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Afghanistan
US senator Kerry meets Afghan president
[Dawn] Influential US Senator John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the vacated wingtips of Joe Biden...
met Afghanistan's Caped 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...
in Kabul late Saturday, the president's office said, ahead of Kerry's visit to Pakistain after the killing of the late Osama bin Laden.
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
"They discussed Afghanistan, the regional situation... and also developments following the death of Osama bin Laden," Karzai's office said in a statement on Sunday.

The White House has said it endorses the trip by Kerry to Pakistain amid badly strained ties over the killing of the al-Qaeda chief in Abbottabad, just 40 miles (65 kilometres) from Islamabad, on May 2.

Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, will be the most senior US official to visit Islamabad since elite US troops killed bin Laden.

The covert raid has plunged Pak politics into crisis with both President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani facing demands to resign.

Calls in America for a rapid withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan have increased since the killing of bin Laden.
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  perfect. Two ineffectual narcissistic clowns meeting. One with a lucky cape, the other with a lucky hat
Posted by: Frank G || 05/16/2011 19:17 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Little girls end up as sex slaves for Saudis
Aftenposten: Girl Children between five and 12 years old are sold to wealthy men in Saudi Arabia, where they are held as sex slaves. When they reach maturity, and many are thrown on the street and they end quickly as a prostitute.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 05/16/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wikileaks documents
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 05/16/2011 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  That's not anti human rights, is it?
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru || 05/16/2011 1:49 Comments || Top||

#3  the saudis are almost enough to make me want to accept solar power and rejoice in the carbon bs theory that is making us poor

at least we might wean ourselves off saudi black skag and let those evil cretins go straight back to selling dates and humping camels
Posted by: anon1 || 05/16/2011 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4  OOOO,Rah..... gotta keep my Giant V-8 pickup runnin' it's the only thing that says I have a huge cock.
Posted by: 746 || 05/16/2011 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  You forgot your /sarcasm tag, 746. At least I assume so. When one has one of those, no further announcement is needed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/16/2011 9:30 Comments || Top||

#6  How does one tell the difference between a sex slave and a wife in Saudi Arabia?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/16/2011 18:37 Comments || Top||

#7  That's a tough one JohnQC...

Both are pretty much either bought or kidnapped (Pakistan).

Both are basically property.

Oh I know!

Wives have to be at least 9 Years Old - minimum while Slaves have no minimum age requrement.

(Islam - where pediphilia is considered a virtue...)

Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/16/2011 18:45 Comments || Top||


Europe
French doctors worried deportation scheme could result in lost income.
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Finn publisher vows to continue Chechnyan activities after aquittal
The publisher of the Kavkaz Center website is vowing to continue his work after being acquitted by a Finnish court on May 9 for illegally bringing Chechen asylum seekers into the country.

Finnish entrepreneur and activist Mikael Storsjo admitted to arranging plane tickets for Chechens to come to Finland, but a Helsinki court found he didn't do it for personal gain, therefore he committed no crime under local laws.

Storsjo serves as chairman of the Pro-Caucasus Society, which publishes the Kavkaz Center website, often used by insurgents to post news and commentary. Storsjo, who admits no editorial control over the site and claims to only provide web-hosting services, says he is the victim of a harassment campaign by the Kremlin.

Storsjo says that his house was broken into recently. He says he and his family have received death threats by members of the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee as well as Russian and Estonian members of Nashi, a pro-Kremlin youth organization.

Critics charge Kavkaz Center with supporting terrorism. Members of the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee claim that the Chechens Storsjo has brought to Finland are terrorists.

Storsjo counters that of the more than 70 asylum seekers he has helped bring in to Finland all but one, whose claim is still being processed, have been cleared by the Finnish government.

British journalist Phil Rees says that Kavkaz Center has complex political leanings: "They're certainly not terrorists I mean, absolutely, OK, no way, but there's this whole vague area of, if you support a cause, at what point does that support for the cause spill over, you know, to supporting people whose actions you may disapprove of?"

Storsjo acknowledges the website's leanings, but stresses he has no influence over the site's editorial policy. Kavkaz Center editors would not respond to a request for comment.
Posted by: ryuge || 05/16/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Useful idiot.
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru || 05/16/2011 2:02 Comments || Top||


Failed Chechen bomber's trial begins in Copenhagen
The trial of the man believed to be behind a failed bombing attempt in Copenhagen last September is set to begin tomorrow.

