is equipped with 'Taer' (Bird) missiles, which can trace and hit targets 50km in distance and 75,000f in altitude.
The announcement was made amid an Iranian military parade Friday. The Mehr news agency also reported on the new system.
Iranian Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari was quoted by Fars as saying the defense system is being "mass-produced": "The Ra'd air-defense system, which is more advanced than the Buckeye system has recently been developed and is now being mass-produced," Jafari told reporters in a press conference on Sunday.
The defense system could complicate a possible Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites, Rubin said. "It forces Israel to rush out any decision" it might make regarding a strike, Rubin said.
While Western officials usually view Iran's military bluster with skepticism, Rubin said that the increased announcements could be a sign that Iran is serious about responding to Western threats.
"Whether they're exaggerated or not, the Israelis know the direction the Iranians are going and will be forced to play their hands," he explained. "You can only hold off so long."
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) owes at least $8 million to a bank owned by one of the largest unions in the country, according to the committee's most recent financial report.
The DNC initiated an $8 million loan with the Amalgamated Bank of New York on Aug. 10, the report shows, accounting for the majority of the committee's overall debt of $11 million.
Amalgamated Bank, often described as "America's Labor Bank," is a national entity, the majority of which is owned by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a politically active union with deep ties to the Democratic Party. The SEIU is also involved with the Democracy Alliance, a shadowy group of wealthy left-wing donors founded by billionaire investor George Soros.
How exactly does a public employee union come to own a bank?
The bank announced in an August press release that the DNC had "moved its primary banking relationship" to Amalgamated Bank, which would handle the committee's "day-to-day banking needs."
The DNC had previously done most of its banking with Bank of America, which helped finance the Democratic convention in Charlotte.
DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz hailed the transition to Amalgamated Bank, and noted the longstanding political and financial ties between the two organizations. The committee, she said, had a "fiduciary responsibility to those who invest in our party."
"It is critical that we honor their efforts to strengthen our infrastructure and build our organization by partnering with an institution that shares our commitment to standing with America's working families and small businesses," she said in a press release.
The SEIU is one of the most active political interest groups in the country, and a top financial backer of the Democratic Party. The union has given at least $200 million in direct contributions to candidates and committees since 1990 and has spent at least $14 million on lobbying since 1998, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
The SEIU spent more than $80 million in 2008 in support of Obama and other Democratic candidates, an investment that has reaped numerous political dividends.
Former SEIU president Andy Stern was the most frequent visitor to the White House in the first year of Obama's presidency and was later nominated to serve on the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission. Stern was spotted poolside at a lavish Democracy Alliance summit in May held at the historic Biltmore Hotel near Miami.
The group's international president, Mary Kay Henry, sits on the Democracy Alliance (DA) board of directors. The DA funnels millions of dollars in secret donations to Democratic candidates and causes.
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So, unbreakable leg meets unstoppable thug?
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DNC franchise - Owned and Operated by SEIU et al
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Cheeky relationship of Obama administration and SEIU: "Greased palm meet greased palm."
[Dawn] Afghanistan has called on Pakistain to halt cross-border shelling, warning the UN Security Council that the attacks could jeopardise already tense relations between the two countries.
A UN envoy meanwhile said that there were a growing number of "uprisings" against the Taliban in areas of Afghanistan under the group's control.
Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul said Thursday that attacks from Pakistain into his country were "a matter of deep and serious concern" and had caused "unprecedented anger and frustration among Afghans."
Afghanistan has accused Pakistain of staging repeated shelling barrages across the poorly policed border into Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
"We reiterate our call for an immediate and complete end to these acts, which have taken the lives of dozen of Afghans, mainly civilians, while leaving many maimed," Rassoul told the 15-nation council during a meeting.
He said the Afghan government was in contact with Pakistain to end the attacks "holistically and resolutely."
Rassoul said that Afghanistan wants "close and fruitful relations" with its neighbour, which has frequently been accused of backing Talibs seeking to overthrow President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai's ... 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... government.
Pakistain in turn says groups of Pak Taliban sheltering in Afghanistan have infiltrated the border to resume attacks on its security forces.
The UN special representative in Afghanistan Jan Kubis meanwhile told the meeting that "reports of uprisings against the Taliban in various parts of the country are a new development requiring greater analysis".
He added, however, that the causes of the new violence are "complex".
"Desire for local communities to have security and justice led them to taking the situation into their own hands. There is a risk of even greater fragmentation of the security environment," Kubis said.
"Many of these localised conflicts would appear to be resistance to the Taliban, but not necessarily in support of a greater government presence."
Kubis told news hounds that most of the "uprisings" were in the south of Afghanistan and could be a protest against Taliban policies against, for example, schools.
"This is an invitation to the government to increase support for the communities, to increase the delivery of law and order, to increase delivery of government services," he added.
A US-led international force of some 110,000 troops are in Afghanistan helping the Karzai government fight Taliban turbans. The force is due to leave by the end of 2014.
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PAKISTAN has counterclaimed that it has been showing a great deal of self/national
"restraint" agz the wily dastardly Afghanis.
* TOPIX, BHARAT RAKSHAK > TALIBAN IN STEADY RISE TO [political = national] POWER.
Pakland's nukes will be legally theirs soon enuff???
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Hey Rantburg ... did you get that photo from Gerald Bull's old memoirs? You know you're gonna' have to sell all those old cannon barrels in your garage. You can't keep using them to roll pizza dough :-)
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LOL! ACtually I think that particular gun was/is? in Fortress Munroe, where it may have hit a target a long, long, long, long way away. But you can't trust the Coast Artillery in these matters, it's unlikely they even saw the target.
[An Nahar] The veteran leader of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party told Agence La Belle France Presse that the authorities would crack down on hardline Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... after deadly violence around the U.S. embassy, saying they pose a threat to the country's freedoms and security.
"Each time that parties or groups overstep our freedoms in a flagrant manner, we have to be tough, clamp down and insist on public order," Ennahda chief Rached Ghannouchi told AFP in an interview.
"These people pose a threat not only to Ennahda but to the country's freedoms and security."
Ghannouchi denied that the Ennahda-led coalition government had been lax in its failure so far to arrest Salafist leader Seif Allah Ibn Hussein, suspected of organizing the violent protest on Friday of last week at the U.S. embassy and adjacent American school in Tunis.
Now slain al-Qaeda leader Osama "bin Laden remained at liberty for years without the world's intelligence agencies capturing him, so it's not surprising that someone can go into hiding," he said.
"But the police will hunt him down until he has been tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
The Ennadha-led government has come in for strong criticism in the Tunisian press for failing to arrest Ibn Hussein, also known as Abu Iyadh, when he delivered the sermon at a Tunis mosque earlier week.
Ibn Hussein, who heads the bad boyAnsar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... movement, preached at the al-Fatah mosque in the heart of the capital on Monday surrounded by his followers, and then left, despite a heavy security deployment around the building.
During his sermon, he accused the police of provoking the protesters who attacked the U.S. embassy, and called for the resignation of Interior Minister Ali Latayedh, an Ennahda member.
As fears mounted of fresh violence after the mainly weekly Mohammedan prayers this Friday, Ghannouchi said that from now on the security forces would deal firmly with any breaches of public order.
"The police have learnt the lesson and I don't think there's going to be any repetition (this Friday)," he said.
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[NY Times] Galvanized by anger over the killing of the popular American ambassador here last week, thousands of Libyans marched through this city on Friday, demanding the disarming of the militias that helped topple the dictatorship but have troubled the country with their refusal to disband.
In a show of mass frustration at the gangs, protesters seized control of several militia headquarters on Friday night and handed them over to Libya's national army. They also stormed the headquarters of Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... , a hard-line Islamist militia that has been linked to the attack on the United States mission in Benghazi that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. As members of the militia fled their headquarters, protesters there set at least one vehicle on fire, and there were unconfirmed reports that several were maimed by gunfire from the departing gunnies.
The killing of the ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, who was considered a hero in Benghazi because he worked closely with the rebels who toppled Col. Muammar el-Qadaffy last year, appeared to be the spark for the protests on Friday, though hardly its only cause. The militias, which started forming soon after the February 2011 uprising against Colonel Qadaffy, emerged as a parallel and often menacing authority after his downfall, seizing territory for themselves and asserting their authority over the fledgling government.
In western Libya, pie fights between militias resulted in regular street fights with heavy weapons. Months ago, members of Ansar al-Sharia brandishing weapons paraded through Benghazi, the birthplace of the anti-Qadaffy uprising, and called for an Islamic state.
The attack on the American mission in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Stevens, on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks last week, was an affront to many in Benghazi, which the ambassador had made his base during the uprising. He became a familiar, cheerful presence at public events.
"We want justice for Chris," read one sign among the group of an estimated 30,000 Libyans who marched into Benghazi's main square on Friday to protest in front of the main encampment of Ansar al-Sharia. Some held signs reading "The ambassador was Libya's friend," and "Libya lost a friend."
It was unclear whether the backlash against Ansar al-Sharia and the other militias represented an opportunity for the government to consolidate its authority in the post-Qadaffy era in Libya or could lead to new violent confrontations.
Ansar al-Shariah and other militias regard themselves as patriotic guardians that provide security in the power vacuum that formed in many parts of Libya after Colonel Qadaffy's authority collapsed.
Ambassador Stevens and the others were killed in mayhem that was ostensibly provoked by anger over an anti-Islamic video made in the United States, which has been roiling the Mohammedan world for nearly two weeks. But officials have said there are indications that the killings were coordinated and planned.
The B.O. regime, which has been careful about assigning blame in the death of Ambassador Stevens and the others, has begun to call the killings a "terrorist attack." The change in language came as Republicans in Congress have criticized the administration over what they have called its failure to anticipate the problems in Libya. Some Republican politicians have moved to cut off aid to Libya as a result.
But one powerful Republican, Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... , counseled against such a move, citing the pro-American demonstration in Benghazi on Friday.
"These brave people in Libya are friends of America," he said in a statement. "They want our help and need our help. And we must continue to provide it to them, which is exactly what Christ Stevens would have wanted."
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"And we must continue to provide it to them, which is exactly what Christ Stevens would have wanted."
[Dawn] The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a military surge have left the country, US defence officials said Thursday.
