Iran has accused Azerbaijan of sheltering several Mossad agents who had escaped from Iran after assassinating an Iranian nuclear scientist. Iranian officials had earlier warned Azerbaijan not to shelter the Zionist regime's terrorist agents whose mission is carrying out acts of sabotage and espionage against Iran.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Azeri Ambassador to Tehran Javanshir Akhundov to protest at Baku for sheltering several Mossad-trained terrorists who had assassinated the Iranian scientists.
In January and in the fifth attack of its kind in two years, a magnetic bomb was attached to the car of 32-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in the capital, Tehran. His driver was also killed in the terrorist attack.
Moral of the story: don't be a driver for an Iranian nuclear scientist...
The blast took place on the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian university professor and nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, who was also assassinated in a terrorist bomb attack in Tehran in January 2010.
Boy howdy, those Ruritanians have been a busy bunch...
The assassination method used in the January bombing was similar to the 2010 terrorist bomb attacks against the then university professor, Fereidoun Abbassi Davani - who is now the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization - and his colleague Majid Shahriari. While Abbasi Davani survived the attack, Shahriari was martyred.
As the famous American philosopher Wednesday Addams once said: "wait"...
Another Iranian scientist, Dariush Rezaeinejad, was also assassinated through the same method on 23 July 2011.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi underscored that the US, Israeli and British spy agencies were involved in the terrorist attacks against the Iranian scientists.
Easy to blame the Zionists, the Americans and Limeys for this, but it could just as easily be factions within the Mad Mullahs. I think they all need to be interrogated. Do a mole hunt...
The London Times reported in February that Israel is using Azerbaijan, a small Eurasian country which shares a border with Iran, as a base to spy on the Tehran government.
The newspaper cited the testimony of an anonymous Mossad agent referred to only as Shimon.
"This is ground zero for intelligence work," Shimon told the Times. "Our presence here is quiet, but substantial. We have increased our presence in the past year, and it gets us very close to Iran. This (Azerbaijan) is a wonderfully porous country."
That's a great quote: so good someone at FARS likely wrote it...
According to Shimon the Azerbaijan-Iran border, just a few hours south of the capital Baku, is prime territory for the Israeli intelligence service to gather information on Tehran's activities.
"There is a great deal of information there from people who regularly and freely travel across the borders. It is unregulated - almost," said Shimon.
Azerbaijan is a major energy producer and exports oil to Israel and imports weapons and military hardware in return from Israel.
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President Obama on Friday issued an executive order to better coordinate federal oversight of "fracking," the popular but controversial natural-gas extraction method.
The order establishes an "interagency working group" with members from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department, Energy Department, National Economic Council and other bodies. At least 10 federal departments or agencies currently are mulling new regulations of the gas industry or have commissioned studies of its environmental impact. They have to get everyone on the same page before they ban fracking.
The sheer number of potential rule makers has caused many industry insiders to fear confusing or overlapping guidelines; some analysts say that could greatly hamper domestic oil and gas production. The new working group, Mr. Obama said, is designed to "ensure coordination among the appropriate federal entities." And while some industry folks welcome the move ...
It remains to be seen, however, whether the move lessens the potential impact of looming federal rules. Later this year, the EPA will release a long-awaited report on the environmental safety of fracking, the use of water, sand and chemicals to crack underground rock and release vast quantities of fuel. Many industry analysts expect the report to call for sharp new restraints on the drilling method.
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WHAT!? We don't get another Czar with unlimited power and no oversight?
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Some interesting - and ironic - information from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing
The first frac job was performed in 1947 in limestone deposits by Halliburton.
In the 1970s the federal government initiated both the Eastern Gas Shales Project, a set of dozens of public-private hydro-fracturing pilot demonstration projects, and the Gas Research Institute, a gas industry research consortium that received approval for research and funding from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Over this time, Sandia National Laboratories was conducting research into microseismic imaging for use in coalbeds, a geologic mapping technique that would prove crucial for the commercial recovery of natural gas from shale as well as oil from offshore drilling rigs.
In the late 1970s, the Department of Energy pioneered massive hydraulic fracturing, a drilling technique that would be improved upon for the economic recovery of shale gas in the future. In 1986, a joint DOE-private venture completed the first successful multi-fracture horizontal well in shale. The Department of Energy later subsidized Mitchell Energy's first successful horizontal drill in the north-Texas Barnett Shale in 1991. Mitchell Energy engineers would go on to develop the hydraulic fracturing technique known as 'slickwater fracturing' that started the modern shale gas boom.
Seems the Feds got it all started, but then poly-ticks got in the way.
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See TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR STRIKES, NOT [Natural] EARTHQUAKES, HIT WASHINGTON DC IN 2011.
[1960'S-70'S GUAM TAOTAMONAS, HUGO CHAVEZ + LAND/ISLAND(S)-SINKING "EARTHQUAKE/TECTONIC BOMBS" here].
and
* TOPIX > PHYSORG > ZEN-HAVEN.DK BLOG = SCHUMAN RESONANCE | [Mysterious]CHANGES DETECTED IN SOME SCHUMAN CAVITY RESONANCE, aka "Earth's Heartbeat/Pulse" = Global Magnetic Field "Isochronic Tones".
Rise from "normal/routine" frequency of 7.8Hz to 12.0Hz, HIGHER-LEVEL FREQUENCIES POSSIBLE.
IMO is related to the magnitide or strength of the serious background EM distortions = warping/alterations I'd recently experienced. THE SUN HAD RELEASED ENERGIES POWERFUL ENUFF TO DISTORT OR BEND BACKGROUND REALITY.
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Iff my childhood dreams/Visions hold true, our future OWG-NWO will agree to formally outlaw
"fracking" as an international crime/felony agz the Planet + Humanity.
was quiet, softly spoken and respectful - a devout Muslim, described by one family friend as a ''walking angel''.
It's quite extraordinary how many walking angels turn into terrorists. Remarkable, really.
Satan had angels, too...
A bright, well-educated man from a deeply religious family and an active member of his community, he seemed like the model citizen.
But unknown to those closest to him, Badat hid a dark secret - one that he would keep hidden until his arrest by anti-terrorism officers in November 2003. A secret that he had once hoped would go forever undetected.
Bio details at the link. What's sad is that this guy had both the ability and many opportunities given him to contribute to society. The good news is that he decided not to explode the 'bring down the airplane' device he was given in training camps. The bad news is that he didn't go so far as to uncover other plots until he was caught.
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note that he memorized the Koran at age 13 then studied arabic
thus he probably had no idea of what he was saying until his arabic improved a lot
with his intelligence he then had several choices
- pretend that the koran doesn't say what it says
- become an islamic apologist and tell the infidel what they want to hear (its getting crowded in that space)
- become an apostate - that could get you killed
- become a terrorist
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It's quite extraordinary how many walking angels turn into terrorists. Remarkable, really.
However, it's not extraordinary how many devout Muslims turn into terrorists. Not remarkable at all, really.
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Update
Terrorist freed early after turning supergrass
A convicted Islamic terrorist who was the accomplice of shoe bomber Richard Reid has been freed from prison after becoming Britain's first al-Qaeda supergrass.
Saajid Muhammad Badat, 33 from Gloucester, was jailed for 13 years in 2005 but had his sentence cut down to 11 years after providing information on up to 18 terror plots over a six-year period.
The deal with police and Crown Prosecution Service has been kept secret for more than two years to protect his safety. It means the convicted terrorist has been on the streets since March 2010 without the public being told.
Badat's release was only disclosed because his evidence at a US trial that began yesterday about a plot to carry out a 7/7-style attack on the New York subway is to be made public.
Barack Obama made an uncharacteristic error, more akin to those of his predecessor George W Bush, by referring to the Falkland Islands as the Maldives.
That's what happens when you bring the English teleprompter to Latin America. Poor Mr. Bush only has Hispanic relatives by marriage and must, it wouild seem, lack the suave intelligence of the current POTUS.
President Obama erred during a speech at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, when attempting to call the disputed archipelago by its Spanish name.
Instead of saying Malvinas, however, Mr Obama referred to the islands as the Maldives, a group of 26 atolls off that lie off the South coast of India.
The Maldives were a British protectorate from 1887 to 1965 and the site of a UK airbase for nearly 20 years.
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The origins of the Maldivian people are shrouded in mystery (What an amazing coincidence). The First settlers may well have been from Sri Lanka and Southern India. Some say Aryans, who sailed in their reed boats from Lothal in the Indus Valley about 4,000 years ago, probably followed them. Archeological evidence suggests the existence Hinduism and Buddhism before the country embraced Islam in 1153 A.D. not surprisingly, the faces of todays Maldivian display the features of various faces that inhabit the lands around the Indian Ocean shipping and maritime routes, the Maldives has long been a melting pot for African, Arab and South East Asian mariners.
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Foreign aid to Kenya has significantly increased during Champ's term, and this is yet another, blatant insult to our UK allies. The obvious bias against all things British that is repeatedly shown countered with the glowing words he offers Cameron must make people realize the depth of deceit POTUS gives daily to the American people. The bonus is the blatant stupidity displayed since he doesn't know enough basic geography to differentiate Malvina from Maldives, hence making the insult less about policy than ineptitude. Another display on the world stage of what a jerk we elected.
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Founded by a white man, so there's probably little if any interest.... but If the bugger can read, here's a link which might offer a distance learning geography assist:
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Uncharacteristic slip? Really? so the 57 states comment doesn't count, nor does moving various cities around in Wyoming and Colorado and who knows where else.
I am sure we could complie a not-so-short list of uncharacteristic slips by the Waffler-in-Chief.
oh yeah, give me one of those numbers for the outta office celbration Barbara, please.
Arabic media is reporting that a former leader of Hamas, Mustafa Leddawi, was kidnapped in Damascus by unknown assailants who took him to an unknown destination.
Sources told Al Hayat that Leddawi, who had held several leadership positions in Hamas including being its representative in Syria, Lebanon and Iran, was captured early Sunday morning while driving his own car.
Hamas leadership is in contact with Syrian authorities and received a promise that they will make efforts in order to know where he is.
I'll bet Pencilneck knows exactly where he is. This is, I'm guessing, Pencilneck's way of letting Hamas know the penalty for backing away from him. If they're going down, they're all going down together.
Gays and "tomboys" have been barred from attending Saudi Arabian public schools and universities in an effort to fight the "phenomenon" of homosexuality and gender non-conformity, a report from Emirates 24/7 said.
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is charged with ensuring the immediate implementation of the rules, although it remains unclear who issued them. According to the report, "instructions have been issued to all public schools and universities to ban the entry of gays and tomboys and to intensify their efforts to fight this phenomenon."
Banned students will be required to "prove they have been corrected and have stopped such practices" in order to re-enroll in their school or university. The U.S. State Department human rights reports criticize Saudi Arabia for abuses against the LGBT community.
Don't wait up tonight to read reports from the AP or Rooters about how the American LGBT community occupied the Saoodi embassy in DC in protest...
Syrian tribes opposed to the embattled regime of Bashar Assad said Monday they would join forces in an "Assembly of Tribes," Syrian opposition members and media reported.
"Today we proclaim, as children of all tribes, an Assembly of Tribes," opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) member Mahmut al-Maslat said in a statement read out on behalf of the assembly.
Tribal affiliation plays a major role in Syrian politics, along with religion, ideology and regional origin.