Lors Doukaiev, a 25-year-old Belgian who lost a leg to a landmine at age nine on a playground in Grozny, Chechnya, is thought to have accidentally set off a bomb at Hotel Jørgensen last September.

The homemade bomb blew up accidentally in his hands, injuring only himself. The intended target of the bomb is uncertain, but investigators think he was preparing to send a letter bomb to the offices of Jyllands-Posten, which published Mohammed cartoons in 2005.

At first, Doukaiev was able to frustrate police efforts to determine his motive or his identity by refusing to speak. His identity was eventually corroborated by his Belgian boxing coach after reporters from BT newspaper began their own investigation.

It is now known that Doukaiev had been in Denmark twice before the failed bombing. His first visit was back in May 2008 when he came on an architectural study tour.

After the bomb exploded, Doukaiev is thought to have fled to the nearby Ørstedsparken, where he was later arrested.

At the time of the incident, a TV 2 film crew was recording a show about police dog patrols – and the same dog patrols being accompanied by the crew were coincidentally those used to track down Doukaiev.

Although their TV cameras filmed Doukaiev handcuffed and face down in the gravel after being caught, they were prohibited to show it at the time since they had signed a contract only allowing their footage to be used for the specific program they were filming.
Posted by: ryuge || 05/16/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Chicago trial could reveal Pakistan-militant link
[Dawn] The allegations against Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana are fairly straightforward: He helped a former boarding school friend serve as a scout for cut-throats who carried out a 2008 rampage that killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, India.

But the implications of Rana's trial, which begins with jury selection Monday in Chicago, could be enormous: To make their case, federal prosecutors may lay bare alleged connections between the Islamic exemplar group blamed for the Mumbai attack and Pakistain's main intelligence agency, which has come under increasing scrutiny after the late Osama bin Laden
... who was potted in Pakistain...
was found living in a compound not far from Pakistain's capital.

The key government witness could be David Coleman Headley, a Pak-American with a troubled past who pleaded guilty last year to laying the groundwork for the Mumbai attack by the Pak Islamic exemplar group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Headley is cooperating with US officials and told interrogators that Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence agency provided training and funds for the attack against India, the country's longtime nemesis.

Headley told authorities that Rana provided him with cover for his Mumbai scouting missions. Headley also told interrogators that he was in contact with another Islamic exemplar with ties to al-Qaeda who was helping plot a separate kaboom against a newspaper in Denmark whose cartoons had offended Mohammedans.

On the heels of bin Laden's May 2 killing, Headley's testimony and other details from Rana's trial could further strain the already delicate ties between the US and Pakistain, a critical relationship in the global battle against terrorism.

The discovery of bin Laden living in a walled compound in Abbottabad, an army garrison town near the capital Islamabad, has led to suspicions that at least some Pak intelligence officials knew of the al-Qaeda leader's presence and perhaps were protecting him.

That has deepened suspicions that Pak agents secretly work with terrorist organizations despite receiving billions in US aid every year.

"What you'll have now in Chicago is a trial which will undoubtedly demonstrate links between Pakistain government agencies and one of the most competent terrorist organizations operating in South Asia _ Lashkar-e-Taiba," said Seth Jones, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corp. The trial "just adds more fuel to an already tense situation."

The US raid that killed bin Laden as met with growing condemnation from Pak government leaders, military officials, the Parliament and Islamic hard-liners.

The Pak government has threatened reprisals, and the Parliament on Saturday passed a nonbinding resolution demanding a halt to US drone missile strikes against faceless myrmidons in the tribal areas.
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Chicago trial could reveal Pakistan-militant link

Not after one of Obama staffers calls the prosecutor.
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru || 05/16/2011 1:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Pak military/Mullah Alliance(Islamists) will not be broke with a weak civil Govt!

WE need a strong secular leader at army level which we hoped Perv would be!

Back to the drawing board!
Posted by: Black Bart Phuling7750 || 05/16/2011 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  If only Jinnah had not died so soon after independence, Black Bart Phuling7750, but the Fates thought otherwise.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/16/2011 19:18 Comments || Top||


US threatens Pakistan with cut in aid
Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the vacated wingtips of Joe Biden...
has warned that Washington could cut its financial aid to Pakistain amid tension between the two sides.

