Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri rejected the US apology over the burning of Koran copies at a base in Afghanistan, urging all Muslims to support the Taliban, SITE Intelligence Group reported Wednesday.
"The Crusaders once again repeated their crime by insulting the holy Koran, and once again mocked the messenger of Allah," Zawahiri said in a SITE English-language translation of his nearly seven-minute message.
In February, thousands of Afghan protesters attacked the biggest US military base in their country, at Bagram near Kabul, reacting to reports that troops inside had burned copies of the Koran.
Around 40 people were killed in several days of violent protests.
American officials say the Korans had been confiscated from prisoners as they used them to communicate between each other. The incident led US President Barack Obama to apologise for what he described as an error.
In Wednesday's video which the US-based SITE said was posted on extremist forums, Zawahiri criticised Obama's apology.
"After each of their crimes, they pretend to be sorry, and they claim they will investigate what happened, which is a silly farce that Obama and his secretary repeated this time also," said the chief of the terror network.
"The American Crusaders and their allies showed over and over again their hatred and envy of Islam, the book of Islam, the prophet (of) Islam," Zawahiri said.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday night risked incurring the electoral wrath of Americas socially conservative heartlands by announcing that he now favours legalising gay marriage across the US.
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ANYTHING FOR A VOTE(Until he's re-elected then AMNESIA)
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If Biden had been able to stay on message Obama might have been able to keep a lid on this issue. Now he risks alienating all but the looniest of voters with an issue that is peripheral at most. Anyone giving odds on Biden being kept on as VP?
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It was a lame attempt as a (ahem) straddle. Says his personal beleif is in favor but policy is that it belongs to the states. Since when did Obumble become a federalist?
The European rights court Wednesday cleared the way for Britain's bid to extradite Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan after a six-year battle by refusing an appeal from his lawyer.
A panel of judges dismissed the last-minute defence request lodged last month for a full Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights hearing in the wake of a court ruling in January.
Turkey will not extradite Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who is being tried in absentia in Baghdad accused of running a death squad, a senior official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
"We will not extradite someone whom we have supported since the very beginning," deputy prime minister Bekir Bozdag was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency.
His comments came a day after Interpol issued an international Red Notice for the arrest of Hashemi, one of Iraq's top Sunni Arab officials, on suspicion of "guiding and financing terrorist attacks".
"(Hashemi) is currently in Turkey for health reasons," Bozdag said.
Absolutely. His health could be in danger if he returns to Iraq.
Turkey is bailing out Iran and Arab Spring countries with huge amounts of gold exports that have boosted its trade balance.
Iran and countries facing Arab Spring rebellions have bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold from Turkey as they try to protect their wealth from depreciating currencies. The Iranian rial has plummeted following tighter sanctions posed by the United States.
Turkeys exports of gold, jewelry and precious metals to Iran jumped last month by more than 35 times than in March 2011, reaching $480 million, according to statistics reported by Bloomberg.
Its balance of trade this year has improved by $4.3 billion, partly due to the gold exports, a research company told Balkan.com.
Turkeys assistance to Iran is in direct opposition to the Obama administrations efforts to punish the Iranian economy, dependent on oil exports, until it cooperates with the United Nations and allow full inspections of its nuclear facilities.
So far this year, Turkey has exported more than $1 billion in gold and precious metals, and Bloomberg reported that an Istanbul Gold Exchange official estimates the government has nearly 5,000 tons of gold worth $265 billion stashed under their pillows.
Anyone who believes they have been a target of this type of attack should immediately contact their local FBI office and promptly report it to the IC3s website at www.IC3.gov. The IC3s complaint database links complaints together to refer them to the appropriate law enforcement agency for case consideration. The complaint information is also used to identify emerging trends and patterns.
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Sometimes it's a good idea to check the link address, or URL, before you click on it. Usually if you just put your mouse over the link, without clicking, the address will appear in the lower left corner of the browser window. If it's not what you think it should be, you might want to think twice.
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Besoeker, why should someone volunteer squat to the FBI? I would expect that the first thing they would do is steal my hard drive and waste a bunch of my time.
Al Qaedas top bomb maker in Yemen is so ruthless that he recruited and equipped his own brother for an underwear-bomb suicide attack against a top Saudi royal in 2009.
Even for al Qaeda, thats cold, said author Peter Bergen, who has studied the group since the late 1990s.
Now Ibrahim al-Asiri, 30, is suspected of making a new underwear bomb designed for use against a U.S.-bound airliner in a plot uncovered last month by U.S. and Saudi intelligence and thwarted within the past few days.
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Perhaps I should have boldfaced the word 'capable' in my comment.
Carrying a high tech bomb of this kind to a target actually requires both smarts and calm temperament. You have to avoid either setting it off early or disabling it and you have to avoid arousing suspicion.
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The U.S. military said on Wednesday that 12,000 soldiers from 17 countries are taking part in this month's military exercises in Jordan, seeking to enhance their abilities to meet "security challenges."
"The tactical execution of Eager Lion 2012 exercise will officially start on May 15," Major Robert Bockholt, public affairs officer at Special Operations Command Central, told AFP.
"Eager Lion is an annual, multinational exercise designed to strengthen military-to-military relationships through a joint, whole-of-government, multinational approach integrating all instruments of national power to meet current and future complex national security challenges."
Bockholt did not say name the countries, which include US ally Jordan.
"We acknowledge the right of each participating country to announce their participation in the exercise on their own terms," he said.
In April, the US Department of Defense said the exercise would be held from May 7 to May 28.
Bockholt said participants were gathering in Jordan from Monday to prepare for the land, sea and air exercise, which will be held in "various training locations."
"In all, there are more than 12,000 service members participating in the exercise," he said.
Some local media reports have speculated that the war games are linked to the unrest in neighboring Syria, saying the troops seek to secure Jordan's border.
"Execution of Eager Lion 2012 is not connected to any real-world event. It has nothing to do with Syria. It is just a coincidence," Bockholt said.
The war games come as Jordan's Special Operations Forces Exhibition is under way, displaying new technologies by defense manufacturers around the world.
Jordan is a major beneficiary of US military and economic aid, with Washington granting Amman $2.4 billion (1.85 billion euros) in the past five years, according to official figures.
Maybe the Jinns came and took her away? Who knows!
A 15-year-old Saudi girl died of an unknown disease a day before she was to be honoured by her school for memorising all of the Koran. Before her death, she told her parents her achievement is a crown on their heads.
The girl from the capital Riyadh was told by her school to be ready for the ceremony on Wednesday. On Tuesday, she was rushed to hospital with high fever and numbness in her body before she was declared dead.
I went to her home to congratulate her and found her and all the family in a very happy mood she was telling them about her achievement with tears in her eyes, one relative told the Saudi Arabic language daily Sabq.
She was later rushed to hospital with high fever she told doctors that she had numbness in her legs and could not feel them the numbness then started to move to other parts of her body before she died.
Doctors said they could not save her life because they could not diagnose her sudden disease, adding that they were still trying to find its causes.
In a message to her friends before her death, the unidentified girl said :I succeeded in memorising the holy Koran I wept because of happiness for this achievement I congratulate you my parents and promise to make this accomplishment a crown on your heads Oh my Lord, install this achievement in my heart and make it my weapon in life.
Police and social workers in England have been accused of failing to investigate a South Asian paedophile gang for fear of being perceived as racist, leaving the men free to prey on up to 50 white girls.
Nine men from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, were convicted of abusing five vulnerable teenagers after plying them with alcohol and small sums of money.
The true number of victims who were "passed around" by the gang was likely to have been nearer 50, police said.
Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service apologised after they failed to bring the case of the first victim, known as Girl A, to trial following her initial cry for help in August 2008.
One 13-year-old victim became pregnant and had the child aborted while another was raped by 20 men in one night, Liverpool Crown Court heard. Complaints to social workers and the police were ignored because they were "petrified of being called racist", Ann Cryer, the former Labour MP for Keighley, said.
Mrs Cryer, who has campaigned to bring the issue of Asian sex gangs to light, said the girls had been "betrayed" and condemned to "untold misery" by the police and social services.
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Asians raping white girls? Let's say what it really is: PAKISTANIS raping ENGLISH girls. The radio 5Live this morning had many laying the blame on the general community, parents of the girls and observing that this happens in cases whatever background people have. Spit. Comically enough, next up was a report of an American self-defence expert on a demonstration tour to the UK denied entry by the Home Secretary, just cannot make this stuff up. There seems to be a death-wish being foisted on the ordinary decent people from on high.
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Well maybe the headlines over there about this will wake up what's left of Britain. Even a small part of Britain would be able to mop the floor with the "Asians".
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I think the message to Al Qaeda and other jihadi groups is that they are as riddled with holes as Swiss cheese, so they might as well quit and go home to play with their dolls.
THE man ordered by al-Qaeda to blow up a US-bound plane was reportedly a double agent who infiltrated the group and volunteered for the suicide attack, with Saudi intelligence likely playing a key role.
American officials leaked details of the extraordinary intelligence coup two days after the White House announced a plot by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had been successfully thwarted.
The double agent managed to spend weeks with AQAP before handing over information allowing the US to launch a drone strike on Sunday that killed Fahd al-Quso, a senior figure wanted for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, the New York Times and other media reported, citing unnamed US officials.
A senior US official told the Times a bomb for the would-be attack was sewn into "custom fit" underwear that would have been difficult to detect even in a careful pat-down at an airport.
Unlike the device used in the failed December 2009 plot by AQAP to blow up an airliner en route to Detroit, this explosive could have been detonated in two ways, in case one failed, the unnamed official was quoted as saying.
The main charge was a high-grade military explosive that "undoubtedly would have brought down an aircraft," the official said.
ABC News had reported earlier that the latest plot by AQAP was thwarted by a spy who infiltrated the group and took the explosive to Saudi Arabia.
The CIA and other government agencies are declining to comment on the reports.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else suddenly want to grab their groins like those Beach-Boyz-in-Drag in the Miller Lite commercial???
Maha-Rushian Q#1 = Are we sure thats a Man's = Male underwear - some of these new-fangled designs + colors have been confusing me since the late 1990's???
A new Russian passenger jet carrying 46 people has gone missing on a demonstration flight in Indonesia, after taking off from Jakarta.
The Sukhoi Superjet 100 disappeared from radar screens 50 minutes into what was meant to be a brief flight.
An eyewitness reported seeing a low-flying plane flying towards a mountain but did not hear any explosion.
Aerial searches for the plane have been hampered by darkness and wet weather.
But rescuers have continued looking for the plane on the ground.
The plane, which took off at 07:00 GMT, is believed to have had about four hours' fuel aboard, the BBC's Karishma Vaswani reports from Jakarta.
Gagah Prakoso, spokesman for Indonesia's national search and rescue agency, said 46 people had been aboard the plane, which vanished from radar near Bogor, a city in West Java province.
He told BBC News it was unclear who was on board because they were people invited by Sukhoi, but they were "likely to be reps of Indonesian airlines".
Eight of those on board are Russians, according to Russian blogger Sergey Dolya, who was accompanying the Sukhoi delegation and broke news of the plane's disappearance.
Defense Ministry officials tend to lower their voices when the conversation turns to the thousands of Afghans who have cooked, done construction work, translated and cheated, betrayed, murdered acted as double agents informers for the Taliban Bundeswehr. "We shouldn't solve the problem Saigon-style," they say, referring to the many local employees that the Americans left to the capriciousness and mercy of the victors in Vietnam. Memo to German Defense Ministry: Afghanistan isn't Viet Nam.
