Will these Democrats ever stop the "Tax and Spend" train they are on ?
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Will these Democrats ever stop the "Tax and Spend" train they are on ?
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Yes of course, and sooner than we may realize! Taxes as we know them will end when you relinquish your paycheck entirely and you are issued US Government Ration Stamps.
* The following link provides a sample of the wide range of products which will not be available for purchase using Government Ration Stamps.
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Will these Democrats ever stop the "Tax and Spend" train they are on ?
Yes. If they are voted out. The next big problem in Chicago is that the teacher's union pension fund is dry--nada dinero. Someone has been dipping in the till or the pensions are unsustainable or both. Public unions should never have become a way of life in the U.S. They are killing us.
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Actually, making EVERYONE pay taxes is a good idea, even if it is a token half percent.
My take is that God is absolutely fair and just, so a flat rate tax of 10% on EVERYBODY would be manageable. Heck, Egypt was a world power for centuries, and had a flat tax of a fifth (20%). Problem is, such a simple scheme would do away with 80 to 90% of the IRS, and that simply won't do for some people.
Abercrombie signed Act 55, creating an appointed five-member Public Land Development Corporation that will decide the fate of development -- by circumventing county zoning laws -- on roughly 1.8 million acres of public lands. And the Founders thought the States would be a bulwark against governmental over-reach - obviously didn't contemplate the Democratic Party.
It was here at the courthouse in Benghazi where the first spark of the Libyan revolution ignited. Its the symbolic seat of the revolution; post-Gaddafi Libyas equivalent of Egypts Tahrir Square. And it was here, in the tumultuous months of civil war, that the ragtag rebel forces established their provisional government and primitive, yet effective, media center from which to tell foreign journalists about their fight for freedom.
But according to multiple eyewitnessesmyself includedone can now see both the Libyan rebel flag and the flag of al Qaeda fluttering atop Benghazis courthouse.
According to one Benghazi resident, Islamists driving brand-new SUVs and waving the black al Qaeda flag drive the citys streets at night shouting, "Islamiya, Islamiya! No East, nor West," a reference to previous worries that the country would be bifurcated between Gaddafi opponents in the east and the pro-Gaddafi elements in the west.
Earlier this week, I went to the Benghazi courthouse and confirmed the rumors: an al Qaeda flag was clearly visible; its Arabic script declaring that there is no God but Allah and a full moon underneath. When I tried to take pictures, a Salafi-looking guard, wearing a green camouflage outfit, rushed towards me and demanded to know what I was doing. My response was straightforward: I was taking a picture of the flag. He gave me an intimidating look and hissed, "Whomever speaks ill of this flag, we will cut off his tongue. I recommend that you don't publish these. You will bring trouble to yourself.
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"I recommend that you don't publish these. You will bring trouble to yourself.
So which is it Mahmoud: are you proud of the flag you are flying and want everyone to know that your flag is flying, or are you afraid that flying your flag will cause trouble?
Oh, sorry, too many words in that question?
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Typical Pakistan bullshit, they want to be able to treat us like enemies while they have 0 stupid/evil/chickenshit enough to make us treat them like friends.
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That flag is a general jihadist flag. It is called the Black Standard, the Black Banner, or the Banner of the Eagle. It is used by many different hardline groups that are aligned with fundamentalist Islam. AQ certainly does use it - but it's not theirs exclusively. Here is a link:
The wrath of the Muslim Street is elemental and existential. It can be explained in terms something like this: Islamists have convinced the Arab masses that their present mess (so easily fathomed in a globalized world in second-by-second, instantaneous comparisons with other cultures -- via cell phones, the Internet, DVDs, and cable television) is not their own fault.
The Middle East is not fascist, communist, Baathist, pan-Arabist, or Islamist, so much as it is screwed-up-ist and blame-them-ist.
It is not brain surgery to enter the modern world. Follow some South Koreans or Chileans around for a week with a video camera. Grow up and stop blaming those on whom you depend for everything from drilling bits to laptops.
A good start [for US foreign policy] would be very quietly to start trimming aid at about $100 million every month, and quite coolly rejecting visas from the Middle East. We can put travel restrictions on the Middle East, and ask the Egyptian ambassador to go home for a month or so to think things over.
Otherwise, Westerners must make themselves as immune from Middle East passions as is possible.
Great Ad. Any connection to www.nationalblackrepublicans.com ?
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My concern is election corruption. Why would the Hussein's DOJ intimdate Gallop Pole unless they want to use "Barack and Mitt are in a close race" as "evidence" that elections were fair in a "close" actual election count.
The polls are over sampling Democrats to avoicd DOJ intimidation. I think an election fix is in as well.
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Families are getting hit hard in my area. Many people work in the coal industry. Stop Obama signs are more common than political signs in my area at this time.
The Obama You Don't Know will not be a surprise to R-Burgers but it is a decent summary of some of the background of Barack Hussein Obama. For people who are not R-Burgers and don't follow politics, much of this might come as a surprise.
Mark Tapscott of The Washington Examiner has done a good job. What the MSM should have done prior to 2008.
The entire series of ten chapters is at the website.
Few if any of his predecessors took the oath of office with higher public hopes for his success than President Obama on Jan. 20, 2009.
Millions of Americans hailed his election as an end to partisanship, a renewal of the spirit of compromise and a reinvigoration of the nation's highest ideals at home and abroad.
Above all, as America's first black chief executive, Obama symbolized the healing of long-festering wounds that were the terrible national legacy of slavery, the Reconstruction Era and Jim Crow. We would be, finally, one nation.
But after nearly four years in office, Obama has become a sharply polarizing figure.
His admirers believe he deserves a special place alongside Wilson, the Roosevelts and LBJ as one of the architects of benevolent government.
His critics believe he is trying to remake America in the image of Europe's social democracies, replacing America's ethos of independence and individual enterprise with a welfare state inflamed by class divisions.
In an effort to get a clearer picture of Obama -- his shaping influences, his core beliefs, his political ambitions and his accomplishments -- The Washington Examiner conducted a four-month inquiry, interviewing dozens of his supporters and detractors in Chicago and elsewhere, and studying countless court transcripts, government reports and other official documents.
Over the years and in two autobiographies, Obama has presented himself to the world as many things, including radical community organizer, idealistic civil rights lawyer, dynamic reformer in the Illinois and U.S. senates, and, finally, the cool presidential voice of postpartisan hope and change.
With his air of reasonableness and moderation, he has projected a remarkably likable persona. Even in the midst of a historically dirty campaign for re-election, his likability numbers remain impressive, as seen in a recent AP-GFK Poll that found 53 percent of adults have a favorable view of him.
But beyond the spin and the polls, a starkly different picture emerges. It is a portrait of a man quite unlike his image, not a visionary reformer but rather a classic Chicago machine pol who thrives on rewarding himself and his friends with the spoils of public office, and who uses his position to punish his enemies.
Peter Schweizer captures this other Obama with a bracing statistic in his book "Throw Them All Out," published last year. In the Obama economic stimulus program's Department of Energy loans, companies owned and run by Obama contributors and friends, like Solyndra's George Kaiser, received $16.4 billion. Those not linked to the president got only $4.1 billion. The Energy Department is far from the only federal program in which favoritism has heavily influenced federal grants.
To paraphrase Tammany Hall's George Washington Plunkitt, Obama has seen his opportunities and taken them, over and over.
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George Kaiser, Obama bundler and Solyndra official, Harvard guy.
Chairman, BOK Financial
Source of Wealth: Oil & gas, banking
Residence: Tulsa, OK
Country of Citizenship: United States
Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Harvard University; Master of Business Administration, Harvard University
#33 Forbes 400
#88 Forbes Billionaires
#34 in United States So, the left is all bent out of shape about Romney's money?
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Yes R-Burgers and others did. However, I think there are many people who go to work everyday, try to raise their families, go to church, go to ball game with their kids, etc. that really didn't have the time to delve into Obama's background. The media certainly wasn't forthcoming. I think there are some Independents and some Democrats who would not support Obama and what he and his administration stands for if they were aware of him and the people surrounding him. They are not nice well-intentioned people.
For example, in Chapter 3, the following excerpt describes Obama's and the people around him Marxist notions:
. It encompassed a cradle-to-grave vision of providing for the material needs of the low-income families residing in the new housing, including their schools, child care, job training, medical coverage, clothing and food.
In turn, the residents would campaign and vote for the officials advocating the partnerships, adding significantly to their political power.
Left unstated was the underlying reality that politically connected developers who built the housing would profit handsomely and could be expected to gratefully give millions of dollars in campaign contributions to politicians like Obama who made it all possible.
Chicago thus became the proving ground for Obama's vision, which, according to LISC spokesman Joel Bookman, "really changed the direction of community development in Chicago and ultimately nationally."
It was an irresistible combination of money, politics and idealism that also offered endless opportunities for greed and tragic abuse of the poor.
I suspect many who are not Rantburgers would not vote for Obama if they read this Examiner story! This bunch was exploiting the poor for political power and money. All the BS about Moochelle and Barack being poor and driving an old car with rusted out floorboards was so much cow-pucky. Him being a man of the people who lived in the community was a perpetrated myth; Obama lived in luxury up in Hyde Park and commuted to the little people's neighborhood.
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Its why the title community organizer was never defined by the media. To say the job is to secure a bloc of votes and in turn sell that bloc as a commodity does not really ring up as considered classic American vocation.
An Iranian cleric said he was beaten by a woman in the northern province of Semnan after giving her a warning for being badly covered, the state-run Mehr news agency reported.
Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the woman in the street while on his way to the mosque in the town of Shahmirzad, and asked her to cover herself up, to which she replied you, cover your eyes, according to Mehr. The cleric repeated his warning, which he said prompted her to insult and push him.