"It is no secret that there are members of Congress who have made a call for a change in the aid program," the News Agency that Dare Not be Named quoted Kerry as saying on Sunday.
"Not us men of the world in the Senate, you understand, but those excitable fellows in the House... and they originate spending bills, not us. Just keep your heads down for a bit while we calm them down, 'k? 'Cause that posturing for the masses really isn't helping."
Outrage is running high among the public in Pakistain after US authorities launched an "unauthorized" attack in the Pak soil that allegedly killed al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who has won the race to that place where we all eventually end up...
on May 2.

Washington has accused Pak security and intelligence forces of protecting bin Laden as he had reportedly lived for several years in a compound in a military garrison town just 50 kilometers from the capital, Islamabad.

Kerry said recent events have had a deep impact on relations between the US and Pakistain, warning if they cannot find a way to remove problems, "there are a set of downside consequences that can be profound."

The US senator made the remarks in Afghanistan before travelling to Pakistain. He is scheduled to visit Pak officials over bin Laden attack as well as the unauthorized drone strikes that have killed many civilians in Pakistain during the past months.

Pak politicians have recently passed a resolution condemning the recent US raid that reportedly killed bin Laden, warning that repeating such unauthorized actions could have "dire consequences for peace and security in the region and the world."
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Lest we fergit, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US TO DEPLOY TROOPS [into PAK] IFF PAK NUKES UNDER THREAT.

ARTIC = Abbottabad raid symbolizes the new unilateral priority of the US as per its National Security interests over that of unreliable ally Pakistan. THE US WILL ACT IN ITS OWN INTERESTS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER PAK CONSENTS OR NOT.

versus

* SAME > IT BEGINS:US STARTING THE BALUCHI INSURRECTION, agz Islamabad.

* TOPIX > ACTIVIST: TURKISH GENERALS/MILITARY [powerful = influential Officers]PROFIT FROM KURDISH UNREST, as per Personal Wealth.

Turkey allegedly refuses to resolve or settle any of the Kurdish problems, issues because of corrupt selfish internal military nepotism.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/16/2011 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  WAFF > PAKISTAN BUILDS LOW-YIELD NUCLEAR CAPABILITY [Tacnukes = TNW].

Ditto IRAN???

IMO ARTIC read, LET RUSSIA + CHINA HANDLE ANY STRATEGIC NUCWAR AGZ THE US-NATO, AT LEAST FOR THE TIME BEING???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/16/2011 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  WORLD NEWS > [Deccan Herald] PAKISTAN MAY SEND MORE MILITANTS INTO INDIA [espec J & K] AFTER OSAMA'S DEATH: ARMY.

More indica that the USA = POTUS Bammer must be careful lest Islamabad's response to the unilater US raid on Osama = starting war wid Indjuh???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/16/2011 2:43 Comments || Top||

#4  They sent Kerry?

Jeeze, now the Pakis will be SURE we're effete losers.
Posted by: mojo || 05/16/2011 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  "I'll see your "profound consequences" and raise you a "dire consequences for peace and security in the region and the world.""

As Kate Hepburn would say "Bore bore bore... "
Posted by: regular joe || 05/16/2011 13:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Afghanistan and India having been telling the West the problem is Pakistan not Afghanistan for years.Finally their words are being heard in the White House.

Until we pull out of Afghanistan we need Pakistan re supply routes.Once we leave support India/Afghanistan with any war with Pakistan.They are the enemy of democracy/freedom of speech/religion etc.

Pakistan with Saudi/Chinese funding is the cancer in the region.All three fear true democracy!
Posted by: Paul D || 05/16/2011 14:43 Comments || Top||


Kerry arrives in Pakistan after bin Laden warning
[Dawn] US Senator John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the vacated wingtips of Joe Biden...
arrived in Islamabad on Sunday for talks with Pak leaders at what he earlier warned was a "critical moment" for relations after the raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden.
... who used to be but now ain't...
The first senior US visitor since the Al-Qaeda kingpin's death, Kerry was to meet President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani,
... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ...
foreign office spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua told AFP, to discuss "bilateral relations and regional issues".

He landed two days after Pakistain's parliament insisted there must be no repeat of the secret commando operation that killed bin Laden and said US drone strikes targeting Islamic fascisti on its territory must end.

"Senator Kerry has arrived for talks with the senior Pak leadership,"US embassy front man Alberto Rodriguez told AFP.

In the Afghan capital Kabul before travelling to Pakistain, Kerry told news hounds US relations with its nuclear-armed ally were at a "critical moment".