The withdrawal, which began in July, follows an unprecedented number of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... soldiers being rubbed out by their Afghan colleagues, 51 so far this year, and comes as anti-Western protests sweep Moslem countries.
There are still some 68,000 US military forces in Afghanistan, as well as some 40,000 from NATO's Isaf coalition.
The US-led effort to contain the Taliban insurgency involves a phased withdrawal of troops as newly trained Afghan forces take their place. The plan is for Afghans to take charge of their own security by the end of 2014.
The temporary increase in troops helped Western-led forces regain ground in Afghanistan's south and southwest against the Taliban, which has now stepped up attacks in the eastern region bordering Pakistain.
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Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency says Tehran gave IAEA 'false information to protect its nuclear facilities,' claims MI6 info connected to scientists' liquidations
Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency Fereydoun Abbasi said Thursday that Tehran "occasionally" gave the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) "false information" to protect Iran's nuclear facilities.
In an interview with the London-based al-Hayat newspaper, Abbasi said, "There is no choice but to mislead other intelligence bodies. Sometimes we show weaknesses we don't have. Sometimes we show strengths we don't have. Later this is evident in talks with the IAEA."
He added, "What is unacceptable is that the IAEA treat us as convicted felons having to prove their innocence. There are elements who accuse us and the IAEA is trying to prove these allegations, similarly to what happened in Iraq."
The Iranian official, who is heading a delegation to the IAEA's 56th General Conference in Vienna, accused the British secret service of sharing information on nuclear scientists with the IAEA.
"We have been tracking the activity of MI6 which has collected information about people killed by Zionist intelligence agents, for the past seven years. Some of the information presented by the IAEA is connected to these events," he said.
Abbasi, who escaped an liquidation attempt before being appointed Iran's atomic energy chief, said at the conference earlier this week, that "terrorists" may have infiltrated the IAEA's ranks.
He revealed that power lines to from the city of Qom to the underground Fordo plant were blown up a month ago. Abbasi noted that no damage had been caused to the uranium enrichment facility.
Government security forces rescued a Chinese hostage and killed five kidnappers belonging to the Abu Sayyaf on Thursday in a raid on the terrorist group's newly established training camp in Zamboanga City.
Yuan-Kai Lin, an executive for a mining firm, was rescued safely, while five of his abductors were killed and one was captured.
Those killed were identified as Termije Ajijul and his wife Sitti Raja Salvin, Abu Ulm, Arab-Arab and Banah-Banah. Sambri Aslon Kamlon alias Abu Ziad, on the other hand, was taken into custody by the Philippine National Police-Western Mindanao Command.
The group's leader, Khair Mundos, was shot and seriously injured but escaped. Mundos is a key leader and financier of the Abu Sayyaf. The United States Department of Justice is offering $500,000 for information leading to his arrest.
He was captured in 2004, but he escaped from jail in 2007. While in custody, he confessed to arranging funding for terrorist bombings throughout Mindanao.
Before the raid of the Abu Sayyaf camp, authorities received information that the Abu Sayyaf recently set up a training camp in a secluded Sitio Porlos in Barangay Calabasa, Zamboanga City. Initial reports revealed that the camp was also being used by Mundos' group in keeping hostages, training grounds and safe havens of other Abu Sayyaf comrades from Basilan and Sulu provinces.
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The Chinese managed to shoot Khair Mundos but then let him escape? Curious tale.
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Zamboanga City is in the Philippines. Hence the words "Philippine National Police-Western Mindanao Command" in the article
I highly doubt the Philippine government would let the Chinese do the rescue ops in any case.
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We, as Americans, have to put limits and borders [on] freedom of speech, Qatanani, leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County (ICPC), told TheBlaze.
First, you are fucking wrong. Free speech has no borders. End of story.
He explained that while Americans may have the freedom to speak their mind, ultimately, they have no right to [talk about Muslim] holy issues as it will incite hatred or war among people.
Second, fuck your moon god prophet and his goat raping ways. You don't like it? Fuck right off. I'll fucking slit your throat and throw you in the dumpster if you try to harm my countrymen for expressing their constitutional rights. I may not agree with it, but I'll fight to the death to defend their right to say it.
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He explained that while Americans may have the freedom to speak their mind, ultimately, they have no right to [talk about Muslim] holy issues as it will incite hatred or war among people.
Dhimmis must refrain from discussing Islam under the terms of their protection contract. And free speech causes 'Fitna' anyway.
During the last few days both a Shiite cleric originating from the Iranian regime and a Sunni cleric tied to Hamas have openly called on the US government to restrict basic human rights of all Americans.
Both are politically connected to America's major political parties at highest levels of government.
Where's the condemnation of these islamofascists by high-level politicians? Why doesn't any of their erstwhile(?) pals categorically reject their demands and sever any ties, now that they removed their masks?
Why doesn't one of the candidates for President take this opportunity to create a Sister Souljah moment?
The interesting story here is the dogs that haven't barked.
I don't advocate getting down in the gutter, but I think some backlash against labelers of speech is in the offing...
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In present day Western society? Never heard of "racist" or "sexist" speech, Darth?
Oh I know it. And you still can't get arrested for it if you spew it at the top of your lungs on the street corner. Fired from a job maybe (and rightfully so, that shit is unprofessional) but not locked up.
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About 4-5 years ago a usefull idiot air head politician stood in front of a crowd of Muslims in a park somewhere on the East Coast and asked that if they dissagreed with US Politics while in the US, "you would not resort to violence would you?"
They roundly booed him for suggesting they would and the MSM lapped it up. Now the real truth rares its ugly head.
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I know how to say phuck you in English but how do you say in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu or pashto just to cover all bases--did I miss any? If you don't believe in our Constitution, go back to one of the muzzie countries where they have Sharia Law--don't screw with our Constitution.
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It's the same principle as people who move to a red state to escape blue state taxes. As soon as they arrive, they begin agitating for and voting for what they left behind. Telling them to go back to their hellhole is a waste of time. They want their old hellhole but with better economic opportunities.
It works like this: If you put a teaspoon of chocolate ice cream in a gallon of dogshit, you get dogshit. If you put a teaspoon of dogshit in a gallon of chocolate ice cream, you get dogshit.
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They roundly booed him for suggesting they would and the MSM lapped it up. Now the real truth rares its ugly head.
If they agreed with this Imam or with Dearborn Shiite Imam Qazwini this wouldn't be dishonest.
They want government enforcement of Sharia speech restrictions. And apparently they're about to get what they want.
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Geez, Darth - don't hold back. Tell us what you really think.
And, I agree.
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It was bound to happen one day anyway in this man's OWG Amerika - no time like the present???
We should take away their personal freedoms since they clearly don't want any, + assure them that our guns won't be used to defend them + all that is theirs, Women + Computer + pet goldfish, etc. when the North Koreans do finally invade + conquer Amerika.
A powerful car bomb exploded at a market in Pattani province yesterday, killing six people and injuring scores of people, including security officers who were lured to the bomb scene.
The bomb went off about 12:30 p.m. at Taluban municipality market in Sai Buri district. Several shop-houses were set ablaze. The blast killed six people, two who died instantly at the scene, and injured almost 50 people, including police, defense volunteers and civilians. Of the wounded, 10 were seriously injured.
The bomb went off when a team of police and defense volunteers were lured to a gold shop, opposite a motorcycle repair shop where the car with the bomb was parked.
The officers went to the gold shop after a phone tip that an unknown number of armed men had earlier opened fire on the shop, which is only 100 meters from the police station.
The explosion caused damage to several shophouses. Many cars and motorcyles caught fire.
Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha admitted terrorism violence still existed in the far South even if a group of 93 southern terrorists rebels recently turned themselves to authorities as there were several groups of terrorists insurgents.
Speaking after his visit to Indonesia, the army chief said he had discussed the southern situation with his Indonesian counterpart. He quoted the Indonesian army chief of staff Gen Pramono Edhie Wibowo as saying that Thailand was on the right track to solve the problem.
He said he would give justice to terrorists insurgents who surrendered and to victims of southern violence. Gen Prayuth said terrorists insurgents involved in minor offences such as strewing metal spikes on roads may not face punishment, but those involved in serious offenses would not escape legal action.
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that it is representing U.S.Army Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dooley, a 1994 Graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. In April 2012, LTC Dooley, a highly decorated combat veteran, was publically condemned by General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and relieved ofhis teaching assignment because of the negative way Islam was portrayed in an elective course entitled, Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center observed, "In order to appease Muslims and the White House, General Dempsey and the Department of Defense rushed to punish LTC Dooley. In the process, they violated not only our Nation's core principles of free speech and academic freedom guaranteed by our Constitution, but also, a number of the military's own regulations dealing with academic freedom and non-attribution policies of the National Defense University (NDU) to which LTC Dooley was assigned. They violated the right to due process of law and even by-passed the University's Provost, who under NDU's own rules has primary responsibility for adjudication of this matter."
The Thomas More Law Center played a pivotal role in defending LtCol. Jeffrey Chessani, USMC, another loyal military officer, who was ordered to face a court martial to appease the Iraqi government and anti-war politicians, especially Congressman John Murtha (D-PA). A military judge dismissed the charges against Chessani on the grounds of undue command influence.
Parroting the FBI's reason, namely, "political sensitivity" as the reason for not thoroughly investigating Army Major Nidal Hasan, which ultimately led to the Ft. Hood Massacre, General Dempsey on 24 April 2012 ordered a review of instruction that was "disrespectful of the Islamic religion" to ensure "cultural sensitivity."
The result is certain. Officers and instructors see what has happened to LTC Dooley, and will refrain from telling the truth about Islam or confronting the difficult strategic challenges facing our nation for fear of jeopardizing their professional careers. The Pentagon has still apparently not learned from the politically correct policies that led to the Ft. Hood massacre. Lawsuit to follow?
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LTC Dooley, a highly decorated combat veteran, was publically condemned by General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and relieved ofhis teaching assignment because of the negative way Islam was portrayed in an elective course entitled, Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism.
