But the claim might be true. Given the demands Karzai's been making, maybe a warning that we haven't as much skin in this game as he does is in order. True, we have quite a few idiots running things, but every now and then something sensible slips through--maybe this isn't as dumb as it looks.
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Screw Karzai. We should waste neither blood nor treasure on this swine. I don't want a status of forces agreement with him. It will only keep us there longer, get our brave men killed and cost us $$billions with nothing to show for it. Leave. Tomorrow. Let the Afghans figure it out.
*My friend has some trouble with the last one... disparage his kin - he thinks there is a simpler way to solve the problem.....
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Is the Bammer Admin = USA sure about that - they may not call or label themselves as "Al Qaeda" per se, but MULLAH OMAR, ETAL. is as much a part of Osama's inner circle as Ayman Zawahiri.
To wit,
* MEMRI.ORG > REVIEW OF ISSUE IV OF THE TALIBAN MAGZAZINE "AZAN": ACCUSING THE WEST OF DIVIDING THE MUSLIM WORLD; "IFF ANOTHER 9-11 HAPPENS ON AMERICAN SOIL, WILL OBAMA DECIDE TO LAUNCH ANOTHER 12-YEAR WAR AGZ THE MUSLIMS"?
Strong inference = warning? about new 9-11(s)? occurring in US before the Bammer leaves office[2014 < Jan 2017]???
ARTIC also denotes ...
> Radical Islam'S jihad is at the stage of achieving NEAR-VICTORY AGZ THE US-WEST.
> THE JIHAD = MUJAHIDEEN MOVEMENT IS WELL-ESTABLISHED, THE US, WEST IS TOO BROKE + CANNOT STOP THE JIHAD FROM STRIKING THEM EVEN IFF THEY WANTED TO.
> MARCH FROM THE LANDS OF KHURASAN, SHAAM [Syria], + ISLAMIC MAGHREB INTO THE HEARTLANDS OF EUROPE + NORTH AMERICA.
The poker game over an estimated $4 billion to $6 billion a year in U.S. and NATO aid that would be expected to continue to flow into the country if a new agreement is signed is playing out on the stage of international diplomacy, but U.S. officials say financial considerations are driving Karzai's negotiating tactics. Those considerations reportedly include bags of cash he collects from the CIA.
[Pak Daily Times] Taliban bully boyz fighting against the US-backed Afghan government expressed their support on Monday for 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... 's refusal to sign a security pact with Washington.
Karzai is locked in a public dispute with the US over the security deal, which would allow some US soldiers to remain in Afghanistan after NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... 's combat mission ends next year.
"It seems he has sensed the truth, and we hope this opposition comes from Afghani pride and is for the sake of ending the nation's problems," the Islamists, who ruled from 1996-2001, said in a statement.
"It is obvious to all that the Afghan people have never wanted foreign invaders in their land... He should, without any hesitance, distance himself from this historical shame."
The Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) could see several thousand US troops staying on in Afghanistan to train local security forces and undertake counter-terror operations.
The US is seeking to wrap up the pact before the end of the year, but Karzai has indicated his country would only sign after next year's presidential elections in April.
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start drawing down. Now
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[Pak Daily Times] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... officials warned Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... Monday that he must sign a US troop status accord or put at risk future military and development aid for his country.
While planning continues for a post-2014 training and advisory mission after NATO ends combat operations, time is pressing and political and military practicalities mean the agreement must be signed soon, a senior NATO official said.
If there is no Afghan-US accord, there is "no post-2014 mission" and likely all the funding and other commitments that go with it, the official told a briefing ahead of a two-day NATO foreign ministers meeting beginning Tuesday.
Current NATO aid for Afghan armed forces runs at $4.1 billion (3 billion euros) a year, of which Kabul would only be able to raise $500 million, said the official who asked not to be named.
The handling and "appropriate oversight" of aid is a key issue post-2014, given concerns over corruption, and the official said donors would be worried if there was no US and alliance presence to enure it was spent as intended.