He said he was he was ready to listen to Pakistain's leaders but the discovery of the Al-Qaeda chief living close to Islamabad meant talks had to "resolve some very serious issues".

The raid has rocked Pakistain's security establishment, with its government, intelligence services and military widely accused of incompetence or complicity over the presence of bin Laden in a garrison town near the capital.

Pakistain has meanwhile vowed to review intelligence co-operation following the raid, which its foreign ministry called an "unauthorised unilateral action".

"We need to find a way to march forward if it is possible. If it is not possible, there are a set of downside consequences that can be profound," said Kerry, whose trip to the region has been endorsed by President Barack B.O. Obama.

Kerry, chairman of the influential Senate Foreign Relations committee, also repeated Washington's belief that Pak authorities know where Taliban safe havens harbouring the leaders of Afghanistan's insurgency are located.

"There is some evidence of Pakistain government knowledge of some of these activities in ways that is very disturbing," he told news hounds in Kabul, adding that he would raise the long-standing issue in Islamabad.

But Kerry also sought to dampen the diplomatic fallout from the bin Laden raid, which severely strained ties with the US and stirred renewed anti-American sentiment in Pakistain.

"It's important to try also to not allow the passions of a moment to cloud over the larger goal that is in both of our interests," he said in reference to efforts to combat militancy.

President Zardari met with Gilani and army chief General Ashfaq Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
in Islamabad on Sunday before Kerry's arrival and discussed "the current security situation", the presidency said in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Why send Jawn when zero could've sent Hilly? Jawn was in A'stan, sure, but why didn't Hilly go there? She has experience under fire, right?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/16/2011 6:49 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Egypt FM named new Arab League chief
[Iran Press TV] Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Araby has been named the secretary-general of the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
(AL) after Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa's
... who was head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ...

term ended.

Egypt replaced its candidate for the post at the last minute on Sunday, backing its foreign minister for the job, AP reported.

Al-Araby managed to easily secure enough votes for the post.

Former Secretary-General Moussa, who is also a former Egyptian foreign minister, has said he will run for president in Egypt.

The choice for head of the vaporous Arab League is traditionally agreed in advance. This year, Egypt and Qatar were both running candidates, dividing league members.

With the new Egyptian nomination disclosed in a government document, Qatar withdrew its candidate.

Egypt had initially nominated Mostafa el-Fekki, a former member of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
ruling party, for the post of AL secretary-general.

In a statement released last month, Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Nabil al-Araby declared that he is confident el-Fekki "has enough competence to fill the league's top post."

Moussa has been the Secretary-General of the Arab League since 2001. He served as Egypt's foreign minister under Mubarak's rule from 1991 to 2001.
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Shi'ite groups behind Iraq killings, officials say
Shi'ite militias rather than Sunni Islamist al Qaeda are behind a recent wave of assassinations of Iraqi government, police and military officials in Baghdad, security officials said.

Militants have used silenced guns and bombs stuck to their targets to kill more than 38 officials in the last five months, according to Baghdad security operations. Interior Ministry sources have reported at least 51 such killings to Reuters in the same period.

"This issue is the biggest concern for the security apparatus currently," said Major-General Hassan al-Baidhani, chief of staff for Baghdad's security operations command.

"The graph line of (other) terrorist operations has decreased a lot ... but assassinations using sticky bombs and silenced weapons have started to rise," he said.
Posted by: tipper || 05/16/2011 10:06 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nah, why would Shi'ites be killing Shi'ites?

Unless the krazed killers are Tater's Tots, looking to advance the Iranian connection?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/16/2011 12:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Bet Iran is behind it.
Posted by: phil_b || 05/16/2011 18:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Tater Tots versus Hakims...
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2011 21:01 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel Thwarts Malaysian Ship's attempt to reach Gaza
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- Israeli naval forces fired warning shots Monday at a ship carrying aid to Gaza as it approached the shore, forcing it to withdraw to Egyptian waters, the vessel's Malaysian organiser told AFP.

"The MV Finch, carrying sewage pipes
(or a Hamas calls it rocket parts)
to Gaza, had warning shots fired at it by Israeli forces in the Palestinian security zone this morning at 0654 Jordan time (0354 GMT)," said Shamsul Azhar from the Perdana Global Peace Foundation.

"The vessel was in the Palestinian security zone, about 400 metres from the Gaza shoreline, when they were intercepted by Israeli naval forces," he told AFP, adding it was now anchored 30 nautical miles away in Egyptian territory.