A large number of Syrian tribes will now be "sharing data and give an answer to our people's questions," Maslat said, quoted by conservative Islamic Turkish newspaper Zaman on its website.
Tribes represented in the new assembly were "from across Syria and represent more than 40 percent" of all Syrian tribes, the statement said.
Ahmed el-Jaburi, a participant in the news conference reported by Zaman, said the tribes were mainly Arab.
"There were some disagreements between some tribes, but all Arabs united and buried their differences," Jaburi said.
SNC executive committee member Bassma Qodmani confirmed the creation of the assembly by telephone, but would not be drawn on how representative it was.
Qodmani said some but not all assembly members were also part of the SNC.
Somebody wants somebody else to know he is seriously displeased.
The fundamental rift on Iran between US President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu burst into the open Monday, April 16 when high-ranking Israeli officials close to Netanyahu directly accused the president of reneging on the US-Israeli understandings reached ahead of the Istanbul talks between the six powers and Iran on April 14.
Behind the show biz of Istanbul, they charged, the US and Iran had reached secret agreements in clandestine bilateral contacts channeled through Gay Paree and Vienna.
The row surfaced Sunday when Netanyahu said the US and world powers by agreeing to hold more talks in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... next month had given Tehran a "freebie" of five more weeks to continue enriching uranium without restrictions. By singling out the US, the prime minister aimed his comment directly at the president.
Obama's response was fast. At a news conference ending the Western Hemisphere summit in Cartagenia, Colombia, he commented sharply: "The notion that somehow we've given something away or a `freebie' would indicate Iran has gotten something. In fact, they've got some of the toughest sanctions that they're going to be facing coming up in just a few months if they don't take advantage of these talks."
"In a few months" is beyond the point when Israel should be bouncing rubble in Iran, at which point the sanctions won't be quite the triumph they're being touted...
That is the very point on which Israel accuses the US president of playing false: time. As disclosed by DEBKAfile on April 9, American and Israeli officials preceded the Istanbul talks with an understanding for the US to put before Iran agreed demands/concessions: Iran would be allowed to keep 1,000 centrifuges for the low-level enrichment of uranium up to 3.5 percent purity, the first time Israel had accepted the principle of Iran enriching uranium at any grade at all.
It was also agreed between Washington and Jerusalem that Iran would not be permitted to keep 20 percent enriched uranium, which is a short step before weapons-grade, in any quantity.
These understandings, known as the "1,000 principle," were meant to represent the final upshot of the formal negotiations with Iran, a consensus to which US diplomats would aspire in as short a time possible.
In the event, the US delegation did not present any of the agreed demands -- or any other - to the Iranians attending the first round of talks in Turkey.
The belated sense of being misled prompted the prime minister's exceptionally sharp reaction.
Israeli official sources now suspect that in their secret contacts, the US has granted Iran far-reaching concessions on its nuclear program - more than Israel would find unacceptable. The formal talks in Istanbul and in Storied Baghdad on May 23 are seen as nothing but a device to screen the real business the US and Iran have already contracted on the quiet.
It was meant to be a Palestinian PR dream. Over 2,000 activists scheduled to converge on Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport, arriving on planes from around the world as part of a "Welcome to Palestine"
Israel had done its homework, however. No-fly lists of potential activists sent to airlines prevented many from even boarding their flights at the point of departure. What could have been a major international incident turned from a flytilla into a floptilla, the lack of action described by The Times of Israel reporting from Ben-Gurion Airport:
But by mid-morning, nothing much was happening. Nothing had been happening for quite some time, reported an Associated Press TV cameraman in the arrivals hall who had replaced another cameraman who had watched nothing happen for most of the night. ...
There were no fewer than 13 TV cameras and about 30 journalists around the terminal, bored and standing around in clumps. Anyone expecting Tahrir Square was presented instead with Waiting for Godot.
Nato's chief responded to Afghan President Hamid Karzai blaming Sunday's insurgent attacks on the intelligence agencies of Afghanistan "and especially Nato", saying intelligence was never a 100 percent guarantee.
"We do all we can to prevent such attacks in co-ordination with the Afghan security forces and the Afghan intelligence services, but of course you can never give a 100 percent guarantee," Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview with TOLOnews Monday.
a would-be shoe bomber who was jailed for 13 years for trying to blow up an airliner, has had his sentence cut by two years after agreeing to give evidence against other suspected terrorists, police and prosecutors said today.
Badat, who was jailed in 2005, saw his prison sentence reduced to 11 years in 2009 as part of a deal with prosecutors, it can be reported today.
It is the first time in the UK that a convicted terrorist has entered into an agreement with the Crown Prosecution Service to give evidence in a trial against other alleged terrorists.
Sue Hemming, head of the CPS special crime and counter terrorism division, said the agreement had not been entered into lightly. It will see Badat give evidence in the US trial of Adis Medunjanin over an alleged al Qaida martyrdom plot from 2008 to 2010, which opens in New York today.
Just two days after President Barack Obama gave a sharply edged response to news anchor Larry Conners of KMOV in St. Louis after Conners had asked the president about Americans who "get frustrated and even angered when they see the first family jetting around [to] different vacations and so forth," Obama told a panel at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia that part of his job there was to scout out locations for a future vacation with First Lady Michelle Obama.
Obama was speaking on a panel with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff when he made the remarks. The panel was moderated by Chris Matthews of MSNBC.
"I want to thank President Santos and the people of Colombia for the extraordinary hospitality in the beautiful city of Cartagena," said Obama. "We're having a wonderful time. And usually when I take these summit trips, part of my job is to scout out where I may want to bring Michelle back later for vacation. So we'll make sure to come back sometime in the near future." And of course, before anyone else says it, "It was Bush'es fault because he took 30 trips home to Texas at this stage of his presidency, the Obamas vacation-day count is less than half of W's 220 days at his Crawford ranch."
The Israeli military will soon acquire tank shells it believes will be crucial in the fight against Hezbollah and Hamas, the Jerusalem Post reported Monday.
The new armament, the M339 a 120-millimeter shell developed by Israeli Military Industries and the Israeli Army explodes only after it penetrates a reinforced target and then releases thousands of lethal fragments, the daily said.
The daily also said the M339 was the second newest tank shell addition to the Israeli militarys arsenal and joins the Kalanit, which it said was recently deployed in tanks stationed along the border with the Gaza strip and is unique in its ability to explode midair over terrorists hiding behind various obstacles such as boulders or vehicles.
The Israeli military will receive the new M339 tank shells in the coming weeks, the paper said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that the massive Taliban offensive in Kabul and three other provinces showed a "failure" by the intelligence services, and especially by NATO.
Karzai is playing the role of Walter Cronkite this time around...
Maybe scopolamine would help?
In his first statement regarding the eighteen-hour siege of diplomatic and government enclaves, Karzai also said that Afghan security forces proved themselves capable of defending their country and providing security.
Eighteen hours after hard boyz launched coordinated attacks in Kabul, they have all been killed and the fighting is over, an Afghan official said Monday.
Kabul was hit by a wave of coordinated attacks in three areas Sunday, with embassies and foreign military bases coming under fire in what Taliban hard boyz said was the start of their "spring offensive".
At least eight coppers and five non-combatants were killed, while 41 others, including 36 police, were maimed in the attacks in Kabul, chief of the Kabul police Criminal Investigation Unit, Mohammad Zahir, told TOLOnews.
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I'm sorry, Butch Jereling5562, but I didn't understand a word of that. Would you be so kind as to translate into standard English, as I clearly haven't the benefit of your multi-lingual education. Thanks!
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Farsi kin tell he's either a goof racial supreme ass ist piss poor at insulting (race-baiting-wise speaking), or he's a goof Mooselimb piss poor at spoofing goof racial supreme ass ists.
Betcha won't see this one on the mainstream media. It's currently only being covered in the Chinese media and Iowan media.
There have always been those who mistake our freedoms for licence, and think their money will smooth everything.
China News Service April 14th report, in Iowa state of the United States, 21-year-old Chinese overseas student Tang Peng (transliteration) has been accused of raping a female landlord 2 weeks ago on the pretense of wanting to rent an apartment. After being arrested, he did not admit guilt. After his parents rushed to America, they attempted to bribe the victim to change her testimony, and have also been prosecuted by the police.
[...] The other charge in this case has attracted attention. The Iowa police department's charge that Tang Peng's parents, 57-year-old Tang X [Tang Xuefan] and 49-year-old Li X [Li Qiao] (transliteration) rushed to Iowa after the incident occurred at the beginning of the month, where they had claimed they would find the woman who accused their son and "persuade" her to change her testimony to obtain some remuneration. A friend told the victim what Tang Peng's parents had said, and the police arrested Tang's parents after being informed. Comments from Weibo, the Chinese twitter:
Has to be the child of a government official or of the rich, used to running amok in China without consequences. Abroad, they won't tolerate this kind of behavior.
They think they're in China, where they can settle things with money, with connections?! Hahaha!
They really thought it would be the same as in China, where as long as one has money one has power and anything can be done. Wrong. America's laws are very sound, but as for China's laws, sigh! Nothing can be said.
Smiles, America's legal system is truly too gei li! People like this truly deserve it!
These parents have gotten used to bribing in China.
This pair of reckless parents, thinking they're still in China, where money along can settle things. The son too must be be influenced by their actions in order for him to do such a nation-shaming thing!
Strange, a domestically time-tested tried and true method not working abroad, truly strange.
Could it be, that outside China, it isn't a harmonious society?
What rich people in China can use money to take care of not working abroad shows that Chinese citizens' moral character has already reached history's lowest point. Reforms have caused China's economy to rise, yet its morals have fallen, just who's mistake is this? I trust history will show us the correct answer.
The tactics habitually used in China don't work in America????
This trick doesn't work in the United States? In China, it totally and completely works.
No matter what mistake he made, we should first protect our own compatriot. When Americans bully us, where did you all go? When they run amok in China, which one of you have stood forth for justice? What difference is this from helping the enemy and selling out your own country? As long as it is fighting the Americans, brother [referring to self] would be the first to enlist, the first to go forth. China cannot be insulted. Only knowing how to bully our own, let me see you go bully foreigners, dammit.
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Oh yeah, its bad.
Ironically, Nippon is very much in a similar predicament as the US as per "Peak Oil/Resources" + GWCC - Nippon needs MORE NUKE ENERGY, NOT LESS, NOR PER THE UNPROVEN, UN-RELIABLE "GREEN TECHS" to satisfy the country's requirements, WHILE ALSO SUFFERING FROM PERVASIVE LACK OF NATIONAL PERT, POLITICAL CONSENSUS AS TO THE CAUSE, EXTENT, ANDOR REAL OR POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES, ETC. OF THE FUKUSHIMA/
TOHOKU EVENT.
IMO any stoppage as per Japan's use of NucPower is more about its FEAR OF NEW, MORE POWERFUL EARTHQUAKES OCCURING IN A GEOLOGICALLY SENSITIVE OR IMPORTANT UW REGION(S), NOT BECAUSE TOKYO GENUINELY BELIEVES IT = NIPPON DOESN'T NEED NUCLEAR ENERGY.
'Tis good PCorrectness + Media-Public Relations, + all that jazz, BUT NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND SERIOUSLY BELIEVES IT.
