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A Canadian woman who has been an international fugitive from charges relating to a string of fires set by environmental radicals surrendered to U.S. authorities on Thursday, officials said.
After a decade on the run, Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, 39, turned herself in at the Canadian border in Blaine, Wash., the FBI announced. She faces federal arson and conspiracy charges in Oregon, Colorado and California. After an appearance in federal district court in Seattle, she will be sent to face trial in Oregon, officials said. hope she falls down the stairs a couple times on the way
Rubin is accused of being part of a cell known as the Family, which was based in Eugene, Ore., and was affiliated with the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front. From 1996 to 2001, the group was responsible for 20 arsons in five Western states, officials said. time to recover costs. Big rocks to small rocks
The group disbanded in 2001, but Operation Backfire, the federal task force that investigated the fires, found an informant and broke the case in 2005. The leader, William C. Rodgers, ran a bookstore in Prescott, Ariz., and killed himself after he was arrested. good decision Remind me to grieve for him at some point. I'm a busy man though...
According to investigators, the more than a dozen members of the Family took oaths of secrecy and commitment to one another. They used firebombs and were known for the coordinated attacks on targets that included a ski resort in Vail, Colo., an SUV dealership in Oregon and federal wild horse corrals in Eastern Oregon and Northern California. Estimates of the total damage ranged from $23 million to $40 million. lotta rocks to break
Federal officials said they consider the case the largest example of terrorism on behalf of environmental goals in the nation's history.
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Tree, nails, terrorist, chainsaw - some assembly required.
Authorities searching a vacant property in eastern Tijuana may have found the remains of dozens of drug-war victims gone missing after their corpses were dissolved in lye by a man known as El Pozolero -- the stew maker. "Stew - it's what's for dinner!"
"We believe that there could be more than 100 bodies dissolved there," said Abel Galvan Gallardo, head of Baja California's organized-crime unit. "There is the total possibility of being able to tell families that their loved one is here."
The search began Tuesday and is likely to last at least into next week, Galvan said Thursday.
By Friday afternoon, federal investigators had discovered 80 human bones and 25 teeth, said Fernando Ocegueda, leader of the group United for the Disappeared of Baja California, which has been collaborating closely with authorities in the excavation effort. The organization represents family members of 280 people, many of whom disappeared at the height of drug violence in Baja California -- from 2007 to 2010. more disgusting details at the link
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The White House announced its opposition to a new round of Iran sanctions that the Senate unanimously approved Friday, in the latest instance of Congress pushing for more aggressive punitive measures on Iran than the administration deems prudent.
On Thursday, Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) introduced the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate passed 94-0. The new legislative language would blacklist Iran's energy, port, shipping, and shipbuilding sectors, while also placing new restrictions on Iran's ability to get insurance for all these industries. The legislation would also vastly expand U.S. support for human rights inside Iran and impose new sanctions on Iranians who divert humanitarian assistance from its intended purpose.
"The window is closing. The time for the waiting game is over," Menendez said on the Senate floor Thursday night. "Yes, our sanctions are having a demonstrable effect on the Iranian economy, but Iran is still working just as hard to develop nuclear weapons."
But the White House told several Senate offices Thursday evening that the administration was opposed to the amendment. National Security Spokesman Tommy Vietor sent The Cable the administration's official position, explaining the White House's view the sanctions aren't needed and aren't helpful at this time.
Isn't that the same vote as his one and only budget?
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So new sanctions aren't needed and aren't helpful at this time?
Does this mean that Zero is planning the only thing that is needed and would be helpful: a military strike?
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You may have noticed, the Champ is categorically opposed to nearly anything coming out of the congress. Dictatorships and totalitarian regimes don't require legislative branches of government, dictators are the government.
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The most extraordinary thing about him is how normal he is. (President Obama) will read Foreign Policy magazine, a treatise on economics, and Sports Illustrated. David Axelrod
Europes first gay and lesbian-friendly mosque opened on Friday in an eastern Paris suburb, in a challenge to mainstream Islams long tradition of condemning same-sex relationships.
The mosque, set up in a small room inside the house of a Buddhist monk, welcomed transgender and transsexual Muslims and seat men and women together, breaking with another custom where the sexes are normally segregated during prayer.
Its founder, French-Algerian gay activist and practising Muslim Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, will also encourage women to lead Friday prayers, smashing yet another taboo.
Its a radically inclusive mosque. A mosque where people can come as they are, said Zahed, 35, whose prayer space will be the first in Europe to formally brand itself as a gay-friendly mosque, according to Muslim experts.
The mosque, which for now will be limited to Friday prayer sessions, is opening as religious leaders in France, including senior Muslims, are petitioning against plans by the Socialist government to legalise gay marriage.
Being homosexual and Muslim is borderline schizophrenic, said one of three gay Muslims who will lead prayers at the mosque, whose floor-to-ceiling windows look out on a garden decorated with Buddhist symbols.
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Son of Sam (David Berkowitz aka .44 cal. killer) confessed to eight shootings and claimed that he was commanded to kill by a demon that possessed his neighbor's dog. Is this kind of like that?
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What profit? Mo is long dead, he can't tell a thing. Sure, there's the vile edifice he left behind (or rather the editors of later centuries claiming "Mo said so and so... keel the infidel").
Oh, Qaradawi means whatever he tells that Mo is telling, got it.
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Nah, she's just looking for work. Ho'wood is a tough town; for her to be known to be part of this little video doesn't help her filmography...
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I can understand if the poor gal was wanting her name off the credits. Have you seen the clip? It has the productions values of a middle school puppet show.
I'd guess most of her roles have been in "short films" IYKWIMAITYD
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"Have you always been a chick? I mean I don't want to offend you, but you were born a man, weren't you? You can tell me; I'm open-minded." Otto Mann....
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Tit for tat. Two can play the game. Decree the death penalty on the muslims who do this. They will be looking over their shoulders wondering when the drone comes down on their head.
they are standing in the middle of the Sahel in 136* F and they want to "improve" the situation? I am sure they do. And their chances of doing that are about as good as camel bones at the far end of the Bakili Inferno.
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We get very little support from Muslims, he said. They dont connect. We have to wake them up to the fact their existence is threatened by their own behavior.
Most insightful. Has little to do with climate, but most insightful nonetheless.
According to credible ATF sources, officials heavily involved in Operation Fast and Furious and named as partially responsible for the program's failure by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and the House Oversight Committee have been stripped of their government security clearances while some have been fired, demoted, and transferred. Criminal charges are also reportedly pending.
Former ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division Bill Newell, former ATF Special Agent in Charge of Operations in the West Bill McMahon and former Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division George Gillett have been fired while former Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jim Needles and Field Supervisor David Voth have been demoted. Hope McAllister, the lead case agent for Fast and Furious, has been put on leave and transferred out of Phoenix according to reports. McMahon and ATF came under heavy fire just a few months ago after it was revealed McMahon had been receiving ATF paid leave while pulling a six figure salary from J.P. Morgan, the same bank that owns the bureau's credit cards.
In addition to involvement in Operation Fast and Furious, the consequences for these officials come as a result of their handling of the Jay Dobyns' arson case. All are expected to receive full retirement benefits.
The ATF Public Affairs Division did not return calls for comment. The Department of Justice Inspector General's Office said they would get back to Townhall with a comment "sometime next week."
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Yawn. Let me know when Holder or Obama are doing the perp walk. Since all of those listed here are expendable white guys, they won't get a pardon down the road.
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Mind-boggling graphs. Washington politicos are bunch of drama queens. I've heard so much about the fiscal cliff; sometimes I think the Pubs ought to step back and let Obama go over the fiscal cliff. Let him own it; we (the people) already do. Raising taxes as Obama wants will head us back into recession although I doubt we ever left it. I wonder if Obama's voters will get their heads out of the sand and realize their guy is running out of other people's money to redistribute to them.
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I'm beginning to think the congresscritters from both sides of the aisle have already compromised to the full extent of their corrupted abilities when they agreed to this so-called 2013 Budget Control Act. It's the best deal we're gonna be able to get.
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We are bankrupt. It is only a matter of time before the entire house of entitlement cards comes crashing down. IMHO, better sooner than later.
Give Obumble what he wants and back away. Have a glass of wine and watch everything come tumbling down.
The UK authorities are looking into an alleged possible link between a British charity organization and the Nigerian Boko Haram extremist Islamist group.