The Perdana Foundation is helmed by former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad, an 85-year-old firebrand who was a strident critic of the West and Israel over the Palestinian issue during his two decades in power.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/16/2011 09:57 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Ahmadinejad under sorcerer's spell: top cleric
Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad has been put "under a spell" by his chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, an ultra-conservative holy man was quoted by local media on Sunday as saying.
Actually, that explains quite a bit...
"I've told some of my close friends that I am more than 90 percent certain that (Ahmadinejad) has been put under a spell. This is not natural at all,"Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, believed to have once been a mentor of
the president, told the weekly Shoma.

"No sane person does such things unless his free will has been taken away,"Mesbah Yazdi said in reference to a crisis that has erupted since mid-April between Ahmadinejad and the hardline conservative camp close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"His actions have no justification. When he has 10 friends... does it make sense to constantly defy nine of them and defend (the actions of the) tenth person?" Mesbah Yazdi asked in an allusion to Mashaie.

Mashaie, the president's top adviser and close relative who has worked alongside Ahmadinejad for more than 25 years, has been the target of a barrage of criticism from the conservative camp in past weeks.

Mashaie, who has been condemned for being too liberal, holding nationalistic views dating back to pre-Islamic Iran, and for having a great influence on the president, is now accused of leading a "current of deviation" aimed at destroying the Islamic regime.

Mesbah Yazdi said he sensed a "great danger" lingering over Ahmadinejad because of Mashaie.

"I do not know if it is (because of) hypnotism, a spell or relations with yogis. But there is something wrong," said Mesbah Yazdi.

"It is almost as if this questionable person (Mashaie) has put this man (Ahmadinejad) under a spell, as if he has wrapped him around his finger," he said.

The conservatives also accuse Mashaie of orchestrating the attempted sacking of Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi in mid-April, which was vetoed by the supreme leader.

The aborted dismissal triggered an unprecedented political crisis in the higher echelons of Iran's regime, with Ahmadinejad expressing his displeasure by withdrawing from public life and official duties for 10 days.

Several conservative websites have recently hinted that Mashaie may be connected to the practice of dark magic, while the judiciary has announced the arrest of two "sorcerers" but stopped short of linking them to the chief of staff.

The rumours have gained enough momentum to prompt Ahmadinejad to deny them publicly.

"Those who have spoken in recent days about the influence of fortune tellers and jinn (shape-shifting spirits) on government were telling jokes,"Ahmadinejad said on May 8.

Iran's first Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi hit back hard at the accusation by the ultra-conservatives.

"Some people speak of sorcery and jinns and attribute them to the government. Is it possible to govern the country with sorcery and jinn? Is it possible to send satellites into the sky (using them)? Science is behind all these issues," Rahimi was quoted as saying in some local papers.

"How could they attribute such things to Dr. Ahmadinejad, the president and a (university) professor?" Rahimi added.

Another vice president, Hamid Baghaie, defended Mashaie against accusations of deviancy, describing them as "slander."

Ayatollah Ahmad Janati, who heads the powerful Guardians Council, a body that oversees elections, interprets the constitution and vets parliamentary legislation, warned Ahmadinejad on Friday that he could not protect Mashaie forever.

"Some people seek to deviate from and act against the country and Velayat-e Faqih (the supreme leader)," Janati said.

"But there will come a day that the regime and the people will deal with them."
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I guess it's the Muzzi equivalent of being classified a deviationist.
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru || 05/16/2011 2:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Okay, let me see if I have this straight. A nation that controls an appreciable chunk of the world's known oil reserves is being run by people who:

A) Believe in Harry Potter-style magic, and

B) Are trying desperately to get nuclear weapons.

For God's sake, nuke them now. It is the only way we're going to avoid a Holocaust that will dwarf the first one.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/16/2011 9:24 Comments || Top||


Bin Laden was a US prisoner before being killed: Ahmadinejad
[Dawn] Al Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden
... who sleeps with the fishes...
was a prisoner in US custody for "sometime" before he was killed by the American military, Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.
That's true. Dick Cheney had him stashed in his basement. Sometimes he'd have his evil minions chain him to a waterboard, stick a tee up his nostril, and practice his golf swing. I know it's true because somebody told me.
"I have exact information that bin Laden was held by the American military for sometime... until the day they killed him he was a prisoner held by them," the hardline president said in a live interview on Iranian state television. "Please pay attention. This is important. He was held by them for sometime. They made him sick and while he was sick they killed him," Ahmadinejad added.
Then we flew a secret mission to Abbottabad, dumped his body at a safehouse, bumped off one of his kids, scared three or four of his wives so bad one of them calved on the spot, and then left...
Those who believe this ought to think carefully about doing anything to make us think they might be against us -- we're mean!
He accused US President Barack B.O. Obama for announcing the Al Qaeda leader's death for "political gain."