Even our liberated allies intensely hate Western Civilization.
Even our liberated allies are islamofascists.
Even our liberated allies want to impose Sharia on non-Muslims in the West.
The unpleasant fates they would face if the Taliban returned to power after the Bundeswehr withdrawal is why the Germans intend to give about 1,500 Afghans the opportunity to come to Germany. According to this article (in German) there are between 1600 and 3000 local Afghan employees. Including families we're talking about 10000 Afghans at least. No mention of the unpleasant fate of these Afghans' future victims in Germany, Europe and the US. Nuts!
Because the Euro was never really about finance and economics. It was, and still is, all about political power for the undemocratic elites.
The end goal of the EU has always been an oligarchic technocracy run by an unelected cabal of the elites. Economic chaos at this time is helpful to that end as it allows the EU bureaucracy to grasp more power. What happened to the elected Italian gov't? Austrian? Greek?
This is a new distallation of fascism as Scotch and Bourban are different distallations. Mussolini is laughing his ass off.
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tipper, it was only a stupid idea if you think they meant it to work solely as a currency for financial and economic matters.
Of course, IMHO, it was never meant to be that at all. It is a truism that if you do not have control over your currency you do not have a sovereign state. THAT'S the idea here. The EU wants to get rid of sovereign states within the EU. They want total political, fiscal and monetary control to flow through Brussels.
The Eurobots have systematically stripped sovereignty from large swathes of European countries and this "crisis" was fomented as one of the last nails in the coffin of Euro freedom. They've already demanded total control of country budgets due to the inability of the governments to hew to the EU elite's line.
At best Europe would turn into what Obama wants for the US. Weaker and weaker states in terms of what they can actually do/control and an ever increasing bureaucracy with no responsibility to the public, just to their bretheren in the elites.
As Mussolini showed, you don't need ownership to have total control. You just need a monopoly on force and the ability to write all the laws to support you Corporatist buddies (who cease to be you buddies if they step out of line).
As Dr. North at EU Referendum has pointed out, early and often. There is no real demos in the EU on which to build a real democracy. EG The "peasants" of Hungry, Greece etc. have nothing in common with the Nordic world. In my view what is being build before our eyes is a new version of the Roman Empire. The Romans built with the tools they had available and the EUrocrats use a new more modern set, but, the empire is still the goal.
Moved from Non-War on Terror to Seedy Politicians.
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I guess folks there aren't interested in fore more years of this guy.
Barack Obama was not the only Democrat on the ballot on Tuesday in West Virginia's Democratic Presidential Primary. Keith Judd - also known as Inmate No. 11593-051 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas - was running against him.
Judd, who is serving out a 17.5 year sentence for extortion, currently has received 40 percent of the vote, with 83 percent of precincts reporting, according to The Associated Press. Obama currently has received 60 percent of the vote.
Obama's lack of popularity in West Virginia has been well-documented. The state's governor Earl Ray Tomblin and it's junior senator Joe Manchin, both Democrats, have kept their distance from the president.
A further potential embarrassment for the Democrats, as The Charleston Gazette reports, Judd only needs 15 percent of the vote - which, indeed, it looks like he has accomplished - in order to be entitled to have at least one delegate represent him at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. this summer.
Judd would not be the first Democratic challenger to Obama to qualify for delegate representation at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. In Oklahoma's Democratic primary in March, Randall Terry, a Democratic candidate who founded the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue and has more than 50 arrests under his belt, received 18 percent of the vote in the primary, giving him one delegate.
It is unknown what type of affect Judd's status as a federal prisoner might have on the delegate allocation and selection to the convention.
So it's unlikely he'll get a pardon in time to be in Charlotte himself...
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The Civil War Enrollment Act (buy your way out of the draft), enacted by the Thirty-seventh Congress could be brought back and amended to include Federal prisoners!
Look no further! I have a suitable democratic replacement candidate for Mr. Judd.
(Sh. M. Network)- Security officials in Somalia government say they seized today two men with explosives at Ex-control Afgoye checkpoint, a busy junction on the main road that links Mogadishu, the capital to the rebel-held Afgoi district on the south Somalia.
"Today the security forces of Somalia government have managed to capture and thwart two men wearing suicide belts which were planned by Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... cut-throats to carry out attacks in Mogadishu," Ahmed Abdullah Yare,a TFG security official told Shabelle Media by phone.
Since August in 2011,when Al-Shabaab fighters treated from the capital, what they said was "a tactical move" they begun to arrange more suicide kabooms against the government forces and 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... troops in Mogadishu.
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The BBC adds this critical detail about the original 2008 report:
The teenager was arrested outside a takeaway in Heywood in August 2008 for being disruptive.
She alleged one of the workers had groomed and then raped her.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) investigated Kabeer Hassan and another man, aged 59, but it was nearly a year later when a CPS lawyer decided to drop the case.
According to Nazir Afzal, chief prosecutor for the North West, the lawyer had viewed six hours of video testimony from the girl and also had DNA evidence, but decided "she would not be viewed as a credible witness by a jury".
The file of the girl's allegations was one of the first on Mr Afzal's desk when he started his new job in the summer of 2011 and he took "an immediate decision" to prosecute Hassan and the 59-year-old man.
[An Nahar] 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... 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... said on Tuesday his peace plan could be the last chance to avoid civil war in Syria, where a truce has failed to end 14 months of bloodshed that monitors say has killed nearly 12,000 people.
Annan told the U.N. Security Council that the priority in Syria is "to stop the killing," and expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that torture, mass arrests and other human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations are intensifying.
Regime forces "continue to press against the population," despite a putative truce that started on April 12, but attacks are more discrete because of the presence of U.N. military observers, diplomats quoted him as saying.
"The biggest priority, first of all we need to stop the killing," Annan told news hounds in Geneva, adding that his six-point peace plan is "the only remaining chance to stabilize the country."
Annan briefed the council on his efforts to get Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... to implement the plan, which he said was possibly "the last chance to avoid civil war."
He stressed, however, that the peace bid was not an "open-ended" opportunity for Assad, the diplomats who attended the briefing said.
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice said Washington's goal was still the removal of Assad.
"The United States remains focused on increasing the pressure on the Assad regime and on Assad himself to step down," Rice said.
"The situation in Syria remains dire, especially for the millions who continue to endure daily attacks and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance," she told news hounds after Annan's briefing.
British ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said Annan told the council he intends to return to Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... in the coming days, only the second visit since his mission began earlier this year.
Annan updated the U.N. body on the status of his six-point plan, which includes a U.N. military observer mission, a day after U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... warned world powers are racing against time to prevent all-out civil war in Syria.
Annan said that the current 60 or so observers on the ground "have had a calming effect" and the deployment by the end of the month of a 300-strong team will see a "much greater impact."
There has been a decrease in military activities but there have been "serious violations" of the agreed ceasefire and there have also been attacks on government troops and facilities, he said.
"The need for human rights abuses to come to an end cannot be underestimated," he stressed.
"This is what the plan is all about."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said almost 12,000, the majority of them civilians, have died since the revolt broke out in March 2011.
The Britannia-based watchdog said of the total, some 800 had died since the truce was supposed to take effect.
On Tuesday, at least six non-combatants were killed.
The unrest has persisted despite the presence of U.N. observers monitoring the truce and parliamentary elections on Monday as part of the government's pledge to implement reforms.
The opposition boycotted the vote, denouncing it as a sham. The United States said the exercise was "bordering on ludicrous."
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was losing hope for a solution and urged the U.N. to bolster its observer mission to up to 3,000 rather than the 300 authorized under a Security Council resolution.
"The U.N. should bolster its mission to Syria with up to 3,000 observers to give a full picture of the situation in the country," Erdogan said.
"We support the Annan plan but if someone were to ask me what my hopes are, I would say I have lost hope."
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... has accused both the Syrian regime and rebels of violating the truce, and China urged all parties to honor their commitments.
"All parties in Syria must abide by their ceasefire commitments, support and cooperate with the work of the U.N. supervision team, to create the conditions to launch an inclusive political process as soon as possible," Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said during a visit by opposition Syrian National Council chief Burhan Ghalioun.
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[An Nahar] A Bahraini court on Tuesday adjourned for two weeks an appeals hearing for 13 dissidents, including Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a prominent activist on a hunger strike, a judicial source said.
Eleven of the defendants appeared in court except for Khawaja, who is at a military hospital as he has refused food since February 8, and Mirza al-Mahroos, who was also admitted to hospital, the source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The court demanded both Khawaja and Mahroos show up in court when the retrial is to resume on May 22.
During a brief hearing, the court authorised lawyers to meet their clients for one hour each and demanded the two activists receive suitable medical assistance during their appearance in the next hearing.
Khawaja and 20 other mostly Shiite activists have been convicted of plotting to overthrow the Sunni rulers of the Shiite-majority Gulf kingdom.
Seven of them, including Khawaja, were placed in long-term storage Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! for life, while 14 others were sentenced to between two and 15 years in prison.
Of the 21 defendants, seven were convicted in absentia and remain on the lam.
Bahrain's highest appeals court on April 30 ordered the retrial of 13 dissidents, following the release of one defendant after his sentence was reduced to six months by the Court of Cassation.
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[Dawn] Hundreds of families began to leave Shalobar area of Khyber Agency on Monday after receiving final directives from the political administration.
The authorities set a 48-hour deadline to Shalobar tribe to leave the area where a military operation against beturbanned goon groups is on card. An official said that the area dominated by Shalobar tribe in Bara tehsil was already notified as conflict zone and residents were directed to move to safer places.
He said that the newly displaced families had already registered themselves with the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) and United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... ' partners in Jalozai camp.
Political Tehsildar Ghulam Farooq, who issued notices to tribal people, said that Shalobar area had become a den of beturbanned goons and outlaws where they had established a parallel administration.
The notice said that no government official could enter Shalobar territory as local elders and residents had failed to fulfil their legal responsibility, therefore, the administration was left with no choice but to order eviction.
Women and children were seen boarding tractor trolleys, pickup trucks and donkey carts along with their luggage to reach Beautiful Downtown Peshawar from where they would move to Jalozai camp.
Many desperate people rushed to Peshawar to hire vehicles on rent to evacuate their families and luggage from the area. The displaced people said that authorities had relaxed curfew in the area from 6am to 6pm.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... people are facing difficulties owing to non-availability of transport and bad condition of narrow road from Sango to main Bara Road. Vehicular traffic remained stuck up at various places that added to the miseries of the affected tribal people.
Drivers of the pickup truck charge up to Rs4,000 from each displaced family from Bara to Jalozai camp. Workers of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... have set up camp in Sango, on the border of Khyber Agency, to facilitate the displaced tribal people.
The displaced people criticised administration for forcing them to vacate their houses. Amin Khan, 75, said that situation was normal in Shalobar and administration had deliberately put innocent people in trouble.
"The operation instead of addressing the core issue will create more problems for people," he added.
Bazaar Gul, another elder, alleged that the eviction orders were issued in haste and they were not given enough time to pack their luggage.
He alleged that instead of a peaceful repatriation of internally displaced families and ending the 30-month long military operation, the local administration was forcing them to leave their homes and become dependent upon aid agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!... a delegation of Tehrik-e-Mutasireen Bara, headed by its chairman Shah Faisal Afridi, met Political Agent Mutahir Zeb and apprised him of the plight of fleeing Shalobar families.