Of course there are links. That's the whole point.
The UK Charity Commission (CC) has confirmed, for the first time, that it is talking to different departments, regarding allegations that Widows Ammunition Fund Al Muntada Al Islami Trust is providing financial support to the Boko Haram group.
Because if the widows need anything, it's more ammunition...
"We confirm we have been contacted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Metropolitan Police (MP) in relation to this matter," the CC spokesperson told Ahram Online.
This confirmation reflects the UK authorities' growing concern about possible relations between London-registered charities and Islamic extremism. However, she added, that her organization is not investigating the charity Al Muntada Al Islami Trust.
Why not? Too afraid? Might get boomed? Might get hassled by the progressives who think it's unfair to inspect islamic charities?
The CC is very keen not to give an impression that there is no legal or formal investigation on the charity's behaviour.
"We are engaging with the charity's trustees", the spokesperson said.
How about engaging in a forensic audit of the books?
She confirmed that the trustees of Al Muntada Al Islami Trust "have and continue to fully cooperate with us."
Did that include copies of all the books, financial statements, communications logs and email?
Ahram Online understands that the MP and the FCO are concerned about previous media reports linking Al Mundtada Al Islami Trust and Boko Haram.
The group's name means "the education is forbidden" and is seen in Europe as an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group.
Don't need no education if you read the Holy Book, as we all know...
"We can confirm that information has been shared with the Charity Commission and the Metropolitan police," an FCO spokesperson told Ahram Online. She added that the FCO are unable to comment further.
"We can say no more!"
FCO is responsible for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), known as MI6 which collects Britain's foreign intelligence. It deals with immediate threats to the UK such as terrorism.
The MP said they are following the issue, but its spokesman told Ahram Online that there is no criminal investigation into it. He added that the MP is still waiting for more information from the CC.
Al Mundtada Al Islami Trust denies any relation with Boko Haram and confirmed that any reports about any involvement with the groups are "unsubstantiated allegations."
"Lies! All lies!"
"The Trust has never had any correspondence with Boko Haram; [we] never offered any financial assistance or had any contacts of any kind with this organization, or any other alleged militant groups in Nigeria or any other country," Al Mundtada Al Islami Trust added in a statement.
"Wudn't us."
When it was established 25 years ago, Al Mundtada Al Islami Trust said it "provides education cultural, social and spiritual activities" in England and Wales.
Even though the names says that education is forbidden...
It also runs a primary school, secondary girls school, Arabic courses, Qur"an recitation classes, summer school activities and youth activities, conferences, counselling, and organises pilgrimage trips.
Moreover, in its annual reports to the CC last year, the Al Mundtada Al Islami Trust confirmed its income at £1,393,653 ($2,236,563) while its expenditure was £ 1,163,707 ($1,867,541). The Trust has 55 employees.
Al Mundtada Al Islami Trust said it "condemns and denounces terrorism in all its forms and whatever the source."
Killing infidels, of course, is not terrorism...
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There is no moderate and radical islam.They are just following the Koran re fighting infidels.
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Yes Paddy, the large glass jar at the end of the bar with her picture attached. She and the kids are in a very bad way. Anything you can do will be most appreciated.
[Iran Press TV] The March 23 (M23) rebels have begun withdrawing from the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The M23 rebels captured Goma on November 20 after United Nations peacekeepers gave up the battle for the frontier city of one million people.
"We will be withdrawing our forces by tomorrow, but first we need (UN peacekeeping force) MONUSCO to give us access to our weaponry," DPA quoted M23 commander Brigadier General Sultani Makenga as saying on Friday.
Earlier in the day, the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels withdrew from the town of Sake, located some 30 kilometers west of Goma, the capital of mineral-rich North Kivu province.
During a weekend summit in Uganda, regional heads of state called on the M23 rebels to withdraw from the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by Monday.
The M23 rebels defected from the Congolese army in April in protest over alleged mistreatment in the military. They had previously been integrated into the Congolese army under a peace deal signed in 2009.
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[Dawn] Pakistain on Friday agreed to release another batch of Taliban prisoners in a bid to facilitate peace talks between beturbanned goons and the Afghan government, a joint foreign ministry statement said.
The announcement came after talks in Islamabad between visiting Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul and his Pak counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar.
The number of prisoners to be released was not specified but is not thought to include the Taliban's former deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was captured in 2010.
A senior Pak security official earlier told AFP that "no decision" had been taken on his release.
The joint statement said both sides agreed the "release of more prisoners, facilitating contacts and urging the Taliban to renounce ties to al Qaeda."
It was the second high-level delegation to visit Pakistain this month to press for the release of Taliban prisoners in a bid to kick start peace efforts.
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Well, thats nice, since the Hard Boyz = Taliban, etal. are now all Govt. Politicians - or soon will be - maybe Islamabad + Kabul can send 'em all to Moscow to receive free Nuclear Education-n-Training???
[Ynet] The IDF shot up a group of Paleostinians which gathered near the Gazoo border and attempted to cut the border fence, according to the soldiers' suspicions.
The army said that after the sabotage attempt, the troops fired at the legs of one of the Paleostinians as part of the suspect arrest procedure.
[Latino.Fox News] Venezuela President Hugo Chavez is now battling bone metastasis from his pelvic cancer, according to a report by Spanish newspaper ABC. Citing an unnamed intelligence source, ABC's Washington correspondent Emil J. Blasco says there has been a recurrence and spread of the tumor, which was detected in a test performed on a trip to Havana just after the elections on October 7.
Blasco said the metastasis is causing Chavez "severe pain in the left femur and serious walking difficulties." He also says that Chavez passed out twice in August, losing consciousness briefly, and that doctors determined that his situation was deteriorating slowly but steadily.
Chavez last appeared publicly during a televised meeting on Nov. 15, prompting some critics to publicly wonder where he went after his election win.
During the electoral campaign, he repeatedly dismissed rumors that he had not been cured of his cancer, and vowed to serve out his six-year term.
The treatment that Chavez is said to be undergoing in Havana involves breathing pure oxygen while in a pressurized, sealed chamber. Its value is well-established for treating burns, carbon monoxide poisoning and some other medical conditions, and to aid wound healing and help repair bone and tissue damaged by radiation treatments.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the American Cancer Society says there is no evidence the treatment can cure cancer. And Blasco notes that if hyperbaric oxygen treatment were the case, Chavez could have stayed in Venezuela, since the country boasts of having the latest technology on this kind of equipment (his brother Adam presented a "next generation" of those chambers in 2009 as governor of Barinas state).
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[Iran Press TV] The Dutch parliament will approve a motion to abolish a law that criminalizes blasphemy, mainly due to strong support by the Liberal Party (VVD).
On Wednesday, a majority of parties in the Netherlands stated that the blasphemy law was no longer relevant in the 21st century.
The VVD party had refused to support efforts to annul the law during the tenure of the previous government in order not to upset the fundamentalist Christian party SGP, whose support was necessary in the upper house of parliament.
According to the SGP, the decision to lift the ban on blasphemy is a "painful loss of a moral anchor and a symptom of a spiritual crisis."
The law, introduced in the 1930s, has not been invoked over the past half century.
However, it is still off-limits under the Dutch law to insult police officers or the country's monarch, Queen Beatrix.
The move to decriminalize blasphemy gained strength in 2011 during the trial of the far-right anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, when a Dutch court ruled that he had the right to criticize Islam even if his opinions were insulting to many Muslims.
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Queen Biatch-atrix??
Ha HAHAHHAHA!
Whoops, I can never go to the Netherlands now, damn!
[Detroit.CBSLocal] Managing expectations is his day-to-day position against people who believe the mayor can solve all of Detroit's problems is the hardest thing he deals with every day.
That's according to an interview Detroit Mayor Dave Bing did with CNN where he talked about the community's deep problems and how he plans to solve them.
"We are in an environment, I think, of entitlement, we've got a lot of people who are city workers, who for years and years, 20, 30 years, think they are entitled to a job and all that comes with it," Bing said.
He added: "Nobody wants to go backwards, but in order for us to move this city forward we're going to have to take a step or two backwards -- and then, I think, all of us have to participate in the pain that' s upon us right now."
But the real bombshell may be Bing's sense of the hardest jobs in the country.
"(My job is) to make the hard decision so this city would have a future, but it's probably the second most difficult job in this country behind the president," he said.