Just what the hell is it with officers (in my USN enlisted days, we called 'em "zeroes") when they get close to flag/general rank? I have a cousin who's a hard-left academic and will give you chapter and verse about Amerikkka's eeeeville military caste, pulling the strings from behind the curtain and just waiting for the right moment to pull a "Seven Days in May." But between this jackass and the former Army CoS who whined about his fear that Maj. Hasan's little misadventure at Ft. Hood would make the Army's "diversity" his greatest casualty, I'm wondering if the modern military promotes ever anyone with testicular fortitude beyond field grade. Far from imitating Burt Lancaster about to overthrow the gummint, they all seem to sit cringing in fear of whatever useless political hack is running the show at any particular moment.
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Gottfried calls is our "custodial class" in After Liberation: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State.
Our senior leaders are our masters and minders, cur "custodial class". The common man and thinker finds himself pitted against an enlighted cadre of minder bureaucrats, educators, media intellectuals, and fully indoctrinated service academy alumni. In addition to providing a watchdog service for social justice, they are kept quite busy making sure "Bible thumping conservatives", "homophobes," "sexists" and "xenophobes" are reported upon and kept fully in check. Proper social engineering and diversity depends upon these people. They will not soon go away.
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Just what the hell is it with officers (in my USN enlisted days, we called 'em "zeroes") when they get close to flag/general rank?
They quit being uniformed officers and become politicians. All those top layer appointments are done by the President and Secretaries [also Presidential appointees]. Given that these people usually have zero effective military experience, they prefer the usual cordial 'yes' men to keep the organization operating, sort of like ward heelers or shop stewards.
The service itself doesn't help itself because they've entrenched a personnel selection system below that which promotes management over battlefield leadership. Even though we've been at war for 10 years they never stood down the peacetime selection process and implemented a methodology to quickly select and promote superior tacticians/leaders.
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Last night Hanity said "we don't even know if Ambassador Stevens knew Sufyan Ben Qumu". I hope it was not the case, but what an absolute disaster if Stevens was coordinating a meet between Qumu and the MANPAD team. There has got to be yet even more to this story.
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Murder and a giant cluster phuck are hard to cover up after all GO DNC thanks for the convention and the broadcast of crapping on God bet it went over well in the Middle East and Africa! They do love the Rand corp also!
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Susan Rice looks even more like a dim-witted fool. Jay Carney is repeatedly shown to be a dissembling asshat. Victoria Nuland is a lying boot Prada licker.
But hey! Obama's still clean, right? WaPo says so
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Lots of low hanging fruit for the debates. If Romney, can't hit a home run with what he has got to use, he does not deserve to be president. He can ask Obama why his administration lied about the Libyan ambo murder. Why his administration lied and covered up Fast and Furious? Why he engaged in crony capitalism with people who were his bundlers--Solyndra for example? Why did all these companies fail and what happened to the assets? ACORN and election rigging. New Black Panther and voter intimidation--no prosecution. Why did he screw the GM bond holders to pay back the auto unions for their support in the election? Mideast policy and why it is failing. Why he threw our only ally in the mideast under the bus. Why he has no viable domestic energy policy. Univision did the only real interview I've seen since he became President. He did not like being questioned by the Univision interviewers. Obama could be in for a rough time in the debates if the Pubs are willing to play hardball.
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They have to view this race as a war which if they lose, the country as we know it does not exist. Hope they are to the war. Romney needs to come out of the corner swinging because he is going to be dealing with a lying president and a press made up of Obama sycophants who get tingling feelings up their legs over Obama.
Grenade fishing? I can recall of doing this sort of thing with a 1/4 stick of dynamite as a much younger person. Those were the days when you could buy dynamite in the hardware store to blow out stumps.
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Susan Rice looks even more like a dim-witted fool.
The Diplomad blog has some background on the events and mentions having worked with Ms. Rice. Summary: dreadful political hack. And that was the nice part.
The Chinese government has reacted irritably to calls from Seoul for an investigation and apology from Beijing for allegedly torturing a South Korean activist who was imprisoned for helping North Korean defectors there. Beijing apparently warned Seoul it would deal "by the book" with South Korean NGOs and religious groups operating in China.
Hate to say it but a South Korean to goes into China to help defecting North Koreans is on his own. It's rather like a missionary going to Borneo to convert the headhunters...
According to a diplomatic source in Seoul, China said it would restrict the activities of South Korean groups helping North Korean defectors there after the South Korean government called for a probe into the alleged torture of Kim Young-hwan and raised international awareness of the issue.
Beijing has apparently started another investigation of the activists in China who aided Kim. Ethnic Koreans in China as well as some Chinese activists are said to have aided him.
Meanwhile, a group of Kim's supporters said they will halt their efforts to increase pressure on China, including plans to submit evidence of torture to an international organization.
"We have succeeded in raising awareness of this problem in China, South Korea and the international community through both local and foreign media," they said in a statement. "We believe that there will be no further imprisonment and torture of activists supporting North Koreans in China."
The supporters added that they believe their efforts helped improve the human rights situation in China to a certain degree. It is possible that the supporters issued the statement because they fear that Beijing will act on its warning.
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ION TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA FIRES ON NORTH KOREAN FISHING BOATS.
Looks like the Pyongyang Boyz want in on the Sino-Nippon island disputes [Daoyus/Senkakus] in the East China Sea???
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > US ON KOREAN UNIFICATION.
ARTIC AUTHOR > US = CHINA = prefers the STATUS QUO on the Korean Peninsula, ergo ROK and only the ROK - NOT the US + China + Russia + Japan - and the KOREAN PEOPLE must take the lead as per any drive for formal inter-Korean [Re-]Unification.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > HONG-KONGERS RAISE BRITISH FLAG, TELL MAINLANDERS TO GET LOST.
versus
* WORLD NEWS > CHINA TO KEEP SHIPS, FISHING BOATS NEAR SENKAKUS, to facilitate pressure on Japan as needed.
* SAME > HERE'S TWO PAPAGRAPHS THAT COULD FORCE US INVOLVEMENT IN LATEST CHINA-JAPAN SPAT.
Aka Article 5 of 1960 US-Japan Treaty on Cooperation and Security.
* WAFF > WID CHINA'S RISE, JAPAN SHIFTS TO THE RIGHT.
IMO its BOTH "post-US", "Manifest Destiny" centric China, + anti-China Japan, that have shifted to the right.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > NODA ADMITS TO
"MISCALCULATION" OER DIAOYUS.
* TOPIX > JAPAN AND CHINA MUST COMPROMISE OER ISLANDS: PM NODA.
Good luck wid that - Rising China wants concessions as per its post-US "Manifest Destiny" + overseas PLA milbases befitting a Global Superpower = future World #1/El Supremo.
* DAILY TIMES.PK/FORUMS > PHILIPPINES SAYS COUP PLOTTER IN SECRET [authorized?] CHINA TALKS.
* TOPIX > RIFT OVER SENKAKUS THREATENS TO DIVERT CHINA FROM REFORM.
No more or notasmuch "Soft Power/Diplomacy".
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > JAPANESE MEDIA REPORT TWO PLAN FFGS SPOTTED NEAR DIAOYU ISLANDS, approxi 150-kms = 80 nautical miles away.
No violation per se of Japanese territorial waters, but close enuff to put the JSDF on alert.
The Chin fishboats appear to be lingering back few hundred kilometers while PLAN surface vessels are closer.
RELATED CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > UNCONFIRMED: TWO PLAN LANDING SHIPS REPORTEDLY ANCHORED 25-KMS OFF DIAOYU ISLANDS.
* SAME > NO CHINESE FISHING FLOTILLA SEEN HEADING FOR SENKAKUS: JIJI PRESS, quoting JCG Regional/Sector Chief Hiroshi Majima.
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > [Russia Today = Video] US PENTAGON KNOWS CHINA WILL BE ENEMY #1 AFTER 2017.
Lest we fergit, 1990'S SINO-RUSSIAN "WAR AGZ THE US NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED".
[1960's-70's Guam Taotamonas here, in case RT 2012, etc. is not enuff].
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > XINHUA: RUSSIAN EXPERT DEDUCES SINO-JAPANESE CONVENTIONAL WAR OVER DIAOYUS ISLANDS, JAPAN GSDF [Army] IN MUCH BETTER SHAPE/POSITION TO TAKE ON CHINA'S PLA THAN JASDFS [Air Force] OR JMSDFS [Navy], JAPAN AIR SDFS COULD LOSE UP TO 150 AIRCRAFT IN COMBAT OPERATIONS AGZ PLAAF AND PLA.
* SAME > VLADIMIR PUTIN ORDERS RUSSIAN MILITARY TO PREPARE PLANS FOR SINO-JAPANESE CONFLICT OVER DISPUTED ISLANDS. RUSSIAN PACIFIC FLEET UNITS DISPATCHED TO SOUTH KURILS FROM VLADIVOSTOK.
* SAME > JAPANESE SCHOLARS IDENTIFY NINE (9) MAJOR DOMESTIC CRISES THAT CAN PUT JAPAN ON PATH OF SELF-DESTRUCTION [State collapse-implosion] WITHIN FIVE YEARS.
2017, or very shortly thereafter???
* SAME > ANALYSIS: PLAN TYPE 054A MISSLES CAN COVER WHOLE OF DIAOYUS ISLANDS AGZ JAPAN NAVY AND AIR FORCE.
Iff things don't change.
* SAME > EXPERTS: PLAN MAY USE "SUNBURN" NUCLEAR-CAPABLE TLCMS AGZ JMSDF DURING DIAOYU NAVAL BATTLE.
Again, China's newest warships are akin to Japan's older types. Personally, I don't see how the PLAN, China + PLA, can defeat the JSDFS unless it does use Nukes in Preeemptive of "First-Strike" [Nuclear or post-Conventional].
At least four terrorists militants were killed on Thursday during a special police operation in the Russian republic of Chechnya, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov reported.
He said, "The operation has been conducted since early morning in the mountainous area of the Vedensky district [in southern Chechnya]. It is targeting an armed militant group, led by Muslim Gakayev, whose members were planning a number of serious crimes."
Unfortunately, two police officers were also killed in a clash with terrorists militants, Kadyrov said. He added, "The search for remaining militants will resume in the morning."
Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamel Amr said Thursday that Hamas had not opened a bureau in Cairo, MAAN reported.
"Nope, not them, we'd never let their kind in here. It's, um, someone else."