The delegation demanded of the political agent to extend the deadline for eviction and provide free transportation to Shalobar tribal people. The delegation also demanded an end to Bara operation.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Conservative Republican Rick Santorum ...unsuccessful candidate for president and former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. He was a lawyer before becoming the Representative for suburban Pittsburgh in 1991. He lost his Senate seat in 2006 to Bob Casey, a Democrat machine politician and political dynast. Santorum is a social conservative who thinks the rest of the country is, too... has endorsed Republican presumptive presidential nominee Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O... in an email to supporters, US media reported late Monday.
During his own push for the Republican nomination Santorum, a staunchly Roman Catholic former senator who withdrew from the presidential race last month, said Romney was not conservative enough.
Now however, he has told his supporters to back Romney to beat Democratic President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... in November, Thew Los Angeles Times and other media reported.
Romney and Santorum met on Friday to do some fence mending after a bitter campaign, but Romney said then he was not expecting his former rival's formal backing yet.
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Older Americans were substantially more likely to strongly disapprove of the deal. Cohorts under age 45 registered strong disapproval in the 30 percent range, while more than 50 percent of those over 45 strongly disapproved.
In defence of the administration, infants, convicts, and those residing in 'assisted living' were not polled however.
An Islamist group that kidnapped seven Algerian diplomats in Mali has warned Algiers that if it fails to meet its demands within 30 days, the hostages' lives will be in danger.
A text from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) stated, "We are issuing an ultimatum of less than 30 days to the Algerian government to meet our demands, or the lives of the hostages will be in great danger. The hostages are still alive."
"The Algerian government knows our demands ... There is still time for talks. Afterwards, it will be late," added the statement, which was written by spokesman Adnan Abu Walid Sahraoui.
The group, an spinoff from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), abducted the Algerian consul and six members of his team from Gao on April 5.
They claimed the abduction last October of three aid workers from a refugee camp near Tindouf in western Algeria: two Spanish nationals, a man and a woman; and an Italian woman. The group has demanded 30 million euros and the release of two Sahrawis held in Mauritania in return for the two women being held.
Sahraoui said last week that "negotiations only concern the Italian and Spanish women hostages". He made no mention of the Spanish man.
MUJAO is said to have broken off from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in order to spread jihad to west Africa rather than confine themselves just to the Maghreb or Sahel regions. AQIM is also holding a number of foreign hostages.
Security forces cooled for a few years Please don't kill me! a bad turban on Monday during a raid in Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency while a peace activist was killed by unidentified persons in Jamrud.
Officials said that the cooled for a few years Book 'im, Mahmoud! man Irshad, a resident of Karkanai, was wanted in a number of sabotage acts. He had links with a banned bad turban group operating in Landi Kotal, they said.
They said that he was tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... from his home during the raid and shifted to Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location for investigations.
Sources said that Irshad was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in the light of information, provided to security forces by an Afghan national Mohammad Alam, who was tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! at Torkham border few days ago with a pistol and some cartridges.
In Jamrud, unidentified motorcyclists rubbed out an activist of Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... Peace Committee.
Local sources said that the dear departed Bulbul Shah had only recently migrated from the restive Tirah valley to Jamrud after receiving threats from bad turbans. Local administration Militant held, peace activist killed in Khyber conducted a search operation in the area and took six Afghans into custody.
In Hangu, police claimed to have locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! three wanted Islamic fascistiin a raid in Naryab area on Monday.
Officials said that those Islamic fascistiwere wanted in cases of kidnapping, targeting security forces and looting passengers near the Naryab Dam. They had escaped to tribal area during the last army operation.
After receiving information that the Islamic fascistihad come to their homes, personnel of Doaba cop shoppe conducted operation in the area and sealed the entire area. Police said that Azam Khan, Mazeed Khan and Fareed Khan were incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! after a little resistance.
Two Kalashnikovs, a pistol and cartridges were also recovered from them. The tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! Islamic fascistiwere handed over to joint interrogation team.
Policed also found a mutilated dead body in Mangara area of Togh Bala on Monday. Police buried the body after registration of a case.
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[Dawn] Interpol on Tuesday put Iraq's runaway Sunni vice president on the equivalent of its most-wanted list at the behest of the Shia-dominated government in Storied Baghdad. ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... Tariq al-Hashemi, who is currently in Turkey, is being tried in absentia in Storied Baghdad on charges of terrorism as well as guiding and financing death squads that targeted government officials, security forces and Shia pilgrims.
The Iraqi government links him to about 150 bombings, liquidations and other attacks, and says the death squads were largely composed of the vice president's bodyguards and other employees.
The trial was postponed last week after lawyers for al-Hashemi, who has denied the charges, appealed to have parliament create a special court to hear the case. The Sunni vice president has vowed not to return to face what he calls politically motivated charges.
Interpol said on its website that it has issued a so-called "red notice" for al-Hashemi, responding to a request from Storied Baghdad. A red notice by Interpol seeks the arrest of a wanted person with a view to eventual extradition. The subjects of red notices are considered to be on the organization's most-wanted list.
Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said the red notice for al-Hashemi "will significantly restrict his ability to travel and cross international borders."
"It is a powerful tool that will help authorities around the world locate and arrest him," Interpol's website quoted Noble as saying.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told news hounds during a visit to Italia that al-Hashemi would likely return to Iraq after finishing medical treatment.
"Mr. al-Hashemi is in our country due to his health problems and to hold talks regarding latest developments," Erdogan said. "I believe, he will return his country following his treatment."
Many member countries consider a red notice to be a valid request for the arrest of a suspect, but Interpol cannot demand individual nations make an arrest. Turkey, which has provided sanctuary to al-Hashemi and is on tense terms with his opponents in the Iraqi government, has not formally responded so far to the Interpol notice.
Al-Hashemi, who has been in Turkey since mid-April, is staying under the protection of Turkish security agents at a luxury apartment in Istanbul, Turkey's NTV television said. A policeman with a machine gun guards the entrance of his apartment building, and several police cars were parked outside on Tuesday, according to NTV.
In an interview last week in Istanbul, al-Hashemi told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that his trial was part of a political vendetta that has wider repercussions for Iraqi unity and sectarian tensions across the Middle East.
He also alleged that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.... , a Shia, may have engineered the proceedings to snuff out domestic opposition in case he is threatened by a revolt in Iraq similar to that in neighboring Syria.
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Has Amnesty International taken a position on this?
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[Yemen Post] Senior Yemeni security and intelligence authorities told Yemen Post that they were very angered that the US did not hand over any intelligence on the claims on a Yemen based underwear bomber.
The official said that such actions hurts Yemen's domestic image and weakens its position in cooperating with the US.
"Cooperation means that both sides share intelligence, and this is a must if the US wants complete Yemeni cooperation in the war on terror," the official said.
The Interior Ministry said on Monday that he will not allow Yemen to be the next Wazoo, preferring to the bordering area between Pakistain and Afghanistan where US bombarded for years in its war against terror.
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NOTIFY YOU, Damned twit,Of course you wern't notified, then the secret would leak back to the baddies easily.
Good job USA.
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[Iran Press TV] Greece's left-wing coalition leader has ruled out austerity measures, receiving a mandate to form a new government as elections produced a stalemate in parliament.
Greece's leader of the leftist SYRIZA coalition, Alexis Tsipras, has ruled out budget-cutting austerity measures, opting to meet President Karolos Papaoulias in talks to form a new government on Tuesday.
"The politics of austerity was rejected by the majority of Greece's people, and is being rejected by all European peoples," says Tsipras, calling for an end to the "plunder" of salaries and pensions.
Referring to the EU-IMF bailout plan, Tsipras said that "we asked for a mandate to form a coalition government of left-wing forces in order to disengage ourselves from the memorandum of bankruptcy."
This comes as Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras has failed in talks to form a unity government after being shunned by anti-austerity parties that made strong gains in Sunday's parliamentary election.
President Papoulia had given Samaras a three-day mandate to put together a coalition after his New Democracy party received the largest share of the vote in the election.
The task of forming a government will now pass to Tsipras, whose party won the second highest number of votes.
Greek voters, angry about the high unemployment rate and severe cuts to pension and pay, punished the pro-austerity parties, New Democracy and socialist PASOK, for imposing harsh austerity measures to address the country's debt crisis.
The outcome of the Greek parliamentary election combined with the electoral defeat of the ruling party in La Belle France has caused alarm among EU leaders.
European Commission spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen said Brussels expects the future government of Greece to respect Greece's prior agreements with the EU and the IMF.
Greece is the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis. One in five workers is unemployed and banks are in a shaky situation, while pensions and salaries have been slashed by up to 40 percent.
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[Dawn] An anti-terrorism court here on Monday indicted the imprisoned chief of proscribed Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), ...Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law) is a Pak cut-thoat group whose objective is to enforce their definition of Sharia law in Pakistain whether anybody wants it or not. It was founded by Sufi Muhammad in 1992, and was banned by President Musharraf in January, 2002 after Sufi dispatched several thousand yokels to Afghanistan to fight the infidel and ended up with most of them killed or captured and held for ransom. In 2007 TNSM took over Swat, which shows how well the banning worked. TNSM is the Pony League of Islamic militancy.. Maulana Sufi Mohammad, and 19 others in an over 17-year old case of attacking a cop shoppe and making some coppers hostage.
Maulana Sufi and other accused persons, mostly belonging to TNSM, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charge and decided to stand trial following which the court fixed May 15 for the next hearing and also summoned the prosecution witnesses.
Due to security reasons the judge of the anti-terrorism court Swat, Asim Imam, has been conducting trials against Maulana Sufi Mohammad and dozens of other members of TNSM inside the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar Central Prison in around 10 terrorism-related cases mostly registered in 1994-95.
In the instant case the prosecution alleged that the activists of TNSM headed by Maulana Sufi Mohammad had stage a demonstration in 1995 demanding enforcement of Islamic Shariah in Malakand region. It is alleged that when coppers tried to disperse them the accused attacked the concerned Khwazakhela cop shoppe and also took away some coppers. It is added that the accused had kept the coppers in wrongful confinement and had set them free later on.
An FIR was registered against the accused at Khwazakhela cop shoppe under section 365 (kidnapping), section 342 (wrongful confinement), section 121A (conspiracy to wage war against Pakistain) and section 120B (punishment for criminal conspiracy) of Pakistain Penal Code and the anti-terrorism law.
Few months ago the same court had framed charges against Maulana Sufi Mohammad and several others over the murder of an MPA of Pakistain People's Party, Badiuzzaman Khan.
The MPA hailed from Shangla, adjacent to Swat, and was killed on Nov 3, 1994, in the jurisdiction of Mingora cop shoppe.
While during the last decade Maulana Sufi had mostly remained imprisoned the successive governments did not conduct trials against him in several old cases and even in one of the cases he was shown as proclaimed offender.
Initially, he was tossed in the clink Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! in Kurrum Agency in Dec 2001 on his return to Pakistain from Afghanistan where he had gone heading around 10,000 persons to fight the American forces there.
He was tried and sentenced under several sections of Pakistain Penal Code and Frontier Crimes Regulation by the concerned political agent. When the present Awami National Party's government came to power in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , he was released under an agreement on April 21, 2008. Later, another agreement was inked between TNSM and provincial government in Feb 2009 but it failed in restoration of peace in Malakand Division.