As part of managing expectations, he said people have to realize "Detroit's not going to be what it was," adding, "We've got to look at it differently."
He thinks the downtown will be strong in the future, as will Midtown and the riverfront. But parts of the city will have to disappear from the need for services.
Bing said he wants to convince people in largely abandoned neighborhoods to move to more populated areas so there's density and a sense of a tight-knit community again, saying, "So we can bring people and families together like it used to be."
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"We are in an environment, I think, of entitlement, we've got a lot of people who are city workers, who for years and years, 20, 30 years, think they are entitled to a job and all that comes with it," Bing said.
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Was talking to guy about the woes of destroit. He said he came across a story about a fellow who bought an old football stadium for $250k and built a house on the field, so some people are getting good deals.
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"So we can bring people and families together like it used to be."
That would require innate family values.
Out of wedlock birthrates say its not going to happen with the population you have. That behavior is not going to change as long as people believe government is a substitute for their day to day living costs and support that the 'family' performed for thousands of years of human societal evolution. It wasn't perfect, but it worked. You got more of what you subsidized and it doesn't work.
[Dawn] Three office-bearers of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi), including its vice chairman, along with a taxi driver were killed in a gun attack on the taxi in Landhi on Thursday, police said.
The shooting came as a grim reminder of the last year gun attack on a car in the Bahadurabad area that left the then MQM-H vice chairman, Akhtar Hussain, two party workers and a passer-by dead.
This time, three gunnies riding two cycle of violences intercepted the taxi (JL-2085) in Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... Colony, Landhi, within the remit of the
Sharafi Goth cop shoppe, officials said. The attackers opened fire on the taxi and sped away, the police added.
While 35-year-old taxi driver Niaz Mohammad was struck down in his prime, the three MQM-H men shuffled off the mortal coil while being shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, officials said.
The MQM-H leaders were identified as Zafar Qaimkhani, 48, the party vice chairman, Aleem Khan, 53, central committee member, and Abdul Qadir Gilani, 50, central executive committee member.
A front man for the MQM-H, Khalid Hameedi, said that the three leaders had left Sherpao Colony to attend a meeting but their car broke down on their way and they took a cab to reach Mansehra Colony where they were targeted.
Quoting eyewitnesses, Mr Hameedi said: "One of the suspects was wearing police uniform."
The front man said that Zafar Qaimkhani, father of four, was made the MQM-H vice chairman following the killing of Akhtar Hussain.
Aleem Khan, a senior central committee member, was released from jail in 2010 after he had served out 17 years in prison, the front man said. He was father of two and was associated with the party's Pak Colony sector though these days he was not very active in politics and was living in Sherpao Colony, he added.
The front man said Abdul Qadir Gilani was father of seven and a resident of Lines Area. He was a former employee of town municipal
administration and was presently serving the party as a member of its central committee, Mr Hameedi added.
Quoting eyewitness accounts, Quaidabad DSP Kamal Mangan said that among the three attackers, one was wearing khaki trousers with a blue shirt and a police cap.
The officer said that the gunnies behind the taxi fired multiple shots.
"Eleven spent bullet casings of 9mm pistol were collected from the crime-scene," he added.
The DSP said that the taxi was moving slow on a rundown portion of the road when it came under attack.
Following the killings, MQM-H chairman Afaq Ahmed rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where the bodies were brought.
Speaking to the media, he condemned the killings and said that culprits would not be spared no matter what the consequences.
"Coalition partners of the government are bent upon ruining the city and the government by ignoring the assassinations are backing the killers," he said.
He said that if the government and agencies failed to bring the culprits to book, the MQM-H would be justified in announcing its future line of action following which the government would be responsible for its consequences.
He appealed to party workers and supporters to exercise restraint and wait for directives from the central leadership.
In the evening, Mr Ahmed attended the funeral of the slain MQM-H leaders in Sherpao Colony.
They were later buried in the Rehri Goth graveyard.
Earlier in 2010, MQM-H leaders Mohammad Sabir and Mohammad Shafiq along with Advocate Sohail Anjum were bumped off on Shaheed-e-Millat Road when they were returning from the central prison after meeting Mr Ahmed, then incarcerated.
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[Iran Press TV] Yemenis have staged a mass rally in the northern province of Sa'ada to protest against US assassination drone attacks in their country.
Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets following the Friday Prayers to call for an end to the deadly US drone attacks and Washington and Saudi Arabia's interference in the internal affairs of their country.
The demonstrators urged the government to sever ties with Washington, saying they would only be free after the US ambassador is kicked out. They also called for the expulsion of US Marines from their country.
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I didn't used to have boobies but it looks like I'm starting to. Quote from my sister-in-law,"On a good day I'll forget my age and still think I'm a teenager...until I look in the mirror and wonder why my face is melting."
[ABCNews.Go] The U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria warned the international community Friday that the Mideast nation will become a failed state unless there is a negotiated political solution to the 19-month conflict.
Lakhdar Brahimi, told the U.N. General Assembly that nobody wants this to happen because it would have disastrous consequences across the region, leading to lawlessness, warlords, banditry, narcotics, arms smuggling and worst of all communal and ethnic strife.
After speaking to the government and opposition and visiting Syria's neighbors, Brahimi told the 193-member world organization that he believes that only the Security Council can put together a peace plan. He urged the U.N.'s most powerful body to overcome its deep divisions and adopt a resolution aimed at ending the civil war, which activists say has killed at least 40,000 people since March 2011.
"Difficult as it has been for the council to reach a consensus on an implementable roadmap for Syria, I nevertheless feel that it is here, and only here, that a credible, implementable process can be put together," Brahimi said.
Russia and China, key allies of Syrian President Bashar Assad, have vetoed three Western-backed resolutions aimed at pressuring the government to stop the violence. Brahimi said "the building blocks for a political process to end the crisis in Syria already exist" in the roadmap outlined by the Action Group for Syria at a meeting in Geneva on June 30.
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"Could become a failed state."
Let's go down the list:
(1) Major insurection operating. They have heavy weapons (armor, artillery, anti-air).
(2) Ships resuppling the state won't come into port unless the gov't can demonstrate security.
(3) Consequence of (2), friends are air shipping supplies, which means too little if it arrives at all.
(4) Our illustrious pres has previously approved of existing govt. (Kiss of death.)
The only signs missing here are (A) an exit, and (B) Burma Shave.If these guys don't get their killing over with in a big blast soon, they'll be at it for the next 50 years. Possibly both.
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They will be killing EACH OTHER for the next fifty years? really? What a beautiful thought. Sell them some guns and Iran will pour money down a rathole as long as it goes on and on and on.And Lebanon is going nowhere. And Libya is stretched over a barrel. Sudan and Somalia are garbage dumps with mange. Egypt is dysfunctional. And Syria is eating its own guts.
Sell the Moslems some guns. Iraq is bombing their own as well, we left long ago. Tell me what we are gaining in Afghanistan? I forget.
WHY should we give Peace a chance? Sell them some guns. We can fly over all of it at 35,000 feet with the lights on and they can all stew in Allan's piss.
NONE of them are our friends and good luck to them. PBUH.
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I'm starting a betting pool on which country we will unexpectedly destabilize next for inconceivable reasons. You have to pick a spread too, we'll use a radicalization factor of 1-5 for the new dictatorship to be installed.
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Lakhdar Brahimi, told the U.N. General Assembly that nobody wants this to happen because it would have disastrous consequences across the region, leading to lawlessness, warlords, banditry, narcotics, arms smuggling and worst of all communal and ethnic strife.
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I don't think Myanmar. Their thugs are backstopped by the faith and credit of the PRC's current trade surplus. so they're good to go until Sichuan finally gets tired of being poor for the sake of Jiangsu's standard of living, then who knows what's gonna happen.
[Iran Press TV] A bomb attack has ripped through six vehicles, including an SNG truck, belonging to Press TV and al-Alam television networks in the Syrian capital Damascus, security sources report.
Syrian security guards said on Friday that the bomb explosion occurred near Press TV's office in Damascus after a man was caught on camera sticking something to a car.
According to reports, he escaped the scene of the attack minutes before the blast.
However, the bomb attack did not cause any casualties.
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better luck next time
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[Shabelle] Reports coming in from the southern port city of Kismayo said a civilian man was bumped off on Friday by pro-government Ras Kamboni Militia fighters.