According to an Israeli TV station which has been given extraordinary access to personnel training for an attack on Iran, the moment of truth is near. This report was approved by military censors.
May God watch over them as they do what must be done. And may our beloved president and his people keep their mouths shut for once until afterward.
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TW: I second your first statement. As to your second, that will happen only when Hell freezes over, or the original long form B.C. is displayed, whichever comes first (I'm betting on Hell)
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [YouTube Video] NETANYAHU: THE FIRST THREAT IS CALLED "IRAN", THE SECOND IS CALLED "PAKISTAN".
versus
* TOPIX > [IRNA] US STRATEGIES FOR IRAN DEFEATED: COMMANDER. Washington DC = US forced to change its anti-Iran strategies or schemas to "SOFT WAR" due to Iran's indominable national strengths.
IRGC GF CDR BGEN Ahmad Reza Pourdastan.
* SAME > AZERI LAWMAKERS PUSH FOR NORTHERN IRAN NAME CHANGE, i.e. for Baku Govt to begin formally referring to northern Iran as "North Azerbaijan" in diplomatic exchanges due to the 16.0Milyuhn ethnic Azeris living in the the southern areas of Northern Iran.
Milyuhns + Tilyuhns + Dilyuhns ... of Azeris in northern Iran.
* SAME > RUSSIA-CHINA VICTORY IN SYRIA [ + BRICS] A SIGN OF DECLINING US POWER. Russia, China's version of the UNO = "Annan Plan" [Kofi] accepted oer objections of the US-Israel-West.
* SAME > ARMENIAN EXPERT: US, ISRAEL, TURKEY + IRAN AIM TO DIVIDE IRAQ.
* SAME > EXPERT: THERE IS NO SINGLE KURDISH NATION. E.g. Turkish + Iraqi Kurds possess significant language + cultural, etc. differences from one another despite common geneology.
The al-Qaeda-allied group al-Shabaab executed US-born jihadist Omar Hammami on April 5th, according to unconfirmed Somali media reports.
Hammami, known as Abu Mansour al-Amriki, said he feared for his life from other al-Shabaab leaders because of strategic and ideological differences in a statement released last month [or possibly failure to use the latest cover sheet on the TPS report].
According to Somalia's Gedo Online, Hammami was the only one absent from a recent meeting attended by top al-Shabaab leaders in Baraawe.
Al-Shabaab reportedly hunted down Hammami after he left Marka in the Lower Shabelle region. He was reportedly beheaded on the spot and buried somewhere between Marka and Baraawe.
Damned uppity furriner, thinking he's equal -- we'll show him!
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[An Nahar] Unknown assailants opened fire on the car of journalist Mustafa Mustafa Jeha, who beat feet unscathed in the incident that took place on the highway south of Beirut on Saturday night, the National News Agency reported.
Jeha, 26, told police that gunnies riding a black Mercedes chased him on the Damour-Jiyeh highway before opening fire on his silver-colored Mercedes near the Oceana beach resort.
NNA said his vehicle was riddled with six bullets.
Jeha accused the perpetrators of trying to kill him the same way his father Mustafa Jeha was assassinated on Jan. 15, 1992, Voice of Leb radio station (93.3) reported.
Jeha, a writer and former contributor to al-Amal, a Phalange paper, was killed by unidentified gunnies while driving his car in the east Beirut suburb of Sabtiyeh.
The writer was an outspoken opponent of fundamentalism and had published works critical of the late leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution Ayatollah Khomeini.
Many believe he was assassinated for publishing the Crisis of Mind in Islam (Mihnat al Aql fil Islam).
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NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday hailed the response of Afghan security forces to a series of attacks on the capital Kabul, labelling the assaults "largely ineffective".
"I am enormously proud of how quickly Afghan security forces responded to today's attacks in Kabul," said General John Allen, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
"They were on scene immediately, well-led and well-coordinated. They integrated their efforts, helped protect their fellow citizens and largely kept the insurgents contained."
ISAF has some 130,000 US-led troops helping the government of President Hamid Karzai fight a Taliban insurgency, but is due to pull out and hand control of security to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.
"The fighting goes on this evening, and ISAF is standing by to support our Afghan partners when and if they need it," Allen said. "I consider it a testament to their skill and professionalism -- of how far they've come -- that they haven't yet asked for that support."
An ISAF statement said the attacks, "which were concentrated in three clusters around the city, were labelled by the Taliban as the start of the so-called 'Spring Offensive' and were largely ineffective".
"The attacks began just before 2:00 pm and consisted primarily of RPG and small arms fire.
"Afghan Crisis Response Units along with Afghan police and army forces deployed to repel the attacks that resulted in light casualties while killing or capturing many of the suicide attackers in a matter of hours," the statement said.
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Apparently not just by only the Security forces ...
Reminds me of the late actor Charleston Heston as General Andrew Jackson before the Battle of New Orleans > [paraph = Heston's booming voice]"By God, all of you [waffling]Bankers, Merchants, Aristocrats + Public Officials will help fight the British or I'll have you all hanged from the nearest tree"!
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Hamid Karzai doesn't feel the same and blames ISAF again fit intel failures ... Listen up you dope , any of our intel failures are due to your country's intel failures
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"I am enormously proud of how quickly Afghan security forces responded to today's attacks in Kabul," said General John Allen, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
I can't begin to imagine how "proud" General Allen might have been had he been.... TIPPED OFF in advance by the host nation intelligence services (or our own) and been able to prevent the attacks in the first place.
(Sh.M.Network) -Tense situation and military movement between Somali government soldiers aiding by Kenyan military forces and Al-shabab bully boyz stir up sunday in Hayo village of Lower Jubba region of southern Somalia, according to the local residents.
Witnesses say there are around the town, military movement and reinforcement making by the joint forces of Somalia and Kenyan army against Al-shabab fighters in several parts of Lower Jubba region on Sunday morning, sparking off fear among locals.
Ismail Sahardiid, the force commander of Somali government troops in the region said while giving an interview with Shabelle Media station from Hayo that many fighters loyal to Al shabab bully boyz were killed and several battle wagons have been burnt in an offensive by TFG and Kenyan military at Hayo area overnight.
"We managed to take over fully the control of Hayo after the combat. Our soldiers are now maintaining the law and order the in area where the bully boyz were driven out shortly after the allied forces entered," he added.
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[An Nahar] Syrian forces killed four civilians on Sunday in shelling of rebel areas and clashed with gunnies, testing a shaky U.N.-backed ceasefire as international monitors prepared to arrive in the unrest-hit country.
Forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... subjected the Khaldiyeh and Bayada neighborhoods of the flashpoint central city of Homs to their fiercest bombardment since the truce came into force at dawn on Thursday, monitors said.
"The bombardment of Khaldiyeh intensified this morning with an average of three shells a minute," the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said one civilian was killed in Khaldiyeh, another was killed in shelling of the Jobar neighborhood, and a third was rubbed out by a sniper in Qsour.
Shabiha pro-regime beturbanned goons also rubbed out a civilian in the town of Aqrab, in the central province of Hama.
Three civilians died in Homs shelling on Saturday, among 14 people killed nationwide ahead of a U.N. Security Council vote approving the dispatch of the observer mission to monitor the truce.
Elsewhere, rebel fighters clashed with security forces in al-Bab in the northern province of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , near the town's State Security police headquarters, the Observatory said.
A cop shoppe there also came under fire, the Britannia-based watchdog added.
Opposition group the Local Coordination Committees said the army shelled the village of Khirbet al-Joz in the northern province of Idlib, which is base to fighters from the rebel Free Syrian Army.
It also said armored vehicles stormed the town of Dmeir outside Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... , launching a campaign of arrests.
Thirty-two people have been killed since the ceasefire brokered by U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... peace envoy Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... took effect, most of them civilians, the Observatory said.
The corpse count is sharply down on pre-ceasefire levels after Syria announced it was halting military operations against the rebels on Thursday.
But regime forces have so far ignored another key element of Annan's peace plan -- an undertaking to withdraw tanks from towns and cities, the Observatory said.
"Since the Annan plan took effect, there has not been any change in the level of military deployment. Roadblocks and tanks remain," Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The first half-dozen observers from the advance team for the U.N. mission were due in Damascus later on Sunday.
Annan wants the mission's numbers to swell to more than 250 but they can only leave if the fragile truce holds, and need another U.N. resolution to approve their deployment.
The first group boarded a plane from New York straight after the Security Council resolution was passed.
The next 25 will come from missions around the Middle East and Africa "so we can move people quickly and they are experienced in the region," U.N. peacekeeping department front man Kieran Dwyer told AFP.
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[An Nahar] Syria warned on Sunday that its forces will respond to "intensified" rebel attacks, even as U.N. military observers were headed for the unrest-hit country to monitor a shaky ceasefire.
"Armed terrorist groups have intensified their attacks in a hysterical way against the army, law enforcement forces, and civilians, in conjunction with the approval of the U.N. Security Council resolution to send monitors to Syria," a military official said, quoted by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Security forces "will prevent the terrorist groups from continuing their criminal attacks," the official added.
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The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, has said that Tehran does not intend to stop producing uranium enriched to a purity level of 20 percent, Tehran Times reported.
Jalili, who is Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, made the remarks during a press conference in Istanbul on Saturday after two rounds of talks between representatives of Iran and the 5+1 group (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany), which ended a 15-month hiatus in talks.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton represented the 5+1 group in the nuclear negotiations and Jalili headed the Iranian delegation.
The two sides agreed to meet again in Baghdad on May 23, and Helga Schmid, the deputy secretary general for political affairs of the European External Action Service, and Ali Baqeri, the deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, were tasked with drawing up an agenda for the Baghdad talks.
According to Reuters, Jalili made it clear at the press conference that Iran has no intention to halt operations at its plants that enrich uranium to contain 20 percent fissile material.
Referring to Iran's rights, which have been stipulated in the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Jalili said, "Enrichment of uranium is one of these rights that every individual member state should benefit from and enjoy for peaceful purposes."
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WORLD NEWS > WEST CAVED IN ON NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT, BOASTS IRGC, at the P5+1 Nuclear Talks.
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* DAILY TIMES.PK > IRANIAN MEDIAS SEE NUCLEAR RIGHTS ENDORSED AT TALKS.
[An Nahar] Bomb attacks killed five people in Iraq on Sunday, including three members of a family whose house was blown up north of the capital, security officials said.
"Unknown gunnies planted three bombs around a house made of mud and reeds in the Taji area, causing it to completely collapse and killing a father, mother and five-year-old boy," an interior ministry official said.
The bombs went kaboom! at about 4:00 am (0100 GMT), the official said, on condition of anonymity, adding that a two-year-old girl survived but was maimed and taken to hospital.
In the northern city of Kirkuk a car boom blast killed the bodyguard of a local Kurdish security chief and maimed 11 other people, security front man Fahad Ali Rashid said.
The attack took place near the university of Kirkuk and also maimed three professors and a student who were attending a conference on violence-related issues.
And west of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a roadside kaboom killed the son of a local leader of the Sahwa, an anti-Qaeda militia, near Nawafel village, security officials said.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Durango state, click here.
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Three men were shot to death and a two others, including a four year old child were wounded in an intergang shootout in western Durango state, according to Mexican news reports.
The incident took place early Saturday morning in the village of San Miguel de Cruces in San Dimas municipality. San Dimas is on the western border of Durango with Sinaloa state, about 25 kilometers north of Mexico Federal Highway 40.