I fell on my back on the floor, Beheshti said in the report. I dont know what happened after that, all I could feel was the kicks of this woman who was insulting me and attacking me. You go, girl!
Since the 1979 revolution that brought Shiite Muslim religious leaders to power, women in Iran have been required to cover their hair and body curves in public with head-scarves and loose-fitting coats, to protect religious values and preserve societys morals and security.
The government condemns short, tight and colorful coats and loosely tied head-scarves, and routinely organizes police patrols to enforce the Islamic dress code. Public surveillance increases in summer when some women opt for flimsier clothing.
Beheshti said he was hospitalized for three days. The Iranian cleric said it was his religious duty to apply the principle of commanding right and forbidding wrong, and that he would continue to do so even after living through what he called the worst day of my life.
It isnt the first time that clerics in Iran have been beaten up after delivering warnings, Mehr said.
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so Hojatoleslam, you got your ass kicked by a woman? P*ssy
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"he would continue to do so even after living through what he called 'the worst day of my life.'"
You do that, Mr. Beheshti. The next woman you accost just might have something under all that extra clothing besides feet.
IYKWIMAITYD. :-D
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Ha! The women of Iran need to start carrying tazers. Apply to cleric balls girls!
Iran has been using civilian aircraft to fly military personnel and large quantities of weapons across Iraqi airspace to Syria to aid Syrian President Assad in his attempt to crush an 18-month uprising against his government, according to a Western intelligence report seen by Rooters.
Earlier this month, US officials said they were questioning Iraq about Iranian flights in Iraqi airspace suspected of ferrying arms to Assad, a staunch Iranian ally.
Iraq says it does not allow the passage of any weapons through its airspace. But an intelligence report obtained by Rooters says Iranian weapons have been flowing into Syria via Iraq in large quantities. Such transfers, the report says, are organized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
"This is part of a revised Iranian modus operandi that US officials have only recently addressed publicly, following previous statements to the contrary," said the report, a copy of which was provided by a UN diplomatic source.
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Assad is losing territory and his supply of reliable troops is shrinking. No sub-saharan mercenaries for Assad. And Hezbollah must be messing their pants.
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and despite all the help from Iran, Assad is only holding his own in a violent stalemate with the rebels
It took 18 months for the Marines to clear Fallujah (most of that time holding off in fear of triggering a national insurrection against Coalition forces), and we had unlimited hardware and other supplies. Not to mention we were fighting a Sunni minority, whereas Assad is fighting a Sunni majority. Add on the fact that Aleppo has 7x Fallujah's population, and it's no surprise Aleppo's in contention 2 months after hostilities began there. Without NATO intervention, the rebels are finished. The only thing in question is how long the rebels can hold out before they either stage a last stand or go into exile.
[Jerusalem Post] Egyptian rights groups on Wednesday demanded the release of a Coptic Christian incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! on suspicion of posting an anti-Islam video online that ignited Moslem protests around the globe.
Police grabbed computer science graduate Alber Saber from his Cairo home last week after neighbors accused him of uploading sections of the film "Innocence of Moslems", rights activists said.
The neighbors also accused Saber, 27, of making a new movie that mocks all religions. He was placed in long-term storage Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for 15 days pending investigations.
Clips from "Innocence of Moslems" were posted on various parts of the Internet weeks before violent protests erupted in Egypt and several other Moslem-majority countries last week.
TransCanada's plan to dig a trench and bury part of its $7 billion, 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline right through this [Cushing, OK] land has unearthed a host of Native American opposition, resentments and ghosts of the past. Winning support in Indian country is one of the last hurdles for the project, which is touted as a key to North American energy security. The question is whether gaining tribal support is a courtesy, as the company puts it, or a legal obligation. Later, we find the actual pipeline does not actually pass thru any actual tribal reservations, actually. HOWEVER... But many Native Americans in the United States -- and their lawyers -- insist that there are legal obligations under 19th-century treaties that affirmed sovereign status of Native American tribes, which do not pay state or federal taxes and which have their own governing councils and police forces.
Moreover, the more recent National Historic Preservation Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 both provide for the protection of Indian burial sites and artifacts. "When it comes to jurisdiction, it's a tough question to answer," said Jennifer Baker, a Colorado-based lawyer who has worked closely with South Dakota tribes. "History has developed so that legal truths get overshadowed by factual realities, and judges tend to mold the law to reflect factual realities." All environmental impact statements include a section on cultural resources, including the potential for archeological sites. I had to move a borrow pit once, to avoid a "potential" site.
"There is no legal obligation to work with the tribes," said Lou Thompson, TransCanada's top liaison with Native Americans. "We do it because we have a policy. We believe it's a good, neighborly thing to do." He said the pipeline "is not passing through any tribal lands."
TransCanada has flown some tribal leaders to Calgary to tour the company's operations center where banks of computers monitor thousands of points along existing pipelines. And it has trained members of the Alabama Coushatta tribe from south Texas to act as monitors during construction in case Indian remains or artifacts turn up on the tribe's stretch of the pipeline. That's good enough for me.
"We walk the entire pipeline route and identify sites and alter the route of our pipeline to avoid those sites," said Thompson of TransCanada. So this should be the end of the story, but there are three more pages.
He said that the company has also asked the tribes to conduct their own studies of sensitive sites. "Sometimes there are areas very significant to the tribes that don't bear any physical evidence," Thompson said. "It might be used to hold ceremonies, but if you walked there you wouldn't see any evidence." And that's MORE than enough for me!
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I think most all the tribes in Oklahoma were moved there in the 1830's. Their archaological sites are back in TN etc. And almost all their OK burial sites are in the church cemeteries, same as everybody else.
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Ultimately, the tribe signed a series of treaties that pushed it to Illinois, then Iowa, then Kansas and finally in the 1870s to the Indian Territory...
Seems like they could lay claim to Chicago although I don't know why anyone would want it.
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Bingo, EC.
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We had a job in the Bering Sea area years ago. It was an archaeologists dream. Thousands of years of lots of artifacts. We had an archaeologist on staff for that job. Got an MOA and a monitoring plan and protocols with SHPO. So there we were, merrily digging a trench for a raw water pipeline and discovered an intact skeleton. Turns out this poor chap had 19 arrow heads in his body. Not a popular character, I would say.
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If there is one Arab community that unanimously condemned the protests against American diplomatic installations in the Middle East, it is the Syrians. For months they have begged Washington and its allies to intervene in their eighteen month revolution. They argued a former adversary would offer eternal gratitude by breaking relations with American foes Iran and its Lebanese client Hezbollah. But following the death of American Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya, a country that benefited from Washingtons military intervention, many Syrians believe the Western world will abandon them.
This attack is the worst thing that could happen to us, Ahmad Ali says sifting through boxes of baby milk powder. The humanitarian aid worker fled his home in the city of Idlib last March as Syrian President Bashar Assads forces incessantly shelled the city. Today, he works to make sure those that stayed behind have the basic supplies they need. Western diplomats tell us to be patient, he tells The Media Line. They say they are working on coordinating a military response. But why will they want to help us if we burn them like in Libya?
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"But why will they want to help us if we burn them like in Libya?"
Why, indeed? Does the phrase "eternal gratitude" even exist in Arabic?
The whole ME is about to undergo a massive rule set reset, to use Tom Barnett's terminology. It ain't gonna be pretty and things are only going to get worse as the Muslim Brotherhood finds out it's a lot more fun to be the opposition party than to actually run a country. My advice is stay outside the blast radius and upwind of the fallout.
An Israeli source says that the US has warned that an attack on Iran by Israel may put an end to Israel's relations with its neighbors as well as the peace agreements with Jordan and Egypt, reported the Hebrew daily Yediot this morning.
According to the source, the Americans explained that Egypt and Jordan may break off relations with Israel because the two countries' leaders need the support of the masses. "The leaders do not have control over their people, the street rules over them", said the source, and added that "an Israeli attack would bring the entire Islamic-Arab world out into the streets. What happened over the 'Innocence" video against Mohammed is simply a foretaste of what would occur if Israel attacked Iran."
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Let's see now, Israel's neighbors currently offer barely concealed hostility or outright acts of war, and the peace agreement with Egypt is collapsing by the day. Not doing anything means the Iranians acquire the capability to go with their declared will to destroy Israel. What exactly is the payoff for maintaining the status quo? Security guarantees from the Obama administration?
It's not the Juices fault the Arabs are revolting.
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Now everyone knows bad things are happening these days but this is beyond phucking idiotic! Somehow just today if real a judge has said yes to putting up signs calling Muslims savages and supporting Israel againist Jihad! WTF reverse tactics to get the fire really burning like the Jews don't have a grasp of the situation in their own back yard! Now kids if this gets out of hand with all of the advances in tech it's going to go from angry mobs and some killing to mass scale stuff! Remember who they bashed at the DNC and what those phuckers really are! Stock up now because even if it does happen them dumb phucks will have all of our Military goods made in China or Pakistan! Good Luck Kids will it be a 3?
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What if riots erupt in Cairo and Amman and no Westerner is there?
I say: Riot away! Smash things! Burn stuff! When you're done where will you buy new things?
See?
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PS: Where can I buy shares in a company that produces US flags?
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They need to get a judge to over rule the lower ghoul judge and or pay some one off! These signs cannot go up period at al at all do not put them up! Something really phucking bad will happen on the scale of 911 or have the same impact if this is real why not just support Israel etc! Scrub the signs scrub the signs do not pass go STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP! Elections are coming also stop stop stop stop!
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"Where can I buy shares in a company that produces US flags?"
China.
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I'm trying to visualize the little hole-in-the-wall store with a stock of American flags in the corner. Does the owner worry about misinterpretation?