Amro told the Al-Ahram daily that Hamas officials were welcome in Cairo as visitors, but denied reports the party had opened an office there.
"No, no, certainly not!"
Turkish state media reported Thursday that Hamas had permanently closed its politburo in Damascus and moved its staff to Cairo.
A Hamas official told the Anadolu Agency that Hamas officials in Syria would begin working in Cairo from October. The official said Egypt gave Hamas permission to relocate to Cairo six months ago but the offer was not publicized "perhaps due to a request by the Egyptian government or due to expectations on the end of crisis in Syria."
Or it's just the usual Arab hospitality for their brother Palestinians...
Hamas leaders were due to end a visit to Cairo on Friday after meetings with Egyptian officials.
After which they'll be kicked out...
Assad allowed Hamas to relocate to Damascus after it was ousted from Jordan in 1999, and the party is said to have significant assets in Syria. The party had been reluctant to criticize its ally, who is supported by Hamas' financial backer Iran.
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Two men alleged to have used texts and social media to organise a pro-Australia rally in the wake of last week's violent Muslim protest were yesterday arrested for inciting and promoting violence. It's alleged the pair were attempting to organise the rally in Sydney's central business district this weekend.
As American and French diplomats in Sydney put their nationals on high alert amid fears of more Islamic unrest, police arrested a 20-year-old in Ingleburn and a 21-year-old man in Sydney.
While downplaying threats of a repeat of last Saturday's violence, Assistant Police Commissioner Alan Clarke said 300 extra officers would be in Sydney's business district this weekend.
The US Embassy has advised its citizens to avoid Hyde Park and Martin Place, while the French embassy said it was taking a "zero-risk" approach after a magazine published cartoons of a naked Mohammad.
Clarke said a further charge would be laid against former champion boxer Ahmed Elomar, who is alleged to have taken part in last Saturday's riots. As well as affray, he is now accused of using a flag pole to hit a police officer.
A 19-year-old Belfield man has become the ninth adult to be charged over the violence after he was charged with affray and throwing a bottle at police during the riots.
At least four people have been killed in the Libyan city of Benghazi after military police and protesters took over several militia bases.
The violence followed a day of protests by tens of thousands of citizens demanding an end to the armed groups.
The bases include the HQ of the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, suspected of involvement in an attack on the US consulate in the city. Witnesses say supporters of Ansar al-Sharia lined up outside its headquarters, in front of the crowd, waving black and white banners. They fired into the air to try to disperse the protesters, but fled with their weapons after the base was surrounded by waves of people shouting "no to militias".
Buildings and a car were set alight and fighters evicted.
However, in a standoff outside the headquarters of the Sahaty Brigade in the city, three people were killed and at least 20 injured according to witnesses and officials. Another person was killed and another 20 injured in other incidents, city hospitals said.
The BBC's Rana Jawad in the capital Tripoli says the Sahaty Brigade is believed to be operating under the authority of the Ministry of Defence. Officials in Tripoli have been appealing for calm, she says.
Senior Libyan officials say that while they welcomed the protests, people should differentiate between the rogue militias and honest rebel brigades that helped to secure the town in last year's uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Earlier, some 30,000 protesters marched through Benghazi calling for an end to the armed groups and a return to the rule of law. Thousands of Libyans in Benghazi marched against the presence of militias. There has been a wave of hostility towards the militias since US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others Americans died in the 11 September attack on the Benghazi consulate.
Maybe there is an ounce of sanity in Benghazi...
"I don't want to see armed men wearing Afghani-style clothes stopping me in the street to give me orders, I only want to see people in uniform," said university student Omar Mohammed, who took part in the takeover of the Ansar al-Sharia compound.
Many Libyans have expressed outrage at the attack on the US consulate, which followed a protest triggered by an anti-Islam film made in the US.
Libya's interim government has since come under renewed and intense pressure to rein in well-armed extremist militia groups and force them to disband.
Friday's march was the largest seen in Benghazi - considered the heartland of Libya's uprising - since Col Gaddafi was deposed.
Armed militia groups which helped to defeat Gaddafi remain powerful in many parts of the country. They are better armed and more numerous than Libya's official army, and there have been reports of militias intimidating and carrying out killings against rivals.
Earlier this week authorities in Libya arrested around 50 people in connection with the attack on the US consulate.
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My delight in this news item are tempered by the knowledge that it is (almost certain) to represent the most recent clash in a long running feud between two groups of savages with the apparent justification being just an excuse. But, maybe, I'm just being cynical.
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"I don't want to see armed men wearing Afghani-style clothes stopping me in the street to give me orders, I only want to see people in uniform," said university student Omar Mohammed.
That's the difference between you and most of us, Omar. I don't want "people in uniform," armed or otherwise, "stopping me in the street to give me orders."
If I'm minding my own business and not doing anything illegal, NOBODY has the right to "stop me in the street to give me orders."
Y'all accept too much crap as "normal."
But thanks for driving the bastards out this week, anyway.
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Soldiers engage in firefight with cut-throats attempting to infiltrate Israel from Egypt; suicide bomb belt goes off during shootout; "The IDF stopped a very big terrorist attack," IDF front man says.
A terrorist cell opened fire on IDF soldiers overseeing construction of the fence at the Egyptian-Israeli border on Friday afternoon.
The soldiers returned fire, and a heavy firefight ensued. Three bad boyz were potted in the fighting, the IDF Spokesman said. One of the dead cut-throats had a suicide bomb belt around him.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz was due to hold a special evaluation of the situation. OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Tal Russo was making his way to the scene of the shootout.
"The IDF stopped a very big terrorist attack," IDF front man Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said. "The incident occurred in the Har Harif area... in an area where the [border] fence has not yet been built."
Artillery Corps soldiers were overseeing the construction of the fence in the area. The second ground unit that stormed the cut-throats and killed the gunnies came from the Karkal (Wildcat) Battallion. Both male and female combat soldiers serve in the Karkal unit.
The cut-throats were heavily armed. During the firefight, a suicide bomb belt around one of the cut-throats went off.
"No one has been kidnapped, and there are no cut-throats in Israeli territory," Mordechai added.
The Sinai Peninsula has become a hornet's nest of jihadi activity, and is also often used by Gazoo terror elements to launch attacks on the southern Israeli border.
On Wednesday, three Paleostinian bad boyz were potted in an Arclight airstrike in Gazoo. They were planning to carry out an imminent terror attack in Israel, and in the past had attempted to smuggle explosives out of Gazoo and into Israel through Sinai. The cut-throats belonged to the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, offshoot group Defenders of Al-Aqsa.
Last month, cut-throats with explosives in Sinai murdered 16 Egyptian security personnel and tried to burst through the Israeli border with vehicles they hijacked from an Egyptian base. The IDF stemmed the attack and destroyed the hijacked vehicle, killing the terrorists.
In 2011, eight Israelis were murdered by a terror cell that crossed into Israel from Egypt's Sinai.
An Israeli soldier also died in the exchange of fire, the army said.
A group of bully boyz entered Israel through a gap in fence construction halfway down the border and opened fire on Israeli soldiers, an army front man said. A nearby patrol returned fire, killing three people, he said.
Security sources said earlier that at least two soldiers were maimed.
The identities and nationalities of the bully boyz have not been confirmed, the military front man said. An boom belt was found on one of the casualties, an army statement said.
An Egyptian security source said one of the gunnies died when a bomb he was carrying detonated and the other two were killed in a gunbattle with Israeli forces, adding that the nationalities of the gunnies were not immediately clear.
Israel has been building a fence along the 260 km-long frontier with Egypt's Sinai desert and it is due to be completed by the end of 2012.
France banned protests on Friday against cartoons published by a satirical magazine denigrating Mohammad as part of a security clamp-down while prayers took place across the Muslim world.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls said prefects had orders to prevent any protest and to crack down if the ban was challenged. He said, "There will be strictly no exceptions. Demonstrations will be banned and broken up."
Mohammed Moussaoui, head of the French Muslim Council, called both the film and the cartoons "acts of aggression" but urged French Muslims not to protest in the streets. He said, "I repeat the council's call not to protest. Any protest could be hijacked and counterproductive."
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said there had been anti-French demonstrations in Afghanistan, Egypt and Indonesia, but there were no incidents against French nationals. He said, "In a certain number of countries, the measures (closures) will be kept in place as a precaution on Saturday and Sunday."
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"There will be strictly no exceptions. Demonstrations will be banned and broken up."
It is now Fall and the temps are easing. A table outside please. Our 2 hr le déjeuner shall not be interrupted, no exceptions. Now SCAT, or we will shoot!
Three former Turkish generals, who were key suspects in the Sledgehammer coup trial, have been sentenced to 20 years in prison on coup charges, a ruling that is expected to help curtail the Turkish military's hold on politics, Today's Zaman reported.
Former 1st Army Commander retired Gen. Çetin Doğan, former Air Forces Commander Gen. Halil İbrahim Fırtına and former Naval Forces Commander Adm. Özden Örnek were initially given life imprisonment but the court said the three would only serve 20-year prison sentences because they were unsuccessful in their bid to topple the government. It acquitted 34 officers in the case, which has underlined civilian dominance over the once all-powerful military in Turkey.
Retired Gen. Engin Alan, War Academies Commander Gen. Bilgin Balanlı, retired Gen. Ergin Saygun, former National Security Council (MGK) Secretary-General Şükrü Sarıışık, retired Gen. Nejat Bek, retired Adm. Ahmet Feyyaz Öğütçü and retired Gen. Süha Tanyeri were also each sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Prosecutors had demanded 15-20 year jail sentences for the 365 defendants, 364 of them serving and retired officers.
The court issued 16 year jail sentences for 214 suspects, including the retired Col. Dursun Çiçek and retired military judge Ahmet Zeki Üçok, in the historic coup trial.
Çiçek was arrested on charges of preparing the Action Plan to Fight Reactionaryism, which sought to undermine the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government and the religion-based Gülen movement.
Among the 365 suspects, 250 behind bars and the rest pending trial outside of custody. The verdict session was the 108th hearing in the trial.
Suspects entered the courtroom to the applause of viewers, who sang various military anthems as the suspects, most of whom are of military background, walked in.
Four defendants delivered their final statements on the last day. The court adjourned before announcing the verdict.