The dead were identified as Ismael Pulid, 26, from San Dimas, and Javier Nunez Ortiz, 19, and Leonardo Rivas Sanchez, 23, both from the vilage of El Durazno in Tamazula municipality.
The wounded were identified as Victor Manuel Reyes Ayon, 25 and Herbando Reyes Meraz, 4, both from the village of Huachimetas de Abajo in San Dimas municipality.
Reports are an undisclosed number of armed suspects aboard two pickup trucks rolled up to the village and started shooting. The two wounded victims were apparently waiting for a bus bound for Durango city when the shooting took place.
San Dimas municipality has been a location of drug cartel violence including four incidents in just 2011 which killed 11 individuals who had run afoul of drug cartel operations in the area. Locations of the incidents in San Dimas municipality include the villages of El Zapote de Buena Vista, Flechas and El Muerto.
Drug cartels use indigent populations in what is colloquially known as the Golden triangle area of Mexico which include western Chihuahua and Durango states, treating them like serfs if they refuse to grow and manufacture drugs.
San Dimas is in the Mexican Sierras, some of the most rugged terrain in North America. Many municipalities in Durango are so remote it takes hours of travel by vehicle just to get a cell phone signal.
Three other individuals were found shot to death in western Durango state, including a former Durango ministerial agent.
A former police agent with the Durango Fiscalia General Estatal (FGE) or Durango attorney general, was found shot to death along with another unidentified man. Enrique Diaz Reyes, 41 was found presumably in Durango city near the intersection of bulevars Domingo Arrieta and Durango. Enrique Diaz Reyes had been kidnapped in front of his wife and children last Wednesday. He was the former head of the Durango FGE anti-kidnapping unit. An apparent written confession and narcopintas, or blankets painted with messages were left at the scene, but their contents were not disclosed.
A 29 year old man found dead along Mexico Federal Highway 40 Saturday has been identified as Alejandro Quinones Escobedo of Nuevo Pueblo municipality in western Durango. The victim was shot once in the chest and once in the stomach.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
[Yemen Post] Three suspected al-Qaeda hard boyz were killed in a US drone strike in the eastern province of al-Baitha, three security officials in the province said.
Among the killed was Mohammed al-Sabri, considered one of the leading hard boyz in the province.
The attack came as they were aboard their vehicle.
A Defense Ministry official confirmed the drone strike and said it was the third air strike in two days in both Abyan and al-Baitha provinces.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-Un delivered his first public speech and vowed to push for a stronger military as his country unveiled an apparently new missile.
Mr Kim addressed cheering troops and citizens waving flowers at a major military parade marking the centenary of the birth of his grandfather and the nation's founder Kim Il-Sung.
The parade came just two days after the North's satellite launch fizzled out embarrassingly, when the rocket apparently went kaboom! within minutes of blastoff.
Appeared confident
But Jong-Un, in his late 20s and in power for less than four months, appeared confident as he oversaw the parade featuring rockets, artillery, tanks and thousands of goose-stepping troops.
"We must strengthen our military in every possible way... and accomplish the goal of building a powerful and prosperous socialist state," he told troops and civilians packing a square named after his grandfather.
"The time when the enemy threatens and blackmails us with atomic bombs has gone for good," Jong-Un said in reference to the North's nuclear weapons programme touted as one of the greatest achievements of the family dynasty which has ruled since 1948.
"Let's move on towards our final victory!" he said as troops repeatedly chanted "Mansei!" (Hurray). Jong-Un, clad in his customary dark Mao suit, pledged to improve the lives of people in a nation beset by acute food shortages, an ailing economy and severe power outages.
The ruling party, he said, was determined that North Koreans, "who have endured so many challenges and faithfully served the party, will no longer have to tighten their belts and will fully enjoy socialist prosperity".
Critics say the North's massive military spending could feed millions of malnourished people living outside the showpiece capital Pyongyang.
The US State Department estimates that up to a quarter of the North's gross national product is spent on the 1.2-million-strong military.
Washington has scrapped plans to deliver 240,000 tonnes of food aid after the launch, widely seen overseas as a disguised ballistic missile test in violation of UN resolutions.
One of several missiles on display today appeared new, analysts said.
Mr Ham Hyeong-Pil of South Korea's Korea Institute for Defense Analyses said the weapon -- apparently longer than the North's existing Musudan mid-range missile -- seemed to be a new long-range missile.
"The Musudan, about 12 metres long, is believed to have a range of 3,000 to 4,000 kilometres. But this one appears capable of reaching at least 1,000 kilometres further,"
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Today's Seattle Times has an editorial that suggests that we scrap the scrapping of withholding the food due to NorK's violations and send it. reading the whole thing made me puke in my mouth, all sweet and flowers it was.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > NORTH KOREAN FAILED SATELLITE LAUNCH IS A FALSE COVER AS IT IS INSENSIBLE FOR NORTH KOREA TO KNOWINGLY LAUNCH A DEFECTIVE ROCKET OR SATELLITE. SINO-NORTH KOREAN RELATIONS TO FACE POSSIBLE EXPLOSIVE CHANGES.
UNCERTAINTY IN BEIJING ON THE MEANING OF FAILED LAUNCH.
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* NEWS KERALA > IRANIAN OFFICIALS WITNESSED FAILED NORTH KOREAN ROCKET LAUNCH.
OOOOOOOOO, you can just hear KELLY'S HEROES'
"ODDBALL" TELLING "MORIARITY" - "THE ROCKET IS GOING UP, UP. UP [Fly, Robin, Fly] .... ... ... NO, IT 'AINT! YA SEE WHAT DEM NEGATIVE WAVES OF YOURS DID, MORIARITY"!?
Something tells me these Officials are going to wanna suddenly review the Engineering Specs, etc. when they return home to Iran.
[An Nahar] U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... voiced concern on Sunday over the Syrian regime's shelling of the central city of Homs and urged the government to do everything to maintain a fragile ceasefire.
"I am very much concerned about what has happened since yesterday and today," Ban said after talks with Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo in Brussels.
"(The) Syrian government has been shelling the city of Homs and elsewhere we have seen already some casualties, populations killed," he said as the first six members of a U.N. monitoring mission were due to arrive in Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... on Sunday.
"I urge again in the strongest possible terms that this cessation of violence must be kept," the U.N. secretary general said, adding that the truce monitoring mission will be up and running from Monday.
Syrian forces reportedly killed five civilians in shelling of rebel areas and festivities with gunnies on Sunday, testing the shaky U.N.-backed ceasefire ahead of the arrival of observers.
"While we welcome this cessation of violence at this time I warn that the whole world is watching with skeptical eyes whether this will be able to be sustainable," Ban said.
"It is important, absolutely important, that the Syrian government should take all the measures to keep this cessation of violence," he added.
Ban said he would present by Thursday his proposal to enlarge the U.N. monitoring mission, which will have 30 unarmed military observers at first, to 250 people.
"I hope the Security Council will act on that as soon as possible so that we will swiftly deploy this monitoring team," he said.
"Once the monitoring team is on the ground, I hope there will be calm stability and peace without any violence."
Ban, who meets with top EU officials on Monday, repeated that at least one million people are displaced within Syria and tens of thousands of refugees are in neighboring countries including Jordan, Leb and Turkey.
"These are all very serious challenges which require urgent, urgent action," he said, recalling that U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos will host a meeting in Geneva next Friday to begin the task of getting aid to Syria's needy.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Sudan Armed Forces locked horns with southern troops at a new battle front along the border today, officials said, placing the two former foes in an awkward position that could easily lead them into an all-out war.
The SAF attacked police posts at Kuek area in South Sudan's Upper Nile state, overran them and eventually took over a momentary control, army front man Col Philip Aguer said.
Col Aguer said the police forces that were based in Kuek were pushed south wards into Panyikang County in the Shiluk Kingdom.
"They displaced the police. They chased away the police which was at the borders. They invaded the area and the SPLA will definitely handle the situation," Col Aguer said.
"Antonovs are hovering over Bentiu but they have not yet dropped bombs," he said in reference to aerial raid in the neighboring oil-rich Unity state which has been the scene of most air attacks.
At least five were killed on Saturday when a bomb landed in a market in Bentiu, the capital of Unity state.
Upper Nile state Government Simon Kun Puoch said the invading troops were a combination of two militia forces and the SAF.
Mr Kun said the police pulled back shortly before staging a repulsive attack that later pushed the SAF out of the area.
"SPLA forces came and they were pushed back again," Mr Kun said, refering the SAF and the associated militia forces. He said the SAF was "shelling Kuek from all directions".
SAF was not immediately reached for a comment. But previously, they had vowed to fight back with a heavy force.
The hostilities between the two countries, which separated last July after two decades of bloody war, started last week with South Sudan taking over the border town of Heglig in response to continued aerial bombardment and ground attacks.
Heglig, which South Sudan claims is its own according to the 1956 colonial maps, produced about half of Sudan's crude oil since the split.
Southern troops seized the region and shut down oil production, depriving Khartoum of the cash it badly needs to salvage its deteriorating economy.
The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... have repeatedly called for restraint.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... the first batch of Sudanese prisoners of war captured in days of bloody fighting arrived in the South Sudanese capital today, as the South's army said festivities continued in contested border regions.
"We are respecting the international laws on war," South Sudanese army front man Philip Aguer told news hounds, adding the prisoners were captured in the contested Heglig oil field.
"We are going to liaise with the Red Thingy to see if they are willing to facilitate their return home," Mr Aguer said, adding that while Southern troops were holding other prisoners of war, he did not have details at present of how many.
Mr Aguer said the South's army remained in control of Heglig, despite a counter-attack launched by the Sudan Armed Forces.
On Saturday, Khartoum army front man Sawarmi Khaled Saad said Sudanese troops were within kilometres of the main town in Heglig.
The 14 Sudanese soldiers arrived by airplane in Juba, looking exhausted but apparently well fed and in good spirits, with those maimed in battle having received medical treatment, according to an AFP news hound.
Several had fresh bandages over bullet wounds, others were carried on stretchers.
Captured Sudanese medical officer, Lieutenant Khalid Hassan Ahmed, appeared tired but smiled as he arrived.
"Things are OK... I was brought to treat maimed people where there was fighting, but then we were captured last Tuesday during the attack," he said.
"I was forced to come to fight (for the Sudanese army), I have two bullets in my leg," said Moror Malik, another prisoner.
Some two million people died in Sudan's 1983-2005 civil war, one of Africa's longest, before the peace deal opened the way to South Sudan's independence.
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[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda Plans To Target Dhale Province Amid Blows In Abyan, Ministry
The Interior Ministry revealed on Saturday al-Qaeda plans to attack key installations including governmental offices in Dhale province, amid continuous battles by the forces and popular fighters against the Islamic fascistiin southern and southeastern regions.
The ministry said in a statement, quoting the local security authorities, the Islamic fascistihave planned to carry out terrorist operations in Dhale after they have received devastated blows in Abyan province.
The authorities have been placed on high alert to face possible terrorist attacks, with the people also urged to cooperate with them, it said.
The Islamic fascistiwill try to destabilize this province in an attempt to draw attention and help ease the siege imposed on the remaining Islamic fascistiin Abyan province, it said.
Hundreds of al-Qaeda Islamic fascistihave been killed in a week of raging battles in the Lawder city, Abyan.