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PS: Where can I buy shares in a company that produces US flags?
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As other related Artics put it, it could fundamentally change the Balance of Power in the Region, + IMO potentially amongst the Great Powers as well depending on their level or magnitude of intervention.
Other than switching from tyranny by Strongmen to that of post-"Arab/Islamic/Muslim Spring", pro-Islamic/Sharia, "democratic" Parliamentary Systems, THE ONLY "REFORMATION" BEING ACHIEVED IS BY THE US-WEST IN FAVOR OF ACCOMODAT RADICAL ISLAM.
[An Nahar] La Belle France's interior minister said Wednesday after a French magazine published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that freedom of speech, including caricature, was a "fundamental right" backed by the law.
Manuel Valls made the statement after meeting with French Moslem leaders angered by the cartoons, some of which depict the Prophet in the nude.
"Freedom of expression is a fundamental right. Freedom to caricature is part of that fundamental right," Valls told news hounds when asked about the cartoons published by the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
However he called for "everyone to act responsibly (as) each individual act, each text, each drawing, each declaration can... spark confrontations".
Valls also warned that any demonstrations that disturbed public order would meet with "a very firm response from the state".
The cartoons have been branded insulting by French Moslem leaders and politicians have accused Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier of acting irresponsibly.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault suggested the magazine's editorial team should have taken the current context of widespread Moslem anger over an anti-Islam film into account when deciding whether to publish the cartoons.
Valls has said no protests against the film will be authorized in La Belle France following violence close to the U.S. embassy in Gay Paree last weekend.
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A few years ago I would have thought this was rather ironic. The French showing some balls while we (our leaders that is) try to cower and grovel in a most obsequious manner.
[Dawn] Ten people, including a political activist, bit the dust in various incidents of violence and firing as the unrest 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... continued on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.
One person was killed in a firing incident in Steel Town.
In a separate firing incident in North Nazimabad, a boy was killed while his sister was injured. Both the slain and the maimed were transferred to a hospital.
Eight-day old body of a trans-gendered person was discovered in a house in Lyari's Bahar Colony. The body bore signs of torture.
In the Gharibabad area of Malir, a political worker and his friend were rubbed out.
A boy who was injured in a firing incident in the PIB Colony passed away during the treatment.
Another person was rubbed out during a firing incident in Saudabad.
A body, bearing marks of torture was found in the Nabi Bakhsh area.
Another person was killed during a firing incident in Orangi Town.
A former policeman was rubbed out in a firing incident in the Agra Taj Colony.
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[Dawn] Two copperswere maimed when their vehicle was targeted by a roadside remote controlled bomb in Shagai Maidan area here on Tuesday.
Sources said that officials of Zaimdara cop shoppe were on routine patrol when their van was hit by a remote controlled bomb planted on the roadside. They said that two police officials, sitting in the front seat of the van, were maimed in the blast while others remained unhurt.
The injured coppers were identified as assistant sub-inspector Mehtab Khan and constable Iftikhar Khan. The van was damaged partially in the blast as the bomb went off a while before the vehicle reached the spot.
The injured coppers were shifted to district headquarters hospital where their condition was stated to be out of danger. The Zaimdara cop shoppestarted the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified persons and started investigation.
In Charsadda, the wife of a former councillor sustained injuries in a kaboom in Shabqadar area on Tuesday.
Sources said that unidentified persons planted an improvised bomb near the main gate of the residence of former councillor Seth Khialzada that went off with a big bang early on Tuesday morning. The wife of Mr Khialzada received injuries in the blast. She was shifted to a hospital at death's door.
The blast also destroyed the main gate and boundary wall of the house. Nobody grabbed credit for the blast. Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified persons and started investigation. --
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Islamic hard boyz in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula have accused the army of acting in a "barbaric, inhumane way" during a raid this week that turned deadly in a local village.
In a new statement, the Salafi Jihad in Sinai said it fought back when troops raided the village last Sunday. It accused forces of shooting at civilians.
[Dawn] The Pak military said it killed 29 Taliban fighters on Wednesday in the final stage of an operation aimed at forcing hundreds of gun-hung tough guys back across the border into Afghanistan.
Soldiers used artillery, helicopter gunships and fighter jets against the cut-thoats, accused of beheading 17 Pak soldiers in June.
The battle was the culmination of weeks of operations in the remote valleys of the Batwar area of Bajaur tribal agency near the border.
It highlighted once again the difficulty of preventing gun-hung tough guys from crossing the border to launch attacks or flee from Pak or NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... forces bolstering the Afghan government.
Around 400 Death Eaters had crossed from Afghanistan into Pakistain on August 23 and attacked villages, said a security bigshot based in Khar, the main town of Bajaur.
The army launched operations that killed around 120 turbans, another security official said from the border town 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. . Twenty-five soldiers also died in the fighting.
"The Death Eaters escaped to their sanctuaries in Afghanistan and even left the bodies of their slain fighters," said the Peshawar-based official.
He said the armed forces were now establishing posts along that section of the Afghan border to thwart future incursions.
A front man for the Death Eaters confirmed the attacks were staged by fighters from several regions.
Pakistain and the United States, which has by far the largest foreign contingent in Afghanistan, have accused each other of failing to secure the border.
Some US officials say Pakistain deliberately lets some gun-hung tough guys through, a suggestion Pakistain strongly rejects.
Joint efforts to secure the long and mountainous border were hampered by a NATO strike against a Pak base last November that killed 24 Pak soldiers and severely damaged relations between Pakistain and the United States for several months.
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Why do I have this feeling of doubt about the details of this story?
[Dawn] An anti-terrorism court here on Tuesday acquitted all the three accused persons in two high-profile terrorist attack cases of the federal capital due to poor investigation and lack of evidence.
Judge Rana Masood Akhtar observed that the prosecution could not prove its case against Noor Jehan, Rehmat Gul and Jamshed Khan in the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... World Food Programme and the naval headquarter terrorist attack cases.
According to the prosecution, Noor Jehan and Rehmat Gul were allegedly involved in the naval complex terrorist attack and also in the UN office terror strike along with Jamshed Khan.
Over 20 prosecution witnesses were presented before the court in both the cases.
Syed Mohammad Tayyab, the special prosecutor, said the prosecution brought all the important witnesses and available evidence in the court during the trial of the accused.
In March 2010, the police nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! Jamshed, Rehmat Gul and Noor Jehan for allegedly planning attacks on the naval complex and the UN office at sector F-8.
The UN office was struck in October 2009 in which five staffers were killed.
An incident that sent shockwaves throughout the world and especially people living in the capital. It came as a shock as to how someone could penetrate such a well guarded facility in the city.
After that all UN missions in Pakistain had to beef up their security and place huge cemented blocks in front of their offices.
The attack had also undermined efforts of other international organizations working in the country.
Many international organizations followed suit and had to beef up their security as a result of the attacks.
And even today despite of all the security measures the threat of more attacks remain.
The accused were also allegedly involved in planning attacks on important buildings in the city.
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[Dawn] Registration of foreign students studying in 'madrassahs' (religious schools) in Pakistain has been completed, DawnNews reported.
At least 2,673 students are studying in Pak 'madrassahs' out of which 1,147 are from Afghanistan.
Sources said that 396 foreign students are studying in madrassahs in Punjab, 999 in Sindh, six in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , 1,147 in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , two in Azad Kashmire and 123 in Islamabad.
The statistics of foreign students in tribal areas was not available due to security reasons, sources added.
The foreign students registered in Punjab's madrassahs include four from Bangladesh, 12 from China, 13 from Æthiopia, two from Guinea, 59 from Indonesia, 24 from Kyrgyzstan, 44 from Kazakhstan, 13 from Malaysia, two from Macedonia, three from Morocco, seven from Myanmar, 32 from Philippines, five from Sierra Leone, 10 from Somalia, six from Sri Lanka, seven from Sudan, 16 from Tajikistan and three from Tunisia.
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Jihadi-Bot Cadets. The new crop.
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[Dawn] If all things material and real fail you, tap instead into the powers of the unseen and unheard.
It's a formula that Pak politicians have stuck by for decades, and a 'chirping bird' in the Prime Minister's House confessed that the incumbent prime minister rows the same boat.
Like his predecessors, Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... and 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... , Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has a spiritual guide, Pir Abdul Majeed Khan.
And like the chief of his political party, President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... , who keeps Pir Mohammad Ejaz at the Presidency, 'Pir Khan Sahib' has been given unhindered access to the PM's Office.
A source revealed that soon after taking over as the prime minister of Pakistain and before going to the Supreme Court for his first hearing, the PM had in person visited Bari Imam and Golra Sharif shrines.
The source said: "Premier Ashraf meets different spiritual leaders but has a special affiliation with Pir Khan Sahib who hails from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... The source added: "Mr Ashraf often consults him on a number of issues which remain strictly confidential between the two of them."
"The last time the two met, Prime Minister Ashraf was happy with the advice Pir Sahib gave him and told us that all issues had been addressed well," the source continued.
Rumour has it that PM Ashraf's family is equally in awe of Pir Khan Sahib, and on the eve of the first hearing at the Supreme Court on Aug 27, prime minister's two sons travelled all the way to the residence of Pir Khan Sahib.
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Funny, here they're called the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Philippine Army is holding a ranking member of the communist rebel group New Peoples Army who surrendered Wednesday to authorities in Zamboanga del Sur province in Mindanao, officials have reported.
Roger Apog, who goes by the aliases Ka Rey and Ka Bajik, belongs to the Western Mindanao Regional Committee, and is now being held by the 53rd Infantry Battalion. Apog surrendered to the army in the town of Bayog and is now cooperating with the investigations.