The first time the Sledgehammer plot was publicly discussed was on Jan. 20, 2010, when the Taraf daily claimed that a group of generals had conspired to overthrow the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government, devising a plot titled the Sledgehammer Security Operation Plan. The daily claimed that among the plans of the generals was bombing the Fatih Mosque, one of İstanbul's biggest, during a busy Friday prayer and other atrocities to shake public confidence in the government. The plot was devised in 2003, according to the paper.
The first evidence against the suspects emerged in January 2010, when an anonymous tipster delivered a suitcase to journalist Mehmet Baransu. The suitcase contained various materials, including documents not related to the investigation. Three CDs -- which formed the backbone of the prosecution's argument -- in the suitcase were the subject of the Sledgehammer investigation. The journalist shared the documents with the prosecutors shortly after obtaining them. The CDs contain documents that mention Sledgehammer and related activities such as operational plans (subplots the generals called Oraj, Suga, Çarşaf, Sakal), a list of civil society organizations that would be closed once the generals were in power, blacklists of individuals from various institutions, journalists to be arrested, vehicles, hospitals and pharmacies to be taken over and personnel assignments. Later, the documents found at Gölcük were added to the pile of evidence against the suspects.
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[Ma'an] The Egyptian army sent military reinforcements to the Sinai on Thursday, security sources said, after authorities raised the alert level in the wake of the killing of a hard boy leader.
Around 50 tanks and armored vehicles were deployed to the eastern bank of the Suez canal for regular training, and to the northern Sinai city El-Arish for anti-terror operations, security sources said.
On Wednesday, Egyptian intelligence warned that "unprecedented attacks" were planned by jihadist groups against security headquarters in north Sinai over the next 48 hours, a security officer told Ma'an.
The military leader of a Jihad group was rubbed out in Sinai on Tuesday, security officials said, raising fears of an escalation of violence in the peninsula.
Security officers told Ma'an that Suleiman Ihmeidan was killed by Bedouins from his own clan as Dire Revenge™ for the killing of a sheikh earlier this year.
Arsalan case and NAB
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir stated that the corruption case of Arsalan, son of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, was handed over for investigation to NAB whose chief Admiral (Retd) Bukhari's daughter was in the employ of real estate tycoon Malik Riaz the accuser of Arsalan. The team of Sherlocks put together by NAB included one Kausar Iqbal employed on contract at National Bank with links to Malik Riaz, and SP police Faisal Memon also connected to Malik Riaz. Attorney General Irfan Qadir prosecuting the case was not long ago working for Malik Riaz as his lawyer.
Mudslinging and Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
Columnist Irfan Siddiqi wrote in Jang that Imran Khan used his hospital and his university as part of his political appeal to the masses, but was now complaining that fallout from his political wrangling was affecting his charity institutions. Imran Khan was wrong in complaining because the charity institutions were deliberately made to enhance his image in politics.
Sharmila sued for Rs 10 crore
According to daily Jang famous chief news hound Ansar Abbasi sent a legal notice to PPP spokesperson Sharmila Farooqi for having passed insulting remarks against him. He has asked for Rs 15 crore. His lawyer has noted in the legal notice that in 2000 NAB had charged Sharmila's parents Usman Farooqi and Nafisa Farooqi with corruption. In 2001 they got out of the case after plea-bargaining and returning the money allegedly embezzled by them. They were debarred from politics for 21 years but later on this was reduced to 10 years after which Sharmila was appointed adviser to CM Sindh in 2008 against the rules. Sharmila is said to have accused Abbasi of having asked her for a bribe of Rs 10 crore.
Justice Sharif 'murder' case
Famous columnist Haroon Rasheed stated in Jang that according to reports Zardari, Salmaan Taseer and Babar Awan planned to murder Chief Justice Punjab Khwaja Muhammad Sharif in 2009. A cell was created in Governor's House where 12 notorious criminals were contacted. This news caused reaction from Punjab government which charged DIG Sarwar Sukhera to find out facts. Zafar Qureshi got into action from federal interior ministry and Justice Qazi Faez Isa took it up in a commission. The whole scandal started with a report written by Special Branch additional director DG Col Ehsanul Haq saying Justice Sharif would be attacked and killed during milad. The other officer who concocted the report was Special Branch director Shahid Mehmood but he later denied he had a hand in it.
Defence of Pakistain Council's own 'supply route'
Writing in Jang Saleem Safi stated that during the month of Ramadan the Defence of Pakistain Council will lie low because its members were all holy mans who will be fasting and not thinking of going out on roads. They were against the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... 'supply route' but were unable to protest against it because their own 'supply route' will be reopened during the month of Ramadan.
Hafeez Sheikh next ruler?
Daily Express had Nusrat Javeed commenting on the possibility of finance minister Hafeez Sheikh ruling Pakistain as a caretaker ruler after getting the OK signal from Army Chief General Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... and after approval from the masters of Pakistain in Washington. If Raza Rabbani knows this, he wrote, he should think of resigning from the parliamentary committee in charge of national security.
Civil judge in a dance party
Reported in Express the High Court in Lahore took serious note of a civil judge of Khanewal Bilal Masud taking part in a dance party and has started an inquiry after which the civil judge resigned his job. Judge Masud was filmed dancing with a girl in a closed room after which the footage was placed on Youtube.
Nawaz Sharif 'noora' wrestler!
Leader of Tehrik Insaf Imran Khan was quoted by Jang as saying that 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... was a champion of fixed bouts (noora kushti) and if he took part in Olympics he would walk away with gold. His son owned property worth Rs 50 billion. He said Shahbaz Sharif's farce with running his office in a tent will not work. He said if Zardari ever came out in public he would find that the people had abandoned him.
Praising Iskander Mirza
Writing in Express Abdul Qadir Hasan stated that Pakistain's first president Iskander Mirza was an exemplary figure because he made no money through corruption and after being removed from his job went to London and lived there on his meagre pension. He was a scion of Mir Sadiq of Deccan. (Wrong, Mir Jafar of Bengal - Ed.)
Corpse comes alive but...
Reported in Express a man in Baldia Town 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... was buried after he passed away but he spent only one night in repose inside his grave after which he pushed the soil of the grave aside and came out. His relatives accepted him back but after three days he passed away again but this time it was final. He got two burials in the process.
Most people don't like earthly world
That's because they're in Pakistan, which used to be a lovely place when it was part of the British empire.
Famous chief news hound enthusiastically reported in Jang that according to a survey 84 percent of the people in Pakistain thought they were religious although 77 percent limited that to merely worship rituals. But 82 percent said they were religious because they did not believe in the earthly life and preferred the world after earthly life.
Immoral leaders in government
Famous columnist Altaf Hasan Qureshi wrote in Jang that the three parties in power - PPP, MQM and ANP - were deeply mired in avarice (hirs), incompetence (na-ehli), and maladministration (bad-intizami). They are now in the open with the full destructive potential. On the other hand the religious and politicians who were arrayed against them were faced with a trial of their integrity.
Constitutional merry-go-round
Columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that Pakistain's first constitution was framed in 1956 but it lasted only two years. After that General Ayub gave Pakistain a constitution which was set aside by General Yahya. After him the new government refused to accept it and gave Pakistain its 1973 constitution which General Zia came and set aside. His constitution was set aide by Nawaz Sharif who changed it, which was then changed by General Musharraf.
A diagnosis of PPP
World famous columnist Mujahid Mansuri wrote in Jang that the real face of the PPP was disclosed by Nazeer Naji who stated that people of Pakistain were emotional and self-destructive and were attracted to the PPP's narrative of cruelties borne by the party leaders. On the other hand, the opponents of PPP spoke of their victories. Those who sang of their victories often lost and the PPP won on the basis of its list of sufferings. Once again the PPP after a misrule of four and half years has found new tormentors (zalim) so that they can be seen as victims (mazloom). PPP will be the most unusual party in the world when it enters the electoral field boasting its non-success.
However and nice headline about Pakistans Supply Route. The Hinjoos took out Karachi with missile boats once (aimed them fat boy Styx at the tank farm) just thinking, that's all.
[Dawn] The Foreign Office on Friday summoned acting US Ambassador Richard E. Hoagland and registering a formal protest, demanded of the US government to remove the anti-Islam film from social networking and video-sharing website YouTube as well as punish those involved in its making, DawnNews reported.
The Foreign Office handed over a démarche to Hoagland in protest against the anti-Islam film on behalf of the Pak government.
The démarche stated that the film, said to have been made in the US, was akin to an attack on the world's 1.5 billion Mohammedans.
Pakistain moreover stated that the film aimed at fanning hatred among the people of different faiths and demanded the US government to take steps for the film's removal from YouTube.
The government also demanded that action be taken against the film's author and against those involve in its making.
On the occasion, Hoagland said the US government and leadership had condemned the anti-Islam film severely, adding that, a majority of the American people viewed it as offensive to the religious sensibilities of the world's Mohammedan population.
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Boilerplate is a term of derision for the most part, but here's a perfect place to use it.
"I understand why you are asking my country to do this, but it is not going to happen. Feel free to keep on asking, as long as you understand that it is never going to happen.
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[An Nahar] Mohammedans, Sunnis and Shiites, in Leberupted into the streets on Friday to vent their anger over a U.S.-made film and French cartoons mocking Islam.
In the southern port city of Sidon, Sunni holy mans called "a day of rage" against insults to the Prophet Mohammed but urged followers to contain their anger to inside their mosques.
French schools were closed and the army was deployed at French institutions in Sidon, Beirut and the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , in anticipation of a backlash against the publication of obscene cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a French satirical magazine.
Separately, thousands of supporters of Hizbullah and the AMAL movement erupted into the streets after Friday prayers in the eastern city of Baalbek, an AFP correspondent said.
The Sunni authority for Sidon and several holy mans in Tripoli called for Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... and Egypt's Al-Azhar -- the highest authorities in Sunni Islam -- to issue a fatwa condoning the murder of anyone associated with the film and for those who denigrate Islam or its prophet.
"He who dares to insult Islam and the Prophet Mohammed shall not live. There are things that cannot be tolerated and insulting the Prophet Mohammed is one of them"
"He who dares to insult Islam and the Prophet Mohammed shall not live. There are things that cannot be tolerated and insulting the Prophet Mohammed is one of them," Sheikh Maher Hammoud, imam of the Quds mosque, said during his sermon.