Coinciding with official statements on the withdrawal of the remaining Islamic fascistifrom the city, reports have said al-Qaeda has sought a truce, but the forces and the popular fighters refused the request.
Meantime, the daily life has returned to normal in Lawder after the myrmidons, who were trying to occupy the city, were forced out.
Markets reopened and clam was reported in many parts of the city after the forces and the popular fighters seized the positions of the myrmidons, locals said. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... small battles have been reported in areas far from downtown, the locals added.
After al-Qaeda seized some towns in Abyan in mid-2011 amid a popular uprising, the concerns of the West started to grow, with the US offering direct support to the Yemeni forces to fight the myrmidons.
Since June, drone attacks have killed many Islamic fascistiincluding leaders.
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The end of the Easter holiday and the first full week of campaigning saw Josefina Vazquez Mota reassign a campaign aide and bring on board two of Partido Accion Nacional's (PAN) heaviest hitters, PAN president Gustavo Madero and Ernesto Cordero as advisors to her campaign.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
Cordero was Vazquez Mota's former rival during the primary campaign period of the electoral process.
The news was a clear attempt to restart her campaign after a stuttering start which included less than optimum crowds at campaign rallies and at least one press gaffe.
The press gaffe, a seemingly minor one, got one campaign press worker, Karla Garduño, ousted from the campaign press office. Her mistake was typing "Tlazcala" instead of Tlaxcala, which is a state in Mexico. In a tweet she attributed the gaffe to "thick fingers."
As soon as Madero and Cordero were on board a negative campaign began, which included at least three Youtube spots attacking Partido Revolucionario Institutcional (PRI) presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto for his poor record as governor of Mexico state.
The first of the spots can be seen here. The theme of the first spot ad was Pena Nueto's broken promises, 67 by PAN's count. A second cartoon hitting on just a few themes attacking Pena Nieto can be seen here.
The cartoon's theme was repeated in another spot ad, which can be seen here, and which will likely be repeated throughout the campaign.
The cartoon's narrative is:
You know me.
P1: You know perfectly that between 2008 and 2010 the state with the highest increase in the poor was Mexico state, going from 15th to 3rd place at the national level.
P2 And you know that in only five years, Mexico state saw 922 female murders, one third of those in the entire country.
P3 Last place in education and first in kidnappings and crime at the national level.
P4 Second most indebted state in the country (after Coahuila from my friend (Humberto) Moreira) and number one in crimes committed between 2009 and 2011.
P5 Don't know anything about this? Ah, it is that between 2005 and 2010 my publicity increased 1,355 percent.
P6 Because of this you will vote for me.
As a result, PRI president Pedro Coldwell has filed a complaint with the Mexican Institutio Federal Elecciones (IFE) the federal governing body that controls elections right down to how much money campaigns are allowed to spend. He characterized the attack as desperate.
Pedro Joaquin Coldwell
Coldwell also announced at the start of the week that his campaign's auditing proposal was accepted by the IFE, word for word, as he put it, to prevent "dirty money" from entering PRI campaigns.
The campaign of Gabriel Quatri de la Torre of Partido Nueva Alianza (PANAL) was not so lucky, coming under charges by the IFE that his campaign had accepted government money, a charge his campaign has denied.
Pena Nieto in the meantime has responded to the negative ads, saying to the press he will not fall into provocations of his opponents "to devote more time to deal with themes that really interest Mexicans." He told an audience in Guerrero state his opponents make false promises and speeches that promise to make things easy, but "hardly have viability." He also said he intends to run a "clean campaign."
But not everything ran smoothly for the frontrunner. In Oaxaca state, he attended a raucous rally where many PRI supporters called him a murderer, and tried to shout him down as he was giving a speech. It is unclear why Pena Nieto was the recipient of that particular smear.
Enrique Pena Nieto
During that speech PRI supporters also attacked a reporter with glass bottles only a few meters away. It was a violent incident Pena Nieto was apparently completely unaware of.
At that rally Pena Nieto promised to consolidate the hospital network in the state.
PRI has recently had considerable problems with supporters in southern Mexican states, especially during the term of Humberto Moreira, who quit last December. Moreira's resignation came partially at the insistence of PRI militants in Tabasco state.
Meanwhile, Partido Revolucion Democratica candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador came out with a proposal he said he will implement if he becomes president, which he called republican austerity. The details have yet to be released, but Lopez Obrador has vowed to cut federal government spending to the tune of MP $800 million and to plow those savings back into the economy. He also promised to maintain the macroeconomic policies already put in place by PAN president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa to include attracting foreign investment.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Where in the Mexican government Lopez Obrador intends to cut, being that he is an old style socialist, will likely be in the defense budgets of the army and navy. He has vowed to return ground forces to the barracks as a strategy of dealing the drug cartel violence.
In his speech in Mexico City, he rejected the notion of structural reforms, osaying that reforms in critical area have always been imposed from foreign influences, and not done by Mexicans, an economic condition he says he wants to change.
Speaking of changing, Vazquez Mots was forced to change planes in Oaxaca state Tuesday after the aircraft she was using developed an unspecified mechanical problem.
Pena Nieto also has an aircraft problem, that is, if you ask Lopez Obrador. He announced Friday that his campaign was about to file a complaint with the IFE demanding PRI release data on whose aircraft he is using to get about Mexico.
In a Friday morning press conference Lopez Orbador complained that every cost of operating the aircraft to move about Mexico must be accounted for. "How much does an aircraft cost per hour?" asked Lopez Obrador
He said Pena Nieto is using helicopters and two or three private jets to move around an advance party with "up to 200 campaign workers for logistics, such as installing fences, closing streets. And that costs money... How much is the income of private jets?."
Finally on Thursday Madero tweeted a link to an opinion piece in El Universal news daily by Mexican academic Maracrio Shettino, which asks the question, how can Pena Nieto's party claim to do what PAN has not done when the PRI has frustrated PAN attempts at reforms virtually every step of the way. His answer: Either Pena Nieto doesn't know what he is doing, or he is a liar.
[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... says the 'gravest problem' inflicting the country is the US war on terror, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives so far.
Speaking at a convention of PTI women's wing here on Saturday, Khan condemned the killing of Shias and described it as the second gravest issue. He said at least 40,000 Pak civilians and military men had been killed in the US war on terror, but US 'protégés' had reopened 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... supplies. Condemning approval by parliament for reopening the supplies, he said the so-called war on terror only benefited a handful of the ruling elite at the cost of the poor Paks. The war, he said, fuelled extremism in the country.
Talking about sectarianism, he condemned killings of Shias and described such acts as anti-Islam, anti-Pakistain and anti-humanity. He said his party after coming into power would ensure supremacy of law.
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[Dawn] Jamaat-e-Islami's ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... former amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed ...the absolutely humorless, xenophobic former head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He was also head of the MMA, a coalition of religious parties formed after 2001 that eventually collapsed under the weight of the holy egos involved. Qazi was the patron of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar during the Afghan mujaheddin's war against the Soviets. His sermons are described as fiery, which means they rely heavily on gospel and not at all on logic. Qazi once recommended drinking camel pee for good health, but that was before his kidneys went... has said that the announcement by the American officials to continue drone attacks is a slap in the face for Pak rulers and the policymakers should learn from past mistakes.
Talking to this correspondent here late Friday, he rejected the parliament's recommendations for resumption of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... supplies via Pakistain to the US-led forces in Afghanistan and said that the people would not accept an appeasement policy towards the US.
Mr Ahmed said that the best option for the government was to reconsider its policies and give up cooperating with the US in the so-called fight against terrorism.
"The 'war on terror' is not in Pakistain's interests. We have said this from the day Pakistain started toeing the American policy line in the region," he said. He questioned why millions of people were displaced as a result of military operations in tribal areas and compelled to take shelter in camps and pass through a shameful period of their life.
Mr Ahmed and other leaders of his party had said on numerous occasions before the parliament's decision that the JI workers would block the NATO-supply routes if the government moved to reopen it.
"The attack on Salala checkpost in which 26 of our gallant jawans bit the dust in November last year had brought disgrace for the entire nation," the JI leader said and asked why the unprovoked attack of the US-led forces was backed by the NATO commanders and no action taken against the forces involved in the incident.
Answering a question, the JI leader said that innocent people were being killed in the US drone attacks in total violation of international laws. He said that the government should give up double standard and clearly tell the Americans for an
immediate stoppage of drone strikes in the tribal belt.
About 'war on terror', he said that the American policymakers tactfully dragged Pakistain into this useless war.
"We have suffered economic losses of about $70 billion, while over 40,000 innocent people were killed in this 'war on terror'. Despite this our rulers keep on saying that it is our war and they would continue it. This is an appeasement policy, which is not acceptable to us," he said.
He said that the tribal people who rendered sacrifices for Pakistain could scuttle the reopening of NATO supply line. "The JI would support them in their endeavours," he said.
Mr Ahmed said that the US had betrayed Pakistain because sophisticated weapons were transported through Pak routes of Torkham and Chaman and the same arms had been used for killing innocent people, mostly Pakhtuns, in
Afghanistan and Pakistain.
He urged the party workers to prepare for the next general elections because the rulers had failed on all fronts.
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(Sh. M. Network) -- Armed groups launched once again mortar rounds atSomalia's presidential palace, Villa Somalia in Mogadishu, witnesses said on Sunday.
Local residents near the palace told Shabelle Media by phone on condition of anonymity that they could hear mid last night mortars being fired at the heavily protected Somali presidential compound, the fourth attempt to strike at the heart of the government in a fortnight.
No group has claimed the responsibility for the bombardment at Somali palace so far.
It was not immediately unclear to verify the exact number of casualties in the attack. TFG officials at the palace were unavailable to reach on the line for comments about the shelling.
Under pressure from African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... and Somali government troops, the al Qaeda-linked forces of Evil withdrew from Mogadishu in August prompting a return to relative calm in the capital, although they still manage to launch sporadic attacks.
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Corruption has appeared in the land and sea on account of what the hands of men have wrought, that he may make them taste a part of that which they have done, so that they may return.
ANY PERSON WHO PROVIDES / RENDERS SERVICES FOR THE SAKE OF DEEN / RELIGION AND TAKE COMPENSATION RECEIVE REWARD REMUNERATION SALARY HE IS VERY CRUEL & TYRANT
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You can't use all caps in a comment, ws - Joe's got the patent on that.
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ANY PERSON WHO PROVIDES / RENDERS SERVICES FOR THE SAKE OF DEEN / RELIGION AND TAKE COMPENSATION RECEIVE REWARD REMUNERATION SALARY HE IS VERY CRUEL & TYRANT
Thus must the pious acknowledge that all the jihadis who are given salaries, and pensions for their families after they die, are but cruel tyrants whom all pious Muslims must abhor. So too, those who take booty for themselves from among the families and possessions of those they conquer, for that is reward and remuneration for the service rendered for the sake of religion.
How strong the contrast between the jihadis of Islam and the soldiers of the West and Israel! The jihadis demand goods, money, and boys and girls for pleasure and wives from among those who shelter them. The soldiers of the West and Israel take nothing without paying fairly for it, and build schools and dig wells for those they conquer -- of their own funds and not tribute -- that the children of the Muslims should be healthy and learn to read and write, as all do in the West.