After launching of a military operation in Malakand Division, Maulana Sufi Mohammad was again tossed in the clink Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! on July 26, 2009, from Sethi Town, Peshawar, along with his three sons. He has been in jail since then.
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[An Nahar] Veteran Paleostinian negotiator Saeb Erakat has undergone an operation after suffering a heart attack on Tuesday, his wife and medical sources told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The 57-year-old "woke at dawn with chest pains and decided to go to the Paleostine medical complex in Ramallah where he underwent medical tests," said his wife, Naama Erakat, referring to the city's main hospital. "Does it hurt when you do...this?"
"Yes."
"OK. Don't do that."
"It turned out he had suffered a heart attack, so they performed an emergency catheterization at hospital, which was successful," she said.
Hospital director Ahmed Bitawi said "a blood clot was found in one of his arteries which was opened during the operation."
Erakat was recovering from the procedure but "needed a period of rest," he added.
Erakat has been a member of every Paleostinian negotiating team since 1991, with the notable exception of those who secretly conducted talks ahead of the 1993 Oslo Accords.
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about fricken time this POS dies. Say hello to Arafat and Himmler
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[Iran Press TV] At least two guards have been killed in an attack by former Libyan revolutionary forces on the interim government's headquarters in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... over suspended payments.
The incident occurred on Tuesday when gunnies on trucks loaded with anti-aircraft guns surrounded the building in central Tripoli before opening fire.
"Between two to four guards were killed and many others are maimed," AFP quoted an interior ministry official as saying Many people were maimed in the attack, he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... officials said the defense ministry was negotiating with the fighters.
The attack comes less than a month after the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) suspended payouts to those who fought against slain ruler Muammar Qadaffy. ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... The NTC has cited massive fraud in the compensation program such as duplicate payouts, and claims from impostors and even the dead.
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The attack comes less than a month after the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) suspended payouts to those who fought against slain ruler Muammar Qadaffy.
Austerity appears to be failing nearly everywhere!
[An Nahar] A suspected member of al-Qaeda was killed when a bomb he was trying to plant at a checkpoint run by a local militia in Yemen's restive Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province went kaboom!, a tribal source said on Tuesday.
The kaboom took place late on Monday in Mudia, one of only two towns in Abyan -- along with Loder -- that has not yet fallen under the control of the myrmidons.
In a bid to keep out the jihadists, locals have formed anti-Qaeda militias known as Popular Resistance Committees, which fight alongside the army.
The cut-throats on Monday launched attacks on two army posts outside the quiet provincial capital Zinjibar, killing at least 22 soldiers to avenge the death in an air raid of top Death Eater Fahd al-Quso, who was wanted in connection with the deadly 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
The jihadists, who have named themselves the Partisans of Sharia (Islamic law), control parts of southern and eastern Yemen where Sanaa's authority is weak -- including the Abyan quiet provincial capital Zinjibar.
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(Sh. M. Network)-Witnesses say at least three people, among them two government soldier have been killed on Tuesday in a landmine blast took palace in Somalia's conflict-torn Mogadishu.
"At dawn on Tuesday morning a remote-controlled landmine kaboomdestroyed a military vehicle carrying soldiers in Somalia government at Folorenza junction in Mogadishu's Wardhigley district, killing three, including a passerby near the blast site," an eyewitness told Shabelle Media.
No group has yet said it carried out the attack, but Al shabab has previously staged such coordinated attacks in Mogadishu.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A UN nuclear inspector was killed and another injured in a car accident in central Iran on Tuesday, the country's Atomic Energy Organisation said.
It named the dear departed inspector as Seo Ok-seok, a South Korean member of an inspection team which the UN's International Atomic Energy Organisation (IAEA) maintains in Iran.
Seo was on a mission with an IAEA colleague near the Khondab complex in the province of Markazi, it added in a statement, without naming the other inspector injured in the accident at around noon (0730 GMT).
"One of the two experts was injured, while Seo Ok-seok from South Korea died of severe injuries," read the statement, carried by the official IRNA news agency.
It added the car had overturned after veering off the road.
Two other news agencies, ISNA and Fars, said the second inspector was a Slovak national, who has been hospitalised. They did not provide further details.
Iran is building a heavy water research reactor on the outskirts of the village of Khondab, 186 kilometres (116 miles) west of Tehran.
Iran's disputed nuclear programme is under the supervision of the IAEA, which has managed to keep its presence in the country despite disputes with the West over Tehran's atomic work.
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He was told not to open that particular door---why people won't listen?!
[Iran Press TV] At least 13 civilians have been killed in festivities between pro-Talibs and Pak security forces in the troubled northwestern tribal region, Press TV reports.
Fierce festivities erupted on Sunday when 15 security personnel were killed in an ambush near Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , the capital of North Wazoo region, on Pakistain's border with Afghanistan.
The fighting continued Tuesday with a regular exchange of heavy machine gun and mortar fire near Miranshah Bazaar and the outskirts.
There were five women and three children among the civilian victims caught in the crossfire.
At least 67 others were also maimed as a result of the shelling in the nearby residential areas. Many of those injured are said to be critical condition.
Sporadic outbreaks of violence have, however, raised fears of an all-out conflict between the gunnies and government forces, which could displace hundreds of thousands of the residents.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz President Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... says there is no need to bring a no-trust motion against Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... after his conviction by the Supreme Court.
Talking to editors, senior journalists, columnists and anchorpersons here on Monday, he said Gilani was no more a prime minister because the apex court had convicted him and there was no need for a no-confidence move against him. He was responding to Gilani's remarks that the opposition should bring a no-trust move against him.
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Muhammad Mehdi and senators Ishaq Dar, Mushahidullah Khan and Pervaiz Rashid were also present.
Nawaz dispelled the impression created by PPP leaders that the PML-N campaign to oust the prime minister could endanger the democratic system.
"Democracy is not in danger due to our struggle, it is threatened by the attitude of the present government. If it is not checked, it will ruin all national institutions, including the judiciary and future of democracy. The struggle will help reform the situation."
The PML-N chief said a person convicted by the Supreme Court had no right to remain the prime minister. "It will be a shame that a convict will be representing Pakistain as its prime minister in Britannia," he said in reference to Gilani's five-day UK visit starting May 8 (today).
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[Bangla Daily Star] Reiterating party's stance on holding a dialogue to resolve the country's political crisis, BNP leader Moudud Ahmed yesterday urged the government to create consensus by leaving the path of confrontation.
Referring to recent visits of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ... and Pranab Mukherjee to Dhaka, he said both of them echoed the views of the opposition. "Foreign delegates suggested the government for holding talks with the opposition to arrange the national elections under a neutral government. Now the incumbent government has to amend the constitution to clear the way for holding talks," he added.
He was addressing a human chain programme in front of Jatiya Press Club. Dhaka city unit of Zia Gay Pareehad, a pro-BNP body, organised the event protesting filing of cases against top opposition leaders.
Moudud said, "We don't want to see any political confrontation, but the government has to take the initiative to reach a consensus."
The prime minister must declare that the caretaker government system will be restored to the constitution and Ilias Ali will return to his family, he mentioned adding, if otherwise, the ongoing anti-government movement will continue.
The BNP leader said tougher agitation programme will be declared soon if Ilias, who went missing on April 17 from the capital's Banani area, remains untraced.
Moudud, also a former minister, said the government filed cases against big shots of BNP and its front organizations only to resist the movement as it has failed to face the agitation politically.
He said BNP will not go for movement if Ilias returns to his family and the caretaker system is restored. "Then we will sit down for dialogue, if necessary. Otherwise the government will be forced to step down."
Kabir Murad, president of Zia Gay Pareehad, spoke at the programme, among others.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her May 5-6 visit to Dhaka said political parties should hold a dialogue to find out how a free and fair election can be arranged in Bangladesh.
Earlier, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... had blamed government security agencies for picking up Ilias. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide... , though, had termed the incident a "drama."
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal yesterday organised a rally in front of BNP's central office at Nayapaltan protesting filing of cases against top opposition leaders including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan addressed the meeting, among others, with Jubo Dal president Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal in the chair.
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GENEVA: The International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross called on Israel on Tuesday to transfer six Palestinians who have been on hunger strike for weeks to hospital and allow visits from their families.
No.
All six are in prison under Israels long-standing policy of detaining people it suspects of security offenses or plotting attacks in a closed military proceeding between security forces and military judges rather than after a formal trial. Prison terms for administrative detainees are renewable for six months at a time.
In a statement, the humanitarian agency said that the six are in imminent danger of dying, although it upheld their right to choose whether or not they wanted to receive treatment.
Israel should uphold its right to put food in front of the prisoners, and nothing further...
We urge the detaining authorities to transfer all six detainees without delay to a suitable hospital so that their condition can be continuously monitored and so that they can receive specialized medical and nursing care, said Juan Pedro Schaerer, head of the ICRC delegation in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
The six have refused food for between 47 and 71 days, and are among more than 1,600 detainees who have been on hunger strike for some three weeks, according to the ICRC.
Their main demands are for a resumption of family visits from Gaza and for an end to solitary confinement in Israeli places of detention, it said.
Israel demands that they not kill Israelis anymore. Deal?
The fate of the hunger strikers has touched a raw nerve in the Palestinian Territories with daily demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to support the protest.
In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said there would be serious repercussions if any of the prisoners died.
The most tragic thing is if you look at the list of demands they have presented Israel ... they are generally related to the basic rights of prisoners, he said in the West Bank city of Ramallah. There is a clear violation of the Geneva conventions.
The ICRCs Shaerer stressed that the strikers right to fast is protected by international conventions.
Which ones?
While we are in favor of any medical treatment that could benefit the detainees, we would like to point out that, under resolutions adopted by the World Medical Association, the detainees are entitled to freely choose whether to consent to be fed or to receive medical treatment, he said.
So they chose not to eat. Okay. Now they want medical treatment for not eating; the therapy for which is...food. Put a platter in front of them and tell them it's medicine.
It is essential that their choice be respected and their human dignity preserved, he said.
On Monday, Israels Supreme Court turned down an appeal by two Palestinians who have been on hunger strike for the past 70 days, to free them from detention without trial. But in its decision the court said security authorities should consider freeing them for medical reasons.
The scope of the hunger strike has posed a new challenge to Israel, which has come under international criticism over detention without trial and could face a violent Palestinian backlash if any of the protesters die.
Paleos get violent for all sorts of reasons. What's one more?
The office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay also voiced concern on the strikers fate.
International law is clear: administrative detention should only be used in exceptional cases and only for imperative reasons of security. Administrative detainees have the right to challenge the lawfulness of the detention, spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told a news briefing.
Independent UN investigators and UN rights bodies have raised concerns about Israels frequent and extensive use of administrative detention, including of children, infringing on detainees right to a fair trial, Shamdasani said.
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Put a platter in front of them and tell them it's medicine.
Mmmmm, bacon.
(My strict Baptist grandmother wouldn't drink, but her doctor prescribed a glass of sherry before dinner, "for her digestion;" it helped.)
[Dawn] Explosions rocked Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... on Monday after military helicopters attacked arms markets, leaving several people dead and maimed.
Also on Monday, two beheaded bodies of security personnel were found near the Zafar Town chowk with snuffies having hung their heads from poles in bazaars.
Official sources said 10 soldiers had been killed and over 20 maimed in festivities with snuffies since Sunday.
Officials and witnesses said that bodies of 12 snuffies were found in a compound which had been hit by artillery fire on Sunday night. The dead belonged to the Asmat Al-Maavia group, a hitherto unknown bully boy faction.