Without an agreement, funding "in theory could continue to be forthcoming...but in practice there must be a question whether donors would have the confidence to contribute," said the official. As for non-military development aid totalling some $4.0 billion a year, the official said this was "different but again donors' confidence" could be put in doubt without an accord.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia Dec.2, 2013 (Garowe Online)-Federal Members of parliament Monday ousted Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon in an overwhelming vote, Garowe Online reports.
That happens occasionally in civilized countries. Then again, citizens in civilized countries don't then pick up weapons and hack at each other...
Following political squabbling between President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Shirdon, 184 lawmakers out of the 249 in the parliament hall voted in favor of removing the Prime Minister from the post with Speaker Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari present.
"249 MPs gave their votes, 184 Members of Parliament voted for the no-confidence motion while 65 MPs endorsed the cabinet and no body abstained on vote," said Jawari noting that Prime Minister Shirdon and his government will continue with their work until a new leader is appointed for the cabinet.
Shortly before being voted against the brittle government, speaking at a press conference in Mogadishu Shirdon angrily pointed accusing fingers at members in his government saying the motion is organized.
"I am not ready to foment violence but I will accept the national assembly decision. My achievements will go down in history," he noted.
On Sunday, 140 Legislators voted against a demand from the Prime Minister when Parliament Speaker Jawari asked the MPs to vote for the appearance of Shirdon before parliament in a bid to address the national assembly about the government achievements.
The MPs had been debating the impeachment motion that led to the ouster of Shirdon for two days after several adjournments.
Similar political infightings have disrupted previous government's agendas plunging the country deeper into crisis and rows mainly on the federal charter erupt between the top leaders.
United Nations Special Representative of the secretary General for Somalia Ambassador Nicholas Kay said in statement from his office "It was important this unprecedented piece of parliamentary business was managed in accordance with the provisional constitution and the rules of procedure of the Parliament".
According to the statement Kay commended Shirdon's role in pushing the war-ravaged nation into development phase "outgoing Prime Minister Shirdon had worked hard to promote growth and progress and played an important part in creating the New Deal Compact between international partners and Somalia".
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud hailed the parliamentary vote as a step forward for strengthening the democracy while he was addressing the media members at Villa Somalia Presidential compound.
Shirdon stayed in power for just over a year and boasts of impressive budget growth, liberation of a string of strategic towns in southern Somalia from Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab militants and social services development.
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[An Nahar] Mali's defense minister vowed Monday he would not pose "any obstacle" to the court case against General Amadou Sanogo, the leader of a March 2012 coup that plunged the country into crisis.
Sanogo, a divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... figure in the west African country, was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on November 27 and charged along with 15 other people, mostly fellow soldiers from his inner circle, for alleged crimes during the coup and its aftermath.
Sanogo still commands support in some circles, including key segments of the army, but Defense Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga -- part of a new government sworn in after presidential elections in July and August -- said he would fully cooperate with judicial authorities.
"I will not pose any obstacle. I will give my authorization, I will give my assistance for all (army) elements involved in the judicial process, so that the people will have to go explain themselves before the judge," Maiga told journalists.
He said Sanogo's arrest was not at the "government's initiative".
"It's a judicial process at the initiative of families that are trying to find out what happened to their relatives... whom they haven't heard from," he said.
"For us, it's also part of restoring the honor of the army, restoring the image that citizens should have of the army and restoring the ethic that soldiers themselves must have to conduct the missions that are expected of them."
The government says Sanogo has been charged with complicity in kidnappings, but a source close to the judge in the case told Agence La Belle France Presse the charges also include murder, complicity to murder and carrying out kidnappings.
A justice ministry source said the order to arrest Sanogo was given "at the highest level".
Sanogo's coup toppled what had been heralded as one of west Africa's most stable democracies and precipitated a crisis in which al-Qaeda-linked groups seized control of the country's north, ruling with a brutal vision of Islamic law until a French-led military intervention forced them out.
In the months after the coup and a failed counter-coup in April 2012, Sanogo's then-headquarters in the central town of Kati were the scene of abuses and killings carried out against soldiers seen as loyal to ousted president Amadou Toumani Toure.
Politicians, journalists and civil society leaders were also victims of the junta's brutality.