Thank you, wamiq sheikh, for making that clear to those here who were ignorant.
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And Mr. Sheikh, we only post a statement once. Repeated paste'n'n post behaviour is bad manners -- as a resident of Canada, you must appreciate the distinction -- and leads to the poster being banned. You will understand that we must maintain standards, I am sure.
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Golly, I do believe Mr. Sheikh of Pickering, Ontario is attempting to wage keyboard jihad on this site. Perhaps later it will sink in that he was defeated in this endeavor by a little Jewish suburban housewife who achieved a D- average in her two attempts at CS113 (Intro. Comp. Sci) back in 1979.
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Thus must the pious acknowledge that all the jihadis who are given salaries, and pensions for their families after they die, are but cruel tyrants whom all pious Muslims must abhor. So too, those who take booty for themselves from among the families and possessions of those they conquer, for that is reward and remuneration for the service rendered for the sake of religion.
Sounds remarkably like a Pirate's Code, tw. Off course, given the reality of the hatred and bloodshed displayed between the various ROP sects, the dictates of the ROP version of the Code appear to understood more as guidelines than hard and fast rules, ya see.
[Dawn] Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has strongly condemned the Kabul attacks. She said that Pakistain denounces all forms of terrorism.
Except for the ones on the ISI payroll, but few are so crass as to say so aloud.
Speaking to media persons after the prize distribution ceremony of 59th All Pakistain Golf Championship she said that : "We strongly condemn the recent attacks in Kabul".
She further said that the government is trying to resolve all issues with India including Kashmire through dialogue. President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... also urged resolution of all issues with India.
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The brutal Syrian regime's bloody crackdown on the protesters, who have been taking to street to get rid of the autocratic regime, has not only inflicted unacceptable toll on the Syrian people but has also triggered a new wave of Palestinian refugees.
It is the destiny of those refugees to live in a permanent state of refuge. Palestinian refugees in Syrian are estimated to be 480,000.
With the continued influx of refugees from Syria, Jordan was alerted that the many refugees entering the country from Syria were in fact Palestinians.
Nobody likes you guys. Ever wonder why?
It is worth mentioning that Jordan hosts some two millions Palestinians refugees and several hundred displaced. Therefore, receiving a new wave of refugees is a source of concerns in Amman.
But given the delicate demographic balance in Jordan, Jordanians are sensitive toward having new Palestinians refugees. There is a strong political current in Jordan that oppose resettling the Palestinians in Jordan calling for them to be given the opportunity to practice their right of return.
Against this, Amman cannot afford to be seen as encouraging the settlement of Palestinian refugees outside Palestine. For Jordan, the problem of dealing with Syrian refugees is complex as a considerable percentage of the refugees are Palestinians.
Sources from the Jordanian Ministry of Interior say that Jordan is considering establishing a buffer zone to place Palestinians refugees. Some 17 Palestinian refugees entered Jordan but they were put in places designated for Syrian refugees. A few days ago, Jordan's Minister of Interior visited Ramallah to discuss with the Palestinian Authority the issue of Palestinian refugees coming from Syria.
It certainly would make life interesting if it's decided to resettle this lot in the West Bank... and the diminishing donations from the UN and elsewhere have to be shared with half a million unrelated newcomers with neither the education nor the skills of the 'natives'.
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The PA said it can't handle the flux - that leaves Israel + US + UNO AGAIN.
AFP - Jordan's powerful Islamists and their allies won a landslide victory in leadership elections for the country's first teachers' union, results showed on Saturday.
Independent Mustafa Rawashdeh was elected president with 259 of the 283 votes cast, but the Islamist "Unionist Teacher" bloc won all the remaining 14 council seats.
"These were historic elections that have taken place in a democratic atmosphere," Rawashdeh told AFP.
"Now, we will focus on work to help enhance education in the country and improve the conditions of teachers."
There are around 120,000 teachers in Jordan, providing education to 1.6 million children in 5,000 state and private schools.
Last year, parliament passed a law allowing the formation of the country's first teachers' union, following several street protests led by Rawashdeh.
The government has been reluctant to license the union fearing it would be politicised.
[Dawn] At least eight members of the Shia Hazara community and a policeman were killed in three attacks here on Saturday.
After the attacks and subsequent violence, the administration called out Frontier Corps in the city. The paramilitaries started taking up positions at important places in the evening.
"Seven people were killed in firing on two vehicles on Brewery Road and Subzal Road," DIG (Operation) Qazi Wahid told Dawn.
Saturday's killings took the number of Hazara Shias killed in Quetta and its vicinity during the past fortnight to 26.
The Hazara Democratic Party has called upon the community to observe a strike on Sunday to "register outrage over the unabated killings".
Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani, who was in Islamabad, expressed sorrow over the deaths and ordered officials concerned to "take all possible steps for arresting the culprits".
The 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... governor had earlier this week criticised the provincial government, warning that the army could be called out if the administration failed to protect life and property.
Soon after Saturday's attacks, angry protesters blocked the road that leads from Quetta to Hazara town.
They torched a private van and a cycle of violence in Bolan Medical College Hospital.
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[Yemen Post] Dozens of gunnies affiliated to Yemeni merchants have been surrounding the Tax Authority in Sana'a since Sunday noon, chairman of the Tax Authority, Mohammad Ghalib, said on Sunday, affirming that they prevented the employees from entering the authority.
Ghalib accused two businessmen, Mohammad Al-Kaboos and Mohmmad Shareb, of bringing gunnies to surround the authority and shut down its gate.
He told Al-Masdar Online that the authority was subjected to an incitement campaign by some merchants, indicating that they distributed leaflets and brochures that incite merchants against the authority and evading paying taxes.
Ghalib also said that he contacted a number of the concerned authorities including the Interior Ministry and asked them to end the siege imposed against the authority.
Yemeni merchants demand the Tax Authority to release their tax numbers suspended since weeks after they refused commitment to the sale tax law.
Yemen Prime Minister Mohammad Salem Basindwa met last week with traders and discussed with them recent measures taken by the Tax Authority.
According to Ghalib, Basindwa agreed with the merchants to pay due taxes to the government, pointing out that they now attempt to break down their pledges with the government.
"We want to apply the laws until funds go to the state budget and the end of tax envision" he added.
Basindwa agreed with merchants to form a committee comprised of fiver persons to discuss the challenges regarding the application of the tax law.
The Tax Authority affirmed it will take legal measures against those who try to violate laws, calling all merchants to immediately pay off tax fees.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Fears of violence marred today's opening of a summit gathering US President Barack Obama On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today... and Latin American leaders when four bombs went off here and in the Colombian capital.
Two of the crude devices went kaboom! in the resort city of Cartagena just hours after the US leader arrived for regional talks set to focus on the vicious drug wars stalking the region.
Two other small bombs went kaboom! near the US Embassy in Bogota, in an area which is also home to important government buildings.
"Nobody was killed, nobody was injured, and there was no damage," a police official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the bombings, but Bogota and other major cities have been the site of urban guerrilla attacks for decades.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a narco mob based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. (FARC) -- now the Americas longest running insurgency -- has been at war with the Colombian government since 1964 and is believed to have 9,000 fighters in mountainous and jungle areas, according to government estimates.
Two issues -- the pros and cons of drug legalisation and Cuba's continued exclusion from the summit -- were expected to dominate the summit agenda, highlighting the growing disconnect between Washington and an increasingly assertive and independent Latin American bloc led by powerhouse Brazil.
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[Yemen Post] President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi has refused to attend a meeting of the General People Congress headed by the former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh, ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... an Emirati newsapepr, Al-Khaleej, quoted sources close to Hadi.
The sources said that Saleh held a meeting at his residency last Saturday with members of his party, making reference that Hadi refused to attend the meeting.
The newspaper said that Saleh had asked Hadi to keep his son, Ahmed Ali, who commands the Republican Guard in his position, in return for accepting the dismissal of his half-bother Mohammad Saleh Al-Ahmar who run the Air Forces until April 6th.
The sources said that Hadi seriously consider taking bold critical decisions regarding imposing sanctions against Saleh's relatives who refused his decrees as well as designating them as rebels against the constitutional legitimacy.
Well-informed sources told Yemen Post on Sunday that Hadi actually ordered to refer Al-Ahamar to a military court, pointing out that Hadi believes that Saleh is behind the chaos in the air force and the looting of military equipment.
Yemeni analysts view that the dismissal of Hadi's decrees by Al-Ahmar and Saleh's nephew, Tariq Mohammad Abdullah, was one example of how Saleh worked behind the scenes to obstruct the country's interim government as it struggles to bring about reforms.
They said the move of dismissal Saleh's relatives was a good step to fulfill his promises of reforms in the wake of his predecessor's ouster.
Among those sacked were some of Saleh's relatives was a brother-in-law to Saleh's daughter who had headed a lucrative oil products distribution company, which was seen as an arm of the former president's vast economic wealth.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Investigations into suspected war criminals Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan are in the final stages, investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal told The Daily Star yesterday.
"We have made substantial progress in the cases against them," said Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan, chief investigator of the agency. "It could take a couple more months to move the charges [to the tribunal]."
The two are, however, living in the UK and the US.
Mueen-Uddin, now a successful community activist and Mohammedan leader in Britannia, was allegedly the "operation in charge" of the killings of intellectuals during the Liberation War.
He led the Dhaka unit of Al Badr, one of the forces created to help the Pak occupation army and oppose the pro-liberation forces during the war. Ashrafuzzaman Khan co-led the Al Badr unit, said chief investigator Hannan.
Once moved to the International Crimes Tribunal, the two could be officially charged for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War of 1971.
According to Hannan, Ashrafuzzaman was one of the criminal masterminds behind the intellectual killings and he directly took part in the killings of many celebrities, scholars, journalists and other intellectuals during the war. A Bangla daily Purbadesh report titled "Nab the butcher of intellectuals" published on January 13, 1972, had a photograph of Ashrafuzzaman Khan.
Mueen-Uddin used to work for the Purbadesh during the war and Bangladesh Observer on its December 19, 1971, issue described him as the "operation in charge" of Al Badr, Dhaka. The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... in its January 3, 1972, issue also elaborated how the journalist was linked to the "murder of Bengalis".
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Iraq's Sunni Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi has said there are strong claims that Iran has been unlawfully using Iraqi airspace to convey weapons and ammunition to Syria. According to Hashemi, who is wanted on terror charges by the Iraqi government, Iraq is being used as a corridor for Iranian weapons to reach Syria, Today's Zaman reported.
In an exclusive interview with Today's Zaman, he stated that although Iraq vows to comply with the resolutions of the Arab League and that of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the reality might be different. "The opponents in Syria have arrested many Iraqi officials in Syria with charges of smuggling weapons," said Hashemi. "I have no material evidence, but I have information about that."
The vice-president, for whom an arrest warrant was issued immediately after the American soldiers withdrew from Iraq, first went to Arbil, the capital of the Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, and recently arrived in Turkey after visiting Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
And now we delve into conspiracy theory, though it may all be true:
Hashemi says he believes there are political considerations behind the arrest warrant issued in his name, but said he was seeking his rights in a legal way. Although he said he doesn't think the courts of law in Baghdad deliver just decisions, "I want the crisis to be surmounted as soon as possible, and get back to Baghdad," he said.