Sources said that five 'Punjabi' and seven Mahsud snuffies had been killed in the compound.
Residents said that heavy exchanges of fire continued on Sunday night and rockets, heavy artillery and mortars were used.
Helicopter gunships shelled bully boys' positions in the Dattakhel village and Zafar Town areas.
According to residents, the helicopters fired two missiles on two arms ammunition markets housing over 50 shops, triggering a series of kabooms and a huge blaze.
The sources said that snuffies encircled soldiers who had raided a compound near Miranshah after Sunday's festivities. Two of the soldiers were captured by the bully boys.
Two grandsons of Dawn's correspondent were among the people who suffered injuries in kabooms which followed the attacks on the markets.
The kabooms destroyed the double-storey Malik Noor Din Market, killing two people and injuring 15 others. The kabooms continued as the fire spread, destroying shops, restaurants and nearby houses.
People started leaving the town for safe places. Rescue work by rustics was affected because of a curfew imposed on Sunday.
A shell landed on the house of a primitive, killing a woman and injuring two girls. Seven other people, including women and kiddies, were maimed in an adjacent house. A missile fired by snuffies hit the Tochi Scout Fort, killing one paramilitary soldier.
A bully boy named Usman was killed and three passersby were maimed in a separate clash. The snuffies snatched three vehicles from security forces during the clash.
The political administration lifted the curfew in the afternoon after negotiations with elders and representatives of the peace committee.
The sources said that tribal elders were negotiating to restore peace in the area.
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[Iran Press TV] La Belle France's President-elect Francois Hollande ...the impending Socialist president of La Belle France... has launched a scathing attack on the British government saying Britannia "is indifferent to the fate of the euro area".
La Belle France's Socialist leader said Britannia is only obsessed with the protection of the interests of the City of London, reported The Mail
"The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe," said Hollande.
Hollande is an advocate of an EU-wide transaction tax on financial deals and a fresh push for tax harmonization in Europe, to which Britannia is opposed.
After Hollande's victory over Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... on Sunday night, British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... called him and said he looked forward to "building on the very close relationship that already exists between the UK and La Belle France".
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... Hollande has a closer relationship with opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband as they held high-level talks when he visited London in February.
Hollande believes that a shift in focus away from austerity to growth could be a way towards pain-free economic growth for La Belle France and the eurozone saying "austerity can no longer be the only option". Nevertheless, the British press have accused him of creating "cruel illusion".
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NS, would that we could. I'm afraid that the toy boy and the rest of his ilk are firmly embedded in the EU elite and are just playing their role. Things haven't gone exactly as planned or Blair, Brown or Cameron would already have the UK in the Euro.
Anything Cameron says seems to be nothing but blue smoke or stupidity. He, as far as I can see, has no desire to move the slightest bit away from the EU. There will come a time when the EU tells the UK to $#!t or get off the pot on the Euro and after much huffing and puffing Cameron would bend right over.
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[Dawn] The political administration has suspended cellular phone service in Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... after the Friday's suicide kaboom in the tribal region, according to sources.
They said that cellular phone service in the entire region was suddenly suspended. "Cellular phone service in our area is completely suspended," Hanif Khan, a resident of Khar told Dawn.
The local administration has said nothing about the disconnection of cellphone service in the area officially. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... an official confirmed suspension of cellphone service in the region.
"The administration has suspended cellphone service with immediate effect to help restore peace in the region," the official said. He said that decision in that regard was taken in a high level meeting.
"The administration believes that faceless myrmidons are using cellphones for carrying out their activities in the region," he added.
The local rustics have condemned suspension of cellphone service in the area.
They demanded immediate restoration of the service. "The suspension of cellphone service would create fear among the people," they said
JIRGA: A jirga of tribal elders of Bajaur Agency on Monday assured security forces and local administration of its full support to uproot militancy in the region.
The participants of the jirga said that strict action would be taken against those rustics, who were supporting bully boys. The jirga was convened by local administration to discuss the growing incidents of violence and militancy in the region.
Deputy Inspector General of Frontier Crops Maj-Gen Mohammad Usman, Commandant Bajaur Scouts Col Shakeel Janjua and Political Agent Islamzeb also attended the jirga.
Speaking on the occasion, Maj-Gen Usman claimed that security forces with the help of tribal elders had cleared the region of bully boys.
"The Friday's suicide attack showed that faceless myrmidons were regrouping again but security forces will never allow them to disturb peace of the region," he said.
He said that security forces were fully alert to check bully boy activities. "Serious action will be taken where faceless myrmidons are found because they are the biggest enemies of the area and their only aim is to disturb peace and stability in the region," Maj-Gen Usman said.
The tribal elders said that they had always supported security forces and administration against faceless myrmidons during the last five years.
"We want restoration of peace and stability and writ of government. We will never allow those elements, who are the enemies of peace and prosperity of our people, to operate in the area," they said.
The elders said that strict action would be taken against those people, who were supporting bully boys, in accordance with tribal traditions.
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(Sh.M.Network) Elderly US development worker Warren Weinstein has appeared in an al-Qaeda video for the first time since he was kidnapped in Pakistain just days before he meant to return home last August.
The two minute, 40 second video was posted on jihadist forums by al-Qaeda's media arm as-Sahab on Sunday, according to the US monitoring service SITE. There is no sign of when the video was made and Weinstein appears alone before the camera.
Dressed in a traditional Pak tunic and speaking impassively in English, he urges US President Barack Obama Because I won... to respond to his kidnappers' demands.
He also tells his wife Elaine that "I'm fine, I'm well, I'm getting all my medications, I'm being taken care of".
There was no response from the US embassy inIslamabad. Pak security officials said they were not immediately aware of the video but believe Weinstein is being held by al-Qaeda and local Taliban near the Afghan border.
Weinstein, 70, suffers from asthma, heart problems and high blood pressure.
"If you accept the demands, I live; if you don't accept the demands, then I die," he told Obama in the video, sitting behind a table with books and food on it.
He also appealed to Obama as a father. If the president responds to the jihad boys' demands, Weinstein said, "then I will live and hopefully rejoin my family and also enjoy my children, my two daughters, like you enjoy your two daughters."
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... in December claimed that the group was holding Weinstein, but at the time provided no proof.
Zawahiri demanded that Washingtonend air strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistain, Somalia and Yemen, and release the 1993 World Trade Centre bombers along with relatives of the late Osama bin Laden. ... who has made the transition back to dust... Pakistain last month deported bin Laden's widows and children toSoddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... , a year after they were tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! following the US commando operation that found and killed the al-Qaeda founder in Abbottabad. ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William Jennings Bryan ... said Monday that theUSbelieves Zawahiri is inPakistain, vowing to keep up pressure onIslamabadto crack down on Islamist forces of Evil during a visit to the country's arch-rivalIndia.
Weinstein was snatched after gunnies tricked their way into his Lahore home on August 13, shortly before he was due to return home after seven years in Pakistain.
He was country director for US-based consultancy J.E. Austin Associates, which does contracting work with theUSgovernment's development agency, USAID.
Security officials believe Weinstein is being held inPakistain's lawless northwestern tribal belt, probably close toNorth Wazoo, which is the focus of US drone strikes targeting al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Informants have suggested he is moved regularly to avoid detection.
"He is with al-Qaeda and local Taliban, but we are unaware about his exact location," one Pak official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
A Pak working for J.E Austin told AFP that the company had not received any demands for Weinstein's release, nor for a ransom.
"We came to know that Weinstein is with al-Qaeda through the media. You see their demands are of state level and we are not in a position to fulfil these," he told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Weinstein's kidnapping started a wave of abductions of foreign aid workers.
On April 29, British aid worker Khalil Dale was found beheaded in the southwestern city ofQuetta, with a note from his captors saying he had been killed because their demands were not met.
He was snatched on Jan 5. A German aid worker and his Italian colleague remain in captivity. A Kenyan aid worker kidnapped in January was released around three months later, a Kenyan diplomat told AFP, giving no further details.
A Swiss couple snatched in July last year were held for nine months before claiming to have escaped in March, but the nature of their liberation is clouded in mystery.
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The White House said Monday that it would not negotiate with al-Qaeda over the fate of an elderlyUSaid worker seized inPakistain, after he made an emotional video plea to President Barack Obama.
"We cannot and will not negotiate with al-Qaeda," White House front man Jay Carney said, adding that officials were greatly concerned for the safety of the aid worker Warren Weinstein, and were working to find him.
Earlier, the elderly Weinstein appeared in an al-Qaeda video for the first time since he was kidnapped inPakistainjust days before he meant to return home last August.
The two minute, 40 second video was posted on jihadist forums by al-Qaeda's media arm as-Sahab on Sunday, according to theUSmonitoring service SITE.
Dressed in a traditional Pak tunic and speaking impassively in English, he urged US President Barack Obama to respond to his kidnappers' demands.
"If you accept the demands, I live; if you don't accept the demands, then I die," he told Obama in the video.
Weinstein, 70, suffers from asthma, heart problems and high blood pressure.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has demanded that Washington end air strikes in Afghanistan,Pakistain,Somalia and Yemen, and release the 1993 World Trade Centre bombers along with relatives of Osama bin Laden.
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"We cannot and will not negotiate with al-Qaeda," White House front man Jay Carney said
Liar! If you are negotiating with the Taliban - you are also negotiating with Al-Qaeda. And Obama really, really, wants to negotiate with the Taliban/Al-Qaeda only they don't want to negotiate with him knowing they only have to wait out his timetable.
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THREATS TO SAFETY AND SECURITY: A number of extremist groups within Pakistan continue to target U.S. citizens and other Western interests and Pakistani officials. Terrorists have demonstrated a willingness and capability to attack targets where U.S. citizens are known to congregate or visit. Terrorist actions may include, but are not limited to, suicide operations, bombings -- including vehicle-borne explosives and improvised explosive devices -- assassinations, carjackings, assaults, and kidnappings. Pakistani military forces are currently engaged in a campaign against extremist elements across many areas of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province, formerly known as Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). In response to this campaign, militants have increased attacks against both civilian and government targets in Pakistans cities and in late 2010 launched several coordinated attacks against Pakistani government and civilian targets, especially in Bajaur and Mohmand Agencies.
[Dawn] Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) provincial president Shahzain Bugti claimed on Tuesday that the government had created fraudulent cases against him and his lover companions, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to media representatives after being presented before a sessions court in Quetta, Bugti said that the government was launching a propaganda campaign by registering fake cases against them.
He accused that three of his lover companions, who were said to have been 'kidnapped' from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... by law enforcement agencies, were wrongly associated with the resistance movement in Lyari.
Moreover, he accused the intelligence agencies of kidnapping two more of his fellows.
The court subsequently adjourned the session till May 14 after a brief hearing. Bugti will be presented again in court in the next hearing along with his lover companions.
In 2010, Bugti and his lover companions were taken into custody by Frontier Corps (FC) personnel on charges of carrying illegal arms in their vehicles. A sessions court had released them on bail.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... on 28 April 2012, Bugti, along with 26 guards, was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! again after a meeting at his residence with 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... Home Minister Mir Zafarullah Zehri following arrest warrants issued against him in the arms smuggling case.
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[Dawn] AFTER 9/11, Pakistain has been beset by the twin menace of radicalisation and terrorism.
A national policy to deal with the menace of terrorism is a dire necessity, something which is one of the mandated tasks of the nascent National Counter Terrorism Authority of Pakistain (Nacta).