Maj. Gen. Ricardo Rainier Cruz III, the regional army commander, said Apog's surrender is big blow to the terrorist rebel group operating in Zamboanga del Sur. Cruz said, "Your return to the folds of the law is a joy to your family. We only facilitated your safe surrender and please help the others so they may follow your footstep. Let us all get involved in Bayanihan works to achieve peace and progress in the countryside."
The Philippine Army is expected to provide Apog with livelihood assistance and other aid that would help him and his family start a new life under the governments Social Integration Program.
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IOW, the Muslims = e.g. MILF, etc. stopped fighting so now the mighty intellectual elitist Commies will have to fight + do their own dirty work instead of depending on the lowly Muslims to do it for them.
Q: Did the Energy Department give a loan to an energy company connected to Nancy Pelosis brother-in-law?
A: Yes. The loan was awarded to Tonopah Solar Energy for a project in Nevada. Ron Pelosi was then a board member with a subsidiary of Pacific Corporate Group, an investment partner in Tonopahs parent company.
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There are a lot of companies involved with this: Solar Reserve and ACS Cobra are two on the finance end. Those companies are, in turn partly owned by various holding companies, hedge funds, legacy asset corporations, etc. The construction is being done by mainline companies. The company got an essentially free easement from the Dept of Interior to use federal land for the site (although there was some cost to prepare the environmental documents and much of that was borne by the solar finance companies).
The project is a big step up from one completed back in the late 90s. That one was a 10MW (peak) plant which demonstrated the technical feasibility of using molten salt to store solar (from mirrors) energy. There have been no scaling problems reported yet but off course the project will not be complete until 2013. The Tonapah plant scales that up to 110 MW (peak). Nevada Energy has agreed (actually been coerced via various renewable/green laws)to buy the electricity from the plant. Although the peak electricity generated will be 110MW, the average will be about 30 MW. The electricity will cost about double or triple what a similar output coal or gas plant would cost depending on assumptions of discount rate, fuel, labor, etc.
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According to a Paleostinian official, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... informed Paleostinian leadership that they should appoint someone to replace him, Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported Wednesday.
Reportedly, Abbas said, "you have 10 days until I come back from the US to find a new president."
Probably just a rumour, and definitely the 48 hour rule applies. But still, isn't it a lovely thought?
[Dawn] Initial investigations of Tuesday's North Nazimabad blast revealed that around five to eight kilograms of kaboom was used in the kaboom, DawnNews quoted the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) special unit as claiming.
The FIA's team visited the site of the kaboom and analysed the area for forensic evidence.
"The kaboom contained around 500-800 ball bearings," FIA's investigation unit said.
A First Investigation Report (FIR) into the incident was registered under the Explosives Act and Anti-Terrorism Act on behalf of the state.
According to the FIR, the first kaboom took place at 19: 19 PST (local time) and the second kaboom occurred a minute later.
At least seven people, including a three-month-old baby, a 12-year-old girl and a woman, were killed and 22 others injured -- the victims predominantly belonging to the Dawoodi Bohra community -- when twin blasts rocked the North Nazimabad neighbourhood.
LJ involvement
Police placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! two brothers of one of the men suspected to have been involved in the blast.
According to police's initial investigation, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... 's (LJ) Shuja Haider group was involved in the attack.
Police claimed that LJ members Mohammad Shaqib Farooqui, Murtaza alias Shakil, Arab Miskeen, Murad Shah and several others were involved in Tuesday's blast.
The LJ members were also suspected to have been involved in three blasts in 2009 -- a blast in Orangi Town on Muharram 8, a blast at Paposh Nagar Chandni chowk on Muharram 9 and a blast in the Light House area on Muharram 10.
The suspects were cooled for a few years Book 'im, Mahmoud! from Mauripur Road in 2010 but had managed to escape from the city courts' premises after attacking the police with hand grenades.
Speaking to media representatives, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) 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... West Naeem Akram said that Tuesday's blast had similarities with the blast that took place near the Chinese Consulate blast on July 23, 2012.
The blasts came a day after the visit of Syedi Mufaddal Bhaisaheb Saifuddin, designated successor of Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin.
An improvised bomb (IED) weighing around 25 kilograms had been found at the same place on Aug 13 and had been defused by the police.
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Apparently from the constant parade of new names coming across Rantburg, there is at least one terrorist group for every 2.15 citizens of Pakistain, assuming of course no one belongs to more than one group.
All things being equal, do you suppose these groups change names often to keep the ISI entertained?
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[Dawn] A businessman accused of blasphemy has gone underground and wants the religious leaders to hear his viewpoint.
Haji Nasrullah, who owns a market at Hala Naka area off National Highway and is the chairman of a local shopkeepers association, originally hails from Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... According to Munir Abbasi, a police officer at the Hatri cop shoppe, Nasrullah was booked for blasphemy offence under sections 295-B and C on the complaint of Kachkol Khan.
Blasphemy is punishable by life in prison or death under Pak laws. Human rights groups and civil society organizations often call for repealing it on the ground that it is badly misused, particularly against religious minorities for settling personal scores.
Abbasi explains that the trouble began on Sunday night when the city observed a strike against an anti-Islam film.
"Some protesters wanted shops at the Hala Naka area closed in protest against the anti-Islam movie to which Nasrullah objected," he said.
According to Azam Jehangiri, some shopkeepers including the president of the association Najeeb Ahmed reported the matter to a mufti in a nearby mosque. "Ahmed alleged that Nasrullah used some very objectionable remarks against the Holy Prophet," said Jehangiri, who is associated with Maulana Fazal Rehman's Jamaat-e-Islam.
"Mufti Ashfaq asked whether he has witnesses to substantiate his claim. Ahmed accordingly produced those witnesses," Jehangiri recalled.
Subsequently, Abbasi says, after a brief gathering in the area mosque, scores of outraged religious parties activists and seminary students tried to attack Nasrullah's house, leading to a clash.
As a result of firing, three persons namely Abdul Baseer and Mohammad Afzal (who were among protesters) and Qamaruzzaman brother of Haji Nasrullah received injuries.
"Nasrullah got an FIR of attempted murder lodged against the protesters," he said.
Maulana Taj Mohammad Nahyoon, Hyderabad district president JUI (Fazal), is currently spearheading protests against Nasrullah and demanding his arrest.
He had an FIR registered against Nasrullah for alleged blasphemy after addressing a presser at the local press club on Monday afternoon.
"We want Nasrullah placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! as we have produced our witnesses against Nasrullah and they all have deposed on oath that he did commit blasphemy," Nahyoon said while talking to Dawn.com.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... Nasrullah has gone into hiding. He has not been placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! nor has he been able to seek pre-arrest bail so far. Although he is not answering his cellphone, he has made an effort to get his point across to the Mufti Ashfaq who was instrumental in getting the FIR registered.
On Wednesday, Nasrullah sent Haji Asmatullah Mehsood, who is associated with ANP and runs his business in Hala Naka area, to Jamia Muftahul Uloom. Mehsood met with Nahyoon and Jehangiri as well as other people.
"The gathering was chaired by me and it was attended by Sheikhul Hadees Mufti Ghulam Mohammad Junejo, Mufti Habibullah, Mufti Fasih, Maulana Saifur Rehman, Maulana Abdul Salam and others in seminary," said Nahyoon.
He added that the purpose of the meeting was to verify the 'involvement of personal enmity'.
"This is a sensitive issue. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... all of us are satisfied that an FIR was properly lodged with statement of witnesses," he said.
"Since the FIR has been lodged after due verification of facts, the issue can't be resolved at this level. Now we want him placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! ," he said.
Mehsood, on the other hand, confirms having met religious leaders.
"I haven't met Nasrullah...he is not available but someone from his side approached me so that his viewpoint can be presented to the other side," he says, adding: "I have got nothing to do with this issue directly."
Majlis-e-Tahfuz-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwat is also actively participating in protests on the issue and demanding arrest of the accused. They said that they will hold a protest on Friday if he is not placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!.
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[An Nahar] Militants assaulted a cop shoppe north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Wednesday, killing one policeman, as four people including two soldiers were rubbed out in other attacks, security and medical officials said.
Militants shelled the cop shoppe in Hibhib, the town where Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in 2006, before attacking the facility with light and medium weapons, a colonel in the Diyala Operations Command said.
One policeman was killed and two others were maimed, the colonel said, adding that during the fighting police potted three attackers wearing boom belts.
Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Assadi said on Iraqiya state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
that police in Hibhib had thwarted a myrmidon operation aimed at freeing prisoners.
In djinn-infested Mosul in north Iraq, two soldiers were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint, while a man was rubbed out in front of his house in the city, army First Lieutenant Khaled Falayih and Dr. Tareq al-Nuaimi said.
And a provincial council security official was rubbed out in western Storied Baghdad, an interior ministry official and a medical source said.
Violence in Iraq is down from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks are still near-daily occurrences.
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Yankee come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Yankee come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong and I just can't live without you
[Tolo News] Around 70 percent of Afghanistan's female prisoners are in jail for running away from home despite the act not being a crime under the law, according to the parliamentary committee on women's affairs director Fawzia Koofi.
A meeting on Sunday of representatives from the government committees of women's affairs, the Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry of Justice agreed that sending a woman to court for "escaping" home was wrong.
The Minister of Justice Habibullah Ghalib said at the meeting that the Judicial Council has made it clear that running away from home should not be prosecuted.
"Based on the laws [of Afghanistan], escaping home is not a crime," he said. "This subject is concluded by the Judicial Council. It is wrong for prosecutors and police to send cases of such incidents to the courts."
Deputy Minister of Interior Baz Mohammad Yarmand said that the police have been told that it is not a criminal offence.
"I cleared this issue to the police that escaping home is not a crime. I even sent a letter to few organizations to take notice of this issue," he said at the meeting.