According to Hashemi, there are three reasons behind the arrest warrant. First is the fact that he was the politician in Baghdad who most actively opposed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's policies in the area of human rights and just distribution of resources. "So, Maliki could just tolerate opposition up to a point." he said. The second reason according to him is that before the situation got worse in Syria, the Iraqi prime minister wanted to get rid of an influential Sunni politician who would oppose him in his Syrian policy. Hashemi implied, though not citing the name, that the third reason might be something to do with the US, saying, "A super power might have provoked Maliki against me," he said. I continue with the research on the issue." Hashemi also stated that he obtained material evidence in the last couple of days that a third country was involved in the process. "It serves Iran well if I'm pacified in Iraq's political processes, but I believe another country has also intervened in the affair. "Ten days before the arrest warrant was issued in my name, Maliki visited the US. This might give a clue I suppose." he asserted.
Noting the importance of Turkey in the region, he is of the opinion that more than any other country in the Middle East, Turkey can contribute to the cohabitation of various communities. Seeing Iran's policies as the major hurdle, "With the Syrian crisis lingering on, the division in the region has strengthened. Turkey has a difficult, but a very important responsibility in decreasing the tension in the region," he commented.
Masud Barzani, head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish government, complained in his recent Washington visit that Maliki was getting more and more authoritarian, and that they are in contact with various groups in Iraq in an effort to change the course of things. Commenting on the developments about the domestic politics in Iraq, Hashemi said, as a first step, all political groups in Iraq should come together to review the present situation in the country. If no solution is obtained in this meeting, to which Maliki will also be invited, then a motion of confidence will be called for in parliament.
Barzani also said during his visit to the US that if efforts should fail, then they would consult the Kurdish people about how to proceed, with the implication that they the Kurds might choose to declare independence. But Hashemi thinks it's not quite the case. "Barzani has expressed many times that the regional government is part of Iraq, and that they had no intention of seceding from Iraq," he said. Although he didn't totally exclude the possibility that the Kurdish government might have to go to a referendum, if all-else fails, to decide their fate.
Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who is under Turkey's protection, talked with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in İstanbul on Sunday.
Seventeen policemen and five vehicles, one of which is armored, were assigned to his protection; he is wanted in Iraq on terror charges for allegedly running death squads against Shiite pilgrims, government officials and security forces. One armored S600 Mercedes automobile, which belongs to the Prime Ministry and two separate houses for Hashemi's family and his four bodyguards were assigned by the Turkish government.
Better stay in Erdogan's good graces...
Hashemi asked for protection from Turkey due to the death threats he received. He was taken under special protection after he met with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Hashemi's family was not allowed to stay at a hotel for security reasons.
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Some Perts believe that Iran sees Iraq as a future AUSTRIA-HUNGARY or GERMANY-AUSTRIA in common Anschluss.
Perhaps more pragmatically, iff Pro-Shia, Caliphate-happy Rising Iran = "Neo-Persia" hopes to mainatain a routine Air, Naval Military presence in the Mediterranean, it is to its advantage to have sympathetic Muslim Govts. as partners between Iran proper + the Med.
At last check, Iran + Turkey + Pakistan were all repor negotiating wid China for Ports or Base Rights at HAINAN ISLAND in South China Sea, a factor which makes the Muslim insurgency in southern Thailand that much more important. ISLAM IS COMING TO THE PACIFIC.
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According to Hashemi, who is wanted on terror charges by the Iraqi government, Iraq is being used as a corridor for Iranian weapons to reach Syria, Today's Zaman reported.
Pro-Palestinian activists released video footage on Sunday showing an Israeli army commander hitting a Danish activist in the face with his F-16 rifle, dpa reported. The footage was broadcast on Israeli television.
The Israeli military condemned the incident as "severe" and said it would take "appropriate measures" after a thorough investigation.
The incident happened on Saturday, when a group of pro-Palestinian activists cycled on a road through the Jordan Valley in the West Bank to protest Israeli security restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the area.
The commander, a lieutenant-colonel, arrived at the scene after receiving a report that activists were blocking the road. When one of the activists came near him, the commander lifted his F-16 rifle and hit him with it in face, the footage shows.
The Danish national was take to hospital needing stitches to his lip, one activist said.
After getting butt-stroked? The commander must have pulled his punch...
See for yourself. Ynet has the video is question, along with some background here.
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The hit shown in the video was more of a push. Had the officer intended damage, he would have hit the man in a much different way. As usual, this is the Palestinian propaganda machine trying to gin up sympathy by exaggeration.
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Oh my!! The dreaded lip stiches. How about the oral surgeon for lip and tongue in teeth disease.
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You just knew this was coming, didn't you? Well, didn't you?!?!?
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That was a pretty good thumping - and the Danish activist probably deserved it. But - when you are in the business of applying a spectrum of responses that includes the use of deadly force - and your national interests include managing global public opinion - and you are a military commander - you have to be able to restrain yourself from acting on your natural impulse to "squash the bugs."
This officer gave too much leverage away - for precious little gain for his team. Sure - it felt good to stuff the Danes words back down his throat - but the ultimate cost to Israel will be way too high.
So, Colonel - next time - make sure that no cameras are rolling, and preferably act in the dark, and do something that leaves no marks (butt-stroke to the testicles?).
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Denmark is a Christian country. These guys should f*ck of back to their own country.
Plenty of room for christians in this world, so why do they feel the need to live in Israel or the West Bank?
Israel is Jewish, not muslim and not christian. We'll destroy their churches and mosques and purge their pagan beliefs from the holyland. The palestinians can go and live in christian and muslim countries.
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Yo G, but you have to be really strong to pick it up and whack some putz in the faccia.
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There is nothing IDF can do that won't be filmed and twisted to fit the narrative.
True. The good Colonel could have provided the "activists" with vegetarian hors d'oeuvres and organic Chardonnay, and the media would have still screamed "WAAAAR CRIIIIME" because the Chard was served at room temperature.
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Plastic ain't as good as wood for butt-stroking.
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I want to express my gratitude to the "Pro-Paleostinian activist" who made that video. It was a whole lot of fun to watch that little punk getting educated. I hope the lieutenant-colonel gets a medal for showing all the Euroweenie brats what can happen when they don't mind their manners while visting other countries.
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Lt. Col. Eisner claims that some of the protesters started attacking him with sticks which caused one of his fingers to break. He also suffered a major injury in his wrist which required a cast. "The weapon was the only thing I had in my hands. The whole thing lasted 60 seconds, we prevented them from getting on the road and they boarded the bus. Obviously, they didn't show the part where they attacked us with sticks in the video."
Notice how the video had been edited to leave out the part where the thugs protesters attacked the checkpoint.
What I am worried about - was the F-16 M-16 damaged in the incident?
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Clearly the good Colonel was mindful of the weapons shortcomings. He did NOT butt stroke wuss from Denmark. He gave the pinhead a serious taste of magazine.
Look at how he is holding the weapon, and how he delivers the blow. I'd say he knows what he is doing.
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why are we subjected to this pathetic kid having a cry about his little cut lip when he still has all his pearly whites?
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Dunno what the youts are bitching about, the good Colonel could have given him a lip unch with one of the IDF's D-8 'rifles;' you know the up-armored, tracked kind of rifles, the ones tha are used to make (St.) pancakes.
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The poor suffragette was sportin' a nice, neat pony, too. Some things never change...Why must they intentionally (and bravely) continue to make themselves such targets of opportunity for the Haters?
[Dawn] An inspector of excise department was killed in a kaboom in Daudzai area on the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar on Saturday morning.
Police said that unidentified gun-hung tough guys had planted a bomb outside the residence of Inspector Khaista Mir that exploded through a remote control device.
Bakht Zamir, a brother of the dear departed, told Daudzai police that his family had no enmity. He said that the bomb went off when his brother opened the main gate of the house to go to a local mosque for morning prayers.
He said that his brother was targeted by unidentified persons through a planted device, fixed outside his home in Takhtabad area on Charsadda Road.
An official of the Bomb Disposal Unit, when contacted, said that the bomb weighing about one kilogram was packed in a plastic cover and planted near the main gate of the house of the inspector. The blast also damaged a wall of the house.
In Charsadda, a religious scholar was rubbed out by unidentified persons in Shabqadar tehsil on Saturday.
Police said that the attackers opened firing on Qari Hafiz Yousaf Shah when he was going home from a mosque in Matta Mughalkhel area of Shabqadar. He was struck down in his prime.
The victim was a known religious scholar and teacher at Jamia Muhammadia, a seminary in Matta Mughalkhel.
Hafiz Yousaf Shah's brother Faizul Bari lodged a report with the Shabqadar cop shoppe against unidentified attackers.
The people of Shabqadar expressed anguish over the killing of the religious scholar and termed it a tragedy. They demanded of the police to immediately arrest his killers.
On Friday, a resident of Mohmand ... 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... Agency, Wali Mohammad, was rubbed out by unidentified persons in a mosque in Tangi area of Charsadda.
Later, Mohmand Taliban grabbed credit for killing Wali Mohammad and said that he was a supporter of the local peace committee.
In Mohmand Agency, unidentified faceless myrmidons blew up two primary schools for girls in Safi tehsil on the night between Friday and Saturday.
That's why they build 'em in that part of the world.
Residents said that the buildings of both the schools -- government primary school for girls Abdullah and government primary school for girls Haji Gulandar -- were partially damaged in the blasts.
Officials said that wife of Abdullah was also injured in one of the blasts. She was shifted to Peshawar.
Militants have so far destroyed 93 schools in Mohmand tribal region.
The political administration launched a search operation in the area to arrest the saboteurs. The administration also placed in long-term storage 10 rustics under the collective responsibility clause of Frontier Crime Regulation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients of increasing volatility... Mohmand Taliban front man Ihsanullah Ihsan talked to local journalists by telephone and grabbed credit for targeting the two schools.In Swabi, unidentified faceless myrmidons targeted the house of Rohal Amin, an official of a non-governmental organization, by planting a bomb that went kaboom! before dawn on Saturday.
Mr Amin is president of Samajee Behbood Rabita Council (SBRC), an NGO consisting of 16 community based organizations.
The SBRC has been working in the district for the last three decades.
Mr Amin is also district chairman of citizen community boards and provincial general secretary of Rahnama.
"I was enjoying a sound sleep when the bomb planted near the gate of our house went kaboom!. I saw that the gate was shattered and the house and our adjacent hujra were damaged badly," he told Dawn.
Police reached the scene soon after the blast. They inspected the house and collected evidence.
Police said that an FIR was registered at City cop shoppe against unidentified krazed killers. It was the first incident of its kind in the district.
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(Sh. M. Network) -- Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, The president of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) ofSomalia, has on Saturday formed a mistrial committee to hold talks with Somaliland administration.
The committee which consists of 7 TFG ministers is chaired by the Minster of interior and national security affairs Abdisamad Mo'allin Mohamud. They will hold discussions with the Somaliland government as proposed in February's meeting inLondon.
The Minster of home for Somali government told reports in the airport that this committee will facilitate the possibilities of a unified Somalia with hopes of coming back to Somalia with tangible progress. Somali president has flown to the neighboring Ethiopia to attend AU head of state summit in Addis Ababa.
On the other hand, The Somaliland also has named a committee of 5 ministers to hold discussions with the newly assigned TFG committee.
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Stressing the seriousness of his offer, Lord Ahmed said he would back the bounty at any cost, even if it meant selling his house. Qazi Muhammad Asad, minister for education in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... provincial government, was among those present at the conference at which the announcement was made.