A national counterterrorism strategy has to be drafted and shared with the public, with civil society taking an active part in the deliberations.
This comprehensive strategy should not just have law-enforcement agencies and the military, but should also involve others, for example educationists, who could be required to evaluate outmoded curricula and replace them with more tolerant non-sectarian versions.
Scientists can be involved to jam illegal FM transmissions; the media can generate public-service messages and programmes promoting tolerance. The strategy should remain within the ambit of the rule of law, or it has the potential to become a monster almost as big as the thugs.
The rule of law needs representative governance. With the arrival of civilian government representing this in 2008, the situation has gradually moved towards a national consensus against terrorism. Democracy must be nurtured in Pakistain, as this is the only way forward for nations to put their affairs in order.
Threat priorities need to be established for the future of the war on terror not only in the Pak but in the global context as well. One solution has been the establishment of a counterterrorism environment created by politicians through legislation, budgets and policy decisions.
Legislation will be a part of the directing tangential forces of counterterrorism. In Pakistain, this legislation resonates in the anti-terrorist acts passed by parliament, which need to be constantly reassessed with the changing dynamics of the situation on the ground.
The inherent global challenge would be balancing the rights of citizens and fundamental constitutional guarantees against the increasing threat from terrorism.
This is the delicate balancing act that counterterrorism in the future will continue to face, especially for the security agencies directly involved in these operations, and which perhaps affects the police the most.
Huge challenges for counterterrorism in the future will include coordination which seems to be exponentially increasing.
Future efforts in counterterrorism will require complex investigations involving multiple countries, a variety of types of communication and numerous sources of intelligence. Collectively, there will be an ever-evolving need for more sophisticated forms of counterterrorism and greater resources.
Long-term polices resembling the Blair government's CONTEST strategy in the UK need to be in place. The four areas identified as prevention, pursuit, protection and preparedness gain another dimension in the Pak context -- that of containment, since we have been beset by an insurgency in our northern areas.
This has been reinvented according to our own situation under the government's policy of dialogue, deterrence and development as the main area of thrust in Pakistain.
The pursuit of improved intelligence, the disruption of terrorist activity and better coordination with international forces fighting terrorism will require improved cooperation. Protection of homeland security installations will require improved domestic security of ports and public transportation systems.
Preparing for the threat of confrontation will require an ever-increasing readiness to respond to terrorist attacks.
The complete elimination of terrorism may not be possible, but adequate containment is the path to be followed. A sincere effort must be made to study individuals prone to radicalisation and who are thus potential recruits for terrorist groups.
Rather than just firefighting, we need to find out the causes: why is there terrorism, why are people becoming radicalised, how are they radicalised? Only then can we deal with these issues.
The future of counterterrorism will also be shaped to a certain extent by the relationships among the various organizations involved in the war against terrorism, which of course stands true for Nacta as well.
While the new threats resulted in the grant of emergency powers to governments to get more powers and additional resources, sometimes the evolution of coordination has been too reactive, short-term and politicised.
This has occasionally caused slow governmental responses to increase resources going into counterterrorism. Police forces are critical in the counterterrorism future, due to their presence on the ground and their ability to carry out arrests.
The key to long-term containment of terrorism, beyond tactical policing and security measures designed to detect and defeat zealots, is to reduce the supply of terrorists. It must be recognised that terrorism requires a small core of radicalised individuals bent on carrying out acts of violence.
What government policy must ensure is that these individuals are kept marginalised within their own communities. They must not be allowed to lead others along the path of violence. If they are isolated then they can be contained, either by the state or by their own communities. Without a support network, they pose a much smaller threat.
Summing up, successful counterterrorism in the future of a democratic society requires trust and confidence in the efficacy of the security forces because public cooperation is essential.
This can only be done after capturing the so-called hearts and minds of the citizens, particularly in those communities where faceless myrmidons are to be found, confronted and contained.
This winning of hearts and minds is what constitutes the core of counterterrorism in the future, not just in Pakistain but across the globe as well, and will continue to do so for times to come.
We have the resolve to fight terrorism, but not the entire panoply of resources needed.
Pakistain is a resilient nation, and will overcome these problems eventually. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the road ahead needs to be paved with the soundest of policies bolstered by the international community in order to bridge the resource gap failing which, one would expect to see militancy problems continuing in the country.
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Seems that they've got the same nomenclature problem that Bush gave us though at least they show some signs of catching on.
twin menace of radicalisation and terrorism
Nope, just one menace and it's spelled Islamism. Call it radicalization if you want, at least that's closer, but terrorism, AWAK, is a tactic.
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What government policy must ensure is that these individuals are kept marginalised within their own communities. They must not be allowed to lead others along the path of violence.
P.W. Botha gave it go, but failed due to civil rights outrage, sanctions, and communist intervention. A similar outcome is likely here or elsewhere.
[Yemen Post] A senior presidential aide told Yemen Post that the United States has yet to handover any evidence proving that a Yemeni national was planned to be involved in the bombing of a US airliner using an underwear bomb.
The official said that the Yemeni government expected AQAP to attempt an attack but on a different scale and with their full knowledge in cooperation with Washington.
The official said that the Yemeni government will ask Washington to handover the evidence to ensure a full investigation take place.
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[Bangla Daily Star] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces in Afghanistan yesterday admitted responsibility for the deaths of a civilian family of six in an Arclight airstrike in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... last week.
The admission came a day after President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... summoned NATO's military commander and the US ambassador to warn that civilian deaths threatened the strategic pact he signed with US President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... last week.
"At this point in the investigation we are able to confirm the incident and will be formally apologising in the next couple of days to the family," a front man for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) told AFP.
"We are deeply saddened by any civilian deaths, and particularly regret incidents where civilians are killed as a result of actions by ISAF," said Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Upton of ISAF's southwest regional command.
The Helmand provincial governor's office said in a statement that the family was killed unintentionally in an Arclight airstrike last Friday after ISAF checkpoints came under attack by cut-throats in Sangin district.
The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan's war has risen steadily each year for the past five years, reaching a record of 3,021 in 2011 -- the great majority caused by bully boyz -- according to UN statistics.
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Police yesterday tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a female madrasa teacher who eight days earlier seared legs of 14 minor girls with a hot spatula to demonstrate 'pain from fire in hell' for not performing prayers regularly.
Acting on a tip off, the arrest was made from a village in Nawabganj upazila around 2:30am, said Shafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Kadamtali Police Station.
Arrested Jesmin Akter, 38, was a teacher of Talimul Koran Mahila Madrasa at Namashyampur in the capital's Kadamtali area.
In a primary interrogation she admitted her involvement and said she was sorry for what she had done.
"I thought this would help them understand the punishment they will face in hell for irregularity in saying prayers," she told police.
Shafiqul Islam told The Daily Star that they raided a house of Jesmin's relative in Nawabganj where she had taken shelter with her six-month-old baby after a case was filed against her in connection with inflicting torture on the girls.
Abdul Jalil, father of eight-year-old Jannatul Ferdous, one of the girls seared by Jesmin, filed the case on May 1. The madrasa has been closed ever since.
Jannat's father told The Daily Star that she suffered from fever for two days following the incident.
Police produced Jesmin before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court seeking seven days' remand. The court sent her to jail rejecting the remand prayer, the OC added.
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[Dawn] A marble trader rubbed out in his Bara Board shop within the remit of the Pak Colony cop shoppe was among the three persons killed in the city on Monday, police said.
They said that 46-year-old Zafar Iqbal was sitting at his shop where two gunnies riding a cycle of violence came, opened fire on him and escaped.
The shopkeeper and a 30-year-old passer-by, Abdul Rehman, were maimed in the shooting.
The victims were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where Zafar Iqbal died, the police said.
Commercial activities were suspended in the area after the killing.
The members of the marble association closed their businesses and staged a protest demonstration against the killing.
The police said that Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... gangsters might be involved in the incident.
They said the victim was also a sympathiser of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... and the father of three children and hailed from Sialkot.
The killing could be politically motivated, but anything could be said with certainty after a proper investigation, the police added.
In the second incident, at least two persons were killed and three others maimed when gunnies riding a cycle of violence opened fire on a roadside restaurant in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on
Monday night, police said.
They said the incident took place in Block 13-D of Gulshan, where reportedly four suspects riding two cycle of violences came to the eatery and opened fire.
As a result, Muhammad Ali alias Shahani and Jehangir Khan and two others were maimed.
They were rushed to different hospitals, where Muhammad Ali and Jehangir died during treatment.
SP of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Salam Sheikh said Muhammad Ali was the restaurant owner and Jehangir was his employee. Sarfaraz, Amjad and Razimandh, injured in the firing, were also
employees at the eatery.
The police were not sure about the motive for the shooting. They collected over 40 spent bullet casings from the crime-scene.
Wanted 'bandit' killed during robbery
An alleged bandit was rubbed out in what police described as an encounter within the remit of the SITE-A cop shoppe on Monday.
According to the police, the alleged bandit was robbing the owner of a factory in the area and when a police party reached there he opened fire on the police.
The police returned fire and bumped off the suspect later identified as 25-year-old Aslam alias Sharabi, the police said.
A TT pistol, three cellphones and Rs20,000 were found in his possession, SHO Rao Rafiq said, adding that the dead was a resident of Frontier Colony.
The suspect was wanted in several criminal cases, the SHO added.
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[Dawn] A former nazim ...small time big shot, the chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan, such as a district, tehsil, union council, or village council... of Jamia Hafsa on Monday approached the Supreme Court seeking direction to the police to register cases against 22 persons, including former President Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... and ex-Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for their alleged role in the killing of innocent people and desecration of the holy Koran during the Lal Masjid operation in the year 2007.
On May 4, separate complaints were lodged by 11 people against the 22 persons with the Aabpara police. The police registered the complaints in its daily diary and issued separate numbers to the complainants.
The police also sent the complaints to its prosecution department for legal opinion.
When contacted, Advocate Tarqi Asad, the counsel for petitioner Maulana Abdul Qayyum, the former nazim and teacher of the seminary, said a request was also made to the apex court to take up the matter on Tuesday (today) when another identical petition would be heard.
The petition named as respondents the secretary interior, inspector general of Islamabad police and the station house officer (SHO) of Aabpara. The court was requested to order the SHO to register criminal cases against those responsible for the deaths of the innocent persons and desecration of the holy Koran.
"Deaths caused during the operation were in violation of Articles 9, 10, 10-A and 14 of the constitution. Besides, desecration of the holy Koran is against the sentiments of Mohammedans and a violation of Article 20," the petition said.
It stated that as per finding of the apex court on October 2, 2007, 103 bodies had been recovered from the premises out of which only 16 could be identified. The remaining were handed over to their families, but 12 of them were not accepted due to lack of identification.
The petitioner added that as per statements of principal Majida Younus alias Umme Hassan and a former student of Jamia Hafsa, Ayesha, recorded in the same court order, about 1,300 orphan students were on the premises who remained untraceable. "The number of those killed was very high but only 103 deaths were admitted by the respondents."
The petitioner stated that in the court's order it was also admitted that 662 persons were tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! and later released. "But the fact is that most of them were never released and they were either killed or are still in detention."
The claim can be verified from the statement of one of the legal heirs of the victims, Ghulam Mohammad that he had seen his son when he was tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! but his whereabouts was never known afterwards.
The petitioner claimed that another man -- Muzammil Shah -- had informed the court during the last hearing that his son Mohammad Ali was alive till July 6, 2007, but after that nothing was known about him.