Women are not fleeing their homes for no reason -- usually it is because of violence or forced marriage, attendees said.
"Escaping from home is often the result from family violence. We have seen incidents in which the mother-in-law has done violence to the girl, or the husband or other family members have behaved violently towards the girl," Minister of Women's Affairs Hassan Banoo Ghazanfar said.
Koofi described the situation and condition of the prisoners as distressing and lamented the failure to review cases, adding that there are severe objections to the fact that so many women have spent years in prison for unclear reasons.
"There should be a revision of cases enforced in the penal code so that there is no possibility of mistreatment by the judges," Koofi said.
Director of the senate committee of women's affairs Siddiqa Balkhi agreed.
"In a review of some cases, we observed there was the case of a 70-year-old woman which had not been considered yet," Balhki said.
The meeting comes as provincial departments of women's affairs report more violence against women and girls.
Most recently, a teenage girl was lashed by mullahs in the Gaghoori District of Ghazni Province for an "illegal relationship" with a young man, and two girls in Ghor Province were lashed in public because they attempted to run away from home.
[An Nahar] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... told Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday that the war engulfing Syria is targeting not just it but the "resistance axis," state news agency SANA reported.
Assad's regime, Iran, and Hizbullah refer to themselves as a "resistance axis" in their common opposition to Israel.
"The ongoing battle is targeting the whole of the resistance axis, not just Syria," Assad told Iran's visiting Ali Akbar Salehi.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... Assad said "Syria has shown openness in dealing with all initiatives put forward to find a solution to the crisis. The key to any initiative's success is the sincerity of the intentions behind it."
Earlier on Wednesday, Salehi said the solution to the conflict "lies only with Syria and within the Syrian family, in partnership with international and regional organizations."
Assad and his allies in Iran, China and Russia have systematically blamed the conflict on foreign powers, notably the West, Gulf countries and Turkey.
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[An Nahar] Australia's parliament voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to reject gay marriage, after days of heated debate that saw one senator resign from a key role after linking same-sex unions to bestiality.
The House of Representatives voted down the bill to legalise marriage between same sex couples by 98 to 42, with Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition conservative leader Tony Abbott both voting against it.
Gillard had allowed Labor MPs a conscience vote on the issue -- meaning they were free to vote how they wanted rather than along party lines -- while the opposition had opposed it.
Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese, who voted for the reform, said despite the bill's failure the figures were encouraging.
"Just a few years ago there wouldn't have been the support of anything like 42 votes on the floor of the national parliament for a marriage equality bill," he told news hounds.
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Once again for the record.
Civil Unions... They had them in the bag in CA. I don't think many people were going to begrudge them that.
But they had to go for the big win, full-on wedding, in a church with the preacher and all.
Got the big hurt in the voter referendum, then went straight to court to try to roll over many million CaliPhornios that voted it down. We're an apish, small minded lot here, all 33 million of us I guess.
Stephen Bosworth, a former U.S. special envoy to North Korea, on Tuesday accused Pyongyang of thinking the international community is obliged to aid the impoverished regime.
Bosworth is an Obama shill who from day one has said that the only solution to North Korea is 'engagement', which means we are supposed to swallow the Nork codswollop and give them food.
There is a clear tendency by North Korea to consider the whole world its own ATM, Bosworth told reporters on the sidelines of a forum in Seoul sponsored by the Korea Foundation. What North Korea wants right now is to preserve its regime and the flow of aid from other countries, he added.
Turning the South Korea-U.S. alliance, Bosworth said if the U.S. has been in the driver's seat until now, it is time for South Korea to take the wheel. South Korea must make the key decisions about what is to be done in the North Korean nuclear issue.
"I don't think it is feasible or appropriate or useful to try to increase deterrence or decrease deterrence depending upon the general state of affairs in the short term," he said in a lecture. "I think the most important element of deterrence is fundamental solidarity of purpose between the U.S. and South Korea. And that you can't turn on and off. If we are confident about deterrence... our political leaders will have a little bit more flexibility to think about engagement."
As I was just saying...
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accused Pyongyang of thinking the international community is obliged to aid the impoverished regime
Actually, we shouldn't blame the NORKS. It's been going on for decades.
[Dawn] TUESDAY saw more groups joining the protest against the anti-Islam film Innocence of Moslems. There were rallies by the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and liquidations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... , as well as by traders, lawyers, railway workers, etc. All came out angrily to register their outrage. Much of the attention has so far been focused on the bigger cities but the demons-trations have spread to smaller towns across the country -- indicating the expanse of hurt. Notwithstanding condemnation of the film by the US, calls have been made for a more comprehen-sive shutdown and bigger processions in the coming days. One group has demanded that next Friday be declared a public holiday to facilitate a concerted national rebuke to the highly provocative film. All in all, the protest is building up and the pressure on the government to do all within its means to ensure that these marches are peaceful is mounting. The government is stretched. In a country beset with so many law and order problems, the police are now required to mind the routes various groups of protesters take, sometimes simultaneously. Serious situations have been avoided, but in certain other instances festivities have led to loss of lives.
Grave hurt has been caused and the strongest possible message delivered to the makers of the mischievous film. But now the protesters need to be careful so that they do not play into the hands of those whose sole purpose here is to incite violence. Like the government, the protest organisers also have a responsibility to make sure these rallies do not ignite fires that can be difficult to put out. Much before the threat such violence could pose to anyone else, the organisers should be mindful of the risk the participants of processions faced. When passions run so high even a small act of indiscretion can spell disaster.
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That photo was either taken with a 5mm lens, or his momma took thalidomide.
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This link is good just remember the DNC and crapping on God wonder what will happen to relations now it was broadcast across entire Middle East and Africa. Enjoy the link on Egypt and atheists ---http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/
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Damn. You mods beat me to it.
You can delete me, if you like.
No need, dear Shinter Javirong9154 (where does Fred get these nyms?!). You stand as a voice of protest against the as-yet unvanquished idiot...who was thereafter most thoroughly. Enjoy!
[Dawn] A father brutally hacked his divorced daughter to death in the city suburbs because he could not countenance her working in a beauty parlour, her siblings reported to police on Tuesday.
Police said Allah Ditta, the accused, was tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and confessed to the crime. A blood-stained axe he was believed to have used to kill his 32-year-old daughter Shagufta, was also recovered.
"My father tied her to a tree in the jungle near our house and swung the axe at her neck, killing her instantly," police quoted her younger sister as saying. In his statement recorded with the police her brother, Fiaz Ali, said the family lived in Gorakhpur village in Adiala suburbs and his father used to violently oppose Shagufta's desire to accept an offer from the lady of the house where she worked as a maid, to work in the parlour that she ran.
"Last night, our father beat her up when she insisted on joining the parlour. Other family members intervened and the issue was settled for the time being," the younger sister told the police.
Shagufta had a little son and was divorced about three years ago.
As she woke up from her sleep, said the younger sister, she saw her father taking Shagufta away, holding a piece of rope and an axe in his hand.
Scared and suspicious at this scene, she said she informed her brother.
Shagufta was taken away by her father to the nearby jungle where he allegedly tied her to a tree, abused her and then allegedly smashed her neck with an axe, killing her on the spot, according to the sibling.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... last Sunday two women were murdered in the name of honour in the city.
In the first incident a woman identified as Hasrat Bibi was rubbed out by her son-in-law in Khyban-e-Sir Syed. Hasrat Bibi's daughter who had been married with Ali had returned to her mother's house after disputing with her husband.
As he came to his in-laws' house to convince his wife Mehwish to go with him, he got provoked as his in-laws refused to send their daughter with him, he pulled out his pistol and bumped off his mother in law.
In another incident a woman identified as Sadaf Jabeen was rubbed out by her husband Tanveer Ahmed outside Ayub Park.
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Well, beauty parlors are very "unislamic".
So I guess she had it coming.
[Dawn] AT one level, much of the furore over the somewhat elliptically titled film Innocence of Moslems could be described as predictable. After all, we have seen it before.
Coincidentally, it comes at a time when The Satanic Verses is back in the news because of Salman Rushdie's memoir about the personal consequences entailed by Ayatollah Khomeini's infamous fatwa. The reaction to it was perhaps the first instance in living memory of globalised protests against a controversial literary text that many Moslems deemed blasphemous.
Rushdie, who remained in hiding for a decade under the protection of the British state, has, gratifyingly, lived to tell the tale. But numerous people -- translators, publishers, even a pair of Belgium-based imams -- were killed over that novel. Iran effectively rescinded the fatwa eventually, but it is sobering to note that an independent Iranian organization has lately increased its bounty on the writer's head by half a million dollars.
The sordid saga of the Danish cartoons, rescued from the obscurity they deserved by some Europe-based mullahs intent on making trouble, is even fresher in the collective memory.
In the case of the present provocation, there is an added frisson on account of the so-called Arab Spring. A great many Libyans are upset about the death of the US ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi last week, and the authorities in 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... seem duly embarrassed. The irony, of course, is that the incidents that resulted in the fatalities occurred in a nation that NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces 'liberated' last year, and that too in a city celebrated as the cradle of the revolt against Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... 's dictatorship.
It is perhaps pertinent to recall that at least one NATO general was honest enough to note at the start of the intervention that some of the forces the West was assisting in Libya were precisely the sort of forces it was combating in Afghanistan. What's more, no lessons have been learned. The same mistake is being repeated in Syria.
It's unclear from the available evidence whether the ambassador, Christopher Stevens -- remembered by friends and acquaintances as a genial State Department Arabist -- was deliberately targeted. The attack on the US consulate in Benghazi has been attributed to a group called 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... , and it has been suggested that the violence on the anniversary of Sept 11 had little to do with the offending film: rather, it ought to be perceived in the context of the struggle for ascendancy within Libya.