"What the US president has done is for domestic political gain. In other words, they killed him for Mr Obama's election and now they are seeking to replace him with someone else," Ahmadinejad said without elaborating.

Bin Laden was rubbed out on May 2 in a US commando raid on a heavily fortified compound near Islamabad, Pakistain.

On May 4, Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi too had cast doubt on bin Laden's death, saying there were "ambiguities" over the way he was killed.

The Americans said they threw his body in the sea. "Why did they not allowed an independent expert to examine the body to say if it was bin Laden or not?" Vahidi said.

Shia Iran has always considered Al Qaeda as a Sunni ultra-radical and anti-Shia threat to its security.

Ahmadinejad further said that Tehran is "ready for a dialogue" with the world powers on the nuclear issue and hopes that future meetings will yield results.

"The best solution is cooperation," Ahmadinejad insisted in the interview on state television. "We hope that in future meetings (with world powers) if they occur, we get faster results." He criticised the West's muted reaction to the letter sent by Iran in early May to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton proposing resumption of talks over Tehran's nuclear issue.

A spokeswoman for Ashton earlier this week said that Iran's letter "does not contain anything new and does not seem to justify a further meeting"between the six world powers and Iran.

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany represented by Ashton are engaged in a dialogue with Iran over the latter's controversial nuclear programme which the world powers suspect is masking a weapons drive.

Iran denies the charge.

"I was surprised to hear that Ashton has taken such a position. We have stated our readiness for a dialogue in various fields based on mutual respect, within the framework of international laws and in a spirit of cooperation,"Ahmadinejad said Sunday.

"Maybe Ashton expects that we have to accept her position when we have a dialogue. But then this is not a dialogue, this is a diktat."An attempt to resume nuclear talks between the two groups in December and in January ended in a failure, with both sides sticking to their positions.

While the world powers want to focus on the Iranian nuclear programme, Tehran wants to expand the discussions to issues such as global security, global nuclear disarmament, the possession of nuclear weapons by Israel and the right of all countries to civilian nuclear cooperation.
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  AHMADINEJAD > claims the US made OSAMA "sick" while a prisoner + then after he became so then had Osama killed.

IN MY OWN WAY, I CAN RELATE, iff only in principle.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/16/2011 2:34 Comments || Top||

#2  See also WORLD NEWS > BIN LADEN DEATH WELCOME BUT [is]NO SOLUTION TO PROBLEMS. Not sad, but also not glad.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/16/2011 2:36 Comments || Top||

#3  This is how Legends are born. Zapata is still out there, not to mention the 13th Imam. There may even be a song about it.

I kinda like the idea that we had Osama for years and we gave him to Dick Cheney as a golf tee. But then, I am like that.

But a simple story is the best story...and also probably the true story. Always go with the simplest explanation. Make it simple...then shoot them. yeah.
Posted by: de Medici3489 || 05/16/2011 5:55 Comments || Top||

#4  OH! I almost forgot (not really) what about Che Guevara?

He WAS held in another room while the Federales and the CIA discussed what to do with him. Che seemed to think he was just too important to just kill outright.

But that Bolivian Captain who came into the room with the pistol had a "look" in his eye and the Havana Special fell out of Che's mouth when the Captain emptied five rounds into Che's chest and throat until the .45 cal slide clicked back on an empty mag.

And Osama was in his underwear. I wonder how surprised he was? I mean, he did hear the shooting downstairs, and he knew he didnt have ANY security staff to speak of....and no one mentions any cash stashed around the "mansion", do they. He sure wasnt going to bribe his way out.

And then the door opened.....all business and maybe count to two.
Posted by: de Medici3489 || 05/16/2011 6:04 Comments || Top||

#5  There's a lesson in there for you, Short Round.
Posted by: Spot || 05/16/2011 7:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Dinnerjacket is under a spell.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/16/2011 18:41 Comments || Top||



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