In view of the order, legal heirs of the victims had been filing applications with the police and civil authorities from time to time requesting them to register criminal cases against the responsible persons. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... they were told that only the Ministry of Law and Justice could allow registration of such cases.
The petitioner pleaded that FIR be registered on charges of murder and desecration of the holy Koran against the former president and prime minister as well as Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, former federal and state ministers Mohammad Ali Durrani and Tariq Azeem, former religious affairs minister Ijazul Haq, former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, former foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri, former Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, former environment minister Faisal Saleh Hayat, director crisis management cell Javaid Iqbal Cheema, General (retired) Javed Majeed, then director general (operation) Rangers General Hussain Mehdi, former secretary interior Syed Kamal Shah, former IGP Islamabad Iftikhar Ahmad, former deputy commissioner Islamabad Chaudhry Mohammad Ali, former SSP Islamabad Capt (retired) Zafar Iqbal, former chief commissioner Islamabad Khalid Pervaiz, former DIG Islamabad Shahid Nadeem Baloch, former DG ISPR Waheed Arshad, former chairman CDA Kamran Lashari and those who participated in the operation.
Besides, the petitioner also prayed the court to set aside the December 27, 2011, agreement signed between Umme Hassan and the government under which the victims' families would not make any claim or get any case registered against anyone in future.
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(Sh.M.Network )-While successful pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and other hot spots have declined in recent months due to naval patrols and other measures, the international community is taking no chances on resurgence.
Not only has the EU recently authorized its 'Atalanta' counter-piracy mission in theIndian Oceanto attack the pirates' land-based infrastructure, but individual European countries are moving swiftly to enable the use of private security guards on commercial vessels.
"Successful attacks are relatively low right now, but this is no time for complacency," Thorsten Bargfrede, strategic planner for counter-piracy at the European External Action Service (EEAS), told a conference at Belgium's Royal Military Academy in Brussels on 3 May. The EEAS is the EU's new foreign policy and diplomatic corps.
Noting that 33 vessels were captured by pirates in theIndian Oceanin the first half of 2011, but only three in the second half, he warned that the strategic conditions that allow pirates to flourish "have not changed. These groups remain active, their capabilities are still there and their attack attempts continue unabated".
Such conditions lay behind the EU's 23 March decision to extend the mandate of 'Atalanta' for another two years until December 2014 and to expand its remit beyond vessel escort duties and counter-piracy manoeuvres off the coast of Somalia to include attacks against the pirates' shore-based assets.
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[Yemen Post] The Nasserite Unionist People's Organization has declared his refusal to a dialogue libation committee tasked for communicating different Yemeni factions with the aim of holding a national dialogue conference.
in a statement, the party said its refusal came as it has no representative in the committee, stressing that the exclusion of the party demeans its national struggles and roles.
President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi ...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... issued a decree on Sunday of forming a eight-member committee that included two persons of the Joint Meeting Parties alliance for which the Nasserite party belongs to.
In a statement, the General Secretariat of the party expressed its refusal to the decree, stressing that it does not harmonize the GCC-drawn power transfer deal that calls for partnership.
It further said the party stood by Hadi and the interim government and sided to the interests of the nation in the past time though it has many reservations.
The Nasserite Unionist People's is a Nasserist political party in Yemen that was founded in in Taiz in December 25, 1965.
At the last legislative elections, 27 April 2003, the party won 1.85% of the popular vote and 3 out of 301 seats.
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Sunday announced about the formation of an eight-member liaison committee to start a planned national reconciliation dialogue as part of a UN-backed power transfer deal.
The decree also said the committee has the right to seek support from those who can help make its job a success, urging all parties and forces to cooperate to accelerate the formation of the dialogue preparation committee before 30 June.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A senior Pak police officer was killed in a drive-by shooting in the troubled southwestern province of 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... yesterday, police said.
Shah Nawaz Khan was a senior member of Balochistan's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which investigates all offences including terror cases and sectarian killings.
"He was killed in the early morning when he was going for a walk," provincial police chief Rao Amin Hashim told AFP.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Three unwent kaboom! bombs were discovered on Tuesday at a university in northern Nigeria that was the site of an attack on church services last month which killed at least 19 people, authorities said.
A Bayero University front man said the bombs made of gas cylinders were believed to have been at the university since the April 29 attack.
The military was notified and a bomb squad moved the devices before detonating them safely.
"Three bombs were discovered today in three locations on the old campus of the university," front man Mustapha Zaharaddeen told AFP.
"The bombs were located in the faculties of law, science and at the sports complex. Workers in the two faculties were evacuated and the bombs taken into the open sports complex and safely detonated."
He added that "the bombs were not discovered earlier because the university has been on vacation."
Explosions and gunfire rocked Bayero University in Kano on April 29 as attackers targeted two campus church services -- one outdoors, the other in a building but with the crowd spilling outside.
They threw explosives and opened fire, shooting worshippers as they sought to flee.
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(Sh. M. Network)-Unidentified gunnies have overnight shot to death at least two people in Mogadishu,Somalia capital, the latest violence
Witnesses told Shabelle Media that the assailants armed who armed with pistols have on Monday evening shot and killed two middle-aged men, a TFG soldier and Moallin Ismail, a man working for Somalia's immigration and identification at Bulo-Hubet neighborhood in Wadajir district.
Some reports suggest that TFG forces at the area killed the soldier as he was trying to run after the assailants who assassinated Moallin Ismail in Mogadishu overnight.
No group or individual has yet grabbed credit for the killing, but locals said the attacker have beat feet from the shooting site before TFG soldiers arrived.
Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... was driven out of Mogadishu by government and 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... forces last year but has continued to carry out attacks in the city.
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[An Nahar] Iran said on Tuesday parliamentary elections in Syria held by the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... was a step towards reform, but expressed regret the vote was shunned by opposition groups.
Foreign ministry front man Ramin Mehmanparast told news hounds in his weekly briefing that "the vote is the second step the Syrian government is taking in the path of reform," after Assad's promise of launching reforms.
Syria is the main Middle East ally of the Islamic republic, which has pledged its support to beleaguered Assad who has been facing a deadly revolt against his regime since mid-March 2011.
"Syrian people's participation in the elections shows a great understanding for resolving their internal affairs through peaceful measures," Mehmanparast said.
Syrians voted Monday in the country's first "multiparty" parliamentary elections, dismissed by the opposition as a sham, in five decades against the backdrop of a violent crackdown by Assad's autocratic regime on protesters.
The vote, also criticized by U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , was held despite the unrest sweeping the country, which according to U.N. estimates has left more than 9,000 people killed so far.
People cast their ballots in Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... neighborhoods and in other regions, while in opposition strongholds residents boycotted the vote who instead held protests and a general strike.
Mehmanparast expressed regret about the boycott, and urged world powers and regional countries critical of Assad to let a hard-won truce brokered by international 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... , be implemented.
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[An Nahar] Dozens of Buddhists led by monks have joined a demonstration urging Sri Lanka's government to proceed with plans to dismantle a mosque located in a sacred Buddhist area.
The protesters marched peacefully through Kalutara town south of Colombo on Monday.
Last month, thousands of Buddhist monks and lay supporters stormed the mosque in the central town of Dambulla, saying it was constructed illegally.
The government later announced that the mosque and a Hindu temple would be demolished and relocated. Mohammedanholy mans and politicians have strongly opposed the decision. An organizer of Monday's protest, Asoka Menikkgoda, says the government should safeguard Buddhism, the state religion, and not yield to Mohammedan pressure.
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If Democrats want to reach more evangelical voters, they should use a political language that evangelicals can hear. They should talk about the kind of people we are aiming to be and about the transformational journey that any choice will take us on. They should talk about how we can grow in compassion and care. They could talk about the way their policy interventions will allow those who receive them to become better people and how those of us who support them will better ourselves as we reach out in love. They could describe health care reform as a response to suffering, not as a solution to an economic problem.
To be sure, they won't connect to every evangelical. But the good news for secular liberals is that evangelicals are smarter and more varied than many liberals realize. I met doctors, scientists and professors at the churches where I studied. They cared about social justice. They cared about the poor. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many of them got into their cars and drove to New Orleans. This is a reachable population, and back in 2008, a quarter of white evangelicals voted for Mr. Obama. Democrats could speak to evangelicals more effectively if they talked about how we could develop our moral character together as we work to rebuild our country.
This is a anthropologist from Stanford, trying to explain her findings to the intended market of the New York Times in order to benefit a certain political spectrum. It may sound amusing, but consider that this is the political spectrum currently in charge at State, academia, the legal community, and Washington in general. If they can't understand Americans who they consider as part of a 'foreign culture', how are they dealing with actual foreign cultures, beliefs and mindsets like Pakistan, India, Syria, the Taliban, Tuaregs, Chinese, Palestinians, etc.?
They won't see a need to understand the Israelis as a foreign culture, anyway, because they're in perfect agreement with the American Jews in their circle.
All foreign cultures are amenable to the same worldview, since the inhabitants of either flyover America or Zimbabwe are the same, and both need to be managed by their betters...
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Democrats could speak to evangelicals more effectively if they talked about how we could develop our moral character together as we work to rebuild our country.
Yes! Charline Rangel, Bill Clinton, Barney Franks, Al Gore, Kwame Kilpatrick, Alcee Hastings, Marian Barry, Rod Blagojevich, John Edwards, Ted Kennedy....please speak out.
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At this point democrats are beyond redeemable qualities at all. They are the stain of civilization. They ARE Amalek leading the world back into slavery. I do not care who, when, what, or where this ass crack opens up. It's over.
Go sleep with your dictators but if you try to bring me at knifepoint, I will leave you with nothing.
Democrats all suck and Republicans suck a little less. At this point it may be time to cut away from the bad parachute ride all together.
We need three decent parties to run a decent republic and we have none. All adults have died or have left.
I shall not mince words. ANY Church that follows democrat narrative is evil beyond recognition. A lack of acknowledgement of history and the book they are supposed to be preaching could give an 11th grader same wisdom.
Just because something sounds "Compassionate" or popular does not make it correct. It usually means that all old and failed things are again tried. It's like chasing wind and that's not how I would like to spend my adult life. I threw childish things away long ago.
You have freewill and that is a gift from the Heavens but forcing your will on people for your sake of "social equality" is childish and you disgust me.
Do as you shall, but you shall find consequence in the weeds you are planting. My part will continue to be voluntarily non-committal to your childish and arrogant cause.
I disregard many parish for this very reason, and Catholics that vote for this shit really are pariahs from hell. At least Biden is humorous about his lack of faith.
I find the NYT Abhorrent and am happy to see you living the lives most of us "Under-employed" people have. You and your paper have always been a
bunch of lying jerks that helped in the extermination of millions of real live people in your utopian dreams.
At last, you see what a curse may do when you see it.
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What these "social Gospel" christians don't grasp is that it is possible to do "the right thing" the wrong way, and thus fall under the condemnation of God. They have no problems arguing that doing the right thing of "protecting Americans" is no justification for committing what they consider war crimes, but let it be the question of whether they are fulfilling THEIR pet cause "the right way", they argue that "the ends justifies the means".
A prime example of this danger is Moses. When the Hebrews in the wilderness lacked water, he was told the first time to take his rod and strike a specific rock. When he obeyed, the testimony is that water came out. Near the end of the 40 years in the wilderness, the Hebrews again lacked water. This time, Moses was instructed to take the rod, but speak to the rock. In disobedience, he struck the rock. Although God graciously allowed the water to flow out of the rock, both Moses and Aaron were forbidden from going into the Promised Land as punishment.