Similar claims have been aired about the protests in Egypt, whose president has been accused of tardiness in condemning the violence and vowing to protect foreign missions. In Sudan, it is not just the US embassy that has attracted protesters but also the British and German missions.
Of course, the latter two governments have no more to do with the offending film than the US authorities. It is almost certainly the case that the protests across the Moslem world are in some part an excuse for venting anti-American -- and, more broadly, anti-Western -- sentiments. They are a sorry excuse. There are plenty of reasons to be appalled by US actions and manoeuvres in any number of Moslem countries. Innocence of Moslems should not figure among them.
The film was clearly intended as an Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... -inducing provocation. The sensible approach would have been to ignore it completely. Judging by the 14-minute 'trailer' on YouTube, it has no artistic merit whatsoever.
What's more, the cast and crew were apparently unaware of its intended purpose. They were told it was a depiction of Egypt 2,000 years ago. The anti-Islamic aspects of the dialogue were dubbed afterwards, as a canny American blogger, Sarah Abdurrahman, was among the first to cotton on.
Perhaps equally insidious has been the effort to portray it as an Israeli-funded venture. It was purportedly the brainchild of 'Sam Bacile', a Jewish real estate agent in the US, who claimed in interviews that the funds came from Israeli businessmen. This has turned out to be one of the many myths perpetrated by petty criminal Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a Caliphornia-based American of Coptic Christian origin, who used the pseudonym 'Sam Bacile' to conceal his real identity, and who has thrived on publicity from a couple of fundamentalist Christian confederates.
It is useful to remember, in this context, that some fundamentalist Christians in the US support Israel unreservedly solely in the interests of hastening Armageddon. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to conjecture that Innocence of Moslems is a consequence of that mindset.
What's not surprising is that some Islamists are willing to match the Islamophobes, absurdity for absurdity. Excerpts from the film apparently failed to excite much of a response after it was posted on YouTube last month, until it was dubbed into Arabic and a handful of Egyptians picked up on it, going to the extent of broadcasting bits of it on a private evangelical channel.
The very idea that a film such as this can in any way dent the faith of Moslems does not bear serious scrutiny. But then, one cannot fail to recognise that the idiocy of Islamophobes easily finds echoes in the Moslem world. It is unlikely that Nakoula sought to elicit the sort of reaction witnessed in Benghazi, but there can be little doubt he did seek to provoke a response. And he got what he wanted. It would undoubtedly have been infinitely wiser to deny him this satisfaction. But it's too late for that.
Perhaps the most bizarre response to recent events came from Republican presidential contender Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O... , who accused the B.O. regime of pandering to Islamist sentiments. Romney has rightfully been taken to task for that ridiculous insinuation. It is nonetheless interesting to imagine, though, what Washington's response would have been had the events in Benghazi taken place in Islamabad, Tehran, Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... or Kabul.
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The film was clearly intended as an Islamophobia-inducing provocation.
It was clearly intended as Western/Christian-phobia inducing provocation.
That this otherwise reasoned editorialist could that get that arse about tit, speaks to how deeply rooted irrationality is in the Muslim world.
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Seems obvious that many Moslems do not feel their God is powerful enough to punish blashemers without a lot of mortal help. Must be sad to consider your god to be week.
Perhaps Allah is offended by this attitude and has struck the Mualim countries with bad leaders, unproductive cultural habits, and ignorance as retribution.
AKCAKALE, Turkey: Rebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, pulling down the Syrian flag and sending a stream of jubilant people pouring across the border into Turkey. An Associated Press reporter at the scene Wednesday said people were moving freely across the Tal Abyad crossing, crawling under barbed wire. Some appeared to be wounded.
Syrias rebels control several other border crossings into Turkey but Wednesdays capture of the Tal Abyad post is believed to be the first time they have taken the border area in the northern province of Raqqa.
Taking control of border crossings helps the opposition ferry supplies into Syria and carve out an area of control, which is key as the rebels try to tip the balance in the civil war.
Wednesdays takeover comes after a day of fierce clashes as rebels and regime forces fought for control of the Tal Abyad crossing. Turkeys private Dogan news agency said earlier Wednesday that the rebels surrounded the customs building and engaged in an intense fire fight with Syrian sharp-shooters positioned at the building. Several people were wounded in the battles and were taken to Turkey for treatment, the report said.
Civilians escaping the violence reported that several people were killed in fighting around Tal Abyad, Dogan reported.
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We left Iraq for a reason Iran might as well use it to help kill their own!
Intelligence sources tell Fox News they are convinced the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was directly tied to Al Qaeda -- with a former Guantanamo detainee involved.
That revelation comes on the same day a top Obama administration official finally called last week's deadly assault a "terrorist attack" -- the first time the attack has been described that way by the administration after claims it had been a "spontaneous" act.
"Yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy," Matt Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said during a Senate hearing Wednesday.
Spontaneously, of course...
Olsen echoed administration colleagues in saying U.S. officials have no specific intelligence about "significant advanced planning or coordination" for the attack.
The key weasel word being 'specific', depending on how specific you want to get...
However, his statement goes beyond White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, saying the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate was spontaneous. He is the first top administration official to call the strike an act of terrorism.
And likely the last...
Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack, Fox News' intelligence sources said.
The craft has clearly gone downhill when every ragtag television news team has its own private intelligence service.
Qumu, a Libyan, was released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 and transferred into Libyan custody on the condition he be kept in jail.
That worked well, didn't it. Maybe he had prostate cancer...
His Guantanamo files also show he has ties to the financiers behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Olson, repeating Wednesday that the FBI is handling the Benghazi investigation, also acknowledged the attack could lead back to Al Qaeda and its affiliates.
"We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda's affiliates, in particular Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," he said at the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.
Still, Olsen said "the facts that we have now indicate that this was an opportunistic attack on our embassy, the attack began and evolved and escalated over several hours," Olson said.
Carney said hours earlier that there still is "no evidence of a preplanned or pre-meditated attack," which occurred on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
"I made that clear last week, Ambassador Rice made that clear Sunday," Carney said at the daily White House press briefing.
He's lying. His lips moved...
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Former FBI Director Webster's Commission reported that it was impressed with the quality and the commitment of the FBI's intelligence analysts and the integration of analysts into the FBI's work but still found 18 major shortcomings. Since the failures of 9/11/2001 over 11 years ago, the FBI has taken significant steps to strengthen the integration of intelligence and operations, and we will continue to examine innovative ways to continue our transformation from an investigative-led model to an intelligence-led model, where intelligence drives vs guessing or relying on local law enforcement, our investigative strategies, enhances our understanding of threats, and increases our ability to address and mitigate those threats. The Directorate of Intelligence will continue to evolve, let me be clear we are evolving also... to more effectively provide strategic direction, oversight, and support to the FBI's intelligence program as we hire more people, grow, and expand the intelligence components in each of our operational divisions.
[Dawn] The Pak government has announced a national holiday on Friday to protest against the American anti-Islam that has caused an outrage throughout the Moslem world.
The federal cabinet decided to make Friday an official "day of expression of love for the prophet" after discussing the "Innocence of Moslems" movie, which has triggered more than a week of violent protests across the Islamic world, a senior government official said.
The move came after religious parties called for a day of protest on Friday to denounce the film.
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. , while speaking to media representatives earlier today, said that the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) would join protestors in their demonstrations.
The head of the Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and liquidations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... religious party on Monday urged people across the country to close their businesses and hold rallies against the film, which was made in the United States.
Sources said traders and transporters associations in the largest city and commercial hub 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... had backed the call.
Around 500 protesting lawyers broke through a gate to Islamabad's heavily-guarded diplomatic enclave on Wednesday, chanting anti-US slogans and castigating the Pakistain government for its "criminal silence" over the film.
The film has fueled outrage across the Moslem world, with more than 30 people have been killed around the world during more than a week of attacks and violent protests linked to the controversial film. Pakistain, Afghanistan and Bangladesh have all blocked access to YouTube, following the video-sharing website's failure to take down the movie.
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A potentially powerful home-made bomb and two bottles of benzene, believed to be part of a plot to create unrest, were found by a roadside in Yala province yesterday morning.
Police bomb experts rushed to the scene about 6:30 a.m. after being alerted about a suspicious-looking box hidden in a trash bin. The box, containing a bomb weighing over 5 kg., was deactivated. Police believed terrorists insurgents planned to set fire to houses in the area with the benzene and then set off the bomb. The items were found by a team of military rangers on patrol.
Earlier this week Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva sat down to discuss measures to combat the southern insurgency.
Deputy Prime Minister Yutthasak Sasiprapa said yesterday cooperation from all sides was needed to solve the southern violence. He said that the government will consider a nine-point proposal by the opposition to contain the unrest.
He also explained the government's plan to set up a southern command center. The Internal Security Operations Command and the Southern Border Province Administration Center both back the center, but the opposition is opposed to it. Mr Abhisit said the center was likely to obstruct coordination and hinder public participation in peace-making efforts.
Gen Yutthasak said the region is in dire need of about 4,000-5,000 extra police. He said national police chief-designate Adul Saengsingkaew would train additional officers to be sent to the region in six months.
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Old saying Earth and Water,"symbolizes unconditional subordination to a conqueror".
I say, shall we meet them on our knees or standing. That was probably from somewhere long forgotten in my memory of things I have read. I use it nowadays directed at this current administration.
Around lunchtime, two men dressed in black threw an bomb into the "Naouri" kosher supermarket, which is situated in a commercial center in Sarcelles, according to eyewitnesses. Located to the north of Gay Paree, Sarcelles is an area known for festivities within the immigrant community.