Mohamed Ahmed, a young football player was shot in head and chest in five times by the fighters inside a big market in the city, a former Al shabab stronghold town located just some 500 Km south of Mogadishu.
Following the murder Ras Kamboni Militia ordered locals not to remove his body from the scene, according to the eye witnesses who spoke to Shabelle Media Network station in Mogadishu by phone.
The reason behind the execution of the civilian man is yet to be established by the leaders of the pro-government Somali militia Ras Kamboni in the city.
Ras Kamboni Militia in Somalia led by Ahmed Mohamed Madobe now controls the strategic port city of Kismayo, the scenic provincial capital of Lower Juba in southern Somalia, after long running battle with Al shabab.
Ras Kamboni began collaborating with Somali 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... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces in October 2011, forcing al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... out of several key towns in Lower Juba. Currently, the allied forces are now in the strategic port of Kismayo.
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[Maan] The White House said Friday a new Israeli settlement expansion plan was "counterproductive" and could make it harder to bring Israel and the Paleostinians back to the negotiating table.
"We reiterate our longstanding opposition to settlements and East Jerusalem construction and announcements," White House front man Tommy Vietor said.
Israel plans to build thousands of new homes for its settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, an Israeli official said earlier, defying a UN vote that implicitly recognized Paleostinian statehood there.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative government had authorized the construction of 3,000 housing units.
"We believe these actions are counterproductive and make it arder resume direct negotiations or achieve of a two state solution," Vietor said.
"Direct negotiations remain our goal and we encourage all parties to take steps to make that easier to achieve."
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Negotiating table? You only negotiate when you can't find the means to crush. Negotiating means you think you might lose. That's not a good attitude in a war. The purpose of a war is to win. You don't win by negotiations, that is compromise...compromise means you aren't. winning
Unconditional Surrender is the IDEAL.
The UN doesn't win wars it prolongs wars. The best wars are quick, sudden,and Decisive.
You don't "TRY" in a war. You KILL in a war. You do it today, you do it tomorrow and you do it wherever you go. Its BAD for them and that's why you do it. You don't CARE how they get so cold as long as they do. Attitude is five times more useful than "negotiations". If they ask to negotiate, laugh at them and shoot their old mother.
This "peace " stuff is not a good idea. You just get a prolonged and bloodier mess when you "talk" in war. There needs to be more "do" in war. Then its quick and it's THEIR problem, not yours.
Find 'em, fix 'em, fight 'em, finish 'em.
Or stand around speaking French and playing pocket Pool for Ban Ki-Moon.
Settlements for the Israelis is a GOOD idea. They can whittle the Palestinians down until they don't have a postage stamp to stand on. Then you tell them to collect all the taxes they want with nothing. And for God sake don't stop in the middle of a good screwing. Finish it.
Somebody wins because somebody LOSES. Hold that thought.
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Or if you want an alternative to war, duels or swordfights between leaders might work. But not scored by an international panel of judges, but by whether one is dead or not.
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you refuse to negotiate in goog faith? Israel needs more land, especially around Jerusalem. Keep on playing hardball, Paleos, you have nothing to lose, except more land
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The big problem with TF9823's approach is that the enemy's (who must not be named) feelings would be hurt if the enemy were to lose.
If the mission's code name offends the enemy it'll be changed.
If the terms of an ultimatum (in a matter of life & death for the US) offend the ultimatum will be withdrawn. The enemy will be promised a big reward, not threatened with punishment.
And after a couple of years, if the mere recognition of Western style civil & human rights in the West offends the enemy, Western leaders will profusely apologize for leading what are still, in fact, Western nations.
Hillary is not hypocritical as US Secretary of State. America's reaction to an attack on the scale of Pearl Harbor was a military operation, but not war.
The Thai government is upset with the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) resolution that the country has made little progress in addressing unrest in the south. It's position was publicly stated by Vice Foreign Minister Jullapong Nonsrichai, who attended the OIC foreign ministers' meeting in Djibouti in mid-November as an observer.
He said Thailand was disappointed with the OIC secretary office's use of the word "meager" to describe the lack of progress in efforts to resolve the conflict.
Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul will send a letter to OIC's secretary-general to reaffirm the kingdom's intention to cooperate with the OIC in seeking lasting peace in the southernmost provinces.
Mr Jullapong suggested the language used by the OIC could affect the kingdom's ability to work with the Islamic organisation. He said, "If the OIC wants to continue cooperating with Thailand, it should realise the fact that Thailand has made a lot of progress in the South. Otherwise we might not cooperate with it in the future."
The resolution said Thailand has made little progress since the organisation and the kingdom issued a joint statement stating their intention to cooperate on the issue five years ago.
The OIC also expressed its disapproval of the continued use of the emergency decree in the south and the limited progress in introducing the local Malayu language to classrooms in local schools. The organisation said the extensive military presence throughout the southern border provinces is having a negative impact on the population's everyday life.
The OIC expressed concern that Thailand's increasing reliance on "undisciplined" paramilitary personnel could aggravate the ongoing conflict in the region. They called on the Thai government to hold negotiations with Muslim leaders to find a solution that would guarantee the legitimate rights of local Islamic communities.
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat said the prime minister had signed an order on Wednesday appointing him to oversee security affairs in the South.
The Confederation of Teachers of Southern Border Provinces announced yesterday that all 332 schools in Pattani that had been closed by the group due to security concerns are likely to reopen next week. The move came after authorities and the confederation came to an agreement on proposed security measures for teachers. The schools had been shut down after the fatal shooting of the director of a local school on Nov 22.
Meanwhile, a building at Bang Maruat School in Pattani province was burned down, causing the loss of 20 desktop computers, 80 new tablet computers and other teaching equipment. Eight classrooms, a computer room and an administration office were destroyed.
[An Nahar] Scientists Thursday announced new evidence that Mercury, the planet orbiting nearest the Sun, hosts massive caches of ice and revealed new information on how water reached our solar system's inner planets.
"The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury's polar regions, if spread over an area the size of Washington DC, would be more than two miles (3.2 kilometers) thick," said David Lawrence, a researcher participating with NASA's mission to study Mercury.
Though much of Mercury is boiling hot, its axis of rotation is nearly parallel to the Sun -- which means the poles of the planet are never hit by the Sun's heating rays.
Scientists have long hypothesized these shadowy poles could harbor frozen water and other interesting materials.
In 1991, that theory got a boost when a powerful telescope in Puerto Rico detected "radar-bright patches" at the poles, often in spots where a previous mission in the 1970s had found large impact craters.
For the first time, new data from the MESSENGER spacecraft, which landed on Mercury in 2011, allows for a detailed model of just what's going on at Mercury's mysterious poles.
Images from MESSENGER confirmed that the radar-bright patches are all within cooler, shadowed regions, consistent with the theory they could be ice spots.
The spacecraft's neutron spectrometer also analyzed hydrogen concentrations as a way of determining the presence of water, which is a molecule composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
In the coldest spots, the water was on the surface, but in slightly warmer regions, where the ice might have melted, it was covered by a dark material with a lower concentration of hydrogen.
The researchers said this dark material could actually be the key to explaining how the water got there in the first place.
The dark material, which serves as insulation, is likely a mix of complex organic compounds, which were "delivered to Mercury by the impacts of comets and volatile-rich asteroids," explained David Paige, another researcher involved in the project.
Those comets and asteroids, he added, were "the same objects that likely delivered water to the innermost planet."
"For more than 20 years the jury has been deliberating on whether the planet closest to the Sun hosts abundant water ice in its permanently shadowed polar regions," said Sean Solomon of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
"MESSENGER has now supplied a unanimous affirmative verdict," said Solomon, the principal investigator of the MESSENGER mission.
"But the new observations have also raised new questions," he added. "Do the dark materials in the polar deposits consist mostly of organic compounds? What kind of chemical reactions has that material experienced?
"Are there any regions on or within Mercury that might have both liquid water and organic compounds? Only with the continued exploration of Mercury can we hope to make progress on these new questions," he said.
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While the impacts to the skyrocketing price of ground chuck at Kroger are yet unknown, some upright primates are born with eleven toes.
[An Nahar] Unknown attackers fired at a U.N. convoy leaving Damascus ...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy... airport for the second day in a row on Friday, a U.N. front man said.