The defense minister, who was serving as Toure's foreign minister before the coup, was one of several cabinet members arrested when Sanogo overthrew the government.
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[Egypt Independent] Qatar-based Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... resigned from his seat at al-Azhar's Senior Scholars Committee to protest the al-Azhar Grand Sheikh's stance on political developments in Egypt. Al-Azhar is the prestigious Sunni college in Egypt that cranks out Moslem scholars.
The move by Qaradawy, an influential preacher and ardent supporter of the Moslem Brüderbund and Islamist politicians, comes hours after a committee of 50 members concluded amendments to the 2012 Constitution that had been ratified under deposed president Mohammed Morsy.
"I, Youssef Abdallah al-Qaradawy, submit my resignation from the Senior Scholars Committee to the great Egyptian people, not to the Sheikh of al-Azhar," the sheikh said in his statement.
Unlike Qaradawy, Al-Azhar's Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb sided with the popular uprising that toppled Morsy in July. He delegated representatives to the committee that amended Morsy's constitution.
"When the day comes when people restore their freedom...scholars should select their leader and their seniors according to their free will," said Qaradawy. Like they've done in Afghanistan and Soddy Arabia and Qatar...
"We were appalled by the Sheikh of Al-Azhar's participation in the coup," he added, attacking Tayyeb for not consulting committee scholars to give its opinion on political developments.
Qaradawy urged the "free sons and scholars of al-Azhar" to announce their rejection of political developments in Egypt and to "quit that institution that has become a dead corpse." Al-Azhar is probably the single best hope Islam has of becoming something other than a blood-thirsty moon cult. And that will be only after fifty or a hundred years of evolution.
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[Egypt Independent] Deputy leader of the Salafi Daawa, Sheikh Yasser Borhamy, said that the group's political arm, Nour Party, participated in the current constitution-writing committee in order to prevent "blatant infidelity," as he put it.
On his website, Salafi voice, Borhamy said the Salafi Daawa and Nour Party are not siding with "enemies of religion," explaining the party's participation in amending the 2012 constitution as aimed to "prevent blatant infidelity rather than to side with secularists."
The party has been under fire by the Moslem Brüderbund and its Islamist allies for taking part in what they consider an illegitimate constitution-amending process that followed the ouster of Egypt's first elected president Mohammed Morsy in July.
The party occasionally said it aims to defend articles stressing Egypt's Islamic identity and the adoption of Islamic law as a source of legislation.
The party has engaged in several disputes within the constitutional committee concerning the stipulation on Islamic Sharia and the Sunni doctrine as a source of legislation, a proposal rejected by church representatives and secular members.
Responding to users' queries, Borhamy said remaining in the current political scene is not a form of alliance with "secularists and enemies of religion who do not want Allah's law anywhere." He argued that "Allah forbids sitting with infidels and hypocrites if they poke fun at Allah's verses, but to sit with them to prevent such an action and demand to apply Allah's verses is something thankful."
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Human Rights Watch on Sunday urged the Egypt government to free five aides of ousted president Mohammed Mursi, who have been detained since July without any legal basis.
Since it's the fleas that spread the plague, what harm could there be in releasing the rats?
"Almost five months later, the government has yet to formally acknowledge their detention or disclose their fate or whereabouts, conditions that constitute enforced disappearance," the rights watchdog said in a statement.
The five men -- Essam El-Haddad, Ayman Ali, Abdelmeguid El-Meshaly, Khaled El-Qazzaz and Ayman El-Serafy -- were arrested following Mursi's ouster by the military on July 3 after mass protests against his one-year rule. HRW says they are being held at an undisclosed location without judicial process and with very little outside contact since then, amid a crackdown by Egyptian authorities on Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood.
"What kind of roadmap is this where a military-backed government can brazenly disappear former presidential aides for 150 days without any explanation?" said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director of HRW in a statement.
"Forcibly disappearing people for months on end doesn't inspire confidence that this government intends to follow the rule of law," she said.
It does however keep the former aides from fomenting rebellion, which was likely the idea behind holding them...