Following are excerpts from a report on the announcement that appeared in the Pak daily The Express Tribune:[2]
"In an expression of solidarity with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, British parliamentarian of Kashmiri origin Lord Nazir Ahmed has announced a reward for the [capture] of U.S. President Barack Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush.
"He made the announcement at a reception arranged in his honor by the business community of Haripur on Friday [April 13, 2012]. Former [Pak] foreign minister Goher Ayub Khan, Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl's (JUI-F) central leader Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, and [Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa] Provincial Minister for Education Qazi Muhammad Asad were also present [at] the occasion.
"Lord Nazir said that the bounty placed on Saeed was an insult to all Moslems, and [that] by [offering it], President B.O. has challenged the dignity of the Moslem ummah.
"'If the U.S. can announce a reward of $10 million for the [capture] of Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... , I can announce a bounty of £10 million [for the capture of] President B.O. and his predecessor, George Bush,' Lord Nazir said, adding that he would arrange the bounty at any cost, even if he was left with the option of selling all his personal assets, including his house..."
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[1] Speaking at another event, held on April 10, 2012, in the presence of Punjab University Vice Chancellor Dr. Mujahid Kamran, Lord Ahmed said that the U.S. had put up the bounty for Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in order "to keep Pakistain in [a] defensive position." He also warned of the likelihood of a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran, noting that the governments of the U.S. and other countries, facing an election year, could use such an attack to win votes and distract public opinion from the dire financial situation they were facing. In the case of such an attack, he called on the Moslem ummah to unite against the attacking powers. Business Recorder (Pakistain), April 11, 2012.
[2] The Express Tribune (Pakistan), April 15, 2012. The original English has been lightly edited for clarity.
(Sh.M.Network)- The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has on Sunday promised to tackle the current insecurity acts in the capital,Mogadishuwhich has seen in the past few nights liquidations and killings against locals and soldiers.
Abdisamad Mo'allin Mohamud, the Minster of interior and national security of Somali government told Shabelle Media station in Mogadishu that his government is planning to secure the overall security in the capital as well as the whole country.
"Somali government has achieved in the past to mobilize heavy forces consisting of police, military and AU peacekeeping soldires known as (AMISOM) as to improve the security and protect criminal acts against the people inMogadishu," said Mr. Mohamud.
Since Al shabab abandoned from its fixed military bases in Mogadishu last august in 2011, the capital has witnessed more deadly attacks, including suicide and car booms by the gunnies linked with Al Qaeda.
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A police officer nicknamed the eye sniper and 379 other people are to face trial over the deadly anti-military clashes in Cairo last November, Egypts official MENA news agency reported on Sunday.
Lieutenant Mahmud al-Shinnawi, who earned the nickname after having allegedly aimed rubber bullets at protesters heads, is among those referred to Cairo criminal court. Another 379 people, accused of having injured policemen during the clashes or having set fire to public buildings, will also face justice, in a trial for which a date has yet to be set.
The clashes which started on November 19 in Cairo and several other cities killed dozens of people, mostly near the capitals Tahrir Square. Many protesters in Tahrir were seen in the days following the protests with a bandage over an eye.
Cell phone footage circulated on the Internet showed a policeman apparently aiming at protesters eyes near Tahrir Square. In his eye! It was in his eye! Bravo, my friend! an officer is heard to say.
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[Tolo News] Salahuddin Rabban is the new head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, replacing his father Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... who was head of the council when he was assassinated by the Taliban last year.
The appointment was confirmed by Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... on Saturday.
Salahuddin was Afghanistan's Ambassador to Turkey before he was appointed as acting chairman of Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami ...which is different from the Pak and Bangla Jamaats... , the party his father led from 1968 to his death in 2011.
President Karzai, the first vice president Marshal Fahim, Governor of Balkh Atta Mohammed Noor, and member of Parliament Abdul Rasul Sayyaf made the new appointment, according to a statement from Karzai's press office.
Salahuddin is quoted in the statement as saying that Afghanistan would only reach stability through peace, and that for any peace to be brokered it must be an Afghan-led process or it will not have the trust of Afghans.
Salahuddin's father, Burhanuddin Rabbani, was assassinated on September 20 last year by a so-called Taliban messenger at his Kabul home in Wazir Akbar Khan.
The suicide kaboomer placed bombs in his turban and went kaboom!" while greeting Burhanuddin.
Burhanuddin was president of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and then became a member of parliament.
He was appointed head of the High Peace Council in October 2010 when it was first formed by Karzai in an effort to find a political solution for the decade long war in the country.
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AMMAN: Jordans King Abdullah on Sunday pardoned 20 tribal opposition activists detained and charged with insulting the monarch, officials said, after complaints that the charges violated their freedom of expression. The king announced the pardon to tribal elders from the city of Tafila, an impoverished region in the south, who met him at his palace and asked for the release of the detainees, most of whom came from Tafila, officials said.
Eight of the activists were arrested almost seven weeks ago, after months of protests by tribal youths venting their frustrations against the royal palace, whose opponents portray it as detached from their everyday lives and problems. The others were arrested after a sit-in near the prime ministers office two weeks ago, when protesters refused to stop chanting anti-government slogans at a rally demanding the release of the eight Tafila detainees.
The excesses and verbal abuse exceeded all acceptable norms and the government can no longer tolerate any act that affects the prestige of the state, its stability and its symbols, a government spokesman said at the time.
All the detainees were charged at the military-dominated State Security Court with insulting the king. Some were also charged with unlawful gathering and subverting the system of government in the kingdom or inciting to resist it.
The arrests prompted an outcry by rights activists who called on the authorities to release all prisoners of conscience and stop referring civilians to military courts.
Their arrest was against the basic rights of expression, they should not have been arrested in the first place,said Jihad Muheisen, a Jordanian rights activist.
Jordan has had a year of peaceful street protests by Islamists, tribal figures and leftist opposition members, inspired by the wave of Arab revolts demanding wider political freedoms and a crackdown on corruption.
All the demonstrators have called for reforms, but in provincial areas inhabited by native East Bank citizens used to preferential access to state jobs, the protests have been driven largely by concern over keeping such jobs and the dwindling benefits going to tribal and rural areas that support the king. East Bank Jordanians have been the backbone of support for the Hashemite monarchy and supply the manpower for the powerful security forces and army.
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Five individuals were shot to death and at least three more were wounded in a shooting at a dance in northern Monterrey, Nuevo Leon early Sunday morning, according to Mexican news accounts.
The shooting took place at around 0030 hrs at El Dorado Saloon near the intersection of avenidas Camino Real and Primero de Mayo in CROC colony, where several armed suspects entered the dance hall and started firing their weapons in the air demanding everyone get on the floor.
Reports say a second group was waiting outside the hall to fire on anyone attempting to leave the establishment, and did wound an undisclosed number of victims. Four died inside the hall, including the owner of the establishment, Jesus Martinez Martinez, 35. A fifth victim, Iris Yajaira Roca Guardiola, 19, died while receiving medical attention. Another victim was identified as Alberto Zamora Bernal, 28.
Police detectives think the shooting was actually a failed attempt to abduct Martinez Martinez.
After the shooting, the armed suspects fled the scene aboard several Chevrolet Suburban SUVs.
Amongst the wounded was the singer of the music group Los Reyes Vallenatos, Javier Lopez, who was playing the venue.
About 50 9mm, AR-15 and AK-47 spent shell casings were found at the scene.
Elsewhere in Monterrey and in Nuevo Leon state 10 other individuals were murdered or were found murdered in ongoing drug and gang violence.
In Juarez municipality two unidentified men were found tortured and shot to death on the slopes of Cerro de Silla. The men were found in La Trinidad colony and were in a state of decomposition. The victims were killed at the scene.
One unidentified individual was killed by Mexican security forces in Mina municipality Saturday. The incident took place presumably on Mexican Federal Highway 53, which runs between Monterrey city and Monclova, Coahuila, at about the 54 kilometer marker.
A second victim was killed by Nuevo Leon state police agents on the same road at about the 90 kilometer marker.
Two unidentified men were found dead near Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon late Friday night. The victims were found on the Libremento Linares at about the 6 kilometer marker. The victims had been handcuffed and gagged with tape.
A man was shot to death in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon Saturday evening. The victim was identified as Jose Juan, 39. He was shot by armed suspects at a residence near the intersection of calles Acatlan and Tala in Noria Norte colony at about 1830 hrs. The shooters fled the scene aboard a Volkswagen Jetta sedan and a Jeep Cherokee SUV.
An unidentified woman was found shot to death in Monterrey Saturday night. The victim was found in the road near the intersection of calles Manuel Doblado and Ruperto Martinez in an eastern sector of the city.
An unidentified armed suspect was killed by soldiers with a Mexican Army unit in Cadereyta-Jimenez late Saturday night. The unit intercepted a vehicle near the intersection of Calle Puerto San Agustin and Carretera Cadereyta-Allende in the Bella Vista colony. While attempting to signal the driver to stop, the occupants opened fire. Army return fire killed one. Reports are unclear about the fate of the other occupants in the vehicle. Army units do not release information, except to respond to specific press inquiries owing to restrictions placed on federal and some state governments not to release information during federal elections.
A 13 year old boy was found shot to death in Monterrey early Saturday morning. Gerardo Rusbel Martinez Arellano was found near the intersection of avenidas Paseo del Acueducto and Alfombrilla in the Laderas del Mirador colony. Reports say the victim has been kidnapped five days before he was found. Several 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg,.com
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Iran has accused Azerbaijan of sheltering several Mossad agents who had escaped from Iran after assassinating an Iranian nuclear scientist. Iranian officials had earlier warned Azerbaijan not to shelter the Zionist regime's terrorist agents whose mission is carrying out acts of sabotage and espionage against Iran. 
The al-Qaeda-allied group al-Shabaab executed US-born jihadist Omar Hammami on April 5th, according to unconfirmed Somali media reports.
Unknown assailants opened fire on the car of journalist Mustafa Mustafa Jeha, who 
NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday hailed the response of Afghan security forces to a series of attacks on the capital Kabul, labelling the assaults "largely ineffective".
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
Three suspected al-Qaeda 
North Korea
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Sudan Armed Forces locked horns with southern troops at a new battle front along the border today, officials said, placing the two former foes in an awkward position that could easily lead them into an all-out war.
[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda Plans To Target Dhale Province Amid Blows In Abyan, Ministry
Josefina Vazquez Mota
Pedro Joaquin Coldwell
Enrique Pena Nieto
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
...the absolutely humorless, xenophobic former head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He was also head of the MMA, a coalition of religious parties formed after 2001 that eventually collapsed under the weight of the holy egos involved. Qazi was the patron of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar during the Afghan mujaheddin's war against the Soviets. His sermons are described as 
(Sh. M. Network) -- Armed groups launched once again mortar rounds atSomalia's presidential palace, Villa Somalia in Mogadishu, witnesses said on Sunday.
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has strongly condemned the Kabul attacks. She said that Pakistain denounces all forms of terrorism.
Fears of violence marred today's opening of a summit gathering US President 
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
[Yemen Post] President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi has refused to attend a meeting of the General People Congress headed by the former President 
Investigations into suspected war criminals Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan are in the final stages, investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal told The Daily Star yesterday.
Mohmand