"Every one of these should be killed."
An AFP correspondent in Sidon said 300 people gathered at the mosque and that, after Friday's weekly Mohammedan prayers, protesters burned U.S. and Israeli flags while chanting "Death to America™, death to Israel!"
In Tripoli, radical Islamist holy man Omar Bakri called on the "soldiers of Islam" to avenge the creators of the film and publishers of the cartoons, an AFP correspondent reported.
Bakri asked fellow Mohammedans to support a fatwa that would make it "legitimate to kill those who have insulted the Prophet Mohammed."
"I'm not in favor of the demonstrations that condemn, because they do more harm than good. They are not a solution to stop these continuous abuses against our religion; this can only happen with a strong response," Bakri said.
Outside Tripoli, Sheikh Mustafa Malas decried the silence of Arab and Mohammedan officials toward their American and French counterparts.
"Arab and Islamic countries must take a decisive stand against the United States and La Belle France after the insults to our Prophet, and boycott their goods," he said during his Friday sermon.
"They have repeated these offensive behaviors ... Their actions amount to a war declared on Islam and they must not be surprised by reactions of reprisal."
The correspondent reported seeing military vehicles and a large army and police presence outside the French high school and cultural mission in the northern city of Tripoli.
The army has also stepped up security measures to protect the French ambassador's residence in Beirut with military vehicles.
Protesters also burned American and Israeli flags outside a Beirut mosque, where troops were on guard nearby.
A public demonstration called for by Sheikh Ahmed Asir, a controversial Sunni holy man, is set for 5:00 p.m. in downtown Beirut.
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"Arab and Islamic countries must take a decisive stand against the United States and La Belle France after the insults to our Prophet, and boycott their goods...and free money," don't forget the free money! ....he said during his Friday sermon.
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. on Friday said that Pakistain Moslem League -- Nawaz (PML-N) chief 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... should not use the Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool for political point-scoring, adding that, members of banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations were being sent from Punjab towards Islamabad, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to media representatives in Islamabad, Malik said mobile services had been suspended in the capital and that the military remained on high alert.
The minister moreover said that mobile services would also remain suspended in Murree, Chakwal and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , adding that, the federal government had approached chief secretaries of two provinces for services' suspension.
Responding to a question over the court's directives pertaining to his dual nationality issue, the minister said he would present all the facts before Chairman Senate Nayyar Bokhari.
He reiterated that the issue of his disqualification from parliament membership would be decided by the Senate's chairman.
Malik said there were a number of politicians who still kept their dual nationalities, adding that, if asked, he would produce evidence to prove the allegation.
On the security situation in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , the minister said the city had seen a growing number of IED blasts, adding that, there were intelligence reports pertaining to possible terrorist attacks in certain cities.
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Mohammedans angered by cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad should follow his example of enduring insults without retaliating, Egypt's highest Islamic legal official said.
Western embassies tightened security in Sanaa, fearing the cartoons published in a French magazine on Wednesday could lead to more unrest in the Yemeni capital where crowds attacked the US mission last week over an anti-Islam film made in America.
In the latest of a wave of protests against that video in the Islamic world, several thousand Shiite Mohammedans demonstrated in the northern Nigerian town of Zaria, burning an effigy of US President Barack Obama This is a teachable moment... and crying "Death to America™".
In the Pak capital, about 1,000 stone-throwing protesters clashed with police as they tried to force their way to the US embassy on Thursday and the government shut down mobile phone services in more than a dozen cities as part of security arrangements ahead of protests expected on Friday.
The US embassy in Pakistain has been running television advertisements, one featuring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ... , emphasizing that the US government had nothing to do with the film.
The US and French embassies were closed on Friday in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, which has the world's biggest Mohammedan population, and diplomatic missions in the Afghan capital, Kabul, were on lock-down.
The cartoons in La Belle France's Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly have provoked relatively little street anger, although about 100 Iranians demonstrated outside the French embassy in Tehran.
In Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring revolts, the Islamist-led government decreed a ban on protests planned on Friday against the cartoons. Four people died and almost 30 were maimed last week when protesters incensed by the movie about the Prophet Muhammad stormed the US embassy.
An Islamist activist called for attacks in La Belle France to avenge the perceived insult to Islam by the "slaves of the cross".
Muawiyya al-Qahtani said on a website used by Islamist bully boyz and monitored by the US-based SITE intelligence group: "Is there someone who will roll up his sleeves and bring back to us the glory of the hero Muhammad Merah?"
He was referring to an al Qaeda-inspired gunman who killed seven people, including three Jewish children, in the southern French city of Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... in March.
Condemning the publication of the cartoons in La Belle France as an act verging on incitement, Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa said on Thursday it showed how polarized the West and the Mohammedan world had become.
Gomaa said Muhammad and his lover companions had endured "the worst insults from the non-believers of his time. Not only was his message routinely rejected, but he was often chased out of town, cursed and physically assaulted on numerous occasions.
"But his example was always to endure all personal insults and attacks without retaliation of any sort. There is no doubt that, since the Prophet is our greatest example in this life, this should also be the reaction of all Mohammedans."
His statement echoed one by Al Azhar, Egypt's prestigious seat of Sunni learning, which condemned the caricatures showing the Prophet naked but said any protest should be peaceful.
An official at the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, whose population of 83 million people is 10 percent Christian, also condemned the cartoons as insults to Islam.
Last week, some Egyptian protesters scaled the US Embassy walls and tore down the flag. They clashed with police for four days, although most of the thousands of Egyptians who erupted into the streets did so peacefully.
Mohammedan grievances
Gomaa said insults to Islam and the response, including the killing of the US ambassador in Libya and attacks on other Western embassies in the region, could not be dissociated from other points of conflict between the West and the Mohammedan world.
He cited the treatment of Mohammedans at the US detention center in Guantanamo, the US-led war in Iraq, drone attacks in Yemen and Pakistain, and the demonisation of Mohammedans by far-right European parties as "underlying factors" for the tension.
"To then insist on igniting these simmering tensions by publishing hurtful and insulting material in a foolhardy attempt at bravado - asserting the superiority of Western freedoms over alleged Mohammedan closed-mindedness - verges on incitement," he said in his statement published on the Rooters blog FaithWorld.
After the invasion of the US embassy in Tunis on Friday last week, the Tunisian Interior Ministry has banned protests against the cartoon this Friday "to prevent human and material losses".
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... issued a joint appeal, through its foreign policy chief, with the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , 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... and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation for "peace and tolerance".
"We condemn any advocacy of religious hatred that constitutes incitement to hostility and violence," the EU said.
"While fully recognizing freedom of expression, we believe in the importance of respecting all prophets, regardless of which religion they belong to."
Iran's Foreign Ministry front man, Ramin Mehmanparast, condemned the cartoons as "a systematic plot" against Islam.
"The coordinated and continued silence of Western countries towards these hateful anti-Islamic actions, is the primary reason for the repetition of such insulting actions," he said.
He was speaking a day after French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called the publication of the cartoons a provocation.
The Danish cartoonist who outraged Mohammedans with a drawing of the Prophet seven years ago said the West could not let itself be muzzled by fear of offending Islamic sensibilities.
Kurt Westergaard, whose lampoon of Mohammad in the Jyllands-Posten paper nearly got him killed by an axe-wielding assassin in 2010, told Austrian magazine News he had no regrets about his work and said freedom of speech was too precious to relinquish.
"Should we in future let ourselves be censored by Islamic authorities in deeply undemocratic countries?" he asked.
For many Mohammedans, any depiction of Muhammad is blasphemous.
The furore over the anti-Islam film and the cartoons has presented a tough challenge to new authorities in Arab countries where popular uprisings have tossed entrenched autocrats.
In Libya, where militias that helped overthrow Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... still wield much power, the foreign minister offered a further apology for US ambassador Christopher Stevens' death to visiting US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns on Thursday.
Stevens and three other Americans died in an attack on the US consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi by gunnies among a crowd protesting against the film that denigrated the Prophet.
[An Nahar] Syrian troops backed by helicopter gunships clashed with rebels near a barracks in Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... on Friday as battles broke out around a military airport elsewhere in the northern province, monitors said.
In Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... , state news agency SANA said the army unearthed the bodies of 25 people shot execution-style in the Qadam district and blamed "armed terrorist groups," the regime's term for rebels.
In other developments, a masked gunman on a cycle of violence killed prominent Kurdish activist Mahmoud Wali on Thursday in northeastern Syria, fellow activists said.
And a tolerated opposition group said two members -- Abdel Aziz Khayer and Iyas Ayash -- had gone missing along with the man who had collected them from Damascus airport after they returned from a trip to China to discuss an end to the violence.
The National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change groups Arab nationalists, Kurds and socialists.
In the Arkoub district of Aleppo, fighting erupted overnight near the Hanano army barracks, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Several districts of the northern metropolis, including Sakhur in the northeast and Bustan al-Qasr in the center, came under overnight attack, the Britannia-based monitoring group said.
Elsewhere in the province, fighting broke out between troops and rebels near the Meng military airport, it said.
Military airfields have been a key rebel target because the regime is increasingly using air power to launch devastating strikes.
Northwest of the capital, the Observatory reported a massive kaboom believed to have been a car boom. Heavy gunfire was heard afterwards but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
In the central province of Homs, a civilian was killed in dawn shelling of Rastan, while the eastern city of Deir Ezzor and the town of Daal in the southern province of Daraa were also bombarded.
In Damascus, SANA said, soldiers acting on a tip-off from local residents found a mass grave containing 25 bodies with their hands tied and eyes masked. They had been kidnapped and killed by rebels, it said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... a U.N. commission investigating rights violations in Syria said it should be allowed to continue its work and get more resources.
In its latest report, the commission accused the regime and, to a lesser extent, rebel forces of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Protesters erupted into the streets after the main weekly Moslem prayers, as on every Friday since the revolt broke out in March 2011, activists said.
This week's slogan for protests was "the beloved of the Prophet in Syria are being massacred," reflecting demonstrations in several Moslem states over a U.S.-produced film mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
There were demonstrations in the capital and in Damascus province, as well as in Daraa, Hama, Aleppo and Hasaka.