HRW quoted Qazzaz's wife saying that the military was holding the five men together "in a single room, allowing them outside for only one hour a day and denying them access to phones or the Internet".
It said that relatives of the detainees told HRW that they feared the government was "detaining their relatives to use as leverage for future negotiations with the Muslim Brotherhood".
Qazzaz's sister, Mona El-Qazzaz, told HRW she believed her brother was being "kept in the fridge" for use as a negotiating lever with the Muslim Brotherhood.
"The prolonged enforced disappearance of anyone is a crime, pure and simple," Whitson said. "The Egyptian authorities should immediately free them unconditionally."
More than 1,000 people have been killed and thousands more arrested since Egyptian authorities launched a crackdown against Mursi supporters in mid-August.
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[Pak Daily Times] Bangladesh's opposition alliance Monday confirmed its boycott of a January general election, failing to register candidates before a deadline for nominations and plunging the country into renewed political uncertainty.
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced the decision amid growing street violence that has left 52 people dead since late October and a series of strikes and blockades that have paralysed large parts of the country.
"There is no question of us filing nominations for the January 5 election under the present circumstances. We're not going to take part in the January 5 elections," Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, a BNP vice president, told AFP.
Nominations closed at 5 pm (1100 GMT) Monday and officials said no BNP officials had filed their papers.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan near Moscow and discussed the war in Syria and Iran's nuclear programme, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
Russia has staunchly supported President Bashar Assad during the conflict, which has killed more than 100,000 people since March 2011, while Saudi Arabia has backed rebels trying to overthrow the Syrian leader.
The Kremlin said Putin and Prince Bandar discussed plans for a long-delayed international peace conference on Syria to be held in Geneva on Jan. 22. It did not say when the two men met. Meet the new boss
This was decided on Monday at a meeting between IIRO Secretary General Ehssan Saleh Taieb and former minister for information and broadcasting Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani.
During the meeting, Director General of IIRO foreign offices Abdul Rehman al Matter, Dr Khalid Ottamani, director Saudi Public Assistance, Behrullah Hazarvi and officials of Saudi embassy were also present.
Welcoming Ehssan Saleh Taieb, his delegation and Abdul Rehman al Matter, Durrani expressed his gratitude to the IIRO chief and said that the International Islamic Relief Organisation was doing a great job in helping the victims of natural calamities. He said that the people of Pakistain had great reverence and affection to the people and state of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
"People of Pakistain have special respect and love for King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and the royal family as they have always been forthcoming in helping Pakistain and its people."
"I come from a poor area of Bahawalpur. Let me admit that the relief work undertaken by the IIRO for the people affected by floods and earthquake in across Pakistain is exemplary and it has no parallel. For this help and assistance, Pakistain and its people are indebted to the funding made by King Abdullah, the people of Saudi Arabia, IIRO and its Pakistain office and the Saudi ambassador to Pakistain for the generous and valuable support of disaster-hit people," Durrani said.
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[Pak Daily Times] Nine-point code bans hate speeches, use of loudspeaker, publication, distribution of books, pamphlets, literature, cassettes and websites containing hate material
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[Pak Daily Times] The special court established to hear the treason case against Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... has been challenged in the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
Advocate Riaz Sahi, the counsel of Musharraf, filed a petition in the IHC on Monday. The petition states that Justice Faisal Arab was one of the judges who were suspended in 2007, therefore, it would not be appropriate to make him the head of the special court since he would be biased. The petitioner pleaded the court to declare the special court null and void. The court is to hear the treason case against Musharraf under Article 6 of the constitution.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has condemned an attack on the office of a private TV channel in Karachi on Monday.
In a statement, Bilawal said targeting media offices was tantamount to suppressing freedom of expression.
In the past, he added, several newspapers and TV channels had been attacked by various groups and it was the latest attack on media. He further said that PPP workers and supporters throughout the country stood united with media and would continue struggle for free media.
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The tension between Israel and the United States continued to escalate Tuesday when Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett warned that Israel cannot rely economically too much on any one country.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said two weeks ago that Israel relied too much on the US and needed to build more alliances. An Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) poll on the cover of Tuesday's Jerusalem Post found that nearly half of Jewish Israelis agree with him. You see, even Obama is not all just harm.