No injuries were report from the latest attack, U.N. front man Farhan Haq told news hounds. On Thursday, four Austrian troops in the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) for the Golan Heights were maimed when a convoy heading for the airport was attacked.
"A convoy of 13 armored U.N. vehicles received fire earlier today while en route from Damascus international airport," Haq said. "Small arms fire is believed to have hit most convoy vehicles, but there have been no injuries reported."
The latest convoy was also from UNDOF which patrols a demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights between Syrian and Israeli forces.
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The explosion that killed a member of Ameril Umra Kato's Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement and injured nine others in Maguindanao on Monday was the result of an attack "by other unidentified forces," said the group's spokesperson on Thursday.
Abu Misry Mama said that there was no truth to a claim by the military that a group of BIFM fighters, including their chief of staff Mohaiden Animbang, were carrying the explosives and that these had detonated prematurely.
Earlier, Col. Prudencio Asto said the military thought the BIFM guerrillas were in possession of explosives made from 81-millimeter mortar shells when the blast took place in Barangay Lower Salvo. However, Mama said the guerrillas were not carrying any explosive at that time, although they had firearms, as they were on their way to a conference. He said the convoy of BIFM forces came under attack.
Mama said, "But we would not yet disclose the identities of the group and individuals involved in the incident until we finish the investigation."
Mama said the BIFM would energetically pursue the attackers and would mete out the death penalty on them. He said they would follow Islamic law, which recognizes death penalty if the crime was committed intentionally.
[An Nahar] Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptian law scholar and Iranian catspaw. He was head of the IAEA from December 1997 to November 2009. At some point during his tenure he was purchased by the Iranians. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for something in 2005. After stepping down from his IAEA position ElBaradei attempted to horn in on the 2011 Egyptian protests which culminated in the collapse of the Mubarak regime. ElBaradei served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a lefty NGO that is bankrolled by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. Soros himself serves as a member of the organization's Executive Committee. on Friday slammed President Mohamed Morsi and an Islamist-dominated panel that approved a new draft constitution, in a message on his Twitter account.
"The president and his constituent assembly are currently staging a coup against democracy. Regime legitimacy fast eroding," he wrote. Remind me when El-Baradei became a champion of democracy?
The draft charter, approved by the constitutional assembly after a marathon overnight session boycotted by liberals and Christians, raises serious human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... concerns including over religious freedom, according to activists.
Tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated in Cairo on Friday in marches that began just hours after the new draft was adopted.
"Down with the constitutional assembly," vast crowds armed with megaphones chanted as they filed into Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in early 2011.
Several prominent opposition figures attended the protests, including ElBaradei and former 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... chief Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who was head of the Arab League for approximately two normal lifespans, accomplishing nothing that was obvious to the casual observer ...
The constitution has taken center stage in the country's worst political crisis since Morsi's election in June, squaring largely Islamist forces against liberal opposition groups.
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Oh, great...Potato Head has a Twitter account.
God help us all.
[An Nahar] The ruling National Liberation Front won Algeria's municipal and regional elections, Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kablia announced on Friday, in a widely-expected result.
Voter turnout, considered the only real issue in Thursday's polls, was officially pegged at 44.27 percent, described by Kablia as "acceptable," as thousands had to brave poor weather conditions to cast their ballots.
The FLN, which holds a majority in the National Assembly and to which President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third term, which is probably why Algerians are ready to dump him... belongs, won an outright majority in 159 municipalities, out of 1,541, and scored the highest vote in 832 communes.
The Rally for National Democracy (RND) of former prime minister Ahmed Ouyahia, another party in the presidential alliance, came second, winning an outright majority in 132 municipalities and highest score in 132 communes.
The FLN and RND were followed by independents, which took control of 17 municipalities, and by secular opposition party the Rally for Culture and Democracy, which won 13 communes outright in the eastern Kabylie region, its heartland.
A surprise winner in the elections was the new Popular Algerian Movement, which won 12 communes.
Founded by Environment Minister Amara Benyounes, the party was authorized under political reforms introduced by the president in April last year, in the wake of Arab Spring unrest.
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[An Nahar] Fighting raged around Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... on Friday as Internet and phone links in Syria remained cut for a second day and rebels consolidated gains in the east, capturing an oil field near the Iraqi border.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the road from the capital to Damascus airport had reopened, a day after fighting during which a bus carrying airport employees was hit by a shell, killing two people.
And the 27-kilometer (17-mile) road remained perilous. Unknown attackers fired at a U.N. convoy leaving the airport for the second day in a row, a U.N. front man said, adding that there were no casualties.
On Thursday, four Austrian soldiers from the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force for the Golan Heights were maimed when a convoy heading for the airport was attacked.
Air traffic resumed on Friday, and the airport road was reopened after a night of heavy festivities between rebels and troops in the area, airport sources said.
But warplanes pounded the northeastern town of Irbin amid shelling of orchards in the south of the capital, all opposition strongholds where rebels have rear bases, it added.
At least 16 non-combatants were killed in an army offensive and festivities around Damascus on Friday, including near the airport road and in Daraya to the southwest, the Observatory said.
A military source in Damascus said the army had taken control of the western side of the road leading to the airport and a small portion on the east by dawn, allowing travelers to move through.
"But the most difficult part is yet to come. The army wants to take control of the eastern side, where there are thousands of Death Eaters and this will take several days," he said, using the regime term for rebel fighters.
The army, meanwhile, withdrew from Omar oil field, one of the last regime positions east of Deir Ezzor city near the Iraqi border, giving rebels control over the country's major fields.
Rebels last week gained a huge stretch of territory east of Deir Ezzor city along the Iraqi border, now the largest outside government control.
The regime has been reducing its territorial ambitions to focus on Damascus, central Syria and Alawite bastions, as it digs in for a long war, according to analysts.
The Observatory, which reported 81 killed nationwide on Friday based on information from activists and medics on the ground, said most phones and Internet networks were down for a second straight day.
Syrian authorities blamed the cut on maintenance work, while Washington accused Damascus of cutting communications on purpose.
Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... and Twitter said they have reactivated a voice-tweet program, last used in 2011 when the Internet was shut down in Egypt during its revolution, to allow Syrians affected by the shutdown of the Internet to get messages out.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... 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 Lakhdar Brahimi warned alongside Ban that Syria is in danger of becoming a "failed state" as he appealed for new international efforts to reach a political settlement.
He warned that the crisis could see "the state and its institutions withering away, lawlessness spreading, warlordism, banditry, narcotics, arms smuggling and worst of all the ugly face of communal and sectarian strife take hold of Syria."
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Disgraced former IMF chief and would-be French president Dominique Strauss-Kahn will settle out of court with a Manhattan maid who accused him of sexual assault, ending a sordid 18-month legal saga, reports say.
According to the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , quoting unidentified sources "with knowledge of the matter," the 63-year-old French politician and the hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo, have "quietly reached an agreement to settle" her lawsuit.
There was not yet information about any payments by Strauss-Kahn and "no settlement had yet been signed," the report said. Lawyers for the parties are due to go before a judge in the Bronx next week, the newspaper added.
NBC television also reported the possible deal, confirming that it had yet to be inked in.
Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn and Diallo did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the reports.
Strauss-Kahn, who had been widely touted as a likely challenger to then president Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current 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... , suffered a stunning fall from grace following his arrest at a New York hotel last year on the sex assault charges.
He then faced a string of separate sex-related investigations in La Belle France.
Diallo had sued Strauss-Kahn in New York civil court after prosecutors threw out assault charges filed against the globe-trotting politician, saying the maid's sex assault case would not stand up before a jury.
Although Strauss-Kahn has since been mired in legal troubles and brought low by the repeated tarnishing of his once stellar reputation, that initial downfall at a posh Manhattan hotel in May 2011 came as a shocking surprise.
At the time, Strauss-Kahn was jetting between world capitals as head of the International Monetary Fund and was expected to announce what would have been a formidable candidacy for the French presidency.
Diallo, a maid at the Sofitel hotel, shattered that trajectory when she alleged the powerful politician had leapt on her in his room, naked, and forced her to perform oral sex upon him.
Strauss-Kahn was cooled for a few years Book 'im, Mahmoud! as he was about to take a flight back to Europe. He later conceded that there had been a sexual encounter in the hotel room with the cleaner, but insisted that this had been consensual.
The subsequent court proceedings and a brief spell in New York's tough Rikers Island detention center publicly humiliated Strauss-Kahn.