Security forces fired on gatherings in the Qusur and Al-Arbain districts of Hama, and a number of people were placed in long-term storage ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... , while some demonstrators were maimed in the Aleppo provincial town of Atareb.
At least 11 people were killed in violence on Friday, the Observatory said, a day after as many as 225 died, including at least 30 in a petrol station blast in Raqa in the north, blamed on a regime air raid.
According to the Observatory, at least 29,000 people have been killed in the 18-month revolt against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... Syria's information minister denied that Assad had granted an exclusive interview to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram al-Arabi, which claimed he hit out at Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... , Turkey and Qatar, accusing them of arming Syrian rebels and insisting they will not win.
Omran al-Zohbi said Assad had had an informal conversation with nine Egyptian journalists and that his comments had been taken out of context.
On the humanitarian front, Syria's ally Russia flew in almost 80 tonnes of food aid, SANA reported.
And Iraq denied permission for a North Korean aircraft to cross its airspace on its way to Syria over suspicions it was carrying arms and advisers, an official in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... said.
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The State Department is poised to remove a myrmidon Iranian dissident group from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, the culmination of a long, multi-million-dollar lobbying effort to sway U.S. politicians, officials and members of the group said Friday.
Supporters of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, better known as the MEK, gathered for an early celebration rally in front of the State Department hours after the news leaked that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Richelieu ... had sent word to Congress about the decision. Officially, the decision isn't yet public, and lawyers for the group said they were advising caution in case there were unforeseen conditions attached to the delisting.
"The department is now in the process of sending a classified communication from the secretary to the Congress today regarding the designation of the MEK. I'm not in a position to confirm the contents of this because it's classified," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
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That'd be tear gas...
It's Egypt. Sarin could be legal...
to force terrorists to come out of their hideaways in the mountains of the Sinai Peninsula, the Kuwait newspaper Al-Rai quoted Egyptian security officials as saying.
[Dawn] Angry demonstrators set fire to at least six cinemas in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Friday amidst violent protests as the country marked a day of protests against an anti-Islam film.
Protestors attacked Capri, Nishat and Prince cinemas in Bloody Karachi, as they marched on the main M.A. Jinnah road in the city's downtown area.
According to DawnNews, Capri and Nishat cinemas were partially damaged while Prince cinema was set afire by violent mobs.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... one protester was maimed when a cinema guard opened fire as angry crowds armed with clubs and bamboo poles converged on the Firdaus picture house, smashing it up and setting furniture ablaze, police officer Gohar Ali told AFP.
Witnesses said a rampaging crowd stormed the Shama cinema, smashing windows and setting it on fire.
When the protestors reached Arbab Road in the thriving provincial capital, they attacked Capital cinema. The mobs broke down the cinema's main gate and set fire to its screen.
Tens of thousands are expected to take to the streets across the country after the government called an impromptu public holiday to let people protest.
Security in the country was tight, with shops and businesses closed and usually busy streets deserted, after calls from all the major political and religious parties for a day of protest.
The authorities shut down the mobile phone network in major cities across the country in an effort to avoid violence.
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[Dawn] THE predictable unfolding of events since the inauspicious 'release' of an amateur film that has offended the sensibilities of Moslems across the world has once again underlined the major divisions that exist in our society.
While conservatives with a virtual monopoly on the vernacular press and TV media play their inexhaustible 'anti-West' card, progressives restricted mostly to the English-language press are lamenting the irrationality of the Pak mind.
The fact that this article is being read on a hastily declared public holiday, and that the major party in government has put in its two cents with the protesters would suggest that the conservatives have won this particular battle. The more pessimistic amongst the progressives would likely venture that the 'other' side is also winning the war.
As in all such cases, the polemic tends to focus on the 'anti-Islam' posture and actions of 'America'. In this simplistic narrative, 'America' is somehow responsible for every negative thing said or done against 'Islam'.
I share the frustration of those progressives who worry about the incredibly insular worldview of many ordinary Paks. But I find the desperation and even nihilism of at least a segment of progressives rather incongruous, because surely the point is not only to harp on about our 'America' problem, but to try and address it.
The panic sets in only when one becomes convinced that the problem cannot be addressed at all, that ordinary Paks are somehow incapable of moving beyond the polemic and seeing the world for what it really is. And therein lies the quandary: just as the conservatives are convinced that their worldview is the right one, some of the progressives feel that their worldview must be adopted by all Paks if we are to move beyond our 'dark ages'.
Such a diagnosis is dangerously close to an orientalist account of the 'other', particularly inasmuch as the 'rationalists' view the common hordes with suspicion at best, and contempt at worst. If nothing else, the 'common hordes' are anything but a monolith.
Is it true that those involved in the protests in major urban centres are representative of Pak society? Is there outrage being expressed in the tens and thousands of villages across the country? Is the government trying to appease its voters or the small but powerful rightist lobby?
And if we do assume that a vast majority of Paks that have not been touched by the magic wand of rationality represent a threat to themselves and the rest of us civilised lot, then what are we doing about it (other than fearing an imminent takeover by the mullahs)?
My humble submission is that if -- and I emphasise if -- progressives want to challenge the siege mentality that is an increasingly prominent feature of our social landscape, then they need to first change their own siege mentality about the 'other' in their own society.
In short, the rationalists need to spend less time reacting to, and more time engaging with, ordinary people. Whomsoever believes that there is a set of rationalist principles that should inform the functioning of modern society must actually go out and tell that to those who have not yet been enlightened.
Some context might assist in clarifying my point. I have written a number of times about a bygone era in which progressive politics and ideals occupied a prominent place in society. Many white-collar professionals of a progressive bent were deeply involved in organising workers, peasants, students, and the like. That many of these one-time revolutionaries are no longer excited by the idea of radical transformation is by the by. The problem is that other would-be revolutionaries have taken their place.
Indeed, the 1980s marked not only the eviction of progressive ideals and politics -- along with individuals and organizations -- from the social and intellectual mainstream, but the attendant propagation of a competing set of ideals and politics.
Conservatives were inducted into educational institutions, the media, and all government departments. Much is made of the role of madressahs in facilitating the rightist shift, but overstating this case actually distracts from how deep the Ziaist transformation was.
Meanwhile the same worker, peasant and student stomping grounds that were once the exclusive preserve of progressives were literally handed over to the right. At least 110 million out of Pakistain's 180 million people were born after 1977. This population has never known anything other than the conservative worldview.
I want to emphasise, however, that the Pak establishment has peddled a siege mentality amongst its people since the inception of the state. The difference between the post-1977 period and that which preceded it is that in the past progressives resisted this mentality, and the politics associated with it, in an organised, holistic manner. Now there is only lament, isolation and contempt.
Screaming until one is hoarse about our 'America' problem betrays the fact that progressives have not managed to reorganise themselves as a force to be reckoned within Pak politics and society on the lam.
Having said this, it is never too late. The exclusion and exploitation that runs rife throughout Pak society in the past still blights us. There is no shortage of avenues for progressives to once again make common cause with ordinary people.
Of course, this means that we have to do away with our irrational fear of the common hordes and recognise that human beings are not progressive or retrogressive by birth, but that their socialisation explains the values they espouse and the actions they take.
We have a problem, yes, but it existed back in the day when our now ex-leftists were also happy and willing to decry the excesses of American imperialism, while the mullahs were celebrating the alliance with ahl-e-kitab against the godless communists. The problem continues to exist today and is likely to do so in the future, regardless of whether conservatives remain true to their currently favourite pastime of America-bashing.
Progressives, now confined to their four walls, English-language newspapers and computer screens, need to remind themselves what the crux of the matter really is. The Pak state and those that claim to defend its ideological frontiers will do what they do. If we once again start to do what we once used to do without hesitation, our 'America' problem will eventually work itself out.
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THE REAL AMERICA PROBLEM IS AMERICANS ARE NOT RUNNING AMERICA ANYMORE ONLY SELL OUTS AND GOD LESS COCK ROACHES!THAT LIE 24/7!
[Dawn] Pakistain and the US are repairing ties which had plunged to an all-time low, Pak Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said Friday, despite violent anti-American protests rocking her country.
"The last 18 months were very, very difficult," Khar said at the start of talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Condoleezza Rice ... , adding the nations were doing "better than we could have expected to do in rebuilding the trust."
The two women leaders were meeting at the State Department as violent protests flared for another day across Pakistain, targeting American diplomatic missions, and fueled by anger at an anti-Islam film which Moslems say insults their faith.
As Pak police fought back with gunshots and tear gas in five major cities, 15 people were killed and more than 200 maimed.
Anger in Pakistain has spiked since the killing of al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who went shovel-ready... in a secret US commando raid on his Pak compound in May 2011, and a US Arclight airstrike in November which killed more than 24 Pak troops.
The incidents saw relations plunge, as Islamabad closed border crossings into Afghanistan to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... convoys, forcing them to take a longer, more expensive route to supply their troops, until the blockade was lifted in July.
But Khar insisted that after efforts to renew the relationship over the past few months "we stand at a time of opportunity."
"At a time of opportunity to seize the trust deficit mantra and start building on the trust by walking the talk, that achieves the interests that are clearly common."
Clinton said their shared top priority was "pursuing our joint counter-terrorism objectives to ensure the security of American and Pakistain citizens alike."
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Every day USA doesn't nuke Pakistan, Pakistan-US ties are doing better than expected.
[Dawn] At least 15 people were killed and more than 200 maimed in Pakistain during violent protests Friday condemning a US-made film insulting Islam, defying a government call for only peaceful demonstrations, officials said.
Nine people were killed in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , the country's largest city, and four in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , hospital officials said.
The combined total of maimed in Bloody Karachi, Peshawar and in the capital Islamabad was 229.
Doctor Mohammad Shafqat of Bloody Karachi's Jinnah hospital told AFP that it had received five dead bodies and 65 people with injuries, with more maimed arriving.
Doctor Mohammad Ayub at the Civil Hospital, said his medics had received five dead bodies, including that of a police officer, and at least 40 injured.
The policeman was killed in an exchange of fire with protesters in Bloody Karachi, police official Mohammad Shakeel said.