[An Nahar] Residents of the Bekaa town of Qsar Naba forced hundreds of Syrian refugees from an informal campsite on Monday, setting fire to tents after accusing them of raping a mentally-disabled man.
But a doctor who examined the man said there was no evidence he was attacked, and one resident of the village said the alleged rape was a pretext to drive the refugees from the site.
The incident comes amid warnings from the Lebanese government and aid agencies about tensions between Lebanese communities and the more than 800,000 Syrian refugees who have fled to the country.
The informal camp in Qsar Naba housed some 400 refugees in around 100 tents and shelters.
On Sunday a group of local residents stormed the camp, setting fire to some of the tents and threatening its residents.
After the attack, many of the refugees began dismantling their shelters and spent Sunday night sleeping in the open nearby.
The residents returned on Monday, the refugees said, setting fire to at least 15 tents and knocking down others.
Ahmed Abdul Mahmoud, a 33-year-old refugee, said members of the local Dirani family led the attack.
"The Diranis burned the tents and then refused to allow the fire brigade through to put the flames out," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"There's not a single tent left for us," he said, weeping.
He said the attackers beat the refugees and stole their belongings.
"They accused us of attacking a young man, knowing that the Lebanese army had already raided the tents, tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! about 30 people and then released them all for lack of evidence."
"I have three children, the eldest of whom is just six. We don't know where to go. After this I just want to go back to Syria."
The attack came after members of the Dirani family, who own the campsite land, accused four refugees of sexually assaulting a 29-year-old mentally-disabled member of the family.
"He was passing by the camp, and four residents lured him inside a tent and raped him," Ali Dirani told AFP.
"The man's mother found traces of blood on his trousers and informed the residents of the village," he said.
But the doctor who examined the alleged victim told AFP there was no sign he had been raped.
Ahmed Walid Suleiman said he had submitted a report saying "there is no medical proof that indicates the young man was subjected to any kind of attack."
"There are no signs of violence, or blood or bruising," he added.
A resident of Qsar Naba, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , described the rape allegation as "fabricated."
He said the dispute "stems from the Dirani family, who own the land, wanting to get it back and not finding a way to get rid of the refugees."
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[An Nahar] Evidence has been uncovered in Syria that implicates Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... and members of his entourage, in war crimes and crimes against humanity, U.N. human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... chief Navi Pillay said Monday
A U.N. commission of inquiry into human rights violations in Syria "has produced massive evidence ... (of) very serious crimes, war crimes, crimes against humanity," she said, adding that "the evidence indicates responsibility at the highest level of government, including the head of state."
The commission, tasked with probing rights violations in Syria since shortly after the conflict erupted in March 2011, has repeatedly accused the Syrian regime of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
It has said the rebels fighting Assad's regime are also guilty of war crimes.
But the four-member team, headed by Brazilian Paulo Sergio Pinheiro and including former war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte, has never named names nor pointed directly at Assad.
The Sherlocks -- who without access to Syria have relied on more than 2,000 interviews in the surrounding region or by phone or Skype for their reports -- have put together a long list of suspected perpetrators.
The names "remain sealed until I am requested to furnish them to credible investigation," Pillay told news hounds in Geneva, adding that "it could be a national investigation or international investigation."
She meanwhile reiterated her call for the case to be handed over to the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... in the Hague to ensure accountability.
"The scale of viciousness of the abuses being perpetrated by elements on both sides almost defies belief," she said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The poker game over an estimated $4 billion to $6 billion a year in U.S. and NATO aid that would be expected to continue to flow into the country if a new agreement is signed is playing out on the stage of international diplomacy, but U.S. officials say financial considerations are driving Karzai's negotiating tactics. Those considerations reportedly include bags of cash he collects from the CIA.
MOGADISHU, Somalia Dec.2, 2013 (Garowe Online)-Federal Members of parliament Monday ousted Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon in an overwhelming vote, Garowe Online reports.
[Egypt Independent] Qatar-based Sheikh Youssef a
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International Criminal Court