Then it was the turn of the Manhattan District Attorney's office to face embarrassment as they admitted that their case was falling part, with Diallo being caught lying over several points.
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Wealth redistribution aint quite the same when its your money eh Dom?
[Iran Press TV] At least 17 Lebanese Salafi Orcs and similar vermin have been killed during festivities with Syrian government forces in the border town of Tal Kalakh in Homs Province.
Security forces said on Friday that the men were from the Lebanese city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and had entered Syria to help Orcs and similar vermin fighting against the Syrian government.
Syrian troops also killed two krazed killer leaders in the Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... suburb of Hijjera. The two were identified as Abdul-aziz al-Buhturi, head of an gang, and Abu Steif Rahmoun.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... new footage posted on the Internet shows Orcs and similar vermin shooting 10 unarmed prisoners to death. According to details in the video, the Orcs and similar vermin were members of a radical group linked to al-Qaeda, and the incident occurred in in Ras al-Ain, a town on the border with Turkey.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel, have been killed in the turmoil.
The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the Orcs and similar vermin operating in the country are foreign nationals.
On Tuesday, Syrian newspaper Al Watan published the names of 142 foreign Orcs and similar vermin from 18 countries who were killed while fighting against Syria's government. Almost 50 of those named were Saudi nationals.
According to the daily, the Orcs and similar vermin had entered Syria via Turkey and Leb and were mostly forces of Evil belonging to al-Qaeda or had joined the terrorist group after arriving in the country.
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[Iran Press TV] New video footage has surfaced online showing foreign-backed snuffies in Syria killing 10 unarmed Syrian prisoners.
The video, posted on the internet on Thursday, shows 10 men lying face down next to a lookout tower and a building.
"I swear to God that we are peaceful," pleads one of the men to the camera. In response, the snuffies shot him in the arm. Then more shots are fired and his body goes into spasms.
The video, which appears to have been filmed by an jihad boy, shows that even before the shooting, two of the men are not moving and one has blood coming from his chest.
Comments accompanying the video indicate that it was filmed in Ras al-Ain, a town near the Turkish border, which has been the scene of heavy festivities in recent weeks.
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Just the type of thing we should be supporting with funding and arms... right ?
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Insurgent groups, supported by certain Western states and their regional allies, such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey
Probably a few other opportunistic insurgent groups too. Then you have Iran, Russia, North Korea, and China supporting Assad trying to keep Assad in power. Champ must have difficulty choosing sides in this conflict. Perhaps Obmugabe could provide a grant for "condom negotiation" for both sides.
[An Nahar] Dutch police have set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three alleged would-be jihadists who were about to leave The Netherlands to go and fight alongside rebels in Syria, the national Prosecutor's Office said Friday.
"Detectives arrested three men on Thursday who apparently planned to travel to Syria to participate in a violent international jihad," it said in a statement.
The three, aged 22, 23 and 33, are "most probably radicalized Moslems", prosecutors said, after an investigation was opened in October following a tip-off by the Dutch secret service.
Police searched two homes and seized knives, a sword and a cross-bow, as well as packed backpacks, farewell letters and a large quantity of jihadist literature.
The men -- two of Turkish origin and the other of Iraqi origin -- allegedly collected funds to finance their journey, beginning with flights to Turkey and then heading for the Syrian border.
Two of the men had been due to fly out Thursday from Brussels to Turkey, the statement said.
The three were to appear on charges of "preparing terrorist activities" before a Rotterdam judge Friday, the statement said.
One of the men was married last week "and planned to travel to Syria with her to fight in the jihad."
"The man posed in front of his bride in one picture while armed with an AK-47 assault rifle," prosecutors said.
He also told his wife on the Internet: "I hope we will die together and go to the paradise."
A number of jihadist groups are fighting on the fringes of the Free Syrian Army against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... The London-based Quilliam think tank estimated between 1,200 and 1,500 imported muscle are now based in Syria.
Dutch photographer Jeroen Oerlemans, who was nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in Syria in September and released a week later, said he was held in a camp where none of the jihadists were of Syrian origin.
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[Dawn] Two snuffies were killed in exchange of fire with security forces in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on the night between Wednesday and Thursday, officials said.
They said that a group of snuffies attacked a security checkpost in Khurma Tung area of Akkakhel. During exchange of fire, which lasted for several hours, forces killed two krazed killers, they added.
They said that the remaining attackers managed to escape in the darkness of night. Security forces brought the bodies of the killed snuffies to Levies Centre in Shahkas on Thursday. The dear departed were later buried as they could not be recognised.
In Karak district, unidentified persons fired two rockets at Nashpa oil and gas dehydration plant on Wednesday night.
Police said that the rockets were fired from Lachi Darmalak area of Kohat district. One of the rockets landed near the plant, however, it caused no loss of life or damage to property.
The second rocket landed near Sanda Khurram area and didn't explode.
The bomb disposal squad reached the area and defused the unwent kaboom! rocket.
The residents of Sanda Khurram and Alwargi Banda have demanded of the authorities to set up checkposts on the nearby hilltops to thwart such incidents in the future.
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... , security forces recovered huge quantity of weapons and bombs during a search operation in Batwar area of Salarzi tehsil on Thursday.
Officials said that a search operation was launched in Batwar after receiving information about presence of weapons and bombs in the area.
Huge quantity of weapons including bombs, missiles, rockets, hand grenades and others bombs were seized during the search operation, Col Shakeel Janjua, Commandant Bajaur Scouts, told journalists. He said that the arms were dumped at various places.
He said that security forces with the help of local rustics cleared the border area of Batwar of krazed killers. He appreciated the role of rustics in elimination of snuffies in the border areas of Salarzi tehsil.
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At first I was like... we all live in a turquoise submarine, a turquoise submarine, turquoise submarine but then I realized that She was a day tripper
One way ticket, yeah
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Any submarine is a danger. Doesn't matter if blue or yellow.
2 British battleships went to the bottom(in Alexandria harbor) because an attack by 2 chariots called by owners the italians "maiale"(pigs) each had only 2 men and a charge of 300kg...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Alexandria_(1941)
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The Daily Mail speculates that the ship's designers mistakenly chose the color, believing it would help the craft blend in with the ocean's waters.
Apparently something was lost in the Farsi-to-Korean translation of the specs.
"OMG, IT'S SO TINY IT'S ADORABLE! Who's the cutest little rogue nation? Who? YOU ARE! Yes you are. Yes you are."
I LOl'd
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*That* launches anti-ship missiles? Unless the sailors in the Iranian Navy are unusually short (like their President!), the sub is barely twice the size of an anti-ship missile.
[Dawn] The Punjab government has filed an appeal in the Lahore High Court, challenging acquittal of alleged criminal mastermind of the GPO Chowk suicide kaboom.
The government has stated that concrete evidence was produced by the prosecution before the trial court which ignored it. It said the trial court also overlooked many laws in the order of acquittal.
It requested the court to accept the appeal and set aside the acquittal. An anti-terrorism court had acquitted Shahzad Ahmad, the alleged criminal mastermind of the GPO Chowk blast which took place on Jan 10, 2008 minutes before a weekly protest rally of lawyers for the restoration of judiciary.
The alleged Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) member was incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on April 26 the same year in Lahore.
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[Dawn] The mysterious metallic objects, which fell from the sky baffling villagers in Dadu late Wednesday night, were parts of Pakistain's Hatf V Ghauri missile, a front man for the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday.
"The metal parts found in a remote area of Dadu, as reported in media today, were part of the motor body, which separated from the missile as planned, well within the safety corridor," said a statement by the ISPR.
"It was ensured that at no point, would human life or property be at risk. There is no cause for alarm or concern," the front man concluded.
Pakistain conducted a test of the mid-range nuclear capable ballistic missile on Wednesday. The liquid-fuelled missile, capable of carrying both conventional as well as nuclear payload, has a range of 1300 kilometres.
Fear and bewilderment overtook some parts of Dadu district after the mysterious objects fell on a number of villages late on Wednesday, the Dawn newspaper had reported.
The biggest fragment weighing 187 kilograms fell on a ground in Allah Jurio Lund village, 30 kilometres from Dadu. Other pieces fell on Pir Mashaikh, Shehak Rodnani and Khandhani villages.
There were no injuries or damage to property.
Military authorities were reported to have taken possession of the "heavy pieces of engine and other metallic objects, believed to be splinters of a satellite or missile".