Thousands erupted into the streets in a series of different demonstrations across Bloody Karachi, home to an estimated 18 million, to condemn the film, "Innocence of Mohammedans".
Scuffles broke out when protesters tried to march towards the US consulate, throwing stones at police and trying to remove shipping containers that blocked the road, police said.
Officers fired off tear gas shells and had gun sex to disperse the crowd, but three coppers were maimed by gunfire from an unknown direction, Shakeel said.
In Islamabad, a doctor at the Services Hospital said 35 people were brought in with injuries, including eight coppers and four civilians with gunshot wounds.
In the northwestern city of Peshawar, the Lady Reading Hospital said it had three dead, including a TV station employee who was shot when protesters set alight and ransacked a cinema.
Doctor Farman at Khyber Teaching Hospital, who used only one name, confirmed that another body had been brought in after the demonstrations.
Hospital doctors in Peshawar gave a combined total of 60 people maimed.
Angry demonstrators armed with clubs and sticks set fire to and ransacked three cinemas in Peshawar.
Three cinemas were also set alight in Bloody Karachi -- two on Bloody Karachi's Muhammad Ali Jinnah road and one in the city's Quaidabad area. Moreover, three private banks were also set on fire near Bloody Karachi's PIDC.
Earlier today, police had told AFP they were on maximum alert and that bomb disposal squads were sweeping planned locations of rallies to ensure that Islamic fascisticould not exploit protests to cause carnage.
"All the entry and exit points of the city are heavily guarded. Helicopters are on stand-by for aerial surveillance," provincial police chief Fayyaz Laghari had told AFP.
"We have deployed our maximum police force to the sensitive parts of the city to ensure security during protest rallies today."
In Rawalpindi, festivities broke out when scores of demonstrators pelted cars and police with stones, and burnt down a booth at a toll plaza, police official Mohammad Munir said.
In Mardan a mob set fire to a church, DawnNews reported.
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[Dawn] Afghanistan banned all Pak newspapers from entering the country on Friday in an attempt to block the Taliban from influencing public opinion via the press.
The order, issued by the Ministry of Interior, adds to the mounting tension between the neighboring countries.
It focuses specifically on blocking entry of the papers at Torkham, a busy border crossing, and directed border police to gather up Pak newspapers in the three eastern provinces 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.. , Kunar and Nuristan.
In a statement, the ministry said the newspapers were a conduit for Taliban propaganda.
"The news is not based in reality and it is creating concerns for our countrymen in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan," the ministry said in a statement. "Also, the newspapers are a propaganda resource of the Taliban spokesmen."
The tensions between the two countries were highlighted Thursday at a UN Security Council meeting, when Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul called on Pakistain to stop shelling in the border province of Kunar, which he said has killed dozens of civilians.
He said the attacks were jeopardizing bilateral relations "with potential negative consequences for necessary bilateral cooperation for peace, security and economic development in our two countries and the wider region."
Many Pak Taliban fighters have fled to Kunar and surrounding areas after Pakistain's army pushed them out of its tribal region, taking advantage of the US military's withdrawal of most of its forces from these Afghan border provinces in recent years.
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[Dawn] WHILE cut-thoat organizations, especially those associated with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, might have suffered some pounding at the hands of the military in the Bajaur, Kurram, Khyber and Mohmand Agencies, it is far from the truth to even conjecture that active militancy has been defeated in Fata and other parts of Pakistain.
Five events, measures and steps adopted in succession over the past six weeks by cut-thoat organizations across Pakistain, especially in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and Fata, indicate strategic patterns and operational tactics for broadening their resource-base, intensifying recruitment and strengthening the cut-thoat network.
Mediapersons received a seven-page letter addressed to the Learned Elders of Islam of Pakistain, ostensibly sent by the TTP spokesperson. It presents an extended argument to convince holy mans of various hues to accept the TTP's tactics as valid 'jihad'. Eyewitnesses from Hangu, Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... , Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , Swabi and Charsadda report campaigns in mosques by cut-thoat organizations exhorting the faithful to contribute to the 'jihad' in terms of their selves and in terms of cash.
Stories in the press say that the TTP put up posters in Matani town in the suburbs of Peshawar ordering the local shopkeepers to refrain from confrontation or else face the TTP's wrath. The posters remained up for almost three days and no one, not even the police, dared to remove them.
First-hand information received from Khyber Agency divulges that a batch of almost 120 young men was taken to an unknown location for 'jihadi' training. Some of the parents and guardians who were searching for their sons and wards were threatened and told to keep quiet and wait for the news of either 'martyrdom' or that their sons and wards had become 'ghazis'.
According to news reports, the TTP spokesperson has exhorted the youth of Pakistain to join hands with the organization and teach a lesson to the infidels and their cohorts. This came after the situation in some Moslem countries, including Pakistain, became volatile as a result of an anti-Islam movie.
The research wings of various security agencies need to analyse the above events through, on the one hand, the framework of discourse construction, the social contagion of the discourse and social control of the discourse.
On the other, they should look at the sociocultural, politico-economic and strategic levels of active militancy in Pakistain. It should not need more emphasis that cut-thoat organizations keep modifying their strategies and tactics in response to various local, provincial, national, regional and international realities as they emerge.
Keeping in view the measures, steps and processes initiated by cut-thoat organizations recently, one reaches certain conclusions.
Firstly, cut-thoat organizations have started identifying areas and geographical units where they can achieve their targets with relatively more ease. In this way, they can easily broaden their resource-base without incurring any or much loss vis-à-vis their network and personnel. They continue to keep the populations fearful while targeting only those that might be a threat to them.
Hence, there seems to be a decrease in the number of suicide kabooms and kabooms but there is a concomitant increase in assassinations, kidnapping and the intimidation of target populations. This provides cut-thoat organizations with the leverage to recruit from areas which are not under their territorial control.
Secondly, by adopting the specific target strategy, these organizations also get the space to present their views to the public on the lam in order to spread their discourse. The media and mosques they can penetrate easily. By using these spaces, they are able to emotionally stir the common population, especially the youth.
Militant organizations have also refined the use of communication strategies in recent times which again provide them with the leverage to interact with the common people and enlarge their recruitment opportunities, as well as collect donations.
Thirdly, by combining the strategies of fear and emotional exhortation, cut-thoat organizations have been able to broaden their resource-base, increase their recruitment and keep their network intact. They have been able to defeat the security agencies on the sociocultural and politico-economic fronts.
Over the past several months, cut-thoat organizations have been able to diversify the generation of funds. They have been able to engage several groups and populations by successfully putting in place an economy of war.
They have also been able to strengthen their organizational structures and modernise their training strategies. They are now able to use the sectarian, ethnic, cultural and geographical fissures that are present in society to their own advantage, whenever it suits them. In this way, they have considerably reduced space for a pluralist discourse and the economy of peace.
To stem the tide of active militancy, the government, security establishment, civil society and academia must work in tandem on the sociocultural, politico-economic and strategic levels.
Civil society and academia need to take the responsibility of constructing and disseminating the discourse of pluralism and the acceptance of diversity.
There is substantial lack of coordination among various civil society organizations working in different parts of Pakistain. Most of the programmes initiated by such organizations in various parts of the country, especially in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Fata, work in isolation. This needs to end.
The security agencies must share their information and understanding of cut-thoat strategies and tactics with other agencies and amongst themselves on a regular basis. They also need to coordinate with the government and agencies working under the civilian administration to locate and curb strategies developed by cut-thoat organizations.
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[An Nahar] The police chief of the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... revealed on Friday that 14 people have been nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in the assault on an KFC outlet and the Serail during protests against an anti-Islam U.S. film last week.
Brig. Gen. Bassam al-Ayyoubi said the 14 suspects had set alight the fast food restaurant and tried to storm the Tripoli Serail in protests over the low-budget film "Innocence of Mohammedans" that has fanned global Mohammedan anger.
Police have information about 22 other people involved in the assaults and a manhunt is underway to arrest them, he said.
"No one has (political) cover and security forces will go ahead in their mission," al-Ayyoubi added.
One demonstrator was killed and 25 were maimed in the festivities with security forces last Friday.
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Popeye.... that's all I'm saying. They got the means, the beans and the motive.
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A Pakistani government minister has offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the maker of an anti-Islam film produced in the US.
People across the globe seemingly fell in love with President Barack Obama during his presidential campaign of 2008 and shortly afterward. But now that love affair is over. In addition, there's little evidence that his popularity overseas did anything to boost relations with our allies ---- or our enemies, Politico reports.
For the first time, Iran's highest-ranking military official has tied the reappearance of the last Islamic messiah to the regime being prepared to go to a war based on ideology.
Iranian military leaders unveiled a new missile defense system Friday that is built to destroy "aggressive" U.S. aircraft, according to reports. The system, dubbed Ra'd, "has been built in a bid to confront U.S. aircraft and can hit targets 50km in distance and 75,000 feet in altitude," Iranian General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the nation's Aerospace Force Brigadier, told Iran's Fars News Agency Friday.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) owes at least $8 million to a bank owned by one of the largest unions in the country, according to the committee's most recent financial report.
[Dawn] Afghanistan has called on Pakistain to halt cross-border shelling, warning the UN Security Council that the attacks could jeopardise already tense relations between the two countries.
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Government security forces rescued a Chinese hostage and killed five kidnappers belonging to the Abu Sayyaf on Thursday in a raid on the terrorist group's newly established training camp in Zamboanga City.
A powerful car bomb exploded at a market in Pattani province yesterday, killing six people and injuring scores of people, including security officers who were lured to the bomb scene.
France banned protests on Friday against cartoons published by a satirical magazine denigrating Mohammad as part of a security clamp-down while prayers took place across the Muslim world.
Three former Turkish generals, who were key suspects in the Sledgehammer coup trial, have been sentenced to 20 years in prison on coup charges, a ruling that is expected to help curtail the Turkish military's hold on politics, Today's Zaman reported.
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[Dawn] The Foreign Office on Friday summoned acting US Ambassador Richard E. Hoagland and registering a formal protest, demanded of the US government to remove the anti-Islam film from social networking and video-sharing website YouTube as well as punish those involved in its making, DawnNews reported.
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Pakistain and the US are repairing ties which had plunged to an all-time low, Pak Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said Friday, despite violent anti-American protests rocking her country.
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