The president of the Council of French Jews, Richard Prasquier, confirmed that one person was "lightly injured," Liberation newspaper reported. French news website JSSNews.com reported that "at least one person was badly maimed."
"According to several sources, two grenades were thrown into the supermarket, one of which went kaboom!," according to the site.
The motives of the alleged perpetrators remained unclear.
As Jay Carney would say, it was 'spontaneous'...
"Many people come to stock up for the holiday of Yom Kippur, which falls on next Wednesday," Moshe Cohen-Sabban, the president of the local Jewish community told Le Figaro newspaper. While there were no specific intercultural problems in Sarcelles, there was "much anti-Semitism" on a national level, he added.
Located to the north of Gay Paree, Sarcelles is home to a significant Jewish community but also to a large group of immigrants from Arab countries, which are known to occasionally clash.
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Is spontaneous firebombing what happens when you leave a bunch of oily rags or such in your hot attic? I think I remember hearing about that in some safety class once.
[Tolo News] [Tolo News] Afghan police on Tuesday night captured a group of Taliban cut-throats responsible for beheading two coppers and planting roadside kabooms in northern Baghlan province, a local official said.
The six-member group was involved in kidnapping two coppers who were taking food to their colleagues in the Aab Qul area of old Baghlan and beheaded them after three days, head of Baghlan police 350 intelligence departments Gen. Abdul Ghayoor Andarabi told TOLOnews Wednesday.
Khalid added that the other four illegally armed men captured were involved in increasing insecurity and bothering people.
They also were responsible for placing at least 20 roadside kabooms in the area and harassing households in the province, he added.
"The group has trained in Pakistain, and for more than three months was active in the Sayed Mohammad Jangali village of the province," he said.
Andarabi said that there were no Afghan police or civilian casualties during the capture operation.
It comes as four cut-throats and four other illegally gunnies were cooled for a few years ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... by Afghan cops in northern Parwan province in the past 24 hours, provincial spokeswoman Roshna Khalid told TOLOnews.
"The security forces launched an operation in the Khalazai area of Bagram where they captured four cut-throats who were planning to carry out suicide kabooms and other bombs in the province," she said.
The security forces also seized two pistols, a Kalashnikov, 12 mobile phones, and 13 cameras and computers, she added.
Khalid added that the other four illegally gunnies captured were involved in increasing insecurity and bothering people.
*happy sigh* Is that a wonderful sentence or what!
[An Nahar] The White House on Wednesday questioned the judgment of a French weekly that published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed, but said the decision was no justification for violence.
"We have questions about the judgment of publishing something like this," White House front man Jay Carney said, while adding "it is not in any way justification for violence."
This is why the framers of our Constitution took care to make sure that weasels like Jay Carney aren't allowed to make official, government judgments on the wisdom of publishing stuff like this.
"We don't question the right of something like this to be published, we just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it," Carney said.
The decision by the French weekly Charlie Hebdo to print obscene cartoons depicting the prophet, came as fresh protests erupted in the Mohammedan world over an anti-Islam film made by orc Coptic Christians in the United States.
Security was reinforced at French missions and other institutions in countries feared most at risk of a hostile reaction to the French cartoons.
French Embassies, consulates, cultural centers and international French schools in around 20 countries will be closed on Friday in case they are targeted in demonstrations following weekly Mohammedan prayers.
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Why did the dnc crap on God and supply weapons to Al Qaeda in Libya and let a prisoner from Guantanomo kill our people and support it? Also why fight communism across the globe and become worse than people in north korea and the Middle East and help kill your own people? Why disgrace our flag you know the old saying DON'T TREAD ON ME! tHIS WAS SENT TO THE oBAMA bIDEN FOR PRESIDENT SITE PERHAPS EVERYONE SHOULD GROW SOME PHUCKING BALLS !
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Isn't the left in America always saying "we need to be more like Europe?" Don't chauvinistic Europeans routinely say "Stupid Americans need to be more like us?"
What changed?
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there must be a lot of French magazines that are low on circulation this month. it's tough when you have to arranage for your main business office to be firebombed - just so you can sell your rag :-)
Now that I've seen it, I can honestly say Mohammed is just as ugly nekkid as dressed.
But we knew that.
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We need more cartoons and more movies. The Muslims need them too. The Muslims need a constant flow of this kind of material so that they can become desensitized to it. Then they might be able to calm down and think about it logically. Then they might begin to wonder why, if Allan is so powerful, doesn't he strike the infidels himself? Then they might begin to wonder if this false prophet Mohammed is the only way to heaven or if, perhaps, there might be other, better ways. OTOH, screw 'em.
An uncomfortable thought occured to me today and as a reader of Rantburg, I thought I would run this theory past Rantburg readers first. HOW did the attackers know what they knew about the State Department's supposedly top secret embassy safe house in Benghazi and were able to ambush the fallback effort of the Embassy staff at the safe house? Michelle Bachman was recently trashed by her own party including McCain and Boehner for expressing concern that Muslim Brotherhood has deeply infiltrated the upper echelons of the Washington DC State Department. Hillary's assistant, Huma Abedin, who Bachmann cited as having family with close affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood. Could it be that coddled, Islamic moles are working against our embassies from within thier positions within the State Department in Washington, DC, resulting in the murders of an Ambassador and staff by Islamic Radicals? It need not be Hillary's girlfriend. There are plenty of folks at Foggy Bottom who hope to retire on the consulting fees paid by the House of Saud...
Bachmann sparked controversy earlier this year for saying Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood may have infiltrated the U.S. government. But after facing condemnation over the statements from her own party, the Minnesota congresswoman took a brief hiatus from her running theme of warning the United States against the threat of "radical Islam."
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seems like it was more likely done through surveillance at Benghazi. But it's a reasonable procedure for the USA to conduct a full investigation to determine if there were any leaks from the State Dept. That should be done.
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As Raider indicated, consulte surveillance is more likely. Recruiting or bribing a host-nation consulate guard to gain daily reporting and situational awareness would not have been difficult.
The painful irony, reporting indicates that the Ambassador was in Benghazi for the ribbon-cutting for an American Corner. An American Corner is, in States own words, a friendly, accessible space, open to the public, which provides current and reliable information about the United States through bilingual book and magazine collections, films and documentaries, poster exhibitions, and guides for research on the United States. Ironic of course that Ambassador Stevens and his people died in what is sadly all of a propaganda gesture, a book nook Corner that says happy things about America so that Libyans will love us. When will the west awaken ?
Lastly, this region was not Middleburg, VA. It was an incubator for terrorists. See Ambassador Steven's cable dated 6/2/2008.
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They were targeted and executed why information from the start of the fake Arab Spring crap there from the start and all! Remember how they laughed when announcing the death of Mu Mi, play it listen to it and analyze it with some shrinks etc. we call it hitler bunker insanity, nice hole they dug for themselves in Washington 86 million worth right? Nice choice from the prison system also! If TRUE!
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The administration's story appears to be "evolving". I am still waiting for hard evidence supporting last night's FOX news alert that former GITMO inmate Sufyan Ben Qumu was heavily involved, or the actual mastermind of the attack.
If Ben Qumu had connections with western intelligence services prior to, or following the effort to overthrow of Khadafi regime, things could get rather ugly.
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More on Qumu and other shady operators:
WSJ link
The dubious character of the Libyan rebels was further underscored in a remarkable profile published Saturday by the Wall Street Journal of three Libyans who had fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and were now playing major roles in the rebel military effort. Two of the three had been in US custody as alleged Al Qaeda operatives and one spent six years at Guantanamo Bay before being turned over to the Gaddafi regime in 2007. The three men are:
Abdel Hakim al-Hasady, described as an influential Islamic preacher and high school teacher who spent five years at a training camp in eastern Afghanistan and now oversees the recruitment, training and deployment of about 300 rebel fighters from Darna, a city in eastern Libya
Salah al-Barrani, a former fighter from the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG, who is Hasadys field commander
Sufyan Ben Qumu, a Libyan army veteran who worked for Osama bin Ladens holding company in Sudan and later for an al Qaeda-linked charity in Afghanistan, and who is training many of the citys rebel recruits.
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The radio in DC this morning reported Hilly was going to testify on the Bengazi attack before Congress today. A spokesdrone said the attack 'evolved and grew', but admitted some of the 'protesters' were 'heavily armed'.
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It was a cock-up from bow to stern. The principal knew he was on a hit list, but chose to attend a public ceremony on 9/11. He took along straphangers who had 'day jobs' doing what? Who, in advance of their upcoming travel, might have contacted whom? Amateurs the lot, and now all dead. This tragic event will soon become an academic case study in failed operational security.
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From Gateway Pundit:
During his military service Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu was frequently disciplined for drug and alcohol offenses, absences without leave, and attempted rape.
Some early reports were the Amb. was raped and tortured for being gay--I hope Congress keeps the heat on Hillary and makes O's failed policies well known.
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During his military service Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu was frequently disciplined for drug and alcohol offenses, absences without leave, and attempted rape.
Name that party!
On a more serious note, if it is discovered that Mr. Qumu has recently been on someone's payroll... things could become a bit sticky. Of course if he turns up al-Aulaqi'd over the next few weeks.....problem again solved.
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The Osama bin Laden driver, who was considered toothless and benign. I have a feeling this story is going to get uglier. Somewhere along the line this is going to be Bush's fault. He was released from gitmo in 2007. Some background on the guy: Link
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misleading statement: He was released from gitmo in 2007.
He was transferred to one of Gadaffi's prisons. I'm sure the guy would have preferred to stay in Gitmo.
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Update Per the NYT: He [Qumu] said he feared being returned to Libya, where he faced criminal charges [for murder], and asked to go to some other country where You (the United States) can watch me, according to a hearing summary. Nonetheless, in 2007, he was sent from Guantánamo to Libya.