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"part of the motor body, which separated from the missile as planned, well within the safety corridor"
Makes one wonder, how many villages are in that "safety" corridor? Guess it's OK, it's just some local rubes.
[Iran Press TV] Egypt's Constituent Assembly has approved the final draft of the country's first constitution after the ouster of autocratic ruler Hosni Mubarak.
The assembly's marathon session began on Thursday and came to end early on Friday, with the members voting for all the 234 articles of the charter.
The final draft will be sent to President Mohamed Morsi for approval on Friday, who is expected to submit it for a popular referendum.
The panel upheld Islamic principles as the main source of legislation in the country. "Islam is the state religion, and the Arabic language is its official language. The principles of Islamic sharia are the main source of legislation," an agreed clause read.
The assembly also approved a clause stating that the principles of Christian and Jewish legal traditions would guide their personal and religious affairs. Muslim Brotherhood - whose candidate won the presidential vote six months ago - hopes the move will help end protests against the president.
The draft largely reflects the conservative vision of the Islamists, with articles that rights activists, liberals and Christians fear will lead to restrictions on the rights of women and minorities and civil liberties in general.
Omissions of certain articles, such as bans on slavery or promises to adhere to international rights treaties, were equally worrying to critics of the new draft, who pulled out from the panel before the vote.
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[Dawn] Two improvised bombs (IEDs) went kaboom! in Khyber tribal region's Sheihkwal area in the Landi Kotal tehsil, injuring four Levies personnel and partially damaging a vehicle on Friday, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to Dawn.com's correspondent, sources in the political administration said the first blast took place when a vehicle of the Levies was on routine patrol in Sheikhwal, adding that, the vehicle was partially damaged whereas no personnel were maimed in the attack.
The second blast took place shortly after additional security personnel and rescue teams reached the area and were inspecting the site.
Four security personnel sustained injuries as a result of the second blast. They were shifted to a nearby hospital.
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[Ynet] The US Senate resoundingly approved new sanctions on trade with Iran's energy, port, shipping and ship-building sectors on Friday, its latest effort to ratchet up economic pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
Senators voted 94-0 to make the new sanctions part of an annual defense policy bill. The defense bill must still be approved by the Senate and House of Representatives before it would be given to President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... to sign into law.
The White House announced its opposition to a new round of Iran sanctions that the Senate unanimously approved Friday, in the latest instance of Congress pushing for more aggressive punitive measures on Iran than the administration deems prudent.
* IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > POTUS OBAMA GIVES PAKISTAN [indirect]PERMISSION TO ATTACK THE USA, vee the Bammer's claim that any each + all sovereign nations in the world have the right to protect or defend themselves.
Lest we fergit, thats NUKE-ARMED PAKISTAN.
Pragmatically, despite the Bammer's new pro-UNIAEA March 2013 deadline for Iran I still anticipate the latter to stay on the strategic defensive, i.e. IN IRAN'S VIEW IT IS NOT FOR IT TO STOP ITS OWN NUCPROGS BUT FOR THE US TO DE FACTO STRIKE + INVADE IRAN ALA MAJOR GROUND WAR.
IMO more bad or troubling news for the US Navy-DOD, USFK + USFJ, + USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CVN/CVBG over by the Koreas + Japan.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Islamists in the north of Mali gave three unmarried couples 100 lashes of the whip each on Thursday in the town of Timbuktu, witnesses told AFP.
"Last week, the Islamist police in Timbuktu locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! three unmarried couples," one resident said.
"And today, each of the six received 100 lashes of the whip in a public square in Timbuktu," he added.
"The three unmarried couples were whipped in the small market in Timbuktu, in the town centre," said a former civil servant who witnessed the punishment.
He said around a hundred people had turned out to watch the punishment, which was carried out under the Islamists' interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
The armed Islamists now in control of the town, which lies in the northwest of the country, have in the last two days also started raiding homes to seize satellite dishes, which allow people to watch foreign television channels.
One local journalist said there were at least 11 dishes at the Islamists' offices, with six alone seized on Thursday.
"The Islamists say that foreign television 'is Satan'," he added.
Timbuktu is controlled by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Ansar Dine. They are among a number of groups who took advantage of the confusion following a military in Bamako earlier this year to seize Mali's entire north.
Their interpretation of sharia law has already involved arresting unveiled women, stoning an unmarried couple to death, publicly flogging smokers and amputating the limbs of suspected thieves, according to residents and rights groups.
Last month, the Islamists took a bulldozer to a monument to Mali's independence in Timbuktu.
And they have already destroyed the tombs of ancient Moslem saints and the "sacred door" to a 15th-century mosque, which they denounced as idolatrous.
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"hearts and minds...and shredded backs"
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[Iran Press TV] US Republican politicians have rejected as "ridiculous" and "unreasonable" President Barack Obama's How's it going, Sunshine?... tax proposal that includes 1.6-trillion-dollar tax hikes over the next decade.
"While USD1.6 trillion is the White House's public position, it is ridiculous to offer that amount two weeks after negotiations began - and less than a month before we must have a solution," said a Congressional Republican aide who spoke on condition of anonymity after Obama's fiscal plan was presented by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday, AFP reported.
Describing the offer by the White House as unrealistic and unbalanced, he went on to say that "It (proposal) calls for USD1.6 trillion in tax hikes (over the next decade) - all of that upfront - in exchange for only USD400 billion in spending cuts that come later."
The plan also calls for new powers to raise the federal debt limit, which must increase in the near future to prevent a default.
If the democrats and republicans do not reach a compromise by January 2013, tax increases and spending cuts kick in automatically, costing US taxpayers an average of more than USD 2,000 a year.
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The plan also calls for new powers to raise the federal debt limit..
At the wish and whim of the President/Executive. Printing money without controls is just another form of taxing. It takes value out of existing money by debasing its ratio of backing/value to amount in circulation. In essence, with an unlimited authority to 'print' the King no longer needs Parliament to run government. That is indeed a transformative act to change America back to when it was but a backwater to London and royal prerogatives.
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Republicans are damned if they do and damned if they don't. They'll take the blame if we go over the cliff but if they let His Majesty have His way they will have nothing left to do but watch as the consequences unfold.
Boehner: Mr. President, do you like travel?
Obama: Why, yes I do. You know how much I enjoy jetting around the world with the taxpayers footing the bills.
Boehner: Mr. President, do you like sex?
Obama: Well, that's none of your business but, uh, yes.
Boehner: Then you can take a fucking hike.
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The plan also calls for new powers to raise the federal debt limit
Specifically, Ogabe wants to transfer the power from Congress to himself. Awesome: let him have it, and make him own it. It won't matter anyway. Foreign markets will set a limit on how much more the US can borrow. With the debt already at $16.3 trillion and climbing - and the commensurate decreasing likelihood that any of it will ever be repaid - we don't have much borrowing capacity left. When it's gone, the US will default and trigger a global finanical meltdown. Let that be Ogabe's legacy, so we don't ever make this mistake again.
[Maan] Global hacking network Anonymous said it will shut down Syrian government websites around the world in response to a countrywide Internet blackout believe aimed at silencing the opposition to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... Syria was plunged into communication darkness on Thursday when Internet connectivity stopped at midday. Land lines and mobile phones networks were also seriously disrupted.
The Syrian government said "terrorists" had attacked Internet lines but the opposition and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups suspect it to be the work of the authorities.
Opposition activists have used the Internet extensively to further their cause by publishing footage of aerial strikes and graphic images of civilian casualties. In the absence of a free press, they have used social media to disseminate information during the uprising and communicate with journalists abroad.
Anonymous, a loose affiliation of hacking groups that opposes Internet censorship, said it will remove from the Internet all web assets belonging to Assad's government that are outside Syria, starting with embassies.
By 10 a.m. on Friday, the website for Syria's embassy in Belgium was down but the embassy in China -- which Anonymous said it would target first -- was operating. Most government ministry websites were down although this could be due to the blackout.
Several networking experts said that it was highly unlikely that the lines had been sabotaged by anti-Assad forces.
CloudFlare, a firm that helps accelerate Internet traffic, said on its blog that saboteurs would have had to simultaneously sever three undersea cables into the port city of Tartous and also an overland cable through Turkey in order to cut off the entire country's Internet access.
"That is unlikely to have happened," CloudFlare said.