The "ends justifies the means crowd" would focus on the water and not on the fact that God condemned Moses and Aaron for not doing it the right way. What is significant is that the record says NOTHING about Aaron doing anything to contribute to what Moses did, yet he got caught up in the punishment as well because he was a leader.
I was an influence leader in a Church that pretended to follow the bible but disregarded the biblical way of financing help to the poor and helping the sick. When I realized I was playing Aaron to their Moses, I split because I did not want to share the pain of the punishment God would mete out on the idiots who refused to listen to my warnings, and the smart ones who feigned idiocy to avoid addressing them.
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Charity is a fine and noble thing if it's voluntary. But when the government taxes people and "redistributes the wealth" to people who are likely to vote a certain way it isn't charity. It's armed robbery.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Militants in Pakistain's North Wazoo on Tuesday distributed pamphlets pledging holy war to mark the first anniversary of the killing of the late Osama bin Laden ... who abandoned all hope when he entered there... , albeit a week late.
Masked hard boyz armed with assault rifles handed out copies of the pamphlet from pick-up vehicles in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , the main town of the tribal district that has become known as Pakistain's premier Al-Qaeda and Taliban hub.
"Let us pledge today that we will continue our jihad (holy war) and sacrifice our lives and property in the way of Allah like Sheikh Osama did," it said, unsigned and dated May 2, the anniversary of the Al-Qaeda leader's killing by US troops.
"Today, a year since Sheikh Osama bin Laden embraced martyrdom, the enemy America is repenting. It is facing defeat and Pakistain's future is also bleak," it said.
The pamphlet distribution followed two days of rare fighting between troops and Islamist hard boyz in Miranshah that killed 19 soldiers and civilians, officials said.
Gunbattles in North Waziristan are relatively rare because of an agreement between snuffies and the military not to attack each other.
Pakistain has resisted US pressure to conduct a major offensive in the district, saying it is too overstretched fighting homegrown snuffies elsewhere in the tribal belt.
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The Pak army still say North Wazoo isnt a problem LOL
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I have always been a proponent of the shampoo form of intervention in the Muzzie world.
Bomb / kill the bad guys, repeat as necessary.
The ultimatum after deposing/disposing of the Taliban & AlQ should have been "and it will be worse for you if we have to come back."
Is there anyway to implement such a policy now or is it too late?
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IMO the crux will be iff there is US-Iran war [ + by extension US-North Korea War or Military Crisis?] this Summer or early Fall - to his credit, the Bammer is in favor of diplomacy, but Iran doesn't want less than 20% enrichment despite any rhetoric to the contrary.
Lest we fergit, iff a US-Iran war does occur, Radical Islam has vowed to defend Iran + take the war to CONUS, by definition to include but not limited to Terrops agz Washington, DC = US Govt itself. IOW, US-IRAN WAR = POTUS BAMMER + ADMIN, ETAL. GOVT, PENTAGON-CRITTERS WILL BE AT OR NEAR THE TOP OF THE MILTERR CROSSHAIR LIST OF MAJOR US TARGETS.
[An Nahar] Syrian forces Tuesday swept through a village in Idlib province, firing shells and bursts of gunfire in which two non-combatants were killed, while another man was rubbed out by snipers in Homs, a watchdog said.
The overnight military raid in al-Tamanaa village killed a man and a 50-year-old woman, the head of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The northwestern Idlib province, which borders Turkey, is a stronghold of the Free Syrian Army and a hotbed of opposition to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Despoiler of Deraa... regime.
Another civilian died by sniper fire in the central city of Homs, Abdel Rahman said, adding that he was bumped off at a security checkpoint in the neighborhood of Qusayr.
Raids by security forces and festivities between regular troops and defectors saw 17 civilians, three rebels and five soldiers killed on Monday, when Syria held parliamentary elections that the opposition boycotted and Washington dismissed as "ludicrous."
Political analysts do not expect the election to lead to significant change in Syria, where a tenuous U.N.-backed ceasefire that came into effect on April 12 has failed to take hold.
More than 600 people have died since the truce began, according to the Observatory.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen's Defense Ministry has denied spending of $ 7 million for two brigades of the Republican Guard led by a son of 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... A military official said the news posted by Akhbar Alyawam Newspaper on Monday about spending of $ 7 million for the two brigades was groundless, pointing out that the news aimed at sparking hatred and hostility among military brigades.
He affirmed that the ministry will file a lawsuit against the newspaper.
The Yemeni military had divided into two parts, a part that supported the anti-Saleh protests and another part stayed loyal to Saleh and his family that controls most divisions of the military.
Akhbar Alyawam, a newspaper closed to the defected General Ali Mohsin Saleh, had reported the Defense Minister Mohammad Nasser Ahmed ordered to grant two Republican Guard brigades an amount of $7 million.
The newspaper revealed thon the lam amounts were spent by the Finance Department of the Defense Minster to some persons and gunnies who are loyal to the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Yemeni economists have criticized an increase of YR 317 billion (USD 1.4 billion) for the Defense Ministry's 2012 budget, pointing out that the ministry is infested with corruption.
Ali Alwafi, an economist, described the 2012 budget as the worst ever, pointing out that numerous allocations were added to items of the budget that will not be of benefit to the people.
Officials said the increase in spending came in response to the security and political unrest that shook Yemen over the past year.
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[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... slammed on Tuesday Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... 's recent criticism against him, telling him to exercise some humility and accusing him of being disrespectful.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting: "You should remain silent. I have the right to put you on trial and strip you of your immunity."
"I only speak the truth and he only seeks to insult me," he declared.
A dispute has erupted between the two MPs in light of Jumblat's accusation that Aoun is leading a movement that is "crippling everything in Leb."
The FPM leader responded to the accusation on Saturday by labeling the Druze chief as a liar.
Jumblat retaliated on Sunday by saying: "What can I say to the one who cursed us yesterday, I will not say anything ... but I'm very dismayed by those who allowed him to dig up the graves of the past, I'm very dismayed by those who do not respect my centrist position."
Addressing Jumblat, Aoun remarked: "You and your ministers are attacking me because of my demand for proportional representation in the electoral law."
"You are better off remaining silent. It's rude for you to accuse me of theft and lies. Society does not accept such base claims," he continued.
"We have suffered a lot because of you," stressed the FPM leader.
The March 8 forces ... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hizbullah and its allies, so-called in commemoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ... is advocating the adoption of proportional representation for the parliamentary electoral law, while the March 14-led opposition has voiced its objection to it.
Jumblat has also slammed the call, saying that it is aimed at limiting his political weight.
Concerning the dispute over the government's extra-budgetary spending, Aoun renewed his accusation against President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... , holding him responsible for the failure to approve the $5.9 billion spending bill.
"I was informed by some institutions that they are facing financial difficulties because of the president has failed to sign the bill," he revealed.
Cabinet members are at loggerheads over a $5.9 billion spending bill that would legalize the allocation of funds made by Premier Najib Miqati's cabinet.
While the FPM, Amal and Hizbullah have pressured Suleiman to sign the bill into law over parliament's failure to adopt it, ministers loyal to Jumblat have defended the head of state in his decision not to.
Suleiman claims that the bill includes violations that should be amended by taking into consideration the remarks made by the parliamentary finance and budget committee.
The failure to approve the bill has threatened to withhold the salaries of Lebanese civil servants although Finance Minister Mohammed Safadi gave assurances that the employees would receive their wages.
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When the wind changes direction, Wally knows what to do.
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Unfortunately, when dealing with a country like Sudan, "They're either at your feet or at your throat," holds true. The only way to stop the jihad would be for South Sudan to conquer their erstwhile masters.
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Through a looking glass, void of historical truths. It's about time the South defended the people. We cried and poured "dollars for Darfur" into western Sudan when the Muslim North and West were raiding the Christian in the south. Any word from the F@$king UN on the slaughter or Christians??? Crickets.... The genocide of the Christians in southern Sudan has been going on for the last 20 years, except for the girls and boys sold into the sex industry. The honest right thing to do would be to arm the Christians with the ability to defend themselves. The bits about the evil tribal leaders in the south pale in comparison to the truly evil that has been bestowed on the South by the Khartoum government in the name of Allah and greed.
The very best we could do would to be destroy Khartoum and burn what is left. Remember this was a nerve center for AQ and OBL. It was based on evil, runs on evil and greed, and answers to no one.
Rant off.
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Apparently somebody never had to deal with a bully without a Parent holding their hand.
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The honest right thing to do would be to arm the Christians with the ability to defend themselves
[An Nahar] A plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner was thwarted by a spy allied with the CIA who infiltrated the group and took the explosive for the attack to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... , ABC News reported Tuesday.
The spy is now "safely out of Yemen," an unnamed "international intelligence official" told ABC.
The mole had links to the Central Intelligence Agency and several other spy services, according to the report.
U.S. officials did not see the bomb as an immediate threat because all along the spy had "control" of the device, ABC said.
The United States announced Monday that it had foiled a plan by al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen to detonate an explosive on an airliner, saying that the FBI was examining an explosive that had been seized abroad.
But U.S. officials did not say where the bomb was found or provide other details about the case.
The CIA declined to comment on the television report.
According to former intelligence and counter-terrorism officials, Saudi Arabia likely played a crucial role in uncovering the plot and has long had the best intelligence on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Saudi Arabia was credited with foiling an AQAP conspiracy in 2010 to blow up commercial cargo planes flying to U.S. airports.
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Exactly,USN Ret. I don't want to hear HOW we figured it out. I didn't want to know what intel we had picked up when the Seals whacked bin Laden. What I do want to hear is how the US rolled up a bunch of people through good old fashioned intelligence analysis and drone zaps.
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[Yemen Post] President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi has refused a mediation of Salafi holy mans to end fighting with Al-Qaeda, conditioning that the group must first surrender all its heavy arms, Al-Ahali Newspaper quoted well-informed sources.
The sources said the holy mans met with Hadi on Monday and suggested to make a truce between both sides, pointing out that Hadi expressed his determination to defeat the so-called Ansar Al-Sharia (Supporters of the Islamic Law) in Abyan. ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... Hadi had met with political, military and tribal leaders of Abyan governorate, his birthplace, on Monday and expressed its willingness to support public committees that fight beside the Yemeni army in Abyan.
The Yemeni News Agency said on Monday said a memo was handed over to Hadi in which rustics of Abyan explained deteriorated living conditions in some districts controlled by Al-Qaeda in Abyan.
The memo accused 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... of assisting Al-Qaeda in taking control in Zinjibar and displacing thousands of people.
Among leaders who met with Hadi Deputy Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Al-Shadadi, the politician Ali Ashaal, the Culture Minister Abdullah Awbal, and assistant of the Interior Minister Hussein Haitham.
Yemen's Defense Ministry stated on Monday that 22 troops were killed in a raid launched by Al-Qaeda against military positions in Zinjibar of Abyan.
This fierce attack of Al-Qaeda against the Yemen army came after a US drone killed an Al-Qaeda leader, Fahad Al-Qasa'a on Sunday in Al-Saeed district, 60 kilometers east of Shabwa's capital, Ataq was designated as number three on America's most-wanted list. Hadi vowed in a meeting with military leaders on Saturday to defeat Al-Qaeda and reorganize Yemen's divided military.
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