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He was transferred to one of Gadaffi's prisons.
At some point he must have stopped being released to Daffy's prison and was just released. He took up his chosen avocation and passion of being a terrorist. At any rate, we weren't too bright about such releases. At the time, as I recall, the donks were making lots of noises about gitmo and how terrible and abusive (sarc) it was which of course was total BS. Does anyone know what happened to the 103 boomer who went to Libya to die? Is he back at work again also?
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Our Champ was keen on closing GITMO until he was elected. Shortly thereafter, someone explained the play action, handed him a score card and he was off to the game!
General Motors is alive and Osama Bn Laden is DEAD!
A bombshell report released Wednesday on Operation Fast and Furious faulted a range of federal agencies for the failed anti-gunrunning program and accused officials in charge of a "disregard" for public safety. In the wake of the report, one Justice Department official resigned and another retired. Disregard? They knew what they were doing and hoped it would be seen as a new demand for more gun control.
That's why the word is in scare quotes. How clever of the journalist to telegraph his disbelief so very subtly.
The sprawling report by the department's inspector general is the most comprehensive account yet on the deadly operation which allowed weapons to "walk" across the U.S.-Mexico border and resulted in hundreds of firearms turning up at crime scenes in both countries. Sprawling? Who writes this crap? Sounds like a copy boy trying to be a reporter. Who do you think goes to J-schools these days?
The report says Attorney General Eric Holder was not made aware of potential flaws in the program until February of last year. But the report cites 14 other department employees -- including Criminal Division head Lanny Breuer -- for potential wrongdoing, recommending the department consider disciplinary action against them. Of course he wasn't aware. Don't listen to the Congressional investigators, he's innocent I tells ya.
One congressional source told Fox News the report was "more brutal than was expected."
The report also marked Jason Weinstein, the Fall Guy the deputy assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division, as the highest-ranking DOJ employee in a position to stop the program. Weinstein, who disputes the findings, is nevertheless resigning in the wake of the report. Much more at the link.
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But, but, but Holder didn't know anything about F&F until a.... "few weeks ago".
[Tolo News] The Taliban will no longer bother residents in the Achin district of eastern 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.. province or they will risk facing serious retaliation, tribal elders declared Monday.
The elders decided in the Monday meeting that if there was any kind of insurgency in the district, those involved will face a serious reaction from the local residents.
An elder told TOLOnews that the decision came after they drove out around 200 Pak Taliban under the command of Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... from the district on Sunday, and the people involved in inviting the bully boyz into the district had their houses set alight by the other residents.
This is the latest in a number of uprisings of local residents against bully boyz in provinces across Afghanistan.
Ordinary civilians fighting back against the bad turban Islamists was first reported in eastern Ghazni province in June. Since then it has been seen in several parts of Afghanistan, including Faryab, Laghman, Nangarhar, Kapisa, Ghor and Badghis provinces.
US Special Forces, which have been training for operations in Iran for years, could be responsible for explosions that sabotaged Iranian nuke sites' power lines, Daily Beast suggests.
Could the United States be behind a move to sabotage power lines at Iran's nuclear facilities?
Operation Lemony Snickett lives...
The Daily Beast on Wednesday suggested that US Special Forces, which have been training for operation inside Islamic Republic for years, could already be on the ground .
On Monday, Fereydoun Abbasi, Iran's vice president and the chief of its nuclear energy agency, said that power lines between the city of Qom and the underground Fordo nuclear centrifuge facility were blown up with explosives on August 17. The power lines leading to Iran's Natanz facilities were blown up as well, he said.
According to the report in The Daily Beast, The US military been studying Iran's infrastructure closely, and in 2009 discovered a weakness in Iran's electrical grids that made it vulnerable to a cyber attack.
But Abbasi's disclosure indicates opponents of the Iranian program are targeting the country's electrical grid and are doing so on the ground, via a physical explosion as opposed to a cyber attack.
A retired US intelligence officer who still works as a contractor with the US military on Iran-related operations said the US Special Forces have trained for sabotage missions inside Iran for years.
"From the first reports, this attack looks like something from our guys," he told The Daily Beast.
The unnamed source also said US Special Forces conducted a series of targeted attacks on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in late 2011 as the US military was exiting Iraq -- an offensive credited with stopping Iran from attacking US forces as they left Iraq.
The news website posited that If the United States conducted the interference with Iran's power lines, it may help Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's concerns about the US' resolve to stop Tehran from developing an atom bomb.
Ynet's military analyst Ron Ben-Yishai explained immediately after Abbasi's statement was released that the covert war against Iran -- initiated by the US, Israel and Britain -- is ongoing. He said the sabotage at Fordo has been confirmed and proves that Iran's nuclear work can be stopped without the use of bunker buster bombs.
In recent years, the West's stealth war on the disputed atom program has been waged through industrial explosions, cyber viruses and targeted killings, but the recent blasts could mark the first time that Iran's civilian infrastructure is targeted.
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A retired US intelligence officer who still works as a contractor with the US military on Iran-related operations said the US Special Forces have trained for sabotage missions inside Iran for years.
Contractors and retirees, we all know they can't be trusted.
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Missions against insurgencies or powerful criminal gangs (e.g. Pablo Escobar) for beleaguered Third World allies, I can see. However, having an A-Team captured in Iran is the stuff of presidential nightmares. Qom is hundreds of miles inside Iran. How do you get them in? How do you get them out if they're detected? Unless the Super Friends are part of the Special Forces, it's not clear how they do some of these things.
Between the books Bravo Two Zero and Sole Survivor, it's quite clear that elite troops face extreme danger even in areas where our air force has established air supremacy. In a shooting war, dead or captured GI's are a part of doing business. Given that there's no such war going on with Iran, it's hard to conceive of a situation in which any president would send small special forces units deep into Injun country. If it's something that absolutely, positively has to be destroyed, they'll send in the B-2's or (more likely) sub-contract it via one or a combination of Kurdish, Arab, other ethnic separatist or communist opposition groups operating in Iran. A B-2 strike is feasible without anyone on the ground because it's not as if anyone's invented mobile power lines. However, given the fact that no air-dropped ordnance has been publicized, I'd go with the internal opposition (financed by us and/or the Gulf kingdoms) theory.
Security forces killed five terrorists militants in the Russian republic of Ingushetia.
Police and federal officers stopped a car carrying suspected terrorists militants on Tuesday and killed all five occupants in the brief gun battle that ensued. Officials said three of the men were wanted on suspicion of terrorism and had belts with explosives on them.
[Dawn] A bomb targeting a Pakistain air force vehicle destroyed a van 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. on Wednesday, killing nine people, officials said.
Glass, metal and pieces of human flesh littered the ground near a market on the city's Kohat road, near the Scheme Chowk area, after the kaboom, which Sherlocks said was likely to have been detonated remotely.
"At least nine people have been killed in the blast and 34 others maimed," senior administration official Javed Marwat told AFP.
The injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital.
Shafqat Malik, a bigwig with the bomb disposal squad said the blast hit the van as it approached a parked car and appeared to have been targeting a Pakistain Air Force van which was also damaged in the kaboom.
"Apparently the bomb was planted in a car parked on the roadside and it contained 30 to 40 kilogrammes of explosives, including artillery shells and ball bearings," Malik said.
TTP claim responsibility for attack
The TTP front man for Tariq Afridi group of Dara Adamkhel Taliban, Muhammad has claimed the credit for the Kohat Road blast.
Muhammad in a telephone call to media said " We accept responsibility for the blast on Kohat road its a reaction to the killing of Mualana Naseeb Khan and the PAF jet strikes on a Madrassa in Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
He said that they were planning more attacks and would also target law enforcement agencies.
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As Ace would say, they were killed by a combination of a drone-zap and the heartbreak of psoriasis, but mostly by a drone-zap...
The Israel Air Force struck a Palestinian terror cell in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday night, killing two Palestinians and critically wounding a third according to medics in Gaza. The aircraft registered direct hits on their targets. The raid was initiated with the coordination of Israel's Shin Bet.
One of the Palestinians killed in the attack was Anis Mamoud Abu al Enin from Rafah, a member of the "Al-Aqsa Defenders," which the IDF says is sponsored by Hamas. According to the IDF, Enin planned to carry out a suicide attack in Israel, and was in the final stages of preparation. He had also previously been involved in other terrorist activity, including weapons and explosives smuggling via the Israel-Egypt border, as well as "directing certain terror activity" in the West Bank, according to the IDF.
Anis wanted to die, and he did. I guess everyone should be happy!
Ashraf Mahmoud Salah was also confirmed killed by the IDF. Born in 1979 in Rafah, Salah was a member of the Popular Resistance Committees and had admitted in the past to involvement in aiding two terrorists to reach Egypt in order to carry out suicide attacks in Israel, as well as involvement in weapons trafficking.
Hamas and Palestinian hospital officials confirmed the attack, saying a raid after darkness fell in the town of Rafah on Gaza's border with Egypt, killing two officials responsible for overseeing tunnels used to import goods from Egypt.
In a statement, Hamas said "Israel has assassinated three of our officers as they were doing their duty in protecting the security of our people." After initially saying three had been killed, Hamas later corrected the death toll to two and said the third man had been critically wounded.
The old sucking chest wound...
The IAF last struck Gaza earlier this month, thwarting two attempted attacks against Israel in a 12-hour period and killing six Palestinians in the process. Palestinians fired two Grad rockets into Israel after the strike, damaging two buildings in Netivot and lightly injuring seven civilians.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Registration of foreign students studying in 'madrassahs' (religious schools) in Pakistain has been completed, DawnNews reported.
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A bomb targeting a Pakistain air force vehicle 
Orakzai Agency