The government has been accused of cutting communications in previous assaults on rebel-held areas. Anonymous said Assad's government had physically "pulled the plug out of the wall."
"As we discovered in Egypt, where the dictator (Hosni) Mubarak did something similar -- this is not damage that can be easily or quickly repaired," it added, referring to an Internet outage during the early days of the 2011 uprising in Egypt.
Rebels have seized a series of army bases across Syria this month, exposing Assad's loss of control in northern and eastern regions and on Thursday fighting on the outskirts of the capital blocked access to the international airport.
More than 40,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011, according to opposition groups.
Human rights organizations, including Amnesia Amnesty International, said the Internet cut could signal that Assad is seeking to hide the truth of what is happening in the country from the outside world.
Syrian authorities have severely restricted non-state media from working in the country.
The hacker collective has staged cyber attacks on the US Central Intelligence Agency and Britannia's Serious Organized Crime Agency. Earlier this month, The Israeli government said it logged more than 44 million hacking attempts in just a few days during its military assault on Gazoo after Anonymous waged a similar campaign.
"Then I summoned Beelzeboul to appear before me again. When he was seated, I thought it appropriate to ask him, 'Why are you alone Prince of the Demons?' He replied, 'Because I am the only one left of the heavenly angels (who fell). I was the highest-ranking angel in heaven, the one called Beelzeboul. There is also accompanied me another ungodly (angel) whom God cut off and now, imprisoned here, he holds in his power the race of those bound by me in Tartarus. He is being nurtured in the Red Sea; when he is ready, he will come in triumph."
"I said to him, 'What are your activities?' He replied, 'I bring destruction by means of tyrants; I cause the demons to be worshiped alongside men; and I arouse desire in holy men and select priests. I bring about jealousies and murders in a country, and I instigate wars." -- TSol 6:1-4
The Catholic Church has established an exorcist hotline in Milan, its biggest diocese, to cope with demand. Monsignor Angelo Mascheroni, the diocese's chief exorcist since 1995, said the curia had also appointed twice as many exorcists to cope with a doubling in the number of requests for help over 15 years.
"We get many requests for names, addresses and phone numbers; that's why we've set up a switchboard in the curia from Monday to Friday from 2.30pm to 5pm," he told the chiesadimilano website.
"People in need can call and will be able to find a priest in the same area who doesn't have to travel too far." And to that end, the number of demon-busting priests on call has increased from six to 12.
The Monsignor said he knew of one exorcist who had been seeing up to 120 people a day. "But with so little time per client he was only able to offer a quick blessing. That's not enough," he said. "There should be two to four appointments a day, no more, otherwise it's too much."
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I've been visited many times by the ghosts of my Ancestors + Other, some of whom weren't even dead yet and wouldn't be for years, BUT NEVER HAD I HAD TO USE A HOTLINE EVEN ONCE!
* FYI POPE BENEDICT = repor described the language of the Angels as "Music/Song".
And once again Virgina, we learn why God liked MADONNA, + 1960's = 1980's MTV.
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I've been emailing and calling the appropriate Senators and even the standard bearer talk show hosts ever since she first opened her mouth about Benghazi, reminding them that this woman has very bloody coattails. The issue is her history of being a water carrier for the party regardless of the cost in human lives. This time it was four. Last time it was 500,000+. What will it be next time if she is Secretary of State.
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I doubt it matters. He'll make a recess appointment and that will be that. The so called "tipping point" has been reached. We now have a one party system quite similar to that of Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Rule of Law has been vanquished. Wealth transfer will soon get fully underway (there can be no other method to controlling the urban masses). We'll be seeing The Champ, or someone very much like him for a very, very long time.
"Money is a mirror of civilization. Throughout history, whenever we find good, reliable noninflated money, we almost alwasys find a strong, healthy civilization. Whenever we fund unreliable, inflated money, we almost always find a civilization in decay."
- Richard J. Maybury, Whatever happened to Penny Candy (2010).
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She lied to the American people 5 times in one day in regards to Benghazi in exchange for the Secretary of State job. Obama will put this monster in that job, to hell with America as Reverand Wright often stated.
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Wealthy, black, female, daughter of the first black Federal Reserve Governor, well media connected. Note the absence of comments about her or her comments from the Hildebeast.
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I think not Lord Garth. There are a *lot* of reasons to hate John Kerry. But deciding that genocide is preferable to loosing some House seats in the mid-terms is a depth to which even he has never sunk.
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Secret Master: if you added up all the deaths in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and it were done by nazis instead of communists, it would be called genocide.
[Shabelle] A huge roadside blast went off on Friday at a Somali army base in the southern town of Balad, a city that has been a hotbed and stronghold for Al shabab over the last three years.
Witnesses in Balad town say they could hear early on Friday hours a loud kaboom that happened at the military base and followed heavy gun shots had gun sex by the forces in the area of the kaboom. People are feared dead in the attack.
No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack so far.
On June 26th, the Somali National Army 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... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces seized the Al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... -controlled city of Balad without any resistance.
Balad, which lies 30 kilometers north of Mogadishu, is one of the most important strategic cities in the Middle Shabelle region.
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[Iran Press TV] Six people have been killed in Pakistain over the past 24 hours in the latest round of continued terrorist attacks against the country's Shia Mohammedans, Press TV reports.
Terrorists killed a medical couple on Thursday in their hospital in the port city of 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... , shortly after a father and his daughter were also targeted in the city.
The man was instantly killed and his 14-year-old girl was at death's door after sustaining bullet wounds in the abdomen.
Three others also bit the dust in similar acts of violence in Bloody Karachi.
The latest spate of violence against the Mohammedan community has triggered mass protests in the city, which is the capital of Sindh Province and the country's main commercial hub.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in mosques across Bloody Karachi on Friday to condemn the ongoing terrorist attacks against Pakistain's Shia minority, who make up an estimated 30 million of the country's 180 million-strong population.
Pakistain's top court earlier ordered security authorities to take immediate action against nearly 7,000 pro-Talibs who have reportedly made their way into the country's largest city.
Violence has escalated against Shia Mohammedans in different parts of Pakistain in recent months. Since the beginning of 2012, hundreds of Shias have been killed in the country.
Pak Shia leaders have called on the government to form a judicial commission to investigate the bloodshed.
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I guess its safe to say that Pakistan may be in for more weird-n-msyterious Mortar shellings on its territory from Iran andor Afghanistan???
Hat tip Instapundit about the attempt to turn the internet over to thugs, dictators and large corporations: as he says, it's not like any of them have our interests in mind.
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It's not the UN's - Thank DARPA - Aholes!
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Pull our money and us out of the U.N. Let these crooks and vultures find some other carrion to feed from.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Iran Press TV] The March 23 (M23) rebels have begun withdrawing from the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
[Latino.Fox News] Venezuela President Hugo Chavez is now battling bone metastasis from his pelvic cancer, according to a report by Spanish newspaper ABC. Citing an unnamed intelligence source, ABC's Washington correspondent Emil J. Blasco says there has been a recurrence and spread of the tumor, which was detected in a test performed on a trip to Havana just after the elections on October 7.
[Detroit.CBSLocal] Managing expectations is his day-to-day position against people who believe the mayor can solve all of Detroit's problems is the hardest thing he deals with every day.
[Dawn] Three office-bearers of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi), including its vice chairman, along with a taxi driver were killed in a gun attack on the taxi in Landhi on Thursday, police said.
cycle of violence
[Iran Press TV] Yemenis have staged a mass rally in the northern province of Sa'ada to protest against US assassination drone attacks in their country.
[ABCNews.Go] The U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria warned the international community Friday that the Mideast nation will become a failed state unless there is a negotiated political solution to the 19-month conflict.
[An Nahar] Egyptian opposition figure 
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...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...
[Ynet] The US Senate resoundingly approved new sanctions on trade with Iran's energy, port, shipping and ship-building sectors on Friday, its latest effort to ratchet up economic pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Islamists in the north of Mali gave three unmarried couples 100 lashes of the whip each on Thursday in the town of Timbuktu, witnesses told AFP.
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[Shabelle] A huge roadside blast went off on Friday at a Somali army base in the southern town of Balad, a city that has been a hotbed and stronghold for Al shabab over the last three years.
[Iran Press TV] Six people have been killed in Pakistain over the past 24 hours in the latest round of continued terrorist attacks against the country's Shia 
